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- 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
- Mount Airy Seminary: [graphic] American Classical and Military Academy, at Mount Airy, Germantown, 8 miles from Philadelphia / From Nature & on Stone by G. Lehman.
- Description
- Cephas G. Childs and Henry Inman were partners 1831-33., Exterior view. Right wing is the former country seat of Pennsylvania Chief Justice William Allen known as "Mount Airy." Founded as Mount Airy Seminary (later Mount Airy College or Collegiate Institute) in 1807, the school served as a military academy 1826-1835 under the superintendence of Augustus L. Roumfort. Demolished in 1848 or 1849.
- Creator
- Lehman, George, d. 1870, artist. Childs & Inman, lithographers., creator
- Date
- ca. 1831.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W015-2.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W15 [P.2010]
- Title
- Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind. Philadelphia. [graphic] / Lith. of J.T. Bowen.
- Description
- Copyrighted by J.T. Bowen in 1840., Originally issued as plate 12 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 the school located at the northwest corner of Sassafras (i.e. Race) and Schuylkill Third (i.e. 20th) Streets. Founded in 1833, the school first occupied this building in October 1836. View includes pedestrians strolling in the street and a watchman's guardhouse.
- Creator
- Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist., creator
- Date
- [1848].
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W277-4.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W277 [P.2167]
- Title
- Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf & Dumb. [graphic] / Drawn on stone by Albert Newsam, a former pupil of the Institution; From a daguerreotype by Collins.
- Description
- Frontispiece for The Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb for 1850 (Philadelphia; Crissy & Markley, printers, 1851). (LCP Am 1851 Pen Ins 50596.O.22), Exterior view of the school located at the northwest corner of Broad and Pine Streets. Designed by Philadelphia architect John Haviland, the building was constructed in 1824-26, soon after the school's founding.
- Creator
- Newsam, Albert, 1809-1864, artist., creator
- Date
- [1851].
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W276.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W276 [P.2164]