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Title: Moyer & Hazard, successors of Alexander Fullerton, 174 Market Street, fifth door above Fifth Street, Philadelphia [and] Elijah Bowen, wholesale & retail hat & cap store, No. 176 Market Street, Philadelphia. [graphic].
Description: Location: 174 Market Street., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator: Rease, W. H., creator
Date: [ca. 1846]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W242.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W242 [P.2133]

Title: [Garden & Brown, silk & fur hat manufactory, 196 Market Street, Philadelphia] [graphic] / On stone by W. H. Rease, 17 So. 5th. St.
Description: Location: 196 Market Street (pre-consolidation)., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator: Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
Date: ca. 1846.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W147.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W147 [P.2050]

Title: H. B. McCalla, successor to the late Andrew McCalla, No. 252 Market St. First hat & cap store below 8th St. south side, Philadelphia. [graphic] / On stone by R. F. Reynolds No. 30, So. 5th. St. below Walnut 4th. story.
Description: Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator: Reynolds, Robert F., lithographer., creator
Date: ca. 1852.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W164.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W164 [P.2076]

Title: Charles Oakford's hat & cap store, wholesale & retail, No. 104, Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. [graphic] / Jas. Queen, delt.
Description: Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886 artist., creator
Date: ca. 1843.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W057.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W57 [P.2039]

Title: Charles Oakford & Sons model hat store nos 826 & 828, Chestnut Street, Continental Hotel. Philadelphia. Hats, caps & furs, wholesale & retail. [graphic] / Lith by Ibbotson & Queen, 311 1/2 Walnut St.
Description: Illus: Wain p. 110., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator: Ibbotson & Queen, lithographer., creator
Date: ca. 1860.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W055.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W55 [P.2029]

Title: Charles Oakford's model hat store, 158, Chestnut Street Philadelphia. Hats, caps and furs, wholesale and retail. [graphic].
Description: Location: [Chestnut Street], Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Date: ca. 1854.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W058.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W58 [P.2030]

Title: I. Oakford & Son, hatters, 28 South Eighth Street, Philadelphia
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a full-length portrait of a young girl wearing boots too large for her body. I. Oakford & Son was the partnership between Isaac Oakford and his son Charles E. Oakford., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Jennifer Ambrose., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Oakford [P.9649]

Title: Cigar Indian chief. S.E. cor. 4th & Race [sic]. Note the feather headdress. Most of the cigar indians were squaws
Description: Depicts a Cigar Indian chief standing outside of the Central Hat Cleaning Company at 1032 West Girard Avenue. Written on the base of the carved figure are the words "Pocket Billiards". Bottled beverages sit nearby in crates outside of the shop. "Central Hal Cleaning Company, Gents Hats Remodeled and Blocked In Any Style," is visible across the front window, along with various hats on display., Inscribed in negative: 3714., Title from negative sleeve., Incorrectly identified as the Cigar Indian chief near the southeast corner of Fourth and Race Streets., Original negative housed in freezer.
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.145]

Title: Geo. W. Allen, hatter, 808 Chestnut St., Philadelphia
Description: Trade card illustration for hatter Geo. W. Allen depicts a decorative fan with an illustration of a boy and a girl holding and inspecting a bird's nest with eggs., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Allen [P.9771.1]

Title: Edward Geary, Jr. dealer in Lehigh and Schuylkill coal. Orders received and promptly attended to, at No. 814 North Second St. above Brown, S.E. cor. Ridge Avenue & Wallace St., (or through despatch directed as above,) Philadelphia. Cash on delivery
Description: Illustrated stock trade card depicting a sphere labeled "Our Country" partially submerged in water and surmounted by an American flag flying to the right. Includes various styles of hats on a rack printed on verso., Advertising text printed on verso is partially obscured by paper remaining after removing trade card from scrapbook: Edward Geary, fashion, hat & cap store, [81]4 North Second Street, above Brown, Philadelphia. Hats and caps made to order. (Over.), Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Geary [5786.F.176g]

Title: [Interior view of Charles Oakford & Sons hat store, Continental Hotel, 826-828 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Interior view of the hat, cap, and fur emporium. Shows hats and furs displayed on hooks, racks, and counters; umbrellas hanging from light fixtures; mirrors, stools, and signs. Architectural details include a marble floor and frescoed ceiling. Business established by Charles Oakford in 1827. The store relocated to the hotel in 1860., Title supplied by cataloguer., Photographer's imprint blindstamped on mount., Pale yellow paper mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 57., Arcadia caption text: The Continental Hotel rented space on its first floor to tenants including Charles Oakford & Sons’ hat store. The richness of the hotel’s interior extended into its commercial space with Italian marble floors and 16 foot-high frescoed ceilings visible in this early 1860s photograph. Gentlemen entered through the hotel’s main lobby, while ladies used a separate entrance off Chestnut Street. Charles Oakford began manufacturing hats in Philadelphia in 1827 and by 1850 had expanded the business into the wholesale market, sending hats all over the country. Family members remained in the hat business into the 20th century., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: W. & F. Langenheim, photographer
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereos - Langenheim - Businesses [(8)1322.F.33c]

Title: [Interior view of Charles Oakford & Sons hat store, Continental Hotel, 826-828 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Interior view of the hat, cap, and fur emporium. Shows hats and furs displayed on hooks, racks, and counters; umbrellas hanging from light fixtures; mirrors, stools, and signs. Architectural details include a marble floor and frescoed ceiling. Business established by Charles Oakford in 1827. The store relocated to the hotel in 1860., Title supplied by cataloguer., Photographer's imprint blindstamped on mount., Pale yellow paper mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 57., Arcadia caption text: The Continental Hotel rented space on its first floor to tenants including Charles Oakford & Sons’ hat store. The richness of the hotel’s interior extended into its commercial space with Italian marble floors and 16 foot-high frescoed ceilings visible in this early 1860s photograph. Gentlemen entered through the hotel’s main lobby, while ladies used a separate entrance off Chestnut Street. Charles Oakford began manufacturing hats in Philadelphia in 1827 and by 1850 had expanded the business into the wholesale market, sending hats all over the country. Family members remained in the hat business into the 20th century., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: W. & F. Langenheim, photographer
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereos - Langenheim - Businesses [(8)1322.F.33c]

Title: [Interior view of Charles Oakford & Sons hat store, Continental Hotel, 826-828 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Interior view of the hat, cap, and fur emporium. Shows hats displayed on racks, and counters; mirrors, stools, and signs. Business established by Charles Oakford in 1827. Architectural details include a marble floor and frescoed ceiling. The store relocated to the hotel in 1860., Title supplied by cataloguer., Attributed to W. & F. Langenheim., Pale yellow paper mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: W. & F. Langenheim (Firm)
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereos - Langenheim - Businesses [(8)1322.31e]

Title: [Interior view of Charles Oakford & Sons hat store, Continental Hotel, 826-828 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Interior view of the hat, cap, and fur emporium. Shows hats displayed on racks, and counters; mirrors, stools, and signs. Business established by Charles Oakford in 1827. Architectural details include a marble floor and frescoed ceiling. The store relocated to the hotel in 1860., Title supplied by cataloguer., Attributed to W. & F. Langenheim., Pale yellow paper mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: W. & F. Langenheim (Firm)
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereos - Langenheim - Businesses [(8)1322.31e]

Title: Continental Hotel, Philadelphia
Description: View looking east from above Ninth Street showing the luxury hotel at the southeast corner of Ninth and Chestnut streets. Completed in 1860 after the designs of John McArthur Jr., the hotel contained several businesses in its lower level, including "Charles Oakford & Son" hat shop and "Vansant's Manufactory of French Confections." The building was demolished in 1924., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title printed on mount., Manuscript note on verso: 335. Looking down Chestnut St. from 9th St., Gift of Robert M. Vogel., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Hotels [P.9047.48]

Title: Sixth and Chestnut St[reet]s Philada
Description: View showing the north side of Chestnut Street near the corner of Sixth Street. Businesses include: William B. Gihon, engraver on wood and Joseph Schiller's hat manufactory (537-539 Chestnut); T. & J.W. Johnson, publisher and booksellers of law books (535 Chestnut); John G. Connelly's hotel and restaurant (527 Chestnut). Also includes Rockhill and Wilson, clothiers, (603-605 Chestnut) on the adjacent block. Awnings adorn all the buildings., Attributed to Henry B. Odiorne., Title from manuscript note on mount., Pale yellow mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860
Date: [ca. 1859]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Odiorne - Streets [(8)1322.F.23g]

Title: Sixth and Chestnut St[reet]s Philada
Description: View showing the north side of Chestnut Street near the corner of Sixth Street. Businesses include: William B. Gihon, engraver on wood and Joseph Schiller's hat manufactory (537-539 Chestnut); T. & J.W. Johnson, publisher and booksellers of law books (535 Chestnut); John G. Connelly's hotel and restaurant (527 Chestnut). Also includes Rockhill and Wilson, clothiers, (603-605 Chestnut) on the adjacent block. Awnings adorn all the buildings., Attributed to Henry B. Odiorne., Title from manuscript note on mount., Pale yellow mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860
Date: [ca. 1859]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Odiorne - Streets [(8)1322.F.23g]

Title: Post Office, Philadelphia
Description: View showing the U.S. Post Office (1863 to 1884) at 426-428 Chestnut Street. Also shows the adjacent businesses on the south side of the 500 block of Chestnut Street. Businesses include W. F. Warbuton and Son's hat manufactory (430 Chestnut) and Moss & Co., blank books and stationery (432 Chestnut). Moss displays signage advertising revenue stamps. A person displays printed materials on the steps of the customhouse in the left of the image. Also shows a peddler pushing a handcart and a horse-drawn carriage and wagon in the street., Purple mount with rounded corners., Title and photographer's imprint printed on mount., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.)
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Simons - Government Buildings [P.8497.2]

Title: Post Office, Philadelphia
Description: View showing the U.S. Post Office (1863 to 1884) at 426-428 Chestnut Street. Also shows the adjacent businesses on the south side of the 500 block of Chestnut Street. Businesses include W. F. Warbuton and Son's hat manufactory (430 Chestnut) and Moss & Co., blank books and stationery (432 Chestnut). Moss displays signage advertising revenue stamps. A person displays printed materials on the steps of the customhouse in the left of the image. Also shows a peddler pushing a handcart and a horse-drawn carriage and wagon in the street., Purple mount with rounded corners., Title and photographer's imprint printed on mount., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.)
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Simons - Government Buildings [P.8497.2]

Title: Custom House & Post Office Phila, Pa
Description: View showing the U.S. Customhouse (1845 to 1935) at 420 Chestnut Street, formerly the Second Bank of the United States, and the U.S Post Office (1863-1884) at 426-428 Chestnut Street. Customhouse building built in 1824 after the designs of Philadelphia architect William Strickland. Also shows a lamppost in the foreground; a vendor's stand near the Customhouse; men convening near the post office; and adjacent businesses, including W.F. Warbuton and Son's hat manufactory (430 Chestnut) and Moss & Co., blank books and stationery (432 Chestnut)., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Title annotated on negative., Gift of Francis J. Dallett., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: ca. 1885
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Government Buildings [P.9228]

Title: Panoramic view of Philadelphia west from State House
Description: Panoramic view showing the north side of the the 600 block of Chestnut Street, including the office buildings constructed for patent medicine manufacturer Dr. David Jayne. Includes a hat manufactory (Sixth and Chestnut); Rockhill & Wilson, clothiers (603-605 Chestnut); the Bulletin Building covered with scaffolding (607 Chestnut, built 1866); Perry & Co., clothiers (609 Chestnut); the Jayne Office Building known as the Commonwealth Building (611-613 Chestnut); Jayne's Marble Building (615-619 Chestnut, built 1860); and Jayne's Hall (625-631 Chestnut, built 1856)., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Title from manuscript note on verso., Gift of Robert M. Vogel., Digitization 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 - Views [P.9462.23]

Title: [Panorama of Philadelphia northwest from State House]
Description: Panoramic view showing several city blocks northwest of the State House at 520 Chestnut Street. Includes in the foreground: Charles Laing, hatter, and the publication offices of Godey's Lady's Book (537 Chestnut); T. & J.W. Johnson, publishers and importers of law books (535 Chestnut); and Independence Hotel (533 Chestnut). Includes in the background: J.B. Lippincott & Co., publishers (715 Market), J.M. Maris & Co., drugs and chemicals manufacturer (711 Chestnut), and Charles Ellis & Son, drug manufacturer (1000 Market)., Attributed to Robert Newell and his "American Views" series., Unmounted half of stereoview., Title from duplicate stereoview., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Newell, Robert, 1822-1897
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Views [(7)1322.F.1b]

Title: [Panorama of Philadelphia northwest from State House]
Description: Panoramic view showing several city blocks northwest from the State House (520 Chestnut). Includes in the foreground: Charles Laing, hatter, and publication offices of Godey's Lady's Book (537 Chestnut); T. & J.W. Johnson , publishers and importers of law books (535 Chestnut); and Independence Hotel (533 Chestnut). Includes in the background: J.B. Lippincott & Co., publishers (715 Market); J.M. Maris & Co., drugs and chemical manufacturer (711 Market); and Charles Ellis & Son, drug manufacturer (1000 Market)., Attributed to Robert Newell and his "American Views" series., Title supplied by cataloguer., Manuscript note on mount: NW from State House., Yellow mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Newell, Robert, 1822-1897
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Views [(3)1322.F.4d]

Title: [Unnumbered plate and advertisements from Rae's Philadelphia pictorial directory & panoramic advertiser. Chestnut Street, from Second to Tenth Streets]
Description: Plate, with buildings unnumbered, showing a section of the 700 block (186-235 pre consolidation) of Chestnut Street. South side includes Utah House tenanted by hat dealers A. G. New & Co. and music publishers Lee & Walker (186); E. M. Moulson’s Millinery and Moulson Daguerreotypist Temple of Fancy (192); and merchant Andrew Wight (198). North side contains no identified businesses., Advertisements promote, through several lines of text, the depicted Moulson establishments, as well as H.G. Sickels’ Lamp Manufactory and Gas Fitting Establishment, No. 32 North Second Street, Philadelphia. Moulson’s Daguerreotype Establishment advertises the type of equipment (Voightlander cameras) used; the inconsequence of weather conditions; price – "Fifty Cents Only, is now Charged, for a Beautiful, Durable, and Life-like Portrait"; and John Moulson’s evidence of his "merit" to perfectly satisfy his customers through his extensive experience formerly at Chestnut and Eighth Street and his recent improved process. Moulson’s Millinery advertisement promotes Mrs. Moulson’s "ability to purchase of Importers, at wholesale and for cash" and “will not be undersold by any establishment in the city or country." Sickels’ advertisement contains a border of several different models of lamps and fixtures, including ceiling, standing, and decorative., Title supplied by cataloger., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Folder 13., LCP also holds trimmed variant depicting North side [P.2008.34.16.8]. Contains pencil inscription: 235. Also holds trimmed duplicate depicting South side [P.2008.34.16.10].
Creator: Rae, Julio H.
Date: [1851]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Rae - Folder 13 [*Am 1851 Rae, 2975.Q]

Title: [M'Clees & Germon daguerreotype rooms, 160 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia]
Description: View of the south side of Chestnut Street between 6th and 7th Streets showing the daguerreotype studio of McClees & Germon at 160 Chestnut Street. Neighboring tenants include Howell & Brothers, paper hangings (156 Chestnut); Charles Oakford, hats (158 Chestnut); James H. Orne, carpets (160 Chestnut); and the adjoining businesses of Jones Hotel and J.C. Smith, piano fortes and J. Couenhoven, music store (162 Chestnut). Also shows horse-drawn wagons parked in the foreground. The partnership between James E. McClees and Washington Lafayette Germon lasted from 1846 to 1855, and was located at this address from 1854 until a fire destroyed the studio on March 15, 1855., McClees 1855-10., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 56., Arcadia caption text: Photographer James McClees captured this view of the south side of the 600 block of Chestnut Street showing the studio he shared with Washington Lafayette Germon shortly before the building was destroyed by fire in March 1855. At the time, Philadelphia, a leading center of American photography, supported more than 120 photographers. Although signage on the building advertised the men as daguerreotypists, by the mid 1850s McClees was also producing some of the earliest photographic views of Philadelphia printed on paper., McClees, a prominent Philadelphia photographer and daguerreotypist, produced some of the earliest paper photographic views of Philadelphia between 1853 and 1859.
Creator: M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.), photographer
Date: ca. 1855
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - McClees - Businesses [(7)1322.F.57d]

Title: Panoramic views from the steeple of Independence Hall, 520 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia
Description: Series of views looking north, northeast, northwest, east, west, southeast, and southwest from Independence Hall showing the several blocks surrounding the historic building. Images predominately depict the 400 and 500 blocks of Library, Minor, Chestnut, and Market Streets. Includes Howell Evans, card and fancy printer (402 Library); Military Hall, public hall and former arsenal building (412 Library); Goldsmith's Hall, office building (420 Library); Library Company of Philadelphia (s.e. cor. 5th and Library); Philadelphia National Bank (419-423 Chestnut); U.S. Customhouse (420 Chestnut); Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank (425-429 Chestnut); Henry J. Pepper & Son, jeweler (441 Chestnut); Wright, Smith & Co., chinaware (5 N. 5th); P. Hirst & Co., hat manufacturer (501 Chestnut); George J. Henkels City Cabinet Wareroom (509 Chestnut); Barnes, Osterhout & Co., hats and furs (503 Market); Smith, Williams & Co., dry goods (513 Market); Coleman & Smith, cutlery and fancy goods (521 Market); Chaffees, Stout, & Co., wholesale dry goods (523 Market). Also shows the steeple of Christ Church; rooftop business signage including White Hall clothiers' sign (400 Market); the 500 block of Minor Street; the 600 block of Market Street; J.M. Maris & Co., drugs and chemical manufacturer (711 Market); the Delaware riverfront; and partial views of Independence Square., Attributed to James E. McClees., White or pale yellow paper mounts with square corners, including two with printed titles and two inscribed with the date., Title supplied by cataloguer., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Creator: M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.), photographer
Date: 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - McClees - Views [1322.F.4i; 1322.F.5d-e; 1322.F.6b; (5)1322.F.4b; (6)1322.F.20a; (8)1322.F.9i]

Title: [Plate 4 and advertisements from Rae's Philadelphia pictorial directory & panoramic advertiser. Chestnut Street, from Second to Tenth Streets]
Description: Plate depicts section of the 300 block of Chestnut Street (93-110 pre-consolidation). South side includes Public Ledger Office (96); J. & J. L. Gihon, Book Bindery (98); J. P. & D. C. Collins & Co., Daguerreotypists, Office of the New Line of Magnetic Tela., and Belrose & Faye, Paper Hangings (100); John Kelley & Co., Tailor (102); Charles Oakford, Hats, Caps, & Furs Wholesale & Retail (104); Ennis’ Gallery of Daguerreotypes and watch and jewelry dealer J. & W. L. Ward (106); Wm. H. Maurice, Stationer (108); and merchant tailor H. S. Ogden and safe manufacturer Milnor & Shaw (110). North side includes Franklin House tenanted by Lewis Ladomus, Watches & Jewelry (103); J. Thornley's India Rubber Emporium & Manufactory and The Morse Magnetic Telegraph Offices (101); Bank of North America (99); R. Buist Nurseryman & Seed Grower (97); Shepherd, Clothing (95); and L. Pelouze, Phil. Type Foundry (93). Also shows parts of Third Street, Hudson’s Alley, and Franklin Place. Milnor & Shaw signage (110) included on plate as pasted-on detail. Also shows jewelry on display in the Ladomus windows., Advertisements promote the businesses depicted, including a full page for Milnor & Shaw, Manufacturers of the Phoenix Fire & Thief Proof Iron Safes, No. 10 Hudson’s Alley. Advertisement also includes vignettes of two different models of safe, one flat-topped and one curved-topped. The smaller advertisements contain ornamented type and lines of text. R. Buist (97) promotion also includes a decorative border comprised of farm implements and produce., Title supplied by cataloger., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Folder 5.
Creator: Rae, Julio H.
Date: [1851]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Rae - Folder 5 [*Am 1851 Rae, 2975.Q]

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