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Title: Plan of fair for the Soldiers & Sailors Home. Academy of Music, Philadelphia. October 23 to November 4, 1865. [graphic] / F. Bourquin, Chesnut St. 602.
Description: Published in The Knapsack, October 24, 1865. [*Per K 9.7 5776.F.25], Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Floor plan showing the layout of departments at the exhibition organized to raise funds for the home for destitute and wounded Civil War veterans. Display sponsors include the Fire Department, First Presbyterian Church, "Women's Mission" and the Penn Relief Association as well as local neighborhoods, towns, and counties including West Philadelphia, Germantown, Montgomery County, Chester County, Bethlehem, and Jenkintown. Displays include fancy goods, china, photographs & albums, books, canned fruit and confectionery, hardware, sewing machines, dolls, silhouettes, and silver. Exhibition also provided a table for the fair periodical "The Knapsack," a fruit stand, donation table, refreshment saloon, smoking saloon, and ladies dressing room.
Creator: Bourquin, F. (Frederick), b. 1808 lithographer., creator
Date: [1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *BW - Theatres & halls - A (2)5786.F.106a]

Title: Scene at the U. S. Agricultural Society's Fair, Philada. 1856. [graphic] / Js. Queen, delt.
Description: Location: Powelton grounds in West Philadelphia., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb8 Q3.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886 artist., creator
Date: 1856.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W330.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W330 [P.2187]

Title: Superb entertainment The grand stereopticon (Copyrighted by P.E. Abel, Philadelphia.) ... Monday, Septem'r 12, 1864, and every evening during the week. A ghost! A ghost! A ghost! Several hundred new and splendid views, chiefly foreign, and never before shown in this city!! ... Among the many new scenes we shall present, will be the cedebrated [sic] historical apparition of Berlin ... Change of programme constantly! At each entertainment will be presented a choice selection, comprising the grandest and most attractive views of American and European scenery: ... Admission, 25 cents. Children, 15 cents Doors open at 7 o'clock. To commence at 8 o'clock
Description: Parentheses substituted for square brackets in title transcription., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Toy, John
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1864 Toy (6)5761.F.19b (McAllister)

Title: Superb entertainment The grand stereopticon (Copyrighted by P.E. Abel, Philadelphia.) ... Monday, October 3d, 1864, and every evening during the week. A ghost! A ghost! A ghost! Several hundred new and splendid views, chiefly foreign, and never before shown in this city!! ... Among the many new scenes we shall present, will be the celebrated historical apparition of Berlin ... At each entertainment will be presented a choice selection, comprising the grandest and most attractive views of American and European scenery: ... Admission, 25 cents. Children, 15 cents Doors open at 7 o'clock. To commence at 8 o'clock
Description: Parentheses substituted for square brackets in title transcription., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Toy, John
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB 1864 Toy (6)5761.F.20b (McAllister)

Title: Last week of the grand stereopticon (Copyrighted by P.E. Abel, Philadelphia.) ... Monday, October 24th, 1864 (and every evening during the week.) This last week will be presented the ghost! and all of the finest gems of the collection, which now number nearly one thousand! ... Notice.--A night with the sculptors! by request Friday evening, Oct. 28th, will be set apart for statuary exclusively! ... Saturday, October 29th, last night. ... Among the many new scenes we shall present, will be the celebrated historical apparition of Berlin ... At each entertainment will be presented a choice selection, comprising the grandest and most attractive views of American and European scenery: ... Admission, 25 cents. Children, 15 cents Doors open at 7 o'clock. To commence at 8 o'clock
Description: Parentheses substituted for square brackets around the copyright statement in title transcription., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Toy, John
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB 1864 Toy (6)5761.F.28a (McAllister)

Title: Gen. Hooker the mammoth ox will arrive in Phila. Saturday, the 27th inst., to be on exhibition at [blank] General Hooker is ahead of the world for size and beauty. The general was bred in Ohio and fed in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania He weighs between 3700 & 3800 lbs. He is owned by the undersigned. Admittance, 20 cents. Ladies, free
Description: Myers & Moore are listed in the 1860 Philadelphia directory; "Fighting Joe" Hooker was promoted Brigadier General at the outset of the Civil War., Printed on yellow paper., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Moore & Myers
Date: [1861?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1861 Moore (1)1322.F.279 (McAllister)

Title: Odd Fellows' Hall, Frankford positively one week only Commencing Monday evening, March 2d, and every evening during the week. Tickets, 15 cents. Packages of 10, one dollar. Doors open at 7 o'clock. Lecture to commence quarter before 8. Grand exhibition on Saturday afternoon, at 3 o'clock, for schools and families, when children will be admitted for the low price of six cents. Grand historic mirror of the American war! The most exciting topic of the times! The only work of the kind in existence, sketched by eye-witnesses, and painted by the most eminent artists, under the supervision of the well-known Pearson Brothers, of New York. ... Mr. Robert Pearson, the principal artist, has made arrangements to add to this popular work, from week to week, all the principal events that may transpire in the prosecution of the war, having distinguished artists engaged to forward to him sketches and reports prepared on the spot
Description: March 2 fell on a Monday in 1863., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *PB 1863 Grand (27)5761.F.96 (McAllister)

Title: Art exhibit at Rittenhouse Square - 1937
Description: View showing a young African American man looking at a display of art works from the "Clothesline Show" in Rittenhouse Square. The man stands to the right of the display composed of two, parallel rows of art hung on clothes lines strung between two trees. A collection of painted canvases rest under the lines in the left. The man stands near the opening to a pathway. A bed of flowers near a lawn of grass is visible in the foreground. The "Clothesline Show," later the Rittenhouse Square Fine art show began in June 1932 with the exhibition of art works within the square by arts students in the Arts Student League. In the following years, professional artists began to display their work as well and in 1976 the show was renamed the Rittenhouse Square Fine Arts Annual. In 2004 the show moved to the outside of the park. In 2005 it was renamed Rittenhouse Square Fine Art Show., Date and title from manuscript note on recto., Part of a number of views of the "Clothelines Show" [P.2017.88.76.5-11] taken by Fetters within a series of his work in the Swayne Collection [P.2017.88.76.1-52]. Most of the views include spectators and two views include the "Lion Crushing the Serpent" statue after the designs of Antoine-Louis Barye., Description reviewed 2022., Access points reviewed 2022.
Creator: Fetters, H.
Date: [1937]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Robert Swayne Collection [P.2017.88.76.9]

Title: Stereoscopian! This wonderful exhibition will open at the Assembly Buildings! on Christmas Eve, Thursday, Dec. 24th, 1863 Will be continued every succeeding evening, until further notice. Gigantic stereoscopic pictures! Magnificent dissolving views surpassing anything heretofore presented to the public, "A voyage down the stream of civilizatation and progress, from the earliest times to the present day. Each evening the entertainment will be varied by choice selections of the most remarkable and attractive views! of American, European, Asiatic & African scenery
Description: John Toy, proprietor; E.B. Merchants, operator., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Toy, John
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB 1863 Toy (25)5761.F.106b (McAllister)

Title: This eve'ng at 8 o'clock the wonderful stereopticon! Exhibited for fifteen successive weeks, at the Assembly Buildings. This is a novel and intellectual entertainment, which has received the unqualified approval of distinguished scientific men, travelers, clergymen, teachers, artist [sic], and savans, being pronounced artistic! instructive! and most entertaining! and without an equal as an educational and refining influence. By the aid of the stereopticon, a new and powerful apparatus, tiny stereographs or sun pictures from nature or art are magnified five thousand times, presenting gigantic stereographic pictures, illuminated by the most powerful light known to science. ... America, Europe and the Holy Land ... The resources of the stereopticon are endless Change of programme each evening ... Royal residences. ... Monuments and ruins! ... Noted scenery: ... Objects of special interest: ... Museums and statuary: ... Copies of celebrated paintings by the old masters. Portraits of heroes and statesmen Above we give only a few of a very large collection of views, including panoramas of the most noted cities, and objects in and about those cities. Brief and appropriate remarks accompany each seene [sic]. Admission, 15 cents. Children, 10 cents
Description: A similar playbill, with the same typos, is headed: Lancaster Hall Germantown. On Thursday and Friday evenings, June 18th and 19th, at 8 o'clock The Wonderful stereopticon!; June 18 fell on a Thursday in 1863., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB 1863 Wonder (28)5761.F.37b (McAllister)

Title: Abel & Leyland's stereopticon in the large room of the Assembly Buildings southwest corner Tenth and Chestnut streets. Open every evening commencing at 8 o'clock, and every afternoon, commencing at 3 o'clock. Stereoscopic pictures from nature, representing the most celebrated views and objects in the world ... Together with a number of interesting local views ... ancient & modern statuary ... Mons. Blondin crossing Niagara Falls The pictures will be described by a gentleman of well known literary and artistic abilities. As an educational and refining influence, this exhibition is without an equal, and it has received the unqualified approval of scientific men, clergymen, teachers, travelers and artists. Doors open at quarter-past 7. Exhibition to commence at 8. A change of views each evening. Appropriate music by an accomplished artist. Cards of admission, 25 cents. Children's tickets, 15 cents Family ticket, admitting 5 persons, $1
Description: "Assembly Buildings, Tenth and Chesnut Streets--Abel & Leyland's stereopticon exhibition. These entertainments are now growing in favor with our citizens, and the hall is nightly filled with large and appreciative audiences."--Philadelphia Inquirer, Feb. 8, 1861., Printed in blue., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Abel & Leyland
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB 1861 Abel (6)5761.F.46b (McAllister)

Title: The Quaker gun now on exhibition, was brought from the Rebel works at Manassas, and wishing the public to witness the artillery used by the aforesaid Rebels, it will be exhibited for a few days only, a the old "Press" office, 417 Chestnut Street, between 4th and 5th Sts. Admission, 1 dime. Hours, from 9 A.M. to 8 P.M
Description: A "Quaker gun" is a wooden log, sometimes painted black to resemble the barrel of a cannon, placed to give the appearance of heavy artillery., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Image of the American Civil War.
Date: [1861?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Quaker 5786.F.159c (McAllister)

Title: Abel & Leyland's stereopticon A new series of these grand and intellectual entertainments, which surpass anything hitherto presented to the public, will be given, commencing Monday evening, Feb. 4th, and continue for two weeks only. The stereopticon is a new and powerful apparatus, which re-produces transparent photographs with all the effect of the stereoscope, magnified 24 feet in diameter, upon an illuminated canvas, covering 600 square feet, ... This evening will be presented--(selected from the following list,) gigantic stereoscopic pictures representing the most celebrated views and objects of the Old World and New: ... Whipple's celebrated photograph of the moon, ... Each evening will be presented a number of interesting local views: ... Pictures will be described by a gentleman of well known literary and artistic abilities. Doors open at quarter-past 7 o'clock. Exhibition to commence at 8. A change of views each evening. Appropriate music by an accomplished artist Cards of admission, 25 cts. Children's tickets, 15 cts. Family ticket, admitting 5 persons, $1
Description: Feb. 4 fell on a Monday in 1861., "Assembly Buildings, Tenth and Chesnut Streets--Abel & Leyland's stereopticon exhibition. These entertainments are now growing in favor with our citizens, and the hall is nightly filled with large and appreciative audiences."--Philadelphia Inquirer, Feb. 8, 1861., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Abel & Leyland
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB 1861 Abel (28)5761.F.12a (McAllister)

Title: Municipal Stadium in preparation for the Sesqui-Centennial International Exhibition, South Philadelphia, Philadelphia
Description: Aerial views of Municipal Stadium, later known as John F. Kennedy Stadium, in 1926 as it is being prepared for the Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition. A stage is being constructed at one end of the field and a few people are in the stands. Broad Street and other areas of the exposition site are also visible. Stadium was designed by the Philadelphia firm Simon & Simon. Located at 3601 Broad Street in South Philadelphia., Negative numbers: 6105, 6276, 6287, 6291.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: 1926
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.6105; P.8990.6276; P.8990.6287; P8990.6291]

Title: Catholic Mass at Municipal Stadium, South Philadelphia, Philadelphia
Description: Aerial views of Catholic mass held at Municipal Stadium, later known as John F. Kennedy Stadium, in October, 1926 as part of the Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition. Crowds are gathered inside and outside the stadium and a blimp flies overhead. Broad Street, trolley station and other exposition buildings are also visible. Stadium was designed by the Philadelphia firm Simon & Simon. Located at 3601 Broad Street in South Philadelphia., Negative numbers: 6616-6622.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: 1926
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.6616-6622]

Title: Memorial of the International Exhibition at Philadelphia. 1876
Description: Souvenir viewbook containing 48 views depicting principle buildings at the Centennial Exhibition that celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art. Includes Memorial Hall or Art Gallery; Main Building; Horticultural Hall; Machinery Hall; Agricultural Hall; United States Government Building; Women's Pavilion; Judges' Hall; Shoe and Leather Building; Carriage Exhibition Building; Photograph Exhibition Building; Pomological Building; Brewers Building; Butter and Cheese Factory; Department of Public Comfort; Pennsylvania Educational Building; English, French, and German Commission buildings; Brazilian Commissioners' Building; Spanish Building; Japanese Dwelling; Swedish School House; Canada Log House; New Hampshire Building; Massachusetts Building; Connecticut Cottage; New York Building; New Jersey Building; Pennsylvania Building; Delaware Building; Maryland Building; West Virginia Building; Arkansas Building; Mississippi Building; Ohio Building; Indiana Building; Illinois Building; Michigan Building; Wisconsin Building; Kansas and Colorado Building; Cook's World's Ticket Office; Glass Exhibition Building; Singer Sewing Machine Co.; New England Kitchen & Log House; Campbell Printing Press Building; Photographic Association Studio; and Japanese Bazaar. Views also show pedestrian traffic. Majority of the buildings were built after the designs of Herman Schwartzmann, Henry Pettit and Joseph M. Wilson., Includes "Contents"; "Map of Centennial Grounds"; and "Dimension and Costs of the Principal Buildings.", Titles of views in English, German, Spanish, and French., P.2010.21.6-8 gift of David Doret., P.2008.36.45 & 46 gift of Michael Zinman., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Inger, Christian, artist
Date: c1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret Collection Centennial Ephemera [P.2010.21.6-8], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection [P.2008.36.45 & 46]

Title: Centennial souvenir Philadelphia. 1876
Description: Souvenir viewbook containing an accordion folded leaf of 15 prints depicting buildings, landmarks, and views of the Centennial Exhibition. Titles include Main Exhibition Building; Memorial Hall; Horticultural Hall; Machinery Hall; Agricultural Hall; Ladies Pavillion [sic]; Judges Pavillion [sic]; U.S. Government Building; New Jersey State Building; Shoe & Leather Building; Total Ab[stinence] Fountain; English Building; Japanese Building; Birds Eye View [of the Centennial Grounds]; and Sawyer Observatory. Views also show pedestrian traffic. Majority of the buildings were built after the designs of Herman Schwartzmann, Henry Pettit and Joseph M. Wilson. The Centennial Exhibition celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Copyright secured and Patent applied for by Ostheimer Bros., Philadelphia., Includes "Contents" and "The Centennial Grounds and Exhibition Buildings" map., Titles of views in French, German, and English., P.2010.21.10 gift of David Doret., P.2008.36.49 gift of Michael Zinman., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Ostheimer Brothers, a Philadelphia export and import firm, established in 1835, entered the export business following their successful administration of a large number of the foreign exhibits at the Centennial Exhibition.
Date: [1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret Collection Centennial Ephemera [P.2010.21.10], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection [P.2008.36.49]

Title: Emancipation Proclamation Carpenter's great national picture, the Emancipation Proclamation before the Cabinet! Painted on a canvas measuring 14 1/2 by 9 feet, and containing full length and life-size portraits of President Lincoln, Secretaries Seward, Chase, Stanton, Welles, Smith, Postmaster-General Blair and Attorney General Bates, together with a faithful representation of the old Cabinet Council Chamber in the White House, now on exhibition at No. 1305 Chestnut Street. Admission, 30 cents
Description: The painting was unveiled July 22, 1864 at the White House., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 Emancip (2)5786.F.105a (McAllister)

Title: Philadelphia Museum and Menagerie No. 833 Market Street. Manager and proprietor Judge Ingalls Open for the season. The Maine giantess! The living skeleton! Re-modeled and improved! Repainted, papered decorated, &c., in short, all that could add to the comfort and convenience of visitors, has been secured, and no effort spared to render the Philadelphia Museum fully equal to any similar establishment in the world. A favorable opportunity to parents who wish to amuse and instruct their children in the great study of natural history, as this establishment contains a large collection of living animals, birds, snakes, &c. Among the many curiosities to be seen are the following: the greatest curiosity in the world, the wild boy captured in a savage state in Central Africa, ... A pair of living seals! ... Also, on exhibition, the grand stereopticon and panorama of the American War! ... Open daily from 9 A.M. to 10 P.M. Admission, 25 cts. Children, 15 cts. Great preparations are being made for the holidays
Description: The latest Civil War view listed is "A council of war at Massaponax Church, Va., 21st of May, 1864.", Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Philadelphia Museum and Menagerie
Date: [1864?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB Phi Phila Museum 1864 (27)5761.F.109a (McAllister)

Title: Wunderlich's Zographicon! A series of panoramic illustrations--of T.S. Arthur's Ten nights in a bar-room! John Bunyan's Pilgrim's progress, and other attractive scenes from life, character, nature and art! Comprising one of the most pleasing, instructive and highly impressive series of entertainments of this class ever presented to the American public
Description: Printed area, including double-rule border, measures 55.1 x 19.9 cm., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Wunderlich, George, b. ca. 1826
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB 1863 Wunder (25)5761.F.108a (McAllister)

Title: Masonic Hall, Manayunk for 2 nights and 1 afternoon only, on Friday and Saturday evenings, Feb. 19 and 20, and on Saturday afternoon Zographicon! A series of panoramic illustrations--of T.S. Arthur's Ten nights in a bar-room! John Bunyan's Pilgrim's progress, and other attractive scenes from life, character, nature and art! Comprising one of the most pleasing, instructive and highly impressive series of entertainments of this class ever presented to the American public
Description: Feb. 19 fell on a Friday in 1864., Printed area, including double-rule border, measures 55.5 x 20.5 cm., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Wunderlich, George, b. ca. 1826
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB 1864 Wunder (27)5761.F.84a (McAllister)

Title: Centennial Exhibition. Philadelphia. MDCCLXXVI [1876]
Description: Souvenir viewbook containing 12 prints originally connected by accordion folds and depicting Centennial Exhibition buildings and national historic landmarks and scenes. Titles include Main Exhibition Building; Art Gallery; Agricultural Building; Horticultural Building; Machinery Building; Washington's Retreat near Philadelphia/Carpenter's Hall Philadelphia; Declaration of Independence, July 4th 1776; Independence Hall, Philadelphia 1776; Independence Hall, Philadelphia 1876; Old State House, Boston; Faneuil Hall, Boston; and The Capitol at Washington. Views also show street and pedestrian traffic. Majority of the Centennial buildings were built after the designs of Herman Schwartzmann, Henry Pettit and Joseph M. Wilson. The Centennial Exhibition celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Blue paper binding, stamped with border design and containing gold seals replicating the Centennial medal on recto. Seals illustrated with female allegorical figures representing the Genius of American Independence and Liberty. Seal on recto reads "In Commemoration of the Hundredth Anniversary of American Independence 1876." Seal on verso reads "These United Colonies are and of Right Ought to be Free and Independent States 1776.", Includes 15-page "Description" of Philadelphia and major landmarks in Boston and Washington, D.C. Description missing pages., Publication information from variant duplicate., Inscribed on last fold: Miss [Tillie Pardy?], A little souvenir from the Centennial. Compliments of El[?] V. B. Millen., Gift of Michael Zinman., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection - Souvenirs [P.2008.36.48]

Title: [Robert Swayne collection of Philadelphia photographs]
Description: Collection of photographs documenting Philadelphia cityscapes, neighborhoods, landmarks, churches and benevolent institutions, businesses and factories, street views, and local events. Images depict interiors, exteriors, and alleyways. Many views include storefront signage; utility poles and street clocks; railroads and stations; and street and pedestrian traffic, as well as show the Western, Southern, and Northern sections of the city. Subjects depicted include All Saints Church (Torresdale); Cliveden; views along the Delaware River; Fairmount Park and Waterworks; Wissahickon Creek, Schuylkill River and Boathouse Row; Frankford Arsenal (1948); Philadelphia Gazette Building (924 Arch Street); the WCAU building (Bala Cynwyd) ; Rittenhouse and Logan squares; the “Clothesline Show” at Rittenhouse Square: a ca. 1930 view of a baseball game at the Baker Bowl, i.e. National League Park (2622 North Broad St.); the power house of the Westinghouse Gas Engine Machinery (Manayunk); the attic and basement of the original United State Mint (37-39 N. 7th Street, built 1792) photographed ca. 1890 by Newell & Son; interior of the second Mint Building (Broad and Chestnut);, the construction of the Delaware River, later Benjamin Franklin, Bridge (ca. 1924), Hahnemann Hospital (1928), Philadelphia Municipal, later JFK, Stadium (ca. 1926); the interior of an unidentified bakery (53rd and Vine) photographed ca. 1905 by C.H. Miller; interior and exterior of Geo. W. Einselen, Fine Cake Bakery and Ice Cream Saloon (1372 Somerset St.) photographed 1904 by Joseph Pearce; progress photographs photographed 1926 of the property of “Philadelphia Brick Co. Required for P.R.R. Temporary Track” and photographed 1921 by J.E. Bewley of and near the 3400 block of North 5th Street ; “Stephen Girard's ‘Alleged Slave Dungeons,’ Front & Market Streets uncovered by demolition” photographed 1906-1907 by John Trautwine, likely the civil engineer (P.2017.88.37.1-7); ca. 1880s studio portraits of adult and child mummers photographed by Richter & Co.; workers on scaffolding attached to the Nixon Building (20 S. 52nd St.); an exterior view photographed ca. 1873 by Newell & Son of the carpenter shop of Clarkson Fogg in front of which numerous household implements and furniture are lined, as well as men, women, and children, including a policeman are posed (449 N. 10th St.); ca. 1868 view of the 100 block of North Third Street, including the storefront for Dr. Stoever's Bitters manufactured by Kryder & Co (121 N. Third); Maryland Metal Bldg. Co. Incorporated classroom modules for the Philadelphia School District (ca. 1924); ca. 1920 advertising photos for an unidentified lighting company of examples of their work in Philadelphia manufactories with sewing machines (Greenwald Bros., Inc., 313 Arch St. and Trio Waist Co., 821 Arch St.) and of the moulding room of S.J. Cresswell Iron Works (2250 Cherry St.); the ca. 1905 interior of the cigar store of Ramon Azogue (102 S. 8th St.);, ca. 1930 view of the hairdressing salon at the Benjamin Franklin Hotel; ca. 1895 view of the interior of the Bourse (i.e., Philadelphia Stock Exchange); and a ca. 1930s exterior view of the Roxborough Home for Indigent Women (601 Leverington Avenue). Other images show a WWI benefit parade "to Keep the War Chest Filled" (1419 N. 2nd St.); a ca. 1900 lavish display of elaborately-decorated cakes photographed by William Phillipi; a posed WWI publicity still with release statements on the verso for Eastman Kodak showing Anna B. Graham with a camera and a young girl in a nurse’s uniform photographed by William F. Langrock; the storefront of a women’s owned business (Mrs. R.T. Anderson); a ca. 1920s contact sheet of variant bust-length portraits of a young woman photographed by the Lipp Studio; and the Walter Lippincott family posed on the porch of a residence., Portrait photographs, including of engraver John Sartain (P.2017.88.77.1 & 2), African American Rev. C. M. Tanner (1869-1933)(P.2018.66.4), John McAllister, Jr. and family members, and “physio-psychism” researcher Emil Sutra (P.2018.66.2) by Philadelphia photographers and occupational, school, and organizational group portrait photographs also comprise the collection. Group portraits document the Bellview Wheelmen; a class trip to the Franklin Institute; and performers attired in leotards, including jugglers, titled “Mr. Jonathan Evans, Haines & Cheer St.” Collection also includes William Stuart McFeeters family photograph album; a small number of images depicting African American men (P.2017.88.11, P.2017.88.61, P.2017.88.76.9 & 38); an organizational group portrait with a man with dwarfism (P.2018.66.15); candid snapshots, including ca. 1900 views of women using cameras along the Schuylkill River; and two film negatives depicting the WCAU building., Title supplied by cataloger., Various photographers, including Frank B. Cassel; William Bell; Berry & Homer; J. E. Bewley; Coward & Shannon; Harry A. Derr; Eagle Photo View Co.; Empire Photo Co.; H. Fetters; S.M. Fisher; Frederick Guteknust; Hansbury Studio; Henry C. Howland; Keystone Instantaneous View Company; William J. Kuebler; William F. Langrock; Lipp Studio; Charles Luedecke; F. Mattes; Monarch Photograph & Publishing Co.; Marriott C. Morris; Robert Newell; Newell & Son; Newell Studio; C. H. Miller, C. R. Pancoast; Joseph N. Pearce; William Phillipi; William Rau; Frederick DeBourg Richards; Schreiber; George Sheridan; Alfred Taylor; John Trautwine; Universal Photo Service; and W. D. Weland, Cartes-de-visite portraits of John Sartain (P.2017.88.77.1 & 2) housed separately and with cdv portraits – sitters - S., View by Schreiber of horse cart racing (1903) housed separately and with *photo – Schreiber., Cartes-de-visite portrait photographs of John McAllister, Jr. and family members (P.2017.88.79-102) housed with the McAllister Family Portrait Collection - cartes-de-visite., Electronic inventories of collection available at repository., See Lib. Company. Annual report, 2016, p. 64-65., RVCDC, Access points revised 2022., Robert Swayne (1927-2011) was a West Chester antique dealer, collector of vernacular photographs, and local writer about the Civil War.
Date: [ca. 1860-ca. 1952]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Swayne Collection [P.2017.88 & P.2018.66]

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