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Title: Wissahiccon Paper Mills. Warehouse, 30 South Sixth Street, Charles Magarge & Co., Philadelphia, Penna
Description: Advertisement after a circa 1858 oil painting "Magarge Paper Mill" by William E. Winner showing the expanded paper mill originally built for William Dewees in 1731 at the foot of Wise's Mill Road on the bucolic Wissahickon Creek. Mill includes the main building, boiler house, machine room, and chimney. Mill was rented by Charles Magarge (President of Bank of Germantown) in 1844 and purchased by him in 1853 and thereafter expanded to house a Fourdrinier Paper machine. It was the first mill to use wood pulp to make paper. Also shows a girl gathering flowers on a hillside in the foreground and a horse-drawn carriage on a dirt road in front of the mill in the background., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 847, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 35 W 763, Original painting in the collections of the Germantown Historical Society, Philadelphia, Pa.
Creator: Frey, A., artist
Date: [ca. 1858]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 35 W 763

Title: George & James M. Bullock. "Conshohocken Woolen Mills" Manufacturers of doeskin beavers, Moscow beavers, &c in fancy colors, 233 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view of the woolen mills at Gulf Creek and the Schuylkill River in Conshohocken. Complex includes a main mill; engine house; boiler and dry house; dye house; scouring house; wool house; ware house; steaming houses; storehouse; mill; shoddy mill; engine house; boiler house; carpenter shop; lumber shed; office; gas house; gas holder; and coal and waste house. A flag adorns the property and stacks spew smoke. A fence surrounds the complex outside of which a man on horseback converses with two gentlemen, two ladies stroll, and a horse-drawn wagon is stopped. In the background, a farm and pastureland and neighboring mansion house are visible. The mill built in 1854, was purchased by wool manufacturer Benjamin Bullock in the 1860s, and in 1871 his sons George and James Bullock assumed operations. In 1880, the firm was operated by George Bullock & Co., and later the stock company Conshohocken Worsted Mills., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 297
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Industries [6623.F]

Title: Manayunk, near Philadelphia
Description: Landscape view showing the village of Manayunk along the east bank of the Schuylkill River, northwest of Philadelphia. Townscape is visible in the right of the image, including Joseph Ripka’s cotton mills erected 1831 and 1835 near the depicted Flat Rock Turnpike Bridge. Manayunk was incorporated into the city of Philadelphia in 1854., Copyrighted by J.C. Wild and J.B. Chevalier. Print lacking copyright statement., Issued as plate 18 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 455.1. Digital image shows third state of print., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2093 and (1)1525.F.71d (hand-colored) and in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 6626.F and Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Poulson)., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bd 862 W644, pl 18., Trimmed., 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 W226.1 [P.2093]

Title: Manayunk near Philadelphia
Description: Landscape view showing the village of Manayunk along the east bank of the Schuylkill River, northwest of Philadelphia. Townscape is visible in the right of the image, including Joseph Ripka’s cotton mills erected 1831 and 1835 near the depicted Flat Rock Turnpike Bridge. Manayunk was incorporated into the city of Philadelphia in 1854., Copyrighted by J.T. Bowen., Originally published as plate 18 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 455.2. Digital image shows third state of print., 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 W226.2 [Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Rush)]

Title: Manayunk near Philadelphia
Description: Landscape view showing the village of Manayunk along the east bank of the Schuylkill River, northwest of Philadelphia. Townscape is visible in the right of the image, including Joseph Ripka’s cotton mills erected 1831 and 1835 near the depicted Flat Rock Turnpike Bridge. Manayunk was incorporated into the city of Philadelphia in 1854., Copyrighted by J. T. Bowen., Originally published as plate 18 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 455.3, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2094 and in Print Room *Am 1848 Wild 3007.Q (Poulson) and in Print Room *Am 1848 Wild 1514.F and in Print Room *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, artist
Date: c1840, 1848
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W226.3 [P.2094]

Title: Manayunk
Description: Book illustration of a landscape view showing the village of Manayunk along the east bank of the Schuylkill River, northwest of Philadelphia. Townscape is visible in the right of the image, including Joseph Ripka’s cotton mills erected 1831 and 1835 near the depicted Flat Rock Turnpike Bridge. Manayunk was incorporated into the city of Philadelphia in 1854., Published in Daniel Bowen's A History of Philadelphia with a notice of villages in the vicinity (Philadelphia: Printed and published by Daniel Bowen, 1839), opposite page 134., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 455.4. Digital image shows third state of print., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Am 1839 Bow 9837.O and 76434.O., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: [1839]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W226.4 [Am 1839 Bow 9837.O and 76434.O]

Title: Comly Ville near Frankford - Philadelphia Co No. 5 of the Lady's Book
Description: Pastural view showing mill and factory buildings along Frankford Creek in Comleyville. Includes the mill converted to a calico print works by Smith & Brother in 1827, the loom factory of "Mr. S. Steel," and the dye works of "Mr. Horrick", i.e., Jermiah Horrocks. In the foreground, two horse-drawn wagons and a man travel on Asylum Road. Horses and cows graze in fenced pasture lands along the road and dwellings are visible on a hillside rising up from the creek., Published with description titled "Calico Print Works at Comlyville" in The Lady's Book (1830), vol. 1, opp. p. 225. [LCP Per G 43, vol. 1], Attributed to William L. Breton., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 149, Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.9210.15 and in (1)7397.O., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Creator: Breton, William L., ca. 1773-1855, artist
Date: [1830]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W78 [P.9210.15]

Title: Specimens lithography , engraving and printing establishment of Augustus Kollner, designer, engraver & lithographer, copperplate & lithographic printer. Phoenix block, corner of Second & Dock streets, Philadelphia
Description: Catalog containing specimens, including one plate of vignettes and one plate of banknotes. Vignettes depict "Wingohocking Mills, Frankford, Pa."; "Crane Iron Company"; and the landscape view "Broad Top." Banknotes include vignettes showing the entire complex and a specific building at "R. Garsed & Bro. Wingohocking Mills"; a locomotive; and a sailing ship. Banknote plate also includes a sample of lettering reading "Kensington Bank." Catalog also contains a double-sided page of variant specimen lettering presented as text advertising Kollner to "Druggists, Chemists, Manufacturers and Publishers of Books, Periodicals, Maps, &c." Text promotes his samples of work including, "tasteful labels, showcards, ornamental borders title pages,and business & visiting cards, in handsome of lettering" in addition to his views for Goupil, Vibert & Co and "Large Map of of the City of New York now publishing" (i.e., Dripps map, 1851).Text also promotes transfers from steel and copper plates, and "indefinite number of copies can be struck off at short notice and at very moderate charges.", Not in Wainwright., Cover contains ornamental border., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 89, Library of Congress: NE2820.K6 (Case X) 64-11
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813
Date: [ca. 1851]
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photograph Division LOC NE2820.K6 (Case X) 64-11 Title, Library of Congress | Prints and Photograph Division LOC NE2820.K6 (Case X) 64-11 Kensington Bank, Library of Congress | Prints and Photograph Division LOC NE2820.K6 (Case X) 64-11 Wingohocking Mills, Library of Congress | Prints and Photograph Division LOC NE2820.K6 (Case X) 64-11 Druggists Chemists

Title: [Garsed & Brother Wingohocking Mills billhead]
Description: Billhead for R. Garsed & Brother containing a view of the firm's textile mills built 1853 on the northwest corner of Ashland Street along Frankford Creek in Frankford. The mills include a small office building adjacent to a long single-story building with three portico entrances, a smokestack, and cupola adorned with a weather vane. The main building housed the spinning, carding, warping, and spreading rooms. Women stand in two of the portico entries, individuals walk on the grounds, and a “Wingohocking” horse-drawn wagon travels past the mill. In the foreground, by the creek, a horse and colt stand near a canoe marked "Wingohocking Mills" moored at the bank. Across from the animals, a Native American stands with his canoe moored behind him. Richard Garsed was a pioneer in the improvement of cotton mill machinery, including the increased efficiency of power looms, during the 1840s and 1850s., Not in Wainwright., pdcc00009, Title supplied by cataloguer., Printed on recto: Frankford, Pa. Invoice of Goods consigned to ______ for Sale on account of R. Garsed & Brother. Marks & Nos. Pieces. Description Yards. Total Yards. Price pr. Yard $____ Cts., Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 26:12a, See Castner 26: 17 for watercolor study for print titled “At Frankford, Phila, Pa.” Signed A. Kollner drawn 1855. Drawing also dated "30 Nov. 1853." View includes, in the foreground, a “Frankford” paddleboat on the creek and horses at the creek bank. Also shows horses frolicking in front of the mills in the background.
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Castner 26:12a

Title: C.J. Fell & Brother's chocolate manufactory
Description: Exterior view of the mill complex at Faulkand, near Wilmington Delaware for the Philadelphia spice and chocolate manufacturer. Signage reading "C.J. Fell & Brother's Chocolate Manufactory" adorns the main building surrounded by smaller outbuildings and an overpass over the millrace. A horse-drawn wagon and man on horse-back travel on the property and bushes and trees line the race. A residence and pastureland is visible in the background. Factory purchased by Jonathan Fell in 1828., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 75
Creator: Lehman, George, d. 1870, artist
Date: [ca. 1835]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Industries [P.8970.6]

Title: Joseph Ripka's mills. Manayunk 21st Ward Philadelphia. Manufacturer of all description of plain and fancy cottonades for men & boy's clothing warehouse 32 So. Front St
Description: Advertisement showing in the distance a compound of large mill buildings belonging to Joseph Ripka's textile manufacturing business, situated between the east bank of the Schuylkill River and the Manayunk Canal. Two men in top hats stand and converse in the foreground, while a man stands in a rowboat nearby. Buildings and trees dot the hilly landscape behind the mills. Ripka relocated to Manayunk in 1828, developing one of the largest textile businesses in the United States. During the Civil War, the shrinking Southern demand for cottonades caused Ripka to file for bankruptcy before the war's end and his death in 1864., 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), 77. (HSP O 458)., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 418, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc35 R588.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W211 [P.2139]

Title: Railroad bridge over the Wissahickon, near Manayunk
Description: Landscape view showing the first Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown Railroad (later Philadelphia & Reading Railroad) bridge completed in 1833 over the Wissahickon near a waterfall. A train comprised of an engine, two crowded passenger coaches, i.e., trucks, and a freight car cross the Town lattice truss bridge. The neighboring Robeson's Mill is visible in the right foreground. Cows graze near the creek on which a group of ducks swim. Bridge razed in 1844. Ithiel Town patented his lattice truss design in 1820., Probable printer supplied by Wainwright, Philadelphia on Stone, POS 632, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 7 R 131
Date: [ca. 1834]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 7 R 131

Title: Manayunk
Description: Landscape view showing the village of Manayunk along the east bank of the Schuylkill River, northwest of Philadelphia. Townscape is visible in the right of the image, including Joseph Ripka's cotton mills erected 1831, 1835, and 1853 near the depicted Flat Rock Turnpike Bridge. A rowboat sails the river and a railroad track lines the west bank. Manayunk was incorporated into the city of Philadelphia in 1854., Artist's imprint inscribed on stone lower right corner., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 453, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 862 C 79
Creator: Copstick, A., artist
Date: [1853]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 862 C 79

Title: Washington Steam Mills, Gloucester N.J. near Philadelphia
Description: Packing label for Washington Mills, the Gloucester, New Jersey textile factory, established by David S. Brown in 1844, which specialized in imprinted textiles. Contains a border with a mosaic pattern in red, blue, and green., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 270, Gift of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Advertisements - W [P.2002.67.75]

Title: Price & Harper's steam saw mill, fancy chair manufactory, and lumber yard, Girard Avenue, between Seventh & Eighth, Philadelphia White & yellow pine, hemlock, birch, maple, beach, cherry, and other hard woods, seasoned and ready for sale. Mahogany and walnut boards and planks of all sizes. Mahogany, walnut, birch & maple veneers, for sale. All kinds of plain & fancy sawing, and turning done with neatness and despatch an assortment of bed posts and stand legs, balister, newells and caps, for stair builders, mahogany and walnut mouldings. Mahogany, walnut, cherry and maple table & stand legs
Description: Advertisement showing the four-story brick building and the adjoining lumber yard on Girard Avenue above Seventh Street tenanted by Price & Harper. Signboards on the front facade read, "fancy-chair factory, steam sawmill, turning & scroll sawing, and iron foundry." Large piles of lumber are visible in the yard that extends west to Eighth Street from the factory building. A man directs a horse out of the lumber yard gate. Horse-drawn carts, some pulling lumber, travel on the street in front of the building. A carriage and a man and woman travel south on Eighth Street, and a bale of hay rests on the sidewalk near a lamppost and a stalled carriage in the foreground. Price & Harper operated together between 1853 and 1855., Date supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 626, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W299 [P.2089]

Title: Wakefield Manufacturing Company. Hosiery. Germantown, Philada. County
Description: Pastoral view depicting children playing on the hillside surrounding the Wakefield mills, established by William Logan Fisher circa 1815 at Eighteenth Street and Fisher's Lane. Six children play, one with a basket over his head, in the foreground (center), while a man drives a horse-drawn cart loaded with boxes marked "hosiery" (left). Mill buildings are visible in the distance, behind which more people are frolicking on the green. A large residence is partially visible through the woods on the hill in the far distance (center). Owned by the Fisher family of Wakefield, the mills stopped operating in the 1880s., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 816b, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 35 W149.
Creator: Smith, B. F., Jr., artist
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W441 [P.2265]

Title: Wakefield Manufacturing Company. Hosiery. Germantown, Philada. County
Description: Pastoral view depicting children playing on the hillside surrounding the Wakefield mills, established by William Logan Fisher circa 1815 at Eighteenth Street and Fisher's Lane. Six children play, one with a basket over his head, in the foreground (center), while a man drives a horse-drawn cart loaded with boxes marked "hosiery" (left). Mill buildings are visible in the distance, behind which more people are frolicking on the green. A large residence is partially visible through the woods on the hill in the far distance (center). Owned by the Fisher family of Wakefield, the mills stopped operating in the 1880s., Date supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 816a, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 35 W149.
Creator: Smith, B. F., Jr., artist
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W441 [P.2266]

Title: [Fairmount
Description: View showing a section of the Fairmount Water Works on the Schuylkill River. Depicts the terrace roof of the new mill house built on the mound dam from 1860-1862 after the designs of engineer Henry P.M. Birkinbine. Visitors, predominately women with parasols, stroll on the terrace and adjoining promenade roof of the old mill house. Also shows steamboats; boat landings; boathouses; Lemon Hill; the Twenty-Forth Ward Water Works, known as the West Philadelphia Water Works; mills near the Schuylkill Canal Lock; and small sailing vessels on the river., Title, artist, and publication information from duplicate in the collections of the American Philosophical Society., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 229, Gift of David Doret., Trimmed., Reproduced in "The Fairmount Waterworks," Philadelphia Museum of Art Bulletin (Summer 1988), vol. 84, no. 360, 361, p. 35., Sketchbook of Jacob Kiehn (1866-1867) with sketches of Fairmount Waterworks held in the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania (#47, Bd 81 K543).
Creator: Kiehn, Jacob, 1835-1869, artist
Date: [c1867]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Public utilities [P.2004.44.25]

Title: Decatur Fire Company of Frankford
Description: Fire company certificate containing vignettes depicting fire fighters rushing a steam engine marked with the company motto down a city street past the Odd Fellows Hall, Frankford; a steam engine parked at the company fire station on Church Street; and fire fighters surrounded by spectators battling a fire of the Frogmore Mills cotton factory, Frankford. Fire fighting equipment including a fire hose, a ladder, an axe, a trumpet and other tools are drawn bundled together to form decorative elements on both sides. A small oval portrait of Commodore Stephen Decatur in a laurel wreath frame above intertwined American flags and the company motto "Ever Prompt to a Call" adorns the top. Also contains eagles, the company number "21," and the institution and incorporation dates (1803 and 1842, respectively). Company named after the Naval hero Decatur whose father purportedly resided in Frankford., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 177, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Certificates - Fire Companies - Decatur, Duval and Hunter was a partnership between Stephen Orr Duval (P.S. Duval’s son) and Thomas Hunter that lasted from P.S. Duval’s retirement in 1869 until 1874.
Creator: Bosch, A. H., artist
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Certificates - Fire Companies - Decatur

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