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- Title
- Sailors from North Atlantic Squadron. G.A.R. Encampment Phila'da
- Description
- View looking northeast along Filbert Street, showing sailors marching in uniform with rifles slung over their shoulders during the Grand Army of the Republic's National Encampment held in Philadelphia September 5-6, 1899. A man, possibly a police officer or parade participant, stands in the foreground looking at the marchers. View includes the south flank of Masonic Temple, spectators gathered on the north sidewalk, and brick row houses on the north side of Filbert Street. The Grand Army of the Republic, a society of Union veterans was organized in 1866 to promote fraternity, charity, and loyalty among its members, including camp fires, encampments, the establishment of veteran relief funds, and the preservation of civil war sites and financing of memorials., Title printed on mount below image., Publisher's imprint printed on mount., Decorative printed floral pattern flanks image., Buff 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 Robert M. Vogel.
- Date
- [ca. 1899]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Processions [P.9047.126]
- Title
- The brave 3rd U.S. Cavalry. Heroes of El Caney. Peace Jubilee, Phila
- Description
- View looking east from City Hall showing the Third United States Volunteer Cavalry in formation on the 1300 block of Market street during the celebration commemorating the end of the Spanish American War in 1898. Spectators crowd the sidewalks and flags and bunting adorn the businesses, including John Wanamaker's department store, completed in 1876 after the designs of Theophilius P. Chandler (1300-1326 Market)., Title printed on mount below image., Publisher's imprint printed on mount., Printed on mount: Sold only by Berry, Kelley & Chadwick. Dallas, Tex., Chicago, Augusta, Ga., Gray 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 Robert M. Vogel.
- Date
- [ca. 1898]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Berry, Kelley & Chadwick - Processions [P.9047.142]
- Title
- Viti's alabaster vases M.B
- Description
- View of alabaster vases and urns created by Viti Brothers of Philadelphia on display in the Main Building designed by Henry Pettit and Joseph M. Wilson. Also shows chandeliers and candelabra on display behind the Viti Brothers' exhibit. The fair celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Title on negative., Photographer's imprint printed on mount and on verso. Imprint on verso contains initials "CPC" in decorative border surmounted by date range 1776-1876., White curved mount with rounded corners., Gift of Charles Isaacs., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Centennial Photographic Co.
- Date
- c1876
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Centennial Photographic Co. [P.8975.3]
- Title
- Relics of S. Girard at Girard College
- Description
- Interior view showing relics and furniture belonging to Stephen Girard in Founder's Hall, constructed 1833-1847 in the Greek Revival style after the designs of Philadelphia architect Thomas Ustick Walter, at 1201-1211 West College Avenue. Relics include an architectural model of Founder's Hall enclosed in a glass case, a large orrery in the middle of the room, chests, chairs, and paintings. Girard College was established through a bequest from Stephen Girard, a Philadelphia financier and philanthropist, for the creation of a school for "poor white orphans.", Title from printed series label pasted on verso., Probable photographer inferred from series label on verso. See Bartlett & French [P.9466.1], Distributor's blind stamp on mount., Manuscript note on verso: No. 160, Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., George W. Thorne operated from 60 Nassau Street in New York from 1864 to 1879.
- Creator
- Bartlett & French, photographer
- Date
- [ca. 1868]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Thorne - Education [P.9541]
- Title
- Masonic Temple and M.E. Church, Phila
- Description
- View looking south showing buildings on the east side of Broad Street near Arch Street, including the Surgical Institute, Eastern Division (northeast corner of Broad and Arch Streets), the Arch Street Methodist Episcopal Church (1344-48 Arch, built 1869-70, Addison Hutton, architect) and Masonic Temple (1-33 North Broad, built 1868-73, James H. Windrim, architect). In the foreground, an unhitched coach and dray sit on Broad Street near a utility pole and ladder. The first floor skeleton of City Hall is partially visible in the background., Title on negative., Publisher's imprint on mount., 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 Robert M. Vogel.
- Date
- [ca. 1876]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - De Young's Palace Dollar Store [P.9047.9]
- Title
- Methodist Episcopal Church and Masonic Temple
- Description
- View looking south from the sidewalk in front of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts showing buildings on the east side of Broad Street near Arch Street, including the Arch Street Methodist Episcopal Church (1344-48 Arch, built 1869-70, Addison Hutton, architect) and Masonic Temple (1-33 North Broad, built 1868-73, James H. Windrim, architect). In the foreground, a broadside advertising PAFA's exhibition of "engravings, etchings, and mezzotints" stands on the sidewalk and a sign advertising "Dying Lioness, the bronze group," hangs from a nearby building. Also shows a construction site with unhitched coaches and drays across the street. The skeleton of the lower levels of City Hall is partially visible in the background., Title from printed series list on verso. Includes two other series, "Philadelphia Centennial Views" and "Miscellaneous."Printed on verso: Philad'a Stereo. Publishing Company., Publisher's imprint on mount., Orange curved mount with rounded corners., Purchased by the Fairmount Park Art Association, the Dying Lioness statue group arrived in Philadelphia in the fall of 1875, before it was installed on the Centennial Exhibition grounds. It moved to the Philadelphia Zoological Gardens entrance after the fair., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- [ca. 1876]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Fleischner - Religion [P.9117.1]
- Title
- Arch Street Theatre
- Description
- View of the north side of the 600 block of Arch Street, showing the Arch Street Theater built 1826-28 after the designs of Philadelphia architect William Strickland at 609-615 Arch Street. Also shows Bird's Billiard Hall operated by Christian Bird at 605-607 Arch Street. Includes two playbills on display in front of the theater, street lamps with large fixtures, an unhitched carriage on the sidewalk, and several horse-drawn carriages traveling along Arch Street., Title from photographer's label on verso. Also includes list of forty-one other titles in the series (No. 140-180)., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Bartlett, George O., photographer
- Date
- [ca. 1868]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett - Streets [P.2002.21.2]
- Title
- [Green's August Flower and Boschee's German Syrup trade cards]
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards promoting George Gill Green's "August Flower" and "Boschee's German Syrup". Four trade cards depict views of Fairmount Park, including one eight-page foldout advertisement containing advertising text pages. Illustrations include the Fairmount Water Works and Resevoir, originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff. Also shows horse-drawn carriages pulling men and women racing north on East River Drive under the New York Connecting Railway Bridge, built 1866-67 after designs by Joseph A. Wilson for the Pennsylvania Railroad. The Promontory Rock Tunnel, bored in 1871, is visible in the background. Other images include people leisurely rowing on a creek under the bridge to Lansdown Island; park visitors standing on a pathway that overlooks the Schuylkill River from the Fairmount Water Works; and men and women strolling, sitting, and traveling in horse-drawn carriages along Wissahickon Drive. Paragraphs of advertising text promote George Gill Green's "August Flower" as a "natural cathartic" that "corrects the acidity of the stomach," and "it is established fact in every town and village on this continent, that [Boschee's] German Syrup is the only remedy that has given satisfaction in severe cases of Lung Disease." Two photographic reproductions depict inverted images of sailboats on the ocean and an inset portrait of a woman. Green was a patent medicine entrepreneur who purchased the rights of these two medicines from his father, Lewis M. Green., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers and engravers include Major & Knapp Engraving, Manufacturing & Lithographic Co. and Donaldson Brothers., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Two prints [P.9993.5 & 6] gift of Helen Beitler., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1876]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Green's [111016.D; P.9490.38; P.9642.1; P.9685.2; P.9993.5 & 6]
- Title
- [Chestnut Street, west from Seventh Street, north side, Philadelphia]
- Description
- View showing the north side of the 700 block of Chestnut Street. Businesses include: Joseph Monier, bookbinder and printer (Chestnut and Seventh); Washington Hotel (711 Chestnut); and the Masonic Hall (713-721 Chestnut), built 1853-1855 after the designs of Sloan & Stewart and razed by fire in 1886. Also includes partial view of Girard Fire Insurance Company (639 Chestnut) and signage for the The One Dollar Store, variety store, on the south side of the block., Attributed to Robert Newell., Unmounted half of stereoview., Title supplied by cataloguer., 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
- Newell, Robert, 1822-1897, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1870
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Streets [(7)1322.F.59a]
- Title
- Centennial anniversary of the Lutheran Church, southeast corner 4th and Cherry streets
- Description
- Interior views showing the heavily adorned altar of the New Lutheran Church also known as Zion Church (i.e. Zion-St. Michael's Lutheran Church) during the centennial celebration of the church built 1766-1769 after the designs of Robert Smith. Decorations include a large banner, garland, flowers, and wreathes. One view also shows pews., Yellow mounts with square corners., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., One of images [(4)1322.F.24a] accompanied by label misidentifying location., One of images [1332.F.24b] reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1980), entry #172., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- 1866
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Religion [(4)1322.F.24a & b]
- Title
- Stereoscopic view of Market Street, Philadelphia, including a view of the Market House from 8th to Front St
- Description
- View showing the vacant market sheds on the 700 block of Market street. The sheds erected in the late 17th century at Front and Market streets, extended to Eighth Street in 1816, and were removed between 1859 and 1860. A man and two boys stand at the opening of the shed. Businesses lining the block include J.M. Maris & Co., drug manufacturer; Edwin Hardt's dining saloon; and H. M'Grath, bookseller and publisher., Photographer, title, and publication information from duplicate stereograph in the collections of the George Eastman House., Buff mount with square corners., Gift of Penelope Batcheler., Reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 111., Arcadia caption text: The ramshackle condition of the market sheds for which they were much criticized can be seen in this view taken c.1859 on the 700 block of Market Street. Extended to Eighth Street in 1816, the Market Street sheds were condemned as an impediment to trade and travel and were razed soon after this photograph was taken. Neighboring businesses, such as prominent Philadelphia drug manufacturer J.M. Maris & Co., visible in this view, previously promoted the sheds because the adjacent storefronts reaped the financial benefits of customers attracted by the market., HSP holds copy with text pasted on verso titled "Farewell Address of the Market Houses." Text also promotes the Rehn Photographic Gallery. See LCP research file Odiorne, Henry for photostat of verso., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860
- Date
- [c1859]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Odiorne - Markets [P.9460.1]
- Title
- The Great Central Fair, Philadelphia 1864
- Description
- Views from the the Great Central or Sanitary Fair of June 1864 that displayed art, craft, and historical exhibits to benefit the soldier relief organization, the U.S. Sanitary Commission. Shows Union Avenue, the main thoroughfare; the Horticultural Department; and the Art Gallery. Views include exhibition displays, framed paintings on gallery walls, viewing benches, tropical greenery, patriotic decorations, and guards., Contains three stereographic prints on yellow mounts with square corners, including two accompanied by photographer's labels and one with a distributor's stamp. Also contains one stereographic print mounted on paper accompanied by a label., Three of images originally part of a McAllister scrapbook on the Civil War Sanitary Commission., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Newell, Robert, 1822-1897
- Date
- c1864
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Fairs [5781.F.157a; 5781.F.167d; 5781.F.173f; 8248.F.8]
- Title
- [Eighth Street looking south from Arch Street]
- Description
- View showing North Eighth Street between Market and Arch streets. Businesses include a photographic studio, job printing office, drapery store, furniture company, and Espen & Brother's lace emporium (31 N. 8th). Storefronts are heavily adorned with signage as well as ornamental animal decorations, including, an ostrich, an elephant, and eagles. Horse-drawn carriages line the street and several pedestrians walk on the sidewalk under the buildings' awnings. Espen & Brother vacated 31 North Eighth Street circa 1864., Title supplied by cataloguer., Manuscript note on accompanying photographer's label: Eight St. looking South from Arch., Yellow mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., See Robert F. Looney's Old Philadelphia in Early Photographs, 1839-1914 (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1976), entry #81., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Newell, Robert, 1822-1897
- Date
- [ca. 1864]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Streets [(8)1322.F.17d]
- Title
- Chestnut Street from the Custom House
- Description
- View looking east from the U.S. Custom House at 420 Chestnut Street. Shows the tobacco store of M.B. Dean (413 Chestnut) and partial views of the Philadelphia National Bank building (419 Chestnut) and the Philadelphia Bank Building (400-408 Chestnut, built 1836) Also shows adjacent businesses; horse-drawn carts and carriages traveling and lining the street; and flags adorning several of the buildings., Pale yellow mount with square corners., Title from accompanying photographer's label., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth-century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publications, Inc, 1980), entry #175., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Newell, Robert, 1822-1897
- Date
- April 1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Streets [(8)1322.F.23d]
- Title
- Chestnut Street from the Custom House Philadelphia
- Description
- View looking east from the U.S. Custom House at 420 Chestnut Street. Shows the tobacco store of M.B. Dean (413 Chestnut) and partial views of the Philadelphia National Bank building (419 Chestnut) and the Philadelphia Bank Building (400-408 Chestnut, built 1836). Also shows adjacent businesses; horse-drawn carts and carriages traveling and lining the street; and flags adorning several of the buildings., Yellow mount with square corners., Title from accompanying photographer's label., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., 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
- Newell, Robert, 1822-1897
- Date
- April 1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Streets [(8)1322.F.23b]
- Title
- Second & Chestnut Streets
- Description
- View photographed circa 1870 looking east from Second Street, north side, showing the 100 block of Chestnut Street. Businesses include: the first building of the Corn Exchange National Bank (1858 -1951) at 127-135 Chestnut Street; Sprague, Colburn & Co., dry goods at 127 Chestnut Street; and A. Campbell & Co., woolen manufacturers, at 125 Chestnut Street. Also includes James H. Billington & Co., manufacturers' supplies, in the distance at 113 Chestnut Street (northeast corner of Letitia Street). Men and boys stand near the bank, including a boy leaning on a lamppost near a horse-drawn carriage in the street. Sprague, Colburn, & Co,. dry goods, tenated 127 Chestnut Street in 1870., Title from manuscript note on mount., Publisher's imprint printed on verso., Inscribed on negative: 206., Printed on mount: No. 7., 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.
- Creator
- R. Newell & Son
- Date
- c1876
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Streets [P.9299.132]
- Title
- St. James the Less
- Description
- Views showing the Gothic-style Protestant Episcopal church built 1846-1850 after the designs of English architect George Gordon Place at 3200-3230 West Clearfield Street in East Falls near Laurel Hill Cemetery. Images predominately depict the church exterior, burial ground, and individual headstones and monuments, including a nautical-themed grave marker. Also includes an interior view showing the church altar, pews, and archways. The Ecclesiological Society, a British church architecture society, provided the plans for the church to be recreated in the style of a 13th-century English country parish., Coral or orange mounts with rounded corners., Title and photographer's imprint printed on mounts., Five of images originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.), photographer
- Date
- ca. 1868
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Simons - Religion [1322.F.87c-2; (4)1322.F.84c & f; 87a, b & d; P.9047.114-115; P.9134]
- Title
- Landsdown [sic] entrance looking south
- Description
- View showing Lansdowne Avenue in West Fairmount Park under the old Girard Avenue Bridge. The bridge, completed at the Schuylkill River in 1855, was razed circa 1871 and replaced by the new Girard Avenue Bridge. Shows a horse-drawn carriage traveling on Lansdowne under an arch of the bridge. Also shows the New York Connecting Railway Bridge, completed in 1867, in the background., Title from manuscript note on verso., Grey mount with rounded corners., Inscribed in negative: 136., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., 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 - unidentified - Parks [P.9260.96]
- Title
- Wire Bridge Fairmount
- Description
- View looking south from the west bank of the Schuylkill River near the Schuylkill Navigation Company Canal and locks showing the Wire Bridge at Fairmount. 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 razed in 1874. View includes a team of horses and a horse-drawn wagon on the riverbank in front of the canal locks near the house built in 1833 for Schuylkill Navigation Company officials. Also shows factories adjacent to the bridge in the background., Title from accompanying publisher's label., Buff mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., 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
- Newell, Robert, 1822-1897
- Date
- [ca. 1865]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Bridges [(3)1322.F.119f]
- Title
- [Promontory Rock Tunnel and New York Connecting Railway Bridge, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia]
- Description
- View showing the Promontory Rock Tunnel, bored in 1871, on East River Drive (Kelly Drive) between the New York Connecting Railway Bridge and the Girard Avenue Bridge in East Fairmount Park. Includes views of segments of the two Pennsylvania Railroad bridges spanning the Schuylkill River. The Connecting Railway bridge was completed in 1867 after the designs of John A. Wilson. The Girard Avenue Bridge was completed in 1875 after the designs of Henry A. and James P. Sims., Buff mount with rounded corners., Title supplied by cataloguer., Manuscript note on mount: Tunnel & NY bridge Park., Inscribed in negative: 129., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- ca. 1875
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Bridges [P.9299.45]
- Title
- Continental Hotel, Philada
- Description
- View looking southeast from above Ninth Street showing the luxury hotel at the corner of Ninth and Chestnut streets. Completed in 1860 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr., the hotel contained several businesses in its lower level, including "Charles Oakford & Son" hat shop and "Vansant's Manufactory of French Confections." The building was demolished in 1924. Also visible on the commercial street are a shirt manufactory and a looking glass store. A street lamp advertising the Walnut Street Theater stands on the corner of the sidewalk jammed with pedestrians. Horse-drawn carriages line the street., Title from manuscript note on accompanying label., Yellow mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., 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
- Newell, Robert, 1822-1897
- Date
- [ca. 1868]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereos - Newell - Hotels [(8)1322.F.29e]
- Title
- School gardens as a practical educational method - showing Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls, Philadelphia, Pa
- Description
- Earlier and later edition of stereograph issued by the Keystone View Company education department showing a view of a school garden in Philadelphia, showing boys and girls dressed in white uniforms gardening with the help of adults. A young girl in the foreground uses a hoe to loosen the dirt., Titles printed on mount., Additional places of publication printed on mounts, including New York, NY; Portland, Oregon; London, Eng.; and Sydney, Aus., Dates inferred from content of texts printed on verso and format of series number., P.9573.25, ca. 1915, contains explicative paragraph of text printed on verso providing brief history of school gardens and Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls. Includes latitude and longitude: Lat. 40 degrees N.; Long. 75 degrees W., P.2024.79, ca. 1920, contains explicative paragraph of text printed on verso also containing questions about the view related to gardening and the Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls., Printed above image on mount of P.9573.25: 83., Printed above image on mount of P.2024.79: P237., Gray curved mounts with rounded corners., P.9573.25: cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., P.2024.79 gift of Sarah Weatherwax.
- Date
- [ca. 1915-ca. 1920]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Keystone View Company - Education [P.9573.25 and P.2024.79]
- Title
- Chestnut St. west from Fourth
- Description
- View showing the north side of the 400 block of Chestnut Street, including Banker's Row. Banker's Row includes three buildings after the designs of John M. Gries: Girard Building (435 Chestnut, built 1857-1859); the Farmers and Mechanics Bank (425-429 Chestnut, built 1854-1855); and the Philadelphia National Bank (419-423 Chestnut, built 1857-1859). Also shows the Philadelphia Trust, Safe Deposit & Insurance Company (413-417 Chestnut, completed 1874, James Hamilton Windrim, archt.) and the Pennsylvania Company for Insurances on Lives & Granting Annuities (431 Chestnut, built 1871-1873, Addison Hutton, archt.). Adjacent businesses include: William E. Harpur, watchmaker (407 Chestnut); Jacob Langsdorf, cigar importer, and Thomas W. Bovell, lithographer (409 Chestnut); McCully & Co., printers (411 Chestnut); and R. Penistan, wine dealer (439 Chestnut). Horse-drawn vehicles line the street, including an ice delivery wagon., Curved orange mount with rounded corners., Title annotated on negative., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- ca. 1877, ca. 1885
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Streets [P.9208.5]
- Title
- [Interior views of the McAllister Residence, 14 North Merrick Street, West Penn Square, Philadelphia]
- Description
- Interior views of John McAllister Jr.'s residence on West Penn Square showing bedrooms, parlors, the main staircase, and the furniture and artwork decorating the rooms and walls, including a fireplace and mantle, piano, paintings, tables, chairs, mirrors, beds, and wash basins. Several views include John McAllister, Jr., with an unidentified man in one view, sitting in chairs in a parlor., Title supplied by cataloger., Yellow mounts with rounded corners., One item [P.9389.2] reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 26., Arcadia caption text: ... This house, built around 1835 on North Merrick Street, was one of a growing number of large double townhouses that lined Penn Square by the end of the 1830s. ... The image below provides a partial view of two of the bedrooms., 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 - unidentified - Residences [P.9389.1-9]
- Title
- Chestnut St. above 4th St
- Description
- View showing the south side of the 400 block of Chestnut Street. Includes the Philadelphia Bank Building (400-408 Chestnut, built 1836); the U.S. Customhouse, (420 Chestnut, formerly the Second Bank of the United States, completed in 1824 after the designs of William Strickland); and the U.S Post Office and U.S. Courts Building (426-428 Chestnut, 1863-1884). Signage adorns the Philadelphia Bank Building, including advertisements for the resident businesses of William M. Clark, engraver on wood, and Boswell & Co., insurance agents. Also includes vendor stands in front of the U.S. Customhouse and pedestrians walking on the sidewalk., Title from manuscript note on verso., Attributed to James Cremer based on other stereographs with same series title and mount, with the photographer's label pasted on verso., Publication information from duplicate and variant stereoviews. (P.9260.49a and P.8931.2)., Orange mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Cremer, James, 1821-1893
- Date
- [May 21, 1875]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Government buildings - C [P.8931.2]
- Title
- [Gent's collars exhibit.] Union Avenue
- Description
- Views show the "Gent's collar" display on the main thoroughfare, Union Avenue. An arch surmounted by an eagle and angelic figures rests on glass display cases. Blocks or stones with the initials of the thirteen original colonies form the arch, with the "P.A." block for Pennsylvania as the central keystone. Bust sculptures mounted on columns flank the arch. Flags are draped on the wall in the background. The Great Central or Sanitary Fair held June 7-28, 1864 on Logan Circle was one of several national fairs that displayed art, craft, and historical exhibits to benefit the U.S. Sanitary Commission, a soldier relief organization., Part of title from manuscript note on paper label below one image [5781.F.157d]., Printed label pasted on mount of one item [(1)5781.F.154a]: Penn'a R. R.--Coatsville and R. R. Bridge., One stereograph [(1)5781.F.154a] on buff mount with square corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Watson, A., photographer
- Date
- [ca. 1864]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Watson - Fairs [5781.F.157e and (1)5781.F.154a]
- Title
- North Broad St., Phil., PA
- Description
- View looking south from below Race Street to City Hall on Penn Square. East side of street shows a partial view of the Masonic Temple (completed 1873 after the designs of James Hamilton Windrim), Odd Fellows Hall (built 1893), and the store of Thomas B. Wanamaker's (son of John Wanamaker). West side of the street shows the First Baptist Church (built 1856 after the designs of Stephen Button), the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (completed 1876 after the designs of Furness & Hewitt), and the manufactory "Heywood Bros & Co. Wholesale Chair & Ratan Furniture Warerooms." Shows City Hall (completed 1901) with an incomplete tower (constructed 1884-1896) in the background. Horse-drawn carriages travel and park on the sides of the street. Pedestrians walk the sidewalks., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Copyrighted by Alfred S. Campbell, Elizabeth, N.J., U.S.A., Buff mount with rounded corners., Title inscribed in negative., Gift of Robert M. Vogel., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Campbell, Alfred S.
- Date
- [ca. 1893]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Campbell - Streets - Broad [P.9047.130]
- Title
- Chestnut Street, [west of Tenth Street], Philadelphia
- Description
- View of the commercial street, above Tenth Street, south side. Businesses include: Stephen F. Whitman & Son branch candy store at 1004 Chestnut Street; Gustavus A. Schwartz toy store and Blasius Brothers piano manufacturer at 1006-1008 Chestnut Street; J.T. Gallagher jeweler at 1016 Chestnut Street; and the St. Lawrence Hotel at 1018-1020 Chestnut Street. 1006 Chestnut Street is heavily adorned with signage including advertisments for: Decker Bros. and G.A. Miller pianos; Steinway pianos; and Wm. Pew Smith Classical & English School. View also includes a billboard, across the street from the Whitman candy store, referring to the "Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York" (built 1873-1875)., Title printed on mount., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Manuscript note on verso: West of 10th., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Cremer, James, 1821-1893
- Date
- [ca. 1874]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer -Streets [P.9168.16]
- Title
- Market St., west of 10th St
- Description
- View of the commercial street, above Tenth Street, south side. Businesses include: Clark's Heating & Ventilating Warehouse at 1008 Market Street; Dale & Thomas, carpets, at 1010 Market Street; James Spear & Co., stoves, heaters, and ranges at 1014 Market Street; William Ray, clothier, at 1018 Market Street; William F. Simes, saddlery and harnessmaker, at 1026 Market; and the Bingham House hotel (named after express and freight agent John Bingham), established in 1867, at the corner of 11th and Market streets. Several of the businesses display their merchandise in front of their stores, including the stove warehouses and the clothier. A telegraph pole stands in the foreground. A horse-drawn wagon rests in front of the carpet store., Title from manuscript note on verso., Publisher's label pasted on verso advertising: Stereoscopes and Views, Wholesale and Retail., Orange mount with rounded corners., Gift of Robert M. Vogel., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Cremer, James, 1821-1893
- Date
- [ca. 1874]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Streets [P.9047.94]
- Title
- [Chestnut Street, east of Second Street, south side, Philadelphia]
- Description
- View showing the south side of the 100 block of Chestnut Street, including a gentlemen's clothing store, an oyster house, several wool and cotton dealers, and Robert Patterson & Co.,commercial merchants. Men stand in front of the storefronts and horse-drawn drays, crates, and barrels line the street and sidewalks., Attributed to Robert Newell., Unmounted half of stereoview., Title supplied by cataloguer., 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
- Newell, Robert, 1822-1897, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1870
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Streets [(6)1322.F.69e]
- Title
- [Duff's Mercantile College, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.]
- Description
- View showing the oldest U.S. business school, established by Peter Duff in 1840, on Fifth Street in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. View also shows adjoining businesses, including: Pennsylvania Insurance Company, Allegheny Insurance Company, and the Morning Post stationery and printing shop. The Morning Post building is adorned with a playbill advertising a minstrel show. Pedestrians walk on the sidewalk., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred by content., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Gift of Ivan Noble, 1971., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., 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 - unidentified - Education [7992.F.15]
- Title
- Custom House & Post Office Phila, Pa
- Description
- View showing the U.S. Customhouse (1845 to 1935) at 420 Chestnut Street, formerly the Second Bank of the United States, and the U.S Post Office (1863-1884) at 426-428 Chestnut Street. Customhouse building built in 1824 after the designs of Philadelphia architect William Strickland. Also shows a lamppost in the foreground; a vendor's stand near the Customhouse; men convening near the post office; and adjacent businesses, including W.F. Warbuton and Son's hat manufactory (430 Chestnut) and Moss & Co., blank books and stationery (432 Chestnut)., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Title annotated on negative., Gift of Francis J. Dallett., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- ca. 1885
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Government Buildings [P.9228]
- Title
- Mrs. Lena Mason's Chautauqua meetings, Aug. 1st - Sept. Phila, Pa
- Description
- Postcard showing an African American Chautauqua meeting. Depicts African American men, women, and children gathered near several tents. In the foreground, an African American woman and man, possibly Mrs. and Mr. Mason, stand and look at the viewer next to a wooden chair with a hat on top of it. Chautauqua meetings, developed from the Lyceum Movement, were traveling tent shows providing education and entertainment to early 20th-century audiences., Title and date from item., Photographic paper company's imprint on verso: Mermont Photo Paper Co., New York., Purchase 2001., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- 1908
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Events [P.9933.9]
- Title
- Chestnut St. above 4th St. south side
- Description
- View showing the south side of the 400 block of Chestnut Street. Includes the Philadelphia Bank Building (400-408 Chestnut, built 1836); the U.S. Customhouse, (420 Chestnut, formerly the Second Bank of the United States, completed in 1824 after the designs of William Strickland); and the U.S Post Office and U.S. Courts Building (426-428 Chestnut, 1863-1884). Signage adorns the Philadelphia Bank Building, including advertisements for the resident businesses of William M. Clark, engraver on wood, and Boswell & Co., insurance agents. Also includes vendor stands in front of the U.S. Customhouse and pedestrians walking on the sidewalk., Title from manuscript note on verso., Attributed to James Cremer based on other stereographs with same series title and mount, with the photographer's label pasted on verso., Publication information from duplicate and variant stereoviews. (P.9260.49a and P.8931.2)., Orange mount with rounded corners., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Mount discolored., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Cremer, James, 1821-1893
- Date
- [May 21, 1875]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Government buildings - C [(8)1322.F.19h]
- Title
- Market St[reet] west from 10th [Street]
- Description
- View of the commercial street, above Tenth Street, south side. Businesses include: Clark's Heating & Ventilating Warehouse at 1008 Market Street; Dale & Thomas, carpets, at 1010 Market Street; James Spear & Co., stoves, heaters, and ranges at 1014 Market Street; William Ray, clothier, at 1018 Market Street; William F. Simes, saddlery and harnessmaker, at 1026 Market Street; and the Bingham House hotel (named after express and freight agent John Bingham), established in 1867, at the corner of 11th and Market streets. Several of the businesses display their merchandise in front of their stores, including the stove warehouses and the clothier. A telegraph pole stands in the foreground. A horse-drawn wagon rests in front of the carpet store., Title from manuscript note on verso., Publication information from duplicate stereograph. [P.9047.94], Orange mount with rounded corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Cremer, James, 1821-1893
- Date
- [ca. 1874]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Streets [P.9260.53]
- Title
- The game of Philadelphia buildings
- Description
- Card game containing fifty-three cards depicting landmarks and historic and well-known sites in the city. Cards depict (1) State House; (2) Carpenter's Hall; (3) Christ Church; (4) Old Swedes' Church; (5) Bartram's House; (6) Franklin's Grave; (7) University of Pennsylvania; (8) Pennsylvania Hospital; (9) Academy of Natural Science; (10) Franklin Institute; (11) Historical Society of Pennsylvania; (12) Academy of Music; (13) Academy of Fine Arts; (14) Mint (Chestnut and Juniper); (15) Girard College; (16) Custom House; (17) Old Stock Exchange; (18) Cramps' Ship Yard; (19) William Penn's Cottage; (20) Masonic Temple; (21) Odd Fellows' Hall; (22) Reading Terminal; (23) Pennsylvania R.R. station; (24) Union League; (25) Art Club; (26) Mercantile Club; (27) Memorial Hall; (28) Horticultural Hall; (29) Betsy Ross House; (30) Entrance to Zoological Garden; (31) Post Office; (32) Fairmount Water Works; (33) Philadelphia Library; (34) Ridgway Library; (35) New Horticultural Hall; (36) Chestnut Street Theater; (37) Chestnut Street Opera House; (38) Century Club; (39) Twelfth Street Meeting House; (40) Synagogue Rodef Shalom; (41) Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul; (42) High School for Girls; (43) Normal School for Girls; (44) High School for Boys; (45) Bourse; (46) Baldwin Locomotive Works; (47) Drexel Institute; (48) Mary J. Drexel Home; (49) Pennsylvania School of Industrial Art; (50) St. George's Hall; (51) St. Peter's Church; (52) City Hall; and (53) [National Export Exposition Building]., Images include statuary; grave stones; site visitors; partial views of adjacent buildings; lampposts; street and pedestrian traffic, including horse-drawn carriages and street cars; signage, broadsides, and posters; window awnings; electrical lines; and trees. Majority of images are reproductions of photographs, except images of Cramp's Ship Yard, High School for Boys, Baldwin Locomotive Works, and the National Export Exposition Building, which are after prints., Publication date based on statement on box cover "Title copyright by Miss Mary S. Holmes 1899.", Box cover contains halftone photomechanical print showing Independence Hall on the 500 block of Chestnut Street. Also shows neighboring buildings, including Congress Hall and the roof of the Public Ledger Building. Vignette of the seal of Philadelphia is visible in the lower left corner., Accompanied by photostat of the rules to play the game and "Key to the Pictures" (1-52), including addresses and years of completion for the sites, signed "Copyrighted by Mary S. Holmes. December, 1898. The Billstein Co., Philadelphia.", Prints numbered in lower left corner, as well as labeled with a letter and sequential number in lower right corner. Letter and sequential number are absent on Card No. 53., Mary S. Holmes was most likely the Philadelphia educator with memberships in the Philadelphia Geographical Society and Teachers' Photographic Association. In the 1890s, she taught at Girls High School and Commerical High School for Girls. She later served as the principal for the Germantown High School for Girls., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Housed in phase box., Part of the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom (PW-285234-22), 2023-2025.
- Date
- [1899]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Game [8188.F]
- Title
- Interior views of Franklin Institute Exhibition, 1874
- Description
- Interior views of 1874 Exhibition of American Manufactures at the Franklin Institute (13-17 South Seventh Street), showing displays by Edwin Harrington & Son, manufacturer of machinist tools; F. Gossin, terra cotta; Harrison Bros., white lead; and Cornelius & Sons, gas fixtures. Images depict machinery; terra cotta vases, pedestals, statues, and urns; containers of lead; and gas fixtures and lamps. The Exhibition was held in the John Haviland-designed building on South Seventh Street., Copyrighted by Kiralfy Bros., Philadelphia., Attributed to Robert Newell., Titles written in manuscript notes on mounts., Pink mounts 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
- Newell, Robert, 1822-1897
- Date
- c1876
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Exhibitions [P.9299.105-108]
- Title
- [Chestnut Street, east from Thirteenth Street, south side, Philadelphia]
- Description
- View showing the south side of the 1200 block of Chestnut Street. Businesses include: Lacey & Phillips, saddlery and harnessmaker (1220 Chestnut); Reeve L. Knight & Son, carpets (1222 Chestnut); T.L. Jacobs & Co., shirt manufacturers (1226 Chestnut); Peck & Co., druggists (1228 Chestnut); Edward Borhek & Son, opticians (1230 Chestnut); and Carrington, DeZouche & Co., window shades and paper hangings (Chestnut and Thirteenth). Lacey & Phillip's building is adorned with signage advertising the business's awards for excellence. A woman stands in front of Carrington, DeZouche & Co. Also shows a boy leaning on a lamppost and letterbox at the street corner., Attributed to Robert Newell., Unmounted half of stereoview., Title supplied by cataloguer., 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
- Newell, Robert, 1822-1897, photographer
- Date
- [ca. 1869]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Streets [(8)1322.F.49i]
- Title
- Horticultural Department
- Description
- Unmounted stereograph shows women sitting behind a booth in the Horticultural Department. Plants are scattered on the table and hang from a bar above their heads. Festoons of laurel, hemlock, and pine boughs from the Allegheny Mountains adorn the columns supporting the booth and travel upward to form tree-like branches. Patriotic bunting, including shields, are posted on each of the columns. The Great Central or Sanitary Fair held June 7-28, 1864 on Logan Circle was one of several national fairs that displayed art, craft, and historical exhibits to benefit the U.S. Sanitary Commission, a soldier relief organization., Title from printed paper label below image., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Watson, A., photographer
- Date
- [ca. 1864]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Watson - Fairs [5781.F.159d]
- Title
- Horticultural Dept
- Description
- Unmounted stereograph shows women standing behind a booth in the Horticultural Department. Plants are scattered on the table and hang from a bar above their heads. Festoons of laurel, hemlock, and pine boughs from the Allegheny Mountains adorn the columns supporting the booth and travel upward to form tree-like branches. Patriotic bunting, including shields, are posted on each of the columns. The Great Central or Sanitary Fair held June 7-28, 1864 on Logan Circle was one of several national fairs that displayed art, craft, and historical exhibits to benefit the U.S. Sanitary Commission, a soldier relief organization., Title from manuscript note on mount., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Watson, A., photographer
- Date
- [ca. 1864]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Watson - Fairs [5781.F.166g]
- Title
- Horticultural Department
- Description
- Unmounted stereograph shows women sitting behind a booth in the Horticultural Department. Plants are scattered on the table and hang from a bar above their heads. Festoons of laurel, hemlock, and pine boughs from the Allegheny Mountains adorn the columns supporting the booth and travel upward to form tree-like branches. Patriotic bunting, including shields, are posted on each of the columns. The Great Central or Sanitary Fair held June 7-28, 1864 on Logan Circle was one of several national fairs that displayed art, craft, and historical exhibits to benefit the U.S. Sanitary Commission, a soldier relief organization., Title from printed paper label below image., Series title inferred from similar printed labels in the collection., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Watson, A., photographer
- Date
- [ca. 1864]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Watson - Fairs [5781.F.159b]
- Title
- 4th Pennsylvania from Porto Rico
- Description
- View looking east from City Hall showing the Fourth Pennsylvania Infantry standing in formation on the 1300 block of Market street during the celebration commemorating the end of the Spanish American War in 1898. Spectators crowd the sidewalks and flags and bunting adorn the businesses, including John Wanamaker's department store, completed in 1876 after the designs of Theophilius P. Chandler (1300-1326 Market)., Additional places of publication printed on mount, including Chicago; London; Hamburg, Ger.; and Milan, Italy., Title printed on mount., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Distributor's imprint printed on mount., Buff curved mount with rounded corners., Griffith & Griffith, established in Philadelphia in 1896, expanded in 1908 to included offices in St. Louis and Liverpool. The non-Philadelphia offices were relocated in 1910., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Robert M. Vogel.
- Creator
- Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920
- Date
- [ca. 1898]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Rau - Processions [P.9047.129]
- Title
- New Chestnut Street Theatre
- Description
- View looking northwest at the north side of the 1200 block of Chestnut Street showing the Chestnut Street Theater built in 1863 after designs by John Crump. Includes signs for Joseph M. Durr's restaurant (1211 Chestnut) at street level, Allen's furniture store (i.e., Joseph Allen, cabinet maker, 1209 Chestnut) and a concert hall west of the theater building. All of the properties have awnings shading the street level, except for the theater, which has street lamps lining the sidewalk and a broadside advertising "The Black Crook" near the entrance. Also includes trolley tracks and three horse-drawn coaches travelling in the street., Titles from printed label pasted on mount., Yellow paper mount with square corners., The Black Crook played at the Chestnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia in 1868., See duplicates: Bartlett & French (8)1322.F.29b and (8)1322.F.35i, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., 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
- [1868]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - theaters [(8)1322.F.29b]
- Title
- [New Chestnut Street Theatre.]
- Description
- View looking northwest at the north side of the 1200 block of Chestnut Street showing the Chestnut Street Theater built in 1863 after designs by John Crump. Includes signs for Joseph M. Durr's restaurant (1211 Chestnut) at street level, Allen's furniture store (i.e., Joseph Allen, cabinet maker, 1209 Chestnut) and a concert hall west of the theater building. All of the properties have awnings shading the street level, except for the theater, which has street lamps lining the sidewalk and a broadside advertising "The Black Crook" near the entrance. Also includes trolley tracks and three horse-drawn coaches travelling in the street., Titles from printed label on duplicate: (8)1322.F.29b., Yellow paper mount with square corners., The Black Crook played at the Chestnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia in 1868., See duplicates: Bartlett & French (7)1322.F.1c and (8)1322.F.35i, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., 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
- [1868]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - Theaters [(8)1322.F.35i]
- Title
- [Third Street, east side, north of Chestnut Street, Philadelphia]
- Description
- View showing the east side of Third Street between Market and Chestnut streets. Depicts the speculative office building built by Borie Brothers after the designs of Fraser, Furness & Hewitt at the northeast corner of Third and Chestnut. The building adorned wtih signage for the tenanting businesses of Franklin Telegraph Office, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and a banker's office, also housed the office of Frank Furness on the top story from 1871 to 1875. Also shows a flags, awnings, and stencil cuttings store adorned with an awning illustrated with a female figure and a partial view of the building at the northwest corner of Third and Chestnut tenanted by bankers, B.K. Jamison & Co., and L. Pelouze & Son's Philadelphia Type Foundry., Title supplied by cataloguer., Orange mount with rounded corners., Manuscript note on verso: 3 St. north of Chestnut., Gift of Robert M. Vogel., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Cremer, James, 1821-1893
- Date
- [ca. 1875]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Streets [P.9047.19]
- Title
- [Southwest corner West 3rd Street and Market Square, Williamsport, Pa.]
- Description
- View showing the southwest corner of Market Square in downtown Williamsport, Pa. Businesses include Philadelphia & Erie railroad ticket office with John A. Vanderslice, agent; S.M. Beck & Co., hardware store; W.M. Harrison & Co., stationery and wallpaper store; and a piano forte warehouse. Ticket office covered in signage. Also shows several men standing near a lamp post adorned with advertisements in front of the ticket office; farm implements on display in front of the hardware store; and a blanketed horse standing in front of the stationery store., Buff mount with rounded corners., Manuscript note on verso: S.W. corner W. 3rd and Market Square., 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 - unid. - non-Philadelphia [P.9466.10]
- Title
- Seventh National Bank, 401 Market Street, Philadelphia, Pa
- Description
- View showing the bank at the northwest corner of Fourth and Market streets. Also shows adjacent businesses on North Fourth below Arch, including Musselman & Kirk, cotton goods, wood and willoware (12 N. 4th); L. Snively, ladies' boot and shoe manufacturer (18 N. 4th); T.P. and S.S. Smith, ladies' boot and shoe manufacturer (20 N. 4th); and a trimmings store. Crates line the sidewalks., Photographer's label pasted on verso., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Title from manuscript note on verso., Manuscript note on verso: Inc. May 1864 at 216 Market St, moved shortly to 401 Market., Gift of Robert M. Vogel., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.)
- Date
- [ca.1866]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Simons - Banks [P.9047.22]
- Title
- [Market Street, showing businesses on the south side between 11th and 12th Streets, Philadelphia]
- Description
- View shows businesses occupying 1106 to 1114 Market Street including Waterman & Ramson, dealer in candies, etc. (1106 Market); Pfeil's hats and caps (1108 Market); Manigle's stoves, heaters & ranges (1110 Market); a carpet store (1112 Market); and Sam Whalley & Co. wines and liquors (1114 Market). Also shows display windows at street level, numerous signboards on the front facades, and three horse-drawn carts parked on the south side of Market Street., Title supplied by cataloger., Photographer's imprint from blind stamp on recto., Yellow mount with square corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Bartlett & Smith, photographer
- Date
- [ca. 1867]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & Smith - Streets [P.9486.2]
- Title
- View in old park
- Description
- View looking north from the south garden, adorned with trees and benches, at the Fairmount Water Works on the Schuylkill River. In the left, an African American, attired in a bowler hat, a white shirt, a dark-colored waistcoat, and pants, possibly a groundskeeper, stands with a broom. Two park guards stand and converse in front of the Diana statue at the base of the promenade leading to the inclined walkway on Reservoir Hill. Another man walks down the promenade toward the guards. In the foreground, a man, attired in a bowler hat, a white shirt, and dark-colored pants, stands leaning his left arm on a tree with his back to the viewer. The waterworks, originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff, were altered and expanded until 1872. The south garden was laid out in the 1830s., Attributed to James Cremer., Title from manuscript note on verso., Orange mount with rounded corners., Accessioned 1989., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Cremer, James, 1821-1893
- Date
- [ca. 1875]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Public Utilities [P.9260.51]
- Title
- Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, from Ninth to Tenth, [south] side
- Description
- View showing the south side of the 900 block of Chestnut Street. Shows the Burd Building at 900-904 Chestnut tenanted by Howell & Brothers, paperhangings, J.E. Caldwell & Co., jewelers, and J.F. and E.B. Orne, carpets. Also includes: E. Clinton & Co., brush manufacturer (908 Chestnut) and F. Augustus Wenderoth, William C. Taylor, and J. Henry Brown, photographers (912 & 914 Chestnut). Signage adorns many of the buildings promoting merchandise, including pianos, ladies dresses, and fancy goods. A man stands on the opposite corner near a dray and a lamppost with an advertisement for Fox's American Variety Theater (built 1863, burned 1867)., Stereograph mounted on green mount with square corners., Title and photographer's imprint printed on stereograph mount., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Newell, Robert, 1822-1897
- Date
- ca. 1866
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Streets [(6)1322.F.95c; (8)1322.F.27h]

