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Title: Zoological gardens, Philadelphia
Description: Aerial view showing the grounds of the Philadelphia Zoo. Includes the Schuylkill River on its eastern boundary and surrounding railroad tracks., Negative number:1619.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: ca. 1922
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.1619]

Title: Residence of John Penn, Colonial Governor, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view of house built 1784-1785 for John Penn, grandson of William Penn. It became part of Fairmount Park in 1867. Currently part of the Philadelphia Zoological Gardens., Numbered 24 on recto., Also known as Solitude., Sheet number: 81A01., Divided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Brightbill, George M., collector
Date: c1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Fairmount Park - Mansions and Houses - Miscellaneous - 81]

Title: In the goat-carriage at the "zoo" Philadelphia
Description: View showing two young girls seated in a carriage pulled by two goats at the Philadelphia Zoo. A smiling man stands next to them. Another man standing on an elevated pavilion or gazebo is visible in the background., Title printed on mount., Publisher's imprint stamped on mount., Distributor's imprint and logo stamped on mount., Gray curved mount with rounded corners., C.H. Graves published under the imprint "Universal Photo Art Co." between 1896 and 1904., See Darrah, The World of Stereographs, p. 52., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Robert M. Vogel.
Date: c1903
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Graves - Zoo [P.9047.150]

Title: Philadelphia Zoo photograph album
Description: Album of photographs predominantly showing the grounds of the Philadelphia Zoo in Fairmount Park, in West Philadelphia. Contains views of the Victorian-style gatehouse after the designs of Frank Furness; "The Dying Lioness" statue after the design of Wilhelm Wolff casted in 1875 at the entrance courtyard; lions, tigers, a jaguar and a zebra walking, standing, and grazing in their caged areas; an elephant, camel, lama, mountain goat, and caribou in fenced yards; buffalo grazing on a pasture; and Solitude, the country retreat of John Penn built in 1785 on the grounds of the zoo (miscaptioned as "Wm Penn's House, Fairmount Park"). Images include zoo keepers, visitors, gates, fencing, "Admission Today" signage, and partial views of other buildings on the zoo grounds. Also contains portrait photographs of a man and woman, probably Josie and Emil, and sculler "Andrew C. Craig, Undine Boat Club" on the Schuylkill River. Craig view also includes cityscape and trees along the riverbank in the background. The Philadelphia Zoo, the first in the nation, opened in 1874., Calligraphed on cover: Photographs., Contains pasted label on front page: Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to Uncle Joe from Josie & Emil., Contains pasted label on back cover: Ward's Souvenir Album. Made in Light Gray and Dark Gray Leaves. This book is no. 141., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Housed in phase box.
Date: 1902
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums [8193.F]

Title: Biddle, Mary Hosack Rogers, 1847-
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: July 6, 1882

Title: [Photographic Society of Philadelphia's Chesapeake & Ohio Canal excursion, May 21-29, 1882 album]
Description: Album belonging to Philadelphia amateur photographer John C. Browne. Primarily documents the Photographic Society of Philadelphia's Chesapeake & Ohio Canal excursion (May 21-29, 1882), including views of the Falls of the Potomac, Point of Rocks, Md., Harpers Ferry, Va., and Bedford, Pa. Society members attending the excursion included Charles Barrington, Joseph William Bates, Charles Pancoast, Frederick Graff, Samuel Corlies, George Bacon Wood, Samuel Sartain, W.H. Walmsley, Francis T. Fassitt, lens maker Joseph Zentmayer, Thomas H. McCollin, and Browne. Views depict scenes during the excursion along the canal, including canal barges; bridges, aquaducts; Paw Paw Tunnel; John Brown's Fort; a white Bedford woman attending an outside bake oven; men and boys, including a barefooted African American boy, sitting upon a porch of an old Maryland mill; the Photo Party at Patterson's Creek, Md.; a horse team pulling an oak log near Harper's Ferry; an old Bedford mill; and a barn covered with circus posters. Additional views depict the Brooklyn Bridge; sailing vessels on the New York Harbor, including the steamboat Maryland; and animals at the Philadelphia Zoo. Other animal portraiture includes horses posed with African American handlers (p. 26-27), a cow and calf at Forrest Hill, PA, a white girl on a pony ride at Central Park, and family dogs. Also includes a portrait of Lizzie Gilpin at Forrest Hill., Title supplied by cataloger., Front free end paper signed John C. Browne., Blue cloth binding, with gilt and stamped: Album., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., See John C. Browne's "The Photographic Society of Philadelphia Annual Excursion, May 21-29, 1882," Philadelphia photographer 19 (July 1882), p. 213-215., See George Bacon Wood research file, copy of "Excursion of the Photographic Society of Philadelphia over the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, May 22 to 29th 1882. Read at meeting June 7th, 1882 by Geo. B. Wood.", Insert: handkerchief printed with photograph vignettes [P.9318a] removed and housed with Textiles Collection, Print Department., Gift of Col Getter, 1989., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Browne was a founder of the Photographic Society of Philadelphia.
Creator: Browne, John C. (John Coates), 1838-1918, photographer
Date: [1882-1886]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums [P.9318]

Title: Photograph album
Description: Photograph album belonging to Philadelphia amateur photographer John C. Browne. Contains landscape and architectural views of the Delaware Valley and Central Pennsylvania, informal portraits of family and friends, and canal boat excursions of the Photographic Society of Philadelphia, including over the Pennsylvania Canal to Harrisburg (1879) and Morris Canal (1880). Images depict "Bartram's house, Gray's Ferry"; Cobbs Creek, including the Old Powder House; Wissahickon; Jay Cooke's Ogontz estate; Mill Creek (Lower Merion Township); the Philadelphia Zoo monkey house; Chelten Hills; Laurel Hill; Delaware Water Gap, including G. W. Childs arbor, Kittany House, Promontory, Lovers Leap, Young's Peak, and Mt. Minsi; falls, creeks, and Dingman's Ferry in Pike County, Pa.; sites along the Juniata Division of Pennsylvania Canal, including mill races, iron furnaces, Pennsylvania Rail Road bridges, and canal locks at or near Bridgeport, Dauphin, and Rockville; and sites along the Morris Canal, including canal boat planes and hoisting tower, Hopatcong Lake, Little Falls, and Passaic Falls., Other images show the English Cottage on the Centennial grounds (1877); strung hunted game and fish; landscape views of Sea Bright and Belvidere, N.J. and the Delaware near Torresdale; a posed "sweethearts" scene "On the Pennypack" (1878); and a group portrait of the Photographic Society (Samuel F. Corlies, Charles Pancoast, Charles Barrington, Samuel Sartain, Joseph William Bates, W. S. Vaux, Dr. Carl Seiler, Thomas H. McCollin, Thomas B. Craig) with cameras and fishing equipment during the Morris Canal excursion. Other portrait views include Mr. and Mrs. S. Fisher Corlies, Mamie Lloyd, Sallie Bacon, Jesse S. Graves, Alice E. Browne, Susie Hacker, Samuel Fox, and Charles Palmer. Some photographs show a photographer using his camera and several of the canal excursion views include the canal boats "Zuleika" (Pennsylvania Canal) and "Katie Kellogg" and her mule team "Tom & Baby" (Morris Canal)., Front free end paper signed John C. Browne., Photographs identified by inscriptions below images. Majority are date and some annotated "Washed Emulsion.", Red cloth binding, with gilt, and stamped on cover: Album., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., An article by Browne, "The Waterfalls of Pike County, Pa.," describing a trip to photograph natural scenery in Pike County appears in Philadelphia Photographer, Vol. XIII, no. 151 (July 1876), pages 208-211., LCP AR [Annual Reports] 1989 p. 33-34., Browne was a founder of the Photographic Society of Philadelphia.
Creator: Browne, John C. (John Coates), 1838-1918, photographer
Date: 1877-1880
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums [P.9317]

Title: Bear pits
Description: View showing the bear pits constructed in 1874 after designs by Theophilus Parsons Chandler, Jr., Title from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's imprint in red text on mount., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: [ca. 1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Zoo [P.9119.9]

Title: Dining room, Zoological Garden
Description: Interior view of a dining room without guests showing three columns of tables and chairs prepared and set for patrons. Restaurant built 1875-1876 after designs by Furness & Hewitt., Title from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's imprint in red text on mount., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: [ca. 1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Zoo [P.9119.10]

Title: [White deer exhibition, Zoological Gardens, Philadelphia]
Description: View showing three white deer standing outside of the their rustic habitat in a gated yard., Title supplied by cataloger., Photographer's imprint on mount., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: c1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Zoo [P.9119.6]

Title: The Monkey House
Description: View showing male and female spectators, one holding an open parasol, standing and sitting in front of the monkey house at the Philadelphia Zoo., Title from printed on label pasted on verso., Photographer's imprint on mount., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: [ca. 1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Zoo [P.9119.7]

Title: Eagle house
Description: View showing the eagle exhibition at the Philadelphia zoo., Title from printed label on verso., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Publisher's and photographer's imprints, series title and copyright statement printed in red on mount., A brief advertisement for the zoo printed on verso., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Schreiber & Sons, photographer
Date: c1875
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schreiber & Sons - zoo [P.9119.18]

Title: The bear pits, looking south
Description: View showing the grounds of the Philadelphia zoo including the bear pits., Title from printed label on verso., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Publisher's and photographer's imprints, series title and copyright statement printed in red on mount., A brief advertisement for the zoo printed on verso., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Schreiber & Sons, photographer
Date: c1875
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schreiber & Sons - zoo [P.9119.3]

Title: "Solitude," (Penn Villa.)
Description: Exterior view of Solitude, home built 1784-5 for John Penn, grandson of William Penn. Located on the grounds of the Philadelphia zoo, W. Girard Ave. and North 34th Street., Title from printed label on verso., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Publisher's and photographer's imprints, series title and copyright statement printed in red on mount., A brief advertisement for the zoo printed on verso., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Schreiber & Sons, photographer
Date: c1875
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schreiber & Sons - zoo [P.9119.19]

Title: The aviary
Description: Exterior view of the bird house at the Philadelphia zoo., Title from printed label on verso., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Publisher's and photographer's imprints, series title and copyright statement printed in red on mount., A brief advertisement for the zoo printed on verso., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Schreiber & Sons, photographer
Date: c1875
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schreiber & Sons - zoo [P.9119.5]

Title: Vicuna, (Lama, Vicugna.)
Description: Depicts two llamas in their holding area at the Philadelphia zoo., Title from printed label on verso., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Publisher's and photographer's imprints, series title and copyright statement printed in red on mount., A brief advertisement for the zoo printed on verso., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Schreiber & Sons, photographer
Date: c1875
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schreiber & Sons - zoo [P.9119.2]

Title: Vicuna, (Lama, Vicugna.)
Description: Depicts two llamas in their holding area at the Philadelphia zoo., Title from printed label on duplicate P.9119.2., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Publisher's and photographer's imprints, series title and copyright statement printed in red on mount., A brief advertisement for the zoo printed on verso., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Schreiber & Sons, photographer
Date: c1875
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schreiber & Sons - zoo [P.8483.3]

Title: Giraffe, (camelopardalis giraffa)
Description: Depicts a giraffe in its holding area at the Philadelphia zoo., Title from printed label on verso., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Publisher's and photographer's imprints, series title and copyright statement printed in red on mount., A brief advertisement for the zoo printed on verso., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Schreiber & Sons, photographer
Date: c1875
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schreiber & Sons - Zoo [P.9119.17]

Title: [Grey wolf, (canus occidentalis)]
Description: Depicts a wolf in its holding area at the Philadelphia zoo., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Publisher's and photographer's imprints, series title and copyright statement printed in red on mount., A brief advertisement for the zoo printed on verso., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Schreiber & Sons, photographer
Date: c1875
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schreiber & Sons - zoo [P.8483.2]

Title: Bruchall's zebra
Description: Depicts a zebra in its holding area at the Philadelphia zoo., Title from manuscript note on verso., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Publisher's and photographer's imprints, series title and copyright statement printed in red on mount., A brief advertisement for the zoo printed on verso., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Schreiber & Sons, photographer
Date: c1875
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schreiber & Sons - zoo [P.9119.14]

Title: "Solitude," from the bear pits
Description: View of the grounds of the Philadelphia zoo including "Solitude" home of John Penn, built 1784-5., Title from manuscript note on verso., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Stamped on verso: surplus duplicate from the Library of Congress, Division of Prints., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Schreiber & Sons, photographer
Date: ca. 1875
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schreiber & Sons - zoo [P.9169.6]

Title: The monkey house from the south
Description: Depicts the grounds of the Philadelphia zoo including an exterior view of the monkey house., Title from manuscript note on verso., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Stamped on verso: surplus duplicate from the LIbrary of Congress, Division of Prints., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Schreiber & Sons, photographer
Date: ca. 1875
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schreiber & Sons - zoo [P.9169.5]

Title: American elk, (cervus canadensis.)
Description: Depicts an elk in his holding area at the Philadelphia zoo., Title from manuscript note on verso., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Stamped on verso: surplus duplicate from the LIbrary of Congress, Division of Prints., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Schreiber & Sons, photographer
Date: ca. 1875
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schreiber & Sons - zoo [P.9169.4]

Title: American elk, (cervus canadensis.)
Description: Depicts an elk in his holding area at the Philadelphia zoo., Title from manuscript note on verso., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Stamped on verso: surplus duplicate from the Library of Congress, Division of Prints., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Schreiber & Sons, photographer
Date: ca. 1875
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schreiber & Sons - zoo [P.9169.3]

Title: Giraffe, (camelopardalis giraffa.)
Description: Depicts a giraffe in its holding area at the Philadelphia zoo., Title from manuscript note on verso., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Stamped on verso: surplus duplicate from the LIbrary of Congress, Division of Prints., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Schreiber & Sons, photographer
Date: ca. 1875
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schreiber & Sons - zoo [P.9169.2]

Title: Giraffe, (camelopardalis giraffa.)
Description: Depicts a giraffe in its holding area at the Philadelphia zoo. The giraffe wears a halter held by a man who stands behind it., Title from manuscript note on verso., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Stamped on verso: surplus duplicate from the Library of Congress, Division of Prints., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Schreiber & Sons, photographer
Date: ca. 1875
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schreiber & Sons - zoo [P.9169.1]

Title: Solitude in Pennsylva. belonging to Mr. Penn
Description: View showing the estate and mansion originally owned by John Penn, grandson of William Penn. The mansion, built around 1785, remained in the Penn family until 1869 when the estate was acquired by the city for inclusion in the Zoological Gardens in Fairmount Park., Gift of S. Marguerite Brenner.
Creator: Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834
Date: [1809]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch Country Seats - pl 9a [P.9057.55.9a]

Title: Philadelphia Zoo Photograph Album
Description: Album of photographs predominantly showing the grounds of the Philadelphia Zoo in Fairmount Park, in West Philadelphia. Contains views of the Victorian-style gatehouse after the designs of Frank Furness; "The Dying Lioness" statue after the design of Wilhelm Wolff casted in 1875 at the entrance courtyard; lions, tigers, a jaguar and a zebra walking, standing, and grazing in their caged areas; an elephant, camel, lama, mountain goat, and caribou in fenced yards; buffalo grazing on a pasture; and Solitude, the country retreat of John Penn built in 1785 on the grounds of the zoo (miscaptioned as "Wm Penn's House, Fairmount Park"). Images include zoo keepers, visitors, gates, fencing, "Admission Today" signage, and partial views of other buildings on the zoo grounds. Also contains portrait photographs of a man and woman, probably Josie and Emil, and sculler "Andrew C. Craig, Undine Boat Club" on the Schuylkill River. Craig view also includes cityscape and trees along the riverbank in the background. The Philadelphia Zoo, the first in the nation, opened in 1874.

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