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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, 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 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: 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: 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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