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Title: [Stream, with abandoned mill]
Description: View looking down at an unidentified stream, with small waterfalls and an abandoned stone mill in the distance., Attributed to John H. Webster but may have been taken by other Webster family members.
Creator: Webster, John H., 1861-1934, photographer
Date: ca. 1895
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Webster [P.9501.108]

Title: [Road beside old mill building.]
Description: Depicts a three and a half story mill building along a dirt road. A group of three or four women are standing in the distance., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1895
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.53]

Title: [Old mill buildings.]
Description: Angle view of a four story brick industrial building, with evenly spaced windows flanked by shutters. A bicycle leans near one of the entrance doors of the building., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1895
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.235]

Title: [Man and two girls in front of the old Livezey mill on the Wissahickon Creek, Philadelphia.]
Description: Distant view of two girls sitting on a stone near a door of the old Livezey Mill. A man stands in the middle of the path leading to a foot bridge nearby. The old stone building is abandoned and windowless., Title supplied by cataloguer., Thomas Shoemaker constructed a dwelling and outbuildings, including a grist mill, from 1733 to 1739. Thomas Livezey purchased the property, including a grist mill, from Shoemaker in 1747 and named it Glen Fern. In 1909 became the Valley Green Canoe Club., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1895
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.291]

Title: Wakefield Mills, Fisher's Lane. Built by Wm. Logan Fisher
Description: Depicts four children playing along a road flanked by factory buildings and small parcels of land subdivided by shoddy wooden fences. Discarded lumber, carts and other random objects are piled in the foreground. The mills were established by William Logan Fisher., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title given in manuscript on mount.
Creator: Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date: ca. 1913
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.104]

Title: Old Mill near Jay Cooke's residence Chelten Hills
Description: Depicts two older men wearing suits and hats standing outside an old mill near Jay Cooke's Residence in Chelten Hills. A pile of lumber and overgrown weeds surround the mill., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount.
Creator: Browne, John C. (John Coates), 1838-1918, photographer
Date: Negative May 29, 1883
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.172]

Title: The war to end in 1863 at which time the greatest strides in all pursuits of industry, and the introduction of improvements in machinery will commence, that have ever been known in the United States. In the midst of war and confusion the United States has proven to be the greatest mechanical, agricultural and grain growing country in the world; ... James M. Clark, of Clark's Villa, Lancaster City, Lancaster County, Penn'a, has invented and received a patent for the whole United States for a newly invented, very ingenious and greatly needed apparatus, which all mills need and must have. ... James M. Clark's newly patented alarm and indicator, and silent feed and centrifrugal [sic] distributing apparatus for grinding mills
Description: Letters of recommendation are dated Jan. to April 1863., Printed on yellow paper; printed area, including ornamental border, measures 55.3 x 20.7 cm., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Clark, James M., of Lancaster, Pa
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1863 Clark (27)5761.F.92 (McAllister)

Title: Wissahickon
Description: Landscape view of the winding Wissahickon Creek. Shows large rocks in and around the water and trees flanking both sides of the creek. Includes a partial view of a stone mill building., Title on negative., Yellow curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Ms. Jane Carson James.
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Parks [P.9299.52]

Title: On the Wissahickon below Red Bridge
Description: View showing mill buildings on the rocky banks of the Wissahickon Creek below the Red Bridge, later the Blue Stone Bridge. A man sits on a large rock on the opposite the tree-lined bank., Title from manuscript note on verso., Publisher's printed label pasted on verso., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Parks [P.8731.2]

Title: McDowell Paper Mills - actual paper makers since 1825
Description: Depicts an aerial view of McDowell Paper Mills in the Manayunk section of Philadelphia. On the back of the postcard is a list of the paper products manufactured by the mill., Sheet number: 40A07B, Divided back. Advertisement on verso describing the types of products manufactured at the mill., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Brightbill, George M., collector
Date: ca. 1910
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Business and Industry - Miscellaneous - 40]

Title: Todmorden Mills. Highland. Warranted. All wool
Description: Textile label for the woolen mills containing a vignette surrounded by pictorial details and filigree. Vignette depicts the head of a woman partially framed by a garland of flowers. Pictorial details include banners. Todmorden Mills, originally established in 1831 as John Bancroft & Son in Media, Pa., was sold by the family in 1842 and repurchased by Joseph Bancroft in 1854. By the 1870s, it was one of the largest woolen mills in the country., Printed and inscribed on recto: Style 29. Size 68 x 136., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Labels [P.2011.10.104]

Title: [Lewis?] Mill, foot of Flying Hill
Description: View showing the stone mill at the end of a dirt road near the base of a small mountain in a rural area. In the foreground, a cart sits on the side of the road near a residence with a picket fence. A man stands in the road in front of the residence. A second residence is visible in the background., Title from partial label pasted on verso., Distributor's label pasted on verso: From James Cremer's Stereoscopic Emporium, 18 South Eighth St., Philad'a. Photo-miniatures in every style. Family groups taken for the Stereoscope., Yellow mount, trimmed., Manuscript note on verso: No. 55[crossed out]; No. 63 Mill, Front of Flying Hill., Cremer, a Philadelphia photographer and leading stereograph publisher, used distributor's labels on competing publisher's views or on his own inferiorly photographed prints., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Industry [P.9137.2]

Title: Old water mill, near the Wissahickon. Taken Oct. 14, 1906. A day of happy memories
Description: Depicts a large water wheel in front of crumbling stone walls. A woman in a long dress stands to the right., Inscribed in negative: 2523., Title from negative sleeve., Modern reference print available.
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: October 14, 1906
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Hand [P.9259.48]

Title: [View of canal bridge with adjacent mill building.]
Description: A cow grazes in a field near a small canal bridge. An unidentified mill building, surmounted by a water tank, sits adjacent to the bridge., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1895
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.20]

Title: [View of wooden pedestrian bridge spanning a small canal.]
Description: A small wooden pedestrian bridge spans a canal near unidentified mill buildings., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1895
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.21]

Title: [Wooden foot bridge near the old Livezey mill on the Wissahickon Creek, Philadelphia.]
Description: View of an unidentified man with two young girls leaning against the wooden supports of a foot bridge near a dilapidated stone mill building on the Livezey homestead., Title supplied by cataloguer., Thomas Shoemaker constructed a dwelling and outbuildings, including a grist mill, from 1733 to 1739. Thomas Livezey purchased the property, including a grist mill, from Shoemaker in 1747 and named it Glen Fern. In 1909 became the Valley Green Canoe Club., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1895
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.50]

Title: [Outbuildings on Livezey Lane, Philadelphia.]
Description: Profile view of an unidentified man standing amidst rocks and trees near dilapidated stone outbuildings on Livezey Lane., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1895
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.51 & 52]

Title: E.S. Sullivan's Black Diamond Combination is coming in their new version of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Description: Illustrated stock trade card advertising the production of Uncle Tom's Cabin and depicting a white man and woman fishing near an old mill and waterfall. In the right, the man, attired in a hat, a white collared shirt, a blue jacket, brown pants, and black boots, stands on a rock and casts his fishing line. The woman, attired in a brimmed hat, a long-sleeved, blue dress, and black shoes, stands and holds her fishing pole. Behind them is a mill with a water wheel., Title from item., Date based on content., Promotional text printed on verso for Uncle Tom's Cabin includes cast of characters and seat prices., Gift of David Doret, 2011., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Sullivan [P.2011.45.25]

Title: Hofmeister Woolen Mills, from loom to wearer. Spring 1908. Summer 1908
Description: Mail order catalog containing illustrations of female models attired in women's summer wear, including suits, jumper dresses, shirtwaists, coats, hats, undergarments, corset covers, underskirts, petticoats, nightgowns, and "Misses' and Children's Jackets." Several of the models are grouped in scenes with thematic backgrounds, including parlors, a park, and street scene. Also contains promotional and instructional text detailing the "supremacy" of the Hofmeister garments, how to place an order, payment terms, and additional fees for "Extra Large Garments;" detailed descriptions of the clothing; style numbers; and prices., Accompanied by original illustrated envelope. Ilustration depicts three well-dressed ladies at a summer resort., Cover illustration depicts two ladies in formal summer wear disembarking from a horse-drawn carriage. The women's attire includes embellished hats, a long cape, and an umbrella., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler., Order blank and post cards inserted in catalog.
Date: [1908]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Hofmeister [105358.O & 105358.O.a]

Title: On the Wissahickon
Description: Elevated view, possibly from a nearby rooftop, looking down at a man fishing in the winding Wissahickon Creek. Shows large rocks in and around the water and trees flanking both sides of the creek. Includes a partial, obscured view of a mill building in the background., Title from manuscript note on verso., Manuscript note on verso: Sue H. Williamson No. 18., Yellow mount with rounded corners., 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 - Parks [P.9168.2]

Title: Dobson's Mills - Falls of the Schuylkill
Description: Depicts Dobson's carpet mills from the west side of the Schuylkill River. This industrial complex survives from the 1850s when John and James Dobson started the business making woolen goods. Various buildings were constructed incrementally. Includes homes and businesses on the hills of Manayunk in the background and railroad tracks in the foreground., Numbered 662 on recto., Sheet number: 40B01A, Undivided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Brightbill, George M., collector
Date: ca. 1905
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Business and Industry - Miscellaneous - 40]

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

Title: [Bells Mill Road Bridge spanning the Wissahickon Creek, Philadelphia]
Description: View of the stone arch Bells Mill Road Bridge spanning the Wissahickon Creek with adjacent mill building in the right foreground, part of Bishop's Mills at time of photograph. Named after former mill owners James and John Bell, the bridge was constructed in 1820., Title providing incorrect location printed in gold on mount: View on the Wissahickon at Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia, Penn., Publisher's imprint printed in gold on mount., Orange mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - London Stereoscopic Co. - Parks [P.9466.28]

Title: Wissahickon stone bridge
Description: View of the stone arch Bells Mill Road Bridge spanning Wissahickon Creek, constructed in 1820 and named after former mill owners James and John Bell. A mill building, belonging to Bishop's Mills at the time of this photograph, is partially visible in the right foreground., Written on negative: 80, Title from manuscript note on mount., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Stamped on verso: Copyrighted Kiralfy Bros., Philadelphia, 1876., Pink curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Ms. Jane Carson James.
Creator: R. Newell & Son, photographer
Date: c1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Parks [P.9299.79]

Title: General view, Dupont's Powder Mills
Description: View of the stone gunpowder mill buildings on the Brandywine River north of Wilmington, Delaware, where in 1802 Eleuthere Irenee DuPont DeNemours built the first DuPont Powder Mills in America. In the foreground, a man and a boy balance on the rocks near a dam, possibly Bancroft Dam, on the Brandywine. Mills in the background are surrounded by bare trees. Powder was manufactured there for the United States Government in War of 1812, Mexican War, Civil War, Spanish American War and Great War. Old Mills abandoned 1921., Title from photographer's label pasted on verso., Manuscript notes on verso: Bartlett & French; William C. Darrah Coll., Yellow mount with rounded corners., 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 - Industry [P.8484.5]

Title: Bishop's Mills on the Wissahickon
Description: View of mill building, part of Bishop's Mills at time of photograph, behind the stone arch Bells Mill Road Bridge on the Wissahickon Creek. A boy and a girl stand at the creek's edge in the foreground. Named after former mill owners James and John Bell, the bridge was constructed in 1820., Title from photographer's label pasted on verso., Yellow mount with square corners., 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 - Parks [P.9462.8]

Title: Bridge at Bishop's Mills
Description: View of the stone arch Bells Mill Road Bridge spanning Wissahickon Creek, constructed in 1820 and named after former mill owners James and John Bell. A mill building, belonging to Bishop's Mills at the time of this photograph, is partially visible in the foreground., Title from photographer's label pasted on verso., Yellow mount with square corners., 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 - Parks [P.9462.9]

Title: Wissahickon Creek
Description: Landscape view showing the stone arch Bells Mill Road Bridge on the tree-lined Wissahickon Creek. Includes a mill building, part of Bishop's Mills at time of photograph, behind the bridge in the background. Two girls stand at the creek's edge in the foreground. Named after former mill owners James and John Bell, the bridge was constructed in 1820., Title printed on mount., Photographer's name in manuscript note on verso., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Rogers, J. L. (Josiah L.), photographer
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Rogers - Parks [P.9466.25]

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

Title: Manayunk, near Philadelphia
Description: Landscape view showing the village of Manayunk along the east bank of the Schuylkill River, northwest of Philadelphia. Townscape is visible in the right of the image, including Joseph Ripka’s cotton mills erected 1831 and 1835 near the depicted Flat Rock Turnpike Bridge. Manayunk was incorporated into the city of Philadelphia in 1854., Copyrighted by J.C. Wild and J.B. Chevalier. Print lacking copyright statement., Issued as plate 18 in Views of Philadelphia, and its vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838), a series of views originally published as five numbers of four prints each, and later sold as a bound volume of twenty views., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 455.1. Digital image shows third state of print., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2093 and (1)1525.F.71d (hand-colored) and in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 6626.F and Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Poulson)., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bd 862 W644, pl 18., Trimmed., Described in Martin Snyder's "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1838
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W226.1 [P.2093]

Title: Manayunk near Philadelphia
Description: Landscape view showing the village of Manayunk along the east bank of the Schuylkill River, northwest of Philadelphia. Townscape is visible in the right of the image, including Joseph Ripka’s cotton mills erected 1831 and 1835 near the depicted Flat Rock Turnpike Bridge. Manayunk was incorporated into the city of Philadelphia in 1854., Copyrighted by J.T. Bowen., Originally published as plate 18 in Views of Philadelphia, and its vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). The lithographic stones for the views were acquired by John T. Bowen and reissued in 1838 and in 1848 with hand coloring., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 455.2. Digital image shows third state of print., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Rush)., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Described in Martin Snyder's "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1838
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W226.2 [Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Rush)]

Title: Manayunk near Philadelphia
Description: Landscape view showing the village of Manayunk along the east bank of the Schuylkill River, northwest of Philadelphia. Townscape is visible in the right of the image, including Joseph Ripka’s cotton mills erected 1831 and 1835 near the depicted Flat Rock Turnpike Bridge. Manayunk was incorporated into the city of Philadelphia in 1854., Copyrighted by J. T. Bowen., Originally published as plate 18 in Views of Philadelphia, and its vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). The lithographic stones for the views were acquired by John T. Bowen and reissued in 1838 and in 1848 with hand coloring., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 455.3, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2094 and in Print Room *Am 1848 Wild 3007.Q (Poulson) and in Print Room *Am 1848 Wild 1514.F and in Print Room *Am 1848 Wild 1515.Q., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Described in Martin Snyder's "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1840, 1848
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W226.3 [P.2094]

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

Title: Civil War era patriotic ream wrappers [graphic].
Description: 5793.F.33a contains inscriptions about ream price., Originally part of McAllister scrapbooks of Civil War miscellanies and materials related to George McClellan., Seven of the collection trimmed., Collection includes ream wrappers for ruled note paper from Ellsworth Mills; Fremont Mills; McClellan Mills; Parsons Paper Co. (Holyoke, Mass.); and S.C. Upham (Philadelphia, Pa.). Also includes two "Union Note Paper" wrappers issued from unidentified sources. Majority of wrappers contain ornate borders and patriotic designs including eagles, the figure of Liberty, portraits of Elmer Ellsworth and George McClellan, and military iconography.
Date: ca. 1863.
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Ream wrappers [(2)5786.F.159f; (5)5786.F.169d; 5793.F.33a&35a; P.2006.1.13a-d]

Title: Espy, Mills B.
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: February 9, 1853

Title: Mills, Kirk B.
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: March 3, 1881

Title: [Group portrait in front of a stone mill building, Fairmount Park.]
Description: View of men and women posed in front of a stone mill building in Valley Green, including Catharine Rupp Doering (center), wife of the photographer, Mrs. Lindsay (far right) and Albert Lindsay (leaning in doorway). A woman seated in the front row holds a black dog. Panels are missing from the window frame in the background., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1895
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.56]

Title: Oxford Carpet Mills, Wm. Hogg, Jr. Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement depicting the manufactory complex at 140 Oxford Street built between 1858 and 1868 in Kensington. Also shows light street and pedestrian traffic, including a horse-drawn omnibus. The business was established by William Hogg, Sr. in 1832. William Hogg, Jr. assumed sole operation in 1850., Probably engraved by John Serz., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Madelyn Wolke, Lucianne Reichert, and Clifford A. Mohwinkel Jr.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Serz [P.9773.78c]

Title: Comlyville power loom factory. No. [blank] 50 1/2 yards. Warranted fast colours. J. Steel
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting an exterior view of the loom factory founded by Samuel Comly. Later known as the Frankford Woolen Mills., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1835]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Comlyville [1975.F.128]

Title: On the Wissahickon
Description: View of the trellised Kitchen's Lane Bridge spanning Wissahickon Creek. Shows a man fishing from the rocky bank of the creek in the foreground and an old stone mill building in the background. Bridge removed ca. 1925., Title from photographer's label pasted on verso., Yellow mount with square corners., 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 - Parks [P.9058.148]

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

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

Title: View from Chamounix Drive
Description: View from Chamounix Drive in West Fairmount Park showing the Falls Bridge, also known as the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Bridge, spanning the Schuylkill River. The bridge, erected in 1853 by mason Christian Swartz, was utilized by the Reading Railroad. Also shows a telegraph pole near a small stone structure in the foreground and Falls of Schuylkill Woolen Mills at East Falls in the background., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title from manuscript note on mount., Pink mount with rounded corners., Printed on mount: No. 4., Inscribed in negative: 10., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., 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 - Parks [P.9299.82]

Title: Old Time Wind-Mill - Agricultural Hall
Description: Interior view of Agricultural Hall. Shows the Old Time Wind-Mill, lined by barrels and cloth sacks along the exterior. Also depicted are stacks of boxes containing crackers, as well as cabinets filled with bottles of wine and champagne.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co., photographer., creator
Date: 1876
Location: Centennial - album [P.8965.26a]

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

Title: Duncannon Iron Co.'s Rolling Mills
Description: Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., View showing the rolling mills situated beside the Susquehanna River near the junction of the Juniata River at Duncannon, Pa. The iron works, specializing in nails, was established in 1828 by Stephen Duncan and John D. Mahon and purchased by Duncannon Iron Company in 1861. The rolling mill ceased operations in 1908.
Creator: Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917, photographer., creator
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: stereo - Gutekunst - Views [P.9276.36]

Title: [Catharine Rupp Doering standing in front of a mill building.]
Description: View of an old mill building covered in shingles with a stone foundation. Catharine Rupp Doering, wife of the photographer, stands on a steep wooden staircase (left), opposite an old wooden water wheel (right)., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1895
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.54]

Title: [J.C. Finn & Son trade cards]
Description: Series of trade cards for J.C. Finn & Sons paper hanging store at Tenth and Walnut Streets in Philadelphia depicting a girl applying adhesive to wallpaper strips and sloppily hanging them on the wall and flowering vines bordering a framed landscape view of a watermill., One print [1975.F.307] copyrighted by Chas. W. Frost 1881., One print [1975.F.308] contains advertising text promoting "French tapestry papers" and "special designs for ceiling ornamentation" printed on verso., Printers and engravers include Farmer, Livermore & Co., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: ca. 1881
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Finn [1975.F.307 & 308]

Title: What the wild waves are saying. Dainty miss, of germs be wary is your towel sanitary? Is it pure, and sweet and fair, like the ocean and the air? Is it soft - yet giving vim - when you rub down from your swim? If it's all this, maid so chary, then it's surely San-knit-ary
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a woman wearing a red swimsuit standing on the beach watching the water approach her. Men and women sit in the sand in the background. Simon Muhr founded the Philadelphia Straw Braid Sewing Machine Company in 1879, which eventually became the Unique Textile Mills around the turn of the century. The firm changed once again in 1907 to the San-knit-ary Textile Mills., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1910]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - San-knit-ary [P.9761]

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]

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