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Title: [Employees of the Philadelphia Grain Elevator Company's Twentieth Street elevator]
Description: Depicts a group portrait of nine employees of the Philadelphia Grain Elevator Company at Twentieth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue in Philadelphia, Pa. posed before the grain storage facility. In the left, two white men employees stand in an open doorway underneath the sign, "The Phila. Grain Elevator Co’s. Twentieth St., Elevator." An African American man, holding his bowler hat in his hand, and another white man stand in front of the doorway. An African American man, holding his bowler hat in his hand, and two white men, stand in the center. In the right, an African American man, attired in a brimmed hat, a striped shirt, a waistcoat, torn pants, and shoes, stands with his hands at his side. A barefooted white boy, attired in a long-sleeved white shirt and pants with suspenders, looks at the viewer. Behind him is a horse-drawn cart with two horses resting under grain chutes near an open entranceway. The cloth chutes are labeled, "Philadelphia Seamless." The Philadelphia Grain Elevator Company was incorporated in 1878 and engaged in the operation of a rail terminal elevator for the exporting and importing of grain., Title supplied by cataloger., Date based on the operation of the business and the attire of the sitters., Gift of Chester County Historical Society, 1991., 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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department group portrait photographs - occupations - Philadelphia Grain Elevator Co. [P.9325.1]

Title: [Construction of the Frankford Elevated railroad tracks at Front and Arch Streets in Philadelphia, September 6, 1922]
Description: Scene showing predominantly African American construction workers laying down railroad tracks near a block of rowhouses at Front and Arch Streets in Philadelphia. The men are surrounded by piled planks, buckets, and construction debris. Many of the workers have stopped to pose, including a white man, possibly a foreman. In the left, two men continue to work and consult near steps by a curved railing. The half completed tracks, bridge platform, a billboard, factory buildings, and water tower are visible in the background. Constructed under the auspices of the City of Philadelphia's Department of City Transit (later Transit Operations and Planning Division) between 1915 and 1922, the Frankford Elevated Railway consisted of a two track structure six miles in length that extended north over the roadway of Front Street, Kensington Avenue and Frankford Avenue between Arch and Bridge Streets. Operated under lease to the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company (later South Eastern Public Transportation Authority or SEPTA), the line opened November 5, 1922., Title supplied by cataloger., Purchase 1989., 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: [September 6, 1922]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photos - unidentified - Construction [P.9260.419]

Title: Type "C" loader with swiveling belt conveyor storing coal at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Description: a Product advertisement, probably from a trade portfolio, showing the Link-Belt coal loader in action behind a small ivy covered building on the campus. In the foreground are large piles of coal. In the center, a coal shooting loader is set up and an African American man, attired in a brimmed hat, stands and oversees the operation. A laborer shovels coal from the back of a dump truck. Link-Belt Engineering Co. was founded by William Dana Ewart, inventor of the link-belt, in 1874., Title from typed note on verso., Date inferred from photographic medium and content., Inscribed in negative: 9249., Purchase 1990., 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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1920]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Link-Belt [P.9285.21]

Title: [Broad Street Station fire, Philadelphia, June 12, 1923]
Description: View of the interior of the burnt out train shed during the fire of June 11-13, 1923. Depicts several workers, including African Americans, building a new train platform and clearing debris from the tracks near the destroyed row of gates. Slightly damaged train cars and engines trapped by the fire, including "Al G. Barnes Wild Animal Circus," rest on the tracks. Large burnt pieces of the destroyed ceiling lay under a "Baggage Claim" sign. The Broad Street Station fire, started Monday, June 11, 1923 by a short circuited cable, was at the time considered one of the worst fires in the city's history with an estimated $1,500,000 worth of damage. By the second day, despite the fire continuing to burn in areas, 2000 laborers began to clear debris and set up umbrella shelters to prepare for the station's reopening at the end of that week., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Manuscript note on verso: Tues. noon., Reproduced in Harry Albrecht. Broad Street Station.... (Harry P. Albrecht: Philadelphia: 1976), p.30. (LCP Ok A1026.O.5), Purchase 1981., 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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [June 12, 1923]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - unidentified - transportation - railroad [P.8683.9]

Title: New Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane building, Pa
Description: View showing the progress of the construction of the Male Department, Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane, built from 1856 until 1859 after designs by Philadelphia architect Samuel Sloan. Construction workers, including African American men, pose before and inside the partially completed building. Two well-dressed white men, possibly including the hospital superintendent Dr. Thomas Story Kirkbride, are seated in the foreground. Kirkbride, an authority on asylum construction, promoted and oversaw the construction of the new building to alleviate the overcrowding and to abolish the co-educational conditions at the original asylum opened at 44th and Market in 1841., Title printed on mount., Date inferred from history of the building's construction., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of engravings relating to Philadelphia. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., 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., The Langenheim brothers, William and Frederick, of Philadelphia were pioneer photographers, and stereographic publishers. Between 1849 and 1865, the Langenheims produced over ninety different stereoviews of the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane and its staff as well as lantern slides of various subjects to be used for patient therapy.
Creator: W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
Date: [ca. 1857]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim [(8)1322.F.7b]

Title: New Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane building, Pa
Description: View showing the progress of the construction of the Male Department, Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane, built from 1856 until 1859 after designs by Philadelphia architect Samuel Sloan. Construction workers, including African American men, pose before and inside the partially completed building. Two well-dressed white men, possibly including the hospital superintendent Dr. Thomas Story Kirkbride, are seated in the foreground. Kirkbride, an authority on asylum construction, promoted and oversaw the construction of the new building to alleviate the overcrowding and to abolish the co-educational conditions at the original asylum opened at 44th and Market in 1841., Title printed on mount., Date inferred from history of the building's construction., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of engravings relating to Philadelphia. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., 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., The Langenheim brothers, William and Frederick, of Philadelphia were pioneer photographers, and stereographic publishers. Between 1849 and 1865, the Langenheims produced over ninety different stereoviews of the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane and its staff as well as lantern slides of various subjects to be used for patient therapy.
Creator: W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
Date: [ca. 1857]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim [(8)1322.F.7b]

Title: New Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane building, Pa
Description: View showing the progress of the construction of the Male Department, Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane, built from 1856 until 1859 after designs by Philadelphia architect Samuel Sloan. Construction workers, including African American men, pose before and inside the partially completed building. Two well-dressed white men, possibly including the hospital superintendent Dr. Thomas Story Kirkbride, are seated in the foreground. Kirkbride, an authority on asylum construction, promoted and oversaw the construction of the new building to alleviate the overcrowding and to abolish the co-educational conditions at the original asylum opened at 44th and Market in 1841., Title printed on mount., Date inferred from history of the building's construction., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of engravings relating to Philadelphia. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., 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., The Langenheim brothers, William and Frederick, of Philadelphia were pioneer photographers, and stereographic publishers. Between 1849 and 1865, the Langenheims produced over ninety different stereoviews of the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane and its staff as well as lantern slides of various subjects to be used for patient therapy.
Creator: W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
Date: [ca. 1857]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim [(8)1322.F.7b]

Title: Centennial commemoration at Philadelphia [ticket] Three millions of colonists on a strip by the sea. Now forty millions of freemen ruling from ocean to ocean
Description: Ticket to the "Grand Mass Demonstration in favor of the Centennial Commemoration of American Independence, February 22, 1873" at the Academy of Music containing scenes contrasting life in Philadelphia in 1776 with life in 1876. Scene of 1776 shows white men colonists, including one attired as a backwoodsman, in front of a log cabin and standing near a barefooted, enslaved African American man, attired in torn and worn clothing, sitting on a pile of sticks. Scene of 1876 shows a white man soldier talking to a white man artisan near an African American man laborer seated next to an anvil and machinery gears. Cityscape is visible in the background. Also includes an eagle holding an American flag crest adorned with a portrait of Washington. Contains text printed on the verso soliciting subscriptions to make the Centennial a success as well as to make Pennsylvania the representative to the world of the "power of the Republic.", Title from item., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Centennial and Columbian Exposition views. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., 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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [1873]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Ph Pr -8 x 10 - Events [5758.F.26c]

Title: Down where the cotton blossoms grow
Description: Postcard depicting a group portrait of African American cotton pickers, predominantly women and children, in a cotton field. Show the workers stopped from their work and posed toward the viewer. One of the women holds a baby. A wooded area is seen in the background., Date inferred from postmark: New Orleans, May 13, 1911, 9AM., Addressed in manuscript to: Miss Ester Wilson, 318 N. Jardin St., Shenandoah, Penna. Signed H.F.M., Contains cancelled one-cent stamp printed in green ink and depicting Benjamin Franklin in profile., Printed on verso: Made in U.S.A., Gift of George R. Allen., Divided back., Lipsher Specialty Co. operated 1909-1914 and published views of and around New Orleans.
Date: [ca. 1911]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Non-Pennsylvania [P.2013.65.20]

Title: Sugar cane plantation
Description: Postcard depicting a group portrait of male African American sugarcane workers, including several boys, posed in a sugarcane field. Most of the workers, stand and hold canes, while two boys sit on reaped cane in the foreground. A wooded area is seen in the background., Date inferred from postmark: New Orleans, May 13, 1911, 9AM., Addressed in manuscript to: Mr. John Wilson, 318 N. Jardin St., Shenandoah, Penna. Signed H.F.M., Contains cancelled one-cent stamp printed in green ink and depicting Benjamin Franklin in profile., Gift of George R. Allen., Divided back.
Date: [ca. 1911]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Non-Pennsylvania [P.2013.65.19]

Title: Foering & Thudiums cheap stove ware-house. [graphic] / W.H. Rease, No. 17 S[out]h 5[t]h St.
Description: Print trimmed and lacking caption., Poulson inscription on recto: Dec. 1846. North Second Street., Advertisement depicting the three-and-a-half story warehouse operated by Frederick Foering and C.A. Thudium at 87 North Second Street. In the open entranceways, a clerk assists a female shopper and an African American laborer lifts a stove. Displays of stoves line the sidewalk and the store walls. On the second floor near open windows, white laborers work. A horse-drawn cart departs an adjoining exitway. Foering and Thudium, one of the city's first domestic stove manufacturers, started in business in 1828, and operated on North Second Street from 1845 until 1847.
Creator: Rease, W. H., lithographer., creator
Date: [December 1846]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W132.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W132 [P.2045]

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: Joseph J. Cana[v]an morocco factory Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement depicting the manufactory complex at 1225 North Fifth Street (Canal Street between Thompson and Girard avenues). complex included a slaughterhouse, drying rooms, pulling shop, and office and sales room. A horse-drawn dray loaded with goods departs from the exit way between two sections of buildings that contain a flag and working smokestack. Also shows a worker in a doorway and a few pedestrians., Probably engraved by John Serz., Name of business misspelled in title: Canaran., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Madelyn Wolke, Lucianne Reichert, and Clifford A. Mohwinkel Jr.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Serz [P.9773.76b]

Title: Whann's Super Phosphate Manufactory. Walton, Whann & Co., proprietors. Wilmington, Delaware, office, Front & Market sts Daniel Fields, general agent for the Southern states
Description: Billhead containing a view of the multi-building manufactory on a pier along the riverfront. Shows laborers transporting goods across the factory grounds with hand and horse-drawn carts. Others stand and depart from entryways to the buildings. At the end of the pier, sacks are piled near docked and approaching ships., Cataloging 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 albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.135b]

Title: Whann's Super Phosphate Manufactory. Walton, Whann & Co., proprietors. Wilmington, Delaware, office, Front & Market sts Daniel Fields, general agent for the Southern states
Description: Billhead containing a view of the multi-building manufactory on a pier along the riverfront. Shows laborers transporting goods across the factory grounds with hand and horse-drawn carts. Others stand and depart from entryways to the buildings. At the end of the pier, sacks are piled near docked and approaching ships., Cataloging 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 albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.135b]

Title: The sea and the ships
Description: Plate from a children's moral instruction book showing a busy wharf, probably on the Delaware River, where laborers use pulleys and ramps to unload boxes, hogsheads, casks, and chests from a recently docked ship. A horse is attached to a pulley and is guided by a laborer to unload these items. Also shows three men weighing barrels on the ground and two men moving long poles or planks of wood under the gaze of a man with a shovel who leans against a post in the right foreground. Another vessel moves along the river in the background., Published as illustration on page 31 in Common Sights in Town & Country Delineated & Described for Young Children (Philadelphia: American Sunday School Union, ca. 1855)., Accompanied by text titled "The sea and the ship" praising the vast and various business done by ships, and the skill and talent of the men involved, as these activities are made possible by "Him who formed all the Oceans"., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 685, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bd 61 K 8341.31, Library of Congress: Marian S. Carson Collection
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813
Date: ca. 1855
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bd 61 K 8341.31

Title: Laying passenger stage out to the Orinoco. From forward spar-deck of vessel, [Bermuda]
Description: Glass negative showing two men straddling planks extending from a dock over water to an unseen boat. The men shimmy up the planks attaching ropes as they go. The dock is crowded with people. Rowboats float underneath the planks., Photographer remarks: Too small stop., Time: 2:30, Light: Faint sun., 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: March 28, 1886
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.911]

Title: Laying passenger stage out to the Orinoco, from forward spar-deck of vessel, [Bermuda]
Description: Glass negative showing a group of men shimmying up planks extending from a dock over water to an unseen boat. The men attach ropes as they go. The dock is crowded with people. Rowboats float in the water nearby., Same as last., Time: 2:30, Light: Faint sun., 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: March 28, 1886
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.912]

Title: [Laying passenger stage out to the Orinoco, From forward spar-deck of vessel, Bermuda]
Description: Glass negative showing men carrying planks to lay from the dock to an unseen boat on the right. The planks extend over the water with rowboats floating nearby. The dock is crowded with people., Same as last., Photographer remarks: Too small stop., Time: cir. 2:30, Light: Faint sun., 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: March 28, 1885
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.913]

Title: [T. Wattson & Sons, biscuit bakery, 129 North Front Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Advertisement showing the busy four-story factory for the bakery at 129 North Front Street, between Chestnut and Walnut Streets. A gentleman, possibly the proprietor Thomas Wattson, stands in one of the open doorways to the bakery as laborers work around him. Near the doorways, workers load kegs onto a horse-drawn "T. Wattson & Sons Biscuit Bakery" wagon and dray. Other men, hoist kegs to upper receiving windows from a group of several lined in front of the factory. In a few of the windows, men at work and stacks of barrels are visible. Laborers hammer shut and move kegs. Also shows "X"-shaped joint bolts on a section of the building under near which a pedestrian walks past. Business established at address in 1846. Thomas Wattson sold the business to his son-in-law in 1852 and it was renamed Wattson & Co., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: North Front Street-Phila. Aug. 1846., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 737, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Trimmed.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [August 1846]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W359 [P.2199]

Title: Robert Wood's railing, architectural & ornamental iron works, Ridge Road below Spring Garden St., Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement showing the long three-story, brick factory occupied by Robert Wood's iron works at 1126 Ridge Avenue. The central portion of the building looms a few feet over the wings, and is adorned by tall, narrow windows on the second story, with a decorative cornice topped by a statue, bell cupola, and advertising flag. Statues of a lion and two dogs adorn an overhang near the open doorway of the iron foundry inside this central portion, under which a man and woman enter the office and warerooms. Visible inside the factory are several men at a forge, along with laborers working in the left and right wings. A man driving a horse-drawn company carriage emerges from the right wing. Four laborers load a lion statue into a cart on Ridge Avenue. Several boxes, addressed to "Mobile, Aa.," "Havana," "Jackson," "San Francisco, Ca.," "Smith & Co., St. Louis," "Cincinnati, Oo.," "Jones & Co., New Orleans," are scattered in the street nearby. Two laborers load (or unload) an iron railing from a covered cart in the foreground. Men working outdoors with unidentified piles, and additional brick factory buildings are visible in the background. A trompe-l'œil frame border surrounds the image., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 655, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Reynolds, Robert F., artist
Date: [ca. 1851]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W317 [P.2253]

Title: Robert Wood's steam iron railing works, Ridge Road above Buttonwood St, Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement showing Robert Wood's long and narrow, four-story steam iron railing works on the 1100 block of Ridge Road. Signboards on the facade advertise "Wood's steam iron railing manufactory all kinds of ornamental & architectural iron work made to order," and "manufacturer of iron railings for cemeteries." Laborers are visible through the open windows and doors on all levels of the factory. Two men carry an iron piece into the ground level of the building, near a display of ornamental iron sculptures, that includes a large lyre. A laborer loads iron railings onto a horse-drawn cart near the entrance. Another man pulls iron bars from a dray and piles them into the open cellar door. Also shows a gentleman starting to exit from the rear of a crowded Girard College & Exchange line omnibus traveling north on Ridge Road, and children playing near a dog on a makeshift seesaw in the empty adjoining lot. Image is surrounded by a border of iron work models, and contains pictorial details of stairs with ornate iron railings., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: April 1847., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 656, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [April 1847]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W318 [P.2254]

Title: [Morocco leather manufactory, B. D. Stewart, S.E. corner of Willow Street and Old York Road, Philadelphia]
Description: Advertisement showing the multi-storied manufactory of Benedict D. Stewart at Willow Street and Old York Road, i.e., 435-437 York Avenue. Signs with the name of the proprietor, the business, and street names adorn the building in which a man enters the doorway. Shutters adorn the lower and slats adorn the upper windows. In the right, broadsides adorn the small fence to the courtyard between the main and partially visible rear building of the factory. In the right foreground, laborers transport, pile, and load crates (some marked), and sacks onto a horse-drawn dray. Also shows a gentleman walking on the sidewalk. Stewart began his factory at the address in 1839., Title supplied by cataloguer., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: S.E. cor. Willow & Old York Road Aug. 1847, Wainwright suggests date of circa 1855., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 485, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Date: [August 1847]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W236 [P.2106]

Title: S. Tobias, importer & general dealer in wines, liquors, cordials and syrups, No. 68, North 3d. Street, above Arch, Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement showing the four-story storefront adorned with signage on the 100 block of North Third Street. A patron enters one of the two open entryways at which a straw basket and wine cask are displayed across from a large-cask shaped sign. Sign reads "S. Tobias No. 68 Importer & Dealer in Wines Liquors Cordials and Syrups." At the other entryway, a laborer rolls a cask out the door near a worker entering the cellar. Within the store, the backs of a patron and a clerk are visible in the rear of the store in which shelves of liquor bottles, straw baskets, wine casks, and barrels are displayed on shelves, the floor, and the open display window. Other boxes, bottles, casks, and barrels are visible at the upper floor windows. Barrels and boxes, one marked "S. Tobias" line the sidewalk, near a street lamp in front of the store. Also shows partial views of the adjacent businesses and the signage adorning the storefronts of Charles M. Schott, dry goods (66 N. 3rd St.) and Scattergood & Whitall, druggists' glassware (70 N. 3rd St.). A clerk is visible working at a table through the doorway of Schott, and a pulley and boxes are visible within the open doorway of Scattergood & Whitall. Tobias tenanted the site starting in 1845 and renamed his business Soloman Tobias & Son in 1847., Date from Poulson inscription on earlier mount: Imperfect dup. impression. Dec. 1845., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 671, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [December 1845]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W325 [P.2183]

Title: [Piper & Andrews, warm air furnace manufactory. Cooking ranges. 82 North Sixth Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Advertisement showing the four-story storefront adorned with signage on the 100 block of North Sixth Street. Signage reads "Radiator Stoves Perpetual Ovens Backs & Jambs Vault & Hearth Grates. Metalic Roofing in Tin & Copper." A patron enters one of the two open entryways into the storefront that is lined with a wall of shelves holding merchandise. Clerks and employees are visible at the cellar entrance, second entry way across from the stairs to the second floor, and in the rear of the business. Pipes and stoves are displayed at the entryways. Two other workers toil at the second floor windows. To the right of the manufactory, a woman street vendor sits in front of a rickety, wooden building front, at a falling shutter used as a table lined with foodstuffs, under an awning with a frame weighted by rocks. The upper floors of a wooden building rise from behind the site of the vendor. Also shows a partial view of an adjacent factory. Partially visible and semi-legible signs, including one reading "ady's Factory" adorn the building. Henry A. Piper and R.S. R. Andrews partnered circa 1845-1847., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: North Sixth Street - 1845 -., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 603, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Trimmed.
Date: [1845]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W293 [P.2172]

Title: Bennett & Co. Tower Hall, clothing bazaar No. 182 Market St, between Fifth & Sixth. Philadelphia Wholesale & retail. J.M. Bennett. J. C. Umberger
Description: Advertisement showing the four-story, tower-shaped clothing store adorned with signage at 182, i.e., 518 Market Street. Statuary and a flag reading "Tower Hall" embellish the building and signs advertise "Quick Sales" and "Small Profits." A store clerk consults with a patron near one of the four open entryways to the establishment. Clothing adorns the entries and hangs from racks inside the store in which another clerk assists a patron at a display table. Coats and other piles of clothing are visible in the upper floor windows. In front of the store, several crates line the sidewalk. A laborer nails one shut as other workers load a horse-drawn dray. A few of the crates are marked with addresses, including Independence, Mo., Nashville, Tenn., and Augusta, Ga. The three-and-one-half story "Clothing Ware Rooms" stands adjacent to the "Tower Hall." Signage advertising "Shirts, Collars, Bosoms, Cravats, Wrappers, Hosiery, Handkerchiefs &c. &c. &c. and [Edward] "Allman Hatter" and [Robert] "Winchester Grocer" adorns the facade. Patrons exit and enter the doorways of the building in front of which a laborer loads a "Bennet & Co. Tower Hall Clothing Bazaar" wagon. On the sidewalk, near the delivery worker, a woman strolls near two boys in conversation and a man carrying a large package. Partial views of the outerlying, neighboring businesses complete the scene. Signage reading "...T Toland," (i.e., George Toland, accountant, 180 Market), and "Robert..." adorn the buildings. Also contains a trompe l'oeil wood frame border around the image., Col. Joseph M. Bennett (1816-1898) established his business, which he named Tower Hall in 1853, at the address in 1849. He was a successful businessman who used his wealth for philanthropic pursuits including the establishment of a Methodist orphanage and the bequest of West Philadelphia properties to the University of Pennsylvania in support of women's education., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 35, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [ca. 1853]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W23 [P.2016]

Title: Elevation plan of Granite St. buildings and those connecting with Walnut, Dock and Front Streets
Description: Depicts three rows of elevations showing the basic architectural stylings of the twenty-three distinct Granite Street properties constructed by John Rice for Jesse Godley between 1849 and 1853. The first two rows show the front elevations of the north and south sides of Granite Street extending from Front to Dock Streets (100-127 Granite Street). The third row shows the east and west side elevations of Granite Street, including the underground storage vaults below the street and the front elevations of properties facing Front, Dock and Walnut Streets (200 block of South Front Street; 137-143 Dock Street; 100 block of Walnut Street). The plans include pre-consolidation property numbers; notes about properties that extend, and are accessible, from both Granite Street and Front, Walnut and Dock Streets; and pedestrian traffic, including laborers rolling barrels on the sidewalk, horse-drawn carts, and men and women walking on the sidewalks. Godley financed the "Granite Street Improvements" in anticipation of an increase in trade that the Central Railroad would bring to the area. Builders include John Rice, stone masons Lukens & Hutchinson, brick workers George R. Creely, and granite workers S.K. Hoxie, John C. Leiper, and William Keys. The innovative granite-covered storage vaults, twenty-four feet wide by three-hundred twenty-five feet long, were built under the street with a brick-arch arcade and for the joint use of tenants. The properties and vault were demolished in 1960., Scale: 1/8 of an inch to the foot., Accompanied by the "Ground plan of Granite St. buildings, with the vault underneath the street" [P.8970.20]., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 204, Construction described in North American, December 12, 1850., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Date: 1853
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ***W108 [P.2065]

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: H. B. McCalla, successor to the late Andrew McCalla, No. 252 Market St. First hat & cap store below 8th St. south side, Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement showing the three-and-one-half story storefront, covered in advertising text, on the 700 block of Market Street. Advertising reads "The Cheapest Wholesale & Retail Hat and Cap Manufactory in the World. Fashionable Styles. Caps. Hats." A male patron enters one of two open doorways to the establishment, in which a clerk surveys stacks of hats across from a flight of stairs. At the other end of the store, another clerk assists a patron, standing in front of a mirror, as he tries on hats next to shelves of merchandise. Between the entries, men's and boys' hats and caps adorn a display window flanked by cases of "hats" and "caps" displayed outside. Boxes, hats, and milliners at work, are visible at the upper windows. A large model hat and cap adorn the roof of the building. In the street, a horse-drawn dray is positioned to receive a delivery opposite a laborer retrieving a crate labeled "M. Dormitzen Middleton Sch. County" from the store cellar. Labeled crates line the sidewalk with addressees that include "Heitner & Shay Augusta Northumberland Co. Pa."; "T.L. Mitchell Jefferson Co. Pa."; "Young & Lee Allentown Pa."; "Geo. L. Reppler St. Clair Schuykill Co."; and "Geo. Far... Centre Co. Pa." Also shows the attic window of the building displaying signage that reads "Hat and Cap Store," and partial views of adjacent businesses. One business displays blankets and a trunk near its entry and another contains signs reading "Deposi...Roots...Every" and "Branch Americ..." H.B. McCalla assumed operation of the store in 1852, where he remained until 1855., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 337, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Reynolds, Robert F., artist
Date: [ca. 1852]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W164 [P.2076]

Title: Joseph Oat & Son, coppersmiths, No. 12 Quarry Street Philadelphia Make to order on the most approved principle, and of the best materials, all kinds of copper work, for locomotive and stationery engines, sugar houses on the old or vacuum plan, distilleries, manufactories, soda water apparatus, and generally every description of copper work ; also sheet iron sugar moulds of all sizes. Refer to Messrs. Joseph S. Lovering & Co., Messrs. M. & S.N. Lewis, Messrs. I.P. & Morris & Co., Frederick Brown, I.P. Wendell & Co. Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement showing the multi- and split-level factory "Jos. Oat & Son Copper Smiths" at 12, i.e., 232-234 Quarry Street. The name of the proprietors "Jos. Oat" and "G.R. Oat" adorn one of the lower window shutters. Several pieces of copper work, including cauldrons, a bell, and a distiller, line the front of the building on either side of the large, open entryway to the workshop. Within the shop, laborers hammer copper pieces, nail a crate shut, and work at a forge. Copper pieces surround the workers. At many of the upper windows, more workers toil on small pieces. In the street, a drayman loads a crate onto his horse-drawn vehicle not far from a fire hydrant. George R. Oat, entered his father's company, established in 1788 by his grandfather Jesse Oat, in 1843., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Aug. 1847., Title printed in type below the image., Title also printed in Spanish and French., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 417, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [August 1847]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W210 [P.2141]

Title: Keystone Marble Works. S. F. Jacoby & Co., Market St. betw. 20th & 21st Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement containing a montage of 5 views of the marble works established in 1855 at 2025 Market Street. Views are separated by borders comprised of filigree, mantles, and sculpture. Upper view shows the exterior of the three-story L-shaped factory.The factory is adorned with a balcony lined with statues, the roof figure of William Penn, and signage. Marble works, predominately monuments, fill the courtyard across from laborers working with a pile of marble slabs near a horse-drawn cart. Also shows street and pedestrian traffic, including a horse-drawn dray parked near the sidewalk and a couple on horseback, a horse-drawn carriage, a horse-drawn cart, and a laborer pushing a hand-cart in the street. Lower views show the "Cutting Room"; "Saw Room"; "Polishing Room"; and "Show Room." Interior views include laborers at work cutting, polishing, and transporting by hand slabs of marble under the presence of factory managers. Views also show an elegantly-attired couple reviewing mantelpieces in the showroom. Most of the laborers toil at work tables lining the walls. Also contains a vignette depicting the Philadelphia coat of arms., Published in Colton's atlas of America, illustrating the physical and political geography of North and South America... Commercial edition with business cards of prominent houses in Philadelphia. (New York: J.H. Colton and Company, 1856), page 53 1/2. (HSP O 458)., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 421, LCP AR [Annual Report] 1981, pg. 51., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc38 K44., Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Factories, etc.
Date: [1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W213 [P.8691]

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: Cornelius, Baker & Co. manufacturers of lamps, chandeliers, gas fixtures etc Manufactories: 181 Cherry Street and Columbia Avenue & 5th Street, Philadelphia. Store, No. 176 Chestnut Street
Description: Advertisement containing two views showing the manufactories at "Columbia Avenue and Fifth Street" and "No. 181 Cherry Street." "Columbia Avenue" view shows the multiple-level industrial building with two-story addition comprising most of the 500 block of Columbia Avenue. A cupola containing a weather vane and an American flag adorn the roof of the main building. Near one of the factory entries, probably the office, a man holds the reigns of a horse hitched to a one-seat carriage as a horse-drawn omnibus passes from around the corner at the end of the block. In the foreground, in the street, and across from the factory, near a small pile of debris, passengers, including a woman and a family, wait at, and enter the rear of a stopped "Germantown Road North Fifth Street" horse-drawn omnibus. A man on horseback approaches the omnibus. A drayman leads his horse-drawn vehicle loaded with a crate past the opposite street corner on which a couple promenades. Also shows, neighboring buildings, in the left of the image., "Cherry Street" view shows the multi-story factory on the 800 block of Cherry Street. A tower and American flag adorn the building in which workers are visible at a number of the open windows. At the far left end of the building, a wagon travels near a man carrying a basket and through an archway to the courtyard. A horse-drawn wagon is parked near the main entrance of the factory. The entry contains the name of the firm and a small stoop adorned with iron work. At the corner, a boy with a light fixture walks past a lamppost, as in the street, a horse-drawn wagon travels behind a carriage occupied by three gentlemen. The vehicle is drawn by two agitated horses that the driver attempts to settle. At the east side of the building, two gentlemen converse and another horse-drawn wagon drives down the street. Also shows a woman strolling past a tree at the adjacent corner, and neighboring buildings. Cornelius & Baker was founded in 1835 and operated 2 factories and a storefront by the 1850s. The firm was succeeded by Cornelius & Sons in 1869., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 162, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Free Library of Philadelphia: Oversize Philadelphiana - Factories and Foundries (A-M). FLP copy divided into two sheets., Images also issued as separate prints. See **W87 and **W88.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W86 [P.2028]

Title: [J. Mayland, Jr. & Co. tobacco & snuff manufactory. Segars, foreign & domestic. Wholesale grocers, N.W. corner of Third and Race Streets, Philadelphia]
Description: Advertisement showing the five-story manufactory and storefront covered in signage of the tobacco and grocery business at 111 Race Street, i.e. the 300 block of Race Street. Within the first-floor window and entryways, a patron enters the store near a wall of shelved good and boxes on the floor; a clerk organizes canisters; and other employees check a list and move a crate. At the upper floor windows, boxes, barrels, and sacks are piled and employees work. In front of the store, laborers unload and transport boxes from a horse-drawn dray parked in the street. Crates and barrels line the sidewalk near the dray. Also shows partial views of adjacent buildings. Jacob Mayland established his tobacco business circa 1803 and operated from the 300 block of Race Street beginning in 1805. The business, renamed Jacob Mayland Jr. & Co. circa 1842, remained at 111 Race Street until circa 1848., Title supplied by cataloguer., Poulson inscription on recto: Race west of third Street. Oct. 1846., Wainwright suggests date of circa 1842., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 399, LCP copy trimmed and lacking title and imprint., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Date: [October 1846]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W193 [P.2053]

Title: John Bancroft, Jr. soap and candle manufactory. No. 19, Wood St. betw. 2nd & 3rd Sts. & Vine and Callowhill Sts. Philadelphia Palm, white, variegated, yellow and brown soaps, mould & dipped candles, with all the varieties of fancy soap
Description: Advertisement showing the factory on the 200 block of Wood Street. Signs reading "Steam Soap & Candle Manufactory" and "John Bancroft Jr." adorn the manufactory (left) and smaller adjoining office building (right). A clerk, writing in an account book, stands at the doorway of the office in which another clerk is visible in a lower window. Near the adjacent arch to the alleyway to the rear courtyard, a boy carries a box on his shoulder and laborers hoist boxes from a receiving window to a long factory wagon parked on the cobblestone street. A sign reading "Jno Bancroft Jr. Soap and Candle Manufacturer 19 Wood St." adorns the wagon. A barrel and boxes are stored in the courtyard. Boxes and molds are piled in front of upper floor windows. Factory also contains a second archway, cellar doors, a fire insurance marker, and smokestacks spewing smoke., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 407, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Heiss, George G., artist
Date: [June 1847]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W200 [P.2117]

Title: Franklin Iron Works. Sutton & Smith's iron foundry, Franklin Street between Second and Front Streets, Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement for the iron foundry established at the 100 block of Franklin Street in 1841. Shows an exterior view of the foundry complex adorned with the sign "Sutton & Smith's Iron Foundry." Cylinders, shafts, and wheels lay on the sidewalk in front of the buildings comprising the complex in which laborers work. Smoke rises from smokestacks adorning all the buildings that are adjoined by fencing to courtyards. Workers attend one of two horse-drawn drays on the sidewalk; are visible carrying a pipe in the first-floor entryway of a three-story building; sit and shake hands on a large cylinder; and are visible in other parts of the complex. Sutton and Smith joined in partnership circa 1843., Date from Poulson inscription in ink on recto: Franklin St. bet. 2nd & Front St. Aug. 1847., Wainwright suggests date of circa 1860., Poulson inscription in pencil on recto: J.J. Sutton & Co., Artist's signature lower left corner of stone., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 277, Trimmed., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [August 1847]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W139 [P.2046]

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

Title: [Construction at Ninth and Sansom streets]
Description: Depicts four African American men construction workers on the framework of store fronts (i.e., Burd Building) under construction on the former grounds of the Shippen Burd mansion, demolished in 1861. In the background stands the hippodrome-shaped auction house of "Alfred M. Herkness Philadelphia Horse & Carriage Bazaar," in operation from around 1848 until 1913., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from manuscript note on verso., Reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth-century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publications, 1980), p. 180., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of engravings relating to Philadelphia. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., 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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Broadbent & Co., photographer
Date: September 6, 1862
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - Non-Portraits - Broadbent & Co. [(8)1322.F.47f]

Title: [African American construction crew installing a utility pole]
Description: Scene of a crew of African American men construction workers nearing completion of the installation of a utility pole along a cobblestone city street lined with homes and businesses. Most of the crew members hold their mallets on their shoulders and wait on the sidewalk as another laborer retrieves a long pipe from their nearby utility truck. A mound of freshly dug dirt is piled near his feet. A white pedestrian observes the scene. A gas station is visible on the opposite side of the street., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from photographic medium and attire of the sitters., Purchase 1989., 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: [ca. 1925]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - unidentified - construction [P.9260.603]

Title: Tobacco - Virginia
Description: View showing a tobacco field near a Virginia road. In the foreground, tobacco plants grow. An African American man and woman, possibly agricultural workers, walk near a large, wooden shed in the field. In the left, a car drives down the road towards the viewer., Title from manuscript note on verso., Date inferred from photographic medium and car in the photograph., Gift of Joseph Kelly, 1982., 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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Photo Illustrators (Firm)
Date: [ca. 1935]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photo-Illustrators - Non-Philadelphia - Afro-Americana

Title: Buy the Universal plow. Made at Canton, Ohio
Description: Racist trade card illustration depicting two African American men operating a plow and struggling to control two agitated donkeys. One man is seated in the plow and holds reins in his left hand and a lever in his right. He is attired in a tan-colored hat and vest, a blue long-sleeved shirt, and blue and black striped pants. The other man stands in front of the donkeys and holds reins in both hands. He is attired in a white long-sleeved shirt and blue and black checkered pants. One of the donkeys kicks its hind legs up in the air and the other digs its hind legs into the ground. A person on a plow, trees, and a small house are visible in the field behind the scene. Universal Plow Company opreated throughout the 1880s and 1890s. The business was originally based in Canton, Ohio and eventually moved to Wooster, Ohio., Title from item., Series no. 468 printed in bottom right corner on recto., Distributor's imprint printed on verso: A.F. Newcomer, General Eastern and Southern Agent, Harrisburg, PA., Advertising text printed on verso: The Universal Plows, front and rear adjusting. The lightest, strongest and most perfect working plow made. The only practical rear-adjusting plow in the world. No wrench, no trouble, no lost time. All interchangeable in steel or chilled iron complete with all improved attachments. See catalogue., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Universal [P.2017.95.179]

Title: [Benjamin H. Shoemaker, French Plate Glass Depot, 205-211 North Fourth Street, Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: Frontispiece showing the five-story storefront of the window and plate glass dealer at 205-211 North Front Street. Signage adorns the building and reads "French Plate Glass Depot"; "French, English and American Window Glass"; "Plate Glass"; and "Window Glass." A patron enters one of the entryways near a couple with their child walking on the sidewalk. Two men, possibly the proprietor and a clerk, stand in adjacent entries and watch drayman unload large boxed sheets of glass from a horse-drawn cart in the street. Shoemaker established his glass depot in 1855 when he left the druggist business of his brother Robert Shoemaker. Shoemaker served as president of the Pennsylvania Hospital for several years., Date inferred from publication date of catalog in which print is included., Frontispiece to Benjamin H. Shoemaker, importer, dealer, and sole agent in Philadelphia for the sale of French thick white plate glass (Philadelphia, 1875). [Am 1875 Benja, 117681.D]., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 879
Date: [1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Am 1875 Benja 117681.D. frontspiece

Title: Rosengarten & Sons, Manufacturing Chemists, Philadelphia Medals awarded, Centennial, Franklin Institute, American ", Maryland ", World’s Fair, N.Y. Manufacturers of sulphate of quinine, sulphate of morphine, nitrate of silver, and other chemicals
Description: Advertisement showing a bird’s eye view of the factory complex of several buildings and courtyards originally built 1855 between 18th, Fitzwater, 17th, and Catherine streets. Complex includes the L-shaped building at the corner of Fitzwater and Seventeeth streets that displays the sign “Rosengarten & Sons. Established 1822” near the entrance. The building contained the office, packing rooms, and manufacturing rooms for the firm. Several individuals walk on the sidewalk and horse-drawn carts and wagons travel near the street corner. On the Fitzwater block in front of the complex, which also includes a storage shed, stable, and warehouse for the factory, other wagons and carts are parked. Next to the warehouse, a horse-drawn cart enters a passageway to the complex in which laborers and horse-drawn carts are visible at work. Several of the factory buildings contain smokestacks. Also shows a horse-drawn omnibus traveling near the intersection, surrounding blocks of buildings, and tree tops. Rosengarten & Sons, one of the oldest U.S. chemical manufacturers and a leader in plant alkaloid and bromine production, merged with Powers & Weightman to form Powers, Weightman, Rosengarten Co. in 1905., pdcp00039, Not in Wainwright., Probably printed by Longacre & Co., Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Factories, etc.
Creator: Blanc, Albert, artist
Date: [ca. 1876]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - Factories, etc. - R

Title: Merrick & Hijo, Succesores De Merrick & Towne, Filadelfia. = Merrick & Son, successors to Merrick & Towne, Philadelphia. = Merrick & Fils, Successeur De Merrick & Towne, Philadelphie Ingernieros y Fabricantes de Maquinas de Vapor, de Calderas, trapiches y de Maquinaria en general. Ellos son tambien agents exclusivos para la fabrica y la venta del martillo patente de vapor de accion de Nasmyth, -y del aparato ò maquina patente de Rillieux para cocer azucar. = Engineers and manufacturers of steam engines and boilers, sugar mills, and machinery in general. They are the exclusive agents for the manufacture and sale of Nasmyth's patent direct-action steam hammer, and for Rillieux’s patent apparatus for the manufacture of sugar. =Ingénieurs et fabricants de machina à vapeur, de chaudières, Moulin à cane at de machines et appareilles en général. Ils sont les agents exclusives pour la fabrique et la vente du marteau a vapeur à action directe (breveté) de Nasmyth,- et pour l’appareil (breveté) de Rillieux pour la fabrication de sucre
Description: Advertisement showing the factory complex between Washington, Federal, Fourth, and Fifth streets for the firm established in 1836 as Merrick & Towne (renamed Merrick & Son in 1849 and Merrick & Sons in 1852). In the right of the image, several laborers remove a pipe through the stable-like doors of a warehouse near which a pile of pipes lies on the sidewalk. A boy, sitting on a hydrant, with a dog watches the scene from the opposite corner. To the rear of the warehouse, a horse-drawn cart filled with coal enters the fenced courtyard. Piles of pipe are visible in the yard and workers are visible at the doorway of the workshop bordering the yard. Past the courtyard, a laborer pushes a hand cart by another workshop. Smokestacks adorn most of the buildings and machine parts and tools line the sidewalk in front of them. In the street, a team of six horses pulls a truck carrying a large pipe. The team driver walks on the sidewalk behind a couple taking a stroll., pdcp00023, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Factories, etc.
Creator: Rease, W.H, artist
Date: 1850
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - Factories, etc. - M

Title: Wm C. Rudman’s Philadelphia pale ale on draught, warranted for from all pernicious drugs and alcoholic admixture, Brewery, 121 Green Street, Northern Liberties
Description: Advertisement looking down the alley way of the brewery, also known as Eagle Brewery, established in 1829. Includes the "Pale Ale Brewery Counting House" (left) and adjoining and adjacent processing buildings. In the foreground, within the doorway of the red brick counting house, a clerk interacts with a drayman. The brewery employee hands the driver a small piece of paper as the deliveryman also holds the reigns of his horse harnessed to a dray loaded with beer barrels. The horse wears blinders. Behind the clerk, a gentleman holding a mug of beer stands with another man in the doorway. In the alley, laborers, some in aprons, transport barrels out off a three-archway storage building, pause near a dray loaded with barrels, and stand by a row of barrels near a doorway of a building opposite the counting house. In the background, other workers hoist a sack to an upper receiving door of a building. Also shows a pipe extending between the storage house and the building lined with kegs. Brewery operated from 121, i.e., 309-311 Green Street 1829-1862. Brewery purchased by Robert Gray., pdcp00028, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Oversize Philadelphiana - Factories and Foundries (N-Z)
Creator: Breton, William L., artist
Date: [ca. 1835]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Oversize Philadelphiana - Factories and Foundries (N-Z)

Title: Christopher Gallagher. Wholesale liquor dealer 806 Lombard St
Description: Advertisement showing the two-story brownstone storefront, adorned with signage, of the liquor dealer who relocated to 806 Lombard Street circa 1875. Barrels, visible through the open central entry, are stacked within the space on the first floor. Architectural ornamentations and etched, arched windows adorn the upper story facade. A man, possibly proprietor Gallagher, stands near one of two other doorways to the establishment across from a laborer prying on one of several barrels lined on the sidewalk. In the street, a boy attends to one of two horses drawing a cart loaded with more barrels. Also shows partial views of adjacent buildings. Gallagher immigrated to the United States in 1856 and established a wholesale liquor business in Philadelphia. He was a member of the Hibernian Society, Catholic societies, and president of the Building and Loan Association., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 121, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Firefighting Album Am 3989 Gallagher
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Firefighting Album Am 3989 Gallagher

Title: [La Roche & Stahl florist shop, 1237 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Group portrait showing a line of eight men, including an African American employee and possibly co-owner Balthazar Stahl (third from right), standing in front of the flower store with large display windows marked "LaRoche & Stahl." Bouquets of flowers, floral wreathes, and other floral arrangements are displayed. A retracted awning with the name if the business adorns the building. A large garland of flowers is weaved across the awning frame. Potted plants line the base of the building and entryway near where the men stand. In the far left, the back of a horse traveling in the street near men patronizing a vendor's stand at the side of the flower store is visible. In the far right, signage for the adjacent business is partially visible. Florist Maximilian F. La Roche partnered with his brother-in-law Batlhazar Stahl in 1878. The partnership also managed several large greenhouses in Collingdale, Pa., which specialized in chrysanthemums and roses. Previously, La Roche had operated his own floral business in Philadelphia beginning circa 1876 when he purchased Brooker & Co. at 1319 Chestnut Street. La Roche removed his store to 1237 Chestnut in 1881. Stahl, who was in charge of the retail business, left the partnership circa 1898 when he started his own business at 27 South Eleventh Street., Title supplied by cataloguer., Date inferred from the attire of the men included in image.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - unidentified - Business - L [P.2008.11.6]

Title: Melloy & Ford, wholesale tin ware manufacturers. [graphic] / On stone by W. Rease, No. 17 Sth 5th St.
Description: Print trimmed and lacking caption., Poulson's inscription on recto: Mar. 1849; Market Street., 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 couple strolls, two laborers lift a crate onto a horse-drawn sulky, and a female customer enters the store. An African American 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.
Creator: Rease, W. H., lithographer., creator
Date: [[March 1849]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W231.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W 231 [P.2105]

Title: Lacey & Phillips. [graphic] / Drawn on stone by W.H. Rease No. 17 So. 5th St., Philda.
Description: Print trimmed and lacking caption., Poulson inscription on recto: Aug. 1847., Select link below for a digital image., Advertisement depicting William N. Lacey's and Samuel R. Phillips' busy four-story equestrian store at 12 South Fifth Street selling "ladies and gentlemen's saddles, single and double harnesses, and bridles and whips." Saddles, bridles, harnesses, and blankets are prominently displayed in the storefront window and on the building facade. On the upper floors, several employees work by open windows. Elegantly dressed patrons converse near the entryway and four horses are lined up in the street awaiting and receiving service including a pair reined in by an African American coach driver. Partial view of the adjacent building containing the carpenter, W.B. Morrell, is visible. Lacey and Phillips partnership, established in 1845 remained at the site until 1852.
Creator: Rease, W. H., lithographer., creator
Date: [August 1847]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W215.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W 215 [P.2108]

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