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- Title
- [A. & J. B. Bartholomew trade cards]
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards depicting the flags of France, Germany, Norway, Russia, and Sweden., Title supplied by cataloger., Prints contain advertising text on versos for A. & J. B. Bartholomew's children's clothing store at 23 North Eighth Street in Philadelphia. Three prints [1975.F.78; 1975.F.111; 1975.F.117] include text that advertises "kid gloves, parasols, hosiery, underwear, neckwear, &c." and two prints [1975.F.106 and 1975.F.114] serve as admission tickets to the store., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Bartholomew [1975.F.78; 1975.F.106; 1975.F.111; 1975.F.114; 1975.F.117]
- Title
- Bought of Edwin Hall, no. 28 South Second St., silks, shawls, dress goods, cloths, mourning goods, furnishing goods, gloves, hosiery, embroideries, laces, white goods &c
- Description
- Bilhead containing a vignette showing the exterior of the four-story dry goods store. Patrons enter the building past large display windows at which passers-by review the merchandise. In the foreground, a horse-drawn omnibus travels and a man on horseback greets a gentleman on the sidewalk., Completed in manuscript to Mr. C .J. Collings on May 1, 1871 for several items, including flannel, muslin, pink chintz, edging, lace, and ribbon, purchased between February 27 and March 3. Prices range from $.08 for lace to $2.75 for cuffs. Bill totals $21.34., Manuscript note on recto: 7/30 Recd Payt Edwin Hall., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
- Date
- [ca. 1870]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Receipts [P.2011.10.134]
- Title
- Bought of George W. Taylor, n.w. corner of Fifth and Cherry Sts. Free labor warehouse. Free labor produce exclusively. Dry goods & groceries, wholesale and retail G. W. T. manufactures his cotton goods from material procured directly from those growers, who neither own nor hire slaves; and he takes special care to insure that all the articles he sells in the grocery line, are also produced exclusively by the labor of free persons
- Description
- Billheads containing an ornament for promotional text. Taylor, a Quaker abolitionist and publisher, operated a store for the Philadelphia Free Produce Association of Friends 1840s-1860s. The association founded in 1846 was a part of the Free Produce Movement active from the 1790s through the 1860s., Printed on upper margin: Free Labor Ware-House., "G.W. Taylor" and date of invoice inscribed on versos., P.2011.45.28 completed in manuscript to John McAllister Jr. on October 20, 1862 for brown muslin and gingham for $8.71. Manuscript note on recto: Recd Payment Geo. W. Taylor, Mr. Jos. Cox., P.2011.45.29 completed in manuscript to John McAllister Jr. on March 21, 1863 for rice, "A" and "B" sugar, "B. Hibernia Coffee," chocolate, maple sugar, "powd." sugar, and candy for $6.03. Manuscript note on recto: Recd payment Geo. W. Taylor., P.2011.45.30 completed in manuscript to John McAllister Jr. on August 11, 1863 for "A" sugar, "Powd." sugar, "B" sugar, candy, Liberia coffee, and brown muslin for $18.20. Manuscript note on recto: Recd payment Geo. W. Taylor pr Jos. Cox., 113407.D completed in manuscript to John McAllister on September 22, 1863 for E. J. Molasses, "A" sugar, "powd." sugar, and rice flor for $9.39. Manuscript note on recto: Recd payment Geo. W. Taylor. Mr. J. Cox., P.2011.45.28-30 gift of David Doret, 2011., P.2011.45.28-30 cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., 113407.D purchased with the Davida T. Deutsch African American History Fund., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- [printed ca. 1860]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Letterheads - T [P.2011.45.28-30; 113407.D]
- Title
- [Brown, Frederick & Kunkel, clothing warerooms, 41 North Third Street, Philadelphia]
- Description
- Unlettered proof of advertisement showing a North Third Street block of businesses (37-43) above Market Street. Includes (left to right) Sieger, Lamb & Co., dry goods (43); Brown, Frederick & Kunkel, men's and boys' wear and Irwin, Shultz & Peiper, merchants (41); S. Brock Jr., fancy dry goods and Iungerich & Smith, grocers (39); and Lloyd & Walmsley, trimmings (37). Storefronts are four to five stories and are built of stone. Gentlemen patrons enter and exit, including one descending an interior flight of stairs, most of the establishments. A crate rests outside and boxes are piled near the second-floor windows of Brown, Frederick, & Kunkel. Barrels crowd the first floor of Iungerich & Smith into which a laborer rolls a barrel as two line the sidewalk behind him. Outside of Lloyd & Walmsley, a gentleman inspects a large box and men sit on or address crates in front of Sieger, Lamb & Co. Drays, a wagon, and handcart, attended by their drivers, and loaded with goods, many with faint writing, are parked in front of, or depart, from each building. One drayman attempts to settle his horse. Also shows the storefront (without signage) at 45 North Third Street and partial views, with signage, of neighboring businesses, including J.W. Swain, umbrellas and parasols (35). Names of businesses spelled variantly on 41 North Third Street storefront., Title supplied by cataloger., Possibly by W.H. Rease., Date supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 65, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
- Date
- [1855]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W34 [P.2033]
- Title
- [Bullock mansion, North Third Street above Market Street, Philadelphia.]
- Description
- View looking southeast showing the former mansion of wool merchant Benjamin Bullock (32 N. 3rd, pre-consolidation) tenanted by the businesses of James L. Rahn, hosiery & gloves, and John M. Ford, saddlery hardware, at 46-48 N. 3rd Street above Market Street. Building heavily adorned with signage. Also shows adjacent businesses including William P. Wilstach & Co. (38 N. 3rd), saddlery hardware; Yard, Gillmore & Co., silk goods (40-42 N. 3rd); and Lippincott, Coffin & Co., dry goods and trimmings (50 N. 3rd). Crates, carts, and horse saddlery equipment line the sidewalk., Attributed to F. De B. Richards., Title from manuscript note on verso: Bullock's old mansion North 3d., Date from manuscript note on verso., Originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 2, page 95. The scrapbooks contained approximately 120 photographs by Philadelphia painter and pioneer photographer Richards of 18th-century public, commercial, and residential buildings in the city of Philadelphia commissioned by Poulson to document the vanishing architectural landscape., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 24., Arcadia caption text: Many structures on the eastern side of Center City, near the Delaware River, were originally constructed as residences and later adapted for commercial use. This photograph, taken in May of 1859, depicts the former mansion of wool merchant Benjamin Bullock on Third Street [above] Market Street. Modified with display windows at street level, two businesses - James L. Rahn’s hosiery and glove shop, and John M. Ford’s saddlery and hardware store - occupy the building. Other homes on this block had already been replaced by taller commercial buildings.
- Creator
- Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
- Date
- May 1859
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Residences - B [(2)2526.F.95 (Poulson)], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/2526f95.jpg
- Title
- C. Hughes, dry goods and trimmings, No. 1128 Pine Street, Philadelphia. Dress making and knife pleating done at short notice
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting a business card for Catherine and/or Cordelia Hughes' dry goods store at 1128 Pine Street tucked into flowers., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1875]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Hughes [1975.F.411a]
- Title
- Chestnut Street - east from Continental Hotel
- Description
- Rooftop view looking east from the Continental Hotel at the southeast corner of Ninth and Chestnut streets. Shows the 800-700 blocks of Chestnut Street, predominately storefronts on the north side, including Sharpless Brothers, wholesale wools & dry goods (801-803 Chestnut); a billiard saloon (N.E. cor. Eighth & Chestnut); the Masonic Temple (built 1855, 713-721 Chestnut); Marxsen & Witte, china and glass (713 Chestnut); and signage attached to a dry goods business advertising a "Grand Closing Sale.", Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title printed on mount., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.), photographer
- Date
- ca. 1874
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Simons - Streets [P.8497.3]
- Title
- Chestnut Street - east from Continental Hotel
- Description
- Rooftop view looking east from the Continental Hotel at the southeast corner of Ninth and Chestnut streets. Shows the 800-700 blocks of Chestnut Street, predominately storefronts on the north side, including Sharpless Brothers, wholesale wools & dry goods (801-803 Chestnut); a billiard saloon (N.E. cor. Eighth & Chestnut); the Masonic Temple (built 1855, 713-721 Chestnut); Marxsen & Witte, china and glass (713 Chestnut); and signage attached to a dry goods business advertising a "Grand Closing Sale.", Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title printed on mount., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.), photographer
- Date
- ca. 1874
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Simons - Streets [P.8497.3]
- Title
- Chestnut Street, East of Fifth
- Description
- Panoramic view showing businesses marked with pre-consolidation addresses on the south side of the 400 block of Chestnut Street (134-140, i.e., 420-428). Signage and ornaments adorn the buildings. Includes L. J. Levy & Co., dry goods store (420); Bailey & Kitchen, jeweler, and Broadbent & Co. daguerreotype rooms (422); W. F. Warburton late W.H. Beebe & Co., hatter and C. Stinger, dressmaker(424); James E. Caldwell & Co., jeweler (426); Root Gallery of Daguerreotypes, Wriggens & Warden, jeweler, and S. Marot, engraver (428). Also shows heavy street and pedestrian traffic, including horse-drawn carriages and an omnibus. Part of the old City Hall at Fifth and Chestnuts is also visible. A crowd of people stands at the tree-lined street corner near the building., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 541.1, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 856 Sc 57, HSP copy inscribed on recto: Prest by J. C. Browne., Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Streets - Chestnut Street - 4th-5th (2 copies), Athenaeum of Philadelphia: General Prints Collection - PRM071, Gift of David Doret.
- Creator
- Collins & Autenrieth, artist
- Date
- c1856
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W263 [P.2007.21.18]
- Title
- Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, from Eighth to Ninth, north side
- Description
- View showing the north side of the 800 block of Chestnut Street. Businesses include: Sharpless Brothers, wholesale wools and dry goods (801-803 Chestnut); Edward Ferris, importer of whitegoods (807 Chestnut, 1870-1871); and the Girard House hotel (built 1851-1852 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr.) at 823-835 Chestnut Street. Awnings adorn many of the buildings. In the foreground, individuals stand on the sidewalk near lampposts and a horse-drawn wagon stands idle., Stereograph on green mount with square corners., Photographer's imprint and title printed on stereograph mount., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Lower right corner missing from stereograph., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Newell, Robert, 1822-1897, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1870
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Streets [(6)1322.F.21e; (8)1322.F.27c]
- Title
- Compliments of Quinlan & Fisher, 816 Arch Street
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting a bouquet of flowers. Quinlan & Fisher was a partnership between Francis T. Quinlan and Charles F. Fisher., Advertising text printed on verso promotes Quinlan & Fisher as "Philadelphia's greatest credit house," allowing customers to pay $1 down and $1 per week on a bill of $10. Includes a list of stock offered by the store and a price list printed below it for select items., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1890]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Quinlan [P.9651.19]
- Title
- [Cooper & Conard trade cards]
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards depicting children performing a variety of activities, including posing for portraits in fancy clothing and decorative fans with pets; sifting flour while dressed in oversized chef's clothing with a celluloid collar as a chef's hat; and jumping rope and playing leapfrog. Also depicts a landscape view of Valley Green Bridge (built 1832, enlarged 1915) spanning Wissahickon Creek in Fairmount Park and two women, one in full dress and glaring at the other scantily-clad woman, walking on the sidewalk on a windy day., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers and photographers include Frederick Gutekunst and Thomas Sinclair., Two prints [1975.F.209 and 1975.F.214] contain the imprint, "Sinclair's 1st prize series," and are copyrighted 1881 by Geo. M. Hayes., One print [P.9798.5] includes advertising text and a list of available dry goods printed on verso., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- ca. 1885
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Cooper [1975.F.154 & 155; 1975.F.203; 1975.F.209; 1975.F.214; P.9798.5]
- Title
- C.R. Woodward, 305 South 13th Street, Philadelphia Hosiery, gloves, staple trimmings, knit goods, dress linings, stationery, &c
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting a male figure attired in a tattered smock and strappy sandals holding a staff in his left hand and a piece of fruit extended in his right hand., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade cards - Woodward [1975.F.1007a]
- Title
- Curwen Stoddart & Brother, 450, 452 and 454 N. Second Street, Philadelphia Table linens. Table napkins and doylies, bordered towels and towelings, plain towels and crashes, turkey red tabling, loom dice tabling, counterpanes, quilts, comfortables, and blankets, of all grades and sizes at low prices. For family use, hotel and boarding house keepers
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting cats standing in a basket with their front paws propped on the top rim. They meow and attempt to crawl out of the basket. Curwen Stoddart and Company was the partnership between Curwen, Joseph, and Curwen Stoddart, Jr., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Stoddart [1975.F.192]
- Title
- Dale, Ross & Withers, importers & jobbers of silks & fancy goods, 219 Market St & 42 Commerce St, Philadelphia
- Description
- Advertisement showing the front facade of the five-story storefront built circa 1857 at 219, i.e., 521 Market Street. Building adorned with the name of the business and the street number on the roof. Also shows line-drawn partial views of adjacent buildings. Dale, Ross & Withers, leading silk merchants in the United States, partnered in 1843 and relocated to the address in 1857. By the mid 1860s, Withers had left the partnership., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 170
- Creator
- Button, Stephen Decatur, 1813-1897, artist
- Date
- [ca. 1857]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W91 [P.2146]
- Title
- Dale, Ross & Withers, importers & jobbers of silks & fancy goods, 219 Market St & 42 Commerce St, Philadelphia. [graphic] / S.D. Button, archt.
- Description
- Location: 521 Market Street., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Creator
- Button, Stephen Decatur, 1813-1897, architect., creator
- Date
- ca. 1857.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W091.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W91 [P.2146]
- Title
- Darlington, Runk & Co. Hosiery & underwear for fall & winter 1879 [pocket cicrular]
- Description
- Circular containing an exterior view of the three-story storefront for the dry goods store at 1126-1128 Chestnut Street on the back cover. Horse-drawn carriages travel in the street, pedestrians walk on the sidewalk, and sections of adjacent buildings are partially visible. Also contains advertising text printed internally., Not in Wainwright., pdcp00052, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana, POSP 47
- Date
- [ca. 1879]
- Location
- Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana
- Title
- Darlington, Runk & Co., Philadelphia
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting pink and gilt flowering vines., Advertising text printed on verso: Monday, March 15, Grand Opening of silks, dress fabrics, grenadines, by Darlington, Runk & Co. at which time they will have the pleasure of exhibiting the very newest styles and colorings for the spring and summer 1880., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- 1880
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *trade card - Darlington [1975.F.83]
- Title
- [Darlington, Runk & Co. trade cards]
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards depicting children, cats, cherubs, and ornately attired couples. Also shows a Japanese woman dressed in traditional garb playing a shamisen; a man painting on canvas as his female companion watches; three women shooting with bows and arrows at a heart-shaped target; two women reading a letter as a male admirer watches unnoticed; and men and women gathered around a drinking fountain., Title supplied by cataloger., One print [1975.F.284] printed by J.H. Bufford's Sons, Boston and six prints signed J. Bognard, Paris., One print [1975.F.279] contains advertising text printed on verso: Darlington, Runk & Co., importers and retailers of silks, dress-goods, mourning-goods, hosiery, gloves, india shawls, laces &c. Nos. 1126 and 1128 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia., Ten prints contains image titles, including "Dos a dos," "Fi dono!" "La gourmandisi," "La cholere," "La paresse," "Brouillés," "La rencontre," "Pardonne-moi," "L'orgueil," and "La promenade"., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Darlington [1975.F.146; 1975.F.225-227; 1975.F.240; 1975.F.245-246; 1975.F.248-249; 1975.F.251; 1975.F.254-255; 1975.F.258-259; 1975.F.261-262; 1975.F.265-266; 1975.F.268-269; 1975.F.277; 1975.F.279; 1975.F.284]
- Title
- F. Pulaski & Co., 1026 Chestnut St Opening days, November 1st and 2d, 1881
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards promoting F. Pulaski & Co., a fancy goods store at 1026 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict a white woman pulling on her red stockings as her pet cat rubs his head against her foot and the same woman attired in a brown coat, a pink hat, blue stockings and white shoes, leaving her home with her cat trailing her. Also includes two related scenes showing a white woman standing with her head lowered before her surprised white husband with black soot on her face and clothing. In the subsequent scene, the husband is fighting with a Black man. In the right, the white man's brown cap flies off his head and white flour is dispersed through the air. In the left, the Black man's brown, brimmed hat falls to the ground as he grabs his hands around the white man's head with his right leg lifted up. F. Pulaski & Co., initially a partnership between Frank Pulaski and M.L. Kline when these trade cards were created, later specialized in pictures and picture frames., Title from item., Text in French printed on recto [1975.F.714]: "En voyant sa femme changée de couleur, Pétrin qui a mauvais caractère, devine tout de suite que Charabia lui a fait une niche. Il a son plan.", Text in French printed on recto [1975.F.718]: "Comme ils se sont promis de faire suer: Charabia, de la farine à chon ami Pétrin, et Pétrin du charbon a Charabia, ils se tiennent parole.", Gift of Emily Phillips, 1883., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- 1881
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Pulaski [1975.F.714; 1975.F.718; 1975.F.764 & 1975.F.871]
- Title
- [Fifth and Market streets looking west.]
- Description
- View showing the south side of the 500 block of Market Street. Businesses include: A. Hirsch & Brothers, umbrellas and parasols (500 Market); Charles Hirsch & Brothers , clothiers, and Samuel Vendig, shirt manufacturer (502 Market); F. Paxson & Co., fancy and white goods (504 Market); C.D. McClees & Co., auctioneers (506 Market); Jacob Goldsmith, Jr., clothing (508 Market); Capitol Clothing House (510 Market); Graff Watkins & Co., boots and shoes (512 Market); Bennett's Tower Hall, clothier (518 Market); and Wanamaker and Brown's Oak Hall, clothiers (534 Market). Businesses are heavily adorned with signage. Also includes horse-drawn wagons lining the street, crates lining the sidewalk, individuals standing in front of the shops, and a telegraph pole on the corner., Title supplied by cataloguer., Manuscript note on verso: 5th & Market looking west., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Publisher's imprint printed on verso., Inscribed on negative: 218., Pink mount with rounded corners., Printed on mount: No. 4., Reproduced in Joseph Jackson's America's most historic highway Market Street, Philadelphia, New ed. (Philadelphia: John Wanamaker, 1926), p. 153., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Gift of Jane Carson James., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Newell & Son, a partnership between Robert and his son, Henry, was active from around 1870 until 1897 and the death of the elder Newell.
- Creator
- R. Newell & Son, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1871, c1876
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Streets [P.9299.130]
- Title
- [Francis Bond trade cards]
- Description
- Illustrated trade cards depicting stemmed flowers; a business card; and scenes of Japanese life, including men and women working outdoors and attired in traditional garb. Francis Bond succeeded Allen Cuthbert and operated a coffee, tea, and Japanese dry goods shop at 139 [or 130] South Eighth Street in Philadelphia., Title supplied by cataloger., Two prints [1975.F.400-401] shaped like decorative fans., Advertising text printed on rectos and versos of three prints [1975.F.67, 1975.F.110 and 1975.F.400] listing the business address, coffee flavors, and types of Japanese goods imported by Francis Bond., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Bond [1975.F.67; 1975.F.110; 1975.F.400-401]
- Title
- [German Peace Jubilee procession at the 600 block of Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa., May 15, 1871]
- Description
- View showing the German Peace Jubilee procession in celebration of the German victory in the Franco-Prussian War. Procession includes several horse-drawn carriages carrying parade dignitaries. Spectators crowd the sidewalks and the balcony of the office building Jayne's Hall (625-631 Chestnut). Bunting, as well as signage advertising a dry goods store and W.G. Spencer & Co., notions, is visible on the building. Also shows a partial view of Joseph Monier's bookbinding establishment at Seventh and Chestnut., Title supplied by cataloguer., Attributed to Schreiber & Sons because of blindstamps on mounts of other stereographs in series [P.9840.1 and P.9840.2], Incorrect manuscript note on verso: 5th below Market., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Robert M. Vogel.
- Creator
- Schreiber & Sons, photographer
- Date
- 1871
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schreiber & Son - Processions [P.9047.44]
- Title
- [German Peace Jubilee procession at the 600 block of Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa., May 15, 1871]
- Description
- View showing the German Peace Jubilee procession in celebration of the German victory in the Franco-Prussian War. Procession includes several horse-drawn carriages carrying parade dignitaries and a float labeled "Peace" transporting a band. Spectators crowd the sidewalks and the balcony of the office building Jayne's Hall (625-631 Chestnut). Bunting, as well as signage advertising a dry goods store and W.G. Spencer & Co., notions, is visible on the building. Also shows a partial view of Joseph Monier's bookbinding establishment at Seventh and Chestnut., Title supplied by cataloguer., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Schreiber & Sons, photographer
- Date
- 1871
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schreiber & Son - Processions [P.9840.1]
- Title
- [German Peace Jubilee procession passing the 600 and 700 blocks of Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa., May 15, 1871]
- Description
- View showing the German Peace Jubilee procession in celebration of the German victory in the Franco-Prussian War. Procession includes a horse-drawn float and several marching parade participants. Spectators crowd the sidewalks and the balcony of the office building, Jayne's Hall (625-631 Chestnut), which is adorned in bunting and displaying signage advertising a dry goods store. Also shows a partial view of the 700 block of Chestnut Street, including Joseph Monier's bookbinding establishment at Seventh and Chestnut., Title supplied by cataloguer., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Schreiber & Sons, photographer
- Date
- 1871
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schreiber & Son - Processions [P.9840.2]
- Title
- Grigg Block, North Fourth Street, Philadelphia
- Description
- View of the active business block containing and named after Grigg, Elliot, & Co., the largest and most prosperous publishing firm in the city that was founded by John Grigg in 1823 and purchased by J. B. Lippincott in 1849. Shows the block of buildings (10-20 North Fourth Street) covered in signage and including Barcroft, Beaver & Co., dry good dealers and S. M. Day, wholesale combs, brush and fancy goods trimmings (10); Goff & Peterson, importers and manufacturers of saddlery, carriage, and harness trimmings (12); Grigg, Elliot & Co. (14); C. H. & Geo. Abbott, dealers and importers of hardware and cutlery and C. Ahrenfeldt & Co., importers of toys & fancy goods (16); C. B. Lassell & Co., hats and caps and Charles Wingate, dealer in shoes, boots, and palm leaf hats (18); and Edwin & John Tams, importers and dealers of china, earthenware, and glass (20). Patrons exit and enter the various storefronts; delivery men, including an African American man, haul, load, and remove goods from horse-drawn and push carts; laborers load goods into shop storage cellars and use a pulley to raise a large cask; store clerks inspect and open newly arrived packages on the sidewalk; a horse-drawn dust settling machine passes in the street; and artisans and merchandise are visible in several of the shops' upper floor windows. Partial views of the adjacent buildings and a nearby alley with a laborer and push cart are also visible., Title from item., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Dec. 1848., Contains advertisements for six of the depicted businesses below the image., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 331, Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Rease, a prominent mid-19th century Philadelphia trade card lithographer known to highlight details of human interest in his advertisements, partnered with Francis H. Schell in the 1850s and eventually operated his own press until around 1872.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H., lithographer
- Date
- [1848]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W 162 [P.2077]
- Title
- Grigg Block, North Fourth Street, Philadelphia. [graphic] / W.H. Rease, No. 17 1/2 South Fifth Street.
- Description
- Contains advertisements for six of the depicted businesses below the image., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Dec. 1848., View of the active business block containing and named after Grigg, Elliot, & Co., the largest and most prosperous publishing firm in the city that was founded by John Grigg in 1823 and purchased by J. B. Lippincott in 1849. Shows the block of buildings (10-20 North Fourth Street) covered in signage and including Barcroft, Beaver & Co., dry good dealers and S. M. Day, wholesale combs, brush and fancy goods trimmings (10); Goff & Peterson, importers and manufacturers of saddlery, carriage, and harness trimmings (12); Grigg, Elliot & Co. (14); C. H. & Geo. Abbott, dealers and importers of hardware and cutlery and C. Ahrenfeldt & Co., importers of toys & fancy goods (16); C. B. Lassell & Co., hats and caps and Charles Wingate, dealer in shoes, boots, and palm leaf hats (18); and Edwin & John Tams, importers and dealers of china, earthernware, and glass (20). Patrons exit and enter the various storefronts; delivery men, including an African American man, haul, load, and remove goods from horse-drawn and push carts; laborers load goods into shop storage cellars and use a pulley to raise a large cask; store clerks inspect and open newly arrived packages on the sidewalk; a horse-drawn dust settling machine passes in the street; and artisans and merchandise are visible in several of the shops' upper floor windows. Partial views of the adjacent buildings and a nearby alley with a laborer and push cart are also visible.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H., lithographer., creator
- Date
- [[1848]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W162.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W 162 [P.2077]
- Title
- Hall & Harrop, successors to N.P. Hall, deceased, wholesale and retail, dry goods store, No. 53 North Second Street, east side, a few doors below Arch Street, Philadelphia Cloths, cassimeres, cashmeretts, vestings, trimmings, bareges, balzorines, mous de lains, lawns, ginghams, calicoes, muslins, linens, shawls, gloves, &c. Isaac Hall, Jr. J. Thomas Harrop
- Description
- List of items sold printed in three columns below address., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Don Yoder and William Woys Weaver.
- Date
- [ca. 1847]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Hall [P.2007.41.4]
- Title
- Hoskins, Hieskell & Co. Importers & jobbers of fancy and staple dry goods. No. 213 Market & 34 Commerce St. Philada Philadelphia
- Description
- Advertisement showing a view of the five-story, Norman-Italian style ornamented, cast-iron fronted building tenanted by the dry goods establishment that was completed in 1853 after the designs of Sloan & Stewart at 213, i.e., 513 Market Street. In front of the store, a gentleman departs from the entrance and a couple greets a gentleman across from another man leaning on a column of the building. A couple strolls past, and a group of men convene near crates on the sidewalk, in front of neighboring buildings on the block. In the street, a driver stands with his loaded horse-drawn dray. Image surrounded by an ornate border, including filigree; cherubic and female allegorical figures representing the mechanical arts, industry, and virtues; and medallions printed with the names of the contractors who worked on the structure. Contractors include Wm. Keay, granite; Bottom, Tiffany & Co., Iron Front, Trenton, N.J.; James Spencely, Plasterer; E.& P. Coleman, Bolts &c.; Wm. Butcher & Son, Tin Roofing; Geo. Creely, Brick Layer; Sloan & Stewart, Architects; Brown & Allison, Carpenters & Builders; Wright, Hunter & Co., Plumbing & Gas Fitting; and Hood & Co., Iron Doors & Shutters, Grating &c. Hoskins & Heiskell relocated to the site in 1853. The building was renumbered to 513 Market Street in 1857, following the consolidation of the city., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 363, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Inger & Haugg were probably Christian Inger and Louis (Lewis) Haugg., Newspaper clipping dated June 23, 1853 describing the completion of the building in Poulson Scrapook, vol. 7, p. 79.
- Creator
- Inger & Haugg, artist
- Date
- [ca. 1854]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W179 [P.2069]
- Title
- Interior View of L. J. Levy & Co's Dry Goods Store, Chestnut St. Phila Erected in 1857 by W. P. Fetridge, Esqr. 55 Feet Front & 175 Feet Deep
- Description
- Advertisement showing the interior of the two-level dry goods store containing a parquet floor and Corinthian columns, and busy with customers at 809-811 Chestnut Street. Men and women patrons mill around and stop at the display counters, one centrally located and the other against the wall. Compartments of textiles line the wall to the right and a women clerk pulls a bolt of cloth as another assists a female customer accompanied by her stylishly dressed daughter. A couple with a child talks with a female clerk at the large C-shaped central counter lined with stools that encloses an island of shelves displaying dry goods. Three men convene near a woman talking to a teller behind a partition to the left. People ascend and descend the semi-circular staircase to the second floor balcony from which bolts of cloth, most with patterns, hang. Two large windows covered with drapes and a chandelier is visible on the upper floor that is also adorned with ornate lamps., Ms note on recto: 809/15 Chestnut St. Taken S. V. Henkels., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 387, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 38 L 668, Free Library of Philadelphia: Oversize Philadelphiana -Stores and Shops - Levy. (2 copies) FLP also holds original watercolor. (Oversize Philadelphiana -Stores and Shops - Levy)., Fetridge was a New York publisher.
- Creator
- Rosenthal, Max, 1833-1918, artist
- Date
- [ca. 1857]
- Location
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 38 L 668
- Title
- [I.S. Custer, Son & Co. trade cards]
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards for the millinery and fancy goods business of I.S. Custer, Son & Co. at 39, 41, & 43 North Eighth Street in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict a boy hanging from a tree branch by his shirt after attempting to steal apples from a fenced-in yard with a sign reading "Keep off". A boy with a basket full of apples stands below him and watches from the ground. Also shows a girl wearing a bonnet with a red, white and blue ribbon and resting her head on her hands in a field with flowers and a butterfly. Includes two cherub-like figures, one representing "Septembre" running from a rabbit with his rifle and hunting bag, and the other, "Octobre," wearing a robe and a laurel wreath on his head and spilling wine from a goblet., Title supplied by cataloger., One print [1975.F.207] die cut and shaped in an art or painting palette with advertising text for goods available within Departments A through H printed on verso., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Custer [1975.F.149; 1975.F.199-200; 1975.F.207]
- Title
- J. M. Hafleigh & Co. Retail dry goods. No. 1012 & 1014 Chestnut St
- Description
- Advertisement showing an exterior view of the dry goods store built by contractor John Ketcham. Patrons enter and several pedestrians, including women with parasols, walk in front of the store. Large draped mounds are visible in the display windows. Also shows the proprietors name and address etched in the frieze above the entryway as well as an "H" on an arched tablet adorning the roof., Not in Wainwright, Philadelphia on Stone, POS 398, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Print Collection - Small - Stores & Factories - Box 55, Folder 5, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Streets - Chestnut - 10th-11th
- Date
- [ca. 1870]
- Location
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Print Collection - Small - Stores & Factories - Box 55, Folder 5
- Title
- Jacob Riegel & Co., importers and jobbers of dry goods. No. 333 Market, & Nos. 25 & 27 North 4th Street, Philadelphia
- Description
- Exterior view of the multi-story storefront at 333 Market Street of the dry goods store originally established in 1832 as Siegers & Vogel. Patrons stand in the doorway of the building, while pedestrians converse and a white man and woman couple passes by on the sidewalk in front of the entrance. Laborers load and unload horse-drawn drays stationed nearby across from street traffic, including a Pennsylvania Central R.R. Depot street car, a racing Adams Express Co. wagon transporting crates, and an African American delivery man pushing a handcart carrying boxes. Also shows partial views of adjacent buildings. Jacob Riegel operated Jacob Riegel & Co. from 1866 until his death in 1880. The establishment, considered one of the most prominent dry goods firms in the country, went into decline as Riegle, Scott, & Co. following the death of Riegle and was bought out by John Wanamaker in 1886., Title from item., Accompanied by complementary trade card [P.2008.34.22]., Reproduced in online LCP exhibition Mirror of a City., Purchase 2008., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Creator
- Sartain, Samuel, 1830-1906, engraver
- Date
- [ca. 1867]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Ph Pr - Businesses - R [P.2008.34.21], http://www.librarycompany.org/mirrorofacity/section6.htm
- Title
- Jaynes' Hall, Chestnut Street below Seventh
- Description
- View showing Jayne's Hall, an office building built in 1856 for patent medicine manufacturer Dr. David Jayne, at 625-631 Chestnut Street. Also shows Jayne's other office building, Jayne's Marble Building (615-619 Chestnut, built 1860) and adjacent businesses, including Rockhill & Wilson, clothiers (603-605 Chestnut) and the Bulletin Building (607 Chestnut, built 1866). Jayne buildings tenanted by: Atwood, Ralston & Co., carpet manufacturers and merchants; Farrel, Herring & Co., safes; Furness, Brinley & Co., auctioneers and merchants; Keystone Collar Company; Lafourcades Bros. & Irwin, importers of cloths, cassimeres, and vestings; Lynch & Fisher, dry goods; Merchant's Express Company; M.L. Hallowell & Co., merchants; Van Deusen, Boehmer & Co., men's furnishing goods; Yard, Gilmore & Co., silk goods. Street railroad tracks run down the street., Orange mount with rounded corners., Title from label on negative., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Union View Co.
- Date
- [ca. 1868, printed ca. 1885]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo -Union View Company - Streets [P.9189.5]
- Title
- John Mustin, Jr., S.E. cor. Arch & Seventh, Philad'a. Military yarns
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting patriotic imagery, including a sailor holding a sextant on the deck of a ship surrounded by an American flag, American shield, an eagle, a pile of cannonballs, and an anchor., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1860]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Mustin [(2)5786.F.170b]
- Title
- [John Mustin trade cards]
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards depicting a woman picking flowers; a man hanging a cloth with the title inscribed on it; a man holding an umbrella for a lady in the rain; a crane standing near flowers on the edge of a lake; ornate Japanese paddle fans; and a butterfly perched on flower stems., One print [1975.F.591] copyrighted 1881 by Thomas W. Price., Advertising text printed on versos: Established 1815. Mustin's original trimming store, the largest [Philadelphia,] wholesale hosiery, glove, trimming, zephyr worsted, knitting yarn, and thread & needle establishment, No. 515 Arch Street, and No. 510 Cherry Street, where storekeepers only, are supplied. Retail store, 1226 Chestnut Street., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Mustin [1975.F.591; 1975.F.609; 1975.F.618; 1975.F.635; 1975.F.644-646]
- Title
- [John Wanamaker & Co., 818, 820 & 822 Chestnut Street trade cards]
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards for John Wanamaker & Co.'s 818, 820 & 822 Chestnut Street store in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict the eastern and western hemispheres of the world; sheep standing in the snow; striped socks; butterflies; an anthropomorphic owl attired in a plaid coat and top hat standing in the curve of the moon observing the townscape below; a boy and a girl standing on a path below a tree in which a large birds sits; Philadelphia's City Hall; a boy riding on a sled through the snow pulled by two turkeys; a bird on a tree branch; a hearth with a kettle over a fire; rabbits and a grasshopper; an owl and birds; a well-dressed boy reading a sign on a stone all for boys' clothing at John Wanamaker & Co.'s store; putti seated in a bird's nest and playing with a Dutch clog in a pond; Japanese men assembling a paper lantern; an owl flying above two Japanese men huddled on the ground; cricket players; a large ship at sea framed by a large horseshoe; Japanese men running and falling from their sled in the snow; an angry merchant holding a $20.00 I.O.U. from a man attired in a new suit smoking a cigarette; men sitting on the field of a shooting range; and children playing with wood blocks and spelling "Wanamaker". Includes a metamorphic trade card, which when open shows an advertising board for John Wanamaker & Co. propped in a man's crooked teeth in his wide open mouth and when closed, shows the man with his eyes open and mouth closed. In 1869, Wanamaker established John Wanamaker & Co. on the 800 block of Chestnut Street., Title supplied by cataloger., Two prints [1975.F.940 & 1006] copyrighted 1881 by E.O. Goodman., Two prints [1975.F.963 & 966] copyrighted 1878 by L. Prang & Co., Boston., Two prints [1975.F.990, 991, 1000] copyrighted 1881 by O.J. Ramsdell., One print [1975.F.993] copyrighted 1879 by G.H. Kendall, engraver, 285 Broadway, New York., Printers and engravers include Hiram P. Arms, Jr. (Philadelphia), Rogers & Florance (Philadelphia), L. Prang & Co. (Boston), and G.H. Kendall (New York)., Four prints [1975.F.958, 979 & 980, 993] contain advertising text printed on versos promoting John Wanamaker & Co.'s quality clothing and low prices., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1878-ca. 1881]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - John Wanamaker & Co. [1975.F.906; 1975.F.916 & 917; 1975.F.924; 1975.F.926; 1975.F.940 & 941; 1975.F.946; 1975.F.957 & 958; 1975.F.962 & 963; 1975.F.966; 1975.F.977; 1975.F.979 & 980; 1975.F.987 & 988; 1975.F.990 & 991; 1975.F.993; 1975.F.1000; 1975.F.1006; 1975.F.1009; P.9651.24; P.9728.16; P.9745]
- Title
- [John Wanamaker & Co. unidentified location trade cards]
- Description
- Series of three illustrated trade cards "compliments of John Wanamaker & Co." addressed "to the little folks" depicting pairs of well-dressed boys., Series of seventeen illustrated trade cards depicting flags facing right of various countries, including Liberia, France, Egypt, Paraguay, Great Britain, Turkey, Ecuador, Denmark, Poland, Bolivia, Portugal, Russia, Argentine Republic, Switzerland, Chili [sic], Peru, and Norway., Title supplied by cataloger., Three prints [1975.F.909, 923 & 938] printed by Chas. Shields' Sons, 20 & 22 Gold St., N.Y., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - John Wanamaker & Co. [1975.F.909; 1975.F.911-915; 1975.F.923; 1975.F.927-938; 1975.F.996]
- Title
- [John Wanamaker's Grand Depot trade cards]
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards for John Wanamaker's Grand Depot at Thirteenth and Market Streets in Philadelphia, opened in 1876 to cater to Centennial Exhibition crowds. Illustrations depict a butterfly; two children walking outside with their parents; a harp with the figure of a mermaid forming the column; a round pediment inscribed "Constitution" resting on three caryatids; yellow flag with two horizontal red stripes; exterior views of the Grand Depot with pedestrian and vehicular traffic in the foreground; a girl feeding birds; a girl eating a piece of fruit; head portraits of girls wearing bonnets; cranes standing in water; sprays of flowers; children and a dog gathered around a piano, one of them playing a flute; a Japanese man tripping two boys with spools of "Stafford braid"; and two men dueling with swords., Title supplied by cataloger., Two prints [1975.F.945 & 947] part of Wemple & Kronheim's Series No. 43., Two prints [1975.F.908 & 999] copyrighted 1877 by L. Prang & Co., Two prints [1975.F.945 & 947] copyrighted 1879 by Wemple & Kronheim, N.Y., Two prints [1975.F.985 & 986] copyrighted 1878 by L. Prang & Co., Boston., Printers and engravers include L. Prang & Co. (Boston), Wemple & Kronheim (New York), Donaldson Brothers (New York), S.C. Duval (Philadelphia), Mayer, Merkel & Ottmann (New York), and Marcus Ward & Co. (Belfast)., Eight prints contain advertising text printed on versos., Two prints contain calendars printed on verso, one [1975.F.922] for 1881 and the other [P.9577.12] for 1900., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1877-1900]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - John Wanamaker [1975.F.316; 1975.F.908; 1975.F.918; 1975.F.920-922; 1975.F.943; 1975.F.945; 1975.F.947; 1975.F.954; 1975.F.956; 1975.F.985 & 986; 1975.F.989; 1975.F.999; 1975.F.1005; 1975.F.1008; P.9577.12]
- Title
- [Jones & Fisher trade cards]
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards for Jones & Fisher, the mourning dry goods store operated by Chalkley L. Jones and Frederick F. Fisher at 918 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia. Illustrations entitled "Le roi Dagobert" and "M' de la Palisse" show children depicting Good King Dagobert and Jacques de la Palisse; men and women startled after observing their large, distorted reflections in mirrors and a crystal ball; a man and a woman attired in Medieval or Renaissance clothing; flowers; and a dog., Title supplied by cataloger., One print [P.9669.2] copyrighted 1882 by G. Kahn., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Jones [P.9669.1-11]
- Title
- [J.W. LeMaistre trade cards]
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards depicting birds; flowers; putti carrying a pine tree or Christmas tree; children holding up a large sign for J.W. LeMaistre; a lady attired in Renaissance or Medieval clothing; a woman standing on a tree branch over a body of water releasing fish she caught in her lace shawl; General Ulysses S. Grant smoking while standing on a globe labeled "United"; and children symbolizing various countries by wearing traditional clothing and carrying the countries' flags, including England, Italy, and Spain., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers and lithographers include L. Prang & Co. (Boston), McCalla & Staveley (Philadelphia) and Craig, Finley & Co. (Philadelphia)., Eight prints contain advertising text printed on versos promoting products imported and sold by J.W. LeMaistre, including embroideries, laces, curtains, handkerchiefs, collars, cushions, silk ties and bows, and bibs sold at his 46-48 North Eighth Street establishment in Philadelphia., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - LeMaistre [1975.F.492; 1975.F.498; 1975.F.501; 1975.F.508-512; 1975.F.514; P.9811.1 & 2; P.9838]
- Title
- Kaufman's, 25 N. Eighth St., Philad'a
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards and bookmarks depicting fans, flowers, and butterflies., Advertising text printed on versos: A full line of gloves, black and colored fringes, gimps and ornaments, buttons, etc. Laces of all descriptions, Hamburg edgings, corsets, fancy goods, &c. No. 25 North Eighth Street, M. Kaufman., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1883]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Kaufman [1975.F.467 & 468; 1975.F.471]
- Title
- Market Street, [above Fourth Street], Philadelphia
- Description
- View of the commercial street above Fourth Street, north side, showing 431-425 Market Street. Depicts William Brooks, ribbons, millinery goods, and straw goods, at 431 Market Street; Armar Young, Bro. & Co. (Young, Moore, & Co.), embroideries, hosiery, and notions, at 429 Market Street; Buehler Howard & Co, hardware, and Cunningham & Ethier, boots and shoes, at 427 Market Street; and White & Pechin, wood & willowware (dinnerware designed with a willow motif), Samuel Vendig, shirts, and the W. Williamson, dry goods office, as tenants of 425 Market Street. Buildings are heavily adorned with signage, which include the street numbers. A horse-drawn cart stands idle before 425 Market Street. Crates line the sidewalk. Also includes partial view of 433 Market Street., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title printed on mount., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Cremer, James, 1821-1893
- Date
- [ca. 1867]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereos - Cremer - Streets [P.9260.37]
- Title
- Market Street east of 9th Street
- Description
- View showing the north side of the 800 block of Market Street. Businesses, many covered with signage and adorned with awnings, include Gould & Co. Union Furniture Depot (cor. Ninth and Market); Buchanan & McClure, glass and queensware (837 Market); Truman & Shaw, hardware and tools (835 Market); H. Kampe & Co., furniture (833 Market); William Penn Hotel (831 Market); John C. Hurst, wholesale druggist; Wm. Ackers & Co., queensware and china (823 Market Street); H. Heller, lace (821 Market); Hood, Bonbright & Co., dry goods (811 Market); and A. Kramer & Co., furniture (809 Market). Also shows John B. Ellison & Sons, importers of cloths, cassimeres, and vestings (723-725 Market). Crates line the sidewalks and horse-drawn wagons line the street in the distance. A telegraph pole adorned with two broadsides stands in the foreground., Orange mount with rounded corners., Manuscript note on verso: Market St east of 9th., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Cremer, James, 1821-1893
- Date
- May 21, 1875
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Streets [P.8931.1]
- Title
- [Market Street west of Second Street, Philadelphia.]
- Description
- View showing the north side of the 200 block of Market Street. Businesses include: Du Hadway & Dodson, cloths, cassimeres, and vestings, (Market and Second); one of two stores of Edward T. Steele & Co., cloth house (203 Market); William F. Wheeler, notions (207 Market); Vance & Landis & Co., hardware (211 Market); Lynch & Fisher, dry goods (213 Market); Kempton, Thompson, & Co., dry goods (217 Market). Many of the buildings are adorned with awnings. Several crates line the street. A dray rests idle in front of Du Hadway & Dodson. Also includes two telegraph poles., Title supplied by cataloger., Manuscript note on verso incorrectly identifying view: Market west of 3rd., Green mount with rounded corners., Gift of Robert M. Vogel., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Newell, Robert, 1822-1897
- Date
- [ca. 1869]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Streets [P.9047.110]
- Title
- [Marks Bros. trade cards]
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards depicting a female Asian fairy figure with wings and chopsticks in her hair holding a fan and a flowering branch and butterflies encircling a plant in an urn with a geometric border. Marks Bros. was a partnership between William, Ferdinand and Emmanuel Marks., Title supplied by cataloger., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Marks [1975.F.587 & 1975.F.589]
- Title
- [M'Clees & Germon, daguerreotype rooms, 182 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia]
- Description
- Exterior view of the studio located on the south side of Chestnut Street between 7th and 8th Streets showing the two daguerreotypists posed in a large open window with a camera and screens. View also shows the lower tenant, Joseph S. Natt's looking glass shop; partial views of adjacent businesses, including a fancy goods store (180 and 184 Chestnut); and displays of merchandise in the shop windows. The partnership between James E. McClees and Washington Lafayette Germon lasted from 1846 to 1855, and was located at this address from 1851 to 1853., Title supplied by cataloguer., McClees 1853-3., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Philadelphia views., Reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth-century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1980), entry #113., McClees, a prominent Philadelphia photographer and daguerreotypist, produced some of the earliest paper photographic views of Philadelphia between 1853 and 1859.
- Creator
- M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.), photographer
- Date
- ca. 1853
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - McClees - Businesses [(6)1322.F.163e]
- Title
- Mrs. Geo. M. Baker, stationery, fancy goods, &c. 987 N. Second St
- Description
- Illustrated trade card for Mrs. George M. Baker's stationery and fancy goods shop depicting a lamp flanked by flowers and a decorative fan., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1885]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Baker [P.9111.23]
- Title
- Mrs. Swasey, 340 N. Eighth St., Philada Trimmings, notions, hosiery and gloves a specialty
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting a spray of flowers. Trimmings store owned by Georgiana Swasey, wife of Captain W.P. Swasey., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Swasey [P.9798.3]
- Title
- Nutz's house "A very old stone house," writes Mr. Watson, "of two storys, owned and dwelt in by Nutz, a tanner, who had his tanyard along the street, southward. It is now a house resting some two feet or more below the street pavement but in former years (before the turnpike was laid there at a higher grade) " it had two steps upwards of entrance form the street. It was originally the Van de Waestyne House." On the Main Street of Germantown - "on the north side of the street, between Shoemaker and Mill street"
- Description
- View showing the former residence of tanner Leonard Nutz built circa 1730 on Main Street between Shoemaker and Mill Streets. Building adorned with broadside advertisements, including a promotion for D.J. Eiserman & Co., painting establishment. Also shows adjacent businesses, including William Tarr, dry goods store on Main Street above Mill Street. Keyser's History of Old Germantown (1907) purports the address as 5329 West Penn Street., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Date inscribed on photograph., Originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 3, page 139. The scrapbooks contained approximately 120 photographs by Philadelphia painter and pioneer photographer Richards of 18th-century public, commercial, and residential buildings in the city of Philadelphia commissioned by Poulson to document the vanishing architectural landscape., Also included in an annotated album containing twenty photographs by Richards entitled "Pictorial Views of Houses & Places in Germantown yr 1859." (LCP 66037.D.5)., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., See Naaman Henry Keyser, et al., History of Old Germantown ... (Philadelphia: Horace F. McCann, 1907), 265. Keyser cites the address of the residence of Leonard Nutz as 5329 West Penn Street., See LCP catalog Germantown and Germans: ... (1983), 65.
- Creator
- Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
- Date
- April 1859
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Germantown - N [(3)2526.F.139 (Poulson)]