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Title: Dr. Roby's Brazilian Hair Curling Liquid. This preparation will cause the hair to curl beautifully, and is warranted not to injure it in the least. Prepared only by Storrs & Co. No. 21, North Sixth Street Philadelphia. For sale here
Description: Advertisment showing a waist-length, profile view of a woman with dark, loose-curled hair, draped in a cloth, and looking into a mirror. She also wears an arm band., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 58, Library of Congress: DLC PP 2001: 068 Dr. Roby
Date: c1860
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC DLC PP 2001: 068 Dr. Roby

Title: View of the launch of the U.S. ship of war Pennsylvania From the Navy Yard at Philadelphia, July 18th 1837
Description: View showing several spectators on vessels in the Delaware River watching the launch of the largest sailing ship built to that date by the U.S. Several tall ships, rowboats, and sailboats filled with spectators congest the river as the ship glides out from its storage house. In the background, cityscape is barely visible behind the several masts of the spectator ships. Pennsylvania, one of nine ships authorized by Congress in April 1816 to carry at least 74 guns, was designed and built 1821-1837 by Samuel Humphreys in the Philadelphia Navy Yard. The ship remained in service until 1842 when she became a receiving ship for the Norfolk Navy Yard, where she was burned at the onset of the Civil War. The first U.S. Navy Yard was established by shipbuilder Joshua Humphreys and Secretary of the Navy Benjamin Stoddert in 1801 in Southwark. The facility, which built, overhauled, stored, and disposed of warships, operated in Southwark until 1876 when the Navy Yard enlarged and relocated to League Island., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 803, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 56 Penna 381
Creator: Lehman, George, d. 1870, artist
Date: [1837]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 56 Penna 381

Title: [Fairmount Water Works near Philadelphia]
Description: View from the floodgates, i.e. race bridge, looking toward the eastern side of the water works that were originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff. Shows several park visitors on the bridge who observe one another. Includes couples on promenade; a boy with a hoop; a woman watching two men converse about a sheet of paper; and a family whose daughters meekly peer at an African American couple. Two dogs bark in the direction of the African American woman who sits next to her companion who stands. Pedestrians stroll on the promenade of the mill house, swans glide on the water, and the gazebo on Reservoir Hill is visible. Also shows the engine house, signage advertising "Soda Water, "and the William Rush statuary adorning the works, including "Mercury" atop the gazebo and "Schuylkill Freed" and "Schuylkill Chained" adorning the mill house., Title from duplicate in the collections of the Free Library of Philadelphia., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 236, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 88 F 331, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 30:88. Includes publishers' imprints: "Philadelphia published by Fenderich & Wild Callowhill St. No. 215" and "New York published by Thomas Cotrel No. 97... [portion missing]", Charles Fenderich and John Caspar Wild partnered as lithographers from 1833 to 1834., Lower left corner missing, repaired, and retouched.
Date: [ca. 1833]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 88 F 331

Title: The monument to liberty to be erected in Independence Square, Philadelphia, designed by William W. Story
Description: View showing an unexecuted monument commissioned by the citizen's group National Commemoration Monument Association and designed by sculptor William Wetmore Story for the re-landscaping of the square for the Centennial celebration of 1876. Shows the figure of Liberty standing upon a column adorned with female allegorical figures; an eagle encircled by stars; fearsome animal heads; and floral ornaments. The monument was to be placed in the center of the square at the intersection of the main paths. In 1876, the committee asked to and was allowed to be released from a city ordinance, passed in March 1875, that required them to raise $50,000 for the erection of the monument and the project effort apparently dissolved., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 483, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 632 S 888
Date: c1876
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 632 S 888

Title: Ficken & Williams, steam sugar refiners, Crown, Willow and Fifth streets, Philadelphia Office 416. Crown Street Philada. Office. 119 So. Front St. Philada. Office 80 Wall Street New York
Description: Advertisement showing a busy street scene with a view of the refinery complex in Northern Liberties. Includes the office building adorned with signage "Ficken & Williams Steam Sugar Refinery" attached to the large multi-storied processing plant of several connected buildings marked at the corner "Crown St." and "William St." Smoke stacks and a large American flag adorn the facility. Two men converse at the doorway of the office across from a horse-drawn carriage parked in the street that is congested with refinery traffic. Several drays, some loaded with barrels, and a cart loaded with coal travel to and from the refinery. Factory employees also load a dray with barrels, sit on a barrel, converse, and emerge from a building entrance. Other street traffic includes two boys crossing the intersection, a woman and girl on promenade, dogs, and a driver leading a team of mules hauling freight cars of coal. Also shows pedestrian traffic, including three men convened in conversation, on the sidewalks around the factory., pdcp00036, Not in Wainwright, Reduced variant published in Edwin T. Freedley’s Philadelphia and its manufactures : a handbook of the great manufactories and representative mercantile houses of Philadelphia in 1867 (Philadelphia: E. Young, 1867), opp. p. 472., Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Oversize Philadelphiana - Factories and Foundries (A-M)
Date: [ca. 1867]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Oversize Philadelphiana - Factories and Foundries (A-M)

Title: Pont de Lower Ferry pres de Philadelphie
Description: View showing the Upper, not Lower, Ferry bridge also known as the Lancaster-Schuylkill Bridge. Shows the full length of the single span bridge erected 1809-1812, with Robert Mills serving as architect and Lewis Wernwag as engineer. A pavilion-like structure is visible at one end of the bridge (left) and a small building at the other (right). Also includes a second covered bridge the Market Street Permanent Bridge in the distance. Market Street Permanent Bridge was built from 1798-1806 after the designs of Timothy Palmer. The Upper Ferry bridge burned 1838., Not in Wainwright., Printed upper right corner: Pl. 6., pdcc00019, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 21:37
Date: [ca. 1835]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Photograph Collection. FLP Castner 21:37

Title: Church of St. Charles Borremeo. Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Certificate showing the interior of the Roman Catholic Church built 1868-1876 in a High Victorian baroque style after the designs of Edwin Forest Durang at 900 S. 20th Street. View looks toward the ornate rectangular chancel, with sculptural details, including angels, and a crucifix icon. Side altars include religious icons and sculptural details. Also shows a crucifix adorning a side wall, low-hanging chandelier in front of the altar, stained glass windows, pews, and balconies. Image contains ornamented cornices, including one containing "IHS.", Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 34, PAHRC: Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. Charles Borromeo
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center. | Graphics Collection. PAHRC Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. Charles Borromeo

Title: Christopher Gallagher. Wholesale liquor dealer 806 Lombard St
Description: Advertisement showing the two-story brownstone storefront, adorned with signage, of the liquor dealer who relocated to 806 Lombard Street circa 1875. Barrels, visible through the open central entry, are stacked within the space on the first floor. Architectural ornamentations and etched, arched windows adorn the upper story facade. A man, possibly proprietor Gallagher, stands near one of two other doorways to the establishment across from a laborer prying on one of several barrels lined on the sidewalk. In the street, a boy attends to one of two horses drawing a cart loaded with more barrels. Also shows partial views of adjacent buildings. Gallagher immigrated to the United States in 1856 and established a wholesale liquor business in Philadelphia. He was a member of the Hibernian Society, Catholic societies, and president of the Building and Loan Association., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 121, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Firefighting Album Am 3989 Gallagher
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Firefighting Album Am 3989 Gallagher

Title: Junger Maennerchor, Philadelphia, 1868
Description: Group portrait in an outdoor setting, probably the Junger Maennerchor annual picnic and summer night's festival at Schützen Park, depicting hundreds of members (several with their faces likely based after photographs) of the German-American choral society founded in 1852. The massive crowd of white men sit, stand, drink beer, and smoke cigars and pipes. In the left foreground, a number of men hold sheets of music, with one, seated, and in the gesture of conducting across from another seated men leaning on a bound volume resting on a stack of bound volumes of likely music. Also shows a man in the right foreground pouring beer from a keg, and in the center background, two men on horseback, a man holding the society flag, and a man holding a trophy and gesturing toward another man. In the far background, pavilions, several trees, and a partially obscured building is visible. The men are attired in shirt sleeves or suits with ties. Some also wear hats or their hats rest beside them on the ground or they hold walking sticks. By the mid-1870s, German-Americans had formed 24 singing societies in Philadelphia., Not in Wainwright., Includes pictorial detail of an eagle with a lyre and a banner reading "Junger Maennerchor" within the title text between the words "Maennerchor" and "Philadelphia.", Title and date from item., Gift of David Doret., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 299
Creator: Ch. P. & A. J. Tholey, artist
Date: [1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection - Prints [P.2020.39.11]

Title: Philadelphia, von dem grossen Baume zu Kensington aus geschen, unter welchem William Penn den tractat mit den Indianern abschloss
Description: View looking toward the city from the Penn Treaty Tree and Monument in Kensington. In the foreground, two men stand between the monument marked "William Penn's Landing Place" and the elm tree across from men working at the piers and arriving by skiff at the riverbank. Laborers pile sacks on the dock, transport goods by boat, and load a wagon. In the background, tall ships are docked, vessels travel the Delaware River, and cityscape is visible. The monument was erected in 1827 by the Penn Society to commemorate the site of William Penn's Treaty with the Delaware Indians at the village of Shackamaxon (i.e. Penn Treaty Park, Kensington)., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 599, Originally part of a Poulson scrapbook of illustrations of Philadelphia., Traubel assumed proprietorship of the Kuhl lithography studio at 46 1/2 Walnut Street circa 1854 under the firm name Traubel & Co.
Creator: Traubel, M. H. (Morris H.), 1820-1897, artist
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Views - P [(1)1525.F.53c]

Title: Pupil's polka composed and dedicated to the pupils of Hlasko's Dancing Academy by A. Tatzel, senr
Description: Sheet music cover containing an interior view showing children at dance class at the physical institute operated by Miecislaw Hlasko. A mother introduces her son to the instructor as boy-girl and girl-girl couples perform different dance steps. Parents watch the children from the dance floor and other chaperones and children sit on a long cushioned bench lining a side of the hall. Two musicians play from a raised platform adorned with a balustrade in the background. Space also includes chandeliers and a skylight., Prices printed on recto: Colored 4 1/2; Plain 3., Includes the sheet music., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 629, Gift of David Doret.
Date: [c[1857]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Sheet Music Germ 11309.F (Doret)

Title: Broad Street Independant [sic] Church, Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view of the First Independent Church, later renamed Chambers Presbyterian Church, built 1831 at the northeast corner of Broad and Sansom streets. Also shows a partial view of an adjacent building and pedestrian traffic. Pedestrians include a couple with a child and two men greeting one another. Also contains amateur ink-drawn and hand-colored modifications. Retouches show fire hoses in front of the buildings leading to firefighters using a hand-pumper to fight a blaze in the background. Some pedestrian figures also altered with firefigher hats and capes. The church, altered in 1853 to include a front portico, housed the independent congregation of Rev. John Chambers. Congregation admitted to the Presbytery in 1873., Inscribed on recto: S.A. Jackson; see p. 81., Title annotated with a slash through the "a" in "Independant.", Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 64, Originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 4, page 85. The scrapbooks contained photographs of 18th-century public, commercial, and residential buildings in the city of Philadelphia collected by Poulson to document the vanishing architectural landscape.
Creator: Town, E.
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Churches and meetinghouses [(4)2526.F.85]

Title: [Detail from circular of views of the interior of a concert hall and saloon, probably F. & L. Ladner's Military Hall, 528-532 North Third St. Philadelphia]
Description: Clipped out detail of two views showing several male patrons gathered at tables in the central hall with a baby grand piano in the rear, and a side room decorated with a fountain adorned with a sculpture and fence. Most of the men look toward the viewer as they sit with their drinks, read newspapers, or are attended by waiters with trays of refreshments. One man has his hat and coat lying on his table. Other decorations include hanging plants, caged trees, lamps, and molding. The saloon and concert hall built 1857, was operated by the Ladners 1857-1881., Not in Wainwright., Artist's initials in lower right corner of one of the views., Attributed to Stein & Jones., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 180, See related advertisement print **BW - Hotels, Inns & Taverns [P.9008]
Creator: Rosenthal, Max, 1833-1918, artist
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.153j]

Title: Odd Fellows' Cemetery, Islington Lane Philadelphia
Description: View showing the gatehouse, designed by Thomas Ustick Walter, to the cemetery chartered 1849 near Diamond and Twenty-Fourth streets. Street and pedestrian traffic is visible in the foreground. Men, women, and children walk and stand on the sidewalk to and in front of the gatehouse. In the street, a carriage and wagon pass as several individuals ride on horseback, including a man fending off a barking dog raised on his hind legs. Also shows trees, a chapel, and a monument on the cemetery grounds. Cemetery removed 1951. Per contemporary published accounts, architects Hoxie & Button designed the gatehouse constructed., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 518, See Ballou's Dollar Monthly Magazine (April 1860), p. 316.
Creator: Hoffy, Alfred M., b. ca. 1790, artist
Date: c1849
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Cemeteries [P.8613]

Title: Masonic Temple. New Masonic Hall, Chestnut St. Philadelphia To the right worshipped grand lodge of Pennsylvania (A.Y.M.) and the masonic fraternity in general this print is respectfully dedicated by Wm. F. Spieler, no. 212 Chestnut St. Phila
Description: Exterior view showing the Gothic-style hall built 1853-1855 after the designs of Sloan & Stewart at 713-721 Chestnut Street. Also shows adjacent businesses, including Washington House hotel, and those tenanting the lower level of the hall. On the sidewalk, pedestrians (men, women, and children) greet one another, converse, stroll, and admire storefront displays. Displays include textiles, books, framed prints, and men's clothing. In the street, a man and woman ride on horseback in the path of a crossing couple. Image surrounded by border designed as an archway comprised of gothic elements. Pictorial elements include gargoyles, masonic iconography, and the figure of a crusader. Also contains the names of the 8 members of the building committee printed below the image. Building sold circa 1873 following the completion of the new Masonic Temple on North Broad Street., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 461, Spieler was a Philadelphia photographer who operated a studio at 720 Chestnut Street 1859-1861.
Creator: Haugg, Louis, 1827-1903, artist
Date: c1855
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Associations [P.8610]

Title: Wetherill & Brothers white lead manufactory & chemical works, corner of 12th & Cherry streets, Philadelphia
Description: View predominately showing the yard of the complex built circa 1812-1813 for the earliest American white lead manufactory founded by Samuel Wetherill Jr. in the 1780s. Factory workers labor between a horse-drawn cart, and rows and stacks of crates, barrels, and vats, which cover the yard that is surrounded by buildings. Several smoke stacks adorn the roofs of the shops. Following the circa 1812 fire of the Wetherill white lead manufactory at Broad and Chestnut streets, the new factory was built at the northeast corner of 12th & Cherry streets, including the addition of a chemical manufactory. In 1847, the factory enlarged and relocated to West Philadelphia at 30th Street below Chestnut., Name of artist and printer attributed 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 122 and in Thomas Porter's Picture of Philadelphia 1811 to 1831: Giving an account of the improvements of the city, during that period (Philadelphia: Published by Robert DeSilver, No. 110 Walnut Street, 1831), vol. II, opposite page 122., Manuscript note on verso: Est 1809 by Saml Wetherwill & Son. N.W. cor. Chestnut & Broad des. by fire abt 1813 then [illegible], Philadelphia on Stone, POS 832, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.9830.4 and in Am 1831 Mease 68582.D and in Am 1831 Mease Log 4072.D and Am 1831 Mease 20876., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Creator: Breton, William L., ca. 1773-1855, artist
Date: [1831]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W451 [P.9830.4]

Title: Dreer's garden calendar 1899 ; Dreer's seeds, plants, bulbs, etc. [cover proof] Henry A. Dreer 714 Chestnut St. Philadelphia
Description: Proof of the illustrated front and back covers of the seed trade catalogue. Depicts the flowering plants "Dreer's Superb Nasturtiums" and "Montbretias" (i.e., red crocus). Also contains the company trademark adorned with a four-leaf clover labeled "Dreer's Fresh & Reliable Seeds." Dreer established the business in 1838. The firm was incorporated 1892 under his son, William F. Dreer, who assumed the business operations following his father's death in 1873., Contains register marks., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 60, Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1898]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Advertisements - Dreer [P.2006.28.8]

Title: Guide to Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia East window of Chapel
Description: Depicts the pointed arched east window, with Gothic tracery, in the funerary chapel at Laurel Hill Cemetery. The rural cemetery was built 1836-1839 after the designs of John Notman at 3822 Ridge Avenue., Added title page in Guide to Laurel Hill Cemetery, near Philadelphia: with numerous illustrations (Philadelphia: For sale at the Cemetery, and by the Treasurer; C. Sherman, printer, 1844)., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 335, Athenaeum of Philadelphia: General Prints Collection - PR327.
Creator: Notman, John, 1810-1865, artist
Date: 1844
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Am 1844 Phi Lau Hill Cem [(1)11129.O.title page], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Am 1844 Phi Lau Hill Cem [(2)11129.O.title page]

Title: Lehman & Bolton, printers, publishers, [and] lithographers, 418, 420, 422 Library St., Philadelphia
Description: Advertising calendar for 1882 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 stage setting containing classical figures and symbols of the arts, spring, and prosperity, including children surrounded by flowers, fruit, gold coins, a lyre, a marble bust, a tragedy mask, and an art palette. Text describes various kinds of job printing undertaken by the firm., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 53
Creator: Lehman & Bolton, lithographers
Date: [1881]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Advertisements [1975.F.4 (Phillips)]

Title: The Bergner & Engel Brewing Co., Philadelphia
Description: Album containing 37 lithographic illustrations documenting the Philadelphia brewing complex on Thirty-second Street between Jefferson, Master and Thompson Streets, including exterior and interior views of individual buildings within the complex and detailed scenes of laborers operating equipment, transporting the finished product to and from railroad stations, and loading it onto ships. Shows exterior and interior views of the office building on Master Street; exterior views of the brew house and milling department, machine repair shop and fermenting houses; interior views of refrigerating machines, the first and second floors of the brew house, fermenting room, beer storage, cooper shops, racking room, wash house, shipping department, boiler house, pump room, electric light machines, machine repair shop, the ale and porter brewery and bottling house; and modes of transport including a refrigerating car, delivery wagon and locomotive. Other plates depict out-of-state depots and offices in Washington D.C.; Norfolk and Richmond, Virginia; Jacksonville, Florida; and Trenton, Sea Isle City, and Atlantic City, New Jersey and commemorative illustrations of the company's first-place winnings at the Centennial Exhibition in 1876 and Paris Exposition in 1878., The partnership of Bergner & Engel was formed in 1870 at the brewery of Bergner (erected 1857-1858) following the dissolution of the partnership of brewers Wolf & Engel. Construction of new buildings and additions and the purchase of new equipment for the Brewerytown complex took place in the 1870s. At this time, Bergner & Engel was one of the largest breweries in the country and had an international reputation. Bergner & Engel ceased operations during prohibition., Title from cover., Bound in a fine diagonal-ribbed maroon cloth, black and gilt stamped, with the company's trademark phoenix on the front board., Plates signed A.M.J. Mueller., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 15
Creator: Mueller, A. M. J., artist
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums [67310.D]

Title: Girard College for Orphans, at Philadelphia, Pa
Description: View of Girard College at Girard Avenue facing northwest from Corinthian Avenue including Founder’s Hall and the eastern and western outbuildings. Shows several figures walking the grounds of the school in addition to street and pedestrian traffic including horse-drawn carriages and coaches, men on horseback, promenaders, and a laborer pushing a hand cart. 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 orphans.", Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 307/308, Library of Congress: DLC PP 2001: 068 Girard College
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: [ca. 1845]
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC DLC PP 2001: 068 Girard College

Title: F.A. Poth Brewing Company, Philadelphia
Description: Album containing 26 lithographic illustrations documenting the Philadelphia brewing complex at the northwest corner of Thirty-first and Jefferson Streets, including exterior and interior views of individual buildings within the complex and detailed scenes of laborers operating equipment and transporting the finished product to and from railroad stations. Shows exterior and interior views of the office building, boiler house, stable, and malt house; exterior views only of pitching house, pitching yard, and shipping department; interior views of private offices, beer stube, refrigerating machines and engine room, brew house, fermenting room, beer storage, racking room, wash house, and kiln house; and modes of transport including a delivery wagon loaded with barrels of beer approaching the F.A. Poth depot at Trenton, New Jersey. Includes a "bottled by" list on the last page with names and addresses next to two F.A. Poth bottles of beer. Under the list: "100,836 barrels were sold between January 1, 1890 and January 1, 1891.", Established in 1865 by Frederick August Poth at the northeast corner of Third and Green Streets, and moved to Thirty-first and Jefferson Streets in 1871. Incorporated in 1877, and later renamed F.A. Poth & Sons, Incorporated., Title from cover., Bound in a fine diagonal-ribbed blue cloth, black and gilt stamped, with the company's logo on the front board., Plates signed A.M.J. Mueller., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 225
Creator: Mueller, A. M. J., artist
Date: [ca. 1891]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums [67309.D]

Title: [A view of Fairmount and the Water-Works Taken from the veranda of Harding's Hotel, Schuylkill]
Description: View looking toward the water works originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff. In the foreground, elegantly dressed women and men sit and stand on the veranda admiring the vista as street and pedestrian traffic approaches and departs from the covered Upper Ferry Bridge. Traffic includes horse-drawn carriages and men, women and children walking or standing on the bridge, looking over the rail at the Schuylkill River below. Canal barges travel under the bridge and in the canal lock across from the water works. The water works include the engine house, mill house, and pavilions on the mound dam and on reservoir hill. A water fountain and trees complete the view. Also shows businesses and residences behind the water works in the background. The Lancaster-Schuylkill Bridge, known as the Upper Ferry Bridge, was erected 1809-1812, with Robert Mills serving as architect and Lewis Wernwag as engineer. Served as the basis for the lithographed view created by J.T. Bowen after a fire destroyed the bridge in 1838., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 262
Creator: Smith, John Rubens, 1775-1849, artist
Date: [ca. 1837]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Third Floor Storage [P.2008.34.12]

Title: Works, East Schuylkill Falls. Powers & Weightman, manufacturing chemists, Philadelphia. Established 1818 Tartaric and citric acid department, Falls of Schuylkill. ; Laboratory for fine chemicals, Ninth and Parrish Streets
Description: View showing the laboratory complex of processing plants and storage sheds established in 1848 on Ridge Avenue near Schuylkill Falls (i.e., East Falls). Within the complex, laborers haul goods by horse among the several buildings, smoke stacks, and trees. Men and women converse near the entrance to the complex in the foreground, as a horse-drawn cart exits the compound. In the background, a locomotive travels past the complex (right) and a laborer works with a team of horses that pull several railroad carts loaded with goods (left) on the series of tracks surrounding the complex. View also shows adjacent lots of pasture land. In the lower corners are two vignettes depicting exterior views of the tartaric and citric acid department and the laboratory for fine chemicals at Ninth and Parrish Streets. In 1847, Powers & Weightman succeeded Farr & Kunzi (established in 1818), and became internationally renown for their manufacture of medicinal and other fine chemicals. The company was the first to introduce quinine to the United States. A second factory complex operated between 9th, Parrish, Brown, and Darien Streets. The East Falls operation included housing for employees., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 867, A. Blanc worked as an artist for Longacre & Co. between 1870 and 1876.
Creator: Blanc, Albert, 1850-, artist
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | PRINTS PRINTS *BW-Industry [P.2008.34.23]

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.C. Wild and J.B. Chevalier in 1838., 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)., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 562.1. Digital image shows fourth state of the print., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bd 862 W6442 pl. 20
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1838
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bd 862 W 6442 pl. 20

Title: David Heston & Sons, Frankford, Philadelphia. Specimens and price list, lithographic labels The U.S. Label Printing Establishment. Founded in 1868. Folding druggist bottle boxes. Labeled pill & powder boxes. For gummed work the extra charge is 12 1/2 per cent. We do not furnish less than 1000of any lithographed label
Description: Illustration on recto of specimen sheet/price list depicting the factory for the printing establishment at 1525 Orthodox Street (corner of Orthodox and Franklin (later Griscom) Streets). View also includes street and pedestrian traffic, including horse-drawn drays and wagons. A square border with cornice ornaments surrounds the view. Image also contains decorative and pictorial elements. The firm operated from the location until at least the mid 1920s before relocating to 1208 Race Street by 1936. Heston, a printer and a minister of the Society of Friends, partnered in the firm with his sons Charles B., William, and John B., until his death in 1905., Not in Wainwright., POS 875
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Coll. Helfand Popular Medicine 11837.F (Helfand)

Title: [Patent improved lead pipe sheet lead and composition gas tubes, manufactured by Tatham & Brothers, office 15 Minor Street, Philadelphia, and No. 249 Water Street, New York.]
Description: Advertisement showing the factory complex at 608 Delaware Avenue (occupied 1844) for the lead pipe manufactory established in 1841 by George N., Henry B., and William P. Tatham. Factory employees work in front of and at the wharf of the industrial building that is covered with signage. Men lift a barrel with a hoist; guide horse-drawn drays into a courtyard, down an alley, and to be unloaded; move planks of wood; and spray a hose into the river. Also shows partial views of surrounding buildings. Tatham & Brothers, a firm established in New York in 1838, operated the Philadelphia branch from the address until circa 1867. The firm patented a hydraulic pressure method to produce pipe in 1841., Title from duplicate in the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Aug. 1847. Delaware Avenue., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 547, LCP copy trimmed and lacking title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba34 T218., HSP copy contains advertising text about the "better quality" patent leaden pipe process and price lists printed in letterpress. Price lists documents "Water Pipes for Hydrant, Pumps &c."; "Fountain or Aqueduct Pipe"; and "Sheet Lead."
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [August 1847]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W364 [P.2200]

Title: The Eastern Penitentiary. Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view from the south east showing the front facade, including the entrance gate, of the prison built 1823-1836 after the designs of John Haviland at 2101-2199 Fairmount Avenue. In the foreground, two children watch a man, seated across from a small farm located in front of the prison, sketch. Cows graze in the pasture., Copyrighted by J.C. Wild and J.B. Chevalier. Loose print lacking copyright statement., Issued as plate 6 in Views of Philadelphia, and its vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838), a series of views originally published as five numbers of four prints each, and later sold as a bound volume containing twenty views., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 201.1, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2204 and in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 6626.F., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Described in Martin Snyder’s "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 W373.1 [P.2204]

Title: The Eastern Penitentiary. Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view from the south east showing the front facade, including the entrance gate, of the prison built 1823-1836 after the designs of John Haviland at 2101-2199 Fairmount Avenue. In the foreground, two children watch a man, seated across from a small farm located in front of the prison, sketch. Cows graze in the pasture., Copyrighted by J.C. Wild and J.B. Chevalier., Issued as plate 6 in Views of Philadelphia, and its vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838), a series of views originally published as five numbers of four prints each, and later sold as a bound volume containing twenty views., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 201.2, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2205 and in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Poulson)., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Described in Martin Snyder’s "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 W373.2 [P.2205]

Title: The Eastern Penitentiary. Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view from the south east showing the front facade, including the entrance gate, of the prison built 1823-1836 after the designs of John Haviland at 2101-2199 Fairmount Avenue.In the foreground, two children watch a man, seated across from a small farm located in front of the prison, sketch.Cows graze in the pasture., Copyrighted by J. T. Bowen., Originally published as plate 6 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 201.3, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Rush)., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Described in Martin Snyder’s "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 W373.3 [Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Rush)]

Title: The Eastern Penitentiary
Description: Exterior view from the south east showing the front facade, including the entrance gate, of the prison built 1823-1836 after the designs of John Haviland at 2101-2199 Fairmount Avenue. In the foreground, two children watch a man, seated across from a small farm located in front of the prison, sketch. Cows graze in the pasture., Copyrighted by J.T. Bowen., Originally published as plate 6 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 201.4, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2206 and in Print Room *Am 1848 Wild 3007.Q (Poulson) and in Print Room *Am 1848 Wild 1514.F and in Print Room *Am 1848 Wild 1515.Q., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Described in Martin Snyder’s "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: c1840, 1848
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W373.4 [P.2206]

Title: [T. E. Chapman, book store and book bindery, 74 North Fourth Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Advertisement showing the three-and-a-half story building on the 100 block of North Fourth Street for the bookseller, binder, and publisher Thomas Ellwood Chapman. A male patron enters the doorway of the building past advertisements (e.g. Books Stationery) adorning a mantle and the entry. A small broadside hangs in the window of the door, bundles of fibrous material rest atop the mantle, and shelves of books are visible lining the wall of the interior of the store. To the right of the doorway, a woman hunches over, and stands to the side of the closed cellar doors as she looks at one of several books and printed matter displayed in the window. A sign reading "Rags Bought" hangs below. Building facade also contains a wood door, possibly to an alleyway. Chapman opened the bookstore at the address in 1840, and added the bindery in 1843. He relocated in 1849., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Aug. 1847. North Fourth St., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 734, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Rease, W. H.
Date: [August 1847]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W356 [P.2196]

Title: Rockhill & Wilson, tailors & clothiers of men & boys wear, Nos. 205 & 207 Chestnut St. & 28 South 6th Street Daniel H. Rockhill, Franklin S. Wilson
Description: Advertisement showing the wide, spacious interior of the clothing store tenanted by Daniel H. Rockhill and Franklin S. Wilson at 205-207 (ie. 603-605) Chestnut Street. Male clerks and patrons organize and sort through goods displayed in piles on tables throughout the ornately decorated store, which is adorned by pilasters, rounded pediments, rosettes, and flowery chandeliers and light fixtures. Two male clerks assist patrons in the foreground; one speaks with a woman and a young boy, and the other helps two gentlemen. Rockhill & Wilson moved their business from 111 (ie. 321) Chestnut Street to this location in 1857, and operated here until 1882., Date supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 658, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [1857]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W319 [P.2255]

Title: [P. Maison's biscuit bakery, 134 N. Front Street, Philadelphia.]
Description: Advertisement showing the busy three-story bakery at 134, i.e., 214 North Front Street. Building contains banners attached to awning posts adorned with a sign to advertise "P. Maison's Bakery 134." Another "Bakery" sign extends over the adjacent alley between the business and neighboring building. A gentleman, possibly the proprietor, stands at the entrance of the building as laborers transport and stack barrels at the open entryway and upper receiving windows. In front of the store, a "P. Maison Biscuit Bakery" conestoga wagon is loaded with barrels next to a dray loaded with goods of which a clerk overlooks. At the side of the building, a driver with a horse-drawn cart loaded with barrels confers with his coworker in an upper floor window. Also shows a gentleman walking down the stairs of the adjacent residence visible in the image., Title supplied by cataloguer., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: April 1847. N. Front St., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 536, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [April 1847]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W260 [P.2150]

Title: [P. R. Schuyler, furnishing undertaker, N.E. cor. Beaver & 4th Sts., Philadelphia. N. B. lots for sale in Monument Cemetery on reasonable terms. Also single interments.]
Description: Advertisement showing a funeral possession led by an empty hearse passing by the two-and-one-half story residential business front of undertaker "P.R. Schuyler." A sign with the name of the proprietor and illustrated with a coffin adorns the arbor adjacent to the building. Trees line the sidewalk on which a lady, holding a parasol, strolls. She precedes the first (and fully visible) horse-drawn carriage in the procession on the cobblestone street. Also shows partial views, predominately roof and upper windows, of neighboring and surrounding buildings. The hearse driver wears mourning attire including a top hat with ribbon., Title from duplicate in the collections of the Atwater Kent Museum., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: [illegible] NE cor. Beaver & 4th. Aug. 1847., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 537, LCP copy trimmed and lacking title in English and German., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: ca. 1848
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W261 [P.2151]

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.C. Wild and J.B. Chevalier., 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), a series of views originally published as five numbers of four prints each, and later sold as a bound volume of twenty views., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 562.2. 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., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Poulson), Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1838
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W277.2 [Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Poulson)]

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]

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