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Title: [Edwin C. Burt trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards depicting three chicks near a recently hatched egg and a boy lying belly down in the grass holding dandelion fluff in his right hand with flowers, a bird, and a bee surrounding him. Officially founded in 1860, Edwin C. Burt & Co. assigned its liabilities over to Thomas Cunningham in 1898., Contains advertising text printed on versos for shoe stores selling Edwin C. Burt & Co. products. Both contain the same "Caution" note: Please notice, genuine goods of Edwin C. Burt's make have his name stamped in full on lining and sole of each shoe, and are warranted. One print [1975.F.51] contains an imprint for John Parker, Jr. & Co. ladies' fine shoes, 20 South 8th Street and a calendar for 1881. The other print [P.9828.653a] contains an imprint for Baldwin, dealer in boots and shoes, Nos. 228 and 230 Northampton Street, Easton, Pa. and a vignette of various medals awarded to Edwin C. Burt, ranging from 1867 to 1878., Manuscript note on verso of one print [P.9828.653a]: Irene M. Hunt., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., One print [P.9828.653a] gift of William Helfand., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1881]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Burt [1975.F.51; P.9828.653a]

Title: The celluloid corset clasps side & dress steels Warranted not to rust. Corsets after washing. With the old style clasps in. With the new celluloid clasps in
Description: Trade card advertising celluloid corset clasps and depicting racist caricatures of Chinese men laundry workers comparing celluloid and traditional corsets. In the center, the laundry worker, wearing a queue hairstyle with the braid sticking straight out to the right and attired in gold hoop earrings, a red tunic, white pants, and blue and white cloth, slip-on shoes, smiles as he holds up a clean, white corset with celluloid clasps. In the left, the laundry worker, wearing a mustache and queue hairstyle and attired in a blue tunic, yellow pants, and blue and white cloth, slip-on shoes, holds a soiled and dirty corset as he opens his mouth in dismay looking at the clean corset. In the right background, the Chinese man, wearing a queue hairstyle and attired in a yellow tunic, blue pants, and white cloth, slip-on shoes, washes laundry with his hands in a steaming washtub. Also visible are a basket of laundry; a corset hanging on a line; and a table with an iron on top of it., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Contains advertising text printed on verso: Celluloid corset clasps. Side and dress steels. Perspiration proof. Elastic. Durable. In introducing these improved corset clasps, &c., let us call your attention to some of the points of their superiority over all others heretofore in use. 1st.--The inferior is finely tempered clock spring steel. 2d.--The exterior is celluloid. 3d.--The combination of the two unites the strength of the steel with the rust-proof qualities of the celluloid. 4th--The trouble of ripping out and sewing in the steels every time corsets are laundried becomes unnecessary as these steels need not be taken out for that purpose. 5th--They are warranted not to rust and thus stain the corsets or other garments. 6th--They are the best steels in every particular ever offered. Sold by all dry and fancy goods dealers throughout the country., RVCDC, Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Celluloid [1975.F.182]

Title: [Chamberlin weather strips trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards featuring exterior views of buildings constructed with Chamberlin weather strips, including "Shriner's Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa.," "Gillingham & Hynes built terraces, Philadelphia, Pa.," and "Children's Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pa." Trade cards also contain the names of the architects and contractors, including Phillip H. Johnson and Raymond A. Raff Co. (Shriner's Hospital, 1926); Gillingham & Hynes (terraces); and York & Sawyer (Pittsburgh, Pa.), E.P. Mellon (New York), and W. T. Grange Construction Co. (Pittsburgh's Children's Hospital). Views surrounded by ornate border and flanked by vignettes of Chamberlin products, including sill and side strips for sliding windows; interlocking center for in-opening casements; brass sill--outopening casements; Chamberlin at D.H. sill; interlocking equipment for outside transoms; and corrugation windows., Title supplied by cataloger., Playing card designs printed on versos., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1930]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Chamberlin [P.9450.6-8]

Title: 1888-1889 third supplement to catalogue of electrotypes from A. Blanc, Horticultural Engraver, No. 314 N. Eleventh St. Philada., Pa., U.S.A Registered Cable Address, "Blanc, Philadelphia."
Description: Catalog, including section “New Electros of Vegetables for 1889,” of electrotype specimens for the premier Philadelphia horticultural engraver and lithographer containing images of flowers, plants, fruits, and vegetables. Varieties of flowers, plants, fruits, and vegetables represented include begonias, carnations, chrysanthemums, ferns, pansies, poppies, roses, verbena, corn, melons, lettuces, onions, peppers, pumpkins, squashes, and tomatoes. Illustrations include specimen numbers and prices (ranging from $.50-$10), and most include titles. Images predominantly depict sentimental and genre views of women, children, and animals containing or bordered by flowers; baskets of fruit or flowers; wilderness scenes; insects; single letters and words embellished with floral details; potted plants and flowers; flower bushes; residential views containing flowers; flower and vegetable vignettes; bean pods; single, fields, patches, and bushels of fruits and vegetables; and gardening tools and agricultural implements and equipment., Other specimens depict reproductions of lithographs; female representations of months of the year; “Bulbs grown in Bamboo rod”; a montage, including a crate with packages of bulbs; "Craig’s New Chrysanthemum, Mrs. A. Blanc"; "The Philadelphia Prize Chrysanthemum of 1888"; "Cornfield"; "Insect Destroyers" (i.e., insect destroying insects); and "Odds and Ends" showing bottles of herbs. Also includes a photomechanical studio portrait of an African American boy and girl attired in winter coats and hats, a racist metamorphic montage showing a melon morph into a caricaturized African American figure; and an illustrated advertisement with testimonials promoting W. M. Giradeau’s Seminole Watermelon. Contents also include statements describing the flowers depicted; promoting made to order cuts and the possibility for the addition of text (mortised); noting possible alterations, including “each cut separate” and reductions in price; and indicating "3/4 natural size.", Cover annotated in pencil with date: 1890., Some leaves contain page numbers: 58-134., Cover contains photomechanical illustrations of a studio portrait showing a seated, barefoot girl in simple attire, holding a basket of roses under her arm, and holding a flower to her nose with the other. Attire includes a wide-brimmed hat adorned with several flowers. Grass and flowers rest at her feet. Portrait bordered by a large pictorial detail depicting two stemmed roses. Portrait is specimen 4817 in catalog., Contains promotional text to "Dear Sir" and dated Philadelphia, September 1, 1888 on inside front cover. Text advertises "list of new electrotypes, issued since last year’s supplement … that will enable you to give your catalogue an entirely different appearance" and references how it’s "an important item to the Horticultural trade" and Blanc’s stocks of electros are a “trifling expense” compared to original cuts. Text also explains the deferment of the reprinting of an entirely new catalog due to his addition of a large number of new electros, as well as ordering information including the necessity of a signed order sheet in which purchaser agrees not to sell or loan the electros; ability to make to order any cut for exclusive use; no discounts excepting for orders amounting to over $100; terms strictly cash with order; and cuts ordered to be mailed require a 10% additional fee for postage. Text also advertises "List of My Catalogues," including "Catalogue of Fruit and Tree Cuts"; "Cuts for Catalogue Covers'; "Lawn Views"; and "Sheets of Potato Cuts, Oats, Wheat, Grasses, etc."; their prices of 15 to 20 cents each or $1 for set, which is deductible from orders amounting to $5; and note about "Correspondence en Francais.", Several specimens include Blanc's copyright statement or name., Includes order sheet inscribed with addition equations., Back cover and end pages missing, RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Purchased with funds for the Visual Culture Program., See the Albert Blanc entry in the Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers., See the Edward Stern & Co. entry in the Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers., William M. Giradeau (b. 1852), owner of Girardeau Seed Company in Monticello, Fla., developed the first commercial machine for separating seeds from watermelons, making Jefferson county, the top watermelon seed supplier in the world by 1884.
Creator: Blanc, Albert, 1850-
Date: [1888]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Blanc [P.2013.69.2]

Title: The Universal clothes wringer
Description: Metamorphic trade card promoting the American Wringer Company's Universal Wringer. Depicts a racist "before and after" scene with and without the product. The before scene shows an African American laundress "Dinah" wringing clothes by hand over a tub. She states in vernacular speech that "de wringing am awful." A white woman chastises her to "look at these torn clothes." She holds up a square shaped cloth with tears. A clock is visible in the background. The women are shown as bust-length. Dinah wears a kerchief, an open collared shirt, and her sleeves are rolled up. The after scene shows a smiling "Dinah," wringing laundry with a "Universal" clothes wringer under the happy gaze of her employer. The women reach a hand out to one another. Dinah wears a high ruffled collar shirtwaist with a bow at her neck, long sleeves, an apron, and kerchief. A clock rests on a sideboard in the background. The American Wringer Company was established about 1861 and operated until at least the early 20th century. The company often provided a clock as a premium to purchase their laundry equipment., Title from item., Date inferred from attire of figures depicted., Text printed on recto: Oh mistis de wringing am awful, always tear de clothes 'spect dat I neber get through. What Dinah, six o'clock and not done yet! And look at these torn clothes. "What Dinah! Finished washing so soon! Why it's only three o'clock." "Hi golly! Mistis, been done dese two hours dis chile hab no more trouble, since you done got dis wringer. Neber tear de clothes neder., Advertising text on verso: The Universal Wringer Has the Following Points of Superiority. 1. Rolls of Solid White Rubber. 2. Rowell's Double Cog-wheels. 3. Two Independent Pressure Screws. 4. Double cogs at both ends of each Roll. 5. Folding Apron or Clothes Guide. 6. Rocking Springs of wood and rubber. N. P. Baker, Dealer in General Merchandise, Sunapee, N. H., Purchased with funds from the Albert M. Greenfield Foundation., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - American [113420.D]

Title: [Stereograph showing the office of the Grand Union Hotel advertising Maine druggists J.H. Irish & Co. on verso]
Description: Interior view of the office of the Grand Union Hotel in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. showing two employees at the front desk. An African American man, attired in a suit, stands and leans his left elbow on the desk. A white man, attired in a suit, stands behind the desk with a large book opened in front of him. Architectural details of the large space include columns draped in flower garlands, a tiled floor, and a large clock hanging above the desk. Built originally as Gideon Putnam's tavern and boarding house in 1802, the hotel formed through many expansions and additions. The name of the hotel as it appears on the stereograph was adopted in 1869. Demolished 1852-1853., Title supplied by cataloger., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Advertisement printed on verso printed by Wm. Miller Co., 57 Cedar, N.Y.: J.H. Irish & Co., druggists and apothecaries, dealers in drugs, medicines, chemicals, fancy and toilet articles, school books, stationery, periodicals, etc., Gorham, Maine. Physicians' prescriptions carefully compounded., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - I [P.9828.6186]

Title: Brother Gardner addresses the Lime Kiln Club on the virtues of Dixon's Stove Polish
Description: Racist, satiric trade card promoting Joseph Dixon Crucible Company's stove polish and depicting a caricature of an African American man presenting Dixon’s Stove Polish to the African American men members of the Lime Kiln Club. Shows Brother Gardner, the white-haired, African American man, in the left with spectacles on his forehead and attired in a white collared shirt with a red bowtie, an orange jacket with a sunflower on the lapel, red and white checked pants, and black shoes. He stands holding a blue box of Dixon’s in his left hand and a gavel in his right hand. In the left is a wooden table with a blue pitcher and a top hat on top of it and a sign that reads, “Dixon’s Carburet of Iron Stove Polish.” Brother Gardner addresses the men in the vernacular, who are identified by number with the key of their names on the verso of the card. In the right, the man, attired in a striped white collared shirt, a red tie, a white and blue striped jacket, yellow and red striped pants, and black shoes, sits on a wooden chair and examines a blue box of Dixon’s in his hands. Beside him another man, balding with tufts of white hair on the sides of his head and a white beard and attired in a red jacket and blue striped pants, kneels down and carries a brush in his right hand. Behind them two men sit on chairs and an additional nine men stand and listen to Brother Gardner. In the background, the wall reads, “Lime Kiln Club, Paradise Hall.” A horseshoe and framed prints that read “Beautify your homes” and “Rules of the Lime Kiln Club” hang on the wall. In the center is a large, black stove., The African American "Lime Kiln Club" caricatures originally were devised by Charles Bertrand Lewis (i.e., M. Quad) in the Detroit Free Press. The Joseph Dixon Crucible Company, established by Joseph Dixon in Salem, Mass. in 1827, produced graphite pencils, crucibles and stove polish, and relocated to Jersey City, N.J. in 1847. In 1868, the firm name changed from Joseph Dixon & Co. to the Jos. Dixon Crucible Co. In 1870 the firm won a trademark case against a Philadelphia competitor selling J.C. Dixon Stove Polish., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1886., Advertising text printed on verso: The Lime Kiln Club, Brother Gardner in the Chair. “Dis Club hab ebery reason to be proud of de Stove Committee. We has tried all de other stove polishes. We has been stunk out wid so-called peperahuns and seen de piping rust to pieces, till de stove-pipe wus a tumbled down disgrace to de good name of de Lime Kiln Club. De honah of dis occashun belongs to Brudder Shindig, who has made a name for hisself, by introducing Dixon’s Big cake of Stove Polish, and has covered hisself wid shine. Stand up, Brudder Shindig, and let us gaze upon your countenance. Now, my frens, let us draw a lesson from dis: Seek and find out for yerselves, and when you’s got a good ting stick to it, so dat, like DIXON’S STOVE POLISH, you may not only be a use to de community in which yer libes, but a shining example for de rest of mankind. “De club owes a vote of thanks to de Stove Committee, an’ to Brudder Shindig in particular, an’ extend de heartfelt thanks of de Lime Kiln Club to DIXONS for de valuable addition to de comfits of dis life through their CARBURET OF IRON STOVE POLISH. Wid one drawback, Brudder Shindig—you orer haf found dis outen befo’ for de DIXON’S STOVE POLISH has bin in de market SINCE 1827,--58 YEARS.” (Signed) No. 1. Bro. Gardner, 2. Old Man Jenkins, 3. Bro. Shindig, 4. Give-A-Dam Jones, 6. Sundown Davis, No. 7. Accordingly Davis, 8. Stepoff Johnson, 9. Trustee Pullback, 10. Sickles Smith, 11. Sir Isaac Walpole, 12. Layback Jones, Committee., Advertising text printed on verso: Fifty-eight years in market! The oldest, the best, the neatest, the quickest. Ask your dealer for Dixon's Stove Polish. Jos. Dixon Crucible Co., Jersey City, N.J. Illustration showing a box of "Dixon's Prepared Carburet of Iron (Trademark) For Polishing Stoves, Grates, Ranges, and Every Kind of Cast and Sheet Iron work.", Purchased with funds from the Walter J. Miller Trust for the Visual Culture Program., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: 1886
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *trade card - J [P.2012.54.2]

Title: S.F. Jacoby & Co. Importers & dealers in foreign and domestic marble in all their varieties. J.K. & M. Freedley dealers in American marble
Description: Advertisement for S.F. Jacoby & Co. containing a montage of three titled views showing the sites involved in its marble manufacturing operations. The scenes are separated and surrounded by an ornate border comprised of patriotic imagery on top, including an eagle clutching the American flag and shield near a bust of George Washington and the state seals of Pennsylvania and Massachusetts; filigree, foliage, and tassels decorate the central portion, where putti hold up a banner displaying the title of the central view; and a lion-mouth fountain adorns the bottom portion of the border. Upper view shows slabs of marble piled in railroad cars pulled by a locomotive at J.K. & M. Freedley's "Bay State Marble Works in West Stockbridge, Mass," and includes residences and cattle. The bustling central scene depicts slabs of marble being moved from the boats and piled onto the wharf at the "Marble Depot Chesnut [sic] St. Wharf Schuyl. Philadelphia," ready for finishing in nearby mills or to be sold by S.F. Jacoby & Co. Includes vessels on the Schuylkill River, a partial view of the Market Street Permanent Bridge (left), and adjacent manufacturing buildings and sites near the river. The bucolic bottom scene shows slabs of marble lined on the bank and hoisted by a crane onto canal boats to be transported to desinations across the country from the Key Stone Marble Works, Conshohocken, Pa.", Date supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 668, Upper left corner torn and repaired., LCP exhibit catalogue: Made in America #68., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W323 [P.2257]

Title: Market St., west of 10th St
Description: View of the commercial street, above Tenth Street, south side. Businesses include: Clark's Heating & Ventilating Warehouse at 1008 Market Street; Dale & Thomas, carpets, at 1010 Market Street; James Spear & Co., stoves, heaters, and ranges at 1014 Market Street; William Ray, clothier, at 1018 Market Street; William F. Simes, saddlery and harnessmaker, at 1026 Market; and the Bingham House hotel (named after express and freight agent John Bingham), established in 1867, at the corner of 11th and Market streets. Several of the businesses display their merchandise in front of their stores, including the stove warehouses and the clothier. A telegraph pole stands in the foreground. A horse-drawn wagon rests in front of the carpet store., Title from manuscript note on verso., Publisher's label pasted on verso advertising: Stereoscopes and Views, Wholesale and Retail., 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. 1874]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Streets [P.9047.94]

Title: Gloucester Iron Works, Gloucester, N.J. on the river Delaware nearly opposite Philadelphia, Pa. David Matthew, superintendent For the manufacture of all kinds of stationary and marine steam engines, high and low pressure, boilers, locomotives, sugar mills, and mill work of every description. Iron and brass casting made at the shortest notice. Having extensive wharf accomodations, every convenience is afforded for the repairs of steam vessels. All orders entrusted to our care will be executed with promptness & in the best manner. C.M. & J.C. Siter
Description: Advertisement containing an exterior view of the works at which laborers work on the grounds and in the many workshops. In the foreground, a laborer shovels coal from a long rectangular bin into one of two wheelbarrows. He works across from crates, a wheel, and other engine parts strewn on the ground. Behind him, workers inspect and haul large pieces of machinery by horse-drawn truck, in addition to push a wheelbarrow, and lead a horse-drawn cart in the direction of a large workshed in the background. Workers are visible toiling at stations inside through the open entry. In the right, other factory employees use a hoist to load a cylinder onto a docked sailing ship. A flat carrying another piece of machinery to be loaded is stationed nearby. In the left of the image, a steam boat moored next to a furnace and piles of wood is visible. Also shows neighboring buildings., Not in Wainwright., Letters of title illustrated with leaf details., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 93
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - industries [P.8970.21]

Title: J.W. Paxson & Co. Philadelphia Shippers of moulding sand, pier 45, North Delaware Avenue. Manufacturers of foundry facings and foundry supplies
Description: Advertisement showing the busy "Pier 45" and factory of the firm at North Delaware Avenue. On the pier, laborers drive loaded and empty horse-drawn carts, unload sand from a barge, operate hoists from within sheds, and work on a raised platform between warehouses marked "Sand." Boatmen and workers operate equipment and perform manual labor on barges and boats, most with visible names, surrounding the pier. Names include Walter C. of Burlington, Sherman, Wilson, Willie Paxson of Philadelphia, Minerva, Samuel Miller, Estelle (built by Pusey & Jones, delivered 1884 to Paxson), and Saml. C. Bougher. In the background, the factory buildings, connected by an overpass, are visible neighbored by the B&O and P.R.R. freight depots, a pier covered in barrels and bales of wood, and other surrounding buildings. Also shows a locomotive at the P.R.R. freight depot, smokestacks, and carts departing from the Paxson pier under the overpass. Also contains a bust portrait of Paxson, and two lists of 18 types of sand, lead and facings available from the firm, printed below the image. Products include Lumberton Sand, Albany Sand, Crescent Sand, Fire Sand, Silica Sand, Columbo Lead, American Lead, Machinery Facing, and Pipe Blacking. Company moved to this location in 1882., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 123, Reproduced in Jennifer Ambrose's Nineteenth-century Philadelphia advertising prints, Magazine Antiques (August 2006), fig. 10., Contains crude repairs upper and lower edges.
Creator: Haugg, Louis, 1827-1903
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Industries [7813.F]

Title: E.C. Stotsenburg's iron, brass & bell foundry, Wilmington, Delaware, Front & Washington Streets Manufacturer of all kinds of spur & bevel wheel gearing for rolling, grist & saw mills, steam engines &c." Shafting, pullies of all sized, steam pipes for warming factories &c. Water wheel shafts of any length cast on end. Rail road car wheels made to order
Description: Advertisement containing a view of the busy foundry in a trompe l'oeil frame. Shows a gentleman, possibly the proprietor, leaving the door of the office connected to the large workshop in which laborers toil on machine parts. A boy carrying a small part walks toward the gentleman. He passes two men talking at the corner of the small office building near the side of the workshop lined by factory debris. On the sidewalk, laborers finish a large gear propped up on a platform. The men are surrounded by machine parts that lie on the ground and line the outside of another factory building. Nearby, two workers with crowbars and a piece of cylinder await a horse-drawn cart being backed up to the curb by a driver. Also shows a driver leading a horse and ox-drawn wagon hauling a large steam pipe in the street, a locomotive passing between the rear of the factory and fenced pastureland, and a steamboat docked near a hoist on the riverbank in the background. Stotsenburg established his own foundry in 1849 after leaving the partnerhip of Betts & Stotsenburg that began in 1837., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 61
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Industries [P.8970.18]

Title: Warnick & Leibrandt's Philadelphia stove works and hollow-ware foundry. First wharf above Noble St. Philadelphia Gunners Run & Franklin Avenue. Noble St. Wharf
Description: Advertisement containing two views of the stove works and hollow-ware foundries owned and operated by Charles W. Warnick and Frederick Leibrandt. The upper scene depicts the stove works at Gunners Run (ie. Aramingo Canal) and Franklin Avenue (ie. Girard Avenue). Viewed from the opposite bank of Gunner's Run, the scene shows laborers working with horse-drawn carts and drays on the bank of the canal, in front of a complex of industrial buildings labeled "Foundry" (left) and "Warnick & Leibrandt's Stove Works" (right). In the foreground, four laborers lift a large plank of wood, and men in groups of three move materials across the canal in row boats. Includes a docked sailing vessel (left) and smaller vessels in the canal. The bottom winter scene depicts the stove works looking northeast at the Noble Street Wharf (ie. northeast corner of Beach and Noble Streets) showing horse-drawn traffic in the snow-covered street outside of the company's wide, four-story brick building surmounted by a large cupola and weathervane. Includes drivers pulling horse-drawn sleds (left), speeding horse-drawn sleighs carrying a family of four (right), Warnick & Leibrandt covered wagons (center), and children playing with dogs and sleds on North Beach Street in the foreground. A group of bare masts is visible on the Delaware River behind the company's building. The Noble Street Wharf site later became home to the Philadelphia Sugar House., Date supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 818, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W442 [P.2267]

Title: American Hotel. Henry A. Charter. Chestnut Street, opposite the State House Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement showing the five-story hotel built by John L. Ridgway in 1844 at 181-183 (i.e., 517-519) Chestnut Street. Male and female guests sit under an awning on the front porch, enter the building, and stroll on the second floor balcony. Other patrons are visible, through the open windows and entrance, in the saloon and at the front desk. Curtains adorn several of the upper windows and rolled carpets are showcased in the display windows of the tenanting business of "J. & B. Orne." A couple approach the entrance of the adjacent storefront of "J. Sill & Co. Gloves. Hosiery. Cravats. Shirts. etc." at 185 (i.e., 521) Chestnut Street. Hosiery and bolts of fabric adorn the display windows of the building that also contains columns and a balcony. Also shows a dog behind the couple, a fire hydrant, and a partial view of a parked carriage and neighboring building. Charter, originally with partner C. James McClellan, served as the proprietor 1845-1848., Date from Poulson inscription on recto., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 17, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Opening of hotel described in the Philadelphia Inquirer, January 20, 1844.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [1848]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W16 [P.2012]

Title: View of the United States Hose house & apparatus, Philadelphia To the Independent Fire Co. of Baltimore & the Franklin Fire Co. of Washington, this print is respectfully dedicated, (as a slight token of appreciation of their generous hospitality) by the United States Hose Co. of Philadelphia
Description: Keepsake print containing a rollicking view of members of the volunteer hose company racing their hose carriage around the corner from their firehouse at Tamany (i.e., Buttonwood) Street below York Avenue. Firefighters, most in gear, pull the carriage, run from behind the vehicle, and suit up in the entry to their firehouse. The house contains an iron-work verandah, and a tower from which a volunteer directs the company. Adjacent to the station house at the corner stands "Tamany Hall," an oyster house adorned in signage, including the name of proprietor "Jas. Griffiths" and street signs. The proprietor stands at his doorway, a server watches from outside, and a patron rushes out a rear entry. At the opposite corner, the grocery store of "Tunis O. Bancroft" stands. A female clerk stands in the doorway and merchandise displays, including brooms and buckets, line the storefront. The store owner, attired in an apron and top hat, stands out front, under an awning, and watches the commotion. Another hose carriage, ornately decorated, rests nearby in the street. A small toolbox, bucket, and sponge lie in the street next to the apparatus. View also shows the neighboring residential buildings on the block and around the corner. United States Hose Company was instituted on July 4, 1826 and incorporated on March 13, 1833. Baltimore held a Fireman's Celebration in cooperation with Washington D.C. in November 1851 that was attended by the United States Hose Company. The United States Hose Company hosted the Independent Fire Company of Baltimore during the 1852 Firemen's Parade in Philadelphia., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 808, LCP exhibit catalogue: Made in America #75., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Artist possibly James Queen., Trimmed. Lower edge containing title reattached., Firemen's Celebration
Date: [ca. 1851]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W436 [P.2237]

Title: [Duff's Mercantile College, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.]
Description: View showing the oldest U.S. business school, established by Peter Duff in 1840, on Fifth Street in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. View also shows adjoining businesses, including: Pennsylvania Insurance Company, Allegheny Insurance Company, and the Morning Post stationery and printing shop. The Morning Post building is adorned with a playbill advertising a minstrel show. Pedestrians walk on the sidewalk., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred by content., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Gift of Ivan Noble, 1971., 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.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Education [7992.F.15]

Title: Custom House & Post Office Phila, Pa
Description: View showing the U.S. Customhouse (1845 to 1935) at 420 Chestnut Street, formerly the Second Bank of the United States, and the U.S Post Office (1863-1884) at 426-428 Chestnut Street. Customhouse building built in 1824 after the designs of Philadelphia architect William Strickland. Also shows a lamppost in the foreground; a vendor's stand near the Customhouse; men convening near the post office; and adjacent businesses, including W.F. Warbuton and Son's hat manufactory (430 Chestnut) and Moss & Co., blank books and stationery (432 Chestnut)., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Title annotated on negative., Gift of Francis J. Dallett., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: ca. 1885
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Government Buildings [P.9228]

Title: [Merchants' Exchange, Philadelphia]
Description: Street scene looking northeast from below the intersection of Walnut and Dock streets showing the semi-circular portico of the exchange. The building was built between 1832 and 1833 after the designs of Philadelphia architect William Strickland. A horse-drawn trolley travels on Dock Street near parked horse-drawn carriages. Also shows surrounding businesses including a partial view of the Girard National Bank (formerly Bank of the United States) at 120 South Third Street and John C. Clark & Sons, stationers and printers, at 230 Dock Street., Trimmed light yellow mount., Title supplied by cataloguer., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Image faded and emulsion damaged., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: ca. 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Banks [(6)1322.F.117f]

Title: [Third Street, east side, north of Chestnut Street, Philadelphia]
Description: View showing the east side of Third Street between Market and Chestnut streets. Depicts the speculative office building built by Borie Brothers after the designs of Fraser, Furness & Hewitt at the northeast corner of Third and Chestnut. The building adorned wtih signage for the tenanting businesses of Franklin Telegraph Office, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and a banker's office, also housed the office of Frank Furness on the top story from 1871 to 1875. Also shows a flags, awnings, and stencil cuttings store adorned with an awning illustrated with a female figure and a partial view of the building at the northwest corner of Third and Chestnut tenanted by bankers, B.K. Jamison & Co., and L. Pelouze & Son's Philadelphia Type Foundry., Title supplied by cataloguer., Orange mount with rounded corners., Manuscript note on verso: 3 St. north of Chestnut., 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. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Streets [P.9047.19]

Title: Panoramic view of Philadelphia west from State House
Description: Panoramic view showing the north side of the the 600 block of Chestnut Street, including the office buildings constructed for patent medicine manufacturer Dr. David Jayne. Includes a hat manufactory (Sixth and Chestnut); Rockhill & Wilson, clothiers (603-605 Chestnut); the Bulletin Building covered with scaffolding (607 Chestnut, built 1866); Perry & Co., clothiers (609 Chestnut); the Jayne Office Building known as the Commonwealth Building (611-613 Chestnut); Jayne's Marble Building (615-619 Chestnut, built 1860); and Jayne's Hall (625-631 Chestnut, built 1856)., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Title from manuscript note on verso., 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. 1866
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Views [P.9462.23]

Title: [Southwest corner West 3rd Street and Market Square, Williamsport, Pa.]
Description: View showing the southwest corner of Market Square in downtown Williamsport, Pa. Businesses include Philadelphia & Erie railroad ticket office with John A. Vanderslice, agent; S.M. Beck & Co., hardware store; W.M. Harrison & Co., stationery and wallpaper store; and a piano forte warehouse. Ticket office covered in signage. Also shows several men standing near a lamp post adorned with advertisements in front of the ticket office; farm implements on display in front of the hardware store; and a blanketed horse standing in front of the stationery store., Buff mount with rounded corners., Manuscript note on verso: S.W. corner W. 3rd and Market Square., 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 - unid. - non-Philadelphia [P.9466.10]

Title: [Market Street, showing businesses on the south side between 11th and 12th Streets, Philadelphia]
Description: View shows businesses occupying 1106 to 1114 Market Street including Waterman & Ramson, dealer in candies, etc. (1106 Market); Pfeil's hats and caps (1108 Market); Manigle's stoves, heaters & ranges (1110 Market); a carpet store (1112 Market); and Sam Whalley & Co. wines and liquors (1114 Market). Also shows display windows at street level, numerous signboards on the front facades, and three horse-drawn carts parked on the south side of Market Street., Title supplied by cataloger., Photographer's imprint from blind stamp on recto., 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 & Smith, photographer
Date: [ca. 1867]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & Smith - Streets [P.9486.2]

Title: [George Mecke cabinet maker and upholsterer, No 355, North 2nd St. nearly opposite Tammany St. Philadelphia.]
Description: Advertisement showing the four-story storefront, with decorative masonry, for "George Mecke's Northern Cabinet Ware-Rooms and Furniture Ware Rooms" on Second Street between Noble and Green streets (i.e., 500 block). At the ground floor, a couple enters one of the two entranceways of the building. Furniture, including a side table, chaise lounge, armoire, and rocker are visible at the entrances, display window, and within the store. A woman, in a shawl, and holding a parasol approaches the chairs displayed at the second entrance. She stands across from two clerks retrieving a chair from the cellar to be loaded onto a "G. Mecke No. 355" horse-drawn cart parked in the street. The cart already contains a chest of drawers. Additional cabinetry, including chairs and a bed frame, and a worker are seen in the upper floor windows. Also shows partial views of the adjacent businesses of "Dubois & Son's Confectionary" (357) and P. Fries, watchmaker (353 - identified by a depiction of a watch on a visible edge of signage). Plates of treats are visible in the window of Mrs. Dubois & Son' s confectionery. Mecke relocated to 355 North Second Street and was a neighbor to Dubois and Fries circa 1846., Title, artist, and publication information from duplicate in the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: North Second Street. Oct. 1846., Wainwright suggests date of circa 1847., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 298, LCP copy lacking title and imprint., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 38 M487.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [October 1846]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W150 [P.2060]

Title: H. S. Tarr's marble yard, no. 274 Green St. above Seventh Philadelphia Pa
Description: Advertisement showing a view of the marble yard fronted by a triple arch adorned with plaques, the adjoining three-story office building, and rear factory of the establishment at Green Street above 7th Street. From the sidewalk, decorated as black and white tile, a lady, holding a parasol, and a gentleman admire several ornate obelisks and monuments within the fenced, arched yard. Several of the pieces are adorned with patriotic details, urns, and statuary. Plaques on the arches include the name of the business in addition to text reading "Every Description of Monumental Works Executed" and "Plain & Carved Mantels of Every Description." Under the third arch and entrance to the yard, a clerk and patron talk near slabs of marble propped against the wall of the office building. Behind the men, a laborer hauls a large monument by a dolly into the factory yard. More monuments, including animal sculpture and statuary, are displayed in the fenced court, upper balcony, and Gothic-style windows of the adjacent office building. A female patron walks between the marble pieces down a pathway toward a clerk standing at the entrance. An American eagle sculpture adorns the arches and an American flag adorns the office. Tarr was one of the four major marble manufactories in the city during the mid nineteenth century., Names of "References" printed below the image including Thos. U. Walter, John E. Carver, Charles Le Brun, architects; Frederick Brown; Caleb, Cope & Co.; Levi & James Dickson; H.N. Burroughs; Cooper & Co. New Orleans, Louisiana; H.W. Peronneau Charleston, S.C.; and Rev. Henry A. Boardman, D.D., Phila., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 340.1, LCP exhibit catalogue: Made in America #83., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Rease, W. H.
Date: [ca. 1858]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W166.1 [P.2073]

Title: Dr. George Stuart's botanical syrup and vegetable pills, the greatest family medicine in the world Laboratory no. 254, Race St. Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement containing an exterior view of the three-and-one-half story storefront on the 700 block of Race Street bordered by paragraphs of advertising text, including notice of prices that ranged from 25 cents to one dollar per box or bottle. Signage above the large central showcase window lists several diseases and ailments cured by "Dr. G. Stuart's Syrup and Vegetable Pills." Infirmities include consumption, dysentery, chills and fevers, piles, colds, coughs, bronchitis, "tumours," "erysipelas," neuralgia, and "general and nervous debility &c. &c." Shadowy views of branches, leaves, and decanters are visible in the window. Several male character types, of different ages, class, and ethnicity, holding banners inscribed with testimonials, gather around laborers loading a "Botanical [Syr]up" crate onto a horse-drawn wagon in front of the store. Figures include a dandy, Quaker, father and son, and a Native American, many of whom also hold bottles. The testimonials cite the customer's supplying of certificates of cure and their attesting to Dr. Stuart's syrup and pills as cures for cancer, dyspepsia, scrofula, and colds. Paragraphs of advertising text promote "Vegetable Pills, composed entirely of herbs" that were "intended to operate....on the whole system"; "Rheumatic Liniment," which has been used by the medical Faculty in cases of small pox..."; "Vermifuge for Worms, made with particular reference to children"; "Botanical Syrup composed entirely of herb & free minerals," that "in no instance ever failed to do what it was intended to accomplish"; and "Pile & Cancer Salve" that are the "best remedies that were ever in use..." Advertisement also includes two large-scale details showing bottles inscribed with product advertisements for "Dr. Stuart's Rheumatic Liniment," "Cancer salve," "Salve Sure Cure for Piles Price $1 per Box," "Botanical Syrup" and "Dr. Stuart's Vegetable Pills.", Paragraphs of advertising text promote "Vegetable Pills, composed entirely of herbs" that were "intended to operate....on the whole system"; "Rheumatic Liniment," which has been used by the medical Faculty in cases of small pox..."; "Vermifuge for Worms, made with particular reference to children"; "Botanical Syrup composed entirely of herb & free minerals," that "in no instance ever failed to do what it was intended to accomplish"; and "Pile & Cancer Salve" that are the "best remedies that were ever in use..." Advertisement also includes two large-scale details showing bottles inscribed with product advertisements for "Dr. Stuart's Rheumatic Liniment," "Cancer salve," "Salve Sure Cure for Piles Price $1 per Box," "Botanical Syrup" and "Dr. Stuart's Vegetable Pills.", Date from Poulson inscription on recto., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 187, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Date: [April 1849]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W98 [P.2147]

Title: [Founders' Week parade, Philadelphia Brewing Co. floats, Industrial Day, October 7, 1908, Philadelphia]
Description: View showing the procession of horse-drawn floats on South Broad Street between Walnut and Pine streets during the Founder's Week parade. Floats display boughs of barley and hops; stacks of crates; and a large keg. Viewing stands decorated with bunting and American flags filled with spectators line the street. Also shows several police officers, including African Americans, standing in front of the crowds on the east side of the street. The Bellevue-Stratford Hotel is visible in the left background. Founder’s Week celebrated the 225th anniversary of the founding of Philadelphia, October 4-10, 1908. There were numerous parades and activities with each day having a special designation, including Religious, Military, Municipal, Industrial, Children’s and Naval, Historical, and Athletic and Knights Templar Day., Title supplied by cataloger., Purchase 1976., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: October 7, 1908
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - unidentified - Processions [8191.F.1]

Title: Founder's Week, Industrial Day Oct. 7th 1908. Philadelphia Brewing Co's float. By courtesy of Philadelphia liquor dealers journal
Description: View showing a horse-drawn Philadelphia Brewing Company float on the 300 block of South Broad Street during the Founder's Week parade. Float contains white men, attired in hats and smocks, near a large model of a keg inscribed "Brewing Industries of Philadelphia." Float also displays a large banner listing revenues spent by the brewing industry on its "allied trades." A large crowd of spectators, including African American men, women, and children, sit in viewing stands decorated with bunting and stand along the street. A white man police officer stands in front of the crowd. Partial view of Chambers-Wylie Memorial Presbyterian Church (321 S. Broad) is visible in the background. Founder’s Week celebrated the 225th anniversary of the founding of Philadelphia, October 4-10, 1908. There were numerous parades and activities with each day having a special designation, including Religious, Military, Municipal, Industrial, Children’s and Naval, Historical, and Athletic and Knights Templar Day., Title and photographer's imprint inscribed in negative., Inscribed in negative: 2958., Purchase 1986., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with corrections., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920, photographer
Date: October 7, 1908
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Rau. [P.9151.4]

Title: Founder's Week, Industrial Day, Oct. 7th 1908. Phila. Brewing Co.'s float. By courtesy of Philadelphia liquor dealers journal
Description: View showing a horse-drawn Philadelphia Brewing Company float on the 300 block of South Broad Street during the Founder's Week parade. Four white men, attired in white suits and hats, lead the horses pulling the float. The float contains two white men near displays of crates of bottles and is adorned with a hand-painted banner depicting a freight train near factories and a vignette portrait of a horse. Also shows a large crowd of spectators, including African American men, women, and children, seated in viewing stands decorated with bunting and standing along the street. A white man police officer stands in front of the crowd. Partial view of Chambers-Wylie Memorial Presbyterian Church (321 S. Broad) is visible in the background. Founder’s Week celebrated the 225th anniversary of the founding of Philadelphia, October 4-10, 1908. There were numerous parades and activities with each day having a special designation, including Religious, Military, Municipal, Industrial, Children’s and Naval, Historical, and Athletic and Knights Templar Day., Title and photographer's imprint inscribed in negative., Inscribed in negative: 2955., Purchase 1986., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920, photographer
Date: October 7, 1908
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Rau. [P.9151.6]

Title: Founder's Week, Industrial Day Oct. 7th 1908. Philadelphia Brewing Co.'s float. By courtesy of Philadelphia liquor dealers journal
Description: View showing a horse-drawn Philadelphia Brewing Company float on the 300 block of South Broad Street during the Founder's Week parade. The float with a financial theme contains white men costumed as "Uncle Sam" and a late 17th-century gentleman near a chest labeled "State Treasury" and stacks of money bags. Float also contains a banner inscribed with the annual amounts of local, state, and federal taxes paid by Philadelphia brewers. Also shows a large crowd of spectators, including African American men, women, and children, seated in viewing stands decorated with bunting and standing along the street. A white man police officer stands in front of the crowd. Partial view of Chambers-Wylie Memorial Presbyterian Church (321 S. Broad) is visible in the background. Founder’s Week celebrated the 225th anniversary of the founding of Philadelphia, October 4-10, 1908. There were numerous parades and activities with each day having a special designation, including Religious, Military, Municipal, Industrial, Children’s and Naval, Historical, and Athletic and Knights Templar Day., Title and photographer's imprint inscribed in negative., Inscribed in negative: 2953., Purchase 1986, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920, photographer
Date: October 7, 1908
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Rau [P.9151.7]

Title: Founder's Week, Industrial Day Oct. 7th 1908. Philadelphia Brewing Co.'s float. By courtesy of Philadelphia liquor dealers journal
Description: View showing a horse-drawn Philadelphia Brewing Company float on the 300 block of South Broad Street during the celebration of the Founder's Week parade. Float contains white men and a woman in German costume near hop vines on stakes, and boughs of barley and hop tenders. Float also contains a banner promoting the amount of hops, barley, and other cereals utilized by Philadelphia breweries. Also shows a large crowd of spectators, including African American men, women, and children, seated in viewing stands decorated with bunting and standing along the street. A white man police officer stands in front of the crowd. Partial view of the Chambers-Wylie Memorial Presbyterian Church (321 S. Broad) is visible in the background. Founder’s Week celebrated the 225th anniversary of the founding of Philadelphia, October 4-10, 1908. There were numerous parades and activities with each day having a special designation, including Religious, Military, Municipal, Industrial, Children’s and Naval, Historical, and Athletic and Knights Templar Day., Title and photographer's imprint inscribed in negative., Inscribed in negative: 2959., Purchase 1986., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920, photographer
Date: October 7, 1908
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Rau [P.9151.8]

Title: Founder's Week, Industrial Day, Oct. 7th, 1908. Philadelphia Brewing Co's float. By courtesy of Philadelphia liquor dealers journal
Description: View showing a horse-drawn Philadelphia Brewing Company float on the 300 block of South Broad Street during the Founder's Week parade. Four white men attired in costume lead the float containing brewing equipment, including a kettle and fermenter. Several men sit and stand on the float, which also displays a banner promoting the "Magnitude of the Brewing Industry of Pennsylvania." A large crowd of spectators, including African American men, women, and children, sit in viewing stands decorated with bunting and stand along the street. A white man police officer stands in front of the crowd. Partial view of the Chambers-Wylie Memorial Presbyterian Church (321 S. Broad) is visible in the background. Founder’s Week celebrated the 225th anniversary of the founding of Philadelphia, October 4-10, 1908. There were numerous parades and activities with each day having a special designation, including Religious, Military, Municipal, Industrial, Children’s and Naval, Historical, and Athletic and Knights Templar Day., Manuscript note on mount: Property of National Decorating Co., Phila. Pa., Title and photographer's imprint inscribed in negative., Purchase 1989., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920, photographer
Date: October 7, 1908
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Rau [P.9260.639]

Title: [The Fisher House. Formerly No. 110 now 226 South Front Street The residence of Saml. R. Fisher - where he deceased. His son (only) Thomas then occupied the house where he died, on Tuesday morning, Feby 12th 1856. The house is remarkable from the "pent" roof over the front door - where the second or upper door appears in the picture there was a window similar to that remaining. S.R.F's counting house* no. 27 (old) Dock St. and storehouses were in the rear of this, on Dock Street. The houses northerly in view are to the N.W. cor. of Front and Granite Street.]
Description: View looking east showing the 200 block of Front Street, including the former residence of merchants Samuel Rowland Fisher and his son Thomas Fisher. Also shows adjacent businesses including Kirkpatrick, DeHaven & Co., liquor dealers (228-230 S. Front) and the Pennsylvania Railroad Emigrant Line office (224 S. Front). Also shows barrels lining the sidewalk and a parked horse-drawn dray., Date inscribed on negative., Title from duplicate., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: May 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Residences - F [(7)1322.F.27d]

Title: Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, from Ninth to Tenth, [south] side
Description: View showing the south side of the 900 block of Chestnut Street. Shows the Burd Building at 900-904 Chestnut tenanted by Howell & Brothers, paperhangings, J.E. Caldwell & Co., jewelers, and J.F. and E.B. Orne, carpets. Also includes: E. Clinton & Co., brush manufacturer (908 Chestnut) and F. Augustus Wenderoth, William C. Taylor, and J. Henry Brown, photographers (912 & 914 Chestnut). Signage adorns many of the buildings promoting merchandise, including pianos, ladies dresses, and fancy goods. A man stands on the opposite corner near a dray and a lamppost with an advertisement for Fox's American Variety Theater (built 1863, burned 1867)., Stereograph mounted on green mount with square corners., Title and photographer's imprint printed on stereograph mount., 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: Newell, Robert, 1822-1897
Date: ca. 1866
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Streets [(6)1322.F.95c; (8)1322.F.27h]

Title: R. & G.A. Wright. Manufacturers of fine perfumery &c. 624 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Exterior view of the storefront of the perfumery established in 1860. Building is adorned with an American flag. Also shows street and pedestrian traffic, including: clusters of men, women, and children pedestrians walking on the sidewalk; a horse-drawn carriage traveling down the street; and an African American paper boy running among the crowds., Vignette in the Philadelphia, western & southern trade journal. Illustrated supplement. (P.9384a-w), Accessioned 1992., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Van Ingen & Snyder, a partnership between William H. Van Ingen and Henry M. Snyder, was active from about 1853 until 1871.
Creator: Van Ingen & Snyder, engraver
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ***Ph Pr - Government Buildings [P.9384l]

Title: Girard Bank
Description: View looking northeast from Dock Street showing Girard National Bank, formerly the First Bank of the United States (built 1795-1797, Samuel Blodgett, architect), at 116-120 South Third Street. The bank, operated by Stephen Girard as Girard's Bank from 1812-1831, was chartered by the state in 1832 as the Girard National Bank. Includes adjacent building (114 South Third) tenanted by practical lithographer Theodore Leonhardt and The City Item newspaper office. Signage for Goodyear's Rubber Warehouse adorns the building. Also shows slabs of stone laying on the sidewalk beside a telegraph pole near the bank; a horse-drawn milk delivery wagon stopped across the street; and a group of men sitting on the steps of the bank., Title printed on mount., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Purple mount with rounded 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: Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.), photographer
Date: ca. 1870
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Simons - Banks [(8)1322.F.11d]

Title: Girard Bank
Description: View looking northeast from Dock Street showing Girard National Bank, formerly the First Bank of the United States (built 1795-1797, Samuel Blodgett, architect), at 116-120 South Third Street. The bank, operated by Stephen Girard as Girard's Bank from 1812-1831, was chartered by the state in 1832 as the Girard National Bank. Includes adjacent building (114 South Third) tenanted by practical lithographer Theodore Leonhardt and The City Item newspaper office. Signage for Goodyear's Rubber Warehouse adorns the building. Also shows slabs of stone laying on the sidewalk beside a telegraph pole near the bank; a horse-drawn milk delivery wagon stopped across the street; and a group of men sitting on the steps of the bank., Title printed on mount., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Purple mount with rounded 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: Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.), photographer
Date: ca. 1870
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Simons - Banks [(8)1322.F.11d]

Title: Birdseye view of Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, with the buildings of the International Exhibition 1876
Description: Lovely bird's eye view looking east toward the city from Belmont Mansion, the former estate of Judge Richard Peters. In the foreground, visitors to the property partake of the grounds that are landscaped with trees and small gardens. Elegantly-attired men, women, and children stroll; appreciate the vista from benches and chairs; and enjoy refreshments at tables. Other patrons depart in horse-drawn carriages down a path that winds past the Belmont Water Works and Columbia Railroad Bridge. A train approaches the bridge. In the right background, the proposed Centennial Exhibition buildings, and grounds congested with visitors, are visible in West Fairmount Park. The Main Hall and Memorial Hall predominate. In the left background, the expansive cityscape dominates the view and includes Girard College, the Fairmount Water Works, Gas Works, Rodeph Shalom Synagogue, the Cathedral of S.S. Peter and Paul, Masonic Temple, and the future City Hall. Church steeples, industrial smokestacks, blocks of brick buildings, and the distant Delaware River comprise the vista as well. Also visible are the several bridges that span the Schuylkill River. The bridges include the Columbia, New York Connecting Railway, Girard Avenue, Spring Garden Street, Market Street, and Chestnut Street bridges. Several vessels travel the river. The Centennial Exhibition celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art. Many of the buildings were designed by Herman Schwartzmann, Henry Pettit, and Joseph M. Wilson., Image arched at top center., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 55, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Inger, Christian
Date: c1875
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ***BW - Views [P.9324]

Title: Aaron Wolff's old wine store, &c on the northwest corner of Chestnut and Seventh Street
Description: Views showing the former wine shop being tenanted by Mahlon Warne, rifle and pistol gallery, and J.E. Gould, pianos, at 701 Chestnut Street. Also shows a partial view of John Sturdivant's lodging house (703 Chestnut); a vendor stand, horse-drawn carts and wagons, and signage for Lacey & Phillips, saddlery, painted on their building on South Seventh Street. Wolff operated as a wine merchant in the 1840s., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount of (3)2526.F.70., Date inscribed on (3)2526.F.70., Newspaper clippings dated April 1859 pasted on mount of (3)2526.F.70 reporting the demolition of the building., One of the images 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 3, page 70. 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., One of the images [(3)2526.F.70] 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. 63., Arcadia caption text: ... This image, one of approximately 120 views shot by Richards, was taken in April 1859, only days before the demolition of this building at the northwest corner of Seventh and Chestnut streets. The building’s last tenants included a wine shop, a piano store, and on the top story a shooting gallery with bulls-eye targets affixed to the windows.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: April 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Businesses - W [(6)1322.F.113f; (3)2526.F.70 (Poulson)]

Title: [M'Clees & Germon, daguerreotype rooms, 182 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Exterior view of the studio located on the south side of Chestnut Street between 7th and 8th Streets showing the two daguerreotypists posed in a large open window with a camera and screens. View also shows the lower tenant, Joseph S. Natt's looking glass shop; partial views of adjacent businesses, including a fancy goods store (180 and 184 Chestnut); and displays of merchandise in the shop windows. The partnership between James E. McClees and Washington Lafayette Germon lasted from 1846 to 1855, and was located at this address from 1851 to 1853., Title supplied by cataloguer., McClees 1853-3., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Philadelphia views., Reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth-century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1980), entry #113., 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 - Businesses [(6)1322.F.163e]

Title: [Bullock mansion, North Third Street above Market Street, Philadelphia.]
Description: View looking southeast showing the former mansion of wool merchant Benjamin Bullock (32 N. 3rd, pre-consolidation) tenanted by the businesses of James L. Rahn, hosiery & gloves, and John M. Ford, saddlery hardware, at 46-48 N. 3rd Street above Market Street. Building heavily adorned with signage. Also shows adjacent businesses including William P. Wilstach & Co. (38 N. 3rd), saddlery hardware; Yard, Gillmore & Co., silk goods (40-42 N. 3rd); and Lippincott, Coffin & Co., dry goods and trimmings (50 N. 3rd). Crates, carts, and horse saddlery equipment line the sidewalk., Attributed to F. De B. Richards., Title from manuscript note on verso: Bullock's old mansion North 3d., Date from manuscript note on verso., Originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 2, page 95. 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., 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. 24., Arcadia caption text: Many structures on the eastern side of Center City, near the Delaware River, were originally constructed as residences and later adapted for commercial use. This photograph, taken in May of 1859, depicts the former mansion of wool merchant Benjamin Bullock on Third Street [above] Market Street. Modified with display windows at street level, two businesses - James L. Rahn’s hosiery and glove shop, and John M. Ford’s saddlery and hardware store - occupy the building. Other homes on this block had already been replaced by taller commercial buildings.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: May 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Residences - B [(2)2526.F.95 (Poulson)], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/2526f95.jpg

Title: [Masonic Hall, Chestnut Street below Eighth, Philadelphia]
Description: View looking east from below Eighth Street showing the Masonic Hall at 713-721 Chestnut. The hall, built 1853-1855 after the designs of Sloan & Stewart, was razed by fire in 1886. Shows adjacent and tenant businesses, including Marxsen & Witte, china and glass (713 Chestnut); H. A. Osterle & Co., trimmings; and Marvin & Co., safes (721 Chestnut)., Title supplied by cataloguer., Yellow paper mount with square corners., Attributed to Bartlett & French., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., 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. 83., Arcadia caption text: In 1855 the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Pennsylvania opened a new hall on the north side of the 700 block of Chestnut Street, the site of an earlier Masonic Hall. The Masons occupied the top three floors of the Gothic brownstone building, designed by Philadelphia architect and Mason Samuel Sloan, and rented the first floor out to commercial tenants. Initial enthusiasm for the building faded quickly as problems with water in the basement and poorly ventilated rooms became apparent. By the time of this c. 1868 view, a Masonic committee had described the building as “a gross failure both in its plan and its construction.”, Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Bartlett & French, photographer
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - Associations [(8)1322.F.27b]

Title: Continental Hotel Philada
Description: View looking east from above Ninth Street showing the luxury hotel at the southeast corner of Ninth and Chestnut streets (824-838 Chestnut). Completed in 1860 after the designs of John McArthur Jr., the hotel contained several businesses in its lower level including "Charles Oakford & Son" hat shop. View also shows adjacent businesses including publishers and booksellers Porter & Coates operating from the former building of J.E. Caldwell & Co. built 1858 after the designs of McArthur. (822 Chestnut); John Wanamaker & Co., luxury clothing store, established 1869 (818 Chestnut); James S. Earle, looking glasses and picture frame manufactory (816 Chestnut), and John W. Scott, shirt manufactory (814 Chestnut). Includes horse-drawn wagons travelling the street and a partial view of the north side of the block., Title from manuscript note on mount., Yellow mount with square corners., Attributed to Bartlett & Smith., 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: Bartlett & Smith, photographer
Date: ca. 1869
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & Smith - Hotels [(8)1322.F.29h]

Title: City Marble Works and Steam Mantel Factory. Corner Tenth and Vine Streets Philadelphia. J.E. & B. Schell
Description: Advertisement depicting a corner view of the three-building showroom and factory operated by the Schells from 1853 until 1856. J.E. Schell continued the business as J.E. Schell & Company starting in 1857. On Tenth Street, patrons enter the four-story storefront and mantle room adorned with signage and statuary displayed on a second floor veranda. At the corner, a coach waits, the disembarked African American man driver standing at the ready. On Vine Street, behind the showroom, a family of passerby admire the marble statuary, monuments, and headstones in the factory's fenced-in yard. White men factory laborers load a headstone onto a horse-drawn cart, inspect open crates lining the street, and review slabs of marble outside the factory's storage building. Partial views of adjacent buildings and the "10th" Street carriage are visible., Title from item., Although Wainwright suggests date of publication as circa 1855, date of circa 1854 is used since Rease relocated to the new business address of 97 Chestnut Street as of 1855., Text printed on recto: Having greatly improved their facilities for the Manufacture of every variety of Marble Works embracing the best styles of Mantels, Table Tops, Flooring, Tombs and Monuments, are prepared to supply all orders upon reasonable terms., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 134, Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Rease, a prominent mid-19th century Philadelphia trade card lithographer known to highlight details of human interest in his advertisements, partnered with Francis H. Schell in the 1850s and eventually operated his own press until around 1872.
Creator: Rease & Schell, artist
Date: [ca. 1854]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W71 [P.2032]

Title: Hart, Montgomery & Co. Successors to Isaac Pugh & Co. Manufacturers and importers of paper hangings, No. 118 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Manufactory N.E. Cor. Schuyl[kill] Front & Wood Streets
Description: Exterior view of the manufactory operated from 1849 until 1860 by William Hart and A.J. Montgomery at Schuylkill Front (i.e., Twenty-second) and Wood Streets depicted within a lithographed tromp l'oeil wood frame. A horse-drawn cart stands idle by a side entrance of the multi-storied factory and four goats roam a nearby yard. Smaller factory buildings are visible to the right. Horse-drawn delivery carts, one steered by an African American man, travel pass each other on the adjacent street. Pedestrians and laborers walk the sidewalks and converse near a street lamp. Eastern State Penitentiary is visible in the background. During the mid-nineteenth century, Philadelphia was the premier American city of fine wallpaper production., Title from item., Date of publication supplied by Wainwright., Accessioned 1982., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 344, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Rease, a prominent mid-19th century Philadelphia trade card lithographer known to highlight details of human interest in his advertisements, partnered with Francis H. Schell in the 1850s and eventually operated his own press until around 1872.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [ca. 1852]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W169 [P.2072]

Title: Hart, Montgomery & Co. Successors to Isaac Pugh & Co. Manufacturers and importers of paper hangings, No. 118 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Manufactory N.E. Cor. Schuyl[kill] Front & Wood Streets
Description: Exterior view of the manufactory operated from 1849 until 1860 by William Hart and A.J. Montgomery at Schuylkill Front (i.e., Twenty-second) and Wood Streets depicted within a lithographed tromp l'oeil wood frame. A horse-drawn cart stands idle by a side entrance of the multi-storied factory and four goats roam a nearby yard. Smaller factory buildings are visible to the right. Horse-drawn delivery carts, one steered by an African American man, travel pass each other on the adjacent street. Pedestrians and laborers walk the sidewalks and converse near a street lamp. Eastern State Penitentiary is visible in the background. During the mid-nineteenth century, Philadelphia was the premier American city of fine wallpaper production., Title from item., Date of publication supplied by Wainwright., Accessioned 1982., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 344, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Rease, a prominent mid-19th century Philadelphia trade card lithographer known to highlight details of human interest in his advertisements, partnered with Francis H. Schell in the 1850s and eventually operated his own press until around 1872.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [ca. 1852]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W169 [P.2072]

Title: Melloy & Ford, wholesale tin ware manufacturers
Description: Advertisement depicting the three-and-a-half-story manufactory operated by John M. Melloy and Robert Ford at 291 Market Street, later renumbered 723, promoting the "lowest rates," "quick sales & small profits," and "metallic roofing." The building heavily adorned with signage and product advertisements, including a large scale model of a coffee pot, contains prominent displays of tinware in the shop window, on the store shelves, and near the open cellar door. Near the front of the shop, a white man and woman couple strolls, two white laborers lift a crate onto a horse-drawn sulky, and a woman customer enters the store. An African American man peddler with tray and bell passes a line of crates on the sidewalk. Tinsmiths work near the third floor windows. Melloy & Ford, a partnership established in 1849, was in business until 1861 when Melloy entered partnership with Isaac Smith at the same address., Title from item., Date from Poulson's inscription on recto: Mar. 1849; Market Street., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 465, Print trimmed and lacking caption., Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Rease, a prominent mid-19th century Philadelphia trade card lithographer known to highlight details of human interest in his advertisements, partnered with Francis H. Schell in the 1850s and eventually operated his own press until around 1872.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [March 1849]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W231 [P.2105]

Title: Wootten's excelsior stove lustre or pure black lead Prepared by John Wootten, Jr. No. 94 Spruce St. Wholesale Depot, no. 13 North Third Street Phila
Description: Racist advertisement promoting Wootten’s Excelsior Stove Lustre and depicting an African American man, portrayed in caricature, polishing a stove. Shows the African American man servant, barefoot and attired in a plaid, collared shirt and pants, kneeling before a stove with a brush in his left hand. On the floor in front of him is a glass of water, an open can of polish, and a box labeled, Wootten’s Excelsior Stove Lustre or Pure Black Lead. In the right, a white woman stands wearing her brown hair in a bun and attired in an off-the-shoulder dress with a bow at the chest and lace sleeves. She looks toward the man and asks, “Uncle Tom whose blacking is that you are useing [sic].” He replies in the vernacular, “La Missey don’t you know dat -- dat is Wooten's Lustre." To the left of the woman, a black cat stands on a wooden chair with its back raised and looks at the man. Also visible in the image are plates, bowls, and cups on shelves, another wooden chair, and an open window that has a potted plant on the ledge. John Wootten Jr. (1820-1872) is listed in the 1861 Philadelphia city directory as a blacking maker., Title from item., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Mar. 28 -59; S. 4 (old no.) Spruce Street., Not in Wainwright., Text printed on recto: For polishing and beautifying stoves, this Lustre stands unrivalled. It may with perfect justice be called The Housekeeper’s Choice; it gives a more brilliant appearance, retains it gloss longer, and requires Fifty per cent less labor than any other preparation in existence, when moistened with a little water, and applied vigorously to iron work of any kind, the effect is truly magical; housekeepers and others are well aware what great labor is requisite, and time expended in the attempt to give a fine polish with many of the lustres sold at the present day – here however both these evils are remedied; a beautiful gloss is obtained in a few minutes, and without scarcely any exertion whatever. Another advantage which this article possesses over all others, is, that it tends to preserve the iron from the deleterious effects of damp and rust, which so often render a stove entirely useless in the course of a few seasons. This Lustre is prepared with great care from the very best lead that can be found in the market, and is entirely free from all those foreign substances which so greatly destroy the efficacy of other articles.", Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 279, Accessioned 1982., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Sinclair, Thomas S., approximately 1805-1881, lithographer
Date: [March 28, 1859]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Advertisements [P.8729.21]

Title: [Library Street, southside, between Goldsmith's Hall and Fourth Street]
Description: Photographic reproduction of view looking east on the 400 block of Library Street. Shows the office building of Howell Evans, card and fancy printer, built 1855 after the designs of J. & A. Ferguson (402 Library); Isaiah Bryan's Our House hotel (408 Library); William Jack, carriage repository (410 Library); the public hall, Military Hall, the former arsenal building, built 1810 (412 Library); and William Quinn, manufacturer of velocipedes (418 Library). Lager beer signs adorn the hotel and military hall, carriages line the sidewalk, and an individual stands in the doorway of the former arsenal. Brewer Gustavus Bergner managed Military Hall in the late 1850s., Title supplied by cataloguer., Reproduction of photograph dated January 1859., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: ca. 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Streets - Library [(6)1322.F.130c]

Title: Market St[reet] west from 10th [Street]
Description: View of the commercial street, above Tenth Street, south side. Businesses include: Clark's Heating & Ventilating Warehouse at 1008 Market Street; Dale & Thomas, carpets, at 1010 Market Street; James Spear & Co., stoves, heaters, and ranges at 1014 Market Street; William Ray, clothier, at 1018 Market Street; William F. Simes, saddlery and harnessmaker, at 1026 Market Street; and the Bingham House hotel (named after express and freight agent John Bingham), established in 1867, at the corner of 11th and Market streets. Several of the businesses display their merchandise in front of their stores, including the stove warehouses and the clothier. A telegraph pole stands in the foreground. A horse-drawn wagon rests in front of the carpet store., Title from manuscript note on verso., Publication information from duplicate stereograph. [P.9047.94], Orange mount with rounded corners., 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: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: [ca. 1874]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Streets [P.9260.53]

Title: [Graff House, southwest corner of Seventh and Market streets, Philadelphia]
Description: View showing the house owned by Jacob Graff in which Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Signage covers the building advertising current tenants, including B. Crawford's wholesale retail fashionable clothing emporium; William Hicks, tailor; William Brown, clothing; and D.E. Thompson's Book and Job Printing Office. Also shows adjacent businesses, including William Jordan's Shoe Warehouse at 232 Market Street(pre-consolidation). The building was razed circa 1883., Title supplied by cataloguer., Photographer's imprint blindstamped on mount., Manuscript note on mount: S.W. Cor. 7th and Market., Probably originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., *McClees 1853-2., McClees & Germon, a partnership between Philadelphia photographers James E. McClees and Washington Lafayette Germon, was active between 1854-1855.
Creator: McClees & Germon, photographer
Date: ca. 1854
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *photo - McClees [8339.F.17]

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