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Title: Tred egar. Residence of C.W. Morgan, esqr. Germantown. Sidney & Neff, archts Frame. Cost $3,000
Description: Exterior view showing the two-story residence with an extension, gable roof, covered porch, and steps to the entrance as well as surrounding grounds. A pathway leads to the house. Trees line the fenced property which is also landscaped with a few plants and shrubs. In the right, a shed between two trees and near the edge of a pond is visible C.W. Morgan is possibly the Charles W. Morgan listed in the 1850 census as a resident of Germantown and an oil merchant in the fuel and ice retailing industry., Title and date from item., Printed in upper right corner: Plate 11., Probably published in J.C. Sidney's American cottage and villa architecture : a series of views and plans ... (New York: Appleton & Co., 1850). The book was to be issued in ten parts, monthly, beginning in July, 1850. The series was never completed and 4-5 parts containing a total of 22 plates by various Northeastern architects are known., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 298
Date: 1850
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell Collection - Prints [P.2019.64.36]

Title: On foot of Blue Ridge Mountains, Pa
Description: Lithograph showing a covered wagon hitched to four hourses. In the center, a man sits on horseback and talks to a man standing and holding a whip. A woman holds a baby and stands in front of a wooden home with a paddock. In the left is an empty cart. Trees and hills fill the background., Printed lower left: 13., Title from inscription lower right., Date based on publication date of series: North American Foliage and Trees., First word in title on print in lower case: on., Gift of David Doret., See Nicholas B. Wainwright, "Augustus Kollner, Artist" in Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 84 (1960) 325-351.
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, 1812-1906, artist
Date: 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC-Views-United States-Pennsylvania [P.2010.35.4]

Title: Residence for J. Monroe Shellenberger esq., Doylestown, Penna
Description: Architectural print showing the Queen Anne-Eastlake-style residence built for the notorious Doylestown attorney in 1887 after the designs of Charles Marquedent Burns on East Court Street. Residence, later known as Windemere, contains towers, Gothic windows, a gable roof, and covered porch. Print also shows landscaped lawns. In 1890, the former district-attorney and member of several boards was convicted of forgery and sentenced to Eastern State Penitentiary. The following year, his residence was sold to Dr. George C. Wheeler of Philadelphia., Title from item., Publication date from copyright statement: Copyright, 1886 W. T. Comstock., Possibly published in 1886 edition of Architecture and building (New York: W. T. Comstock, 1882-1899)., Gift of David Doret., Frank Burns, brother of architect Charles M. Burn, worked as a City of Philadelphia Bureau of Surveys draftsman from 1892 until 1912.
Creator: Burns, Frank, 1844-1913, artist
Date: 1886
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Residences [P.2010.21.3]

Title: Boehm’s Reformed Church, founded Feb. 3, 1747, Boehm’s manse, the Kirkview, Edgar Vincent Loucks, minister
Description: Postcard depicting a vignette portrait of the church’s minister Edgar Vincent Loucks between views of Boehm’s Church constructed in 1818 at 571 Penllyn Blue Bell Pike and the parsonage, Kirkview, in Blue Bell, Pa. In the left, shows the front façade of the stone church with stained glass windows and a spire. A wrought iron fence surrounds the building. In the center is a forward-facing portrait of Loucks, attired in spectacles, a white collared shirt, a tie, and a jacket. In the right is the three-story parsonage with a covered porch. The Church was founded by John Philip Boehm in 1740 and a building was erected in 1747 in Blue Bell, Pa. A new building was erected on the foundation of the older building in 1818. Extensive renovations, including the addition of the eighty-foot high spire with bell were completed in 1870., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Series number printed in left corner on verso: 66296., Divided back., Gift of David Doret, 2019.
Date: [ca. 1906]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Ephemera [P.2019.64.27]

Title: Philadelphia. William Penn House, Fairmount Park
Description: Postcard depicting exterior view of the house, also known as the Letitia Street House, built for merchant Thomas Chalkley in 1713 to 1715. Shows the two-and-a-half-story house with a gabled roof and dormer; green shuttered windows on the façade; and a sign above the front door that reads, “William Penn.” The front doors and windows are open. In the left, ivy grows up the wall. Four young girls and one boy, some with baskets on their laps, sit on a bench beside the house and look toward the viewer. Numerous trees stand on the property around the house. Image is also pasted with glitter that decorates the grounds, as well as the border of the house, like garland. In the 19th century, the house was misidentified as being built by William Penn in 1682 and given to his daughter Letitia. The building served as a tavern for many years before being moved from Second and Chestnut Streets to Fairmount Park (3401 West Girard Avenue) in 1883., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Also known as the Letitia Street House., Manuscript note written in lower right on recto: Mother., Gift of David Doret, 2019.
Date: [ca. 1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Ephemera [P.2019.64.31]

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