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Title: Harrison's Columbian hair dye Manufactured by Apollos W. Harrison, 8 1/2 South 7th St
Description: Advertisement for the Philadelphia perfumer and ink manufacturer containing an ornate frame comprised of vignettes, pictorial details, and ornaments surrounding ornamented text. Vignettes depict patriotic symbols of the American eagle and U.S. shield and two scenes. Scene in the left shows a gentleman being attended to by his valet. The gentleman has wavy, ear-length, dark hair and wears a blue and red patterned dressing gown. The valet, in a grey suit, looks at a bottle in his gentleman's left hand. The gentleman scratches his head with his right hand. Scene in the right shows a woman, looking down, pulling her fingers through her long dark hair that rests over her shoulders past her waist. She wears a peasant-like dress with a red bodice and green-striped skirt with a paisley pattern. The border also contains scroll-like pictorial details, geometric shaped ornaments, and pattern backgrounds. The background is printed in red and is framed by a blue border. Harrison, originally a book, map, and ink dealer, began operating his perfumery, including hair dyes, circa 1853. By the late 1850s, Harrison employed over 80 employees, including 25 traveling agents., Title from item., Date and publication information supplied Library Company duplicate with variant colors., Not in Wainwright., See related: *BW - Advertisements - H [P.2015.71.2]., Gift of David Doret., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 291a
Creator: Schussele, Christian, 1826?-1879, artist
Date: [ca. 1853]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Prints [P.2022.62.3.45]

Title: Winter scene in Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement for Daniel Mershon's Sons heating and ventilating warehouse at 1203 Filbert Street. Shows busy street and pedestrian traffic in front of the four-story red brick warehouse heavily adorned with signage and a "Russian Heater Works" flag at the northwest corner of Twelfth and Filbert streets. Signs advertising patent airtight heaters, grates, registers, ventilators, fireplace heaters, ranges, slate mantels, and house warming and cooking ranges are visible near the doorway and in the show windows of the storefront. Stoves, ranges, and fireplaces are displayed in the windows and on the sidewalk. Laborers load heating equipment into a store delivery wagon marked "Prepare for Winter" as a patron leaves the store near a policeman standing at the corner of the building. Several pedestrians wearing heavy coats, hats, and muffs walk in the street and on the sidewalks near several horse-drawn vehicles, including sleighs and a "Twelfth Street Passenger Railway" streetcar. Also shows partial views of horse-drawn wagons and of neighboring buildings in addition to a man on horseback. The business, established as Fink, Potts & Savoy in 1838, was known for the "Mershon" Patent Shaking Grate" and was renamed Daniel Mershon's Sons following the death of the original successor, Daniel Mershon, in 1865., Not in Wainwright., Filbert St. and Twelfth St. printed below the image as key., Title from item., Date inferred from original letter of copyright issued to H.H. & Geo. Mershon held in the Print and Picture Collection of the Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa. Copyright letter No. 2333A. [Oversize Philadelphiana - Factories & Foundries (A-M)]., Gift of David Doret., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 846 variant, Variant copy at Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 38 M 574, Longacre & Co. operated at 30 & 32 S. 7th Street in 1871.
Creator: Blanc, Albert, artist
Date: [ca. 1871], 1870
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection - Prints [P.2022.62.3.38]

Title: Sections of wrought iron made at the Pencoyd Iron Works. A. & P. Roberts & Co Manufacturers of channels, beams, angles, tees, merchant-bars, rolled and hammered axles, shafting a specialty. Office 265 South 4th St
Description: Print depicting various shapes and sizes of wrought iron sections manufactured at the Pencoyd Iron Works by A. & P. Roberts & Co. Shows the pieces, including even and uneven leg angles and car-builder’s channel irons, labeled with weight and size measurements depicted in horizontal rows and in diagonals. Cousins Algernon and Percival Roberts established the iron foundry in 1852 in Philadelphia. The firm joined the U.S. Steel Company in 1900 and was renamed the American Bridge Company., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Expository text printed on recto below title: Scale ½ size. Weights given in pounds per yard. Minimum sizes and weights given., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Prints [P.2019.64.38]

Title: Ledger Building, Sixth and Chestnut Streets
Description: Faded street scene showing commercial establishments on the block including the Public Ledger Building built 1866-67 after designs by Philadelphia architect John McArthur, Jr. Depicts the western corner of the State House covered with theater broadsides., Title and publisher's imprint from series list printed on verso. One of 106 numbered titles in the series (No. 139-245)., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Also published as a half stereoview mounted on paper [(6)1322.F.117d]., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of David Doret., Robert Newell's son Henry entered the business in 1872 and the name changed to "R. Newell & Son".
Creator: R. Newell & Son
Date: [ca. 1872]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Streets [P.2010.6.17]

Title: A. Fiot publisher of music, importer of musical merchandize [sic]. Wholesale & retail, No. 196 Chestnut Street Philadelphia Piano, harps, guitars, violins, flutes, brass instruments, Italian strings. &c. &c
Description: Advertisement containing a whimsical view surrounded by an ornamental border to promote the music store of Augustus Fiot. View shows cherubs playing and surrounded by instruments, including a cello, harp, trumpet, flute, guitar, and organ. Scene also includes sheet music resting on the floor and propped on a stand. The ornamental border includes a vignette, cherubs playing instruments (harp, cymbals, trumpet, flute), vinery, and floral details. Vignette shows a woman at a piano and a boy playing the flute at a recital in front of a small audience. Fiot began to publish music in 1835 with partner Leopold Meignan. The partnership operated until 1839. Fiot continued to operate a music store until 1855., Title from item., Date inferred from the content., Gift of David Doret., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 1, Copy printed in red ink at Free Library of Philadelphia: Jackson Collection of Early Lithographs - J 60, Digital image of Free Library of Philadelphia copy included in Philadelphia on Stone Digital Catalog.
Creator: Dacre, Henry, approximately 1820-
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Prints [P.2022.62.3.23]

Title: At the direction of [Alice] we have entered your name upon our list for a year’s subscription to Ladies’ Home Journal We trust that the copies we shall have the pleasure of sending will prove to be pleasant reminders of the friend who sends to you this holiday remembrance, the Curtis Publishing Company, Philadelphia
Description: Subscription certificate for the Ladies’ Home Journal containing images of a stained glass work depicting knights (recto) and a medieval royal court scene with white figures (verso). Stained glass illustration shows white men knights, attired in armor and holding a sword and a lance, flanking a shield containing the text of the certificate. Royal court scene after artist John R. Peirce depicts a king, queen, and other guests seated and dining at a long dining table. A woman walks behind the table while carrying a steaming plate of food. In the right, a lutist and a harpist, slouching on a chair, play music near two dogs standing on all fours. In the left, a princess, holding hands with a knight seated behind her, sits on a wooden bench and watches the musicians. In the background is a Christmas tree., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Name of publisher from copyright statement: c. by C.P. Co., Gift of David Doret., Pennsylvania artist John R. Peirce (1900-1970) was a commercial illustrator and also painted landscapes and portraits. He graduated from the Philadelphia School of Industrial Art.
Date: [ca. 1930]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Prints [P.2019.64.19]

Title: The History of our flag A patriotic and educational pamphlet
Description: Advertising circular promoting Fanny Farmer Candy Shops and containing an illustated history of the American flag. The front cover depicts the Great Seal including a bald eagle holding an olive branch and arrows. The pages of content depict different iterations of the American flag over time and the text to the Star Spangled Banner. The back cover depicts a vignette view of the home of Betsy Ross built circa 1740 at 239 Arch Street, Philadelphia. Details of red, white, and blue bunting frame the image., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1937 Fanny Farmer Candy Shops, Inc., Picture caption on recto: Coat of Arms of the United States., Picture caption on verso: The Home of Betsy Ross., Gift of David Doret, 2019.
Date: 1937
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Ephemera [P.2019.64.17]

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