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Title: Robe rt's old mill. Built 1685. [sic]
Description: View of the first gristmill in Philadelphia built in 1683 by Richard Townsend in Germantown at Church and Wingohocking streets. Named for its early 19th-century owner, Hugh Roberts, the mill was razed in 1873. Shows the wheelhouse, waterfall, and mill race of the mill., Not in Wainwright., Manuscript note on recto: Germantown., Manuscript note on verso: Roberts, Hugh, Mill (1683-1878). On Wingohocking Creek, a half mile from Branchtown in old Bristol township near Mill St. (now Church Lane). Historic Germantown, p. 129. Church Lane, north side, east of Stenton Ave., pdcp00012, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Mills, Hart originally issued a series of prints of Germantown between 1863 and 1888, several of which were published as John Richards' Quaint old Germantown in Pennsylvania. A series of sixty former landmarks of Germantown and vicinity... Collated, arranged and annotated by Julius Friedrich Sachse (Philadelphia, 1913), Pl. LI. Caption in publication reads: Roberts Mill on the north side of Church Lane, east of Stenton Avenue, built 1683. Removed about 1873. The second mill in Philadelphia county built (the year when Germantown was laid out) by Richard Townsend.
Creator: Richards, John, d. 1889, artist
Date: [ca. 1863-ca. 1888]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Photograph Collection. FLP Philadelphiana - Mills

Title: Pine Street Church. Built A.D. 1764. Remodeled 1857
Description: Exterior view showing the remodeled Third Presbyterian Church also known as Old Pine Street Church, originally built 1766-1768 after the designs of Robert Smith, at 400-416 South 4th Street. Columns on pediments adorn the front of the building and an iron-wrought fence protects the church property. Church remodeled from a meeting house to a Greek-style temple in 1857 after the designs of John Fraser., pdcc00002, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 23:24, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 136 T 445c [proof copy]
Date: [ca. 1857]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Photograph Collection. FLP Castner 23:24

Title: Satterlee Polka for the piano. Composed and respectfully dedicated to Surgeon I.I. Hayes U.S.V. Comg. Satterlee U.S.A. Genl. Hospital W. Phila
Description: Sheet music cover containing a view looking down at the Satterlee U.S.A. General Hospital grounds from a hill in West Philadelphia. In the foreground, soldiers, women, and children, on foot and horseback, descend a path on the elevation en route to the Civil War Union hospital. Recuperating soldiers and visitors recline on a large rock on the hillside and in the adjoining valley. A foot bridge lined by trees leads from the valley to Satterlee. Several figures are visible walking, and arriving by foot and omnibus at the hospital grounds that are also lined by tents. In the left, a horse-drawn omnibus crosses a bridge, overshadowed by trees, spanning Mill Creek., Manuscript note on recto: NW fr. Balto Ave. N of 43rd St., Price printed on recto: 4., pdcc00023, Philadelphia on Stone, Library Company copy acquired after POS 2010: P.2011.63.5., Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 9:71, Hayes served as the ship's surgeon during Elisha Kent Kane's Artic explorations (1853-1855) and organized his own Arctic exploration in 1860 before serving at Satterlee General Hospital.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Photograph Collection. FLP Castner 9:71

Title: Tabernacle Baptist Church, Chestnut Street, Philadelphia
Description: View showing the church built 1853 after the designs of William Boyington on the 1800 block of Chestnut Street. Church contains a tower and spire. A few pedestrians walk on the sidewalk in front of the building that is surrounded by a wrought iron fence. Trees adorn the church grounds. The church, razed in 1900, was the only Baptist church situated west of Broad Street when completed., pdcc00011, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 23:62
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Photograph Collection. FLP Castner 23:62

Title: Calvary Church, Manheim St. Germantown
Description: View predominately showing the side elevation of the rustic Episcopal church consecrated in 1859 at Pulaski Avenue and Manheim Street. The architecture includes cross-crowned porches, buttresses, and a bell tower adorned by a cross. Trees cover the surrounding grounds. A woman holding a parasol, and a man with a child approach the church entrance. A flock of birds is visible in the sky. Building razed to foundation in 1891., pdcc00029, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 28:37, Sidney & Adams operated as a partnership 1859-1860.
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Photograph Collection. FLP Castner 28:37

Title: The Roxborough School House. Founded by William Levering, 1748, rebuilt 1795
Description: Exterior view of the small two-and-one-half story school house, renamed the "Levering Primary School" in 1847. Shows the side and front of the building also used as a public hall. A gated pathway and fence are visible next to the school house. A large tree stands in the front yard. The school was rebuilt again in 1857. William Levering (1705-1774) was a proprietor with large land holdings who not only built the first school in Roxborough, but the first smith shop and inn., Not in Wainwright., Published in Horatio Gate Jones's The Levering Family; or, a genealogical account of Wigard Levering and Gerhard Levering,....(Philadelphia: King & Baird, 1858), opp. p.26., pdcc00027, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 27A:32
Date: [1858]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Photograph Collection. FLP Castner 27A:32

Title: Girard House
Description: Vignette view of the Girard House hotel built 1851-1852 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr., at 823-835 Chestnut Street. Pedestrians walk at the street corner near the hotel while a horse-drawn carriage and omnibus travel near a coach parked in front of the building., Not in Wainwright., Date from manuscript note on recto: Philada. 1872., pdcp00006, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana – Streets – Chestnut - 8th-9th
Date: 1872
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - Streets - Chestnut - 8th-9th

Title: Blake’s collection of popular marches composed and arranged for the piano forte
Description: Sheet music cover containing a scene showing the volunteer militia company of Light Artillery Corps Washington Gray's marching down the 400 block of Chestnut Street. The four lines of men follow their officer who follows the military band. The men pass the Philadelphia Bank building (400-408, built 1836), the United States Bank (420, built 1819-1824 as Second Bank of the U.S.), and neighboring buildings, including the business with partially visible signage for Henry Por.... Also shows a street lamp, a man walking on the sidewalk in front of the United States Banks, and two figures on the top of the stairs to that financial institution. The Washington Grays established an armory at 8th and Chestnut 1837-1838., Inside cover title: The Washington Gray's new grand march & quick step : arranged for the piano forte by Charles Jarvis, Includes sheet music., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 59, Free Library of Philadelphia: Sheet Music 11707
Date: c1839
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Music Collection. FLP Sheet Music 11707

Title: View of Sharon Boarding School
Description: View showing the female boarding school, Sharon Female Seminary, established in 1837 by Hicksite Quakers John and Rachel Jackson at their residence in Darby, later Sharon Hill, Pa. A few girls walk on the tree-lined grounds of the school. The institution provided a curriculum that combined teacher training with a liberal arts education of natural philosophy, chemistry, astronomy, and other sciences. The school closed in the early 1850s and the property was purchased by Sister Cornelia Connelly in 1867 for Holy Child Academy., Not in Wainwright., pdcc00016, Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 263, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 17:61
Creator: Thomas, E.W, artist
Date: [ca. 1840]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Photograph Collection. FLP Castner 17:61

Title: Fairmount
Description: View looking toward Reservoir Hill showing the engine house, mill house, and mound dam of the water works originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff. A row boat and sail boat are visible on the Schuylkill River in the foreground., Not in Wainwright., pdcj00003, Date from manuscript note on recto., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 227, Free Library of Philadelphia: FLP Jackson Collection of Early Lithographs - J 51, Kollner advertised four volumes of small folio pictures, including "Bits of Nature and Some Art Products, in Fairmount Park ..." in 1878. Several of the lithographs from this volume were based on sketches he executed in the 1840s.
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813, artist
Date: [1848]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Jackson Collection of Early Lithographs - J 51

Title: Fairmount Park
Description: Sheet music cover containing a view looking from Reservoir Hill toward Lemon Hill showing part of the Fairmount Water Works. Includes part of the mill race and the promenade on the old mill house, and visitors on the roof of the new mill house (completed 1862). Also shows a boat docked at the nearby boat landing and boat houses along the east bank of the Schuylkill River. The waterworks, originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff, were altered and expanded after the designs of Philadelphia engineers Henry P.M. Birkinbine and Frederick Graff, Jr., Not in Wainwright., pdcc00018, Philadelphia on Stone, POS 235, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 21:1 and 30:86
Date: c1871
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Photograph Collection. FLP Castner 21:1 and 30:86

Title: No. 1 The Empire Hook & Ladder polka
Description: Sheet music cover showing two fire fighters with the company hook and ladder truck in front of the Empire Fire House at Franklin Street above Wood Street in Kensington. The volunteers, attired in uniforms, stand near the rear of the vehicle on which at the harness end of the truck two trumpets hang. The volunteer fire company was instituted February 6, 1851., Copyrighted by A. Fiot., Not in Wainwright., pdcp00021, Manuscript note on recto: Philada Franklin above Wood, Price printed on recto: 37 1/2 Cts net., Dedication: Dedicated with esteem to Wm F. Smith esq. President. By his friend Ozeas H. Ramborger., Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Fire Companies
Date: c1852
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Photograph Collection. FLP Philadelphiana - Fire Companies

Title: Classical Seminary. Franklin Square. S.E. corner Race & Seventh streets, Philadelphia
Description: View looking past Franklin Square showing the boy's school, later the Classical Institute, founded in 1837 by John W. Faires at 47 N. 8th Street. An iron-wrought fence separates the square from the row of buildings, including the school, in the background. In the foreground, children play and families stroll within the square. Two boys play with hoops and a couple admires the fountain., pdcc00003, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 17:20
Date: [ca. 1838]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Photograph Collection. FLP Castner 17:20

Title: Menn onite Church & Keyser's House Built 1770
Description: View showing the stone Mennonite meetinghouse built 1770 at 6121 Germantown Avenue in the right of the image. Also shows the church burial ground and adjacent residence and shop of shoemaker Samuel Keyser (6133 Germantown Avenue). A water pump is visible near the residence. Keyser residence razed circa 1873., Date lower right corner of stone., Not in Wainwright., pdcc00031, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 38:13, Hart originally issued a series of prints of Germantown between 1863 and 1888 several of which were published as John Richards' Quaint old Germantown in Pennsylvania. A series of sixty former landmarks of Germantown and vicinity... Collated, arranged and annotated by Julius Friedrich Sachse (Philadelphia, 1913), Pl. XVI. Caption in publication reads: The Mennonite church and Samuel Keyser's, built A.D. 1770 (No. 6121-31), and the Samuel Keyser House with its old pump site (Site of no. 6133-35). Demolished about 1871.
Creator: Richards, John, d. 1889, artist
Date: 1870
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Photograph Collection. FLP Castner 38:13

Title: The United States Polka
Description: Sheet music cover containing two views related to the United States Fire Company, the volunteer fire company instituted in 1811. Upper view shows the company fire station at Wood Street above Fourth. Two men stand in front of the firehouse and neighboring buildings are visible. Lower view shows volunteer firefighters, most in uniform, including an African American man, standing around their Philadelphia-style hand-pumper engine. The men wear capelets and hats. Two hold horns and another two rest their hands on the harness of the engine. Also contains a border containing ivy, ribbon, and fire fighting iconography including ladders, hydrants, hoses, and bells., Not in Wainwright., pdcp00020, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Fire Companies
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Photograph Collection. FLP Philadelphiana - Fire Companies

Title: Fairmount Fire Engine Co. No. 32, of Philadelphia [membership certificate]
Description: Honorary membership certificate containing firefighting vignettes, scenes, and pictorial elements. Shows the company horse-drawn steam engine, manned by two volunteers, racing down a street; several firefighters drawing the hose carriage while a man runs in the street beside them; and an exterior view of the station house at Ridge Avenue above Wood Street in Spring Garden. The company engine is parked in front. Also contains, at the top of the certificate, a bust portrait of the “Chief Engineer D.M.L” attired in his fire fighter’s hat and coat. Pictorial elements depict bundles of fire fighting equipment, including hats, horns, ladders, and a rope designed as side borders; eagles holding the American flag in their beaks, and swans gliding on water. Fairmount Company, organized in 1823 and incorporated in 1850, was established after the dissolution of the Whale Fire Company. Butchers comprised much of the early membership., pdcp00030, Not in Wainwright., Manuscript note on recto: Presented by Joseph W. Montgomery 529 York Ave., Issued to William McCormick on March 29, 1852. Signed Joseph S. Baker, President and Henry F. Dibbs, Secretary., Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Fire Companies
Creator: Kurtz, Henry, ca. 1822, artist
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Photograph Collection. FLP Philadelphiana - Fire Companies

Title: Chestnut Strasse, Sudwetseite der 4th.= Chestnut Street, west of Fourth
Description: Street scene showing the south side of Chestnut Street between 4th and 5th Streets depicting two bank buildings designed by Philadelphia architect William Strickland: the Philadelphia Bank building (built 1836) and the custom house (formerly the Second Bank of the U.S., built 1818-24). Philadelphia Bank building (400-408 Chestnut, after renumbering) houses and includes signage for the Western Bank and Girard Life & Trust Company, as well as H.S. & C. Ogden, tailors; Kelly & Bright, stationers; Edward Borheck, optician; Martin Leans, engraver; Wilcox & Delleker, custom house brokers; and Wm. H. Patton, dealer in decorative wall papers. Street scene includes a vendor, two coaches, a man on horseback, and pedestrians., Title and imprint variant of one in the series "Panorama of Philadelphia" published 1856 by Schnabel, Finkelday & Demme., Not in Wainwright., pdcp00019, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana – Streets – Chestnut - 4th-5th, Schnable & Finkelday operated as a partnership 1858-1860 following the departure of partner Willliam Demme in 1857.
Creator: Collins & Autenrieth, artist
Date: [ca. 1858]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - Streets - Chestnut - 4th-5th

Title: U. S. Bank
Description: Possible proof copy of view looking east showing the Second Bank of the United States, built 1821-1824 after the designs of William Strickland at 420 Chestnut Street. Also shows the neighboring Bank of Philadelphia, completed in 1837, also after the designs of Strickland, at 400-408 Chestnut. Pedestrians traverse the sidewalks in front of the banks and across from the buildings. Couples promenade and greet each other, and patrons ascend the stairs of the U.S. Bank and convene in front of the Philadelphia Bank. Also shows two dogs playing in the street and a man exiting the adjacent building (134, i.e., 426 Chestnut) partially visible in the right of the image. Building served as the Custom House 1844-1935., Originally published as plate 2 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., pdcp00018, Philadelphia on Stone, POS 762, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana – Streets – Chestnut - 4th-5th. FLP copy contains albumen print showing the Custom House pasted on recto., See Martin Snyder’s "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53., Title variant of Wainwright 415.4.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1840
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - Streets - Chestnut - 4th-5th

Title: View of Chestnut Street Philadelphia
Description: Reproduction of lithographic view looking east on Chestnut Street from below Fifth Street showing the United States Hotel built in the early 1800s at 419-423 Chestnut. Includes the nearby business of A.L. Vanhorn, "Suspender Stock Russian Belt manufacturer" (403 Chestnut) and the adjacent "Bank" building (425 Chestnut). Also shows heavy street and pedestrian traffic, including two carriages parked in front of the hotel, men on horseback traveling in the street, and a couple strolling near men conversing in front of the steps to the Custom House (420 Chestnut Street), partially visible to the right of the image. Hotel purchased by the Philadelphia Bank in 1856., pdcp00009, Philadelphia on Stone, POS 787, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Streets - Chestnut Street 4th-7th, Original in the collections of the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, Pa.
Creator: Bowen, John T., ca. 1801-1856?
Date: c1840
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - Streets - Chestnut Street - 4th-5th

Title: [Fairmount Waterworks. Pictorial Embellishment of the Philada. Saturday Courier a family paper of the largest size published at two dollars a year in advance including two engravings of this kind yearly.]
Description: View from the west bank of the Schuylkill River looking south showing the Fairmount Water Works, Lancaster-Schuylkill Bridge, and buildings on the west bank of the river near the canal lock. In the foreground, a man stands on the bucolic river bank watching two sculling teams race near a rowboat in the river. In the left background, the engine house, mill house, and Fairmount, i.e., Reservoir Hill of the water works are visible. A dock floats above the works and the covered Lancaster-Schuylkill Bridge spans the river in the distance. Also shows the toll house or superintendant's house of the Schuylkill Navigation Company in the right of the image. The Fairmount Water Works were originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff. The bridge, also known as the Upper Ferry Bridge, was erected 1809-1812, with Robert Mills serving as architect, and Lewis Wernwag as engineer. It burned in 1838., Copyright secured by J. T. Bowen 1838., FLP Castner 21:6, Philadelphia on Stone, POS 241.2, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 21:6. FLP copy contains vignette sketch of the reservoir on Fairmount, i.e., Reservoir Hill depicted below the image. Includes text: Fairmount is one of the most beautiful spots in the world. There are six basins (a birds eye view of which is shown in the vignette) elevated upon a high hill above the tops of the houses of the city. The water is thrown into them by means of force pumps which are driven by a head of water from the river Schuylkill affording a never failing supply to the inhabitants of the city, the Northern Liberties & Southwark. The works cost upwards a million dollars., Trimmed LCP copy of POS 241.1 (duplicate image, variant imprint) shown in digital file.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: [c1838]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia | Print and Photograph Collection. FLP Castner 21:6

Title: [Bird’s eye view looking west on Chestnut from above Sixth Street, Philadelphia]
Description: View predominately shows the businesses (with pre-consolidation addresses) on the 600 block of Chestnut Street. Includes a three-quarter view of William S. Mariten, publisher & bookseller (144, i.e., 608) in addition to full views of the American Sunday School Union tenanted by Howell, Finn & Co. Paper Hangings (146, i.e., 610); the Jones Hotel (148-152, i.e., 616-620); and the William Waln residence, partially obscured by trees, at the corner of 7th and Chestnut streets. A man stands in the doorway of the wallpaper store as nearby a man reads the posted, encased bulletins of the American Sunday School Union. A woman enters the ASSU building that also bears a “Penna. Bible Society” sign. Pedestrians walk on the sidewalk and a man greets a woman in front of one of the entrances of the hotel at which carriages and a wagon are parked. On the block and at the distant intersection a man rides horseback and a horse-drawn carriage, wagon, and omnibus travel. Also shows blocks of buildings above Seventh Street as part of the vista. William S. Martien printed as an individual in Philadelphia between 1835 and 1854. American Sunday School Union tenanted 146 Chestnut Street 1827-1853. Jones Hotel was originally built circa 1800 by Jacob Vogdes as the residence of Benjamin Say., Not in Wainwright., Title supplied by cataloguer., Manuscript note on recto: SS Chestnut 6-7 . 144. 146., pdcp00008, Philadelphia on Stone, POS 46, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana – Streets – Chestnut - 6th-7th
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - Streets - Chestnut - 6th-7th

Title: Chestnut Street, east of Third
Description: Reproduction of lithographic view showing the 200 block of Chestnut Street with pre-consolidation addressed buildings. Businesses include Lewis Brothers & Co., importers of silk goods, Senat, Perot & Co., importers, Cottringer, Boyd & Gibbons, importers, and Lawrence Stone & Co. (80-82, i.e., 238-240); the Jayne Building (built 1849-1850) tenanted by Wesendock & Co. importers of silks & cloths, Dr. D. Jayne & Son, patent medicine, and Ellwood Shannon, tea dealer (84-86, i.e., 242-244); Oberteuffer & Freytag, importers, and Samuel Robinson, importers of Irish linens (88, i.e., 246); N. Thouron & Sons, importers of French goods, and Harden’s [sic] Express, probably A. Howard & Co. express (92, i.e., 248); and the U.S. Life Insurance Annuity & Trust Saving Fund building tenanted by Draper, Welsh & Co. Bank Note Engraving (94, i.e., 250). Includes heavy street and pedestrian traffic. Horse-drawn carriages, wagons, an omnibus, and drays travel in the street in addition to a dray situated to be loaded in front of the Jayne Building. Clusters of pedestrians walk near the Jayne and the Saving Fund buildings. In the foreground, on the opposite side of the street, families stroll, converse, and are greeted by other individuals near men, including laborers, talking near a pile of crates and a loaded dray. Also shows lettering reading "Howard" above the doorway of 92 Chestnut Street and a partial view of adjacent buildings., Not in Wainwright., pdcp00010, Philadelphia on Stone, POS 113, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Streets - Chestnut Street 2nd-3rd
Creator: Collins & Autenrieth, artist
Date: c1857
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - Streets - Chestnut Street - 2nd-3rd

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