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Title: An artist's conception of Swarthmore Crest. A highly restricted residential park
Description: Architectural drawing from a bird's eye perspective showing the residential park originally developed by William E. Witham ca. 1928-early 1930s. Shows the inverted pyramid-shaped residential park between Swarthmore Avenue, and Crest and Cedar Lanes. Swarthmore Avenue and Cedar Lane form the borders of the community. Crest Lane is depicted containing a traffic circle and running down the center of the development. Development includes over a dozen residences with at least two-levels. Most include multiple sections and all include gable roofs and driveways. A small number of cars travel down the street and up driveways. Trees line the interior and exterior of the residential park. Traveling salesman-turned real estate developer William E. Witham developed Swarthmore Crest following the purchase of part of the Gibbon Estate in 1928. Witham built his own Tudor Revival-style residence in Swarthmore Crest in 1931. That year, he advertised the residences already built in Swarthmore Crest as "establish[ing] a standard for the future ... substantial, without show.", Title inscribed on drawing., Signature of artist in lower right corner., Date inferred from artist's active dates in Philadelphia and years of development of residences depicted., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell., Donald C. Taber, born in New York, was a commercial artist in Philadelphia by 1930.
Creator: Taber, Donald C., 1895-1981, artist
Date: [ca. 1930]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection - Drawings and Watercolors [P.2017.15.16]

Title: Addition to residence of Mr. & Mrs. William J. Strawbridge near Paoli, Penna
Description: Architectural drawings showing the first floor plan and exterior of the Strawbridge estate in Willistown, PA. Plan includes terraces, library, reception room, dining room, gallery, hall, lavatory, closet, living room, garden court, and box garden. Also includes details for a "beam over"; cedar dipping well; measurements for the reception room, hall, gallery, living room, and garden court; and a compass., Title from drawings., Signature of architect in lower right corner. P.2018.62.3 also contains initials of architect in lower right of image., Date inferred from architect's active dates in Philadelphia, his membership in American Institute of Architects (AIA), and the aesthetic of the drawing., Caption on P.2018.62.2: Plan of First Floor., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell., G. Edwin Brumbaugh was a Philadelphia architect and architectural historian who specialized in restoration. A member and fellow of the AIA, he worked for the firms Mellor & Meigs and Charles Barton Keen 1912-1920s, as well as started his own practice in 1916.
Creator: Brumbaugh, G. Edwin, 1890-1983, architect
Date: [ca. 1940]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection - Drawings and Watercolors [P.2018.62.2&3]

Title: Rosenheim, Main Street on the road above Fisher's Lane
Description: Drawing depicting the house originally built by John Wister as a farm house in 1743 on Main Street (ie. Germantown Avenue) and Fisher's Lane, Germantown, Pa. Shows the front facade of the two-story house with dormers. A wooden fence surrounds the property. Trees grow along the sidewalk, which extends in front of the house. An adjacent house is visible in the right. Charles J. Wister, the grandson of John Wister, called the house the "Castle of Rosenheim.", Title and date from item., Signed by the artist in lower left., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019.
Creator: Graeff, Henry F., artist
Date: 1936
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.66.9]

Title: South East corner of Fisher's Lane built by John Dedier in 1773
Description: Drawing depicting an exterior view of the house originally built by John Dedier in 1773 on Fisher's Lane, Germantown, Pa. Shows an oblique view of the entrance with two steps leading to the front door. The hip-roofed house has two dormers, a chimney, and shuttered windows. In the left is a wooden fence. Several trees are visible in the background., Title from item., Date inferred from content and active dates of the artist., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019.
Creator: Graeff, Henry F., artist
Date: [ca. 1935]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.66.11]

Title: Clarke Hall, s.w. corner of Third and Chestnut Streets, built soon after 1700 From 1700 to 1795 it was occupied as the office of U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton. After many changes it was removed to make room for the Ledger building in 1840. The Public record was first published here in 1870
Description: Drawing of an early 1800s street view showing storefronts on the former site of the mansion of colonial lawyer William Clarke (built circa 1699, razed 1800) on Third and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia. A man patron exits the two-and-half-story building near two women who peer into one of the multi-paned windows of the storefront. View also shows neighboring residential buildings as well as pedestrian and street traffic, including a woman resident being greeted by a man at her front door and a horse-drawn carriage traveling down the street., Title from item., Date inferred from active dates of the artist., Signed by the artist in the lower right., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019., See related: Taylor – Case 12-15 [2717.F].
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, artist
Date: [ca. 1920]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.62.20]

Title: [Front and side architectural elevations for William M. Weigley's residence, Heidelberg Hall, in Schaefferstown, Pa.]
Description: Front and side architectural elevations for Heidelberg Hall after designs by Isaac H Hobbs and Son and constructed from 1876 to 1882 at 1373 Heidelberg Avenue, Schaefferstown, Pa. Shows a front and side view of the three-story, sandstone mansion with a mansard roof, ornamental cast iron roof crests, first and second-story porches with columns, and three formal entrances. The mansion was built for businessman William M. Weigley., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from active dates of the artist., Manuscript written on recto: Wm. M. Weigley, Shafferstown [sic] Lebanon Co., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2022., Architects Isaac H. Hobbs (1817-1896) and his son George T. Hobbs (1846-1929) formed Isaac H. Hobbs and Son in 1870 and were active until circa 1891. The firm concentrated on the suburban or country house along the East coast but particularly in the rural areas of Pennsylvania and New York.
Creator: Isaac H. Hobbs and Son, artist
Date: [ca. 1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2022.62.3.16]

Title: S.W. corner, Broad and So. Penn Square, 1860
Description: View depicting a team of six mules pulling a Pennsylvania Railroad car past the south west corner of Broad Street and South Penn Square, Philadelphia in 1860. The team led by a man travels past a row of three-story residences with shuttered windows and dormers across from the square in which trees grow behind a wrought iron fence. Pedestrians walk in front of the houses., Title and date from item., Signed by the artist in the lower right., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019., Henry B. McIntire (1872-1963) was an architectural illustrator active in Philadelphia from the 1930s to 1950s. His 1936 book, Philadelphia Then and Now, contained drawings of no longer extant buildings and contemporary images of those locations. He often used an offset lithographic printing process called aquatone in his work.
Creator: McIntire, Henry B., 1872-1963, artist
Date: 1939
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.62.13]

Title: Chew House Germantown
Description: Exterior view of the colonial residence built 1763-1767 by master carpenter Jacob Knor for Philadelphia attorney Benjamin Chew at 6401 Germantown Avenue. Shows the facade of the two-story stone building with a pediment over the front door, shuttered windows, and dormers and chimneys on the roof. View includes the west wing of the estate house. Chew House, also known as Cliveden, was the site of the turning point in the Battle of Germantown in 1777. The Chew family enslaved people of African descent in the city of Philadelphia and in Germantown during the 18th and 19th centuries. The estate was the Chew family residence until 1972 when it was acquired by the National Trust for Historic Preservation., Title from manuscript note on verso: Chew House Germantown. [43?] Ross. [#H.B.?] Pencil., Date inferred from aesthetic style of drawing., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2018., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Date: [ca. 1910]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell - Watercolors & Drawings [P.2018.61.10]

Title: The Hoffman homestead. Balt. Ave, and Cobbs Creek Parkway
Description: Drawing reproduced in Frank Taylor’s Old Philadelphia series showing an exterior view of the Hamilton-Hoffman house built 1791-1800 for merchant Gavin Hamilton. Shows an oblique view of the residence with a covered porch, shuttered windows, dormers, and multiple additions. A woman stands before the front door. In the foreground, shrubs and a tree grow around a picket fence. After Gavin Hamilton’s death, the estate was sold to Samuel Woodward in 1831, then to Jacob Hoffman in 1832. The residence remained in the possession of the Hoffman family until demolished in 1960., Title and date from item., Signed by the artist in the lower right., Manuscript note written on recto: Make corrections., Contains series number written in ink and on sticker label in upper left corner: 245. Number corresponds to the series, Old Philadelphia: Artistic reproductions from drawings by Frank H. Taylor depicting old structures and scenes of historic interest., See HABS Report No. PA-1053, https://memory.loc.gov/master/pnp/habshaer/pa/pa0700/pa0766/data/pa0766data.pdf., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019.
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, artist
Date: 1921
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.62.21]

Title: [Panoramic view of Center City, Philadelphia looking east from non-existing suburban perspective]
Description: Panoramic view of Philadelphia from an imagined, suburban perspective. In the foreground from a raised viewpoint are suburban houses with landscaped lawns and trees. Cars travel down the street. A stylized view of Philadelphia is depicted including industrial and office buildings, Broad Street leading to City Hall, the Benjamin Franklin Bridge, and the Delaware River., Title supplied by cataloger., Signed and dated by the artist in lower right corner., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2022., Edwin Frank Bayha (1880-1937) was born in Philadelphia to German immigrants. He graduated from the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art in 1899 and was a member of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1898 to 1933. He worked as an illustrator and commercial artist.
Creator: Bayha, Edwin F., 1880-1937
Date: 1928
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ***Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2022.62.3.19]

Title: [Philadelphia street scene with gas station]
Description: Watercolor of a street scene in Philadelphia, probably with the United States Custom House in the background. Shows pedestrians walking on the sidewalks down the street. In the right, shows the front entrance to the three-story, brick building. In the left, a black car is parked near two, red gas pumps at a gas station. Behind the station is a large, near block-long, four-story building. View also shows a large skyscraper, probably the United States Custom House constructed from 1932 to 1934 after the designs of Ritter and Shay at 200 Chestnut Street, towering in the background., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content and active dates of the artist., Signed by artist in lower right corner., Verso contains a rough sketch of a landscape of hills., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019., John J. Dull (1859-1949), an architect and artist, was born in Philadelphia and studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts., An instructor at Drexel University and the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Arts, he was also a member of the Philadelphia Sketch Club, the Philadelphia Watercolor Club, the Philadelphia Art Alliance, and the T-Square Club.
Creator: Dull, John J., 1859-1949, artist
Date: [ca. 1935]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.62.1]

Title: West side of Broad St. north from Walnut St. 1865
Description: View looking North depicting the west side of the 100 block of South Broad Street, Philadelphia in 1865. Shows the buildings along Broad Street, including the Union League (140 South Broad) constructed 1864-1865 after designs by architect John Fraser and the Academy of Natural Sciences (Broad and George, i.e., Sansom) built from 1839 to 1840 after designs by Philadelphia architect, John Notman. Pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages travel along the street., Title and date from item., Signed by the artist in the lower right., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019., Henry B. McIntire (1872-1963) was an architectural illustrator active in Philadelphia from the 1930s to 1950s. His 1936 book, Philadelphia Then and Now, contained drawings of no longer extant buildings and contemporary images of those locations. He often used an offset lithographic printing process called aquatone in his work.
Creator: McIntire, Henry B., 1872-1963, artist
Date: 1939
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.62.14]

Title: Lafayette's headquarters, West Chester County
Description: Drawing depicting the Joseph Gilpin House, occupied by the Marquis de Lafayette during the Battle of Brandywine in 1777. Shows a pathway leading up to front facade of the two-story house with a front porch. In the right is an adjacent wing with a stone wall around it. Also visible are an out building and a wooden fence. The original portion of the house was constructed circa 1695. Wings were added to the north of the original frame house in 1745 and to the west in 1782. Quaker farmer Gideon Gilpin occupied the house when it was used by Lafayette. The house was reconstructed by George Edwin Brumbaugh and purchased by the State of Pennsylvania in 1949., Title from item., Date inferred from content and active dates of the artist., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019.
Creator: Graeff, Henry F., artist
Date: [ca. 1930]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.66.5]

Title: Whitemarsh, E.T. Stotesbury's estate
Description: Drawing depicting Whitemarsh Hall designed by architect Horace Trumbauer for banker Edward T. Stotesbury and built in 1921 in Wyndmoor, Pa. Shows an exterior view of the rear of the six-storied, neo-Georgian style mansion. In the foreground, a pathway lined with topiary shrubs leads to the house. The manicured lawn and garden are decorated with pink flower bushes. Whitemarsh Hall was demolished in 1980., Title from item., Date inferred from content and active dates of the artist., Signed by artist in the lower right., Manuscript text written on recto in lower right corner: "174 Rooms." Note is mistaken; Whitemarsh Hall had 147 rooms., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019.
Creator: Graeff, Henry F., artist
Date: [ca. 1930]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.66.17]

Title: [Robeson's Ridge Road, Philadelphia]
Description: Watercolor depicting the Robeson House, also known as Shoomac Park, built ca. 1759 at Ridge Ave. and Wissahickon Drive, Philadelphia, PA. Shows the two-and-a-half story house with a gabled roof and chimneys. A white fence lines the road in front of the property. Pedestrians and horse-drawn carts, carriages, and covered wagons travel along the road. A train crosses the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad bridge in the background. Andrew Robeson purchased Shoomac Park in 1690 and operated a flour mill on the land. Rudiman Robeson likely built the house. Peter and Jonathan Robeson bought the park and mill in 1789. The Fairmount Park Commission purchased Shoomac Park in 1872 and demolished the house in 1961. The railroad bridge, known as the Wissahickon Creek Viaduct or High Stone Bridge, began construction in 1874 and was completed in 1882., Title supplied by the cataloger., Date inferred by the active dates of the artist., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2022.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2022.62.3.6]

Title: [Thomas H. Wilkinson watercolor views of Philadelphia]
Description: Series of watercolors by British-born, Canadian artist Thomas H. Wilkinson showing views of historic and prominent landmarks, sites, and residences in Philadelphia, including the Roxborough and Germantown neighborhoods. Many of the sites are historically significant in relation to the American Revolution. Includes “Arnold Mansion,” i.e., Mount Pleasant (built 1761) in East Fairmount Park where British General James Agnew died after being wounded in the Battle of Germantown (P.2017.8.2); Cannon Ball House (built ca. 1715) also known as Blakely House on Mud Island through which a cannonball went during the largest British bombardment of the Revolution in 1777; Dunkards Church (built 1770) also known as Church of the Brethren, 6613 Germantown Avenue; Gloria Dei (built 1698-1700) also known as Old Swedes Church, 929 South Water Street; Haines House, i.e., Wyck (originally built ca. 1690), the ancestral family home of the Wister-Haines families, 6026 Germantown Avenue; Johnson House (built 1765-8 and used as a stop on the Underground Railroad), 6306 Germantown Avenue (P.2017.8.7); The Jolly Post (built ca. 1680), a colonial inn on Main Street, Frankford where the American Army rested on its march to capture Cornwallis at Yorktown in 1781; Market House at Second and Pine Streets, i.e the Newmarket or Head House Square Market (originally built 1745) from the Northwest; Mennonite Church, Germantown (built 1770), 6119 Germantown Avenue and used as a hospital during the American Revolution;, "Morris House" also known as the Deshler-Morris House (built 1772) and used as the summer residence of President George Washington 1793 and 1794; "Old Fort Mifflin" (built ca. 1772-98) on Mud Island; Penrose Ferry Hotel near the Penrose Ferry Bridge in Kingsessing; St. Peter’s Church at Third and Pine Streets (built 1758-61); Smith Mansion on Queen Lane, Germantown also known as Carlton built ca. 1780 and owned by Cornelius S. Smith ca. 1840-ca. 1880s; Wagner House also known as Mechlin-Wagner House (built 1747), 4840 Germantown Avenue and used as a hospital during the American Revolution; and "Wister House, Germantown" (built 1744) also known as Grumplethorpe, 5267 Germantown Avenue. Most of the views include the surrounding property and/or adjacent buildings and residences. Some of the views also show street and pedestrian traffic, including persons in conversation, market visitors, and a street car. Some of the church views show the church’s graveyard as well. Penrose Ferry Hotel view includes chickens in the side yard., Mount Pleasant Mansion was built 1761-1765 for Captain John Macpherson after the designs of Thomas Nevil in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa. Macpherson, a privateer during the Seven Years’ War, purchased the estate with profits from these operations. Free white and Black laborers, indentured servants, and at least four enslaved people of African descent, whose names are unknown, worked on the plantation. In 1779, General Benedict Arnold purchased Mount Pleasant for his wife Peggy Shippen, but they never occupied the house. In 1792, General Jonathan Williams purchased the mansion. The City of Philadelphia purchased the property from the Williams family in 1869. On behalf of the city, the Philadelphia Museum of Art restored the house in 1926., The Johnson House was built 1765-1768 by master builder Jacob Knor at 6306 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA. John Johnson resided in the house during the Battle of Germantown. The dwelling sustained damage including a hole in the parlor door caused by a cannon ball and a chipped corner. It served as a station on the Underground Railroad. The Johnson family owned the house until 1908. The Woman's Club of Germantown purchased the house in 1917, and in 1980, gifted the house and its contents to the Germantown Mennonite Historic Trust to operate as a house museum. In 2002, the deed of ownership was transferred to the Johnson House Historic Site, Inc., Title supplied by cataloger., Watercolors signed by the artist in lower left or right corner: T.H. Wilkinson., Small number of the drawings include a title in the lower left corner., Accompanied by label: The Historical Collection of the late Samuel Castner, Jr. of Philadelphia., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell., LCP also holds glass plate negatives in the Marriott C. Morris Collection showing a variant ca. 1893 watercolor view of the Morris-Deshler house by Thomas H. Wilkinson [*P.9895.6.3 and *P.9895.11.18]., New items acquired for and housed with collection after 2017., See Lib. Company. Annual report, 2017, p. 62-64., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Thomas H. Wilkinson (1847-1929) was a British-born artist who specialized in landscape views. Although he settled in Canada in the later 19th century, he traveled the United States through the 20th century to execute his art works. During the 1890s, he created several watercolor views of Philadelphia. He died while a well-known local artist and resident of Hamilton, Ontario.
Creator: Wilkinson, Thomas H., 1847-1929, artist
Date: [ca. 1890-ca. 1895]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection - Watercolors and Drawings - Wilkinson [P.2017.8.2-18]

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