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Title: [Germon's Temple of Art, 914 Arch Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Exterior view of photographic studio of Washington Lafayette Germon including window displays containing large photographic portraits. Germon was located at this address from 1865 to 1872., Yellow mount with square corners., A brief description of Germon's studio appears in his obituary in Philadelphia Photographer, January 1878, pg. 22., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Germon, W. L. (Washington Lafayette), 1822-1877, photographer
Date: [1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Germon - business [P.9079.2]

Title: The studio, -- salesroom
Description: Advertising postcard showing an interior view of the salesroom of William Rau's photographic studio at 238-244 South Camac Street. Salesroom features framed photographs showing a variety of Rau's work including two views from his Pennsylvania Railroad commission "On the Conemaugh" and "Washington's Crossing, above Trenton" ; a large cabinet probably containing stereoviews; two card files; and other office furniture. Two albums, one containing photographs of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, are displayed on the cabinet top. Verso contains advertising text describing types of work undertaken by the studio including residential, institutional and commercial views; portraits; printing, copying and enlargements; and color photography "direct from Nature." Also promotes the sale of lantern slide views., Photographer's imprint inscribed in negative., Negative number: 28718., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920, photographer
Date: 1910
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Businesses - Rau [P.9981.6]

Title: [Hennigar's Photo Studio and Ye Old Dummy Depot, 4700 Frankford Avenue.]
Description: Exterior view of Hennigar's Photo Studio, the former site of Pickard's Photo Studio on Frankford Avenue. Includes Ye Old Dummy Depot, which served as the Frankford terminal for steam dummies that replaced horse cars on the Frankford & Southwark Railway in 1860., Real photo. Divided back. AZO stamp box with upward pointing triangles in corner., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: ca. 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Business - [P.9933.13]

Title: The Gilbert Photo Co., Inc., 926 Chestnut St Gilbert's studio, 926 Chestnut Steet. Student discount card. Mr. [Herbert S. Kille] is entitled to a special discount of 33 1/3 per cent (from our regular prices) on all photographic work ordered at the time of presentation of this ticket at the studio. Retain this card during college term
Description: Illustrated trade card with the imprint for Gilbert's Studio in the upper left hand corner depicting a portrait within a shield surmounted by a rising sun and ribbons., Issued to Herbert S. Kille., Printed in blue ink., Manuscript note on recto: Walter Roberts., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized., Gift of Manuel Kean.
Date: [ca. 1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Gilbert [P.8734]

Title: [Wenderoth, Taylor & Brown Fine Art Gallery]
Description: Depicts the elegantly decorated interior of the photographic studio operated at 914 Chestnut Street from circa 1865 to circa 1871. The large waiting room is adorned with sofas, chairs, framed photos, framed artwork, and a skylight. Also includes stairwells decorated with signage; a piano advertisement; and a counter adorned with the photographic studio's pricesheet (effective January 1865). William H. Dutton sold pianos at 914 Chestnut Street in 1869., Photographer and publication information from duplicate in private collection., Title supplied by cataloguer., Pale yellow mount with square corners., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Wenderoth, Taylor & Brown
Date: [ca. 1869]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Wenderoth, Taylor & Brown - Business [(8)1322.F.35c]

Title: [Eighth Street looking south from Arch Street]
Description: View showing North Eighth Street between Market and Arch streets. Businesses include a photographic studio, job printing office, drapery store, furniture company, and Espen & Brother's lace emporium (31 N. 8th). Storefronts are heavily adorned with signage as well as ornamental animal decorations, including, an ostrich, an elephant, and eagles. Horse-drawn carriages line the street and several pedestrians walk on the sidewalk under the buildings' awnings. Espen & Brother vacated 31 North Eighth Street circa 1864., Title supplied by cataloguer., Manuscript note on accompanying photographer's label: Eight St. looking South from Arch., Yellow mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., See Robert F. Looney's Old Philadelphia in Early Photographs, 1839-1914 (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1976), entry #81., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Newell, Robert, 1822-1897
Date: [ca. 1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Streets [(8)1322.F.17d]

Title: Col. M. Corcoran addressing the crowds in front of the Continental Hotel, Phila., August 21, 1862
Description: Rooftop views looking east from above Ninth Street showing a massive crowd in front of the Continental and Girard House hotels on the 800 block of Chestnut Street. Shows a large horse-drawn enclosed platform resting near the crowd and a caravan of horse-drawn carriages traveling up the street. People look out the windows and stand on the balconies of nearby businesses. Businesses include the Root Gallery photographic studio operated by J.J. Bushnell from 1862-1863 (901 Chestnut) and J.H. Richelderfer's "Boy's Clothing Bazaar" (903 Chestnut). Corcoran, colonel of the Sixty-Ninth New York Brigade, i.e., the Irish Brigade travelled through Philadelphia following his release as a prisoner of war from Libby Prison., Title and date from unmounted stereograph 5779.F.12e, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Variant in the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. [Penrose Collection, Box 18]., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [August 21, 1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - unidentified - Events [(6)1322.F.27a; P.2282.12], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - 5x7 - unidentified - Events [(7)1322.F.69e], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Events [5779.F.12e]

Title: Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, from Ninth to Tenth, [south] side
Description: View showing the south side of the 900 block of Chestnut Street. Shows the Burd Building at 900-904 Chestnut tenanted by Howell & Brothers, paperhangings, J.E. Caldwell & Co., jewelers, and J.F. and E.B. Orne, carpets. Also includes: E. Clinton & Co., brush manufacturer (908 Chestnut) and F. Augustus Wenderoth, William C. Taylor, and J. Henry Brown, photographers (912 & 914 Chestnut). Signage adorns many of the buildings promoting merchandise, including pianos, ladies dresses, and fancy goods. A man stands on the opposite corner near a dray and a lamppost with an advertisement for Fox's American Variety Theater (built 1863, burned 1867)., Stereograph mounted on green mount with square corners., Title and photographer's imprint printed on stereograph mount., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Newell, Robert, 1822-1897
Date: ca. 1866
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Streets [(6)1322.F.95c; (8)1322.F.27h]

Title: [Unnumbered plate and advertisements from Rae's Philadelphia pictorial directory & panoramic advertiser. Chestnut Street, from Second to Tenth Streets]
Description: Plate, with buildings unnumbered, showing a section of the 700 block (186-235 pre consolidation) of Chestnut Street. South side includes Utah House tenanted by hat dealers A. G. New & Co. and music publishers Lee & Walker (186); E. M. Moulson’s Millinery and Moulson Daguerreotypist Temple of Fancy (192); and merchant Andrew Wight (198). North side contains no identified businesses., Advertisements promote, through several lines of text, the depicted Moulson establishments, as well as H.G. Sickels’ Lamp Manufactory and Gas Fitting Establishment, No. 32 North Second Street, Philadelphia. Moulson’s Daguerreotype Establishment advertises the type of equipment (Voightlander cameras) used; the inconsequence of weather conditions; price – "Fifty Cents Only, is now Charged, for a Beautiful, Durable, and Life-like Portrait"; and John Moulson’s evidence of his "merit" to perfectly satisfy his customers through his extensive experience formerly at Chestnut and Eighth Street and his recent improved process. Moulson’s Millinery advertisement promotes Mrs. Moulson’s "ability to purchase of Importers, at wholesale and for cash" and “will not be undersold by any establishment in the city or country." Sickels’ advertisement contains a border of several different models of lamps and fixtures, including ceiling, standing, and decorative., Title supplied by cataloger., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Folder 13., LCP also holds trimmed variant depicting North side [P.2008.34.16.8]. Contains pencil inscription: 235. Also holds trimmed duplicate depicting South side [P.2008.34.16.10].
Creator: Rae, Julio H.
Date: [1851]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Rae - Folder 13 [*Am 1851 Rae, 2975.Q]

Title: Rae's Philadelphia pictorial directory & panoramic advertiser. Chestnut Street, from Second to Tenth Streets
Description: Folio volume of panoramic views of businesses on the 200-900 blocks of Chestnut Street and corresponding pages of advertisements. Also contains a preface, which details that inclusion in the directory required subscription to or purchase of the volume; the intention to "issue the Panoramic View annually"; and the publisher's endeavor to correct all lettering errors "upon the publication of the second edition." Volume also includes interspersed full-, half- and, one-third-page advertisements for business subscribers tenanting, as well as not located on Chestnut Street. Publisher issued only the 1851 directory., Predominantly depicted and promoted businesses include carpet dealers; confectioneries; daguerreotypists; druggists and patent medicine dealers; engravers, printers, and publishers; hotels; jewelers; millineries and clothiers; musical instrument dealers; and tailors. Plates also show the State House, Congress Hall, City Hall, Barnum's Museum, and residences. Full-, half- and one-third page advertisements advertise a variety of businesses, including patent medicines, artificial limbs, essence of coffee, marble manufacturers, and printers and publishers. Majority of advertisements contain ornamented type and lines of advertising text. Several also contain wood-engraved pictorial details. Some panoramic views contain pasted-on details representing signage., Cover printed in gilt on blue paper and contains an ornamental border., Engravers and printers include C. C. Hooker and Henry A. Brown., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Housed in phase box., See also albums - Rae [P.2008.34.16] and Rae - Chestnut Street [1322.F] loose prints.
Creator: Rae, Julio H.
Date: c1851
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Rae [*Am 1851 Rae, 2975.Q]

Title: [Plate 11 and advertisements from Rae's Philadelphia pictorial directory & panoramic advertiser. Chestnut Street, from Second to Tenth Streets]
Description: Plate showing a section of the 700 block (166-213 pre consolidation) of Chestnut Street. South side includes Mrs. M. Burke’s Millenery [sic] Rooms and Winchester & Scott, Gentlemen’s Furnishing Store (172); Cornelius & Co., Gas Fixtures (176); Willis P. Hazard, Cheap Book Store (178); and McClees & Germon, Daguerreotype Rooms and Jos. S. Natt, Looking Glasses (182). North side includes the Masonic Hall (built 1808-1811 after the designs of William Strickland) and tenant businesses, including D. A. Warden, Pianos, Melodeons, [A. D. K.] Moore, Fancy Stationery, and A. Hildebrandt, Fancy Baskets & Toys (225); Washington House hotel with offices of the proprietor A. F. Glass (221-223); china ware importers Tyndale & Mitchell (219); Geo. W. Ward, Gentleman’s Furnishings Store (217); Sturdivant’s House hotel (215); and Warne’s Rifle & Pistol Gallery (213). Also shows the Warne façade adorned with a sign illustrated with the figure of a man pointing to the left., Advertisements promote twelve of the businesses depicted, including McClees & Germon who advertise "The increased width of the street, occasioned by the recess formed by the Masonic Hall, (which is directly opposite) and a front almost entirely of glass, give facilities for an operating room on the Second Floor, with a North light, (the most pleasant, effective and certain of all others, where a sufficiency can be obtained,) possessed by no other establishment of the city…." Several of the advertisements contain ornamented type and two contain illustrations depicting a man pointing (Warne’s) and a man’s shirt (Ward’s Improved Pattern, Warranted to Fit)., Title supplied by cataloger., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Folder 12., LCP also holds trimmed duplicates depicting North side [P.2008.34.16.7 and (1)1322.F.274] and trimmed duplicate depicting South side [P.2008.34.16.9].
Creator: Rae, Julio H.
Date: [1851]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Rae - Folder 12 [*Am 1851 Rae, 2975.Q]

Title: [Plate 9 and advertisements from Rae's Philadelphia pictorial directory & panoramic advertiser. Chestnut Street, from Second to Tenth Streets]
Description: Plate depicts section of the 600 block of Chestnut Street (136-209 pre-consolidation). South side includes E. Durand & Sons, Druggists (136); Sleeper & Jeanneret, Jewelry (1388-140); Howell & Brothers, Paper Hangings (142); Langdon’s Daguerreotypes and W. S. Martien, Publisher and Bookseller(144); American Sunday School Union (146); and Jones’ Hotel, Bridges & West proprietors (152). North side includes Dr. Jayne’s Philadelphia Arcade, Dr. Davison’s Arcade Baths, and D. Robinson, Bookseller and Stationer (205-209); N.Y. Journal of Fine Arts Agency (203 1/2); Bolivar House (201-203); Chestnut St. Theater (199); and Schenck’s Pulmonic Syrup and Blood’s Despatch (197). Also shows a few of the buildings adorned with flag or statuary. Sleeper & Jeanneret signage (138-140) included on plate as pasted-on details., Advertisements promote twelve of the businesses depicted with signage, as well as John M. Coleman, Importer of Sheffield and German Cutlery, Guns, Pistols, &c (209) and William White, Chemist, S.E. cor. Twelfth and Pine Sts. White's full-page advertisement contains testimonials and several lines of text describing the benefits of “White’s Hair Regenerator, or Amber Gloss” and “White’s Essence of Jamaica Ginger.” Most of the small advertisements include several lines of promotional text and ornamented type. Langdon & Co. quotes price of $1 to $5 for daguerreotypes and the Journal of the Fine Arts notes the merging of "The Messsage Bird," "Literary American," and "Musical Gazette" to form the periodical of "music, literature and art.", Title supplied by cataloger., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Folder 10., LCP also holds trimmed duplicates depicting South side [P.2008.34.16.5 and P.2006.1.21].
Creator: Rae, Julio H.
Date: [1851]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Rae - Folder 10 [*Am 1851 Rae, 2975.Q]

Title: [Plate 7 and advertisements from Rae's Philadelphia pictorial directory & panoramic advertiser. Chestnut Street, from Fourth to Fifth Streets]
Description: Plate depicts section of the 400 block of Chestnut Street (134-169 pre-consolidation). South side includes the offices of Graham’s Magazine and the fancy dry goods store of L.J. Levy & Co. (134); jewelers Baily & Kitchen, Wm. E. Harpur, Chronometer & Watch manufacturer, and daguerreotypists Broadbent & Co. (136); [William F.] Warburton, Late W. H. Beebe & Co., Hats, Caps, Furs and Umbrellas (138); and Crittenden’s Commercial Institute (later Crittenden's Philadelphia Commercial College), M. A. Root’s Daguerreotypes Rooms, jeweler James E. Caldwell & Co. (140); and (Charles) Fawcett’s Hair Cutting Rooms, Wig, Scalp, & Hair Dye Manufacturer, and A. B. Warden, Jeweler (142). North side includes F. Brown, Druggist (169); H. J. Pepper & Son, Jewelers (167); Blanchard & Rock, Paper Hangings Manufacturers (165); Franklin Fire Insurance Co. (163 1/2-161); Blackwood & Smith, Carpeting and Van Loan & Co., daguerreotypists (159); and Farmer & Mechanic’s Bank (155). Plate also shows some of the businesses adorned with flags and other adornments, including a model of an eagle and statuary., Advertisements promote thirteen of the businesses depicted, including Fawcett; Warden; Caldwell & Co.; Root; Warburton; Crittenden; Baily & Co. (late Bailey & Kitchen); Van Loan & Co.; Franklin Fire Insurance Company; Blanchard & Rock; Pepper & Son; and Brown. Most include several lines of promotional text and ornamented type. Fawcett’s advertisement also includes endorsements from the local press and Root promotes "Out Door Views and Miniatures of deceased person taken at short notice," in addition to "The Crayon Style (Proues's Patent)" only taken by himself., Title supplied by cataloger., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Folder 8.
Creator: Rae, Julio H.
Date: [1851]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Rae - Folder 8 [*Am 1851 Rae, 2975.Q]

Title: [Plate 8 and advertisements from Rae's Philadelphia pictorial directory & panoramic advertiser. Chestnut Street, from Second to Tenth Streets]
Description: Plate depicts the 500 block of Chestnut Street (168-199 pre-consolidation). South side includes Congress Hall, the State House, and City Hall. North side includes E. B. Mears, Stereotyper, W.B. Gihon, Engraver on Wood, and W. T. Parker, Saloon (199); J. W. Moore, Importer and Bookseller (193); William J. Kerr, China Hall and French Ware House (191); [Isaac] Newton’s Confectionery (187); American Hotel tenanted by L. & B. Orne, importers of carpets and operated by Ambrose L. White (181-183); Richards. Successor M.P. Simons, Daguerreotypist and Swift & Justice, Tailors (179);wigmaker Richard Dollard (177); Geo. J. Henkels, City Cabinet Wareroom (175); A. Brett’s Lithographic Establishment, Oscar C. B. Carter, Piano Fortes, Safford & Cookmann Curtain Warehouse, Thomas J. Natt & Co.’s Looking Glass Warehouse, and Polytechnic Lecture Rooms, F. Langenheim Manager (171). Also shows sides of buildings on Fifth and Sixth streets and signage above the subsidiary entrances to the State House. Signs read Orphan’s Court Clerk’s Office; Recorder of Deeds Office; Court of Common Pleas; Register of Wills; Prothonotory Off., Supreme Court, Eastern District; Prothonotary’s Office; Sheriff’s Office, County Commiss's. Office; Prothonotary District Court; and Quarter Sessions Clerk’s Office., Advertisements promote fifteen of the businesses depicted and Watson & Cox, Sieve, Riddle, Screen and Wire Cloth Manufacturers, No. 46 North Front St. (half-page) and Yerger & Ord, Patentees and Manufacturers of the Metallic Skeleton Artificial Leg, Ankle Supporter, and Improved Anatomical Machinery (half-page). Half-page advertisements contain several lines of text, as well as a cameo stamp illustration showing the Watson & Cox manufactory and a wood engraving showing a metallic artificial leg. Yerger & Old advertisement also cautions about a competitor circulating "a petty species of slander." Most of the smaller advertisements include several lines of promotional text and ornamented type. Langenheim's cites the admittance fee of "25 Cts."; Newton's notes that "he has taken" the confectionery of the late Mrs. Wood; Kerr's promotes his China Hall as the largest in the Unitd States; and Parker's Saloon advertises "All the Luxuries of the different season constantly kept. Games, Fish, Oysters, &c. My Liquors, Wines & Segars are selected with care and attention, the best always purchased without regard to Cost.", Title supplied by cataloger., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Folder 9., LCP also holds trimmed duplicate depicting North side [P.2008.34.16.3].
Creator: Rae, Julio H.
Date: [1851]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Rae - Folder 9 [*Am 1851 Rae, 2975.Q]

Title: [Plate 4 and advertisements from Rae's Philadelphia pictorial directory & panoramic advertiser. Chestnut Street, from Second to Tenth Streets]
Description: Plate depicts section of the 300 block of Chestnut Street (93-110 pre-consolidation). South side includes Public Ledger Office (96); J. & J. L. Gihon, Book Bindery (98); J. P. & D. C. Collins & Co., Daguerreotypists, Office of the New Line of Magnetic Tela., and Belrose & Faye, Paper Hangings (100); John Kelley & Co., Tailor (102); Charles Oakford, Hats, Caps, & Furs Wholesale & Retail (104); Ennis’ Gallery of Daguerreotypes and watch and jewelry dealer J. & W. L. Ward (106); Wm. H. Maurice, Stationer (108); and merchant tailor H. S. Ogden and safe manufacturer Milnor & Shaw (110). North side includes Franklin House tenanted by Lewis Ladomus, Watches & Jewelry (103); J. Thornley's India Rubber Emporium & Manufactory and The Morse Magnetic Telegraph Offices (101); Bank of North America (99); R. Buist Nurseryman & Seed Grower (97); Shepherd, Clothing (95); and L. Pelouze, Phil. Type Foundry (93). Also shows parts of Third Street, Hudson’s Alley, and Franklin Place. Milnor & Shaw signage (110) included on plate as pasted-on detail. Also shows jewelry on display in the Ladomus windows., Advertisements promote the businesses depicted, including a full page for Milnor & Shaw, Manufacturers of the Phoenix Fire & Thief Proof Iron Safes, No. 10 Hudson’s Alley. Advertisement also includes vignettes of two different models of safe, one flat-topped and one curved-topped. The smaller advertisements contain ornamented type and lines of text. R. Buist (97) promotion also includes a decorative border comprised of farm implements and produce., Title supplied by cataloger., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Folder 5.
Creator: Rae, Julio H.
Date: [1851]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Rae - Folder 5 [*Am 1851 Rae, 2975.Q]

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