Lithographic facsimile of plate nine from William Birch's "Views of Philadelphia" showing a street scene with a view of the First Presbyterian Church on Market Street below Third Street. Depicts pedestrians, predominately women, traversing the sidewalk before the church and adjacent buildings; a horse-drawn dray and cart traveling the street; and a woman peddler with her basket of goods near the High Street market shed. First Presbyterian, rebuilt from 1793 to 1794 after the designs of John Trumbull, was the first building in the city with a classic temple facade. The building was razed following the relocation of the congregation., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 355, Accession number amended by cataloger., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Original engraving illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's Views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000), pl. 9., Sinclair operated from 79 South Third Street circa 1840-1849.
Creator
Sinclair, Thomas
Date
[ca. 1845]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Churches and meetinghouses [Log 1322.F.c]
Children's moral instruction book showing three men with their hats dipped low, asleep in a stalled horse-drawn furniture wagon on a pier overlooking the river. The three men are customers of the rag tender, who stands near the cart warning another man to stay away. Another man, presumably down on his luck, leans on a post in the distance., Not in Wainwright., Date supplied by cataloger., Published as illustration on page 28 in City Sights for Country Eyes ([Philadelphia]: American Sunday School Union, [1856])., Accompanied by text titled "The rag tender" moralizing against the dangers of being "late and unsteady" at work and men who "spend their odd pence for whiskey and cigars". These men end up trading their better clothes to the "rag tender"., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 631, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bd 61 K 8343.28, Free Library of Philadelphia: \\RBD\\ASSU\\V\\C498S\\FACSIM.\\
Creator
Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813
Date
[1856]
Location
Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bd 61 K 8343.28
