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Title: Topgallant
Description: Equine portrait of Top Gallant, a popular trotter in the mid-19th century, mounted by his jockey. Top Gallant was in the New Jersey stable of George Woodruff and trained at Hunting Park course in Philadelphia., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 255, LCP exhibit catalogue: Made in America, #39., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Pendelton, Kearny & Childs operated as a firm 1829-1830.
Creator: Swett, Moses, fl. 1826-1837, artist
Date: [ca. 1830]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Recreation [6665.F]

Title: Wakefield – The “Hunt,"
Description: Montage of five scenes from a "Hound and Hare Club of Germantown" meet at Wakefield Meadow, part of the estate of Thomas and Sarah Fisher near Germantown. Large central scene shows elegantly attired men, women, and children, a few astride horses, milling on the grounds near the old residence, pond and creek. Surrounding scenes show horsemen galloping on the grounds, over fences, and in front of distant crowds of on-lookers standing in front of the dwelling. Dwelling built circa 1795. The meet involved horsemen acting as "hounds" and "hares" through horns and pieces of paper. The riders were tracked by their fellow mounted clubmen. The club started meets at Wakefield circa 1871., Not in Wainwright., Printed above image: Germantown, December 1876. Vol. I, No. V. $1 Per Annum in Advance This December No., 5 CTS., Manuscript note on recto: Fishers Lane., pdcc00032, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 38:32
Creator: Cooper, Colin Campbell, Jr.
Date: December 1876
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Photograph Collection. FLP Castner 38:32

Title: Diploma of the Montgomery County Agricultural Society of the state of Pennsylvania [certificate]
Description: Diploma containing an ornate architectural border with graphic elements related to agriculture surmounted by a vignette of two horses near a stream. Foliage, filigree, wheatsheafs, scythes and rakes, adorn the border and flank the society's seal at the bottom. Two rural scenes flank the upper image of horses, including a view of two men loading hay onto a horse-drawn wagon (left), and a country homestead (right)., Not in Wainwright., Awarded to Christian Meeh for his display of cakes, etc. at their annual exhibition held October 6th & 7th. Signed J. Henry Owen, Rec'd Secretary, and G. Blight Browne, President in Springtown on Oct. 7th 1852., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 55, Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Dreser, William, b. ca. 1820, artist
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Philadelphia certificates - Agriculture [P.9909]

Title: Magee, Kneass & Co. Philadelphia Saddlery, ware-house no. 6 Magazine Street, New-Orleans, manufactory, no. 18 Decatur St., Philadelphia Quilted & plain, English, French and Spanish saddles in great variety, bridles, fillings & martingales, medical & plain bags, coach, gig, dearbourn, stage and waggen harnes [sic], & blind bridles, riding & driving whips of every description. Morroco, sheep & hogskins patent upper & skirting leather, lining & top hides, saddlers & coachmakers tools, coach lace, fringe & tufts, plated, brass & steel stirrups, bits & spurs and all other saddlery.- Carey ploughs kings make, wheelbarrows, trucks, agricultural & farming utensils generally
Description: Advertisement containing the firm's logo, "Golden Horse Head" (a horse with bridle, bit and reins) surrounded and above images and text advertising a variety of saddles, whips, and trunks. Also includes a plow and hobby horse., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 140
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Advertisements [P.8729.22]

Title: The cruel boys What shows a worse disposition than to abuse a poor dumb creature. It is the beginning of a course, that leads to robbery and murder
Description: Plate from a children's moral instruction book showing three boys mistreating a horse on a dirt path. One boy, attired in a jacket and pants rides the crouching, saddleless horse, raised stick in hand, as the other two boys, stand on either side of the animal, raised sticks in hand. One boy, in the right foreground, wears no shoes. Bushes, weeds, rocks, and a small body of water line the dirt path. A house with a smoking chimney is visible in the right background., Not in Wainwright., Issued as plate in series Picture lessons, illustrating moral truth. For the use of infant-schools, nurseries, Sunday-schools & family circles (Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 146 Chestnut Street, between 1847 and 1853)., Originally accompanied by text titled "Kindness to Animals" moralizing that it is wrong to abuse "poor dumb beasts whom God has put in their power.", Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 293, Gift of Michael Zinman.
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Morality [P.2017.28]

Title: [Proofs before titles of lithographs for City Sights for Country Eyes]
Description: Twelve untitled proofs of prints for the 1856 children’s moral instruction book “City Sights for Country Eyes” depicting scenes of daily urban life, particularly men at work. Professions include draymen, oyster seller, ice carter, rag tender, wagoner, express man, butcher, and baker. All the views show a horse-drawn vehicle, including drays, carts, and wagons. Cityscape, including storefronts, warehouses, and wharves are visible in the background of many of the prints. Scenes also include street and pedestrian traffic (men and women); dogs running by; lamp posts; trees, some in cages; and docked and sailing ships., Plates signed variably A. Kollner Lith. Phila.; AKollner’s Lithy Philada; A. Kollner Lithy Phila.; Lithy of A. Kollner; Lithy of A. Kollner, Philada.; and A. Kollners Lithy. Phila., Printed below image on some of the prints: From life New York; From Life; From Life, Phila.; From nat. at New York; From Life at Washington, D.C.; From Life Baltimore; and From Life at Philada., Published titles include: To the Depot; The Heat; Cheek By Jowl; “Prime Oysters!”; Summer Luxuries; Waiting for a Job; The Rag-Tailor/ [Tender]; The Wharf; The Slow Coach; The Express; The Butcher; and The Staff of Life., Gift of Roy T. Lefkoe and Sydney A. Lefkoe., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 294.1-12, See POS 71; 249; 631; 716; 728; 757; and 834., Housed in clamshell box., To be digitized.
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813
Date: [ca. 1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - City Sights [P.2009.14]

Title: John C. Farr & Co. importers of watches, watchmakers tools. Silver & plated ware, musical boxes, etc. No. 112, Chestnut St. between 3rd & 4th St. Philada
Description: Advertisement showing street and pedestrian activity in front of the four-story corner storefront, with signage, for the jewelry and watch store at 112, i.e., 316 Chestnut Street. A sign illustrated with a watch and reading "No. 112 John C. Farr& Co. Wholesale and Retail" adorns the side of the building above a window with a shade advertising watches, jewelry, and silverware. At the store entrance, a clerk greets two ladies and a girl between the display windows filled with silverware, jewelry, and watches. In front of the store, a lady and gentleman converse near the horses of an out-of-view carriage, and at the corner, a gentleman, possibly, a store clerk talks with two ladies accompanied by a child and dog. Also shows a partial view, including signage and the display window, of the neighboring business, Eugene Roussel, perfumer. In addition, print contains a Gothic-style border as well as pictorial elements that flank the central image. Elements show a clock sculpture, pocket watch, and the embellished text, "Watches" and "Jewelry." Farr started his business in the mid 1820s and changed the firm name to John C. Farr & Co. in 1850. The business relocated circa 1854., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 409, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W202 [P.2122]

Title: The coal-cart
Description: Plate from children's moral instruction book showing a cart-man standing, with his arms crossed, in front of a horse-drawn cart in the cobblestone street. A basket hangs upside-down from the handle of a shovel in the cart. A small home is visible in the background., Published in Common sights in town & country. Delineated & described for young children (Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, No. 146 Chestnut Street, [ca. 1853])., Accompanied by text titled "The coal-cart" moralizing that the "driver of a coal-cart has his duties to perform, and they are not the less important in their place, than the duties of a judge or governor." Praises those who fear God and keep their commandments and are "not given to strong drink"., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 144, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bd 61 K 8342.12, Atwater Kent Museum: 46.57.1.5
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813
Date: [ca. 1853]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bd 61 K 8342.12

Title: [Taylor & Teese, saddlers and A. R. Chambers, currier, 67 & 69 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.]
Description: Advertisement showing the 4-story adjacent storefronts for Andrew R. Chambers, leather dealer and Taylor & Teese, saddlers at 67-69, i.e., 223-225 Chestnut Street. Signage for the businesses, the street numbers, and a drain pipe marked "1832" adorn the building. Merchandise adorns the display windows and sidewalk of Taylor & Teese. Includes a stack of trunks, a harness, saddles, and a feedbag. Rolled merchandise is also visible through the open doorway of Chambers. Taylor & Teese and Chambers resided as neighbors circa 1832-circa 1837., Title supplied by cataloguer., Date supplied by Wainwright., Poulson inscription on recto: Chestnut Street, Chestnut Street, Aug 1847., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 743, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Childs & Inman, a partnership between engraver and lithographer Cephas G. Childs and portraitist Henry Inman, was active in Philadelphia between 1830 to 1833.
Creator: Lehman, George, d. 1870, artist
Date: [1832]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W365 [P.2201]

Title: [Garsed & Brother Wingohocking Mills billhead]
Description: Billhead for R. Garsed & Brother containing a view of the firm's textile mills built 1853 on the northwest corner of Ashland Street along Frankford Creek in Frankford. The mills include a small office building adjacent to a long single-story building with three portico entrances, a smokestack, and cupola adorned with a weather vane. The main building housed the spinning, carding, warping, and spreading rooms. Women stand in two of the portico entries, individuals walk on the grounds, and a “Wingohocking” horse-drawn wagon travels past the mill. In the foreground, by the creek, a horse and colt stand near a canoe marked "Wingohocking Mills" moored at the bank. Across from the animals, a Native American stands with his canoe moored behind him. Richard Garsed was a pioneer in the improvement of cotton mill machinery, including the increased efficiency of power looms, during the 1840s and 1850s., Not in Wainwright., pdcc00009, Title supplied by cataloguer., Printed on recto: Frankford, Pa. Invoice of Goods consigned to ______ for Sale on account of R. Garsed & Brother. Marks & Nos. Pieces. Description Yards. Total Yards. Price pr. Yard $____ Cts., Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 26:12a, See Castner 26: 17 for watercolor study for print titled “At Frankford, Phila, Pa.” Signed A. Kollner drawn 1855. Drawing also dated "30 Nov. 1853." View includes, in the foreground, a “Frankford” paddleboat on the creek and horses at the creek bank. Also shows horses frolicking in front of the mills in the background.
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Castner 26:12a

Title: Henry Beagle, blacksmith and hame manufacturer, corner of Magnolia & Willow Sts. between Fifth & Sixth Sts. Philadelphia Has on hand a general assortment of dray, cart, wagon and plough hames, ironed in every manner of best material and workmanship, which will be sold wholesale and retail at the lowest prices. N.B. Orders shipped to all parts of the states. Also iron awning frames made and put up in the best manner, and at the shortest notice
Description: Advertisement showing the busy forge shop of "Henry Beagle's Hame Manufactory" on the 400 block of Magnolia Street. Within the shop, laborers enter the doorway, toil at windows, and hoist a bundle of hames (i.e., part of the harness that fits around the neck of a draught horse through which the reigns pass). Outside of the building, other workers, including a boy, gather bundles of hames, transport the pieces by hand-drawn cart, and load them on to the back of a horse-drawn dray as a couple passes on the sidewalk. Several working smoke stacks adorn the roof of the shop and a couple passes on the sidewalk. In the street, a horse-drawn freight car travels. A lad leads the horses as the freight driver steers from within the front of the car. A small boy sits next to the driver who stands. Also shows neighboring buildings. Contains a trompe l'oeil frame as a border. Beagle began operating from Magnolia Street in 1839., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 348, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W172 [P.2071]

Title: Funeral Car, used at the obesequies of President Lincoln, in Philadelphia, April 22nd, 1865 Designed and built by E.S. Earley, Undertaker, south east corner of Tenth and Green Streets, Philadelphia
Description: Scene depicting the procession of the catafalque transporting the flower covered casket with President Lincoln to Independence Hall. Funeral officials, attired in black suits and top hats, attend the open air funeral car with canopy, draped in black cloth, and drawn by eight horses. Mourners line the city street including an African American man and woman., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 289, Reproduced in Edwin Wolf's Philadelphia: Portrait of an American city (Philadelphia: The Library Company of Philadelphia in cooperation with Camino Books, 1990), p. 221., Lib. Company. Annual report, 1971, p. 43., Purchase 1970., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Charles Tholey, Augustus Tholey, and their father, probably named Michael, worked as lithographers, engravers, and pastel portraitists in Philadelphia in the mid 19th century.
Creator: Tholey (Firm), artist
Date: [1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W146 [7929.F]

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