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Title: [James Lane's stove store, No. 218 North Third Street, Philadelphia] [graphic] / Drawn on stone by W. H. Rease, 17, Sth. 5th St. Phil.
Description: Location: 218 North Third Street., LCP copy lacking title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator: Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
Date: ca. 1848.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W197.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W197 [P.2062]

Title: P. R. Schuyler, furnishing undertaker, N.E. cor. Beaver & 4th Sts., Philadelphia. N. B. lots for sale in Monument Cemetery on reasonable terms. Also single interments. [graphic] / Drawn on stone by W. H. Rease, No. 17, So. 5th. St.
Description: LCP copy lacking title. Title repeated in German., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator: Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
Date: ca. 1848.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W261.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W261 [P.2151]

Title: [Western Paper Hangings Establishment, 501 Market Street, Philadelphia.] [graphic] / Drawn on stone by Wm. H. Rease, 17 South 5th St.
Description: Wainwright retrospective conversion project., LCP copy trimmed, lacking title and advertising text., Poulson inscription: June 1847. Market Street., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc38 W827., HSP copy contains advertising text printed in red ink by letterpress by Bryson & Cooper, Fancy Job Printer. No. 2 North Sixth Street, Philadelphia. Image hand-colored.
Creator: Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
Date: June 1847]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W449.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W449 [P.2238]

Title: View from the inclined plane, near Philadelphia. [graphic] / Lith. of J.T. Bowen.
Description: Originally published as plate 4 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., Copyrighted by J.T. Bowen., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2088 and in *Am 1848 Wild 3007.Q (Poulson) and in *Am 1848 Wild 1514.F and in *Am 1848 Wild 1515.Q., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846., creator
Date: c1840, 1848.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W145-4.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W145.4 [P.2088]

Title: [John Ziegler, grocer, N.W. corner of Callowhill and Water Streets, Philadelphia] [graphic] / Drawn on stone by Wm. H. Rease, 17, So. 5th. St.
Description: LCP copy lacking title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator: Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
Date: ca. 1849.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W205.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W205 [P.2114]

Title: [William P. Cresson's foundry, Willow above Thirteenth Street, Philadelphia] [graphic] / Executed on stone by Wm. H. Rease, No. 17, S. 5th. St.
Description: Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator: Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
Date: ca. 1849.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W455.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W455 [P.2242]

Title: H. P. & W. C. Taylor perfumers [graphic] / W. Dreser, delt. & lith.
Description: Location: Delaware River above the Navy Yard., LCP exhibit catalogue: Made in America #71., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator: Dreser, William, b. ca. 1820 lithographer., creator
Date: ca. 1850.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W165.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W165 [P.2074]

Title: [John Horn, drugs and chemical store, N.E. corner of Third & Brown Streets, Philadelphia] [graphic] / Drawn on stone by W. H. Rease, 17 1/2 S. 5th. St.
Description: Location: 801 N. Third Street., LCP copy lacking title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator: Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
Date: ca. 1850.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W204.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W204 [P.2115]

Title: [Jordan & Brother, wholesale grocers, No. 121 North Third Street, Philadelphia.] [graphic] / Drawn on stone by W. H. Rease, No 17, So. 5th. St.
Description: LCP copy lacking title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb38 J82.
Creator: Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
Date: ca. 1850.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W207.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W207 [P.2213]

Title: [Philada. & New York Pekin Tea Company, N.W. corner of Callowhill and Sixth Streets, Philadelphia] [graphic] / Drawn on stone by Wm. H. Rease, No. 17 1/2 Sth. 5th St.
Description: Location: Callowhill and Sixth Streets, northwest corner., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator: Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
Date: ca. 1850.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W278.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W278 [P.2168]

Title: [T. Sharpless & Sons, wholesale ware room, clothes, cassimeres, merinoes, silks and vestings, South Second Street and Trotter's Alley, Philadelphia] [graphic] / Drawn on stone by R. E. Reynolds.
Description: Location: Trotter's Alley and South Second Street., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator: Reynolds, Robert F., creator
Date: ca. 1850.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W358.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W358 [P.2198]

Title: [J. Hartman's biscuit bakery, No. 90 Penn Street, Philadelphia] [graphic] / Executed on stone by W. H. Rease, No. 17 1/2 S. 5th. St.
Description: Location: 90 S. Wharves, later at 412 S. Delaware Avenue., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator: Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
Date: ca. 1846.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W191.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W191 [P.2054]

Title: Moyer & Hazard, successors of Alexander Fullerton, 174 Market Street, fifth door above Fifth Street, Philadelphia [and] Elijah Bowen, wholesale & retail hat & cap store, No. 176 Market Street, Philadelphia. [graphic].
Description: Location: 174 Market Street., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator: Rease, W. H., creator
Date: [ca. 1846]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W242.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W242 [P.2133]

Title: [N. Helverson undertaker, 93 Coates Street, Philadelphia] [graphic] / Drawn on stone by Wm. H. Rease, No. 17 1/2, S. 5th. St.
Description: Location: 93 Coates Street, later 227 Fairmount Ave., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator: Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
Date: ca. 1846.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W244.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W244 [P.2107]

Title: [P. Maison's biscuit bakery, 134 N. Front Street, Philadelphia.] [graphic] / Executed on stone by W. H. Rease, No. 17, S. 5th St.
Description: Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator: Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
Date: ca. 1846.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W260.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W260 [P.2150]

Title: S. Tobias, importer & general dealer in wines, liquors, cordials and syrups, No. 68, North 3d. Street, above Arch, Philadelphia. [graphic] / Drawn on stone by Wm. H. Rease, No. 17 1/2 S. 5th. St.
Description: Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator: Rease, W. H., creator
Date: ca. 1846.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W325.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W325 [P.2183]

Title: [T. Wattson & Sons, biscuit bakery, 129 North Front Street, Philadelphia] [graphic] / Drawn on stone by W. H. Rease, 17 So. 5th. St.
Description: Location: 129 North Front Street (pre-consolidation)., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator: Rease, W. H., creator
Date: ca. 1846.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W359.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W359 [P.2199]

Title: Finn & Burton's paper hangings warehouse No 142, Arch St. Phila. [graphic] / W. H. Rease No. 17 So. 5th St.
Description: LCP exhibit catalogue: Made in America #66., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator: Rease, W. H., creator
Date: [ca. 1847]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W127.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W127 [P.2082]

Title: Public Baths. Thos. E. J. Kerrison's Arcade-Baths. [graphic] / On stone by W. H. Rease, No. 17 S. 5th St.
Description: Location: Chestnut Street bet. Sixth and Seventh, northside., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator: Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
Date: [Aug. 1847]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W301.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W301 [P.2176]

Title: B. Lieber, importer of brandies, wines, gins, brown-stout, scotch ale, No. 121 North Fourth Street between Vine & Callowhill Streets Philadelphia. [graphic].
Description: Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Date: ca. 1847.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W022.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W22 [P.2015]

Title: [Donnelly's steam patent match manufactory, Linden Street near the Stone Bridge, Philadelphia] [graphic].
Description: Location: Linden Street, below Front Street., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Date: [Aug. 1847]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W097.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W97 [P.2031]

Title: United States Hotel Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. [graphic] / From nature & on stone by D. S. Quintin.
Description: Location: Chestnut Street, east of Fifth St., northside., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator: Quintin, David S. lithographer., creator
Date: ca. 1842.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W417.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W417 [P.2228]

Title: [T. E. Chapman, book store, 74 North Fourth Street, Philadelphia] [graphic] / Drawn on stone by Wm. H. Rease, No. 17, So. 5th.
Description: Location: 74 North Fourth Street (pre-consolidation)., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator: Rease, W. H., creator
Date: ca. 1843.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W356.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W356 [P.2196]

Title: [Newmarket hardware, cutlery and nail store, 244 South Second Street, Philadelphia] [graphic] / James Queen del.
Description: LCP copy lacking title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886 artist., creator
Date: ca. 1845.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W249.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W249 [P.2100]

Title: [Conrad & Roberts hardware & cutlery, 123 N. Third Street, Philadelphia] [graphic] / Drawn on stone W. H. Rease, 17 So. 5th St. Phila.
Description: Location: 123 North Third Street., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator: Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
Date: ca. 1845.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W083.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W83 [P.2025]

Title: [Thos. Minford. Wholesale & retail grocery & tea warehouse, s.w. corner of Second and Walnut Streets, Philadelphia] [graphic] / On stone by W. H. Rease, No. 17, So. 5th St.
Description: Location: Second and Walnut Streets, southwest corner., LCP copy lacking title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator: Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
Date: ca. 1845.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W405.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W405 [P.2218]

Title: [C. F. Mansfield. Paper hangings. Wholesale and retail, 275 South Second Street, Philadelphia] [graphic] / Drawn on stone by R. F. Reynolds, Philada.
Description: Location: 275 South Second Street., Wainwright retrospective conversion project.
Creator: Reynolds, Robert F., lithographer., creator
Date: ca. 1845.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W038.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W38 [P.2019]

Title: [J. Willis, shoe manufactory, 241 Arch Street, Philadelphia] [graphic].
Description: Location: 241 Arch Street (pre-consolidation)., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Date: [ca. 1845]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W195.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W195 [P.2063]

Title: View of Robert Buist's city nursery & greenhouses No. 140 South Twelfth Str. Phila. 1846. [graphic] / Taken on the spot & lithographed by A. Hoffy.
Description: Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator: Hoffy, Alfred M., b. ca. 1790 lithographer., creator
Date: 1846.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W423.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W423 [P.2261]

Title: [Charles Gilbert's stove manufactory, 249 North Second Street, Philadelphia] [graphic] / Drawn by W. H. Rease, 17 So. 5th Str. Phila.
Description: Location: 249 North Second Street., LCP copy lacking title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator: Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
Date: ca. 1846.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W054.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W54 [P.2021]

Title: [Garden & Brown, silk & fur hat manufactory, 196 Market Street, Philadelphia] [graphic] / On stone by W. H. Rease, 17 So. 5th. St.
Description: Location: 196 Market Street (pre-consolidation)., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator: Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
Date: ca. 1846.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W147.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W147 [P.2050]

Title: Combined letter box and lamp post. Patented March 9, 1858, by Albert Potts, Philadelphia. [graphic].
Description: Location: Third and Willow Sts., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Date: 1858.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W076.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W76 [P.2037]

Title: Franklin Iron Works. Sutton & Smith's iron foundry, Franklin Street between Second and Front Streets, Philadelphia [graphic] / W. H. Rease.
Description: Location: Franklin and Howard Streets., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator: Rease, W. H., creator
Date: ca. 1860.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W139.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W139 [P.2046]

Title: Steam tugs, Columbus and Alert. Vessels of all classes towed to and from sea and about the harbor; towing to and from Schuylkill and all other descriptions promptly attended to. S. Flanagan No. 78 South Delaware Avenue. [graphic] / Lith. by Rease & Schell, 17 So. 5th. St.
Description: Location: Delaware River off Philadelphia., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator: Rease & Schell, lithographer., creator
Date: ca. 1855.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W353.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W353 [P.2258]

Title: [Burton & Laning paper hanging manufactory, 6th Street above Camac, Philadelphia] [graphic] / On stone by Rease & Schell No. 17 Sth. 5th St. Phila.
Description: Location: Sixth and Columbia Ave., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator: Rease & Schell, lithographer., creator
Date: ca. 1855.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W037.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W37 [P.2018]

Title: Eagle Hotel, No. 139 North 3rd. Street Philadelphia. [graphic].
Description: Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Proprietors, Allmond & Stem. The hotel's address changed to 227 North Third Street in 1857.
Date: ca. 1855.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W102.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W102 [P.2040]

Title: Two of the killers. [graphic].
Description: Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Reproduced in Edwin Wolf's Philadelphia: Portrait of American City Philadelphia (Published by Camino Books in cooperation the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1990), page 199.
Date: [1848].
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W408.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W408 [P.2219]

Title: Conflagration of the steam boat New Jersey on the Delaware River opposite Philada. March 15 1856 in which 50 persons lost their lives. [graphic] / Lithographed from a drawing made on the wharf above Vine St. by Geo. G. Heiss.
Description: Location: Delaware above Vine Street., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator: Heiss, George G., creator
Date: 1856.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W082.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W82 [P.2026]

Title: Terrible conflagration and destruction of the steamboat "New Jersey," on the Delaware River, above Smith's Island, on the night of March 15th, between 8 and 9 o'clock, in which dreadful calamity over 50 lives are supposed to have been lost. [graphic].
Description: Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Date: 1856.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W366.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W366 [P.2202]

Title: Abbott & Lawrence. Liberty Stove Works, Brown Street above Fourth St. Philada. [graphic] / Drawn & lithd. by A. Kollner.
Description: Location: Brown Street above Fourth St. Philada., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813 lithographer., creator
Date: ca. 1852.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W011.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W11 [P.2002]

Title: H. B. McCalla, successor to the late Andrew McCalla, No. 252 Market St. First hat & cap store below 8th St. south side, Philadelphia. [graphic] / On stone by R. F. Reynolds No. 30, So. 5th. St. below Walnut 4th. story.
Description: Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator: Reynolds, Robert F., lithographer., creator
Date: ca. 1852.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W164.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W164 [P.2076]

Title: Tamany Fish House, on the Pea Shore, R. Delaware. [graphic] / Thomas M. Scott.
Description: Location: New Jersey Shore about two miles north of Camden., LCP exhibit catalogue: Made in America #72., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: Snider gift., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc03 Tl53., Gift of Jay Snider.
Creator: Scott, Thomas M., creator
Date: ca. 1852.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W363.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W363 [Snider gift]

Title: Neall & Matthews, iron founders and machinists, Bush Hill Iron Works (Formerly occupied by Rush & Muhlenburg,) corner of Fairview & Schuylkill Seventh St., Philadelphia. [graphic] / Drawn on stone by W. H. Rease No. 17, So. 5th St.
Description: Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator: Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
Date: ca. 1853.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W245.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W245 [P.2131]

Title: The terrible conflagration at Ninth and Washington Streets, Philadelphia. On the morning of Wednesday February 8th 1865. [graphic].
Description: Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Reaccessioned as P.2215., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Date: 1865.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W397.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W397 [6549.F]

Title: Smith Memorial postcards
Description: Contains views of the Smith Memorial gateway designed by James Windrim & Son and built 1897-1912 at the Forty-first Street entrance to Fairmount Park. Built in honor of Civil War soldiers. Consists of two pedestals flanking Concourse Drive near Memorial Hall. Both sides have palladian arches and equestrian bronze statues on columns. Various sculptors produced different statues for the memorial. Daniel Chester French created the George Meade statue; Charles Grafly created the John Reynolds statue; Edward C. Potter created the McClellan statue and John Quincy Adams Ward created the Winfield Hancock statue., Contains 13 postcards printed in color and 5 printed in black and white., Also known as the Richard Smith Memorial Gateway., 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: 1900-1910
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Fairmount Park - Monuments & Memorials - Smith Memorial - 89]

Title: Valley Green postcards
Description: Contains views of Valley Green on Forbidden Drive near Wissahickon Creek in Fairmount Park. Includes views of a waterfall; the Springfield Avenue Bridge and the Valley Green Inn taken from various angles. Valley Green Inn is the only surviving roadhouse from the nineteenth century. Built circa 1850 by Thomas Livezey and expanded with newer rear additions. Purchased by the city in 1872., Contains 31 postcards printed in color and 12 printed in black and white. Also includes 2 linen postcards., 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: 1900-1945
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Fairmount Park - Valley Green - 92]

Title: Skating in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Depicts a crowd of people ice skating in Fairmount Park., Numbered 8901 and 43042 on verso., Sheet number: 86A18., Divided 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. 1910
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Fairmount Park - Miscellaneous - 86]

Title: Wm. Leonidas Spring, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Depicts a horse attached to a carriage drinking from the Leonidas Spring in Fairmount Park, a public drinking fountain along Lincoln Drive., Also known as Springs Memorial Fountain., Sheet number: 86B10., Divided 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. 1910
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Fairmount Park - Miscellaneous - 86]

Title: Catholic Total Abstinence Union Fountain postcards
Description: Depicts statues of four prominent Catholic men standing on large stone fountains around the central figure of Moses, including John Barry, Charles Carroll, John Carroll and Theobald Matthew. Also includes carved portraits of Comte de Grasse, Tadeusz Kosciuszko, Marquis de Lafayette, George Gordon Meade, Orono and Casimir Pulaski. Designed in the shape of a maltese cross by Herman Kirn in 1876., Contains 2 postcards printed in color and 2 printed in black and white., Sheet numbers: 88A10 and 88B08., 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: 1900-1910
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Fairmount Park - Monuments & Memorials - Miscellaneous - 88]

Title: Lion Fighter, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Depicts an equestrian statue of a man about to pierce a lion with his spear. Designed by Albert Wolff in 1858 and was cast in bronze by Bureau Brothers in 1893 for the Columbian Exposition. Later placed in front of the Post Office at Ninth and Chestnut Streets. Moved to East River Drive in 1897. Currently located at the foot of the Art Museum steps, near the Benjamin Franklin Parkway., Sheet number: 88A09., Divided back. Post marked 1909., 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 1909
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Fairmount Park - Monuments & Memorials - Miscellaneous - 88]

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