Alirene Mills textile plant at Frankford Creek, 1200-1300 Adams Avenue, Frankford, Philadelphia.
Title
Alirene Mills textile plant at Frankford Creek, 1200-1300 Adams Avenue, Frankford, Philadelphia
Description
Aerial views of Alirene Mills (formerly Bromley Mills) textile plant at Frankford Creek and Adams Avenue. The mill was owned by James Bromley and was built in 1903, designed by the architecture firm Stearns and Castor. Row homes can be seen adjacent to the factory complex., Negative numbers: 13002n, P98, P99, P103, P104., Manuscript note on negative sleeve of 13002n: Buckman and Buckman, Fkd. Creek, N. Phila, Pa, August 27, 1930.
Creator
Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date
1930-1931
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.13002n; P.8990.P98; P.8990.P99; P.8990.P103; P.8990.P104]
Views of Brandywine Creek, Delaware.
Title
Views of Brandywine Creek, Delaware
Description
Views of Brandywine Creek in Delaware, showing men, women and children sitting on rocks near the banks of the creek, in canoes, and near a mill race. Includes sunset views, rocky glens, tangles of bare trees, and a partial view of a mill building., Contains seven stereographic prints mounted on yellow cardboard mounts, five of which have square corners, two rounded corners. All contain photographer's printed labels pasted on versos., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Bartlett & French was a partnership between Philadelphia photographers George O. Bartlett and William French circa 1867-1869.
Creator
Bartlett & French
Date
[ca. 1868]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - Views [P.9466.5; P.8484.4; P.9058.146; P.9058.149-150; P.9058.154 and P.9058.156]
On the Wissahickon near the Old Log Cabin
Title
On the Wissahickon near the Old Log Cabin
Description
View showing Sarah Greenwood's Woolen Mill, barn, and house above Hermit's Lane near Wissahickon Creek. The mill, built in the 1740s, was destroyed by fire in 1872. In the foreground, a couple stands on a rock in the Wissahickon near a group of people sitting in a rowboat perched on the bank of the creek., Attributed to Bartlett & French., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Bartlett & French, photographer
Date
ca. 1867
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - Parks [P.9146.4]
[Crescentville - last of winter]
Title
[Crescentville - last of winter]
Description
Shows a boy in a pasture in front of possibly a mill. Also shows the bridge near the dam breast at Crescentville in the distant background., Cream mount with square corners., Title and photographer from duplicate in Moran album. [P.9265], Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Pennsylvania views & political miscellany., Accompanied by label misidentifying view., 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. 1861]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Moran - Views - Milestown [5759.F.3d]
C.J. Fell & Brother's chocolate manufactory.
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]
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.
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]
[Views of Milestown, Philadelphia along Old York Road, north of Branchtown, and above Oak Lane.]
Title
[Views of Milestown, Philadelphia along Old York Road, north of Branchtown, and above Oak Lane.]
Description
Series of views of the Philadelphia neighborhood. Shows a rundown cottage near a row of trees; a mill; and a creek. Views also include boys posed near the sites, including boys with a rowboat and holding fishing nets., Attributed to John Moran., Cream mounts with square corners., Three of images accompanied by labels., Series numbers include: 22., Originally part of McAllister scrapbooks of American views and Pennsylvania views & political miscellany., 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. 1861
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Moran - Views - Milestown [5739.F.1e; 5739.F.55b; 5759.F.1h; 5759.F.3c & i]
Old Wire Bridge
Title
Old Wire Bridge
Description
View looking east from West Fairmount Park showing the Wire Suspension Bridge spanning the Schuylkill River. The bridge, the first suspension bridge in the United States, was built 1841-1842 after the designs of engineer Charles Ellet, Jr. It was removed in 1874. View includes a man standing among piles of rock and gravel near a storage shed, possibly an ice house, on the west bank of the river in the foreground. Several buildings, including factories and mills, line the east bank of the river in the background. Also includes a distant view of the dome of the Cathedral Bascillica of SS. Peter and Paul., Title from manuscript note on mount., Photographer's imprint on mount., Publisher's imprint printed on verso., Printed on mount: No. 4., Pink mount with rounded corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Gift of Jane Carson James., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., R. Newell & Son, a partnership between Robert Newell and his son, Henry, was active from circa 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 - Bridges [P.9299.71]
Wire Bridge at Fairmount, Phila. Pa.
Title
Wire Bridge at Fairmount, Phila. Pa
Description
View from the east bank of the Schuylkill River looking south showing the Wire Suspension Bridge. The bridge, the first suspension bridge in the United States, was built from 1841-1842 after the designs of engineer Charles Ellet, Jr. It was removed in 1874. Also shows factories and mills lining the east bank; horse-drawn wagons transporting materials across the bridge; and men in rowboats on the river in the foreground., Orange mount with rounded corners., Title from label on negative., Publisher's imprint printed on mount., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Missing upper left corner., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Union View Co.
Date
[ca. 1876]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Union View Company - Bridges [P.9260.81]
Railroad bridge over the Wissahickon, near Manayunk.
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
Manayunk.
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
Wire Bridge (Fairmount). From the southeast in the spring of 1855. [graphic] / McClees.
Title
Wire Bridge (Fairmount). From the southeast in the spring of 1855
Description
View looking from the east bank showing the Wire Suspension Bridge spanning the Schuylkill River. Also shows mills, factories, stables, and hotels lining both banks of the river. The bridge, the first suspension bridge in the United States, was built from 1841-1842 after the designs of engineer Charles Ellet, Jr. It was removed in 1874, Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on accompanying label., Originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 5, page 63. The scrapbooks contained photographs of 18th-century public, commercial, and residential buildings in the city of Philadelphia collected by Poulson to document the vanishing architectural landscape., McClees 1855-3., McClees, a prominent Philadelphia photographer and daguerreotypist, produced some of the earliest paper photographic views of Philadelphia between 1853 and 1859.
Creator
M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.), photographer
Date
1855
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - McClees - Bridges [(5)2526.F.7a]
[J. Peter Gohl trade cards]
Title
[J. Peter Gohl trade cards]
Description
Series of illustrated trade cards advertising fancy cakes, ice cream, and pastries for J. Peter Gohl's confectionery at 257 South Fifth Street in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict rustic landscapes including a cabin, castle, water mill, and pavillion and various animals and insects, including cattle, deer, a fox, grasshopper, dog, and stork. Also shows Santa Claus, or Saint Nicholas, looking through a book and standing in the snow with a large sack full of toys strapped to his back and a "good luck" horseshoe hanging from a ribbon., Title supplied by cataloger., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date
[ca. 1880]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Gohl [1975.F.352; 1975.F.369; 1975.F.371-373; 1975.F.377-386]
Location of the Halls-Mills murders crime scene, Somerville, New Jersey.
Title
Location of the Halls-Mills murders crime scene, Somerville, New Jersey
Description
Aerial views of the site of the murders of Eleanor Reinhardt Mills, the wife of a New Brunswick janitor, and Edward Wheeler Hall, a New Brunswick Episcopal priest, known as the Halls-Mills murders. The bodies were found at this site in Somerville near New Brunswick, New Jersey on September 16, 1922. The trial began in Somerville in November, 1926, and lasted 30 days. It garnered huge national attention in the newspapers and on radio but in the end no convictions were made and the case remains unsolved., Negative numbers: 6589, 6590.
Creator
Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date
1926
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.6589; P.8990.6590]
Washington Steam Mills, Gloucester N.J. near Philadelphia.
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]
Price & Harper's steam saw mill, fancy chair manufactory, and lumber yard, Girard Avenue, between Seventh & Eighth, Philadelphia.
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]
Cotton mills, Schuylkill River, Manayunk.
Title
Cotton mills, Schuylkill River, Manayunk
Description
View showing the mills of Joseph Ripka erected in 1831, 1835, and 1853 between Main Street and the Schuylkill River in Manayunk. Ripka's mills, one of the largest U.S. textile manufacturers during the 1840s and 1850s, went bankrupt during the Civil War with the loss of the essential patronage of the Southern states. General Robert Patterson purchased and reopened the mills following the war. Includes the Flat Rock Turnpike Bridge, a covered bridge near the mills., Title from manuscript note on verso., Unmounted half of stereoview., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1860
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Industry [P.2282.32]
Cotton mills, Schuylkill River, Manayunk.
Title
Cotton mills, Schuylkill River, Manayunk
Description
View showing the mills of Joseph Ripka erected in 1831, 1835, and 1853 between Main Street and the Schuylkill River in Manayunk. Ripka's mills, one of the largest U.S. textile manufacturers during the 1840s and 1850s, went bankrupt during the Civil War with the loss of the essential patronage of the Southern states. General Robert Patterson purchased and reopened the mills following the war. Includes the Flat Rock Turnpike Bridge, a covered bridge near the mills., Title from manuscript note on verso., Unmounted half of stereoview., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1860
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Industry [P.2282.39]
Suspension bridge.
Title
Suspension bridge
Description
View from the east bank of the Schuylkill River looking south showing the Wire Suspension Bridge. View also shows a barge in transit and mills, factories, and stables lining the banks of the river. The bridge, the first suspension bridge in the United States, was built from 1841-1842 after the designs of engineer Charles Ellet, Jr. It was removed in 1874., Title from accompanying label., Publisher's imprint printed on mount., Orange mount with rounded corners., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Mount discolored., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., McAllister operated his optician business as a sole proprietor between 1865 and 1882.
Creator
McAllister, W. Y. (William Young), 1812-1896
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - McAllister, W.Y. - Bridges [(3)1322.F.123c]
[Wire Suspension Bridge at Fairmount, Philadelphia.]
Title
[Wire Suspension Bridge at Fairmount, Philadelphia.]
Description
View looking from West Fairmount Park showing the Wire Suspension Bridge spanning the Schuylkill River. View also shows mills, factories, stables, and hotels lining both banks of the river. Two men stand in the foreground near a fenced property. The bridge, the first suspension bridge in the United States, was built from 1841-1842 after the designs of engineer Charles Ellet, Jr. It was removed in 1874., Attributed to James E. McClees., Title supplied by cataloguer., Buff mount with square corners., 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
M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.), photographer
Date
ca. 1859
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - McClees - Bridges [(3)1322.F.123h]
[Wire Suspension Bridge at Fairmount, Philadelphia.] [graphic].
Title
[Wire Suspension Bridge at Fairmount, Philadelphia.]
Description
View looking from West Fairmount Park showing the Wire Suspension Bridge spanning the Schuylkill River. View also shows mills, factories, stables, and hotels lining both banks of the river. Two men stand in the foreground near a fenced property. The bridge, the first suspension bridge in the United States, was built from 1841-1842 after the designs of engineer Charles Ellet, Jr. It was removed in 1874., Attributed to James E. McClees., Title supplied by cataloguer., Buff mount with square corners., 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
M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.), photographer
Date
ca. 1859
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - McClees - Bridges [(3)1322.F.123h]
[Canoe on the river, Browns Mills, NJ with Photographic Society] [graphic].
Title
[Canoe on the river, Browns Mills, NJ with Photographic Society]
Description
Photograph from a series of photographs taken by Morris during his excursion to Brown Mills, N.J. with the Photographic Society of Philadelphia. Shows a woman and a dog in a canoe on an unidentified river. The woman paddles with an oar around a small island in the middle of the river. The Photographic Society of Philadelphia was founded in 1860 to promote the techniques and art of photography. Morris was a member of the Society by 1885., Photograph from negative number P.2013.13.459., 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
May 21, 1927
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.654]
[Canoe on river and man on bank, Browns Mills NJ with Photographic Society] [graphic].
Title
[Canoe on river and man on bank, Browns Mills NJ with Photographic Society]
Description
Photograph from a series of photographs taken by Morris during his excursion to Brown Mills, N.J. with the Photographic Society of Philadelphia. Shows two men standing on an unidentified riverbank, one of them holding a camera. A woman sits in a canoe floating near the bank. Three houses are visible on the shore in the background. The Photographic Society of Philadelphia was founded in 1860 to promote the techniques and art of photography. Morris was a member of the Society by 1885., Photograph from negative number P.2013.13.456., 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
May 21, 1927
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.651]
[Canoe on river and man on bank, Browns Mills NJ with Photographic Society] [graphic].
Title
[Canoe on river and man on bank, Browns Mills NJ with Photographic Society]
Description
Photograph from a series of photographs taken by Morris during his excursion to Brown Mills, N.J. with the Photographic Society of Philadelphia. Shows two men standing on an unidentified riverbank, one of them holding a camera. A woman sits in a canoe floating near the bank. Three houses are visible on the shore in the background. The Photographic Society of Philadelphia was founded in 1860 to promote the techniques and art of photography. Morris was a member of the Society by 1885., Photograph from negative number P.2013.13.456., 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
May 21, 1927
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.652]
[Canoe on the river, Browns Mills, NJ with Photographic Society] [graphic].
Title
[Canoe on the river, Browns Mills, NJ with Photographic Society]
Description
Photograph from a series of photographs taken by Morris during his excursion to Brown Mills, N.J. with the Photographic Society of Philadelphia. Shows a woman and a dog in a canoe on an unidentified river. The woman paddles with an oar around a small island in the middle of the river. The Photographic Society of Philadelphia was founded in 1860 to promote the techniques and art of photography. Morris was a member of the Society by 1885., Photograph from negative number P.2013.13.459., 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
May 21, 1927
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.653]
Snuff Mill & house near Providence, Rhode Island where Gilbert Stuart the painter was born [graphic].
Title
Snuff Mill & house near Providence, Rhode Island where Gilbert Stuart the painter was born
Description
Lantern slide showing Snuff Mill and the birthplace of Gilbert Stuart standing next to a pond near Providence. A stone wall extends along the right side of the pond and a tree grows in front of the building on the left., MS note "Providence R.I. Copied from a photograph Feb. 12, 1868" Contains MCM's stamp., 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
ca. 1890-ca. 1900
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.2151]
Snuff Mill & house near Providence, Rhode Island where Gilbert Stuart the painter was born [graphic].
Title
Snuff Mill & house near Providence, Rhode Island where Gilbert Stuart the painter was born
Description
Lantern slide showing Snuff Mill and the birthplace of Gilbert Stuart standing next to a pond near Providence. A stone wall extends along the right side of the pond and a tree grows in front of the building on the left., MS note "Providence R.I. Copied from a photograph Feb. 12, 1868" Contains MCM's stamp., 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
ca. 1890-ca. 1900
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.2151]
Agricultural Hall - Nave [Fountain]
Title
Agricultural Hall - Nave [Fountain]
Description
View of fountain in the nave of Agricultural Hall. The large fountain consists of two tiers and is decorated with small statues that include herons, men blowing horns, and a female figure. Potted plants are perched on the corners of the fountain barrier. Also shown in the far background is a wind-mill.
Creator
Centennial Photographic Co., photographer., creator
Date
1876
Location
Centennial - album [P.8965.26c]
In 1773 in Boston town was spilled the tea. These are not Indians that you see, but patriots fighting tyranny; they spilled the tea, then drank their fill of coffee ground in Enterprise mill.
Title
In 1773 in Boston town was spilled the tea. These are not Indians that you see, but patriots fighting tyranny; they spilled the tea, then drank their fill of coffee ground in Enterprise mill
Description
Trade card issued during the Columbian Exposition of 1893 advertising Enterprise Mf'g Co. of Pa. "Enterprise Coffee, Spice and Drug Mills." Contains an anachronistic, historical scene including a caricaturized depiction of Boston Tea Party demonstrators. Shows the men in feather head pieces using a huge Enterprise coffee mill and drinking cups and saucers of coffee. A banner reading "No Taxation Without Representation"waves above their heads." Also contains a view of the Fisheries Building. The exposition held in Chicago May 1-October 30, 1898 celebrated the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492. Enterprise Manufacturing Co. of Pa. was established in 1866., Advertising text printed on verso: Enterprise Coffee, Spice and Drug Mills. 24 Sizes-$1.25 to $100.00. The excellence of our coffee Mills has been recognized for years. This does not deter us, however, from constantly trying to make them still better, and it will be our earnest endeavor to maintain their high order of superiority. For full information concerning sizes adapted to the store, household, etc., and prices, send for Catalogue., Printed on verso of P.2008.36.56: For Sale by the Hardware Trade. Send for Catalogue. The Enterprise M'f'g Co. of Pa., Third & Dauphin Sts., Philadelphia, U.S.A., Typeface on verso varies between prints., Vignette illustration on verso. Depicts a hand-operated coffee mill., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Michael Zinman.
Date
c1893
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection - Trade cards [P.2008.36.56 & 68]
The best flour inside.
Title
The best flour inside View of the famous Washburn, Crosby Co. flour mills and St. Anthony Falls, Minneapolis, Minn
Description
Illustrated, metamorphic trade card depicting a windmill with panels that open to show bags and a barrel of "Superlative" and "Gold Medal" flour in the foreground and in the background, a bird's eye view of the Washburn-Crosby Co.'s flour mill complex, including "Mill C Elevator", adjacent to the St. Anthony Falls in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Also shows a train crossing the Mississippi River near the falls on the curved Stone Arch Bridge, which was built in 1883 by railroad tycoon James J. Hill for his Great Northern Railway. Cadwallader C. Washburn's business began as the Minneapolis Milling Company at the St. Anthony Falls site ca. 1856. John Crosby entered the partnership in 1877. Consolidated into General Mills in 1928 with twenty-six other national mills., Advertising text printed on verso promotes the "Superlative" and "Gold Medal" brands of flour produced by the Washburn-Crosby Co. of Minneapolis, Minnesota., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date
[ca. 1890]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Washburn [P.9993.2]
Wakefield Manufacturing Company. Hosiery. Germantown, Philada. County.
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]
Wakefield Manufacturing Company. Hosiery. Germantown, Philada. County.
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]
Shad fishing (taking up the net.) [graphic] : On the Delaware opposite Philada. Glo'ster bleaching mills in the distance. / From nature and on stone by James Queen.
Title
Shad fishing (taking up the net.) On the Delaware opposite Philada. Glo'ster bleaching mills in the distance
Description
View of several fishermen, including African American men, most waist deep in the river and all but one in a semi-circle, gathering up their catch into a rowboat. A Philadelphia pier lined with residences, the mills of Gloucester, New Jersey, and sailboats on the river are visible in the foreground and background., Title from item., Date from manuscript note written on recto: April-May 1855., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 691, Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Queen was a premier Philadelphia genre, nature, and advertisement lithographer who with fellow lithographer P.S. Duval, was an early successful chromolithographer.
Creator
Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 1821-1886, artist
Date
[1855]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W335 [P.2189]
W. F. Taubel Knitting Mill, Riverside, New Jersey. [graphic].
Title
W. F. Taubel Knitting Mill, Riverside, New Jersey
Description
Aerial view of the W. F. Taubel Knitting Mill along Lafayette Street in Riverside, New Jersey. Adjacent buildings are likely also be part of a larger factory complex. Railroad tracks and train cars are visible as are two horses pulling a cart through the street (lower left)., Negative number: 1292., Record created with information supplied by former Aero Service employee Carl H. Winnefeld, Jr.
Creator
Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date
ca. 1921
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.1292]
P.9877.24
Title
Civil War photograph collection
Description
Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes.Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., 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
1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
[Fairmount
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]
Views of Ashwood, Gulph Mills, and other sites in Delaware County and surrounding counties in Pennsylvania
Title
Views of Ashwood, Gulph Mills, and other sites in Delaware County and surrounding counties in Pennsylvania
Description
Album containing 24 photographs showing landscape views of Delaware County and portraiture of family and acquaintances. Images include exterior and interior views of the Leaming family estate Ashwood near Villanova and views of Conshohocken, Darby Creek near Lewis Mill, Valley Forge, Gulph and Morris mills and dams, Hammer Hollow, and farmland in Cream and Pleasant valleys. Also contains an image of Radnor Meeting House and a photographic reproduction of a cloud filled sky captioned "Sic Itur ad Astra" (i.e., thus you shall go the stars). Many of the views include Leaming's wife and children and others posed in parlors; with animals; on bridges and dirt paths; at brooks, creeks, spring houses, and barns; and in modes of transportion, including canoes and horse-drawn vehicles. Other portrait sitters include Alice Bourda and children Ernie Law, Tommy Gaffney, Henny Lewis, and Og Hoffman., Wooden binding., Title supplied by cataloger., Captions by Robert Waln Leaming on the recto and verso of the album pages., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., See LCP AR [Annual Report] 1999, p. 45-46., Gift of Mrs. Clifford Lewis III., Housed in phase box., Robert Waln Leaming, grandson of China Trade merchant Robert Waln (1765-1836), was a merchant by trade who also painted and practiced photography. He was married to Julia Scott, descended from the royal Scotts of Ancrum, with whom he had four children Rebecca, i.e., Reb (1850-1911); Mary, i.e., Mame (1851-1911); Julia, i.e., Duly (1854-1913), and Thomas (1856-1911). Leaming was also an active member of the Photographic Society of Philadelphia. His residence Ashwood, not to be confused with the Penn-Gaskell/DeCosta property of the same name (208 Ashwood Road, Villanova), was razed in the late 19th century.
Creator
Leaming, Robert Waln, 1824-1884, photographer
Date
ca. 1873
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums [P.9759.2]
Photographs taken by Robert Waln Leaming 1865-1875 at Ashwood, Villa Nova, Delaware County, Penna. Lancaster Pike and Spring Mill Road
Title
Photographs taken by Robert Waln Leaming 1865-1875 at Ashwood, Villa Nova, Delaware County, Penna. Lancaster Pike and Spring Mill Road
Description
Album containing 67 photographs showing the grounds and residence of the Ashwood estate near Villanova during different seasons; neighboring properties in Delaware and Montgomery counties; and formally posed family portraiture. Images include the front and rear facade of the Ashwood residence and landscape views of the grounds; Paxson's Mill and Dam in Radnor; J. Howard Lewis's paper mill at Darby Creek; 'Hammer Hollow," including the mill dam; Gulph Mill (Montgomery County); Leaming's other family estate Waln Grove near Frankford; old spring houses near Gulph Mill and Paxson's Mill; and Ancrum, "Seat of the Scotts Baronets of Ancrum Scotland." Many of the estate views include Leaming's wife and children (attired in clothing appropriate to the season) posed at the residence and on the grounds, including near fences, the barn, woods, and creek and in characters, as tableaux, and with farm and domesticated pets. Also contains photographic reproductions and photo-collages. Reproductions depict the the "Scott of Ancrum" family tree and Leaming's painting "Where the Sea Mew roams" and the collages show Leaming's daughters in a parlor setting (possibly Ashwood) and painted works by Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier, James Reid Lambdin, and Edwin Henry Landseer including the visage of Robert Waln Leaming. Other portrait sitters include Alice Burda, Tom Stewart, "Our Truck-man" in his horse-drawn buggy; the "Coachman" with horse "'Nelly'"and Mrs. Scott, i.e., probably, Leaming's mother-in-law Mary Emlen Scott, Blue morocco binding, plate on front cover: R. W. Leaming and stamped: Photographs., Title from inscription on front free end paper. Also includes family tree of descendants of Robert Waln Leaming and his wife Julia Scott (1821-1914)., Insert: Portrait print of Robert Waln engraved by Samuel Sartain after 1825 painting by Jacob Eicholtz. Verso inscribed with biographical information., Captions by Robert Waln Leaming below the images., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., LCP AR [Annual Report] 1999, p. 45-46., Gift of Mrs. Clifford Lewis III., Housed in phase box., Robert Waln Leaming, grandson of China Trade merchant Robert Waln, was a merchant by trade who also painted and practiced photography. He was married to Julia Scott, descended from the royal Scotts of Ancrum, with whom he had four children Rebecca, i.e., Reb (1850-1911); Mary, i.e., Mame (1851-1911); Julia, i.e., Duly (1854-1913), and Thomas (1856-1911). Leaming was also an active member of the Photographic Society of Philadelphia. His residence Ashwood, not to be confused with the Penn-Gaskell/DeCosta property of the same name (208 Ashwood Road, Villanova), was razed in the late 19th century.
Creator
Leaming, Robert Waln, 1824-1884, photographer
Date
1865-1875
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums [P.9759.1]
Excelsior metal polish, for polishing and cleaning cutlery, brass, copper, tin ware and all bright steel and metal work [graphic].
Title
Excelsior metal polish, for polishing and cleaning cutlery, brass, copper, tin ware and all bright steel and metal work
Description
Trade card promoting metal polish manufacturer Walpole Emery Mills and depicting a racist caricature of an African American woman domestic polishing cookware. Shows an African American woman portrayed with exaggerated features and attired in a red and yellow striped head kerchief; a blue short-sleeved shirt; a red and yellow shawl; a red skirt; and a white apron with red polka dots, smiling and looking at the viewer. She holds a brush in her right hand and a pot in her left hand. In the left, a brown-haired white woman, attired in a yellow dress with white ruffles at the neck and sleeves and a red bow, bends over a table with a plate in her hands as she looks at the African American woman. In the foreground, two white children look at the reflection of their cat in a polished pan. A boy, attired in a blue Fauntleroy outfit, smiles with his arms apart as he looks down at the pan. A white girl, attired in a white dress decorated with orange bows at the shoulders, sits on the floor and holds the pan up with her right hand. She holds an orange cat with black stripes up to the pan with her left hand. The cat arcs its back with its fur standing up and has its mouth wide open. In the left is an oversized can labeled, "Trademark Excelsior Metal Polish Manufactured by the Walpole Emery Mills 114 Milk Street Boston." On top of the can is another orange cat with black stripes that is arching its back with its mouth open in alarm. In the background is a cupboard with plates and bowls on the shelves. In the right is a table with a large stock pot and lid and a can of metal polish with a skillet hanging from a hook at the front of the table. Walpole Emery Mills, manufacturers of Excelsior metal polish, was founded in 1877 in South Walpole, Massachusetts. The company operated into the 20th century., Title from item., Distributor’s imprint printed on verso: Holway, Wright & Miner, Manufacturers' agents, New York: 167 Chambers Street. Boston: 135 State Street., Advertising text printed on verso: Excelsior metal polish. Acknowledged the cheapest and best article known for cleaning and polishing cutlery, brass, tin ware, and all kitchen utensils, sewing machine plates, nickel plate, bath tubs, copper boilers, bicycles, needles, scissors, carpenter's tools, and all bright metal and steel work. A single trial will prove it to be a household and mechanical necessity. It is neatly put up in tin cans, containing one pound, half-pound and quarter-pound each, with directions for using. Price list. 1/4 lb. cans...10 cents each. 1/2 lb"....15"". 1 lb"...25"". For sale by grocers, druggists, hardware stove and tinware dealers. Illustration of a can of Excelsior metal polish., Gift of David Doret.
Date
[ca. 1890]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Excelsior [P.2017.95.61]
Decatur Fire Company of Frankford
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
Main Building - main avenue, from west end.
Title
Main Building - main avenue, from west end.
Description
Exhibit titles: Cheney Brothers, Hartford and South Manchester, Conn., Exhibit #813; Horstmann, W.H., & Sons, Philadelphia, Pa.,Exhibit #831; Ames Manufacturing Co., Chicopee, Mass., Exhibit #1240; Corbin, P. & F., New Britain, Conn., Exhibit #1459; Rowland, B., & Co., Philadelphia, Pa. Exhibit #1370; Mallory, Wheeler, Co., New Haven, Conn., Exhibit #1474; New York Knife Co., Walden, N.Y., Exhibit #1433; Tufts, Jas W., Boston, Mass., Exhibit #300a; Lippincott, J.B., & Co., Exhibit #n/a, Main Exhibition Building, Bldg. #1. Overview of the interior of the Main Building, showing all the displays. People sit on benches in the center.
Creator
Centennial Photographic Co., photographer., creator
Date
1876
Location
*Centennial - photos [P.8700.13]
P.9877.1
Title
Civil War photograph collection
Description
Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., 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.
Date
1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
Hotel receipts collection
Title
Hotel receipts collection, 1847-1867
Description
Receipts for hotel stays in New Orleans; Brandywine Springs, Del.; New York; Boston, Baltimore; Charleston and Columbia, S.C.; White Sulphur Springs, Cape May, and Niagara Falls, dated 1833-1867. Many have pictorial letterheads. Three receipts (Mills House, Charleston Hotel and and St. Charles Hotel) are made out to Gov. John L. Manning, governor of South Carolina from 1852-1854., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., This collection gathers 19th century hotel receipts from several sources, and is open to new additions.
Creator
Library Company of Philadelphia, collector
Date
1833
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Coll LCP Ephemera Hotel Receipts 3321.F
P.9877.14
Title
Civil War photograph collection
Description
Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., 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.
Date
1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
P.9877.15
Title
Civil War photograph collection
Description
Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., 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.
Date
1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
P.9877.16
Title
Civil War photograph collection
Description
Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., 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.
Date
1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
P.9877.17
Title
Civil War photograph collection
Description
Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., 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.
Date
1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
(11)1540.F.11b
Title
Civil War photograph collection
Description
Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., 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.
Date
1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
(11)1540.F.21c
Title
Civil War photograph collection
Description
Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., 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.
Date
1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
(11)1540.F.21d
Title
Civil War photograph collection
Description
Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack., Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection., Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses., Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection., Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen., Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941., Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., 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.
Date
1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]

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