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- Title
- ASSU Illustration 1408
- Description
- Block numbered in two places: 1408., Image of men lecturing a large group of boys in an interior setting. Most of the children are sitting on benches, and there are at least three adults scattered throughout the room instucting the children. The adults and some of the children have books in their hands. One of the boys is standing up, and appears to be being reprimanded by an adult., ‘Thou Shalt Not Steal’ -- appears in a box in the upper corner of the block., Block has been damaged, and has cracks in multiple places., Signed in reverse: G.G. [i.e., George Gilbert?]
- Date
- [s.a.]
- Location
- ASSU Woodblocks -- Box 8
- Title
- [Academy of the Sacred Heart, Chapel]
- Description
- Interior., Location: 1819 Arch Street., Moved to Haverford & City Line Aves. in 1924. Currently, Country Day School of the Sacred Heart, 4080 Bryn Mawr Ave., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
- Date
- ca. 1924
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department [P.8514.103]
- Title
- ASSU Illustration 2349
- Description
- Block numbered in two places: 2349., Image of a classroom or other social scene [?] Quill pens and books are on a table in the background. Posters and map [?] are on the wall., Tape (inscribed "1175") on obverse., Back of block partially obscured by pasted-down paper.
- Date
- [s.a.]
- Location
- ASSU Woodblocks -- Box 7
- Title
- Gerard van Swieten dictata in materia medica
- Description
- This collection consists of eight volumes of medical writings in Latin concerning nutrition, pharmacy, and surgery. Several pages at the beginning of Volume I, and a few pages elsewhere, are translated into English on the facing pages.
- Creator
- Swieten, Gerard, Freiherr van, 1700-1772
- Date
- 1733
- Title
- 5 merits. Punctuality. Attention. Dilligence
- Description
- Reward of merit designed as a bank note. Contains pictorial details of instruments of learning, including a paint palette, lamp, books, and a globe, within a decorative border., 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., Described in Patricia Fenn and Alfred Malpa, Rewards of merit (Charlottesville, Va.: Ephemera Society of America, 1994), 110.
- Date
- [ca. 1865]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Rewards of Merit [P.2011.10.162]
- Title
- Hlasko's physical institue [sic]. Circular It is well known that Switzerland has no standing army; and yet she is enabled to maintain her independent position in spite of the jealous intrigues of the powerful countries that surround her by the well-known fact that every man in the nation is a thorough soldier, and the at the call to arms, an army of well-trained soldiers is at once formed, which is fully capable of defending their native land against her foes
- Description
- Printed on yellow paper., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook; inscribed: Henry Phillips Jr Dec 1st '61., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Creator
- Hlasko, Miecislaw
- Date
- [1861]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Hlasko (2)5786.F.169a (McAllister)
- Title
- Military instruction The undersigned offers his services and past experience to gentlemen wishing to become competent to pass examination in military tactics. Strict attention will be given to the intonation of voice, adapted to command, so necessary for the accomplishment of the officer. The facility of handling the sword and musket with ease and grace being duly appreciated by those desirous of the attainment of the above qualifications. Application for lessons in private or in class may be made to
- Description
- Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Creator
- Berryman, M. W.
- Date
- [between 1861 and 1865?]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Berry (2)5786.F.156d (McAllister)
- Title
- Military instruction The undersigned offers his services and past experience to gentlemen wishing to become competent to pass examination in military tactics. Strict attention will be given to the intonation of voice, adapted to command, so necessary for the accomplishment of the officer. The facility of handling the sword and musket with ease and grace being duly appreciated by those desirous of the attainment of the above qualifications. Application for lessons in private or in class may be made to
- Description
- Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Creator
- Berryman, M. W.
- Date
- [between 1861 and 1865?]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Berry (2)5786.F.156d (McAllister)
- Title
- Colored scholars excluded from schools
- Description
- Standing on the front steps of a school building, a schoolmaster prevents a free black woman and her two children from entering. A line of white children, however, enter the school without incident., Illustration in the American Anti-Slavery Almanac, for 1839 (New York: Published for the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1838), p. 13., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Anti-Slavery Movement Imagery.
- Date
- [1838]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1838 Ame Ant 16996.D.3 p 13, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2762
- Title
- ASSU Illustration 8355
- Description
- Block numbered in two places: 8355, also 1159 on small adhesive label on back of block., Image of several boys in a classroom holding slates in front of them; most look ahead but the boy in the foreground grasps his slate loosely in one hand and looks at the ground; a man stands to their side while another man on a small raised platform sits at or beside a desk; the floors of the room are wooden and there appears to be a map on the wall., Signed: B., "V. Grottenthaler, Phila." – Back of block. Vincent Grottenthaler is listed (as a dealer in boxwood) in Philadelphia city directories from 1867 to 1876., “[?] Bible” – Illegible writing on back of block.
- Date
- [between 1867 and 1876?]
- Location
- ASSU Woodblocks -- Box 17
- Title
- ASSU Illustration 3596
- Description
- Block numbered in two places: 3596, also 1265 on small adhesive label on back of block., Image of a boy standing before a seated man; the boy holds a book under his arm and a piece of chalk in one hand, and points with his other hand at a chalk board, which is covered with writing; the seated man regards the boy and rests on hand on a book laid on the table beside him., Back of block partially obscured by pasted-down paper.
- Date
- [s.a.]
- Location
- ASSU Woodblocks -- Box 20
- Title
- The lips of the wise disperse knowledge
- Description
- Set in a school room, the image shows a white schoolmaster, who appears to be teaching a group of young African American boys to read. Holding books, the boys are grouped around him., Cover page of the Slave's Friend (New York: Published by R.G. Williams, for the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1836), vol. 1, no. 1 (1836)., Accompanied by the caption: "The lips of the wise disperse knowledge. -- Prov. xv.7.", Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Anti-Slavery Movement Imagery.
- Date
- [1836]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Per S 63 54051.D v 1 n 1 cover page, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2884
- Title
- Homework Sampler
- Description
- Eleven samplers, mounted on board in the form of a book, made by Emily Bell while attending the Bethlehem Female Seminary in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The sampler includes examples of buttonhole, hemming, and pin-tuck stitches., Exhibited in: The Library Company's exhibitions, The Hook and the Book: The Emergence of Crochet and Knitting in American Popular Culture, 1840-1876, (2001) and The Home Sewing Machine: America's "Queen of Inventions" (2009).
- Creator
- Bell, Emily
- Date
- Ca. 1830
- Location
- OBJ 870
- Title
- [The Germantown Academy
- Description
- View of an 1875 drawing showing the school built 1760-1761 by carpenter Jacob Knor at 110 School House Lane. Housed the bi-lingual private boys school established by the Pennsylvania Germans in Germantown in 1759. Building was used as a hospital during the American Revolution and was chartered as a public school in 1784., Reproduction of print published in Quaint old Germantown in Pennsylvania: a series of sixty former landmarks of Germantown and vicinity drawn on zinc during the years 1863 - 1888 by John Richards; collated, arranged and annotated by Julius Friedrich Sachse (Philadelphia, 1913), plate LII. Caption in publication reads: The Germantown academy on southwest corner of Greene Street and School House Lane. Built A.D. 1760-61. Far famed for many of its teachers and pupils., Printed lower right corner: 1875., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 301, Gift of David Doret.
- Creator
- Richards, John, d. 1889, artist
- Date
- [ca. 1913]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Education [P.2004.44.20]
- Title
- Preparing for school
- Description
- Genre photograph showing a young boy holding a chalkboard and hat, waiting for an old man to read or grade an assignment at a lecturn., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Photographer's imprint on mount., Buff mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Ms. Jane Carson James.
- Creator
- Cremer, James, 1821-1893
- Date
- [ca. 1868]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Genre [P.9299.10]
- Title
- Grandpa's music lessons
- Description
- Genre photograph showing a young child with a violin facing a music stand and an old man seated at table, also holding a violin., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Photographer's imprint on mount., Buff mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Ms. Jane Carson James.
- Creator
- Cremer, James, 1821-1893
- Date
- [ca. 1868]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Genre [P.9299.12]
- Title
- Circular and catalogue of the Oakland Female Institute, Norristown, Pa. for the year ending September 26th, 1850
- Description
- Contains frontispiece titled "Oakland, Female Institute." of an exterior view of the institute printed by "P.S. Duval Steam Lith. Press" and with the artist's credit line "From nature and on stone by W.E. Hitckcock [i.e. Hitchcock]." Students stroll on the lawn. A passenger train of the Philadelphia, Germantown, and Norrristown (later Philadelphia & Reading) Railroad passes in the foreground and a boat is moored on the river bank. The institute was established in 1845. This view issued shortly before the building underwent major renovation and enlargement 1852-1855. Image with variant imprint used on sheet music cover published by Lee & Walker in 1852. [GC - Education]., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 155.1
- Creator
- Oakland Female Institute (Norristown, Pa.)
- Date
- 1850
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1850 Nor Oak 74806.O
- Title
- Circular of Oakland Female Institute Norristown, Pa J. Grier Ralston, D.D. LL.D., principal. June 1, 1877
- Description
- Frontispiece signed: Lehman & Bolton Phila. Lithograph titled "Oakland Female Institute" depicts an exterior view of the institute and tree-covered grounds. Students stroll on the lawn and pedestrians walk on the sidewalk in front of the property. A horse-drawn buggy and a passenger train of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad passes in the foreground. The institute was established in 1845 and underwent major renovation and enlargement 1852-1855., Title and text printed inside ornamental borders., In printed paper wrapper., Library Company copy wanting the back wrapper., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 157
- Creator
- Oakland Female Institute (Norristown, Pa.)
- Date
- [1877]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1877 Oakland 50704.O .6
- Title
- South west view of West-Town Boarding School. Chester Co. Penna. Instituted 1794, opened 1799, enlarged 1847
- Description
- View of the main building and grounds showing female students reading, walking, and lounging on the grounds. Also shows a woman carrying a basket, accompanied by a young boy, strolling down a central path. Westtown was established in 1794 by the Society of Friends as a boarding school for boys and girls., Gift of Ken Leach., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 224, Westtown School Archives holds mutiple copies including variants with the imprint "Drawn on stone by John Collins," tinted and untinted.
- Creator
- Collins, John, 1814-1902, artist
- Date
- [ca. 1858]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Education [P.9428.5]
- Title
- St. Vincents German Orphans Home, Tacony, Pena.[sic]
- Description
- Exterior view of the orphanage and grounds from the Delaware River. Shows boys, girls, and nuns lining up to enter the building. A steamboat, a scull, and a small sailboat appear on the river. Founded by the German Roman Catholic School Society of Philadelphia in 1856 in response to the large influx of German immigrants to the city. Ground for the building was broken the same year., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 237
- Creator
- Waeschle, John, lithographer
- Date
- ca. 1877
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Education [7544.F]
- Title
- Peter Renaudet medical apprentice notebook
- Description
- This collection consists of a medical apprentice notebook containing the observations of a mid-18th century New York apprentice, Peter Renaudet. It is a record of clinical cases, in which Renaudet describes the patient's ailments, treatments prescribed and the result of those treatments. Common ailments include dropsy (edema) and costiveness (constipation). Purging, letting and herbal remedies are often recommended remedies.
- Creator
- Renaudet, Peter
- Title
- George Gillespie notes taken from Dr. Thomas Young's Lectures on Midwifery
- Description
- This collection consists of two volumes which contain what appears to be verbatim notes taken by George Gillespie from Dr. Young's Lectures on Midwifery at the University of Edinburgh in 1761. The first volume primarily focuses on the history of midwifery, basic female anatomy and common gynecological problems and disorders. Topics in the second volume include techniques for removing the placenta, laborious labors, use of the forceps, properties of different kinds of milk, and a host of possible complications. Both volumes contain an index.
- Creator
- Gillespie, George
- Title
- Yerkes, Joseph
- Creator
- Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
- Date
- July 16, 1789
- Title
- Girard college. Main building. Now erecting near Philadelphia under the superintendence of T.U. Walter Esq. [graphic] / Designd. by T.U. Walter. Archit. ; Geo. Lehman, del.
- Description
- View of Founder's Hall, Girard College based on designs by Philadelphia architect Thomas Ustick Walter, issued separately as a souvenir of the building while it was still under construction. Constructed 1833-1847, the hall occupied a site between what became Girard Avenue and Ridge Avenues at Corinthian Avenue. Girard College was established through a bequest from Stephen Girard, a Philadelphia financier and philanthropist, for the creation of a school for poor white male orphans.
- Creator
- Lehman, George, d. 1870, lithographer., creator
- Date
- c1835.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W154.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W154 [P.2057]
- Title
- Girard College [graphic]
- Description
- Issued as one of two annual "pictorial illustrations" for the Philadelphia Saturday Courier., LCP copy lacking title, imprint, and vignette., View of Founder's Hall at Girard College constructed 1833-1847 from designs by Philadelphia architect Thomas U. Walters. The Hall occupied a site between what became Girard Avenue and Ridge Avenue at Corinthian Avenue. Girard College was established through a bequest from Stephen Girard, a Philadelphia financier and philanthropist, for the creation of a school for poor white male orphans.
- Creator
- Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist. Philadelphia Saturday Courier., creator
- Date
- [1838]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W155.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W155 [P.2058]
- Title
- The Girard College [graphic] / Lith of J.T. Bowen, Ph[iladelphi]a.
- Description
- Copyrighted by J.T. Bowen in 1840., Originally issued as plate 5 in Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). The lithographic stones for the views were acquired by John T. Bowen and reissued in 1838 and in 1848 with hand coloring., Snyder, Martin. "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-75., Exterior view of Girard College at Girard Avenue including Founder's Hall and the eastern and western outbuildings. The school buildings, designed by Philadelphia architect Thomas Ustick Walter in the Greek Revial style, were constructed 1833-1847. Girard College was established through a bequest from Stephen Girard, a Philadelphia financier and philanthropist, for the creation of a school for poor white male orphans.
- Creator
- Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846 artist., creator
- Date
- c1840, 1848.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W379-4.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W379 [P.2211]
- Title
- J. Mason, informs her friends and those who may favour her with their patronage, that she has removed her seminary, to an open healthy situation, with every advantage of light and air, back of No. 86 Callowhill Street, between Second and Third Streets, where she continues to instruct girls in all the most useful branches of an English education
- Description
- 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 - Mason [P.9809.1]
- Title
- The Lord's prayer
- Description
- Caption title., At head of title is a type specimen., The New England Institution for the Education of the Blind opened in Boston in 1832; in 1839, the name changed to Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind., Printed in S.G. Howe's raised-letter Boston line type; printed area measures 24.9 x 20.1 cm., In the Michael Zinman Collection of Printing for the Blind., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- [between 1832 and 1839]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Coll. Zinman Blind 17224.Q (Zinman)
- Title
- Reading circles. [To commence in early October.] These are intended to give variety and interest to a course of instruction in English Literature and are designed for families, or for young ladies who have completed the usual education at school. The exercises attended to by these circles, consist of the reading and analysis of select passages from the most eminent writers of the language, and are accompanied by explanatory and critical observations from the instructor, on the distinctive qualities of style by which each author is characterized, and on the mode of elocution by which these are appropriately expressed. The members of reading circles attend, twice a week, at each other's residence, in rotation or otherwise, as is found convenient, [or at the instructor's house, 96 S. Eighth Str.] Terms. For a course of 12 weeks, in circle consisting of not fewer than five individuals, $20 each--not fewer than ten, $15 [--in circles of ten, meeting once a week, $10.] References. Robert Walsh, Esq. Dr. James Rush, C. Picot, Esq. J. Frost, Esq. Mrs. Sarazin, Mrs. Sigoigne. William Russel. Philad. Sept. 1834
- Description
- Scottish-born educator William Russell taught at Germantown Academy in Philadelphia beginning in 1830 and left Philadelphia for Boston in 1838., Title annotated in pen., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- 1834
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Russell [P.9938]
- Title
- Girard College, N. Phila
- Description
- Aerial view of Girard College at Girard Avenue including Founder's Hall and the eastern and western outbuildings. The school buildings, designed by Philadelphia architect Thomas Ustick Walter in the Greek Revival style, were constructed 1833-1847. Girard College was established through a bequest from Stephen Girard, a Philadelphia financier and philanthropist, for the creation of a school for poor white male orphans. It opened in 1848., Negative number: P203.
- Creator
- Aero Service Corporation, photographer
- Date
- June 27, 1931
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.P203]
- Title
- Girard College, Phila., Pa
- Description
- Aerial view of Girard College at Girard Avenue including Founder's Hall and the eastern and western outbuildings. The school buildings, designed by Philadelphia architect Thomas Ustick Walter in the Greek Revival style, were constructed 1833-1847. Girard College was established through a bequest from Stephen Girard, a Philadelphia financier and philanthropist, for the creation of a school for poor white male orphans. It opened in 1848., Negative number: 6176., 6176 not digitized; negative is damaged and cannot be scanned.
- Creator
- Aero Service Corporation, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1926
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.6176]
- Title
- Girard College, Phila., Pa
- Description
- Aerial view of Girard College at Girard Avenue including Founder's Hall and the eastern and western outbuildings. The school buildings, designed by Philadelphia architect Thomas Ustick Walter in the Greek Revival style, were constructed 1833-1847. Girard College was established through a bequest from Stephen Girard, a Philadelphia financier and philanthropist, for the creation of a school for poor white male orphans. It opened in 1848. Row homes on the surrounding streets are visible., Negative number: 14415n.
- Creator
- Aero Service Corporation, photographer
- Date
- June 13, 1931
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.14415n]
- Title
- Girard College, general view
- Description
- Rooftop view showing the main campus of the college constructed 1833-1847 in the Greek Revival Style after the designs of Philadelphia architect Thomas Ustick Walter at 1201-1211 West College Avenue. Trees surround the buildings and line the walkways. Girard College was established through a bequest from Stephen Girard, a Philadelphia financier and philanthropist, for the creation of a school for "poor white orphans.", Title and photographer from series list printed on blue paper and pasted on verso with thirty-one other titles (No. 1-31)., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Hurn, J. W. (John White), d. 1887, photographer
- Date
- [ca. 1876]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Hurn - Education [P.8731.4]
- Title
- Girard College, Philadelphia
- Description
- Rooftop view of campus, including Founder's Hall and eastern and western outbuildings constructed 1833-1847 in the Greek Revival Style after the designs of Philadelphia architect Thomas Ustick Walter. Trees surround the buildings and line the walkways. Girard College was established through a bequest from Stephen Girard, a Philadelphia financier and philanthropist, for the creation of a school for "poor white orphans.", Title from printed label pasted on verso., Yellow mount with square corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- [ca. 1866]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Education [P.9260.92]
- Title
- Girard College
- Description
- Exterior view of Founder's Hall constructed 1833-1847 in the Greek Revival Style after the designs of Philadelphia architect Thomas Ustick Walter. Girard College was established through a bequest from Stephen Girard, a Philadelphia financier and philanthropist, for the creation of a school for "poor white orphans.", Title printed on mount below image., Yellow curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- [ca. 1875]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Education [P.9117.7]
- Title
- Girard College
- Description
- Exterior, oblique view of Founder's Hall constructed 1833-1847 in the Greek Revival Style after the designs of Philadelphia architect Thomas Ustick Walter. Two men wearing top hats stand in the foreground and other men stand on the stairs or near the building in the background. Girard College was established through a bequest from Stephen Girard, a Philadelphia financier and philanthropist, for the creation of a school for "poor white orphans.", Title from manuscript note in pencil on verso., Yellow mount with square corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- [ca. 1866]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Education [P.8464.30]
- Title
- Girard College buildings
- Description
- Exterior, oblique view of outbuildings near Founder's Hall. Girard College was established through a bequest from Stephen Girard, a Philadelphia financier and philanthropist, for the creation of a school for "poor white orphans.", Title on negative., Yellow curved 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
- De Young's Palace Dollar Store (Firm)
- Date
- [ca. 1876]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - De Young's - Education [P.9047.6]
- Title
- Girard College Pictorial embellishment of the Philada. Saturday Courier a family paper of the largest size published at two dollars a year in advance including two engravings of this kind yearly
- Description
- View of Founder's Hall at Girard College constructed 1833-1847 from designs by Philadelphia architect Thomas U. Walters. Also shows pedestrian traffic on the grounds. The Hall occupied a site between what became Girard Avenue and Ridge Avenue at Corinthian Avenue. Girard College was established through a bequest from Stephen Girard, a Philadelphia financier and philanthropist, for the creation of a school for poor white male orphans., Issued as one of two annual "pictorial illustrations" for the Philadelphia Saturday Courier., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 311.2, Cited by Wainwright as in the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Copy unlocated., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: copy unlocated
- Creator
- Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
- Date
- c1838
- Location
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania W155.2 [HSP unlocated]
- Title
- Girard College Pictorial embellishment of the Philada. Saturday Courier a family paper of the largest size published at two dollars a year in advance including two engravings of this kind yearly
- Description
- View of Founder's Hall at Girard College constructed 1833-1847 from designs by Philadelphia architect Thomas U. Walters. Also shows pedestrian traffic on the grounds. The Hall occupied a site between what became Girard Avenue and Ridge Avenue at Corinthian Avenue. Girard College was established through a bequest from Stephen Girard, a Philadelphia financier and philanthropist, for the creation of a school for poor white male orphans., Issued as one of two annual "pictorial illustrations" for the Philadelphia Saturday Courier., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 311.2, Cited by Wainwright as in the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Copy unlocated., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: copy unlocated
- Creator
- Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
- Date
- c1838
- Location
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania W155.2 [HSP unlocated]
- Title
- Girard College. Front view
- Description
- Partial exterior view of the front facade of Founder's Hall constructed 1833-1847 in the Greek Revival Style after the designs of Philadelphia architect Thomas Ustick Walter at 1201-1211 West College Avenue. Also shows a group of women standing in the doorway of the building. Girard College was established through a bequest from Stephen Girard, a Philadelphia financier and philanthropist, for the creation of a school for "poor white orphans.", Title from manuscript note on verso., Attributed to Robert Newell., Yellow mount with rounded corners., For duplicate view see stereo - Newell - Education [P.8643.1], Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of David Doret.
- Creator
- Newell, Robert, 1822-1897
- Date
- [ca. 1870]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Education [P.2010.6.15]
- Title
- Girard College, (rear.)
- Description
- View looking southwest showing Founder's Hall constructed 1833-1847 in the Greek Revival Style after the designs of Philadelphia architect Thomas Ustick Walter. Also shows a partial view of a neighboring building right of the hall and two men standing in the grass in the foreground. Girard College was established through a bequest from Stephen Girard, a Philadelphia financier and philanthropist, for the creation of a school for "poor white orphans.", Title from photographer's label pasted on verso., Yellow mount with square corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Bartlett & French was a partnership between Philadelphia photographers George O. Bartlett and William French circa 1867-1869.
- Creator
- Bartlett & French
- Date
- [ca. 1866]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - Education [P.9466.1]
- Title
- The Girard College, Philadelphia
- Description
- Exterior view of Girard College at Girard Avenue including Founder's Hall and the eastern and western outbuildings. The school buildings, designed by Philadelphia architect Thomas Ustick Walter in the Greek Revival style, were constructed 1833-1847. Girard College was established through a bequest from Stephen Girard, a Philadelphia financier and philanthropist, for the creation of a school for poor white male orphans., Copyrighted by J. T. Bowen., Originally published as plate 5 in Views of Philadelphia, and its vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). The lithographic stones for the views were acquired by John T. Bowen and reissued in 1838 and in 1848 with hand coloring., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 304.3, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Rush)., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Synder, Martin. "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
- Creator
- Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
- Date
- c1838
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W379.3 [Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Rush)]
- Title
- Girard College, (rear.)
- Description
- Founder's Hall., Titles from printed label pasted on verso., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Bartlett & French
- Date
- ca. 1868
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - Education [P.9573.13]
- Title
- Girard College, (rear.)
- Description
- View looking southwest showing Founder's Hall constructed 1833-1847 in the Greek Revival Style after the designs of Philadelphia architect Thomas Ustick Walter. Also shows a partial view of a neighboring building right of the hall and two men standing in the grass in the foreground. Girard College was established through a bequest from Stephen Girard, a Philadelphia financier and philanthropist, for the creation of a school for "poor white orphans.", Title from photographer's label pasted on verso., Distributor's stamp on verso: William Y. McAllister Phila., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Bartlett & French was a partnership between Philadelphia photographers George O. Bartlett and William French circa 1867-1869.
- Creator
- Bartlett & French
- Date
- [ca. 1868]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - Education [P.8484.25]
- Title
- Girard College, Phila.(main building)
- Description
- View showing a partial view of the front facade of Founder's Hall constructed 1833-1847 in the Greek Revival Style after the designs of Philadelphia architect Thomas Ustick Walter at 1201-1211 West College Avenue. Also shows a group of woman standing in the doorway of the building. Girard College was established through a bequest from Stephen Girard, a Philadelphia financier and philanthropist, for the creation of a school for "poor white orphans.", Title from photographer's label pasted on verso., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Gift of Morris Finkel., 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. 1868
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Education [P.8643.1]
- Title
- [Founder's Hall, Girard College, 1201-1211 West College Avenue, Philadelphia]
- Description
- View looking southwest showing the college building constructed 1833-1847 in the Greek Revival Style after the designs of Philadelphia architect Thomas Ustick Walter. Also shows a partial view of a neighboring building in the background. Girard College was established through a bequest from Stephen Girard, a Philadelphia financier and philanthropist, for the creation of a school for "poor white orphans.", Title supplied by cataloguer., Attributed to John Moran., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Duplicate of (6)1322.F.37c., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Moran, John, 1831-1903, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1863
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Moran - Education [(6)1322.F.37cx]
- Title
- [Founder's Hall, Girard College, 1201-1211 West College Avenue, Philadelphia]
- Description
- View looking southwest showing the college building constructed 1833-1847 in the Greek Revival Style after the designs of Philadelphia architect Thomas Ustick Walter. Also shows a partial view of a neighboring building in the background. Girard College was established through a bequest from Stephen Girard, a Philadelphia financier and philanthropist, for the creation of a school for "poor white orphans.", Title supplied by cataloguer., Attributed to John Moran., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Duplicate of (6)1322.F.37cx., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Moran, John, 1831-1903, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1863
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Moran - Education [(6)1322.F.37c]
- Title
- Girard College
- Description
- View of Girard College at Girard Avenue facing northwest from Corinthian Avenue including Founder's Hall and the eastern and western outbuildings. The college buildings, designed by Philadelphia architect Thomas Ustick Walter in the Greek Revival style, were constructed 1833-1847. Girard College was established through a bequest from Stephen Girard, a Philadelphia financier and philanthropist, for the creation of a school for poor white male orphans., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 306, Kollner was active in Philadelphia 1840-1870s.
- Creator
- Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813, lithographer
- Date
- [ca. 1847]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Education [(6)1322.F.40f]
- Title
- Girard college. Main building. Now erecting near Philadelphia under the superintendence of T.U. Walter Esq
- Description
- View of Founder's Hall, Girard College based on designs by Philadelphia architect Thomas Ustick Walter, issued separately as a souvenir of the building while it was still under construction. Constructed 1833-1847, the hall occupied a site between what became Girard Avenue and Ridge Avenues at Corinthian Avenue. Girard College was established through a bequest from Stephen Girard, a Philadelphia financier and philanthropist, for the creation of a school for poor white male orphans., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 309
- Creator
- Lehman, George, d. 1870, artist
- Date
- c1835
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W154 [P.2057]
- Title
- The Girard College, Philadelphia
- Description
- Exterior view of Girard College at Girard Avenue including Founder's Hall and the eastern and western outbuildings. The school buildings, designed by Philadelphia architect Thomas Ustick Walter in the Greek Revival style, were constructed 1833-1847. Girard College was established through a bequest from Stephen Girard, a Philadelphia financier and philanthropist, for the creation of a school for poor white male orphans., Copyrighted by J.C. Wild and J.B. Chevalier in 1838., Issued as plate 5 in Views of Philadelphia, and its vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838) a series of Philadelphia views originaly published as five numbers of four prints each in 1838, and later sold as a bound volume of twenty views., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 304.2. Digital image shows fourth state of print., Synder, Martin. "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
- Creator
- Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
- Date
- [1838]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W379 [P.2210]