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Title: [Philada. & New York Pekin Tea Company, N.W. corner of Callowhill and Sixth Streets, Philadelphia]
Description: Advertisement showing the three-and-a-half-story "Northern Depot of the Philada. & New York Pekin Tea Company" heavily adorned with lettering on the 600 block of Callowhill Street. Through the open entrances, clerks are visible standing at counters in front of shelves of boxes of tea. Within the large display windows, men and women Chinese figurines flank additional merchandise displays. A female and male patron pass stacked boxes of tea displayed near the entrances as they proceed into the storefront. Other foot traffic includes a couple on promenade, and a man and woman, at opposite showcase windows, peering at the figurines. A larger Chinese male figure, holding and atop a box of tea, adorns the second floor corner of the building. Street signs displayed on two of the stores window frames are visible on each side of the figure. Also shows partial views of adjacent buildings, including partial signage reading "aylor's Room." Pekin Tea Company operated from the address circa 1847-circa 1851., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: North West Cor. Callowhill & Sixth St., Title supplied by cataloguer., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 566, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Trimmed.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [July 1847]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W278 [P.2168]

Title: Philadelphia Citizen's Line of steam boats to New York & Baltimore
Description: Book illustration advertisement showing the busy "Philadelphia Citizens" steamboat wharf at Arch Street and the Delaware River. Also shows the "Citizen's Line" office building (right foreground) adjacent to Jacob Ridgway's Ferry House and Hotel. Swarms of people line the wharf and several walk on the sidewalks. Horse-drawn drays and a carriage line the street in front of the office and hotel. Partial views of surrounding buildings are also visible. Vessels for New York, Baltimore, and Wilmington left the wharf daily., Name of printer supplied by Wainwright., Published in James Mease and Thomas Porter's Picture of Philadelphia from 1811 to 1831: Giving an account of its origin, increase and improvements in arts, sciences, manufactures, commerce and revenue. (Philadelphia: Published by Robert DeSilver, No. 110 Walnut Street, 1831), vol. II, opposite page 17 and in Thomas Porter's Picture of Philadelphia 1811 to 1831: Giving an account of the improvement of the city, during that period (Philadelphia: Published by Robert DeSilver, No. 110 Walnut Street, 1831), vol. II, opposite page 21., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 577, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.9830.2 a&b and in Am 1831 Mease 68582.D and in Am 1831 Mease Log 4072.D and in Am 1831 Mease 20876., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Loose prints gift of Jay Snider.
Creator: Breton, William L., ca. 1773-1855, artist
Date: [1831]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W283 [P.9830.2 a&b]

Title: [N. Helverson undertaker, 93 Coates Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Advertisement showing the office building and storefront for the undertaker and "Coffin Ware-House" at 93 Coates, i.e., 225-227 Fairmount Avenue. A male patron enters the doorway of the three-story office "N. Helverson Undertaker." A sign advertising "Coffins Ready Made" adorns the showcase window. A doormat covers the small step preceding the entrance and the cellar doors to the building are open. In the right, a woman appears interested in an out of view display at the barely visible adjacent storefront. At the warehouse, workers haul coffins near the open doorway of the four-story building. A sign illustrated with a coffin and the text "Coffin Ware-House" is displayed in the first-floor window and workers are visible in two of the upper ones. A tree stands in front of the building near a two-horse drawn hearse parked in the street. The hearse is adorned with bunting, drapery, and fringe., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Coates Street. Nov. 1846., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 498, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [November 1846]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W244 [P.2107]

Title: [Samuel Powell & Co. ship & house work in tin, copper, brass and iron]
Description: Advertisement showing the four-story storefront on an incline at 8 Market Street. Tea kettles, coffee pots, and other metal cookware adorn the shop window. Storefront also contains signage, and an oil can advertising "Oil Cans" hanging from the second story. A railing on a slant is visible in front of the store. Powell operated from the address 1846-1853., Title supplied by Wainwright., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Aug. 1847. No. 8 Market Street., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 673, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Date: [August 1847]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W327 [P.2185]

Title: Scene at the U. S. Agricultural Society's Fair, Philada. 1856
Description: Scene showing a harness race at the track on the grounds of the fourth national exhibition of the U.S.A.S held at the Powleton grounds in West Philadelphia on October 7-11, 1856. Spectators, including men, women, and children, a few cheering, crowd outside of the track in the foreground. In the background, throngs of spectators (shown as a smudgy mass) watch the event from stands or standing within the center of the track. The judges' stand and several tents, including one waving the flag for the "President," are also visible inside the track. Also shows the tower of a building in the distance. The United States Agricultural Society, formed in 1852 at a convention called by 12 state agricultural societies, strove" to embody in one central Association, the valuable information already obtained by various local Societies, and to establish a more intimate connection between them; to correspond with foreign Societies, and to diffuse a knowledge of their most important Agricultural improvements and discoveries; and, in various other ways, to aid the promotion of this noble art.", Philadelphia on Stone, POS 678, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb8 Q3., Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 21:28 and Philadelphiana - Fairs., LOC holds artist's study. [DLC-PP-1997-105-Drawings-USAgricSoc].
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: 1856
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W330 [P.2187]

Title: The Bergner & Engel Brewing Company, Philadelphia, Pa. [fire insurance survey]
Description: Site plan and perspective drawing of the brewery complex at 32nd and Thompson Streets detailing fire insurance characteristics. Includes ale and porter brewery; refrigerating houses; bottling establishment; shipping house; barrel shed; office building; and stables and carriage houses. Site plan includes adjoining businesses J & P Baltz Brewing Co.; H. Rothacker & Sons' Lager Beer Brewery; Henzler & Flach's Brewery; and F.A. Poth's Malt House., Survey no. 2247-2248., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 16, Gift of Manuel Kean.
Creator: E. Hexamer & Son
Date: c1889
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ***BW - Industries [P.8737]

Title: William Mann, stationer, blank book maker, steam-power printer & lithographer, 529 Market & 526 Commerce Sts., Philadelphia
Description: Blotter. Text only. Printed in green ink with decorative border., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 116
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Advertisements [P.9783.2]

Title: The state penitentiary, for the eastern district of Pennsylvania This institution known as "Cherry Hill State Prison" at Philadelphia, is the model prison of "The Pennsylvania System of Prison Discipline" or "Separate System" as it is called to distinguish it from "The Congregate." Each convict occupies a single cell or workshop, and is thus separated from all other convicts. The building was begun in 1822. The walls, 30 ft. high, 12 ft. thick at base, 2 ft. 9 in: at top, enclose a square plot of ten acres. There are 7 corridors of cells, capable of receiving 500 convicts. The average number confined annually is less than 300. Some cells are 11ft. 9 in. by 7 ft. 6 in. with yards attached, 15 ft. by 8 ft. Others are double this size, all lighted and warmed and ventilated.-Gas is introduced into the corridors. Heat by hot water thro' pipes. Water in each cell and other conveniences. The above is a bird's eye view of the buildings_ grounds and environs
Description: Bird's eye view of the prison built 1823-1836 after the designs of John Haviland at 2101-2199 Fairmount Avenue. Shows the prison designed with radial corridors, courtyards, and a Gothic-style entranceway and outer wall. A horse-drawn wagon is visible within, and another, probably a paddy wagon, arrives in front of the prison complex. Men on horseback, possibly guards, accompany the arriving wagon and a few pedestrians walk nearby in the street and on the sidewalk. Cityscape, including Girard College, is visible in the background. View also includes clusters of trees surrounding the prison and as part of the outer lying landscape., Copyrighted by Richard Vaux. Vaux served as President of the Board of Inspectors and authored Brief sketch of the origin and history of the State Penitentiary for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, 1872)., Poulson inscription on recto: April 1856., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 750, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 19:17, Samuel Cowperthwaite, a member of the Society of Friends and umbrella maker by trader, was convicted of manslaughter in Philadelphia on May 27, 1848. Pardoned on August 7, 1849, he was sent to Eastern State again for murder on December 3, 1852. He served nearly eight years and was released on November 3, 1860. Cowperthaite was a weaver in prison. He was described by the prison chaplain as part of the "wowdy clubs of Skinners," with a the prevailing vice of intemperance and with a predominant passion for destructiveness. See N. K. Teeters & John D. Shearer, "The Prison at Philadelphia: Cherry Hill" (N.Y.: Columbia University Press for Temple University Publications, 1957).
Creator: Cowperthwaite, Samuel, artist
Date: c1855
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W401 [P.2216]

Title: [William Dunlaps' coach manufactory & repository, No. 169 North Fifth Street. Philadelphia]
Description: Advertisement print showing the factory complex on the 400 block of North Fifth Street. Complex includes a three-story building marked "Wm. Dunlap No. 169 Carriage Maker"; wood-gated courtyard; and a two-story building, probably including a showroom, adorned with signage reading ""Wm. Dunlaps' Coach Factory." A couple enters an entryway of the smaller building that also contains signage advertising "E.W. Pearce Saddle & Harness Maker." A gentleman walks near the corner of the complex near four different types of coaches lining the street. Also shows stacks of lumber within the courtyard through the open gate. Circa 1845, Dunlap began operating from the factory which was later used as a hospital, prison, and barracks during the Civil War., Date from manuscript note by Poulson on recto: May 1847. North Fifth Street., Wainwright sugggests date of 1845., Title from duplicate in the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 838, LCP copy trimmed and lacking title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb38 D922., Reproduced in Jennifer Ambrose, "Nineteenth Century Advertising Prints," in Magazine Antiques (August 2006).
Creator: Weaver, Matthias S., 1815 or 16-1847, artist
Date: [May 1847]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W453 [P.2240]

Title: [William Newell. Store. No. 3 So. Water Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Advertisement showing the 4-story grocery adorned with the sign "William Newell. Store. 1793." Through the four open entrances gentleman are visible conversing and checking a list among piles of sacks and near a rope hoist. In the street, laborers load and unload a conestoga wagon and horse-drawn dray parked in front of the building. Labeled crates and barrels line the sidewalk. Goods include indigo, starch, tea, sugar, honey, molasses, madeira, madder and tobacco. Newell operated from the address 1828-1848., Title supplied by cataloguer., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: So. Water Street. Dec. 1846, Philadelphia on Stone, POS 839, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Hoffy, Alfred M., b. ca. 1790, artist
Date: [December 1846]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W454 [P.2241]

Title: [William P. Cresson's foundry, Willow above Thirteenth Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Advertisement showing the busy U-shaped iron foundry established circa 1846 at Willow, also known as James Street, above North Thirteenth Street. Laborers work within the courtyard, at the entryways, and along the complex. In the courtyard, men work on and near a small raised platform in front of the smoke stacks of a pyramid-shaped factory building. Stacks of flatbed crates line a small adjacent building across from men at work within the factory. At the end of the opposite workshop, two men load a horse-drawn cart parked near stacks of lumber and an unhitched cart. In the foreground, a driver leads a two-horse team drawn coal car down tracks curving into the courtyard. Also shows partial views of fencing, the rear of a departing cart, and foundry apparatus strewn around the grounds. Business operated at site until circa 1859., Title and date from Poulson inscription on recto., Wainwright suggests date of circa 1849., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 841, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Trimmed and lacking title.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [August 1847]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W455 [P.2242]

Title: Wm. B. Eltonhead, dealer in all kinds of watches, and manufacturer of all kinds of jewelry and silver ware, 184 South Second Street, (between Pine & Union Streets, west side,) Philadelphia Also, a large assortment of fine French jewelry, & a great variety of fancy articles. Please call & examine my large & good stock of goods. Watches, jewelry, & silver ware repaired and warranted
Description: Advertisement showing the three-and-one-half story storefront with an open entrance and two large display windows on the 200 block of South Second Street. A clerk attends to a male patron within the store as a man and woman mill around them. A number of men, women, and children walk in front of, proceed into, and admire the merchandise displayed in the windows of the store. Displays include framed portraits, platters, watches, and other sliver plated pieces and fancy goods. Also shows a large model pocket watch adorning the building. Eltonhead tenanted the address beginning in 1850 until the mid 1860s before relocating to Chestnut Street. He received patents for gold washing and a match machine in 1869., Date supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 852, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., De-accessioned duplicate dated "Nov. 1854" by Charles A. Poulson.
Creator: Magee, John L., artist
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W461 [P.2245]

Title: [Wm. D. Rogers' coach manufactory, Sixth and Brown Streets, Philadelphia] Warranted twelve months
Description: Advertisement showing the two-story factory adorned with signage on the 800 block of North Sixth Street near Spring Garden. A boy pulls a carriage out of one of the two entries to the building (Sixth Street) as patrons inspect a different model of coach being pushed out by a factory worker at the other. A family walks between the coaches and other carriages are visible inside. Around the corner (Brown Street), on the sidewalk, two gentlemen converse and a couple peers into a factory window. Near the rear of the factory, a laborer transports a sack on his back near a strolling couple past a hackney displayed on a one-story addition. In the street, a driver tries to reign in his speeding carriage occupied by a couple that is being chased by a barking dog as a boy works on the wheel of a factory carriage nearby. A pedestrian watches the scene from the corner. Also shows hitching posts lining the sidewalks and a smaller factory with several smokestacks in the right background. Rogers operated from the site 1846-1854., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: 1847. Corner Sixth & Brown Sts., Wainwright suggests date of circa 1850., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 856, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Trimmed.
Creator: Hoffy, Alfred M., b. ca. 1790, artist
Date: [1847]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W465 [P.2247]

Title: [Wm. W. Clark, drug & chemical warehouse, 16 North Fifth Street, Philadelphia] Drugs, medicines, chemicals, glass &c
Description: Advertisement showing the 4-story building covered in signage for the druggist at 16 North Fifth Street. Signs advertise "Drugs, Paint Oil & Glass. English. French. German & Mediterranean Drugs." Through the open entranceways of the business, shelves of bottles on cabinets are visible lining the walls. A clerk reaches for one of the notions as a patron enters the store. Another clerk descends into the cellar in front of the building. Crates and barrels of "elixir," "drugs," and "paint" marked with delivery addresses (e.g., J.H. B. & Co.) line the sidewalk across from a horse-drawn dray parked in the street. Also shows bottles, decanters, jugs, and boxes adorning the central display window and upper floor windows. An oversize model of a mortar and pestle is displayed above the entrances. Clark operated from the address 1839-1853., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: June 1847. North Fifth St., Title partially supplied by cataloguer., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 862, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Trimmed and lacking title.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [June 1847]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W467 [P.2248]

Title: Wright, Hunter & Co. S.W. cor. Ninth & Walnut Sts. Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement showing the five-story corner property tenanted by the plumbing and gas fitting establishment of William Wright, John C. Hunter, J.H. McFetrich, and Thomas Brown at 900 Walnut Street. Seventeen bays of windows extend the length of the property on Ninth Street. Two women and a young girl stand in front of an unidentified property adorned by a metal skeleton for an awning (left). One man drives a horse-drawn cart north on Ninth Street, while another unloads goods from a dray. Two gentlemen wearing long coats and top hats stand at the Walnut Street entrance to the plumbing store. One of them grasps the handle of a pump in the doorway. Chandeliers and other wares are visible through the large shop windows. Two white horses are hitched to a closed cab stopped in front of the entrance, and a horse-drawn omnibus is partially visible in the background. The name of the business appears prominently on the cornice, and on signboards facing both Walnut and Ninth Streets. Managed at this site beginning in 1855, the store name changed to John C. Hunter & Co. in 1864., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: December 11, 1858., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 868, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Reynolds, Robert F., artist
Date: [December 11, 1858]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W471 [P.2270]

Title: View of Robert Buist's city nursery & greenhouses No. 140 South Twelfth Str. Phila. 1846 Wholesale & retail horticultural & agricultural warehouse No. 84 Chesnut [sic] St. below 3d. St. south side. We invites an inspection of his stock either at his warehouse nurseries or seed farm. Seeds, fruit & ornamental trees, implements & books of every description for the garden, farm or pleasure ground. Orders promptly attended to & every article warranted to be what is represented
Description: Advertisement depicting a bird's eye view looking northwest at Robert Buist's enclosed nursery and greenhouses on Twelfth Street, south of Lombard Street. Two long rows of hotbed frames extend west from Twelfth Street and run the length of Rodman Street behind a three-story building marked "140" (a preconsolidation address). Men and women stroll along the central walk that separates the two rows of hotbed frames inside the grounds, accessed from Twelfth Street by the entrance gate adorned with the proprietor's name "R. Buist". Outside of the nursery, several men and women converse on the sidewalk. One of the men holds a driving whip, and is presumably the driver of the stalled horse-drawn carriage in front of the entrance. Another driver stands in front of a team of horses pulling a covered cart, grasps the reins, and leads them along Rodman Street toward a man attempting to rein in a rearing horse. Also shows men, women, children, and dogs on the sidewalk. A few trees dot the empty landscape behind the nursery. Buist established his business in the late 1820s, which was known as Robert Buist Company well into the twentieth century., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 790, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Hoffy, Alfred M., b. ca. 1790, artist
Date: 1846
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W423 [P.2261]

Title: Eastern Penitentiary of Pennsylvania. Near Philadelphia
Description: View looking past farmland showing the prison built 1823-1836 after the designs of John Haviland at 2101-2199 Fairmount Avenue. In the foreground, two boys sit in a fenced pasture in which cows graze near sheds and an enclosed pond. Ducks swim on the pond. In the background, a farm is visible in front of the prison at which a carriage is parked and a man rides on horseback., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 202, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 26 L 528.
Creator: Lehman, George, d. 1870, artist
Date: c1833
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W106 [P.2042]

Title: David Landreth & Sons, seed growers & merchants, Philadelphia. Our handy cabinet. Landreths' garden seeds from Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement depicting a cabinet stored with packets and boxes of Landreths' fruit and vegetable seeds. Shows the cabinet cover decorated with a vegetable patch scene. Also contains advertising text explicating pricing, citing an enclosed circular, and promoting "The Oldest Seed House in America. Founded 1784."., Printed on recto: Patented., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 48
Creator: Butler, William H., lithographer
Date: ca. 1895
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Advertisements [P.2004.29.1]

Title: Agricultural Implement Manufactory. Heebner & Sons. Lansdale, Montgomery Co. PA
Description: Exterior view showing the three-and-half story brick building "salesroom" and adjacent foundry. A clerk stands near the salesroom entrance in front of which three tractors are displayed in the yard. To the right a train stands on the tracks of the newly constructed North Pennsylvania branch of the Reading Railroad. Also shows a passing horse-drawn carriage. Founded in 1840 by David S. Heebner, the firm moved to Lansdale from Worcester Township in 1872., Similar view published in J.D. Scott's Combination atlas map of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: J.D. Scott, 1877), p. 64., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 6
Date: [ca. 1877]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Industries [6663.F]

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

Title: Wm. H. Richardson steam manufactory
Description: Advertisement showing the heavily adorned storefront and manufactory of the umbrella and parasol business at 104 High Street, i.e., the 300 block of Market Street. Signage with the name of the proprietor and type of merchandise covers the entrance. Building adornments also include the figure of Liberty, an American eagle, and the building number. Through the open entranceway, a female clerk is visible showing an umbrella to a male patron as a female patron mills in the background. In the display window, parasols hang above an empty display stand. Richardson is listed at 104 High (later Market) Street from 1843 to 1852., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Market Street. Jan. 1849., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 858, Trimmed.
Date: [1849]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Business [P.8970.1]

Title: Joseph Ripka's mills. Manayunk 21st Ward Philadelphia. Manufacturer of all description of plain and fancy cottonades for men & boy's clothing warehouse 32 So. Front St
Description: Advertisement showing in the distance a compound of large mill buildings belonging to Joseph Ripka's textile manufacturing business, situated between the east bank of the Schuylkill River and the Manayunk Canal. Two men in top hats stand and converse in the foreground, while a man stands in a rowboat nearby. Buildings and trees dot the hilly landscape behind the mills. Ripka relocated to Manayunk in 1828, developing one of the largest textile businesses in the United States. During the Civil War, the shrinking Southern demand for cottonades caused Ripka to file for bankruptcy before the war's end and his death in 1864., Published in Colton's atlas of America, illustrating the physical and political geography of North and South America... Commercial edition with business cards of prominent houses in Philadelphia. (New York: J.H. Colton and Company, 1856), 77. (HSP O 458)., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 418, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc35 R588.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W211 [P.2139]

Title: Eastern Penitentiary of Pennsylvania. Near Philadelphia
Description: View looking past farmland showing the prison built 1823-1836 after the designs of John Haviland at 2101-2199 Fairmount Avenue. In the foreground, two boys sit in a fenced pasture in which cows graze near sheds and an enclosed pond. Ducks swim on the pond. In the background, a farm is visible in front of the prison at which a carriage is parked and a man rides on horseback., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 202, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb26 L528., Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 19:22
Creator: Lehman, George, d. 1870, artist
Date: c1833
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W106 [P.2041]

Title: [Conrad & Roberts hardware & cutlery, 123 N. Third Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Advertisement showing the four-story storefront adorned with signage on the 200 block of North Third Street. The store interior is visible through the two open entrances. A clerk retrieves merchandise from a shelf for a patron and another serves a gentleman at a counter. Laborers move barrels and boxes from the open cellar. Above the cellar, a "Hardware" sign is displayed in front of the store window. At the upper windows, employees work and boxes, crates, and barrels are stacked. Also shows crates and barrels (marked with illegible text) lining the sidewalk and partial views of adjacent buildings, including a part of the store sign on 125 N. Third Street. Conrad and Roberts began operating from the address in 1845., Title supplied by cataloguer., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Dec. 1846. N. Third Street., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 156, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [December 1846]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W83 [P.2025]

Title: Cornelius & Baker, 181 Cherry Street, Philadelphia. Manufacturers of lamps, gas fixtures etc
Description: Advertisement showing the multi-story factory on the 800 block of Cherry Street. A tower and American flag adorn the building in which workers are visible at a number of the open windows. At the far left end of the building, a wagon travels near a man carrying a basket and through an archway to the courtyard. A horse-drawn wagon is parked near the main entrance of the factory. The entry contains the name of the firm and a small stoop adorned with iron work. At the corner, a boy with a light fixture walks past a lamppost, as in the street, a horse-drawn wagon travels behind a carriage occupied by three gentlemen. The vehicle is drawn by two agitated horses that the driver attempts to settle. At the east side of the building, two gentlemen converse and another horse-drawn wagon drives down the street. Also shows a woman strolling past a tree at the adjacent corner, and neighboring buildings. Cornelius & Baker was founded in 1835 and operated 2 factories and a storefront by the 1850s. The firm was succeeded by Cornelius & Sons in 1869., Published in Colton's atlas of America, illustrating the physical and political geography of North and South America... Commercial edition with business cards of prominent houses in Philadelphia. (New York: J.H. Colton and Company, 1856) (HSP O 458), Philadelphia on Stone, POS 161, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 38 C 814b., Also included as one of two images of separately issued print. See **W86.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W88 [P.2038]

Title: [J. Willis, shoe manufactory, 241 Arch Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Advertisement showing the four-story manufactory and storefront for "J. Willis Wholesale & Retale [sic] Ladies Shoe store" on the 600 block of Arch Street. Under the store awning, a couple enters the doorway while a lady looks at a partially visible print, possibly depicting the Willis shoe store, in the central display window. Drapery is visible in some of the upper floor windows and a horse-drawn carriage is parked in front of the building. Also shows partial views of adjacent buildings. Shading to represent light reflecting from windows also comprises a graphic element of the image. The business operated as J. Willis from the address 1840-1853, when renamed J. Willis & Son., Title supplied by cataloguer., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Arch Street. Dec. 1846. [illegible], Philadelphia on Stone, POS 401, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Date: [December 1846]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W195 [P.2063]

Title: [James S. Mason & Co., 108 North Front Street, challenge blacking, ink &c. manufactory]
Description: Advertisement showing the five-story brick and granite building adorned with a sign reading "Blacking" on its roof at 108, i.e., 138-140 North Front Street. A patron opens the entrance door of the storefront as he peers at a large illustrated print on display in an adjacent window. Above the window adorned with the print (illustrated with a man, boy, and dog), a couple is visible in an open double-sided glass door on the second floor. In front of the building, a laborer unloads a horse-drawn dray as a family in winter attire approaches from a nearby corner. Also shows a hoist on the side of the storefront and partial views of neighboring buildings. Mason & Co. occupied the building following its completion in 1851 and tenanted the site until 1919. The building, built 1850-1851, was demolished in 1973., Title from accompanying manuscript note., Date from Poulson inscription: Oct. 1856., Wainwright suggests date of circa 1852., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 404, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: [October 1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W198 [P.2075]

Title: Finn & Burton's paper hangings warehouse No 142, Arch St. Phila
Description: Advertisement showing the first floor of the elegant storefront, on the 600 block of Arch Street, surrounded by a tromp l'oeil border. Through the open entryway, a clerk is visible showing wallpaper samples, propped upon racks, to two women and a gentleman patron, seated on chairs. Large display windows adorned with massive scenic views flank the doorway. A boy and gentleman, stand near a boot scrape and admire one window display, and a mother, holding a parasol, and attended by her daughter, stand on cellar doors, and admire the paper in the other. An elegantly-attired couple strolls past a tall, closed door to the establishment and a muzzled dog walks near by. A hitching post labeled "Wall Paper" stands in front of the store near the street. Also shows partial views of the upper floor, and adjoining buildings. Border comprised of sheets of various patterns of wallpaper, in addition to rolls of the material., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: April 1849., Printer attributed by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 250, LCP exhibit catalogue: Made in America #66., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Reproduced in Jennifer Ambrose, "Nineteenth Century Advertising Prints," in Magazine Antiques (August 2006)., Trimmed.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [April 1849]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W127 [P.2082]

Title: Masonic Hall Chesnut St. Philada. Erected A.D. 1813. Destroyed by Fire A.D. 1819
Description: Exterior view of the two-story Gothic hall adorned with battlements, pointed windows and doors, and a 180-feet-high wood steeple. Constructed between 1808 and 1811, purportedly after the designs of William Strickland, adjacent to brick row houses on the north side of Chestnut Street. Pedestrian traffic in front of the hall includes three men conversing on the sidewalk, a couple strolling by, two ladies walking arm-in-arm, and an older woman moving with a basket balanced on her head. A fancy horse-drawn carriage moves west along Chestnut Street. The hall, rebuilt in 1820 following a fire the previous year, was demolished in 1853., Transcription of inscription on corner stone of building included on recto., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 460, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc05 S917.
Creator: Chillas, David, artist
Date: c1853
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W229 [P.2130]

Title: Jones & Co. of the crescent one price clothing store, No. 200 Market Street, above 6th Phila Has constantly on hand a large & fashionable stock of clothing made in the best manner, expressly for retail sales, with the very lowest selling price marked in plain figures on each article & never varied; so all must buy alike, and with the full assurance of getting a good article at the lowest rates. Remember the crescent above 6th in Market St. No. 200
Description: Advertisement depicting the two-bay, five-story, green building occupied by Owen Jones's clothing store since 1846. White text advertising the business as a cheap, one price clothing store covers the facade. A columned arcade extends along the ground floor of the properties depicted, stopping at the States Union Hotel (right). A sales booth displaying wares is sandwiched between two columns at the street level. Men's vests, pants, and jackets hang under the arcade, as several men, and a couple stroll by on the wide, brick sidewalk., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 413, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Reynolds, Robert F., artist
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W206 [P.2142]

Title: Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind. Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view of the school located at the northwest corner of Sassafras (i.e. Race) and Schuylkill Third (i.e. 20th) Streets. Founded in 1833, the school first occupied this building in October 1836. View includes pedestrians strolling in the street and a watchman's guardhouse., Copyrighted by J.T. Bowen in 1838., Originally issued as plate 12 in Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). The lithographic stones for the views were acquired by John T. Bowen and reissued in 1838 and in 1848 with hand coloring., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 562.3. Digital image shows fourth state of print., Synder, Martin. "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1838
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W277.3 [P.2166]

Title: Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind. Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view of the school located at the northwest corner of Sassafras (i.e. Race) and Schuylkill Third (i.e. 20th) Streets. Founded in 1833, the school first occupied this building in October 1836. View includes pedestrians strolling in the street and a watchman's guardhouse., Copyrighted by J.T. Bowen in 1840., Originally issued as plate 12 in Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). The lithographic stones for the views were acquired by John T. Bowen and reissued in 1838 and in 1848 with hand coloring., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 562.4, Synder, Martin. "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: [1848]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W277.4 [P.2167]

Title: Wissahickon Falls
Description: Landscape view showing the Wissahickon Falls at the junction of Wissahickon Creek and the Schuylkill River in Fairmount Park. In the foreground, a man fishes among the rocks of the bank as behind him a man lures a dog to a basket he holds. In the background, other men fish above the falls and Wissahickon Hall is visible. Carriages are seen departing and arriving at the hotel erected circa 1849 by Harry Lippen at Wissahickon Drive (i.e., Lincoln Drive) below Gypsy Lane., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 850, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Kelly, Thomas
Date: c1874
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Parks - Fairmount [P.9303.5]

Title: [A view of the Fairmount Waterworks with Schuylkill in the distance. Taken from the mount.]
Description: Bird's eye, landscape view looking west from Reservoir Hill showing the Fairmount Water Works originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff. Includes the engine house, mill house, and race bridge. Paddle boats dock at boat landings next to the works and travel up the river. Also shows park visitors milling about the sites, the Fairmount dam, Schuylkill canal lock, and a few buildings lining the banks., Possibly printed by J.T. Bowen., Title supplied by cataloguer., Philadelphia on Stone, POs 798, Reduced variant of Wainwright 9., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Date: [ca. 1838]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Public Utilities - F [P.2007]

Title: Philadelphia from Girard College - 1850
Description: Panoramic view looking south from above Girard College (2000-2490 North College Avenue) showing the city to South Philadelphia. Shows the boy's school predominately featured in the foreground. At the center, Founder's Hall looms. Several visitors walk around the building and a number partake of the vista from the roof. Boys walk and play near the eastern and western outbuildings and a woman hangs wash on a clothesline in one of the courtyards. Near the campus, pasture land and scattered development, including a church, is visible. In the background, blocks of buildings, industrial smokestacks, and church steeples comprise the cityscape. Also shows the Market Street Bridge spanning the Schuylkill River and Blockley Almshouse in West Philadelphia in the right of the image. The college buildings, designed by Philadelphia architect Thomas Ustick Walter in the Greek Revival style, were constructed 1833-1847. Girard College was established through a bequest from Stephen Girard, a Philadelphia financier and philanthropist, for the creation of a school for poor white male orphans., Copyrighted by Francis Smith in Pennsylvania., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 585, LCP exhibit catalogue: Made in America #69., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., The Smith brothers, Benjamin, Francis, David and George, were premier and prolific artists and publishers of panoramic city views during the pre-Civil War era., Free Library of Philadelphia: Oversize Philadelphiana - Views - Philadelphia from Girard
Creator: Smith, Benjamin F., Jr., 1830-1927, artist
Date: c1850
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Third floor storage - Rack 7a [7633.F]

Title: Fairmount Gardens, with the Schuylkill Bridge Philadelphia
Description: Anachronistic view showing two ladies and two gentlemen, wearing mid-19th-century attire, on a walkway, surrounded by trees, below the waterworks in Fairmount Garden, i.e. Fairmount Park. Also shows garden visitors near a water fountain and the Upper Ferry Bridge (i.e., Lancaster Schuylkill Bridge) over the Schuylkill River in the background. The bridge erected 1809-1812 with Robert Mills serving as architect, and Lewis Wernwag as engineer, burned in 1838., Contains partial label pasted on verso: From George S[?] Practical b[?] Polsloe., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 232, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Also issued as sheet music cover by Brewer & Co., 23, Bishopsgate St. witihin E.C. titled "The American Quadrille" by Stephen Glover.
Creator: Brandard, John, 1812-1863, artist
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Parks [7970.F]

Title: The Natatorium and Physical Institute [stock certificate]
Description: Illustrated share certificate for investment in the recreational institute incorporated in 1859 that was administered by J.W. Payne, with a facility built in 1869 at 219 South Broad Street. Vignette shows a mother eagle attending to two eaglets in a bird's nest. The first floor of the facility provided a wealthy clientele with a pool in the summer and a gym in the winter. A dance academy occupied the second floor., Printed on recto: Shares, $15.00. One Share., Inscribed on recto: No. 348., Issued to Samuel Welsh on September 4, 1860. Signed Paul B. Goddard, President; Jno. W. [D?], Treasurer., Seal of institute blindstamped on recto., Manuscript note on verso: Natatorium Physical Inst. 2 shares $15 each Sept. 1860., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 152, Gift of Mrs. Nicholas B. Wainwright
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Recreation - Natatorium [P.9408.4]

Title: Louis L. Peck manufacturer & dealer in burning fluid varnishes, pine oil, virgin & sp[iri]ts of turpentine absolute, apothecaries, deodorized and fluid alcohol, of a superior quality linseed oil, white lead, lamps of every description, German & English bronzes, Dutch metal, sand paper, &c Hecker's farina, family flour, & Hope Mills pure ground spices. Flour & farina store, 101 S. Front St. Varnish Store, 15 Dock Street. Lamp, pine oil & fluid store, 3 & 5 N. Eighth St. Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement showing the busy street corner at Front and Walnut streets near the Delaware River with a view of the building containing the oil manufactory, and the flour and farina store. The scene is depicted within a lithographed tromp l'oeil wood frame containing an inset of an exterior view of Peck's Works at Dock Street. Delivery wagons and drays traverse the business-lined streets, including one for Peck's driven by an African American man. Pedestrians walk the sidewalks and cross the intersection, and a white boy rolls a hoop past a white woman peddler sewing by her food stand. Visible in the background are the busy Walnut Street Ferry wharf and Smith and Windmill Islands in the Delaware River. Louis L. Peck's varnish business operated from around 1848 until 1855., Title from item., Date supplied by Wainwright., Printed below the image: Orders for the City, Country, or Shipping put up, with Care and Despatch, at the lowest market prices., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 444, Reproduced in Edwin Wolf's Quarter of a millennium (Philadelphia: The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1981, rev. 1990), p. 177., LCP exhibition catalogue: Made in America #79., Lithograph reproduced on the cover of Nicholas B. Wainwright's Philadelphia in the romantic age of lithography (Philadelphia: The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1958). Proof of cover in the Library Company's collections (W222.1)., Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Wagner & M'Guigan, was an early successful experimenter in chromolithography, winning a silver medal at the 1844 Franklin Institute exhibition.
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W222 [P.2134]

Title: McNeely & Co. manufacturers of morocco, buckskin & chamois, white leather, bark tanned, sheep, calf & deer skins, parchment, vellum &c. 64 N[or]th 4th. St. below Arch St. near the Merchants Hotel, Philadelphia. Manufactory 4th & Franklin Aven[ue]
Description: Advertisement depicting the large factory's several industrial buildings, sheds, and fenced yard near a busy street and sidewalk. Workers attend to a maze of drying lines with hanging leather pieces; delivery carts traverse the yard and depart through the gate under the sign "McNeely & Co."; and a laborer uses a horse-drawn cart to collect coal from a mound beside the main building. Pedestrians, including a white woman and boy, stroll and converse on the sidewalk. In the street, an African American man and woman couple push a filled handcart and a crowded horse-drawn omnibus from the "Frankford Road - Fourth Street" line passes by. The McNeely family operated a leather manufactory in Philadelphia from 1830 until the early 20th century., Title from item., Date of publication supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 463, Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Rease, a prominent mid-19th century Philadelphia trade card lithographer known to highlight details of human interest in his advertisements, partnered with Francis H. Schell in the 1850s and eventually operated his own press until around 1872.
Creator: Rease, W.H, artist
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W230 [P.2129]

Title: [Pennsylvania Hall]
Description: Exterior view of the abolitionist meeting place and adjacent buildings at Sixth and Haines Streets in Philadelphia. Several white men and women pedestrians stroll the sidewalks. A carriage and horse-drawn cart pass by on the street. The hall, erected in 1838 as an arena for "free discussion," was set aflame by hostile mobs on May 17, 1838 after three days of interracial dedication ceremonies and services. The building ruins continued to stand until the Odd Fellows Society built a hall on the lot in 1846., Title from duplicate print., Attributed to John Caspar Wild., Probably printed by Wild & Chevalier., Probably after the wash drawing by architect Thomas S. Stewart., Possibly artist's proof., Published in: Samuel Webb's History of Pennsylvania Hall. (Philadelphia: Printed by Merrihew and Gun, 1838). (LCP Am 1838 Hist Pa Hall). Last page contains advertisement for a limited supply of larger frameable versions of the image to be sold at the Anti-Slavery Office, No. 29 N. 9th Street, Philadelphia., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 557, Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), approximately 1804-1846, artist
Date: [1838]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W274 [P.2158]

Title: Philadelphia, from Camden, - 1850
Description: Panoramic view looking west from Camden showing the city to West Philadelphia. In the foreground, several bustling piers line the Camden riverfront. Sail ships and steamboats are docked, horse-drawn wagons are loaded and transport goods, and individuals mill on the piers and near the Market Street ferry house. Several vessels, including sail ships, tug boats, and steam boats sail in the river near both riverfronts and around Smith and Windmill islands. In the background, the cityscape of Philadelphia is visible. Includes the Navy Yard, Spark's Shot Tower, the steeples of Christ Church and Independence Hall, and Girard College. Also shows rows of buildings, smokestacks, undeveloped land, and the Schuylkill River in the distant background., Copyright by Francis Smith in Pennsylvania., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 583, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., The Smith brothers, Benjamin, Francis, David and George, were premier and prolific artists and publishers of panoramic city views during the pre-Civil War era., Free Library of Philadelphia: Oversize Philadelphiana - Views
Creator: Smith, Benjamin F., Jr., 1830-1927, artist
Date: c1850
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ***BW - Views [P.8970.31]

Title: Columbia Avenue & 5th St. Factory
Description: View showing one of the two factories operated by the lamp, chandelier, and gas fixture factory. The multi-storied factory, marked "Cornelius & Baker," extends down most of a city block and contains a cupola adorned with a weather vane and a smaller adjoining building. Also shows street traffic, including a horse-drawn carriage and omnibus. A couple also strolls on the sidewalk. Cornelius & Baker was founded in 1835 and operated 2 factories and a storefront by the 1850s. The firm was succeeded by Cornelius & Sons in 1869., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Sept. 59., One of two views of Cornelius & Baker's factories published as plates in Description of the establishment of Cornelius & Baker, manufacturers of lamps, chandeliers & gas fixtures, Philadelphia (Philadelphia: J.B. Chandler, Printer, 306 Chestnut Street, 1856?) (LCP Am 1856 Corne (17160.O.15)). Both views issued as a separate print on a single sheet by P.S. Duval & Son's lithographers (LCP P.2023 *BW-Industry)., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 145
Date: [1859]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Industry [P.2024b]

Title: Lehman & Bolton, lithographers, printers, engravers & publishers, 418, 420, 422 Library St., Philadelphia
Description: Advertising calendar for 1881 for Lehman & Bolton, a partnership between William H. Lehman and Mahlon Bolton, Jr. formed in 1871. Surrounded by a gilt border, the image shows an ornate setting containing patriotic allegorical figures and symbols, including Liberty with a lyre, marble bust, fasces, and an American shield at her feet sitting with the liberty pole draped across her lap and a laurel wreath on her head as she looks at an album of U.S. Presidents; flowers and cherubs holding grain, holly, a scythe, an umbrella, a watering pot, and other spring symbols; and the dome of the United States Capitol in the background. Text describes various kinds of job printing undertaken by the firm., Not in Wainwright., On bottom recto outside of gilt border: "Bell Telephone Communication.", Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 52
Creator: Lehman & Bolton, lithographers
Date: [1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Advertisements [P.9349.363]

Title: A. Hawley & Co., perfumers and chemists, no. 39 North Fourth Street, above Arch, Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement with ornate floral border including two female figures and two centaurs surrounding a central text panel listing a large variety of products manufactured by the firm. Products include perfumes; soaps; toothpastes; cosmetics; lotions; extracts; hair oil and dyes., Published in Colton's atlas of America, illustrating the physical and political geography of North and South America...Commercial edition with business cards of the prominent houses in Philadelphia. (New York: J.H. Colton and Company, 1856), page 45 1/2. (HSP O 458), Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 2
Date: [1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Advertisements [P.8945]

Title: High Street, with the First Presbyterian Church. Philadelphia, 1800
Description: 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]

Title: Black Diamond File Works illustrated price list G. & H. Barnett No. 39, 41 & 43 Richmond Street Philadelphia Pa
Description: Illustrated title page showing an exterior view of the factory complex for the file Works "established in 1863" in Richmond. Shows clerks and laborers moving and loading crates on to a company horse-drawn wagon parked in front of the office building. Individuals stand in the doorway of the building that is adorned with signage containing the name of the company and proprietors. In the rear of the office, the "File Factory" with several operating smokestacks, one adorned with a model of the company trademark, stands. Figures are seen in a window and door of sections of the edifice. At a two-story building, adjacent to the office, a worker carries planks of wood through the door. Also shows a "Richmond & Exchange" horse-drawn omnibus filled with passengers passing in the street., Not in Wainwright., Published as title page in Black Diamond File Works illustrated price list. ([Philadelphia, 1874])., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 57, Gift of David Doret.
Date: [1874]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare **Am 1874 G.& H. Barnett 10069.F.title page

Title: Gottleib Hartung's wine & lager beer hall and restaurant. Importer of Rhenish and Neckar wines, No. 512 Race St., Philadelphia
Description: Tradecard containing a view of the three-and-one-half story beer hall and restaurant adorned with signage reading "G. Hartung Hotel." A patron enters the establishment as a man, probably the proprietor, stands near the entrance. A laborer emerges from the cellar holding a keg. Kegs and a case of liquor bottles line the sidewalk near a horse-drawn dray situated in the street for loading. Hartung established his business on Race Street in 1860 and remained proprietor until his death in 1879, after which his wife Susannah assumed operations., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 323, Weiss operated from 600 Chestnut Street in the early 1860s., See Philadelphia Inquirer, October 25, 1879 for Hartung's obituary.
Date: [ca. 1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.143b]

Title: Machine à vapeur sur la rivère Schuylkill. = Walet works on the Schuylkill River. = Machina vapore foeta juxta amnen Schuylkill. = Dampfmachine am Schuykill
Description: Landscape view looking northwest from Reservoir Hill showing the Fairmount Water Works originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff. Includes the engine house, mill house, and race bridge. Also shows visitors strolling the landscaped grounds of the works and on a walkway on Fairmount; cows grazing on an adjacent plot of land; residences, including probably Lemon Hill, along the bucolic banks of the Schuylkill River; and the river dam., Published in Itinéraire pittoresque du fleuve Hudson (Paris: H. Gaugain, 1828-29), no. 50., Printed above the image: 13e,, Livraison. Amérique Septentrionale - État de Pensylvanie. Pl. 2., Printed below image: No. 50., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 446/447, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 21: 84, uncolored., Milbert, a French naturalist, artist, and scholar, traveled through the Northeastern United States 1815-1823.
Creator: Arnout, Jules, artist
Date: [1828-1829]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Public Utilities - F [P.9965.3; P.9210.14]

Title: Bridesburg Manufacturing Company
Description: Frontispiece illustration depicting the square, industrial complex of the textile machinery manufacturing company on Richmond Street between Walnut and Locust Streets from the Delaware River. View includes a steamboat traveling north on the Delaware River, a docked sailboat, and laborers and horse-drawn carts and drays near the entrance of the complex. Company originally established circa 1819 by Alfred Jenks as Bridesburg Macine Works. Facility was enlarged in 1853, manufactured arms during the Civil War, and returned to manufacturing textile machinery after the Civil War., Not in Wainwright., Published in Bridesburg Manufacturing Company's Descriptive catalogue of machines built by the Bridesburg Manufacturing Company (Bridesburg, Pa., 1867), frontispiece., Catalogue includes fifty-eight lithographs by W. Boell depicting machinery manufactured by the company "to convey to them [patrons] an idea of the innumerable improvements we have made within a few years past, upon the machinery used for carding, spinning, and weaving Cotton and Wool.", Philadelphia on Stone, POS 62
Creator: Boell, William
Date: 1867
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1867 Brides 106980.D.frontispiece

Title: Tygert-Allen Fertilizer Co., office 2 Chestnut St., Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view of the terminal, factory complex and railyard adjacent to the piers and wharves at Greenwich Point along the Delaware River in South Philadelphia. Signage reading "Tygert-Allen Fertilizer Co." adorns the storage warehouse on the pier in the foreground, and "Office Tygert-Allen Fertilizer Co." is painted in large letters on a smaller building nearby. The on-deck rail carries cargo on tracks to and from docked ships into the second floor of a long building that sits behind Tygert-Allen's warehouse on the pier. Super phosphates storage, millroom, storeroom, engine house and boiler house are all located within the long building. Locomotives and carts full of freight travel along the railroad tracks that run parallel to the factory buildings. Workers and horse-drawn carts and coaches labor throughout the complex. A barge carrying railroad cars is docked in front of a slip labeled "P.R.R. Ferry". Several lines of elevated railroad tracks carrying carts and locomotives run next to the slip and into the distance. Steamboats with smoke billowing from the stacks and sailing vessels with men on deck approach the piers in the foreground. The Tygert-Allen Fertilizer Co., formed by J.E. Tygert, H.S. Tygert and Penrose Allen about 1889, also operated an office at 2 Chestnut Street. A fire in February 1892 destroyed most of the buildings within the factory complex, causing a loss of about $50,000., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 256
Creator: Packard, Herbert S., 1850-1912, artist
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Industries [P.2008.34.29]

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