Advertisement depicting the exterior of the company's four-story building. Pedestrians, including a woman, a couple, a mother and child, walk on the sidewalks. A peddler, his baskets at his feet, is addressed by a man at the corner of the building at which two men converse at the entrance. Also shows a man standing by a street lamp at the opposite corner and three dogs playing in the street. Company was instituted in 1856, and was located at this address until 1860, after which the company ceases to appear in city directories., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 252, Trimmed.
Date
[ca. 1858]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Businesses - Great [6483.F]
Exterior view showing the company's central office building, known as the American Building. A couple exits the building while a gentleman walks past. Incorporated in 1850, the company was formed in part to further the cause of temperance by offering considerable discounts to signers of the total abstinence pledge. Company occupied this building from 1854 to 1888., Published in I.L. Vansant ed. The royal road to wealth (Philadelphia: Published by Samuel Loag, 1869?), opp. pg. 31 without attribution. (LCP Am 1870 Van (18316.O)), Date from manuscript note on recto: June 15.60., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 18
Date
[1860]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Business [(7)1322.F.445e]
Advertisement showing an exterior view of the building for the insurance company that established a branch in Philadelphia in 1851. Also shows patrons exiting and entering the building; walking on the sidewalk; and a horse-drawn carriage passing in the street. The insurance company, organized in Great Britain in 1836, established a branch in the United States in 1848., Manuscript note on recto: Complt. of John C. Browne. Nov. 19, 1886., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 137, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 3 L 785
Advertisement containing a firefighting scene to promote the insurance company chartered April 2, 1860 by members of old volunteer fire departments. Shows several volunteer companies of firefighters racing past Independence Hall to a fire on the south side of Chestnut Street. In the foreground, a police officer waves to volunteers commandeering a hose carriage and horse-drawn steam engine that is chased by a dog. The hose truck is attached to a fire hydrant. In the distance, spectators run toward the fire where other firefighters use a steam engine to battle the flames., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 773, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Society Collection - Posters & Broadsides - Advertisements - Miscellaneous Folder 2 - United
Creator
Boell, William
Date
[ca. 1866]
Location
Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Society Collection - Posters & Broadsides - Advertisements - Miscellaneous Folder 2 - United
