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Title: F ourth and Chestnut Phila
Description: Impressionistic drawing from a raised vantage point showing the 400 block of Chestnut Street. Includes the Provident Life and Trust Company Bank and Office Building at 401-411 Chestnut (built 1876-1879, altered 1888-1902, demolished 1959-60); the Philadelphia Trust Company at 413-417 Chestnut (built 1873-1874, demolished 1959); Philadelphia National Bank at 419-423 Chestnut (built 1857-1859, altered between 1892-1908); Farmers and Mechanics Bank at 425-429 Chestnut (built 1884-1885, altered 1917); and the Pennsylvania Company for Insurances on Lives and Granting Annuities at 431 Chestnut (built 1871-1873). Also shows street and pedestrian traffic, including automobiles., Title inscribed in pencil on mount., Signature of artist in lower right corner., Date inferred from drawing style and depiction of automobiles., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell., Philip Kassel, born in Germany, was a commercial artist and illustrator in Philadelphia by 1910. Between the 1910s and 1950, he was listed in city directories with offices on the 300 and 400 blocks of Walnut Street.
Creator: Kassel Philip, 1876-1959, artist
Date: [ca. 1930]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection - Drawings & Watercolors [P.2018.61.18]

Title: No. 304 Walnut St. owned and occupied by the Company from 1859 to 1873
Description: Watercolor of the front façade of the Pennsylvania Company for Insurances on Lives and Granting Annuities’ office building constructed in 1859 at 304 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. Shows the two-story building with a sign above the front entrance that reads, “304.” Signs in windows to the left and right of the entrance advertise the Company’s name. Two men stand on the front steps and converse, and several pedestrians walk on the sidewalk. Also shows partial views of adjacent buildings. The Pennsylvania Company for Insurances on Lives and Granting Annuities was founded in 1812. In 1872, it was renamed as the Pennsylvania Company for Banking and Trust. The firm merged with the Bank of North America and Trust Company in 1929. The Company occupied the building at 304 Walnut Street, Philadelphia from 1859 to 1873., Title from item., Date inferred from content and active dates of the artist., Signed by the artist in the lower center., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019., George Emerick Essig (1838-1923), a Philadelphia-born painter, watercolorist, and etcher, specialized in marine scenes, particularly of the New Jersey coast. He exhibited his work at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1876 to 1888.
Creator: Essig, George Emerick, 1838-1923, artist
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.62.8]

Title: No. 173 (now 509) Chestnut St. owned and occupied by the Company from 1817 to 1826
Description: Watercolor of the Pennsylvania Company for Insurances on Lives and Granting Annuities’ office building on the 500 block of Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Shows the four-story building with an awning extending from the first story of the building to the outer edge of the sidewalk and a sign above the front entrance that reads, “Pennsylvania Company.” Also shows partial views of the adjacent buildings. The Pennsylvania Company for Insurances on Lives and Granting Annuities was founded in 1812. In 1872, it was renamed as the Pennsylvania Company for Banking and Trust. The firm merged with the Bank of North America and Trust Company in 1929. The Company occupied the building at 173 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia from 1817 to 1826., Title from item., Date inferred from content and active dates of the artist., Signed by the artist in the lower center., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019., George Emerick Essig (1838-1923), a Philadelphia-born painter, watercolorist, and etcher, specialized in marine scenes, particularly of the New Jersey coast. He exhibited his work at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1876 to 1888.
Creator: Essig, George Emerick, 1838-1923, artist
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.62.9]

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