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Title: [Funeral procession for President Lincoln, 1000 block of South Broad Street, Philadelphia, April 22, 1865]
Description: View showing throngs of mourners at Abraham Lincoln's funeral procession. Mourners crowd the sidewalks as well as the rooftops and balconies of buildings and businesses, including the Union House and Dining Saloon partially visible in the image., Attributed to Schreiber & Glover., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Title supplied by cataloguer., Two of the images originally part of McAllister scrapbooks of Civil War Views, Places and Events and volunteer saloons and hospital views., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Schreiber & Glover, photographer
Date: April 22, 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schreiber & Glover - Lincoln [5778.F.27d; 5779.F.17i; P.8687.8; P.9161.1]

Title: Chestnut St. from above 9th
Description: View looking east from above Ninth Street showing the south side of the 800-900 blocks of Chestnut Street. Businesses include: the Continental Hotel (824-838 Chestnut) completed in 1860 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr.; a millinery, a shirt manufactory, and a clothier. Lampposts line the sidewalk, including one adorned with an advertisement for the Walnut Street Theater. Horse-drawn carts and carriages travel the street. Partial view of a tree with full foliage is visible in the foreground., Attributed to Henry B. Odiorne., Title and date from manuscript note on mount., Grey mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Duplicate of (8)1322.31a., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer
Date: 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Odiorne - Streets [(8)1322.F.27f]

Title: Chestnut St. from above 9th
Description: View looking east from above Ninth Street showing the south side of the 800-900 blocks of Chestnut Street. Businesses include: the Continental Hotel (824-838 Chestnut) completed in 1860 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr.; a millinery, a shirt manufactory, and a clothier. Lampposts line the sidewalk, including one adorned with an advertisement for the Walnut Street Theater. Horse-drawn carts and carriages travel the street. Partial view of a tree with full foliage is visible in the foreground., Attributed to Henry B. Odiorne., Title and date from manuscript note on mount., Grey mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Duplicate of (8)1322.31a., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer
Date: 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Odiorne - Streets [(8)1322.F.27f]

Title: Chestnut St. from above 9th
Description: View looking east from above Ninth Street showing the south side of the 800-900 blocks of Chestnut Street. Businesses include: the Continental Hotel (824-838 Chestnut) completed in 1860 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr.; a millinery, a shirt manufactory, and a clothier. Lampposts line the sidewalk, including one adorned with an advertisement for the Walnut Street Theater. Horse-drawn carts and carriages travel the street. Partial view of a tree with full foliage is visible in the foreground., Attributed to Henry B. Odiorne., Title and date from manuscript note on mount., Gray mount with square corners., Attributed to Henry B. Odiorne., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Duplicate of (8)1322.31a., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographerphotographer
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Odiorne - Streets [(8)1322.F.31a]

Title: Chestnut St. from above 9th
Description: View looking east from above Ninth Street showing the south side of the 800-900 blocks of Chestnut Street. Businesses include: the Continental Hotel (824-838 Chestnut) completed in 1860 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr.; a millinery, a shirt manufactory, and a clothier. Lampposts line the sidewalk, including one adorned with an advertisement for the Walnut Street Theater. Horse-drawn carts and carriages travel the street. Partial view of a tree with full foliage is visible in the foreground., Attributed to Henry B. Odiorne., Title and date from manuscript note on mount., Gray mount with square corners., Attributed to Henry B. Odiorne., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Duplicate of (8)1322.31a., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographerphotographer
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Odiorne - Streets [(8)1322.F.31a]

Title: Chestnut St. from above 9th
Description: View looking east from above Ninth Street showing the south side of the 800-900 blocks of Chestnut Street. Businesses include: the Continental Hotel (824-838 Chestnut) completed in 1860 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr.; a millinery, a shirt manufactory, and a clothier. Lampposts line the sidewalk, including one adorned with an advertisement for the Walnut Street Theater. Horse-drawn carts and carriages travel the street. Partial view of a tree with full foliage is visible in the foreground., Attributed to Henry B. Odiorne., Title and date from manuscript note on mount., Gray mount with square corners., Attributed to Henry B. Odiorne., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Duplicate of (8)1322.31a., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographerphotographer
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Odiorne - Streets [(8)1322.F.31a]

Title: [Chestnut Street above Eighth Street, south side, looking west]
Description: View looking west from above Eighth Street showing the south side of the 800-900 blocks of Chestnut Street. Includes the Continental Hotel and the Burd Mansion at the adjacent corners of Ninth and Chestnut streets. The luxury hotel, tenanted by several businesses, was built in 1860 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr. and razed in 1924. The Burd Mansion, built for Joseph Sims in 1807 and later owned by his nephew-in-law, prominent Philadelphia lawyer, Edward Shippen Burd, was razed in 1862 to be replaced by storefronts. Also includes partial view of the building tenanted by jewelers and silversmiths, James E. Caldwell & Co. (822 Chestnut). Lampposts line the sidewalk and a horse-drawn carriage travels the street., Attributed to Henry B. Odiorne., Date from manuscript note on mount., Manuscript note on mount: Chestnut St., Grey 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, photographer
Date: 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Odiorne - Streets [(8)1322.F.29i]

Title: [Chestnut Street above Eighth Street, south side, looking west]
Description: View looking west from above Eighth Street showing the south side of the 800-900 blocks of Chestnut Street. Includes the Continental Hotel and the Burd Mansion at the adjacent corners of Ninth and Chestnut streets. The luxury hotel, tenanted by several businesses, was built in 1860 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr. and razed in 1924. The Burd Mansion, built for Joseph Sims in 1807 and later owned by his nephew-in-law, prominent Philadelphia lawyer, Edward Shippen Burd, was razed in 1862 to be replaced by storefronts. Also includes partial view of the building tenanted by jewelers and silversmiths, James E. Caldwell & Co. (822 Chestnut). Lampposts line the sidewalk and a horse-drawn carriage travels the street., Attributed to Henry B. Odiorne., Date from manuscript note on mount., Manuscript note on mount: Chestnut St., Grey 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, photographer
Date: 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Odiorne - Streets [(8)1322.F.29i]

Title: Indian Rock Hotel
Description: Exterior, oblique view depicting the roadhouse hotel opened in 1848 by Reuben Sands north of Rex Avenue Bridge near Indian Rock in the Wissahickon Valley. Shows the two-story building with a covered veranda. Two white men stand leaning against the columns on the veranda, while another man stands on the ground. A white woman with a young girl stand behind the bannisters on the second-story veranda. An African American man, attired in an apron, stands in the left on a staircase beside the house. The hotel was sold to the Fairmount Park Commission in 1872 and Sands opened a second Indian Rock Hotel at a nearby location., Pale pink mount with rounded corners., Paper label on verso listing over sixty Fairmount Park stereoscopic views published by the firm., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Reproduced in Joseph D. Bicknell's The Wissahickon in History, Song, and Story written for the City History Society of Philadelphia and read at the meeting of October 10, 1906 (Philadelphia, 1908), p. 18., Purchase 1989., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Newell and Son, a partnership between Robert and his son Henry, was active from around 1870 until 1897 and the death of the elder Newell.
Creator: R. Newell & Son
Date: [ca. 1872]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereos - Newell - Hotels [P.9260.69]

Title: Corner [Eighth] and Chestnut Street looking west
Description: View showing the north side of the 800 block of Chestnut Street. Businesses include: John Stone & Sons, silk merchants (805 Chestnut) and the Girard House (823-835 Chestnut), built 1851-1852 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr. Also includes partial view of Wilson & Marter, watch and jewelery store, (802 Chestnut) on the south side of the block. Awnings adorn the buildings. Several pedestrians crowd the sidewalk and horse-drawn carriages travel the street., 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.25c]

Title: Corner [Eighth] and Chestnut Street looking west
Description: View showing the north side of the 800 block of Chestnut Street. Businesses include: John Stone & Sons, silk merchants (805 Chestnut) and the Girard House (823-835 Chestnut), built 1851-1852 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr. Also includes partial view of Wilson & Marter, watch and jewelery store, (802 Chestnut) on the south side of the block. Awnings adorn the buildings. Several pedestrians crowd the sidewalk and horse-drawn carriages travel the street., 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.25c]

Title: North side of Chestnut above 7th
Description: View looking east from below Eighth Street showing businesses, including tenants of the Masonic Hall, on the 700 block of Chestnut Street. Shows A. Hildebrandt, fancy baskets and toys and G.W. Stead, cigar store (713-721 Chestnut) adjacent to the Washington House hotel (709-711 Chestnut). Hotel under the proprietorship of A.F. Glass. Storefronts demolished in 1853 for the erection of the new Masonic Hall., Title from manuscript note on recto., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., McClees 1853-4., 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. 1853
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - McClees - Streets - Chestnut [(7)1322.F.39a]

Title: Lincoln Monument, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia Annual greeting of the carriers of The Press to their patrons 1872
Description: View showing several park visitors surrounding the monument sculpted by Randolph Rogers that was erected in 1871 at East River (i.e, Kelly) and Lemon Hill drives. Visitors view the monument, converse, greet one another, read newspapers, sit on benches, and ride in carriages. Monument shows Abraham Lincoln, seated, with a quill in his hand after just signing the Emancipation Proclamation. The statue rests upon a pedestal adorned with sculpted garland, bronze eagles, and the City of Philadelphia’s Coat of Arms. The granite base is adorned with four panels inscribed with a dedication to and quotes from Lincoln of which two are visible. The monument was commissioned by the Lincoln Monument Association, one of the first such associations formed in the country, to raise funds for a city monument in memory of Lincoln. Also shows, in the background, boat houses along the Schuylkill River, river traffic, the West Philadelphia standpipe, and City Park Hotel., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 438, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Breuker & Kessler Co.
Date: [1872]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Monuments [P.9303.8]

Title: Old Landmarks and Relics of Philadelphia Album, Fourth Series
Description: Viewbook containing a folded leave of six titled photographs and a folded leave of titled, narrative texts about the images. Photographs depict "The House in which Gen'l Agnew Died Germantown" showing an exterior view of Grumblethorpe, the house built in 1744 in which British General James Agnew died in 1777; "Swedes Church. Front View" showing the Episcopalian, former Lutheran, church known as Gloria Dei Church, built 1700-1703 at 929 South Water Street; "Old Log Cabin, Richmond & Vienna Sts." showing an 18th-century style dwelling in Fishtown; "The Old Market House, Callowhill & New Market Sts." showing one of the four old market houses, known as Norwich Market, established in 1783 on the 100 block of Callowhill Street; Robert Morris Hotel Phila. Park showing the four-story hotel opposite the race bridge of the Fairmount Water Works that was razed in 1868; and "Ancient Building, First Fish House, Arch St. bel. 4th Sts." showing the 18th-century attached, brick buildings in Loxley Court that purportedly housed fishing implements for the Penn family. Images include grave stones; broadsides; signage; neighborhood dwellers; and partial views of horse-drawn carriages.

Title: Penn Hotel & Denny's harness shop. [graphic] / On stone by W.H. Rease 17 1/2 S. 5th St.
Description: Print trimmed and lacking caption., Poulson inscription on recto: Dec. 1848 No. 327 1/2 Market Street., Select link below for a digital image., Advertisement depicting the three-and-a-half-story building containing the hotel and tavern operated by John Thompson at 329 Market Street and Robert Denny's saddles and harness store at 327 1/2 Market Street. Harnesses and other horse paraphernalia hang from the shop's display window and entranceways, including a stable entrance marked, "Entertainment for Horses." In front of the building, a man with his horse enters the marked entrance; a clerk from Denny's converses with a customer by a stack of trunks; and other horses rest nearby and in front of the adjacent hardware store, including one attached to a sulky attended by an African American man. Hotel guests stand near the second floor windows and enter the hotel entrance. The hotel, tavern, and harness and saddle store resided together at the site only for the year 1848 to 1849.
Creator: Rease, W. H., lithographer., creator
Date: [[December 1848]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W270.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W 270 [P.2156]

Title: [Peace Jubilee, Triumphal Arch and Court of Honor, looking north from Walnut Street.]
Description: Depicts the Triumphal Arch (i.e. Athenean Arch) and temporary columns of the Court of Honor along South Broad Street, showing pedestrians and horse drawn carts, looking north from Walnut Street. The south facade of City Hall is decorated with patriotic bunting. The Triumphal Arch and Court of Honor were erected after designs by Joseph M. Huston for the Peace Jubilee, a celebration of the end of the Spanish American War in 1898. Included a military parade that passed through the Court of Honor, along with other festivities that lasted several days in October. Includes the Lafayette Hotel, erected in 1853 as the LaPierre House, expanded and renamed in 1876, and razed circa 1900 (southwest corner Broad and Sansom); Land Title Building, built 1897-1898 after the designs of Daniel H. Burnham & Co. (100-118 S. Broad) and the Real Estate Title & Trust Company Building, built 1897-1898 after designs by Edgar Viguers Seeler (101-113 S. Broad)., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: October 1898
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.240]

Title: [Chestnut Street, rooftop view east from Odiorne's studio at 920 Chestnut Street]
Description: View looking east from above Ninth Street showing the south side of the 800-900 blocks of Chestnut Street. Businesses include the hotels built after the designs of John McArthur, Jr.; the Continental Hotel (824-838 Chestnut) completed in 1860 and the Girard House hotel (823-825 Chestnut) built 1851. Also shows the Masonic Temple including signage for Marxsen & Witte, china and glass (713-721 Chestnut); the roof of the Burd mansion (900-906 Chestnut); and signs advertising a boy's clothing bazaar, shooting gallery, shirt manufactory, and looking glasses. Street lamps line the sidewalk., Title supplied by cataloguer., Attributed to Henry B. Odiorne., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Creator: Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer
Date: ca. 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Odiorne - C [(6)1322.F.46; P.2282.15]

Title: [Chestnut Street in the snow, view east from Odiorne's studio at 920 Chestnut Street]
Description: View photographed following a snowstorm showing the 900-800 blocks of Chestnut Street. Includes the Girard House hotel, built 1851-1852 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr., at 823-838 Chestnut Street. Also shows signage adorning Besson & Son, mourning store (918 Chestnut) and Geo. Fryer, dry goods store (916 Chestnut) in the foreground. Snow covers buildings' awnings and the street. A few pedestrians walk on the sidewalk, a man sits on an awning, and an individual leans from an upper window to sweep snow from a ledge., Attributed to Henry B. Odiorne., Title supplied by cataloguer., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Creator: Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer
Date: 1859-1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Odiorne - C [(6)1322.F.163b; (7)1322.F.63a]

Title: Bellevue Stratford postcards
Description: Contains images of the Bellevue Stratford Hotel, built 1902-1904 by G.W. & W.D. Hewitt. Includes exterior views of the hotel looking southwest. Also depicts interior views of the hotel including the Clover Club Banquet Hall, Vienese Room, Ladies' Restaurant, main office, lobby, grand ballroom and the Oak Hall and South Garden sections of the roof garden. Also includes an image of William Penn holding a model of the Bellevue Stratford in his hand., Contains 37 postcards printed in color and 26 printed in black and white., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Brightbill, George M., collector
Date: 1900-1960
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Hotels and Restaurants - Bellevue Stratford - 110]

Title: Gottleib Hartung's wine & lager beer hall and restaurant. Importer of Rhenish and Neckar wines, No. 512 Race St., Philadelphia
Description: Tradecard containing a view of the three-and-one-half story beer hall and restaurant adorned with signage reading "G. Hartung Hotel." A patron enters the establishment as a man, probably the proprietor, stands near the entrance. A laborer emerges from the cellar holding a keg. Kegs and a case of liquor bottles line the sidewalk near a horse-drawn dray situated in the street for loading. Hartung established his business on Race Street in 1860 and remained proprietor until his death in 1879, after which his wife Susannah assumed operations., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 323, Weiss operated from 600 Chestnut Street in the early 1860s., See Philadelphia Inquirer, October 25, 1879 for Hartung's obituary.
Date: [ca. 1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.143b]

Title: Broad St. from the Academy of Music
Description: View looking north on South Broad Street from the Academy of Music showing two horse-drawn vehicles in the foreground and buildings adjacent to the main thoroughfare, including the second building of the Academy of Natural Sciences (built 1839-1840, John Notman, architect) and La Pierre House Hotel (built 1853, John McArthur, architect) in the distant left background. Row homes are visible on the east side of the street in the foreground and a four story building with gothic-arch windows on the west side, possibly the future site of the Stratford Hotel. Construction of the Union League and City Hall has not yet begun., Title from manuscript note on verso., 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.
Creator: Moran, John, 1831-1903, photographer
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Moran - Streets [P.8464.16]

Title: Boat House and Lake, Philadelphia, Penn
Description: View looks west in the direction of West Philadelphia at Wm. F. Cline's floating "Union Boat House" with rowboats pulled up to the dock. Also shows a boat or ferry on the Schuylkill River and buildings on the west bank of the river, including Jeremiah King's hotel and tavern (left), in the background., Title printed on verso in numbered series list with fifty-three other titles (No. 100-153)., Printed on mount: Stereoscopic Gems. American Scenery., Publisher's imprint printed on verso below series list., Yellow 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.
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Recreation [P.9047.40]

Title: Boat landing. Fairmount Park, Philadelphia
Description: Copy stereograph view looks west in the direction of West Philadelphia at Wm. F. Cline's floating "Union Boat House" with rowboats pulled up to the dock. Also shows a boat or ferry on the Schuylkill River and buildings on the west bank of the river, including Jeremiah King's hotel and tavern (left), in the background., Title printed on mount below image., Manuscript note on verso: Helen B. Wellman 1882., Orange mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of F.J. Dallet.
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Recreation [P.9449.1]

Title: Views of the Delaware Water Gap
Description: Views of individuals recreating near the Delaware River, Caldeno Creek, and Rebecca's Bath in the area of the Delaware Water Gap. Includes a man sitting on a rock and reading near railroad tracks overlooking the river, a distant view of Kittatinny Hotel on Mount Minsi, and children sitting on rocks and benches near the river and streams., Yellow cardboard mounts with rounded corners. Photographer's printed labels pasted on versos., Distributor's stamp on verso of P.9168.4: William Y. McAllister, Phila. Jul. 31, 1868., Stamped on verso of P.8484.9: J.W. Deane., Manuscript note on verso of P.8484.10: Seely., Manuscript note on versos of P.8484.11-12: Bartlett & French; William C. Darrah coll., 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 - Views [P.8484.9-12; P.9168.4]

Title: Pleasure yacht, Flirt
Description: View looking west showing the boat, Flirt, docked with three men on board at the steamboat landing immediately north of the Fairmount Waterworks on the east side of the Schuylkill River. Also shows a woman standing on an elevated pavilion or gazebo overlooking the river in the background and buildings on the west bank of the river. Flirt was one of many recreational boats that transported passengers to various sites along the river. Dwelling on the west bank possibly the hotel inhabited and operated by Jeremiah King., Title from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's imprint in red text on mount., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging 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 - Parks [8353.F.15]

Title: Colonnade Hotel, Philadelphia. Congress Hall, Cape May
Description: Die cut trade card shaped and illustrated as the front of one daisy and the back of another. Advertises the luxury hotels The Colonnade Hotel and Congress Hall. The Colonnade Hotel was a luxury hotel completed in 1868 at 1500-1506 Fifteenth Street (southwest corner of Fifteenth and Chestnut streets). The hotel was named after the "Colonnade Row" of early nineteenth-century pillared, porched townhouses previously on the site. The hotel was demolished in 1925 for the erection of the Franklin Trust Company Building. Congress Hall, one of the oldest seaside hotels, was built in 1816 by Thomas Hughes, at Beach Drive and Congress Street. The hotel, originally called the "Big House," was renamed Congress Hall in 1828 when Hughes was elected to Congress. The grand lodging, able to accommodate 1000 guests, was destroyed by the great fire of 1878 and rebuilt in brick the following year., Advertising text printed on verso for the Colonnade Hotel and Congress Hall operated by H.J. and G.R. Crump of Philadelphia., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: 1882
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Colonnade Hotel [1975.F.125]

Title: View of West Phila. from Fairmount
Description: Winter view looking from the Fairmount Waterworks toward West Philadelphia. Shows a building on the west bank of the Schuylkill River at the southern end of the Fairmount Locks. A covered canal lock is visible in the foreground, flanked on the east side by rocky terrain. In the background, dwellings and trees line the landscape. Building possibly the hotel inhabited and operated by Jeremiah King., Title and date from manuscript note 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.
Creator: Bartlett, George O., photographer
Date: [ca. 1866]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett - Views [P.9486.1]

Title: The Wissahickon Drive crowded with one-horse sleighs, Philadelphia, Penna
Description: Winter view looking north along Wissahickon Drive (i.e., Lincoln Drive) showing horse-drawn sleighs transporting people through the snow in both directions. Wissahickon Hall, erected below Gypsy Lane circa 1849 by Harry Lippen, is visible in the background., Additional places of publication printed on mount, including New York, N.Y.; Chicago, Ill.; and London, Eng., Title printed on mount., Attributed to William H. Rau., Publisher's imprint printed on mount., Gray 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: Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920, photographer
Date: [ca. 1905]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Rau - Recreation [P.9047.146]

Title: Panorama of Philadelphia from the State House steeple. North
Description: Panoramic view looking North toward North Philadelphia predominately showing the area north of Chestnut Street between the Delaware River and 25th Street. Includes St. Augustine Church, 260-262 N. 4th Street (1); Girard College, 2000-2490 N. College Avenue (2); Zion Church, 100 block N. 4th Street (3); Franklin Square, between Race, Vine, North Sixth, and North Franklin streets (4); and Pennsylvania Hall, 100 block N. 6th Street (5). The north side of the 500 block (501-535) of Chestnut Street, with several businesses, dominates the foreground. Includes the office of "City Resor..," "Eagle Hotel" (533), "Washington Hall" (531), and "Woods Confectionary" (187, i.e., 523-525). Also shows the rooftops of several city blocks, the masts of docked ships along the Delaware, rows of trees in front of the State House, and a figure in one of the doorway of the Chestnut Street shops., Plate 2 of four panoramas originally issued as Panorama of Philadelphia. Views taken from the State House steeple (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, 1838). These panoramas also accompanied bound editions of Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). Views of Philadelphia was a series of twenty lithographs originally published as five number of four prints each. The four panoramas essentially constituted a sixth number in the series, and were published in bound editions with the twenty views under the title Panorama and Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity, published by J.B. Chevalier in 1838 and reissued by J.T. Bowen the same year., First state., Key to 5 landmarks printed below the image., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 542.b.1, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2152 and in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Poulson), Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Trimmed., Described in Martin Snyder’s "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 *W265.1 [P.2152]

Title: Panorama of Philadelphia from the State House Steeple. North
Description: Panoramic view looking North toward North Philadelphia predominately showing the area north of Chestnut Street between the Delaware River and 25th Street. Includes St. Augustine Church, 260-262 N. 4th Street (1); Girard College, 2000-2490 N. College Avenue (2); Zion Church, 100 block N. 4th Street (3); Franklin Square, between Race, Vine, North Sixth, and North Franklin streets (4); and Pennsylvania Hall, 100 block N. 6th Street (5). The north side of the 500 block (501-535) of Chestnut Street, with several businesses, dominates the foreground. Includes the office of "City Resor..," "Eagle Hotel" (533), "Washington Hall" (531), and "Woods Confectionary" (187, i.e., 523-525). Also shows the rooftops of several city blocks, the masts of docked ships along the Delaware, rows of trees in front of the State House, and a figure in one of the doorway of the Chestnut Street shops., Plate 2 of four panoramas originally issued as Panorama of Philadelphia. Views taken from the State House steeple (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, 1838). These panoramas also accompanied bound editions of Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). Views of Philadelphia was a series of twenty lithographs originally published as five numbers of four prints each. The four panoramas essentially constituted a sixth number in the series, and were published in bound editions with the twenty views under the title Panorama and Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity, published by J.B. Chevalier in 1838 and reissued by J.T. Bowen the same year., Key to 5 landmarks printed below the image., Second state., Copyrighted by J.T. Bowen. LCP copies lacking copyright statement., Key to 5 landmarks printed below the image., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 542.b.2, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: 8236.F.2 and in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Rush), Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: 8236.F.2 and in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Rush), Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Gift of Mrs. A. Douglas Oliver., Described in Martin Snyder’s "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 *W265.2 [8236.F.2]

Title: Penn's House (yet standing), in Letitia Court, Philada
Description: View photographed during the 1860s showing the building incorrectly identified by 19th-century historians as the Letitia Penn House at 8 Letitia Street between Market and Chestnut streets. Signs for V. Rundangel's German saloon and Jacob Sinn, importer of liquor, (operating at the address in 1868) adorn the Penn House. View also includes the adjacent William Penn Hotel. The residence was wrongly recorded as built in 1682 by William Penn and given to his daughter in 1701. The house was relocated to Fairmount Park in 1883., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Yellow mount with rounded corners., 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. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Hotels [P.9047.89]

Title: Chestnut St[reet], west of 8th, Philadelphia
Description: View of the commercial street, above Eighth Street, south side. Businesses include: John Wanamaker & Co. luxury clothing store (established 1869) at 818 Chestnut Street; publishers and booksellers Porter & Coates (1867-1895) at 822 Chestnut Street; and the Continental Hotel (completed 1860 after designs of John McArthur, Jr.) at the corner of Ninth and Chestnut streets. Mannequins stand in front of the doorway of the Wanamaker store., Title from manuscript note on verso., Orange mount with rounded corners., 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 -Streets [P.9191.7]

Title: [Chestnut Street, west from Seventh Street, north side, Philadelphia]
Description: View showing the north side of the 700 block of Chestnut Street. Businesses include: Joseph Monier, bookbinder and printer (Chestnut and Seventh); Washington Hotel (711 Chestnut); and the Masonic Hall (713-721 Chestnut), built 1853-1855 after the designs of Sloan & Stewart and razed by fire in 1886. Also includes partial view of Girard Fire Insurance Company (639 Chestnut) and signage for the The One Dollar Store, variety store, on the south side of the block., Attributed to Robert Newell., Unmounted half of stereoview., Title supplied by cataloguer., 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, photographer
Date: ca. 1870
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Streets [(7)1322.F.59a]

Title: [Hearse and coffin in Philadelphia]
Description: View showing the procession of Lincoln's catafalque. Military guards escort the hearse passed mourners crowding the sidewalks and the rooftops and balconies of buildings and businesses lining the 1000 block of South Broad Street. Businesses include commission merchant, M.S. Myer, and the Union House and Dining Saloon., Attributed to Schreiber & Glover., Title supplied from duplicate in private collection., Yellow mount with square corners., Manuscript note on verso:The funeral of Mr. Lincoln, Broad St., Phila., April 22, 1865., Reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1980), plate 174., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Schreiber & Glover, photographer
Date: April 22, 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schreiber & Glover - Lincoln [8248.F.7]

Title: [William Penn Hotel, 10 Letitia Street, Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: View showing the William Penn Hotel on Letitia Street between Market and Chestnut streets. A group of working-class men stands near a fire hydrant in front of the hotel. View also includes the adjacent building incorrectly identified by 19th-century historians as the Letitia Penn House, which was wrongly recorded as built in 1682 by William Penn and given to his daughter in 1701. Signage decorated with a beer keg adorns the misidentified Penn house., Orange mount with rounded corners., 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. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Hotels [P.9047.26]

Title: Chestnut St., E. from 8th, Phila., Pa
Description: View showing the north side of the 700 block of Chestnut Street. Businesses include The Quaker City National Bank, built in 1888 after the designs of Willis Gaylord Hale (715-719 Chestnut) and the Washington Hotel (709-711 Chestnut). Street and pedestrian traffic include several men wearing bowler hats; horse-drawn carts and wagons; and an omnibus traveling the "Chestnut and Walnut Sts." route. Gas lamps line the street., Title from label on negative., Buff mount with rounded corners., 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. 1890
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Streets [P.9047.141]

Title: [View of the north side of Chestnut Street, east of Second Street, to the river Delaware]
Description: Shows businesses and storefronts on the north side of the 100 block of Chestnut Street including a hotel, a carpenter, refrigerator dealer, oyster house, and John Gibson, distiller (31 Chestnut). Also shows a horse drawn-wagon in the street and a partial view of a gas lamp in the foreground., Title from duplicate removed from Poulson's scrapbook of illustrations of Philadelphia, vol. II, page 37.[(2)2526.F.37]., Reproduction of daguerreotype by William G. Mason photographed June 5, 1843., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Duplicate of [(2)2526.F.37]; (7)1322.F.59c; and (6)1322.F.121b., Variant published in Robert F. Looney's Old Philadelphia in Early Photographs, 1839-1914 (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1976), entry #114., Image faded.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: [June 5, 1843, ca. 1859]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards [(6)1322.F.69c]

Title: Eagle Hotel, No. 139 North 3rd. Street Philadelphia Allmond & Stem. Proprietors
Description: Advertisement showing the multi-storied hotel at 139, i.e., 227-229 North Third Street. Guests sit, stand, and converse on the second floor balcony protected by an awning printed with the names of the owners. Others stand under the balcony and near the "Private Entrance" to which a lady approaches. Dogs walk near an omnibus parked in front of the hotel. Also shows the adjacent businesses of Worman & Ely, merchants, and Eckel & Robinson, "Brooms, Cedar & Willow Ware" (137 North Third Street). Merchandise, including a hobby horse, brooms, pram, basin, and baskets, lines the sidewalk and is visible in the windows and doorways of Eckel & Robinson. Two men also converse near one of that store's entrances. The hotel's post-consolidation address became 227 North Third Street in 1857., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 196, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W102 [P.2040]

Title: Old landmarks & relics of Philadelphia. Fourth series
Description: Viewbook containing a folded leave of six titled photographs and a folded leave of titled, narrative texts about the images. Photographs depict "The House in which Gen'l Agnew Died Germantown" showing an exterior view of Grumblethorpe, the house built in 1744 in which British General James Agnew died in 1777; "Swedes Church. Front View" showing the Episcopalian, former Lutheran, church known as Gloria Dei Church, built 1700-1703 at 929 South Water Street; "Old Log Cabin, Richmond & Vienna Sts." showing an 18th-century style dwelling in Fishtown; "The Old Market House, Callowhill & New Market Sts." showing one of the four old market houses, known as Norwich Market, established in 1783 on the 100 block of Callowhill Street; Robert Morris Hotel Phila. Park showing the four-story hotel opposite the race bridge of the Fairmount Water Works that was razed in 1868; and "Ancient Building, First Fish House, Arch St. bel. 4th Sts." showing the 18th-century attached, brick buildings in Loxley Court that purportedly housed fishing implements for the Penn family. Images include grave stones; broadsides; signage; neighborhood dwellers; and partial views of horse-drawn carriages., Titles on negatives., Embossed brown cloth binding, gilt lettering., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Retrospective conversion record: MARC Link database, edited., Recon note: Match points differ, LCP holds loose, larger format copies of some of the images., Gift of S. Marguerite Brenner.
Creator: R. Newell & Son
Date: c1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Newell [Am 1876 Old 68528.D]

Title: Academy of Natural Sciences (undergoing "raising", &c.) and the "La Pierre house" hotel; with the private dwelling house at the S.W. corner of Broad and Chestnut Street
Description: View showing the second building of the Academy of Natural Sciences undergoing expansion adjacent to the La Pierre House hotel on the west side of the 100 block of South Broad Street. Also shows scaffolding attached to the museum and construction materials in the street near a horse-drawn wagon. The Academy building, completed in 1840 after the designs of Philadelphia architect John Notman and raised a story in 1855, housed the museum until 1876. The La Pierre House hotel, completed in 1853 after the designs of Philadelphia architect John McArthur, was expanded and renamed Lafayette Hotel in 1876., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Date inscribed on negative., Originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 3, page 3. The scrapbooks contained approximately 120 photographs by Philadelphia painter and pioneer photographer Richards of 18th-century public, commercial, and residential buildings in the city of Philadelphia commissioned by Poulson to document the vanishing architectural landscape., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Select link below for a digital image., Reaccessioned as 8339.F.1.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: July 1855
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo- Richards - Museums [(3)2526.F.3 (Poulson)], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/8339f1.jpg

Title: [Academy of Natural Sciences and La Pierre House, north west corner of Broad and Sansom Streets, Philadelphia]
Description: View showing the second building of the Academy of Natural Sciences museum and the adjacent hotel on the west side of the 100 block of South Broad Street. The second building of the Academy, completed in 1840 after the designs of Philadelphia architect John Notman, and expanded in 1855, housed the museum until 1876. The hotel, completed in 1853 after the designs of Philadelphia architect John McArthur, was expanded and renamed Lafayette Hotel in 1876. Includes a horse-drawn carriage parked in front of the hotel; a broadside pasted on the gateway to the alley between the buildings; and a neighboring building to the north., Title supplied by cataloguer, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., One of the images probably originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., One of the images originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 5, page 41. The scrapbooks contained photographs of 18th-century public, commercial, and residential buildings in the city of Philadelphia collected by Poulson to document the vanishing architectural landscape., McClees 1855-13., One of the images reproduced Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1980), entry #100., McClees, a prominent Philadelphia photographer and daguerrotypist, 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 - Museums [(5)2526.F.4b; 8339.F.27]

Title: Yohe's, late Jones' Hotel. On the south side of Chestnut St., next to the Clymer mansion (afterward Geo. Harrison's residence) between Sixth and Seventh St. The site, in the olden times, of the celebrated "Oeller's hotel."
Description: Shows the hotel originally built circa 1800 as the residence of Benjamin Say by Jacob Vogdes at 616-620 Chestnut Street. Notices adorn the hotel entranceway. Also shows partial views of adjacent businesses including James B. Smith & Co., booksellers, publishers, blank book manufacturers and stationers (610 Chestnut) and Howell & Brother, wallpaper manufacturers (622 Chestnut). Wallpaper displays are visible in the Howell & Brother storefront window., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Date inscribed in negative., Compass directions given in manuscript on mount., One of images originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 3, page 113. The scrapbooks contained approximately 120 photographs by Philadelphia painter and pioneer photographer Richards of 18th-century public, commercial, and residential buildings in the city of Philadelphia commissioned by Poulson to document the vanishing architectural landscape., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Select link below for a digital image.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: December 1858
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Hotels - Y [(3)2526.F.113 (Poulson)], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/2526f113.jpg

Title: Chestnut St. from 10th
Description: View looking east from Tenth Street showing the north side of the 800-900 blocks of Chestnut Street. Businesses include: H.P. & W.C. Taylor, perfumery; M.L. Spooner, ladies and children furnishings; and the Girard House hotel (823-835 Chestnut), built 1851-1852 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr. A partial view of the old masonic temple is seen in the distance. Lampposts line the sidewalk., Attributed to Henry B. Odiorne., Date and title from manuscript note on mount., Grey 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: [1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Odiorne - Streets [(8)1322.F.27g]

Title: Chestnut St. from 10th
Description: View looking east from Tenth Street showing the north side of the 800-900 blocks of Chestnut Street. Businesses include: H.P. & W.C. Taylor, perfumery; M.L. Spooner, ladies and children furnishings; and the Girard House hotel (823-835 Chestnut), built 1851-1852 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr. A partial view of the old masonic temple is seen in the distance. Lampposts line the sidewalk., Attributed to Henry B. Odiorne., Date and title from manuscript note on mount., Grey 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: [1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Odiorne - Streets [(8)1322.F.27g]

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: Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, from Eighth to Ninth, north side
Description: View showing the north side of the 800 block of Chestnut Street. Businesses include: Sharpless Brothers, wholesale wools and dry goods (801-803 Chestnut); Edward Ferris, importer of whitegoods (807 Chestnut, 1870-1871); and the Girard House hotel (built 1851-1852 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr.) at 823-835 Chestnut Street. Awnings adorn many of the buildings. In the foreground, individuals stand on the sidewalk near lampposts and a horse-drawn wagon stands idle., Stereograph on green mount with square corners., Photographer's imprint and title printed on stereograph mount., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Lower right corner missing from stereograph., 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. 1870
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Streets [(6)1322.F.21e; (8)1322.F.27c]

Title: Church of the Assumption, 12th & Spring Garden Sts., Philadelphia
Description: Shows the Catholic church built 1848-1849 after the designs of Patrick Keeley at 1133 Spring Garden Street. Also shows neighboring buildings including the Central Hotel (1137 Spring Garden) and partial views of a cigar store and the Spring Garden Street market between Marshall and 12th streets., Attributed to John Moran., Title printed on mounts., Stereograph on trimmed pale yellow paper mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., 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. 1862
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Moran - Religion [(5)1322.F.69b], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - Moran - Religion [1322.F.40e]

Title: [View of the north side of Chestnut Street, east of Second Street, to the river Delaware]
Description: Shows businesses and storefronts on the north side of the 100 block of Chestnut Street including a hotel, a carpenter, refrigerator dealer, oyster house, and John Gibson, distiller (31 Chestnut). Also shows a horse drawn-wagon in the street and a partial view of a gas lamp in the foreground., Title from duplicate removed from Poulson's scrapbook illustrations of Philadelphia, vol. II, page 37.[(2)2526.F.37]., Reproduction of daguerreotype photographed June 5, 1843 by William G. Mason., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with corrections., Variant published in Robert F. Looney's Old Philadelphia in Early Photographs, 1839-1914 (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1976), entry #114., Duplicate of (2)2526.F.37 and (6)1322.F.59c.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: [photographed June 5, 1843, ca. 1859]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards [(6)1322.F.121b]

Title: View of the north side of Chestnut Street, east of Second Street, to the river Delaware
Description: Shows businesses and storefronts on the north side of the 100 block of Chestnut Street including a hotel, a carpenter, refrigerator dealer, oyster house, and John Gibson, distiller (31 Chestnut). Also shows a horse drawn-wagon in the street and a partial view of a gas lamp in the foreground., Reproduction of daguerreotype photographed June 5, 1843 by William G. Mason., Title and name of photographers from manuscript note by collector on mount., Mount inscribed with directions: N. E. S. W., Originally part of a Poulson scrapbook of Illustrations of Philadelphia, volume II, page 37., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Variant published in Robert F. Looney's Old Philadelphia in Early Photographs, 1839-1914 (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1976), entry #114., Duplicate of (6)1322.F.121b and (7)1322.F.59c.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: [photographed June 5, 1843, ca. 1859]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Streets [(2)2526.F.37]

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