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Title: [Solicitations to Pancoast F. Hoy, Schuylkill Haven, Pa.]
Description: Includes envelopes, a letter of solicitation, and an illustrated flier. Advertising firms include R. M. Connable & Co., "Sole Manufacturers of the "Hercules" Overalls, Coats and Shirts (Dayton, Ohio) and David Rupp, Proprietor of York Steam Soap Works (York, Pa.). Connable type-written solicitation promotes "Hercules" overalls and pants. Rupp flier promotes two "schemes," including when "You Buy 5 Boxes of Laundry Soap for $20.00 and get a Ladies Gold Watch Free" and "5 Boxes of our Well Known Family Favorite Soap at $3.60 Per Box (100--12 oz. Cakes) and one Show Case Free as per cut." Flier also includes vignettes showing a gold watch with ornamented case, "German Silver Case," "Show Case and Desk Combined," and a long German silver case., Title supplied by cataloger., Date range inferred from date on correspondence and stamps., Envelopes contain cancelled one-cent stamps printed in blue and depicting a profile portrait of Benjamin Franklin., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler., Pancoast Hoy, was proprietor of a premier dry goods store in Schuylkill Haven from circa 1875 to the early 20th century. He was a prolific and innovative advertiser of his store merchandise.
Date: [1890-ca. 1894]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Envelopes [P.2011.10.87 & 87a; P.2011.10.88 & 88a]

Title: Aultman, Miller & Co., Akron, O. U.S.A. A happy New year, 1890
Description: Calendar depicting scenes in the making and distribution of the "Buckeye" machinery produced by the Akron company founded in 1863. Front cover contains scene "Getting out Lumber for the World-famed Buckeye Binders and Mowers" showing a hunter and trapper watching oxen haul logs, loggers cut trees, and camp hands carry buckets and tend a dutch oven over a campfire. Internal views show "Receiving and Dressing Lumber for Buckeye Machines"; "Partial View of Wood Department Mammoth Buckeye Works, Akron, Ohio"; "Mining and Reducing the Ores for use in Buckeye Harvesting Machines"; "Partial view of Buckeye Foundry, Akron, Ohio"; "The Perfected Buckeye Binder and Mower, The World's Standard" and "Shipping the Celebrated Buckeye Machines to all parts of the civilized Globe." Views include calendar insets, laborers and foremen at work, industrial machinery (wood saws, smelters, power drills) in use, trains, and ships being loaded at a loading dock. Back cover depicts a scene showing several plowmen using horse-drawn "Buckeye" binders (i.e., combines) reaping a large field of wheat. View also contains an inset depicting a man mowing his pasture. Flowers and a banner reading "The World's Victors" border the inset. Aultman, Miller & Co. began to only build threshing machines, traction engines, and saw mills in 1890. The firm was bought out in 1911., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [1889]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Calendars [P.2011.10.162a]

Title: Atlantic Refining Company plant, 3314 Passyunk Avenue, Point Breeze, Philadelphia
Description: Aerial views of the Atlantic Refining Company (later Atlantic Richfield Co. or ARCO) petroleum refinery plant along the Schuylkill River in the Point Breeze neighborhood of Philadelphia. The company was founded as the Atlantic Petroleum Storage Company in 1866 as a storage facility but quickly expanded operations to include refining as the possible uses of petroleum were discovered. It was purchased by John D. Rockefeller in 1874 and became part of the Standard Oil Trust and became Atlantic Refining Company after the Trust was dissolved in 1911. The facility is shown from several angles and altitudes and includes views of the refining equipment and storage drums as well as boats and ships docked on the river. Probably taken 1921 [1138, 1213]; 1922 [1861]; 1924 [4602-4609]; 1926 [5464-5922]., Negative numbers: 1138, 1213, 1861, 4586, 4602-4609, 5464, 5922., 4602, 4603, 4605, 4606 not digitized; negatives are damaged and cannot be scanned., Digitized for AMD: Global Commodities., Record revised with information supplied by former Aero Service employee Carl H. Winnefeld, Jr.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: ca. 1921-1926
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.1138; P.8990.1213; P.8990.1861; P.8990.4586; P.8990.4602-4609; P.8990.5464; P.8990.5922]

Title: Atlantic Refining Company plant, 3314 Passyunk Avenue, Point Breeze, Philadelphia
Description: Aerial views of the Atlantic Refining Company (later Atlantic Richfield Co. or ARCO) petroleum refinery plant along the Schuylkill River in the Point Breeze neighborhood of Philadelphia. The company was founded as the Atlantic Petroleum Storage Company in 1866 as a storage facility but quickly expanded operations to include refining as the possible uses of petroleum were discovered. It was purchased by John D. Rockefeller in 1874 and became part of the Standard Oil Trust and became Atlantic Refining Company after the Trust was dissolved in 1911. The facility is shown from several angles and altitudes and includes views of the refining equipment and storage drums as well as boats and ships docked on the river., Negative numbers: 6110, 6111, 6112, 6113, 6177, 6178, 6180, 6181, 6182, 6183.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: 1926
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.6110-6113; P.8990.6177; P.8990.6178; P.8990.6180-6183]

Title: Washington Steam Mills, Gloucester N.J. near Philadelphia
Description: Packing label for Washington Mills, the Gloucester, New Jersey textile factory, established by David S. Brown in 1844, which specialized in imprinted textiles. Contains a border with a mosaic pattern in red, blue, and green., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 270, Gift of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Advertisements - W [P.2002.67.75]

Title: Drugs and medicines F.L. Allen, wholesale and retail dealer in drugs, medicines, paints, oils, dye stuffs, perfumery, camphene, burning fluid, &c., No. 33 State-Street, New-London, Conn. ... Phoenix Guano, from McKean's Island. ... Combined Guano, ... For sale by Williams & Haven, New-London, Ct
Description: A leaf removed from The New-England almanac, and farmer's friend, for the year of our Lord Christ, 1863 (New London : Printed by Starr & Farnham, 1862)., On verso: Dr. Sweet's Infallible Liniment, the great external remedy, ... Richardson & Co., proprietors, Norwich Ct. ..., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Allen, F. L., of New London, Conn
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1862 Allen 111469.D (Helfand)

Title: Dr. Jayne's Building, Carter's Alley, March 5th 1872
Description: Views looking east, one from Third Street, at the rear elevation of the fire-ravaged Jayne building with ice hanging from its exterior. One of the images includes a partial view of the cast iron front of 117 South Third Street in the foreground. Dr. David Jayne, a chemist and Philadelphia manufacturer of patent medicines, moved into an eight story building at 84-86 Chestnut Street (i.e., 242-244 Chestnut Street), between 2nd and 3rd Streets in 1850, after it was completed after designs by William J. Johnston and Thomas Ustick Walter. His business occupied the building until his death in 1866. It burned on March 5, 1872., Titles and photographer's imprint from manuscript notes on versos., Yellow mounts with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Bell began his photographic career in 1848 working for his brother-in-law's daguerreotype studio in Philadelphia and thereafter was associated with many commercial studios as partner or sole proprietor. He served as the chief photographer for the U.S. Army Medical Museum in 1865 and replaced Timothy O'Sullivan on George M. Wheeler's survey of the territories west of the 100th meridian in 1872. He returned to Philadelphia, went into business with his future son-in-law William Rau in 1875, and was active in the photography community until his death in 1910.
Creator: Bell, William, 1830-1910, photographer
Date: March 5, 1872
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bell - Fire Ruins [8281.F.1-2]

Title: Price & Harper's steam saw mill, fancy chair manufactory, and lumber yard, Girard Avenue, between Seventh & Eighth, Philadelphia White & yellow pine, hemlock, birch, maple, beach, cherry, and other hard woods, seasoned and ready for sale. Mahogany and walnut boards and planks of all sizes. Mahogany, walnut, birch & maple veneers, for sale. All kinds of plain & fancy sawing, and turning done with neatness and despatch an assortment of bed posts and stand legs, balister, newells and caps, for stair builders, mahogany and walnut mouldings. Mahogany, walnut, cherry and maple table & stand legs
Description: Advertisement showing the four-story brick building and the adjoining lumber yard on Girard Avenue above Seventh Street tenanted by Price & Harper. Signboards on the front facade read, "fancy-chair factory, steam sawmill, turning & scroll sawing, and iron foundry." Large piles of lumber are visible in the yard that extends west to Eighth Street from the factory building. A man directs a horse out of the lumber yard gate. Horse-drawn carts, some pulling lumber, travel on the street in front of the building. A carriage and a man and woman travel south on Eighth Street, and a bale of hay rests on the sidewalk near a lamppost and a stalled carriage in the foreground. Price & Harper operated together between 1853 and 1855., Date supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 626, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W299 [P.2089]

Title: [Ritter Cotterell & Ritter wholesale drug & chemical warehouse. Paints, oils, glass & dye stuffs. 132 North Third Street, corner of Branch Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Advertisement showing the four-story storefront covered with lettering advertising products at the druggist on the 200 block of North Third Street. Products include "Wetherill & Co.'s Warranted Pure White Lead, Indigo, Madder, Logwood, Turpentine, Linseed Oil, &c, &c. Agency for Golsh's Patent Matches & American Brimstone." A male patron exits one of three open entryways to the store. Another patron is visible inside. Canisters and decanters fill the central display window and crates and barrels line the sidewalk in front of the building. At the side of the storefront, near the open cellar, a drayman stands by his horse that pulls a dray loaded with crates. A weather vane decorated with a fish adorns the roof of the building. The business operated as Ritter, Cotterell & Ritter from the address 1845-circa 1846., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: North Third, corner of Branch Street. Dec. 1846. 1846., Title supplied by cataloger., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 651, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Trimmed.
Creator: Weaver, Matthias S., 1815 or 16-1847, artist
Date: [December 1846]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W314 [P.2178]

Title: Dr. Jayne's Building
Description: View of Chestnut Street, between 2nd and 3rd, south side, looking east. Includes the Jayne Building (242-244 Chestnut), constructed 1848-1850, based on the designs of Philadelphia architect William J. Johnston for David Jayne, chemist and manufacturer of patent medicines. Six story wings on either side (238-40 and 246 Chestnut Street) were constructed in 1851 and designed by Thomas Ustick Walter. Image also shows the Western Union Telegraph Co. building and includes several horse-drawn carts and wagons., Title and series number from accompanying printed label with stereograph., Stereograph on yellow mount with square corners., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitization 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 ca. 1867-1869.
Creator: Bartlett & French, photographer
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - Business [(7)1322.F.69m; (8)1322.F.19f]

Title: Porteus' works. Pine oil camphine distilled by steam. No. 581 North Front Street. Philadelphia Spirits of turpentine, oil of tar, Venice turpentine, bright varnish, rosin, pitch tar. Every article sold is warranted to please the purchaser. Orders from all parts of the United States promptly attended to and supplied at the lowest cash prices
Description: Advertisement containing a view of the "J.A. Porteus Chemical Works," and a cross-section view of an enormous distilling machine used to process the oils. Chemical works view shows laborers loading a horse-drawn wagon and a dray with barrels lined along the building. A couple walks past the factory comprised of gable-roofed brick buildings of various heights. Porteus operated from the site 1846-1854. Machinery view includes a worker attending a barrel in which distilled liquid drains, and two gentlemen conversing near the steam pump of the apparatus., Registration marks at corners of upper view., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 616, Stamped on verso: From the file of James F. Queen, artist, 1824-1889., Formed part of the Marian S. Carson collection.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W477 [P.2002.64.2]

Title: Chestnut Street, above Fourth, north side
Description: View of Chestnut Street, between 4th and 5th Streets, north side, looking west depicting a variety of commercial establishments including Walker & Co.'s cigar store; Kromer's news and patent medicine depot displaying advertisements for Wright's Great Consumptive Cure and Wright's Tar Syrup; William E. Harpur, chromometers; Philip Wilson & Co., gun dealers displaying a rifle three stories high; and Traubel's lithographic establishment., Title and series number from accompanying printed label., Yellow mount with square corners., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitization 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 ca. 1867-1869
Creator: Bartlett & French, photographer
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - streets [(8)1332.F.19g]

Title: Chestnut above Fourth, North side
Description: View of Chestnut Street, between 4th and 5th Streets, north side, looking west depicting a variety of commercial establishments including Walker & Co.'s cigar store; Kromer's news and patent medicine depot displaying advertisements for Wright's Great Consumptive Cure and Wright's Tar Syrup; William E. Harpur, chromometers; Philip Wilson & Co., gun dealers displaying a rifle three stories high; and Traubel's lithographic establishment., Reissue of a circa 1868 view entitled "Chestnut St., above Fourth, North side" by Bartlett & French of Philadelphia., Orange mount with rounded corners., Digitization 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 ca. 1867-1869.
Creator: Bartlett & French, photographer
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - streets [P.9573.15]

Title: [Lewis Fatman & Co., steam paste blacking, steam friction matches, 41 N. Front Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Advertisement showing the three-story building covered in signage for the polish and match business located between Market and Arch streets on Front Street. A clerk, crates, cans piled on a table, and a rope hoist are visible through the first floor window and entrances. Another worker is visible in a third-floor window. A conestoga wagon passes in the street with the driver astride one of the four horses in the team. Fatman operated a second factory at 412 Coates Street, i.e., Fairmount Avenue., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: N. Front streets. Dec. 1847., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 437, LCP copy trimmed and lacking title and imprint., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Date: [December 1847]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W217 [P.2110]

Title: [Lewis Fatman & Co., blacking manufactory, steam friction matches manufactory, back of No. 412 Coates Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Advertisement showing the adjoined three-and two-story manufactory buildings covered in signage for the polish and match business located on the 1000 block of Coates Street, i.e. Fairmount Avenue. Laborers, including one carrying a stack on his shoulder, are visible at a few windows and at an entrance. In the foreground, a gentleman walks, and a boy plays with a hoop near some crates and barrels, on the sidewalk. In the street, a drayman transports planks of wood, a "Fatman and Co.'s Matches & Blacking" wagon is parked, and a laborer loads crates on to a dray. Fatman operated a factory from this location circa 1844-1848 in addition to a second factory on North Front Street., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Dec. 1847. Back of No. 412 Coates Street., Title supplied by cataloguer., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 436, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Trimmed and lacking title.
Date: [ca. 1847]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W218 [P.2109]

Title: [Francis Field & Francis, importers & dealers in tin plate & tinsmans furniture, importers & manufacturers of saddlery hardware, tin ware, tin toys & japanned wares, no. 80 Nth 2nd St., Philadelphia]
Description: Advertisement showing the four-story storefront between Arch and Race streets on North Second Street covered in signage. A male patron enters the building. He walks below the sign illustrated with a pig hanging above the doorway that reads "Lard Lamp Manufactory," and past a stack of crates marked "Tin Plate By The Box" laying on the stoop. Toys, tinware, saddleryware and japanned ware fill the large display windows. In the windows of the upper floors, a male and female laborer at work are visible in addition to more merchandise. Also shows a barrel on the sidewalk next to the cellar doors of the store and partial views of adjacent buildings. Francis, Field & Francis (Henry and Thomas Francis and Charles Field), also known as the Philadelphia Tin Toy Manufactory, was one of the oldest toy manufactories in American and began operating from the address in 1839., Title supplied by cataloguer., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: North Second Street. Oct 1846., Philadelphia on Stone, LCP copy lacking title and imprint., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Date: [October 1846]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W138 [P.2047]

Title: The Phillips Petroleum Company. Incorporated under the laws of the state of New York Capital stock, $2,500,000. Issued for the purchase of the property. Shares, 250,000. Par value $10. Subscription price, $4. Stock not liable to future assessment. Reserved working capital, $40,000. ... Bankers, Jerome, Riggs & Co., 46 Exchange Place, New York, ... Counsel, Platt, Gerard & Buckley, 45 William St., New York
Description: Jerome Riggs & Co. are listed in the New York City directory for 1865 only., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Digitized for AMD: Global Commodities.
Creator: Phillips Petroleum Company (New York, N.Y.)
Date: [1865?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1865 Phillips 14247.Q

Title: [Panorama of Philadelphia northeast from State House]
Description: Panoramic view showing several city blocks northeast from the State House at 520 Chestnut Street. In the foreground, identifiable businesses include W.H. Selheimer, book and job printing (n.w. cor. Fifth and Chestnut), and H.J. Toudy & Co., practical lithographer (503-505 Chestnut, 1868-1871). In the distant background, White Hall, clothiers, the steeple of Christ Church, and various businesses' rooftops with signage advertising hardware, drugs, and clothing are visible., Attributed to Robert Newell and his "American Views" series., Yellow mount with square corners., Title supplied by cataloguer., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Newell, Robert, 1822-1897
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Views [(3)1322.F.9g]

Title: Gas well, Butler Co., Pa
Description: View showing a gas well in a wooded area in Butler County. Laborers stand between the enclosed derrick and gas tanks. Butler County contained the most productive gas fields in the United States in the late 19th century., Title and publisher's imprint printed on verso., Buff mount with rounded corners., Brief description of the harvesting and use of natural gas printed on verso., Digitized for AMD: Global Commodities., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Robbins, Frank, b. 1846
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Robbins - Industry [P.9276.63]

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: [First U.S. mint building, the "Old Mint," 37-39 Seventh Street, Philadelphia]
Description: View showing the former mint building built 1792 being used as storefronts. Businesses include Cumming & Biddle, plumbers & metallic roofers and Joseph Sellers, silver plater. Also includes two young men standing near and in the doorway of the building. Adjacent building is also visible. Mint occupied location until 1833., Title supplied by cataloguer., Date inscribed on photograph (5)2526.F.6a. Photograph accompanied by brief newspaper clipping noting the establishment of the mint., Manuscript note inscribed on photograph (7)1322.F.31d: Old mint 7 St., One of images originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., 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 5, page 6a?. 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.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: July 1854
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Government buildings - U [(7)1322.F.31d; (5)2526.F.6a (Poulson)]

Title: Old London coffee house, s.w. corner of Market and Front street
Description: View showing the former coffee house and merchants' exchange. Shows building tenanted by Ulrich & Brother's Tobacco & Segar Store (100 Market). Crates stand piled near the entranceways and striped poles and window shutters adorn the building. Also shows the adjacent men's and boys' clothing stores operated by Philip Hunt (100 Market) and William Umberger (102 Market); merchandise on display; a handcart resting idle on Front Street; and a conestoga wagon parked near a pile of barrels on the sidewalk. Also shows a doll standing on one of the piles of crates in front of the tobacco store. Originally built in 1702, the former coffee house was razed circa 1883 by the Ulrich brothers, whose family purchased the building in 1813., Title, date, and photographer's imprint form Poulson inscription on mount., Contains a newspaper clipping dated January 19, 1842 about the changed social climate in Philadelphia over the last eight years and an advertisement for Mr. Rice as Jim Crow on the verso., McClees 1858-9., Originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 11, page 47. 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., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 96., Arcadia caption text: The old London Coffee House, depicted here, and the Merchants’ Coffee House (also known as City Tavern) served as informal business exchanges in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Merchants, ship owners, and investors gathered at these establishments to conduct business, advertise their wares, attend auctions, discuss politics and trade, and drink coffee with their associates. This photograph, taken in August of 1858, shows the former coffeehouse at the southwest corner of Market and Front streets occupied by a variety of businesses including a tobacconist, a barber, and a clothing shop., Reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1980), entry #74., McClees, an early 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: August 1858
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - McClees - Hotels, Inns, and Taverns [(2)2526.F.47]

Title: Wm. F. Scheible, No. 49 South 3rd St. ab. Chestnut, Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement for Scheible's various business and manufacturing enterprises. Image includes an elaborate border of scroll work and flowers that contains a montage of pictorial elements that include a train, an encampment of tents, an awning, a man in uniform holding a flag, children, and a seal press. Border surrounds text that reads "Manufacturer of awnings, verandas, tents & bags. American & foreign flags & signal birgies, pennants, streamers & c. Manufacturer of seal presses & rail road baggage checks. Stencil cutting, die sinking, engraving and emboss printing. Orders for lithographic work promptly attended to.", Not in Wainwright., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Jany. 1859., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 117
Date: [January 1859]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Advertisements [P.8729.14]

Title: [Collection of letterheads, stationery, and form letters of pharmaceutical firms and related businesses, United States and Canada]
Description: Collection of letterheads and stationery from the late 19th century containing decorative and ornate lettering, ornamented type, vignette illustrations, and pictorial details. Illustrations depict trademarks, including Mishhler's Herb Bitters anchor of "Hope"; exteriors of factories and storefronts (some including signage); druggists rubber goods, including a bulb syringe and atomizer; and the waiting room and exam room of a dental office. Some of the exterior views include patrons entering buildings, street and pedestrian traffic, as well as laborers at work. View of New York Sumac Extract Company factory complex (20 Cedar Street) also shows a ship docked at the factory pier. Pictorial details include a phoenix, quarter moon, banners, mortar & pestle, frames, filigree and flourishes. Firms represented include Naph B. Greensfelder & Co. (San Francisco, Ca.); New York Sumac Extract Company (Long Island City, N.Y.); Rev. Jasper Marx Medicines (Jersey City, N.J.); Richardson Drug Company, Omaha (Salt Lake City, Ut.); S. B. Hartman & Co, Office of Eastern Laboratory and Wholesale Depot (Lancaster, Pa.); R.H. Mcdonald & Co. (San Francisco, Ca.); Smith, Kline & French Co. (Philadelphia, Pa.); Smith & Prime (Ausable Forks, N.Y.); Spink & Co. (Minneapolis, Minn.); H.N. Stratton (Brooklyn, N.Y.); Judson B. Todd (Ithaca, N.Y.); Tyer Rubber Company (Andover, Ma.); Westlake & McIntyre (Grand Rapids, Mi.); Whitall, Tatum & Co. (Philadelphia); Wm. H. Armstrong & Co. (Indianapolis, Ind.); and G. F. Witter (Grand Rapids, Wis.). Correspondence relates to product orders and fees, solicitations for business, and payments. credits, and payment disputes., Correspondents include Parchen-D'Acheul Drug Co.; Brooks R. Webber; R. B. Hutchings; H.M. Parchen & Co.; Samuel Newton; S. B. Hartman & Co.; H. R. Sands & Co.; R. H. McDonald & Co.; Polk Miller Drug Co.; F.M. Hopkins Sons; Henry A. Kerste; C.W. Prindell; Leonard Kellar; and Henry Bartry., Printers and engravers include Seifert & Lawton, Milwaukee; Baker-Randolph Litho. & Eng. Co. Chicago; and [George W.?] Mills., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [ca. 1860-ca. 1896]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - Letterheads & Stationery (N-Z) [P.2011.46.464-479]

Title: [Collection of billheads of pharmaceutical firms and related businesses, United States and United Kingdom, 1850-1879]
Description: Collection of billheads, dated between 1850 and 1879, containing decorative and ornate lettering, ornamented type, vignette illustrations, and pictorial details. Illustrations depict allegorical figures and scenes, exteriors of storefronts and factories (some adorned in signage), and pharmaceutical apparatus and goods, including mortar and pestles, distillers, and barrels, crates, and cans of medicinals. Some of the exterior views include patrons entering buildings, street and pedestrian traffic, as well as laborers at work. Pictorial details include trademarks depicting a white lily (White Lily Catarrh Cure) and a serpent wrapped around an adorned staph. Firms represented include A. B. & D. Lands (N.Y.); Adie & Gray (Richmond, Va.); Frank S. Allen (N.Y.); Almy, Milne & Co. (Fall River, Ma.); Barrick, Roller & Co. (Philadelphia); Beates & Miller (Philadelphia); Bentley & Miller (New Haven, Ct.); B.H. Douglass & Sons (New Haven, CT); Breinig, Fronefield & Co. (Philadelphia); Burdsal & Brother (Cincinnati); H. H. Burrington (Providence, R.I.); Jno. S. Carter (Erie, Pa.); C. & J. L. Van Deusen (Roundout, N.Y.); A. L. Cutler (Boston); C. V. Clickener & Co. (N.Y.); Davis & Tucker (Canton, Oh.); Rutger L. Drake (Troy, N.Y.); and I. C. Dubose & Co. (Mobile, Ala.). Also contains billheads of the Glasgow Dispensing Chemist Thomas Davison and Stony Stratford Retail Chemists and Druggists Cox & Robinson., Billed patrons include Wynard & Sayer, Warwick, N.Y.; Jar. Courier, Blue Sulphur Springs, Greenbrier; H.L. Plumb; A.H. Dailey; J.B.M. Linn & Co.; Jos. Abrams; Warner, Clark & Taylor; J. F. Rambo; L. & N. Cross; Geo. E. Doolittle & Co., Erie, Pa.; Late C.W. Bersford S. Lowndes; J. Burnhamer; D. F. Lamon & Co.; Lorin Schaefer, Sr., Canton ; M. L. Filley; Thos. McMillan; and Wm. Jas. Comper, Holmwood, Cathcart., Some items contain stamps or pasted labels., Printers include J. L. Brooks Bank Check Co. Lith. Boston; Middleton, Strobridge & Co.; Billing Bros. & Whitmore Birmm.; and W. Weatherston & Son., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [1850-1879]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - Billheads, -1879 (A-D) [P.2011.46.271-289]

Title: Rae's Philadelphia Pictorial Directory & Panoramic Advertiser
Description: Folio volume of panoramic views of businesses on the 200-900 blocks of Chestnut Street and corresponding pages of advertisements. Also contains a preface, which details that inclusion in the directory required subscription to or purchase of the volume; the intention to "issue the Panoramic View annually"; and the publisher's endeavor to correct all lettering errors "upon the publication of the second edition." Volume also includes interspersed full-, half- and, one-third-page advertisements for business subscribers tenanting, as well as not located on Chestnut Street. Publisher issued only the 1851 directory.

Title: Rae's Philadelphia pictorial directory & panoramic advertiser. Chestnut Street, from Second to Tenth Streets
Description: Folio volume of panoramic views of businesses on the 200-900 blocks of Chestnut Street and corresponding pages of advertisements. Also contains a preface, which details that inclusion in the directory required subscription to or purchase of the volume; the intention to "issue the Panoramic View annually"; and the publisher's endeavor to correct all lettering errors "upon the publication of the second edition." Volume also includes interspersed full-, half- and, one-third-page advertisements for business subscribers tenanting, as well as not located on Chestnut Street. Publisher issued only the 1851 directory., Predominantly depicted and promoted businesses include carpet dealers; confectioneries; daguerreotypists; druggists and patent medicine dealers; engravers, printers, and publishers; hotels; jewelers; millineries and clothiers; musical instrument dealers; and tailors. Plates also show the State House, Congress Hall, City Hall, Barnum's Museum, and residences. Full-, half- and one-third page advertisements advertise a variety of businesses, including patent medicines, artificial limbs, essence of coffee, marble manufacturers, and printers and publishers. Majority of advertisements contain ornamented type and lines of advertising text. Several also contain wood-engraved pictorial details. Some panoramic views contain pasted-on details representing signage., Cover printed in gilt on blue paper and contains an ornamental border., Engravers and printers include C. C. Hooker and Henry A. Brown., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Housed in phase box., See also albums - Rae [P.2008.34.16] and Rae - Chestnut Street [1322.F] loose prints.
Creator: Rae, Julio H.
Date: c1851
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Rae [*Am 1851 Rae, 2975.Q]

Title: [Collection of billheads of pharmaceutical firms and related businesses, United States and United Kingdom, 1883-1905]
Description: Collection of billheads, dated between 1883 and 1905, containing decorative and ornate lettering, ornamented type, vignette illustrations, and pictorial details. Illustrations depict exteriors of storefronts and factories (some adorned in signage); pharmaceutical apparatus and tools; a sick-bed scene showing a doctor with a thermometer at the side of his female patient; an eagle perched on a cliff; the interior of a drug store; and a horse and groom. Some of the exterior views include patrons entering buildings, street and pedestrian traffic, as well as laborers at work. Pictorial details include a thermometer, floral imagery, frames, filigree and flourishes. Firms represented include Sagar Drug Co. (Duluth, Minn.); Sandhop, Fritsch & Co. (N.Y.); J. J. Seinsoth (Hartford, Conn.); S. H. Wetmore Company (N.Y.); J. E. Silliman (Erie, Pa.); Smith, Benedict & Company (Boston); Southern Drug Co. (Morristown, Tenn.); Stone, the Druggist (Fitchburg, Ma.); Strong, Cobb and Co. (Cleveland); Tarrant & Company (N.Y.); Thomsen & Muth (Baltimore); Dr. G. Ulrich (Erie, Pa.); Van Natta-Lynds Drug Co. (St. Joseph, Mo.); Van Vleet-Mansfield Drug Co. (Memphis, Tenn.); Vogeler, Winkelmann & Co. (Baltimore); William A. Whittem (Philadelphia); Winkelman & Brown Drug Co. (Baltimore); and Alfred Wright (Rochester, N.Y.). Billed patrons include T. Belhummeur, Lake Linden, Mich.; New York Department of Public Charities; Hartford Street Railway Company; H. A. Kerste, Schnectady, N.Y.; A. A. Beckman; Geo. H. Gilbert Mfg. Co.; A. S. Emmons; Carriger & Roberts; Fitchberg [?] Electric Light Co.; A. E. Phillips, Sinclairville, N.Y.; Dr. H.C. Porter & Son (Towanda, Pa.); W. P. Carriger, Morristown, Tenn.; J. F. Walther; D. W. Marris, Emporia; J. E. Chandler, Malvern; A. W. Holsey; Resinol Chemical Company; and H. F. Belanger, Houma, La. Collection also contains billhead of British chemist and druggist R. C. Walshaw (Huddersfield)., Some items contain manuscript notes and/or stamps acknowledging receipt of payments, terms of sale, and changes of address., Printers include Christie & Collier, Litho. Duluth; Strobridge & Co., Lith Cincinnati; A. Hoen & Co. Baltimore; S. C. Toof & Co., Memphis; and Craig, Finley & Co. Lith. Phila., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [1883-1905]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - Billheads, 1880- (S-Z) [P.2011.46.410-428]

Title: [Collection of billheads of pharmaceutical firms and related businesses, United States, 1882-1902]
Description: Collection of billheads, dated between 1882 and 1902, containing decorative and ornate lettering, ornamented type, vignette illustrations, and pictorial details. Illustrations depict allegorical figures and scenes, including a griffin; exteriors of storefronts and factories (some adorned in signage); and pharmaceutical apparatus and goods, including mortar and pestles, scales, and trusses. Some of the exterior views include patrons entering buildings, street and pedestrian traffic, as well as laborers at work. Pictorial details include tropical imagery, banners, filigree and flourishes. Firms represented include Clarence S. Abrams, Ph. G. (Middleton, N.Y.); Henry Adams, Phar. D (Amherst, Ma.); Allan Pfeiffer Chemical Co. (St. Louis, Mo.); American Silver Truss (Buffalo, N.Y.); Apothecaries Hall Co. (Waterbury, Conn.); A. M. Foster & Co. (Chicago); Arthur Peter & Co. (Louisville, Ky.); M. F. Benjamin (Riverhead, L.I.); Benton, Myers & Co. (Cleveland); Andrew Blair (Philadelphia); Boykin, Carmer & Co. (Baltimore); Blumauer-Frank Drug Co. (Portland, Ore.); J. H. Boher (Harrisburg, Pa.); Stephen Bowen (Blossburg, Pa.); W[illiam] E. Brown (Providence, R.I.); W. E. Brown (Calverton, Md.; Bush & Co. (Worcester, Ma.); Bruen Bros. & Ritchey (N.Y.); Carr Brothers & Co. (Baltimore); Carter, Carter & Meigs (Boston); Joe/J.E. Chamberlain (Malvern, Ark.); Charles Hubbard Son & Co. (Syracuse, N.Y.); Charles Leich & Co. (Evansville, Ind.); Chas. W. Snow & Co. (Syracuse, N.Y.); C. W. Coulter & Co. (Slippery Rock, Pa.); Demoville & Co. (Nashville, Tenn.); and Davis & Lawrence Co. (Schnectady, N.Y.), Billed patrons include C. A. Stanton, Wurtsboro, N.Y.; G. C. Lee; Joseph Schnell, Binghamton, N.Y.; O.H. Case, Jefferson, Ohio; Duscher & Kiel; J. E. Chamberlain's Drug Store, Malvern, Ark.; Carreger Roberts & Co., Morristown, Tenn.; Goldsmith & [Fairhill?]; A. E. Phillips; Mrs. W. Hinckle Smith; The Clifton Mfg. Co., Clifton, S.C.; Benjamin Foster; Mrs. J. Boyle; W. H. Place; Resinol Chemical Co.; C. W. Phillips; Gilbert Bigelow; A. & G. Hewitt; J.W. Garrien & Co; L. D. Cooper; Rhoden & Miller; A. B. Brooks; Schultz Thurman; A. McKinney; McClellan Bros., Red Boiling Springs; and H. A. Kerste, Schnectady, N.Y., Some items contain manuscript notes and/or stamps acknowledging shipment or receipt of payments., P.2011.46.315 title annotated from Bought of C. W. Coulter & Co. to C. W. Coulter, "& Co." is crossed out., Printers include Shober & Carqueville Litho. Co.; Equitable Litho. Eng. Co. Balto. MD; J. L. Brooks Bank Check Co. Springfield, Mass.; Moser, Lyon & Co., Syracuse, N.Y.; Heincke-Fiegel Litho. Co. St. L.; Thomas & Miller Printers, New Castle; Foster & Webb Print, Nashville; G. H. Dunston Lith. Buffalo, N.Y.; and Gilmour & Kearns Lith. Montreal., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [1882-1902]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - Billheads, 1880- (A-D)[P.2011.46.290-317]

Title: [Collection of billheads of pharmaceutical firms and related businesses, United States, 1845-1879]
Description: Collection of billheads, dated between 1845 and 1879, containing decorative and ornate lettering, ornamented type, vignette illustrations, and pictorial details. Illustrations depict exteriors of storefronts (some adorned in signage) and an allegorical scene showing Hermes seated among crates, barrels, and bundles, near a brick oven in front of a docked ship at which a horse-drawn dray stands. Some of the exterior views include patrons entering buildings, street and pedestrian traffic, as well as laborers at work. Pictorial details depict frames and filigree. Firms represented include Dr. S. Dickinson & Son (Erie, Pa.); Sisson, Butler & Co. (Hartford, Conn.); Smith & Atkinson (Baltimore); Theo. Ricksecker (N.Y.); Stretch, Bennet & Co. (Philadelphia); Underhill & Kittredge (Concord, N.H.); W. J. Whitehouse (Fort Edward, N.Y.). Billed patrons include Reed House Drug Store; C. S. Clark; Danl. Fahoney, Boonboro, Md.; Athey & Hill, Holly Spring, Miss.; Ebun Somers; Horace Chaser; and R. Williamson, Putnam., Many of the items contains manuscript notes about receipt of payment., P.2011.46.406 contains extensive manuscript note: Dr. D. Fahoney, We have above [?] of your acct. We gave Mr. Shaw a duplicate receipt for the money paid us & sent the box of rhubarb to his store to be sent by some of the waggons [sic] from your neighborhood, as they come to him with flour. Please accept our thanks for your attention in making us the remittance - We will be sending some orders to Germany & other parts of Europe about the 10th of May & of these are any articles that you have found it difficult to get good heretofore, if you will let us know before that time me can probably get them. Yours Very Truly, Smith & Atkinson., Printers and engravers include E. Brown; Ashby & Vincent, Printers, Erie, Pa.; E. Weber, Baltimore; and Frank H. Harris, Printer., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [1845-1879]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - Billheads, -1879 (S-Z) [P.2011.46.403-409]

Title: [Collection of letterheads, stationery, and form letters of pharmaceutical firms and related businesses, United States and Canada]
Description: Collection of letterheads and stationery from the late 19th century containing decorative and ornate lettering, ornamented type, vignette illustrations, and pictorial details. Illustrations depict trademarks, including the Alpine Products Co. eagle; the bloodhound "Grip"; and interiors and exteriors of storefronts, laboratories, and medical dispensaries (some adorned in signage), including H.E. Bucklen & Co.'s Bottling Dept., Composing Room, Engine & Press Room, Shipping Room, Main Office, and Mailing Dept. Some of the exterior views include patrons entering buildings, street and pedestrian traffic, as well as laborers at work. Pictorial details include a ladies truss, a profile portrait of a woman captioned "The crowning glory of Woman is Her Hair," mortar & pestle, floral imagery, frames, filigree and flourishes., Firms represented include A.C. Meyer & Co. (Baltimore); Alpine Products Co. (N.Y.); The Altenheim Medical Dispensary (Cincinnati); T.P. Bailey, M.D. (Georgetown, S.C.); Bellows Falls Drug Store (Bellows Falls, Vt.); Benton, Myers & Company (Cleveland); S. Biggs (Rockingham, N.C.); D. Wood Brant (Newark, N.J.); Canadian Kennel Club (Toronto); Horace Bush (Lowville, N.Y.); Carriger & Speck (Morristown, Tenn.); C.E. Grafton Drug Company (Brookhaven, Miss.); Chicago Medical Society (Chicago); Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute, i.e., Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (Brooklyn, N.Y.); Wm. Connolly, M.D. (Cresco, Ia.); Edward H. Currier (Manchester, N.H.); E.S. Leadbeater & Sons (Alexandria, Va.); Dr. E. Greenmayer (East Palestine, Oh.); Dr. Robert Hamilton's Medical Institute (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.); Bunting Hankins (Bordentown, N.J.); H.E. Bucklen & Co. (Chicago, Ill.); Heintzelman's Pharmacy (Philadelphia); D. E. Hoagland (Cobleskill, N.Y.); J. Henderson & Bros. (Pittsburgh); John Carle & Sons (N.Y.); John F. Henry & Co. (Waterbury, Vt.); Johnston, Holloway & Cowden (Philadelphia); Joseph Hahn & Co. (Sacramento, Ca.); J. S. Merrell Drug Co. (St. Louis, Mo.); Aug. Korndoerfer, M.D. (Philadelphia); Lyman, Sons & Co. (Montreal); Max Wocher & Son (Cincinnati); and Muth Brothers & Co. (Baltimore)., Correspondence relates to shipping arrangements and fees, product orders, payments, letters of certification and retention of employees, diagnoses and treatments, as well as a purchase of a storefront and feedback on a supply of samples. Collection also includes a personal letter completed July 8, 1884 by J.F. Madden describing his medical treatment and his day in Sacramento, Ca. Correspondents include Parchen D'Archeu Drug Company; The Polk Miller Drug Co.; G.W. Aimar & Co.; A. C. Mitchell; Jacob Estey; S. Biggs; Wm. R. Scudder; Geo. B. Sweetnam; Lyman, Sons & Co.; Chapman, White, Lyons & Co.; W. W. Newsam; E. C. Seymour; John C. Legel; Burt H. Brooks; B. Hankins; H. C. Parter & Son; McKinney Bros.; J. D. Aug. Hartz; C. A. Williams; Henry B. Semple; J. F. Madden; C. P. Walbridge; and C. K. Gardner., Printers include A. Hoen & Co., Balto.; G. H. Dunston, Lith., Buffalo; A. Gast & Co., St. Louis & N.Y.; and Buston & Skinner, Lith. St. Louis., One print [P.2011.46.456 ] contains two-cent stamp., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [ca. 1860-ca. 1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - Letterheads & Stationery (A-M) [P.2011.46.429-463]

Title: Scrapbook of Trade Cards, Holiday Cards, etc.
Description: Scrapbook possibly compiled by Fanny Keene containing trade cards, sentiment cards, holiday cards, rewards of merit, die cut and embossed scraps, and a temperance pledge card primarily issued in New England. Majority of the contents are chromolithographs and some contain trompe l'oeil, embossed, die cut and overlay designs.

Title: [Chestnut Street, east of Second Street, south side, Philadelphia]
Description: View showing the south side of the 100 block of Chestnut Street, including a gentlemen's clothing store, an oyster house, several wool and cotton dealers, and Robert Patterson & Co.,commercial merchants. Men stand in front of the storefronts and horse-drawn drays, crates, and barrels line the street and sidewalks., 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 [(6)1322.F.69e]

Title: East River Bridge, N.Y
Description: View looking from Brooklyn showing the Brooklyn Bridge, built 1870-1883 after the designs of John Roebling, spanning the lower East River. In the foreground, several Brooklyn businesses and industries are visible, including a stove warehouse, grocer, liquor dealer, and a "cordage, twine, mats, & wicks" manufactory. Also shows several ferry boats and sloops docked along the shore. Manhattan is visible in the distance on the far right of the image., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Title printed on mount and from label on negative., Gift of Saul Koltnow., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: ca. 1883
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unid. - non-Philadelphia - New York [P.9022.44]

Title: [J. & J. Reakirt, wholesale druggists and importers of drugs, chemicals, paints, dye-stuffs, &c. &c. S.E. cor. of Third & Callowhill Sts., Philada.]
Description: Advertisement showing the three-and-one-half story building with several windows that is adorned with signage and advertising text for the druggists on the 200 block of Callowhill Street. Signs and text advertise "Drugs, Chemicals, Paints, Oil Glass, and Dye Stuff"; "White-Lead & Window-Glass at Manufacturers Lowest Prices"; and "Alum, Madder, Logwood, Camwood, Indigo, Copperas, Fustic and Turpentine." Patrons, visible through the open doorways, stand at counters within the storefront; jars, and decanters line the display windows; and crates and barrels, some marked, line the sidewalk. At the side of the store, a clerk checks a list as a drayman unloads his horse-drawn vehicle. Also shows the doors open to the cellar of the store that also contains a large-scale model of an apothecary's mortar and pestle and a fire insurance marker. Joseph Reakirt operated the business solely until 1838 when he partnered with John Reakirt who assumed sole proprietorship in 1859., Title supplied by Wainwright., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Nov. 1846. S.E. cor. Third and Callowhill sts., Wainwright suggests date of circa 1844., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 397, LCP copy trimmed and lacking title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb38 R288.
Creator: Weaver, Matthias S., 1815 or 16-1847, artist
Date: [November 1846]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W192 [P.2056]

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

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

Title: [Jayne Building, 242-244 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia]
Description: View looking southwest showing the building built 1849-1850 for David Jayne, chemist and manufacturer of patent medicines, after the designs of William Johnston and Thomas Ustick Walter. Building includes the six story wings built 1851 after the designs of Walter (238-40 and 246 Chestnut Street). Signage advertising "Importer of German Woolens" adorns the building. Also shows adjacent businesses including Goodyear's rubber warehouse (226 Chestnut) and the newspaper publishing office, the Public Ledger Building (300 Chestnut)., Title supplied by cataloguer., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Select link below for a digital image.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: [ca. 1859]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo- Richards - Businesses - J [(6)1322.F.75b], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/1322f75b.jpg

Title: [Storefronts on Market Street, 300 block, south side, Philadelphia]
Description: Trimmed advertisement showing the five-story storefronts marked with pre-consolidation addresses. Includes S. F. Nidelet, silk store (124 Market); Sleeper & Brothers, umbrellas and parasols (126 Market); Richie & Ennis, umbrella and parasol manufactory and Caleb F. Clarke & Co., clothing store (128 Market). Signage adorns the buildings and merchandise displays are visible in the windows and doorways of the businesses. A gentleman stands within the clothing store and umbrellas hang from the windows of Richie & Ennis. Also shows the Fourth Street side of the corner building. Crates line the wall of the building and signage for the business tenating the cellar of 128 Market, J. Roberts Jones, rugs and blinds, is visible. The businesses were listed at the shown addresses in 1841., Not in Wainwright., Title supplied by cataloger., pdcc00004, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 14:94
Date: [ca. 1841]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Castner 14:94

Title: Homer Brothers' Exhibit - Machinery Hall
Description: Interior view of Machinery Hall featuring the Homer Brothers' Exhibit. Depicted are samples of Homer Brothers' products, including glassware and pottery. Also shown is various machinery, along with the White Award they won at the Centennial Exhibition.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co., photographer., creator
Date: 1876
Location: Centennial - album [P.8965.22a]

Title: Italian Section - Agricultural Hall.
Description: Interior view showing multiple displays of various wines and liquors. Also shows a large "Italy" banner hanging above the display.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co., photographer., creator
Date: 1876
Location: Centennial album [P.8965.28c]

Title: C. Schlickeysen's Exhibit - Machinery Hall
Description: Interior view of Machinery Hall depicting C. Schlickeysen's Exhibit. The exhibit features the work of the firm of C. Schlickeysen, a German innovator and inventor the auger brick machine.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co., photographer., creator
Date: 1876
Location: Centennial - album [P.8965.22d]

Title: Mason's Blacking Exhibit - Shoe and Leather Building.
Description: View of exhibit showing a display of Mason's Blacking cans with two statuary sets on tables. Also shows a relief under a Mason's Blacking sign.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co., photographer., creator
Date: 1876
Location: Centennial album [P.8965.28f]

Title: Locomotive "Dom Pedro" - Machinery Hall
Description: Interior of Machinery Hall with view of the "Dom Pedro" Locomotive, number 89.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co., photographer., creator
Date: 1876
Location: Centennial - album [P.8965.22e]

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. A thick, blue block of color frames the border like an outline. 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., Artist's imprint in lower right and left of stone., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 291
Creator: Schussele, Christian, 1826?-1879, artist
Date: [ca. 1853]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Advertisements - H [P.2015.71.2]

Title: Charles Warner Company factory plant, Cedar Hollow, Pennsylvania
Description: Aerial view of the Charles Warner Company factory plant in Cedar Hollow, Pennsylvania, near Malvern. Depicts strip mining facilities, including processing plants, silos, smokestacks, railroad tracks and freight cars, and quarrying activity. The surrounding area is mostly open land, with some residences and farms visible. Originally the Cedar Hollow Lime Company, the factory was purchased by the Warners in 1899. Views are northwest to southeast [2857], southeast to northwest[2859] and east to west[2870]. Town of Devault, Yellow Springs and Charlestown Roads and St. Peter church and cemetery are also visible [2859]., Negative numbers: 2857, 2859, 2870., Record revised with information supplied by former Aero Service employee Carl H. Winnefeld, Jr.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: ca. 1922
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.2857; P.8990.2859; P.8990.2870]

Title: Fifth above Arch Street, westside, Philadelphia
Description: View showing the westside of the 100 block of North Fifth Street. Businesses include Garrigues & Magee, manufactuers of photographic and daguerrian chemicals (108 N. 5th); Tripple's Shoe Store (110 N. 5th), and William Seefeldt, musical instrument store (114 N. 5th). Several musical instruments are displayed in the window of the musical instrument store. Magee, a photographer, operated his chemical business circa 1857 to the early 1890s., Date and photographer's monogram inscribed in negative., Inscribed in negative: 20., Title from manuscript note on recto: 5th above Arch., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer
Date: August 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Odiorne - F [(6)1322.F.81c]

Title: E.W. Carryl & Co. No. 715 Chestnut Street, Masonic Hall, Philadelphia. Silver plated wares and house furnishing goods Army and navy goods, and camp utensils of every description, fire arms, swords, etc. United States government depot for furnishing soldiers' cups, plates, knives, army stoves, &c
Description: Edward W. Carryl & Co. were listed in Philadelphia directories from 1860 to 1863., Printer's name from colophon., Printed in red and blue., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: E.W. Carryl & Co.
Date: [between 1861 and 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 E W Carryl 9982.F.18 (McAllister)

Title: [Collection of billheads of pharmaceutical firms and related businesses, United States, 1886-1899]
Description: Collection of billheads, dated between 1886 and 1899, containing decorative and ornate lettering, ornamented type, vignette illustrations, and pictorial details. Illustrations depict exteriors of storefronts and factories (some adorned in signage); mortars and pestles, including a trademark with an eagle perched on the tool; and an allegorical scene juxtaposing a mule caravan in tropical setting with a "Quinine Chemical Works." Pictorial details include floral and cloud imagery, frames, and flourishes. Firms represented include New York Quinine Chemical Works (N.Y.); Nichols & Harris (New London, Conn.); Noyes Brothers & Cutler (St. Paul, Minn.); Ohio Truss Co. (Cincinnati); Gilbert R. Parker (Johnston, R.I.); Charles H. Pleasants (N.Y.); Plimpton Cowan & Co. (Buffalo, N.Y.); John B. Raser (Reading, Pa.); Raynolds & Churchill (Burlington, Ia.); Robert Baker & Co. (Philadelphia); R. W. Robinson & Son (N.Y.); and Rodgers, Tedford & Co. (Knoxville, Tenn.). Billed patrons include The Resinol Chemical Co., Baltimore, Md.; C. D. Clark; A. Hirschle Smith, Amenia, N.D.; C. H. Case, Jefferson, Ohio; Walter W. Place; [New York] Dept. of Public Charities & Correction; A. E. Phillips, Sinclairville, N.Y.; J. F. Wagonhurst, Mertztown, Pa.; J. S. Banes, Villisca, Ia.; J. F. Wagernhuss (i.e., Wagonhurst?); E. S. Stokes; and Marion Roberts., Some items contain manuscript notes and/or stamps acknowledging receipt of payments and terms of sale., Printers include Falls City Litho. Co. Louisville, KY; Ketterlinus, Phila; Gast, St. LS. N.Y; G.H. Dunston, Buffalo, N.Y.; and Lith. Pioneer Press Co., St. Paul, Minn., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [1886-1899]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - Billheads, 1880- (N-R) [P.2011.46.391-402]

Title: Dr. Leidy's san-guin'e-ous sarsparilla panacea vegetable compound Prepared only by Dr. Leidy National dispensary, No. 217 N. 6th Street, Philadelphia, Penna
Description: Label for druggist and patent medicine dealer Dr. N. B. Leidy. Comprised of three sections within ornamented borders. Front section includes a vignette portrait of Leidy and directions for use. Side sections include promotional text and names of professional endorsers. Leidy operated a drug dispensary from the 1840s to late 19th century. Leidy operated from North Sixth Street by 1880., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Ephemera Collection - Misc. [P.2010.37.90]

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