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Title: Negresse filant le coton
Description: Included in Chapter XV, "Arts et Industrie," the engraving shows an African woman spinning cotton. She holds a spool in each hand, and sits on a mat with a large basket of cotton next to her., Illustration in René Geoffroy de Villeneuve's L'Afrique, ou Histoire, moeurs, usages et coutumes des africains: Le Sénégal (Paris: Nepveu, libraire, passage des Panoramas, no. 26, 1814), vol. 4, p. 182., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Africa: Images, Maps, and Geography.
Date: [1814]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare U Afri R.G.V. 65954.D v 4 p 182, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2935

Title: Pepper's brewery And dwelling house - the latter - on northwest corner of Fifth and Minor street with a view in perspective of the houses on the west side of Fifth Street to the corner of Market Street - also part of the house on n.w. corner of Market and Fifth Street
Description: Shows Robert Smith's Brewery, formerly the Pepper Brewery, on South Fifth Street between Market and Chestnut streets. View includes two men standing near several barrels lined in front of the brewery. Also shows adjacent and neighboring businesses, including partial views of a manufacturer and a shoe store. Pepper Brewery, originally established by Joseph Potts in 1774, was assumed by Henry Pepper & Son circa 1780. Smith, who joined in partnership with Pepper's sons and Frederick Seckel in 1837, gained sole proprietorship of the brewery in the mid 1850s. Brewery was incorporated in 1887 and relocated to 38th Street and Girard Avenue in 1888., Title from manuscript note by Poulson on mount., Date inscribed on photograph., 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 55. The scrapbooks contained approximately 120 photographs by Philadelphia painter and pioneer photographer Richards of 18th-century public, commercial, and residential buildings in the city of Philadelphia commissioned by Poulson to document the vanishing architectural landscape., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Select link below for a digital image.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: February 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - [(3)2526.F.55 (Poulson)], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/2526f55.jpg

Title: Freight locomotive engine for Pennsylvania Rail Road manufactured by Richard Norris & Son Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement showing the freight engine designed with three large wheels behind a smaller one that is situated at the front end of the engine. Engine shown on a stretch of tracks. Richard Norris assumed operations of the Norris Locomotive Works from his father, William, circa 1841. During the 1850s, Norris Locomotive Works was the largest producer of locomotives in America., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 84, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Rosenthal, Max, 1833-1918, artist
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Transportation [P.8970.22]

Title: [J. Struthers & Son marble yard, including a crane, 22nd and Chestnut streets, Philadelphia.]
Description: Shows the crane in the stone yard of the firm founded in 1816, which provided the marble for nearly all the prominent public buildings of the city. Marble blocks cover the yard. Also shows a dray in the foreground and surrounding buildings in the background., Title and date from manuscript note on verso: Chestnut & 22nd St.; Aug. 1858., Probably originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., 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. 58., Arcadia caption text: In 1816 John Struthers established one of Philadelphia’s first marble yards. When this photograph was taken in the summer of 1858, John’s son William ran the marble yard located at Chestnut and Twenty-second streets. By the late 1850s Philadelphia supported about 60 marble cutting establishments. Marble from the Struthers’ business was used to construct many significant Philadelphia buildings including City Hall, the Public Ledger building, the Continental Hotel, and the Second Bank of the United States., 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 #135., 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: August 1858
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *photo - McClees [8339.F.20]

Title: Oliver Brooks, wholesale and retail, hat, cap & fancy fur warehouse London & Paris. Fall & spring fashions, regularly imported. Superior otter & seal caps. Leather hat cases & silk & cotton umbrellas
Description: Advertisement depicting an ornate table with scroll legs covered with a jumbled variety of men's and women's hats in addition to an umbella (handle visible). Brooks patented an improvement in cassinmere hats in 1842., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: August 1846., Probably printed by John Frampton Watson., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 158
Date: [August 1846]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Advertisements [P.8929.23]

Title: Geo. J. Henkels' city cabinet warerooms, 173 Chestnut St. opposite the State House, Philadelphia
Description: Packing label depicting a variety of furniture sold by Henkels including a table, vanity, desk, sofa, and chairs. Henkels was located at 173 Chestnut from 1850 to 1857., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 39, Pheonixblock, located at the southwest corner of Second and Dock Streets, housed the lithographic firm of H. Camp for whom Kollner worked as principal artist.
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813, artist
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Advertisements [7806.F], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Advertisements [(2)1525.F.26b]

Title: Charles Oakford & Sons, No. 834 & 836 Chestnut St., Philadelphia. 1866. Wholesale and retail dealers and manufacturers of hats, caps & furs Our stock of hats is complete in every department including a large assortment of wool hats at all prices. We invite attention to style no. 1, a sundown for ladies and children, made of mackinaw straw celebrated for its durability. This popular sun hat supercedes the old style shaker hood and bids fair to be fashionable for seasons to come thereby avoiding an accumulation of old stock. The prices per dozen for trimmed and untrimmed range from $6 to $60. We are ready to receive and fill orders for all kinds of hats which we guarantee to sell at lower prices for cash than any other house in the country. We are constantly receiving the newest styles and our manufactory facilities are such as enable us to compete with any other establishment. March 1866. Please put this up in a conspicuous place
Description: Advertisement with ornamental lettering depicting a display of 12 numbered men's and women's hats. The women's hats (1-4, 7, 10) are adorned with feathers, ribbons, and other embellishments, except for the "sundown." Hats are displayed on a hat rack and three stands at its base. Oakford established his business in 1827 and located to 104 Chestnut in 1843 where he began his wholesale trade in 1850. He operated from the address until 1852 when he relocated to 624 Chestnut Street. In 1860 he moved his business to the Continental Hotel., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 25
Date: March 1866
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Advertisements [P.9465]

Title: A. Russell & Co. 104 Chestnut Street. Philadelphia. Fashionable hat and cap maunfacturers First in fashion. Ladies fur muffs, tippets, pelerines, boas &c.&c. Gente;men's furs caps, collars, gloves &c.&c
Description: Advertisement depicting a jumbled assortment of men's and boy's hats on top of an anvil-shaped pedestal. Hats lie on their side, top, and rim., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 3, Originally part of John McAllister's scrapbook "Costumes, English & American, 1800-1869."
Date: [ca. 1832]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Advertisements [5743.F.95]

Title: Hamilton Watch Company complex, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Description: Aerial view of the Hamilton Watch Company complex at Columbia and North West End Avenues in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Surrounding homes and buildings are visible, along with croplands in the distance., Negative number: 1670., Record created 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.8990.1670]

Title: [Boat at Philadelphia Ship Repair Co. dry dock]
Description: Film negative showing two men standing on scaffolding working on a large ship at the Philadelphia Ship Repair Company dry dock. Another man walks down the dock to the right., Title supplied by cataloger., Badger Album, Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: June 1909
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2014.42.72]

Title: Gambrinus Unterstutzungus Gesellschaft [membership certificate]
Description: Membership certificate probably for a German brewing society. Includes a decorative border containing a portrait of King Gambrinus, the parton saint of beer and a universal symbol of beer and brewing; female allegorical figures representing hops and barley; a fermenter flanked by lions; and urns of flowers. Gambrinus portrait shows the king seated in front of a row of kegs and holding a goblet of beer. Allegorical figures shown as peasant girls holding a bale of barley and a stalk of hops., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 88, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: *NB 1 75 - 356
Creator: Theo. Leonhardt & Son
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP *NB 1 75 - 356

Title: Eugene Roussel's celebrated mineral waters in glass botttles for hotels, families & shipping
Description: Advertisement showing the storefront with large display windows of "Edward Roussel, Foreign Perfumery & Fancy Articles, French Perfumery, Mineral Water" at 114, i.e., 318 Chestnut Street. Within the store, a clerk serves mineral water to a couple at the counter. The woman sits, her parasol by her side as the man stands. Tall glass-door cabinets rise behind the clerk. Materials displayed in the windows include a stuffed bear, bottles, mason jars, canisters, and framed certificates. A drain pipe adorns the building. Also contains vignettes above and below the title showing the business's mineral water delivery wagon, and silver medals awarded to the perfumer by the "Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania, 1824" and "Reward of Skill and Ingenuity, 1842." Roussel operated from the site 1843-1849. Bear's oil was a popular product offered by Philadelphia perfumers, the major American suppliers, between the 1830s and 1850s. The oil was often used as a hair product., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 212, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 38 Q 32, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Stores & Shops, Trimmed.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: [ca. 1843]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 38 Q 32

Title: S. Griffiths, manufacturer of wrought iron tubes and fittings for gas, steam and water. Works in Vine st: betw: Schuylkill 2d and 3d Streets. A constant supply at warerooms no. 15 Nth. Del. 7th St, Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement showing the "Spring Garden Tube Works" on Vine Street above Twentieth Street. Signage reading "S. Griffith's Manufacturer of Wrought Iron, Welded Tubes, For Gas, Steam, Water" adorns a doorway that is flanked by spiral tubings. Employees work in the windows of the two-story factory, exit the doorways with tubes, and load horse-drawn carts parked in front of the building. Also shows a side-alley on which a horse-drawn cart loaded with coal is guided to the furnace at the rear of the works. Griffiths was listed at a Vine Street address from 1845 to 1854 and circa 1860-circa 1868., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 669, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 35 G 855
Creator: Reynolds, Robert F., artist
Date: [ca. 1845]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 35 G 855

Title: Charles Oakford United States steam leuring model hat manufactory Hats, caps, & furs wholesale and retail. 104, Chestnut Street, Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement showing the interior of the wholesale and finishing department (est. 1850) of the manufactory for the hat business established in 1827. Oakford stands with a business client in the center of the room across from his steam powered leuring lathe and several male employees at work. The laborers stand and form hats at their stations, which line two-thirds of the room. The stations include a drawer as well as a cubby for pieces under construction. Toward the back of the room, another employee stacks hats on a table across from shelves lined with them. In the foreground, a boy packs the merchandise into a box marked "From C. Oakford 104 Chestnut St. Phila." View also includes a wall clock and a shovel lying near the oven of the steam lathe. Leuring lathes turn hats to impart a sheen to the fur fibers and create a polished look., Philadelphia on Stone, Atwater Kent Museum: 46.57.5.2
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Atwater Kent Museum | Print Department AKM AKM 46.57.5.2

Title: Eastwick & Harrison's improved locomotive engine
Description: Shows the 4-4-0 steam locomotive, Gowan & Marx, built 1839 by the firm after the designs of Joseph Harrison, Jr. The locomotive, for its weight, was the most efficent for freight purposes at the time. The firm established as Garrett, Eastwick & Co. was renamed Eastwick & Harrison in 1839 after the retirement of Garrett, when Harrison, a junior partner became a full partner., Not in Wainwright., Manuscript note on recto and mount: This locomotive engine "Gowan & Marx" hauled the freight train over the Philadelphia & Reading R. Road from Pottsville to Philada. D. J. Kennedy., Attached to sheet containing two photographic reproductions of Philadelphia and Reading Railroad broadsides dated 1839 and 1840., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 63, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: K VII 46
Creator: Hoffy, Alfred M., b. ca. 1790, artist
Date: [ca. 1839]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP K VII 46

Title: Shoe & Leather Building. International Exhibition, 1876. Fairmount Park Philadelphia
Description: View of the exhibition building built after the designs of Alexander B. Barry that displayed all the mechanical processes of making shoes and boots. Includes several fair visitors on the grounds in front of the building. Individuals walk, converse, admire a fountain, enter the hall, and sit on a bench in a small landscaped area. The grounds are lined by a tree and bushes. Also shows part of Machinery Hall in the right of the image. The centennial of the United States was celebrated through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art in West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia., Not in Wainwright., Copyrighted by William H. Huntington., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 695, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Medium Society Prints - Centennial - Misc. - Shoe & Leather
Date: c1876
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania | Print Department | HSP at LCP HSP Medium Society Prints - Centennial - Misc. - Shoe & Leather

Title: Harrison's Handkerchief Extracts Apollos W. Harrison No. 10 South 7th Street Philadelphia
Description: Beautiful, elaborate advertisement for the Philadelphia perfumer and ink manufacturer showing a ballroom scene set within a monument designed as a stage surrounded by floral ornaments. Shows couples attired in evening wear introducing themselves, conversing, and dancing in the ballroom. Two women hold fans. Chandelier lampposts and red drapery frame the scene. Two archways showing vistas to outdoor sceneries of trees and urns of greenery flank the monument. Loose, bundled, and cornucopias of flowers, encase the monument. Also contains two poles entwined with banners on the outer sides. Banners are inscribed with the names of scented flowers, including camellia, lilac, magnolia, tea rose, sweet clover, patchouli, and musk. Harrison began operating his perfumery circa 1853 and by the late 1850s employed over 80 employees, including 25 traveling agents., Copyrighted by A. W. Harrison., Not in Wainwright., Printed above title: Upper Ten., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 107, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 641 H 245
Creator: Bigot, Alphonse, ca. 1828-1872 or 3, artist
Date: c1854
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 641 H 245

Title: Roussel's premium perfumery Manufactured by X. Bazin, successor to E. Roussel. Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement containing advertising text surrounded by an ornate flowery border. Border includes garlands of flowers in which classical female figures, an eagle, and wingless cherubs are intertwined. The female figures are partially clad in Roman garb and one represents a messenger through the embellishments of wings and a trumpet. The cherubs hold tubes of cream and ribbons adorned with the medallions of the "seven silver and two gold medals awarded by the institutes of Philadelphia New York and Boston." The eagle holds a medallion in his beak. Also contains four images of medals in the corners. Bazin served as the lab director for perfumer Eugene Roussel from circa 1840 to circa 1849 when he assumed proprietorship of the business. Bazin continued to use Roussel's name until circa 1853. The Bazin family owned the business until 1884., Not in Wainwright, Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 197, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 61 D 956, Trimmed.
Creator: Schussele, Christian, 1826?-1879, artist
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 61 D 956

Title: S. D. Sollers & Co. manufacturers of children's fine shoes, Philadelphia Buy the celebrated shoes stamped Sollers & Co., Phila
Description: Advertisement showing a garishly well-attired boy and girl creating a pyramid display of large model shoes in a parlor with a mosaic rug. The shoes rest atop a gargantuan "Sollers" shoe box on a platform draped in a rug. In the right, a garishly, well-attired boy and girl admire the display from near the open door to the room adorned with framed pictures. In the left, a kneeling boy places a shoe on the foot of a seated girl, who are both less dramatically attired and whose visages resemble photographic portraits. A box of shoes with a cover marked "S.D. Sollers. J.C. Austin. J.S. Outcalt." lies in front of them., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 198, Library of Congress: PGA - Duval--S.D. Sollers & Co. (B size) [P&P]
Date: 1874
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PGA - Duval--S.D. Sollers & Co. (B size) [P&P]

Title: Harrison's Columbian perfumery Apollos W. Harrison No. 10 South 7th Street Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement for the Philadelphia perfumer and ink manufacturer containing a wreath of multiple types of flowers encased by a border of geometric shapes listing dozens of Harrison's products. Products include flavoring extracts, scented soaps, toiletries, skin creams, oils, and perfumes. Also contains miniature jewel-like ornamental details and an outer frame-like border. Harrison began operating his perfumery circa 1853 and by the late 1850s employed over 80 employees, including 25 traveling agents., Copyrighted by A. W. Harrison., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 106, Library of Congress: PGA - Bigot, Alphonse--Harrison's Columbian perfumery (D size) [P&P]
Creator: Bigot, Alphonse, ca. 1828-1872 or 3, artist
Date: c1854
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PGA - Bigot, Alphonse--Harrison's Columbian perfumery (D size) [P&P]

Title: Lehman & Bolton steam power lithograph & letter press printing rooms. Nos. 418, 420 & 422 Library Street, Philadelphia. Opposite Post Office Bonds, checks, bill heads, chromos, showcards, maps, labels, &c
Description: Trade card containing an ornate border design comprised of scrolls, banners, and an angel surrounding the advertising text. The lithographic firm operated 1873-1920., Not in Wainwright., Smithsonian Institution: NMAH Archives Center - Warshaw Collection – Lithography – Vertical Box 2 - Lehman & Bolton - Advertisement, Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 54
Creator: Lehman & Bolton
Date: [ca. 1873]
Location: Smithsonian Institution | NMAH Archives Center Warshaw Collection SI NMAH Archives Center - Warshaw Collection – Lithography – Vertical Box 2 - Lehman & Bolton - Advertisement

Title: Lehman & Bolton steam power lithographic & letter press printing rooms. Library Street, Goldsmith's Hall. Opp. Post Office, Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement containing a view of the exterior of the six-story brownstone and print shop at 420 Library Street tenanted by lithographic partnership who purchased the business of Jacob Haehnlen in 1873. Signage advertising the "Jacob Hahenlen Lithographic Establishment" adorns the doorway, front, and side of "Goldsmith’s Hall." Building also adorned with large display windows and an American flag. View includes street and pedestrian traffic. Pedestrians walk and stand on the sidewalk. Horse-drawn wagons and drays pass in the street. Floral details and a beehive border the view. Building destroyed by fire on December 20, 1882., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 56, Smithsonian Institution: NMAH Archives Center - Warshaw Collection – Lithography – Vertical Box 2 - Lehman & Bolton - Building
Creator: Lehman & Bolton
Date: [ca. 1873]
Location: Smithsonian Institution | NMAH Archives Center Warshaw Collection SI NMAH Archives Center - Warshaw Collection – Lithography – Vertical Box 2 - Lehman & Bolton - Building

Title: [Medley of Soaps]. Manufactured by McKeone, Van Haagen & Co. Philada. & N. York
Description: Advertisement showing a medley of "family and fancy" soaps, most not in wrappers, of different shapes (rectangular, oval, and square), sizes, and colors (brown, yellow, pink, and white). Scents and makes of soap include detersive soap, almond soap; "Brown Windsor," musk soap, honey & glycerin, elder flower, and "Oriental Shaving Soap." McKeone, Van Haagen & Co. was founded in 1854., Not in Wainwright., Copyrighted by McKeone, Van Haagen & Co., Copyright date from manuscript note on recto: #55. Filed January 27, 1865 by McKeone, Van Haagen & Co., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 147, Library of Congress: PAGA, Rosenthal, Medley of Soaps (B size) McKeone
Date: cJanuary 27, 1865
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PAGA, Rosenthal, Medley of Soaps (B size) McKeone

Title: Mount Joy Car Manufacturing Co Manufacturers of steam_engines, rail_road_cars, thrashing_machines, castings and machinery in general. Located in the borough of Mount Joy, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Description: Advertisement showing the busy factory complex of several red brick buildings, including one with signage reading "Mount Joy Car Manufactory." Laborers load wagons with machinery parts; haul crates by hand, cart, and truck; unload coal; and move wood slabs. At the opposite corner to the factory, near a fenced lot, a woman with her excited son, watch the two agitated horses of a buggy passing them near a couple and a man on horseback in the street. Also shows a train traveling behind the factory in the background., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 489, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 35 M 928, Mifflin Fund. February 5, 1958.
Creator: Stauffer, Jacob, b. 1808, artist
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 35 M 928

Title: Richard Norris & Son builders Philadelphia Express passenger locomotive
Description: Shows the colorfully-painted steam locomotive adorned with the maker plate "Richard Norris & Son 1856" that was built for the railway to Sagua La Grande, Cuba. An engineer with mustache and wide-brimmed hat operates the train engine traveling tracks running through tropical scenery. Locomotive also contains a full-length portrait of a woman on the lantern attached to the smokestack. Richard Norris assumed operations of the Norris Locomotive Works from his father, William, circa 1841., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 195, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 6741 N 861b, Brett operated from 6th & Minor streets in 1858.
Creator: Haugg, Louis, 1827-1903, artist
Date: [ca. 1858]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 6741 N 861b

Title: Solar Tip Shoes Made only by John Mundell & Co. Philada. None genuine without our trade mark. Look out for the trademark. The “Solar Tips Social Club.” We buy none but solar tip
Description: Advertisement containing a scene showing a children’s cotillion of the Solar Tips Social Club. The boy and girl club members dance as couples in their fancy attire, well-dressed hair, and "Solar Tips Social Club" sashes. To the right, children wearing tattered and non-solar tipped shoes gather forlornly to the side by a pole marked “We Must Buy Solar Tip Shoes and Join the Happy Party." A boy sits, legs outstretched, on the floor, as girls cry, comfort one another, and stare at their feet. The firm's trademark is incorporated into the scene and reads "The Best Sole Leather Tip Made. Patd. February 19, 1878. J.M. & Co. Trade Mark. Reg.", Not in Wainwright., pdcp00048, Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 219, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Tradesmen's Cards. One of three Mundell advertisements. Only one with imprint.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - Tradesmen's Cards

Title: View of the Schuylkill River and Vicinity from Office Window, Phila.
Description: View looking north from the B&O Railroad terminal at 24th and Chestnut streets at the Schuylkill River and nearby industries on the waterfront. Includes part of the Philadelphia Gas Works and two bridges in the distance., Part of an album containing photographs of railroad bridges and stations along the B&O Railroad's Philadelphia Division taken on a trip made by a small group of B&O Railroad employees, under the supervision of Division Engineer Maintenance-of-Way William A. Pratt, who surveyed the line in March 1891., 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. 65., Arcadia caption text: Looking north from an upper-story window of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Station located at Chestnut and Twenty-fourth streets, this 1891 photograph shows the city's industrial waterfront along the Schuylkill River including parts of the Philadelphia Gas Works and a freight depot. Horse-drawn vehicles and a train travel across the numerous bridges spanning the river in the background., LCP AR [Annual Report] 2001, pg. 58-9.
Date: March 1891.
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. albums - B&O [P.9945.124]

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: 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: 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: [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: 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: 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: 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: Louis L. Peck manufacturer & dealer in burning fluid varnishes, pine oil, virgin & sp[iri]ts of turpentine absolute, apothecaries, deodorized and fluid alcohol, of a superior quality linseed oil, white lead, lamps of every description, German & English bronzes, Dutch metal, sand paper, &c. [graphic] : Hecker's farina, family flour, & Hope Mills pure ground spices. Flour & farina store, 101 S. Front St. Varnish Store, 15 Dock Street. Lamp, pine oil & fluid store, 3 & 5 N. Eighth St. Philadelphia.
Description: Date supplied by Wainwright., Contains statement on product and shipping costs., Reproduced in Edwin Wolf's Quarter of a Millennium (Philadelphia: The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1981, rev. 1990), p. 177., LCP exhibit catalogue: Made in America #79., Advertisement showing the busy street corner at Front and Walnut streets near the Delaware River with a view of the building containing the oil manufactory, and the flour and farina store. The scene is depicted within a lithographed tromp l'oeil wood frame containing an inset of an exterior view of Peck's Works at Dock Street. Delivery wagons and drays traverse the business-lined streets, including one for Peck's driven by an African American man. Pedestrians walk the sidewalks and cross the intersection, and a boy rolls a hoop passed a female peddler sewing by her foodstand. Visible in the background are the busy Walnut Street Ferry wharf and Smith and Windmill Islands in the Delaware River. Louis L. Peck's varnish business operated from around 1848 until 1855.
Creator: Wagner & M'Guigan, lithographer., creator
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W222.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W222 [P.2134]

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: [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

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