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- Title
- The grounds and buildings of the United States Centennial International Exhibition, May 10th to November 10th 1876
- Description
- Bird’s eye view looking toward East Fairmount Park showing the entire expanse of the exhibition grounds in West Fairmount Park. The Centennial Exhibition celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art. Shows the English Commissioners Building, U.S. Government Building, Agricultural Hall, Machinery Hall, Ladies’ Pavilion, Judge’s Hall, Horticultural Hall, offices, Photographic Hall, Art Gallery, and the Main Building. Also shows fountains, hotels, and the Columbia, Girard and New York-Connecting Railroad bridges spanning the Schuylkill River. Cityscape is visible in the background. Many of the buildings were designed by Herman Schwartzmann, Henry Pettit, and Joseph M. Wilson., Not in Wainwright., Printed with red tint stone: The Only Complete View of the Centennial Exhibition officially recognized., Signatures of the Director General, Architects, and Engineers printed below the image., Philadelphia on Stone, American Antiquarian Society: Graphic Arts Lithff Pran Smir Grou Copy 3, AAS Graphic Arts Lithff Pran Smir Grou Copy 2, untinted.
- Creator
- Smirke, Sydney, 1798-1877, artist
- Date
- c1876
- Location
- American Antiquarian Society AAS Graphic Arts Lithff Pran Smir Grou Copy 3
- Title
- The grounds and buildings of the United States Centennial International Exhibition, May 10th to November 10th 1876
- Description
- Bird’s eye view looking toward East Fairmount Park showing the entire expanse of the exhibition grounds in West Fairmount Park. The Centennial Exhibition celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art. Shows the English Commissioners Building, U.S. Government Building, Agricultural Hall, Machinery Hall, Ladies’ Pavilion, Judge’s Hall, Horticultural Hall, offices, Photographic Hall, Art Gallery, and the Main Building. Also shows fountains, hotels, and the Columbia, Girard and New York-Connecting Railroad bridges spanning the Schuylkill River. Cityscape is visible in the background. Many of the buildings were designed by Herman Schwartzmann, Henry Pettit, and Joseph M. Wilson., Not in Wainwright., Signatures of the Director General, Architects, and Engineers printed below the image.., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 334, American Antiquarian Society: Graphic Arts Lithff Pran Smir Grou Copy 1, AAS Graphic Arts Lithff Pran Smir Grou Copy 2, untinted.
- Creator
- Smirke, Sydney, 1798-1877, artist
- Date
- c1876
- Location
- American Antiquarian Society AAS Graphic Arts Lithff Pran Smir Grou Copy 1
- Title
- Three in the morning
- Description
- Amusing genre scene depicting three drunk men stumbling arm-in-arm down a city block in front of fenced, wooden scaffolding. The man on the left skips, raises his hat and supports the unconscious man in the middle, who wears a lady's bonnet on his head. The man on the right also supports the bonnet-wearing man while he clings his arm around a lamp post as he holds a long pipe. Playbills and advertisements adorn the wooden fence in front of the scaffolding. The postings promote "Dan Rice's Great Show. National Theatre Walnut Street above Eighth March 13, 60 ... English Steeple Chase"; "Wheatley's Arch Street Theatre"; "Academy of Music"; and "Steam Boat Edwin Forrest of Trenton Capt. McMakin." A coach driver, with a whip in hand, watches the frivolity in the background., Date supplied by playbill depicted in image., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 4.2, American Antiquarian Society: Lithf ChilJ Thre, Copy with variant title and imprint ["3 O'clock in the Morning: 3 uhr Morgens," Childs, 152, late 84 Sth 3rd St.] held in the collections of the Atwater Kent Museum. AKM copy copyrighted 1857., See Public Ledger, March 1860 for advertisements for "Dan Rice's Great Show" at the National Theatre.
- Date
- [ca. 1860]
- Location
- American Antiquarian Society|a American Antiquarian Society AAS Graphic Arts Lithf ChilJ Thre
- Title
- Church of Our Saviour, Reed and Eigth [i.e., Eighth] Sts. Philadelphia
- Description
- Exterior view of the Gothic revival Protestant Episcopal church built in 1856 in South Philadelphia. Building is adorned with a bell tower and a one-story building stands behind it. Parish reorganized in 1870 into the Church of St. Timothy, Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 123, American Antiquarian Society: Graphic Arts Lithf Chur OS
- Date
- [ca. 1860]
- Location
- American Antiquarian Society AAS Graphic Arts Lithf Chur OS
- Title
- C.H. Garden & Co. 606 & 608 Market St. Philada. Fall 1875 Memorial Building, Centennial International Exhibition. Philadelphia 1776-1876
- Description
- Circular advertisement for the hat manufacturer established in 1841. Contains captioned images of 66 types of men's and children's hats for the "Fall" season of 1875. Captions detail style, finish, and colors. In tribute to the upcoming Centennial Exhibition, vignette at top depicts the proposed design for Memorial Hall, i.e., the Arts Gallery at the Centennial. View includes pedestrian traffic. Internal text promotes the quality and styles of men's and boys' hats offered, including fine soft hats, fur and wool hats, winter caps, dress caps, and black silk conductor and imported Scotch caps. Text on verso advertises "Ladies & Gent's Buckskin & Kid Gloves"; "Ladies' and Misses' Furs" and the "Millinery Department. Ladies & Misses Trimmed Hats" in addition to the request that orders contain the correct number of the style listed on the circular., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, American Antiquarian Society: Graphic Arts Lithff Mora Memo
- Date
- August 1875
- Location
- American Antiquarian Society AAS Graphic Arts Lithff Mora Memo
- Title
- Peter S. Duval, lithographer Portraits, from life on stone Anatomical & architectural drawings Landscapes from nature, machinery, music-titles Maps, plans Circulars, chekks [sic], billheads, bills of lading, price-currents, fac-similes &c Transferring from copper. No. 7 Bank Alley opposite Merchants’ Exchange. Note--the drawings on stone will not be preserved, unless the time is specified, and the rent thereof be paid in advance
- Description
- Billhead for the lithographic printing establishment of Peter S. Duval who established his own firm in 1838. Illustrated by a small vignette of the Philadelphia Merchants’ Exchange at upper left., Not in Wainwright., Recto inscribed: Philada. Oct 9th 1839 Mr. Levi Morris & Co. To printing 300 imps [i.e., impressions] of a large Bul? $9.00/ paper for do. 2.00/ printing the lettering 3.00/ [total] $14.00. Recd payment in full. P.S. Duval., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 79, American Antiquarian Society: Graphic Arts Lithf Duva Prob Duva
- Creator
- Probst, John, b. ca. 1805, artist
- Date
- [ca. 1838]
- Location
- American Antiquarian Society AAS Graphic Arts Lithf Duva Prob Duva
- Title
- H.J. Toudy & Co. Practical lithographers and publishers, 623 Commerce Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Hoe & Co. Steam Lith. Press Bird's eye view of Centennial Exhhibition buildings & grounds printed on R. Hoe & Co. steam lithographic press, at their department, north aisle, machinery hall
- Description
- Series of trade cards containing depictions of Centennial buildings to advertise the Philadelphia lithographic establishment's Centennial views and the prominent printing press company. Buildings depicted include the Main Building, Agricultural Hall, Horticultural Hall, and Machinery Hall. Also contains promotional text on verso reading "All visitors should procure one as a memento of the Great International Exhibition" at Toudy & Co. or "Care R. Hoe & Co., Machinery Hall, Centennial Grounds.", Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 120 a-e. POSA 120a: Main Building. POSA 102b: Machinery Hall, International Exhibition. POSA 120c: Agricultural Hall, International Exhibition. POSA 120d: Main Building, International Exhibition. POSA 120e: Horticultural Hall, International Exhibition., American Antiquarian Society: Graphic Arts Ephemera Late Trade Print 0074; 0128; 0129; 0130; 0131
- Creator
- H.J. Toudy & Co.
- Date
- [1876]
- Location
- American Antiquarian Society AAS Graphic Arts Ephemera Late Trade Print 0074; 0128; 0129; 0130; 0131