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Title: Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia
Description: Aerial view of the Eastern State Penitentiary, looking southeast and including a view of Center City. Built 1823-1836 after designs by John Haviland., Negative number: 17482n., Negative dated May 16.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: ca. 1936
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.17482n]

Title: Philadelphia House of Correction
Description: Aerial view of the Philadelphia House of Correction, opened in 1874 in the Holmesburg section of Philadelphia. Depicts the razing of the original building and construction of a new facility using the old materials., Negative number: 5602a.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: May 21, 1926
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.5602a]

Title: Philadelphia House of Correction
Description: Aerial views of the Philadelphia House of Correction, opened in 1874 in the Holmesburg section of Philadelphia. Depicts the razing of the original building and construction of a new facility using the old materials., Negative numbers: 5489-5492.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: March 5, 1926
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.5489-5492]

Title: Philadelphia House of Correction
Description: Aerial view of the Philadelphia House of Correction, opened in 1874 in the Holmesburg section of Philadelphia. Depicts the razing of the original building and construction of a new facility using the old materials. Holmesburg Prison can be seen in the distance., Negative number: 5458.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: ca. 1925
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.5458]

Title: Girard College, Phila., Pa
Description: High-altitude aerial view of Girard College at Girard Avenue including Founder's Hall and the eastern and western outbuildings. The school 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 male orphans. It opened in 1848. Eastern State Penitentiary is visible in the foreground. View looks north and includes North Philadelphia., Negative number: 5376.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: ca. 1925
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.5376]

Title: [Moyamensing Prison, Tenth and Reed Streets, Philadelphia]
Description: View of facade, including trees in yard and sidewalk in front, of prison located at 10th and Reed Streets. Architect Thomas Ustick Walter designed the building, which was built from 1832 to 1835 and demolished 1968. It is also known as Philadelphia County Prison., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Moyamensing prison, sometimes called the "11" St Dock", the jug, the county hotel, etc. Reminds one of the mediaeval days of castles, barons, and sieges. Casselated., Similar view to P.8513.238., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 183 [P.8513.183], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson183.htm

Title: [Moyamensing Prison, Debtor's Wing, 1400 South Tenth Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Depicts building facade located at 1400 S. 10th St. which architect Thomas Ustick Walter designed. Constructed 1836, it was demolished 1968 and was an excellent example of Egyptian Revival architecture in the United States. The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. retains the front portico., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Not in Egypt. The north wing of Moyamensing prison. The women's department. Sad to relate such a department is necessary. (Get more dates). Symbol of Egyptian "Scarabeus"., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Duplicate: P.8513.13: same neg., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 211 [P.8513.211], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson211.htm

Title: Moyamensing prison at sunset
Description: Depicts prison facade, sidewalk, and part of street in front of prison located at 10th and Reed Streets. Architect Thomas Ustick Walter designed the building, which was constructed 1832-1835 and demolished 1968. It is also known as Philadelphia County Prison., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: The name conjurs [sic] up a vocal department of a conservatory, however we never heard Moya-men-sing nor do we know why a big jail in N.Y. state is called Sing-sing, for we'll venture to say there is more weeping and gnashing of teeth in these institutions than there are indulgances [sic] in any sort of vocal calastenics [sic]. (brilliant sky, work in some light clouds), Similar view to P.8513.183., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 238 [P.8513.238], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson238.htm

Title: Holmesburg Prison, Philadelphia
Description: Aerial view of Holmesburg Prison, opened in 1896 on Torresdale Avenue in the Holmesburg section of Philadelphia. Shows central rotunda, from which eight blocks of cells extend. Designed by Wilson Brothers & Co. The prison closed in 1995., Negative number: 2526a.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: ca. 1915
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.2526a]

Title: Philadelphia showing Girard College
Description: Aerial view of Philadelphia's Fairmount neighborhood, looking east from East Fairmount Park (foreground) to the Delaware River (background). View shows Girard College, the Corinthian Avenue Reservoir, and Eastern State Penitentiary in the distance. Also shows a railroad tunnel bordering the park. Row homes and factories are visible., Negative number: 1651.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: ca. 1915
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.1651]

Title: Moyamensing Prison, Philadelphia
Description: View looking southwest from Reed Street near Passyunk Avenue of the prison complex, including the central two-story octagonal battlemented tower and Egyptian-style debtor's wing, constructed 1832-1835 after designs by Thomas Ustick Walter. A woman walks on the sidewalk in front of the iron gate in the foreground. The prison, also known as Philadelphia County Prison, operated under a system of solitary confinement. Demolished in 1968., Title inscribed in negative., Photographer's imprint on mount., Label pasted on verso includes paragraph describing Moyamensing Prison., Buff curved mount with rounded corners., Gift of Carol Soltis., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Campbell, Alfred S., 1840-1912
Date: c1896
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Campbell - Prisons [P.2002.48]

Title: Eastern Penitentiary Phila
Description: Exterior view from the north west showing the Fairmount Avenue facade including the entrance gate. Image includes several pedestrians and two wagons. Built 1823-1836 based on designs by John Haviland., Title from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's label on verso., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: R. Newell & Son, photographer
Date: ca. 1872
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - gov't. bldg. [P.9260.67]

Title: Eastern Penitentiary, Philadelphia
Description: View looking northeast at the Fairmount Avenue facade, including the entrance gate, of the prison built 1823-1836 after designs by John Haviland. A group of men sit on the stone wall in the foreground., Title on mount., Photographer's imprint on mount., Yellow mount with square corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Robert M. Vogel.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: [ca. 1866]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Prisons [P.9047.8]

Title: Phila. from Girard College
Description: Rooftop view looking south showing the cityscape of Philadelphia from the upper floors or roof of Girard College's Founder's Hall. View includes the front entrance gate and landscaped school grounds in the foreground, row houses, the Corinthian Avenue Reservoir, and the outline of Eastern State Penitentiary in the distance background., Title from manuscript note on verso., Attributed to John Moran., Pale yellow mount with square corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Moran, John, 1831-1903, photographer
Date: [ca. 1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Moran - Views [P.8464.15]

Title: [Eastern State Penitentiary]
Description: Exterior view looking west along Fairmount Avenue showing the entrance gate. View includes wagon on street and pedestrians standing next to the corner turret in foreground., McClees 1858-18., Reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth-Century Photography in Philadelphia, (New York: Dover Publications, 1980), plate 93., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.), photographer
Date: [ca. 1858]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *photo-McClees [8339.F.23]

Title: 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." [graphic] / From a drawing by convict No. 2954 [Samuel Cowperthwaite].
Description: Location: Twenty-first and Fairmount Avenue., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Date: 1855.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W401.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W401 [P.2216]

Title: High Street Prison and Market Shambles
Description: View looking east from above Third and High (Market) streets showing the High Street Prison built circa 1723 and the nearby old market stalls during the colonial era. Shows men in colonial attire walking on the sidewalks and street and two African American men in a stockade and attached to a whipping post near the jail. The prison operated until the early 1770s when replaced by the Walnut Street Prison. The market shambles were replaced by the permanent Jersey Market circa 1765., Title from item., Published in John F. Watson's Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, in the olden time:....Embellished with engravings, by T.H. Mumford (Philadelphia, 1844), vol. 1 and later editions., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Mumford, Thomas Howland, -1816, engraver
Date: [ca. 1844]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Pr Pr - 8x10 - Prisons - H [(7)1322.F.231]

Title: Moyamensing Prison. [graphic] / Lith. of J.T. Bowen.
Description: Originally published as plate 9 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., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2097 and in *Am 1848 Wild 3007.Q (Poulson) and in *Am 1848 Wild 1514.F and in *Am 1848 Wild 1515.Q., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846., creator
Date: c1840, 1848.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W241-4.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W241.4 [P.2097]

Title: The Eastern Penitentiary. [graphic] / Lithy. of J.T. Bowen.
Description: 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., Copyrighted by J.T. Bowen., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2206 and in *Am 1848 Wild 3007.Q (Poulson) and in *Am 1848 Wild 1514.F and in *Am 1848 Wild 1515.Q., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846., creator
Date: c1840, 1848.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W373-4.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W373.4 [P.2206]

Title: Eastern Penitentiary of Pennsylvania. Near Philadelphia. [graphic] / From nature & on stone by G. Lehman; Childs & Inman Lithrs.
Description: Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb26 L528.
Creator: Lehman, George, d. 1870 lithographer. Childs & Lehman lithographer., creator
Date: c1833.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W106.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W106 [P.2041]

Title: Jail in Walnut Street Philadelphia
Description: View of the front facade of the Walnut Street Prison, built in 1776 at Sixth and Walnut streets, possibly after the designs of Philadelphia architect Robert Smith. Depicts a group of individuals passing a water pump on the sidewalk in front of the jail. The prison was closed and razed in 1835, the prisoners removed to Moyamensing prison., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834
Date: [(1804]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 35/P.2276.70]

Title: Views of Philadelphia
Description: Collection of prints from the various editions and restrikes of Birch's "Views of Philadelphia," originally published in 1800 as The City of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania North America; as it appeared in the year 1800. Four editions of the views, purchased through subscription and totaling 44 unique plates including a map of the city and title page with vignette, were published by William Birch in Philadelphia from 1800 until 1828. First and largest edition contained 29 plates, the pictorial views drawn by Thomas Birch and engraved by Samuel Seymour between 1798 and 1800; with the map and title page executed by script engraver William Barker. Bookseller Robert Campbell is listed as a seller on many of these plates, but appears to have been disassociated with the project before publication of the bound volume. Second edition of 22 plates was published in 1804. Third edition of 14 plates was published in 1809. Fourth edition of 12 plates was published between 1827 and 1828. The first and second edition were printed by Philadelphia printer, Richard Folwell. The later editions, predominately completed by William Birch alone, contained reissues of selected plates from the first edition as well as new engravings of prominent city structures erected after 1800. In the 1840s restrikes of five plates were produced by bookseller Robert Desilver, and in the 1860s, twelve by the antiquarian John McAllister, Jr; many of the restrikes originally published in the fourth edition. Collection also contains the second edition copper plate of the Bank of Pennsylvania, and the fourth edition copper plate of The Late Theatre in Chestnut Street., Series of late 18th and early 19th-century views of principal sections of the city of Philadelphia including primary streets, government buildings, local landmarks, and financial, religious, educational, and benevolent institutions. The series, the first of its kind in the United States, was created to attract new citizens and to illustrate to an international audience the vitality of the nation's premiere city. The views focus on structures, but also contain lively depictions of daily street life in Philadelphia. Plates depict Philadelphia's Delaware River port with the Penn Treaty Tree; several street views including Arch Street, High (Market) Street, and Third Street; city markets; city banks, such as the Bank of the U.S.; the State House (Independence Hall); Congress Hall; prominent churches, such as Christ Church; Pennsylvania Hospital; Library and Surgeon's Hall; Chestnut Street Theatre; the Alms House; Walnut Street Jail; the Water-Works; and the Schuylkill Bridge., See S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's views of Philadelphia. (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000)., Snyder, "William Birch: His Philadelphia views," The Pennsylvania magazine of history and biography 73 (July, 1949), p. 271-315., Snyder, "Birch's Philadelphia views: New discoveries," The Pennsylvania magazine of history and biography 88 (April, 1964), p. 164-173., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., William Birch, trained in England, was a Philadelphia engraver, miniaturist, and enamel painter. He also engraved and published in 1804 "The Country Seats of the United States of North America."
Creator: Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834
Date: 1800-1860, bulk 1800
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 1 - Sn 43]

Title: Goal, in Walnut Street Philadelphia
Description: Active street scene at Sixth and Walnut streets with a view of the Walnut Street Jail, completed in 1776, after the designs of Philadelphia architect Robert Smith. Depicts several individuals, including a child, lining Sixth Street witnessing a large wood shed on wheels, possibly the first edifice of the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, being moved by a team of horses. A dog runs in the street and another sits next to a spectator in the right foreground. The prison closed and was razed in 1835, the prisoners relocated to Moyamensing Prison. The first edifice of Bethel Church, a former blacksmith shop, was transported to Sixth and Lombard streets., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000), pl. 24., Accessioned 1979., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: W. Birch & Son
Date: 1799
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 24/P.2276.56]

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