In Philadelphia and its Manufactures . . . in 1857 (Philadelphia, 1859), 460., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Freedley.
Creator
Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886 lithographer., creator
Date
1859.
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W445-2.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W445.2
Wainwright retrospective conversion project., LCP copy trimmed, lacking title and advertising text., Poulson inscription: June 1847. Market Street., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc38 W827., HSP copy contains advertising text printed in red ink by letterpress by Bryson & Cooper, Fancy Job Printer. No. 2 North Sixth Street, Philadelphia. Image hand-colored.
Creator
Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
Date
June 1847]
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W449.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W449 [P.2238]
Location: Delaware River above the Navy Yard., LCP exhibit catalogue: Made in America #71., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator
Dreser, William, b. ca. 1820 lithographer., creator
Date
ca. 1850.
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W165.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W165 [P.2074]
Advertisment showing a waist-length, profile view of a woman with dark, loose-curled hair, draped in a cloth, and looking into a mirror. She also wears an arm band., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 58, Library of Congress: DLC PP 2001: 068 Dr. Roby
Date
c1860
Location
Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC DLC PP 2001: 068 Dr. Roby
Advertisement with ornate floral border including two female figures and two centaurs surrounding a central text panel listing a large variety of products manufactured by the firm. Products include perfumes; soaps; toothpastes; cosmetics; lotions; extracts; hair oil and dyes., Published in Colton's atlas of America, illustrating the physical and political geography of North and South America...Commercial edition with business cards of the prominent houses in Philadelphia. (New York: J.H. Colton and Company, 1856), page 45 1/2. (HSP O 458), Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 2
Date
[1856]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Advertisements [P.8945]
Partial advertisement for the wholesale druggists showing the upper half of the storefront at 213 1/2 Market Street covered in signage. Signage reads "Potts, Linn, & Harris Whoslesale Druggists," "Drugs," and Potts & Linn. Medicines, Chemicals, Chemical Tests, Medicine Chests, Surgical Instruments." Includes, boxes, bottles, and barrels visible in the upper-floor windows. Potts, Linn & Harris, comprised of partners Robert B. Potts, Claudius B. Linn, and John Harris, M.D. operated from 213 1/2 Market Street 1843-circa 1847., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 619, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 38 P 857, Lower half missing., See advertisement in O'Briens Business Directory for 1844, p. 28-29.
Date
[ca. 1843]
Location
Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 38 P 857
Location: Seventh and Market Streets., LCP copy lacking title and imprint., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Manuscript note at lower right: April 1847.
Date
[April 1847]
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W107.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W107 [P.2043]
Location: Old York Road, later 435-437 and Willow St., S.E. corner., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Date
[ca. 1855]
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W236.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W236 [P.2106]
Location: 102-104, later 306-308 Chestnut Street., Imprint from duplicate printed in colors., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator
Luders, E., lithographer., creator
Date
ca. 1856.
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W159.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W159 [P.2079]
A wrapper., Charles Magarge & Co., paper warehouse, was in business from 1853 to 1878., Printed in blue., The illustration shows a scene of a Civil War battle., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator
Halleck Mills
Date
[between 1861 and 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1861 Halleck (6)5777.F.87a (McAllister)
Printed area, including double-rule border, measures 10.3 x 8.4 cm.; printed label is pasted to a larger broadside cut in the shape of the mitten pattern 27 x 26 cm., and accompanied by an additional cut piece in the shape of the thumb., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator
Willcox and Gibbs Sewing Machine Company
Date
[between 1861 and 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1861 Willcox (2)5786.F.171d (McAllister)
Advertisment showing the brewery marked as established "1861" and adjacent residences. Horse-drawn wagons loaded with barrels from the brewery depart the fence-lined, landscaped property from under an archway reading "Philadelphia Brewery" and travel in the street in the foreground. Also shows a couple walking on the sidewalk in front of one of the residences., Not in Wainwright., Title supplied by cataloger., Philadelphia on Stone, Trimmed, Library of Congress: DLC PP 2001: 068 [Philadelphia Brewery]
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC DLC PP 2001: 068 [Philadelphia Brewery]
Photographic advertising card promoting Brown & Magee, trunk manufacturers, as successors to James E. Brown. Brown & Magee succeeded Brown circa 1866. Depicts a labeled display of men's and women's bags, valises, and trunks. Includes a soufflet bag; a French sac; an officers bag; a tourist bag; and an Army trunk., Inscribed in ink on image: Brown and Magee., Advertisement printed on verso., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
Date
ca. 1866
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - 5x7 unidentified - Business [(5)5786.F.114a]
View from across barren yard of industrial area, including smokestacks and large gas containers. Smoke billows from the smokestacks., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: The chimnies [sic] in the foreground are those of a brick kiln. View from 27"and Wharton. Two huge gas tanks are seen in the distance. The smoke is coming from the Refinery. (Get data as to great fires of the past in this plant, number of men employed, output per day. Fill in clouds.), Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator
Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date
ca. 1923
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 190 [P.8513.190], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson190.htm
View looking south from above Cherry Street showing the manufactory at 78 North Fifth Street. Employees stand at several of the windows of the building. Business adorned with a sign embellished with silver lettering and ornaments. Also shows partial views of merchandise in the display windows and a horse-drawn wagon., Attributed to Henry B. Odiorne., Title supplied by cataloguer., Inscribed in negative: 12., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator
Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer
Date
1860
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Odiorne - W [(7)1322.F.37d
Depicts a man sitting in an Ellwood Allen lumber & mill work wagon in front of brick row houses on an unidentified cobblestone street. A white horse is harnessed to the wagon, which sits near a pile of bricks on the side of the street., Gift of Emily Riese., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator
Davis, Eugene H., photographer
Date
ca. 1895
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Davis [P.9332.13]
Advertisement for hats depicting a jumbled assortment of men's hats displayed on top of an anvil shaped pedestal adorned with an image of a beaver. Parker is listed at this address from 1829 to 1841., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 170, Originally part of John McAllister's scrapbook "Costumes, English & American, 1800-1869."
Creator
Erwin, J., artist
Date
[ca. 1836]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Advertisements [5743.F.94]
View showing the Dyottville Glass Works, in Kensington along the bank of the Delaware River, purchased in the late 1810s by English-born boot black maker and patent medicine dealer Thomas Dyott. Shows several of the 50 buildings of the premier glass works, including the factory adorned with the sign "Dyottville Glass Works", farmhouses, and barns. Workers enter the factory and walk on the grounds. Also shows several skiffs docked in front of the complex. The works also had a butcher shop, bakery, and chapel. Originally established as the Kensington Glass Works in 1771 by Towars and Leacock, the Dyottville Glass Works manufactured vials, bottles, flask, demijohns, and "indispensable articles." The factory ceased operations following Dyott's conviction for fraud in 1837 but resumed glass manufacturing in 1842 under the new ownership of Henry Seybert and was active until the end of the century., Philadelphia on Stone, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Stauffer, vol. I, folder 56, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 14:84, Trimmed.
Date
[ca. 1858]
Location
Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Stauffer, vol. I, folder 56
Advertisement showing a northeast view of the two and one-half story storefront, covered in signage at 242 (i.e., 600 block) of Arch Street). Signage advertises "William Cansler. An extensive assortment of French and American Paper Hangings for Parlors Entries, Dining Rooms, Halls &c of Modern Style Fire Screens" and "Paper Hanging Warehouse." A couple enters the entry to the storefront between showcase windows displaying large wall paper samples. At the side of the building, a man walks past an advertising pole reading "Paper Hangings. Velvet Border" as a woman strolls ahead of him. Cansler tenanted the site 1842-1848., Philadelphia on Stone, Library of Congress: DLC PP 2001: 068 William W. Cansler recto, Library of Congress: DLC PP 2001: 068 William W. Cansler verso
Creator
Rease, W. H., artist
Date
[ca. 1845]
Location
Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC DLC PP 2001: 068 William W. Cansler recto, Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC DLC PP 2001: 068 William W. Cansler verso
Advertisement containing a scene showing a personified figure of the sun standing on a stage surrounded by children. A few sit on the floor trying on shoes or crying., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 124, Library of Congress: PAGA 7 - no. 166 (B size) Mundell
Date
[ca. 1880]
Location
Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PAGA 7 - no. 166 (B size) Mundell
Satiric scene showing high society, i.e., "bon-ton" in a Philadelphia oyster cellar. A "gentleman" descends the stairwell to the swankly decorated cellar where a motley gathering of men drink, smoke, gossip, and suck oysters. An African American bartender serves drinks from decanters in the left of the image. The bar is adorned with a notice reading "City Privilege still without license." Another African American attends the oyster bar. Plates, crackers, salt, and vinegars line the edge. In the right of the image, a sick-faced patron wobbles and spills his drink next to a tall clock with a decorated face and the inscription "Music has charms." Possibly, the cellar at 806 Market Street operated by African American proprietor James Prosser from about 1830., Inscribed on verso: Said Wm Van [?] of the Walnut/ Chestnut? St. Theatre., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 598, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 38 O 97, LCP exhibit catalogue: Made in America #40., Jackson, Joseph, Encyclopedia of Philadelphia, p. 386-387
Advertisement for the Philadelphia perfumer at 120, i.e., 324 Chestnut Street. Shows two well-dressed women in a boudoir that is decorated with carpet, drapes, and a candlelabra. One woman combs her long, lush, flowing hair with her back to a nightstand with a mirror as she looks at the second woman with short wispy hair. Perfume bottles rest on the night stand. Also contains an ornamental border including columns and advertising text. Text promotes the stopping of "decay in the middle of decline, to preserve what is beautiful" through use of Haul's "Hair Restorative" that "stops the falling off of Hair, promotes the growth of it, vivifies the roots and the skin and gives a new vigor to hair." Hauel began his perfumery business in Philadelphia in 1839 by selling vegetable hair dyes and fancy soaps., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 127, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 392 W 363, Trimmed.
Creator
Weaver, Matthias S., 1815 or 16-1847, artist
Date
[ca. 1842]
Location
Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 392 W 363
Advertisement showing a City Passenger R.R. car and passenger railroad car built by the firm. The street car is depicted with a galloping horse team, driver, several passengers, and conductor and travels past the "P.S. Duval & Son lithographers." studio at the corner of Fifth and Minor streets. Richard Kimball and Lorenzo D. Gorton partnered 1851-1861., Philadelphia on Stone, Atwater Kent Museum: 44.87.173/2, LOC DLC/PP-1997:105 Queen prints and drawings (C size) - 55 prints Kimball & Gorton. Copy hand-colored.
Date
[ca. 1857]
Location
Atwater Kent Museum | Print Department AKM AKM 44.87.173/2, Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC DLC/PP-1997:105 Queen prints and drawings (C size) - 55 prints Kimball & Gorton
Advertisement showing a City Passenger R.R. car and Pacific Railroad car built by the firm. The ornately painted street car is depicted with a galloping horse team, driver, passengers, and conductor. The No. 85 coach produced for the Pacific Railroad of Missouri was introduced circa 1852. Richard Kimball and Lorenzo D. Gorton partnered 1851-1861., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 423, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 6742 K 49, Boell operated his studio from 311 Walnut Street 1860-1866.
Creator
Boell, William
Date
[ca. 1860]
Location
Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 6742 K 49
Series containing a pencil study, engraving, and wood-engraved periodical illustration of the stocking store that was razed circa 1832. Images show a wood-frame house with a large front window, outside cellar door, two stacked small side windows, and gambrel roof with chimney. The building is adorned with signage reading "Stockings. C & N. Jones." All of the graphics contain shading around the foot of the building. Ann Jones purportedly operated a stocking store from the same location during the 1750s., Attributed to James Queen by Marion Carson., Title supplied by cataloger., Manuscript notes below image of P.2017.8.29: N.W. Corner of 2nd & Chestnut; Original of plates; M3727., P.2017.8.30 titled: N.W. Cor. 2nd & Chestnut St., P.2017.8.31 is clipping with letter-press text on verso., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell., LCP duplicate copy of engraving [(1) 1525.F.17g] does not include manuscript note attributing print to Queen as noted by Snyder., See LCP Poulson's Scrapbooks vol. 5, p. 28 and p. 31 and vol. 7, p.21.
Date
[ca. 1832-ca. 1850]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection - Drawings and Watercolors - A-Z -Jones [P.2017.8.30-32]
Location: 41 North Front Street (pre-consolidation)., LCP copy lacking title and imprint., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Date
[Dec. 1847]
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W217.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W217 [P.2110]
![West Philadelphia Manufacturing Cos. starch & farina works. Chestnut & Bridgewater Streets, Philadelphia. Refined pearl starch & corn farina. [graphic] / James Queen.](https://digital.librarycompany.org/sites/default/files/islandora_default_thumbs/replace_icons/prints_icon.png){kind=icon}
