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Title: [Merchants Exchange, Philadelphia]
Description: Exterior view looking northeast toward the Third Street front of the Merchant's Exchange, built between 1832 and 1833 after designs by William Strickland for the Philadelphia Exchange Company. Includes partial views of adjacent buildings, men crossing Third Street and a trolley travelling south., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Manuscript note on mount reads: Corn Exchange, 1898, Second St. Philada.
Creator: Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date: 1898
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.159]

Title: Exchange
Description: Exterior view from the southeast. Constructed 1832-33 for the Philadelphia Exchange Company. Designed by Philadelphia architect William Strickland., Brechemin & Camp was a brief partnership between Lewis Brechemin and John Henry Camp in 1848., Originally part of a Poulson scrapbook., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 213
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813, lithographer
Date: [1848]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Banks [(2)1525.F.21f]

Title: Exchange
Description: Exterior view from the southeast. Constructed 1832-33 for the Philadelphia Exchange Company. Designed by Philadelphia architect William Strickland., Brechemin & Camp was a brief partnership between Lewis Brechemin and John Henry Camp in 1848., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 213
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813, lithographer
Date: [1848]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Banks [P.9843]

Title: Merchants' Exchange
Description: View of the east front of the Merchants' Exchange, showing the rotunda and cupola of the building constructed between 1832 and 1833 after designs by William Strickland for the Philadelphia Exchange Company. Photograph taken from the the intersection of Dock, Third, and Walnut Streets. A cart loaded with boxes sits in the foreground and a sign for H. M. Hillman Metals is visible in a window on the ground level., Inscribed in negative: 3291., Title from negative sleeve., Original negative housed in freezer.
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.88]

Title: Merchant's Exchange, [143 Third Street]
Description: Exterior view of the exchange built between 1832 and 1833 after the designs of William Strickland at the intersection of Dock, Third, and Walnut streets. Also shows men standing near the entranceway of the building and telegraph poles. Lettering for "Bowen and Fox Stock Brokers" adorns the facade. Includes partial views of adjacent streets and buildings., Buff mount with rounded corners., Title from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Banks [P.9117.6]

Title: Merchants' Exchange, Philadelphia
Description: View looking northeast from the intersection of Dock, Third, and Walnut streets showing the Merchants’ Exchange (143 S. Third) built between 1832 and 1833 after the designs of William Strickland. Men walk around, and horse-drawn omnibuses arrive and are parked in front of, the building. Light pedestrian traffic is visible in the street and at the corners, including near the office of the Saturday Courier (72 Dock, pre-consolidation). Also shows streetcar tracks in the foreground and another omnibus passing Girard National Bank (116-120 S. Third) in the background., Copyrighted by J. T. Bowen., Originally published as plate 3 in Views of Philadelphia, and its vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). The lithographic stones for the views were acquired by John T. Bowen and reissued in 1838 and in 1848 with hand coloring., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 472.3. Digital image shows the fourth state., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Rush)., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Described in Martin Snyder's "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1838
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W232.3 [Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Rush)]

Title: Merchants' Exchange
Description: View looking northeast from the intersection of Dock, Third, and Walnut streets showing the Merchants’ Exchange (143 S. Third) built between 1832 and 1833 after the designs of William Strickland. Men walk around, and horse-drawn omnibuses arrive and are parked in front of, the building. Light pedestrian traffic is visible in the street and at the corners, including near the office of the Saturday Courier (72 Dock, pre-consolidation). Also shows streetcar tracks in the foreground and another omnibus passing Girard National Bank (116-120 S. Third) in the background., Originally published as plate 14 in Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). The lithographic stones for the views were acquired by John T. Bowen and reissued in 1838 and in 1848 with hand coloring., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 472.4, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2092 and in *Am 1848 Wild 3007.Q (Poulson) and in *Am 1848 Wild 1514.F and in *Am 1848 Wild 1515.Q., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Described in Martin Snyder's "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846
Date: c1840, 1848
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W232.4 [P.2092]

Title: Girard College; Merchant's exchange Girard's waisen hau bei Philadelphia; Kauffmann's borse in Philadelphia
Description: Lettersheet containing views of two Greek Revival buildings: Girard College at Girard Avenue near Corinthian Avenue and the Merchants' Exchange at 3rd and Walnut Streets. College buildings, designed by Thomas Ustick Walter, were constructed 1833-1847 as a school for orphans. Merchants' Exchange, designed by William Strickland and constructed 1832-33, was one of the earliest stock exchanges in the United States., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 310
Date: [ca. 1840]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Education [P.9454.7]

Title: Merchant's Exchange
Description: Exterior view of the exchange building built between 1832 and 1833 after the designs of William Strickland at the intersection of Dock, Third, and Walnut streets. A horse-drawn wagon stands in front of the building., Publisher's imprint stamped on verso., Title from manuscript note on mount., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Pink mount with rounded corners., Inscribed on negative: 256., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Newell & Son, a partnership between Newell and his son Henry, was active from around 1870 until 1897 and the death of the elder Newell.
Creator: R. Newell & Son, photographer
Date: c1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Banks [P.9299.128]

Title: Exchange, Phila. Pa
Description: Exterior view of the exchange building built between 1832 and 1833 after the designs of William Strickland at the intersection of Dock, Third, and Walnut streets (143 South Third). A man reading a newspaper sits in the window of the exchange. Lettering advertising resident stock brokers Bowen and Fox adorns the facade. Also includes partial views of surrounding businesses, including the Sunday Times newspaper office (136 South Third), which occupied the site from 1863 until 1882., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Negative annotated with title., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Banks [P.9260.3]

Title: Merchant's exchange
Description: Exterior view from the southeast showing the intersection of Third, Walnut and Dock Streets in Philadelphia. View depicts street and pedestrian traffic including horse-drawn carriages, streetcars, and wagons, and couples strolling. Exchange constructed 1832-33 by the Philadelphia Exchange Company based on the designs of Philadelphia architect William Strickland., Plate 8 of a series of fifty-four views published by Goupil, Vibert & Company from 1848 to 1851 that were drawn by Kollner and lithographed by Deroy, and later bound under the title "Views of American Cities.", Copyrighted by Augustus Kollner in New York., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 469/470
Creator: Deroy, Laurent, 1797-1886, lithographer
Date: c1848
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Banks [P.2283.24]

Title: Merchant's exchange
Description: Exterior view from the southeast showing the intersection of Third, Walnut and Dock Streets in Philadelphia. View depicts street and pedestrian traffic including horse-drawn carriages, streetcars, and wagons, and couples strolling. Exchange constructed 1832-33 for the Philadelphia Exchange Company based on the designs of Philadelphia architect William Strickland., Plate 8 of a series of fifty-four views published by Goupil, Vibert & Company from 1848 to 1851 that were drawn by Kollner and lithographed by Deroy, and later bound under the title "Views of American Cities.", Philadelphia on Stone, POS 469/470
Creator: Deroy, Laurent, 1797-1886, lithographer
Date: [1848]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Banks [P.2283.18]

Title: Panorama of Philadelphia The Merchant's Exchange
Description: Derived from a print created by J.C. Wild in 1832, this view looks west from the intersection of Third, Walnut and Dock Streets and depicts the Merchant's Exchange constructed 1832-33 after the designs of Philadelphia architect William Strickland for the Philadelphia Exchange Company. Includes street and pedestrian traffic concentrated near the business center and the City Railroad tracks. Many horse-drawn omnibuses, including the Spruce Street, Navy Yard, West Philadelphia and Fifth Street lines, arrive and depart. Men and women stand and converse in the streets or on the steps of the exchange. Also shows buildings on the south side of Walnut Street and Gold Street., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1856, by Schnabel, Finkeldey & Demme, in the Clerk’s office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Penna., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 543
Creator: Collins & Autenrieth, artist
Date: 1856
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW – Banks – Merchant’s Exchange [P.2008.34.19]

Title: Philadelphia Exchange
Description: View from the intersection of Third, Walnut and Dock Streets showing the Merchant's Exchange constructed 1832-33 after the designs of Philadelphia architect William Strickland for the Philadelphia Exchange Company. View includes street and pedestrian traffic concentrated near the business center. Couples promenade, horse-drawn omnibuses arrive and depart, a carriage travels in the street, and two men shake hands on the second-story verandah of the exchange. Also shows surrounding buildings, including Girard National Bank (120 South Third) in the right background., Publication information supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 579, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 34 L528.
Creator: Lehman, George, d. 1870, artist
Date: [1835]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W285 [P.9192.1]

Title: The Exchange
Description: Exterior view of the exchange building built between 1832 and 1833 after the designs of William Strickland at the intersection of Dock, Third, and Walnut streets. Lettering for stockbrokers "Bowen and Fox" adorns the facade. Includes partial views of adjacent streets and buildings, including Girard National Bank (formerly Bank of the United States) at 120 South Third Street, H.G. Leisenring's Printing House at 237 Dock Street, and Schmidt & Leslie Watch Case Makers at 216 Walnut Street. A trolley passes the exchange., Cream mount with square corners., Title from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's label pasted on verso advertising: "Views in Philadelphia, Public Buildings, Streets, Interiors, &c., Manuscript note on mount: Exchange., Duplicate of (6)1322.F.137a., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Moran, John, 1831-1903
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Moran - Banks [8353.F.30]

Title: Exchange, Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view of the exchange building built between 1832 and 1833 after the designs of William Strickland at the intersection of Dock, Third, and Walnut streets. Lettering for stockbrokers "Bowen and Fox" adorns the facade. Includes partial views of adjacent streets and buildings, including Girard National Bank (formerly Bank of the United States) at 120 South Third Street, H.G. Leisenring's Printing House at 237 Dock Street, and Schmidt and Leslie Watch Case Makers at 216 Walnut Street. A trolley passes the exchange., Yellow mount, trimmed., Title printed on mount., Name of photographer from duplicate stereograph (8353.F.30)., Series title from duplicate stereograph (8353.F.30)., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Moran, John, 1831-1903, photographer
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Moran - Banks [(6)1322.F.137a]

Title: The Exchange, Philadelphia
Description: Street scene showing the intersection of Dock and Third streets including a partial view of the semi-circular portico of the exchange. The building, built between 1832 and 1833 after the designs of Philadelphia architect William Strickland, contains lettering for stockbrokers "Brown and Fox." Trolleys and pedestrians traverse Dock Street. H.G. Leisenring's Printing House at 237 Dock Street and Girard National Bank (formerly Bank of the United States) at 120 South Third Street stand in the background., Light yellow mount with square corners., Title from manuscript note on verso., Attributed to John Moran., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Moran, John, 1831-1903
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Moran - Banks [P.8464.20]

Title: Merchants' Exchange, Philadelphia
Description: View looking northeast from the intersection of Dock, Third, and Walnut streets showing the Merchants’ Exchange (143 S. Third) built between 1832 and 1833 after the designs of William Strickland. Men walk around, and horse-drawn omnibuses arrive and are parked in front of, the building. Light pedestrian traffic is visible in the street and at the corners, including near the office of the Saturday Courier (72 Dock, pre-consolidation). Also shows streetcar tracks in the foreground and another omnibus passing Girard National Bank (116-120 S. Third) in the background., Issued as plate 3 in Views of Philadelphia, and its vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838), a series of views originally published as five numbers of four prints each, and later sold as a bound volume of twenty views., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 472.1. Digital image shows the fourth state., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: 6626.F and in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 6626.F., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bd 862 W644, pl. 3., Described in Martin Snyder's "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: [1838]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W232.1 [6626.F]

Title: Merchants' Exchange. Philadelphia
Description: View from the intersection of Third, Walnut and Dock Streets showing the Merchant’s Exchange constructed 1832-33 after the designs of Philadelphia architect William Strickland for the Philadelphia Exchange Company. View includes street and pedestrian traffic concentrated near the financial institution. Several men converse and greet one another in front of the exchange as several horse-drawn street cars travel by and around the building. In the left, several couples promenade along a block of Walnut Street lined with buildings and a few trees. Also shows railroad tracks, and Girard National Bank (120 South Third) and neighboring businesses in the right background., Artist's initials on stone lower left corner. Name of artist supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 474, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: O'Connor, M., artist
Date: c1840
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W233 [P.2103]

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

Title: The London Coffee House
Description: Exterior view showing the coffee house and merchants' exchange during the colonial era at the southwest corner of Front and Market streets in Philadelphia. An auction of enslaved people occurs outside the coffee house and pedestrians traverse the sidewalks. Partial view of the adjacent printing house of "Pennsylvania Journal" publisher, William Bradford, is visible. Erected in 1702 and established as a coffee house in 1754 by Bradford, the site was a public center for social and economic activities during the later 18th century, including auctions of enslaved people. The building was razed in 1883., Title from item., Published in John F. Watson's Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, in the olden time:....Embellished with engravings, by T.H. Mumford (Philadelphia, 1844), vol.1 and later editions., After wash study by Edward Mumford., Originally part of 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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Mumford, Thomas Howland, 1816-, engraver
Date: [ca. 1844]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Ph Pr - 8x10 - Hotels, Inns, Taverns [(6)1322.F.47a]

Title: London Coffee House
Description: Wash study for engraving by Mumford's brother, Thomas Mumford, appearing in several editions of John F. Watson's "Annals of Philadelphia,...with engravings by T.H. Mumford" published by various publishers between 1844 to 1870. Depicts an exterior view of the coffee house and merchants' exchange at the southwest corner of Front and Market streets in colonial Philadelphia. An auction of enslaved people occurs outside the coffee house and pedestrians traverse the sidewalks. Partial view of the adjacent printing house of "Pennsylvania Journal" publisher, William Bradford, is visible. Erected in 1702 and established as a coffee house in 1754 by Bradford, the site was a public center for social and economic activities during the late 18th century, including auctions of enslaved people. The building was razed in 1883., Title from manuscript note on recto., Manuscript note on recto: Original., Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Mumford, Edward William, 1812-1858, artist
Date: [ca. 1844]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Drawings & Watercolors-Mumford [P.8757.18]

Title: London Coffee House
Description: Exterior view of the coffee house and merchants' exchange at the southwest corner of Front and Market streets in Philadelphia during the colonial era. An auction of enslaved African American people occurs outside the coffee house and pedestrians traverse the sidewalks and street, including an African American woman carrying a basket on her head. Views of the adjacent printing house and book store of "Pennsylvania Journal" publisher, William Bradford, are visible. Erected in 1702 and established as a coffee house in 1754 by Bradford, the site was a public center for social and economic activities during the later 18th century, including auctions of enslaved people. Razed in 1883., Title from item., Plate published in John F. Watson's Annals of Philadelphia...(Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1830), opp. p. 339., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 442, Gift of James Rush., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Breton, William L., lithographer
Date: [1830]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Hotels, Inns, Taverns [9245.Q.20], http://www.lcpimages.org/afro-americana/F-London.htm

Title: View of the city of Philadelphia, and its principal buildings
Description: Print containing a central panoramic view of Philadelphia surrounded by vignettes of prominent Philadelphia institutions. View looks west from Camden, New Jersey, showing islands and vessels in the Delaware River. Vignettes include the Almshouse, Fairmount, Girard College, Merchants' Exchange, Moyamensing Prison, Chestnut Street Theatre, U.S. Naval Asylum, State House, U.S. Mint, and the University of Pennsylvania. Most vignettes include small details like carriages, horses and pedestrians on foot., Philadelphia on Stone, Atwater Kent Museum: 40.14.19
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813, artist
Date: 1842
Location: Atwater Kent Museum | Print Department AKM AKM 40.14.19

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