City Museum polka /
Title
City Museum polka
Description
Copyrighted by G. Vogt., Cover illustration is a lithograph showing a view of the fancifully adorned City Museum originally built as a church in 1823 at 415-417 Callowhill Street. Several individuals, including families, gentlemen, and a b'hoy enter, process, and stand in front of the building. Lamps line the street and a few men are visible on the balcony. Building includes a series of painted billboards across the roof designed as a frieze. Billboards depict animal scenes including a ram, donkey, and a goat; a jungle scene with a giraffe, snake, and a man riding an elephant; a mother tiger with her cubs; and a lion tamer with his big cat. The roof piece also contains two model alligators entwined by snakes, architectural embellishments, and flags. The museum opened in 1854 and housed natural history, science and portrait exhibits on the lower floor and a theatre on the upper floor. Museum burned in 1868., Artist: P. Kramer; Printer: T. Sinclair's Lith., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 136, Wainwright retrospective project, edited., LCP AR [Annual Report] 1986, p. 47-48.
Creator
Scherzer, Adolph, composer
Date
c1854
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Sheet Music Cit P.9166.2, http://www.lcpimages.org/wainwright/W073.htm
Museu de Filadelphia.
Title
Museu de Filadelphia
Description
Exterior view of the Philadelphia Arcade also known as the Philadelphia Museum originally built 1826-1827 as a shop gallery after the designs of John Haviland at 615-619 Chestnut Street. Pedestrians walk in front of and into the museum in which a woman is visible walking down a staircase. Also shows adjacent buildings, an awning post, and street lamp. Museum served as an exhibition gallery including the display of the Philadelphia Museum Company's holdings of artist Charles Willson Peale's collections as well as a concert, public meeting, and lecture space. The building was also used as a bathhouse and hotel before being demolished circa 1859-1860., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 495, Gift of S. Marguerite Brenner.
Date
[ca. 1840]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Museums - Philadelphia [P.9057.33]
Swaim's building, s.e. corner of Chestnut and Seventh street.
Title
Swaim's building, s.e. corner of Chestnut and Seventh street Barnum's museum and theatre in the upper part. On the site of Wm. Waln's mansion house, which was removed [ ] for the above represented building, burnt down December 30th 1851
Description
View looking southeast from a terrace showing the Swaim’s Building tenanted by Barnum’s Museum at 628-632 Chestnut Street. Flags and posters adorn the building. Several pedestrians traverse and a horse-drawn wagon are parked in front of the museum. Also shows a partial view of 700 Chestnut Street and neighboring buildings on the 600 block of the street. Patent medicine purveyor William Swaim acquired the Waln House in 1826. Barnum opened his Philadelphia Museum in 1849., Title from Poulson inscription on mount., Probably originally part of Charles A. Poulson's scrapbook of illustrations of Philadelphia., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 730/731
Date
[ca. 1850]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Museums - Barnum [P.8970.5]
[Swaim's building, s.e. corner of Chestnut and Seventh street]
Title
[Swaim's building, s.e. corner of Chestnut and Seventh street]
Description
View looking southeast from a terrace showing the Swaim’s Building tenanted by Barnum’s Museum at 628-632 Chestnut Street. Flags and posters adorn the building. Several pedestrians traverse and a horse-drawn wagon are parked in front of the museum. Also shows a partial view of 700 Chestnut Street and neighboring buildings on the 600 block of the street. Patent medicine purveyor William Swaim acquired the Waln House in 1826. Barnum opened his Philadelphia Museum in 1849., Title from duplicate on mount with Poulson inscription., Black paper frame pasted on print., Contains watercolor sketches of windows on verso., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 730/731
Date
[ca. 1850]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Museums - Barnum [P.8970.2]
Hagar
Title
Hagar & Campbell's Dime Museum, Ninth & Arch Sts. Opens Monday September 3d 1883
Description
Lively advertising print for the dime museum operated by W. D. Hagar and W. T. Campbell 1883-1885. Shows throngs of people entering the mansard-roofed building, heavily adorned in signage and over 40 pictures of the museum's performers, at the northwest corner of Ninth and Arch Streets. Signs read "Specially Adapted for Ladies & Children: Open Daily from 1 to 10 P.M."; "Curiosities Constantly Arriving From All Parts of the World"; and "Philadelphia's Pleasure Palace Containing Countless Curiosities / Peerless Parlor Peformances." Other signs announce the hours of operation, the museum's purpose for the "instruction and amusement" of ladies and children, and the admission price - 10 cents. Performer's pictures primarily depict human curiosities and include tattooed men and women, a bearded lady, clowns, a two-headed woman, little people, an armless man, a man eating a slate, exotic and native costumed figures, as well as a magician and a ventriloquist. Graphics also show exotic animals and birds. Building also adorned with flags promoting the museum and its attractions, including "birds, beasts, and mechanical marvels." In the street, three street cars (nos. 44, 33, and 26) and one wagon, advertising Hagar & Campbell's, travel and stop in front of the museum. Wagon is composed of billboards illustrated with an image of seven women with floor-length hair and captioned "Seven Wonders of the World.", Also shows adjacent buildings, a crowd of people at the side of the museum, and pedestrians and passersby in the street, on the sidewalk, and near and looking at the street vehicles. Print also contains portraits of owners W. D. Hagar and W. T. Campbell in the upper corners. By 1884, Campbell and Hagar were officers in the Barnum and London show managing "Privileges." Campbell stayed with Barnum until at least the early 1890s., Date inferred from title., Gift of Barbara Fahs Charles and Robert Staples., POSP 286
Date
[1883]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ***BW - Advertisements - H [P.2013.82]