Railroad depot at Philadelphia.
Title
Railroad depot at Philadelphia
Description
View showing a primitive steam engine locomotive pulling stagecoach-like railroad cars past the "Philadelphia Germantown & Norristown Railway Depot" at the southwest corner of Ninth and Green streets. A driver attired in a top-hat stands and operates the engine from a chariot like platform attached to the locomotive built by Matthias Baldwin. Several passengers occupy the lead coach and partially visible second one. Conductors sit in the cabs of the cars. The Philadelphia Germantown & Norristown Railway, incorporated in 1831, began service to Germantown in 1832 and to Norristown in 1834. The Philadelphia & Reading Railroad leased the company in 1870., Name of possible artist and publication information supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 634, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb862 B756 #43.
Creator
Breton, William L., ca. 1773-1855, artist
Date
[1832]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W305 [P.2177]
J.W. Paxson & Co. Philadelphia.
Title
J.W. Paxson & Co. Philadelphia Shippers of moulding sand, pier 45, North Delaware Avenue. Manufacturers of foundry facings and foundry supplies
Description
Advertisement showing the busy "Pier 45" and factory of the firm at North Delaware Avenue. On the pier, laborers drive loaded and empty horse-drawn carts, unload sand from a barge, operate hoists from within sheds, and work on a raised platform between warehouses marked "Sand." Boatmen and workers operate equipment and perform manual labor on barges and boats, most with visible names, surrounding the pier. Names include Walter C. of Burlington, Sherman, Wilson, Willie Paxson of Philadelphia, Minerva, Samuel Miller, Estelle (built by Pusey & Jones, delivered 1884 to Paxson), and Saml. C. Bougher. In the background, the factory buildings, connected by an overpass, are visible neighbored by the B&O and P.R.R. freight depots, a pier covered in barrels and bales of wood, and other surrounding buildings. Also shows a locomotive at the P.R.R. freight depot, smokestacks, and carts departing from the Paxson pier under the overpass. Also contains a bust portrait of Paxson, and two lists of 18 types of sand, lead and facings available from the firm, printed below the image. Products include Lumberton Sand, Albany Sand, Crescent Sand, Fire Sand, Silica Sand, Columbo Lead, American Lead, Machinery Facing, and Pipe Blacking. Company moved to this location in 1882., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 123, Reproduced in Jennifer Ambrose's Nineteenth-century Philadelphia advertising prints, Magazine Antiques (August 2006), fig. 10., Contains crude repairs upper and lower edges.
Creator
Haugg, Louis, 1827-1903
Date
[ca. 1885]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Industries [7813.F]
View of the Philadelphia volunteer refreshment saloons.
Title
View of the Philadelphia volunteer refreshment saloons
Description
Civil War souvenir print containing six views of the Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon at the southwest corner of Washington and Swanson Avenues and the Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Saloon at 1009 Ostego Street. Contains a large central view of the exterior of the Union Saloon with troops arriving, entering the dining saloon, and departing on a Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad car as crowds of people flock around them. Other views depict soldiers using the wash basins adjoining the Cooper Shop Saloon; pro-Union flags and Saloon banners; the Union Saloon's outside washing and cooking departments including an African American man carrying a pail of food; and interiors of both saloons where male and female volunteers attend to long tables of food and a large simmering vat on a hearth. Contains an eagle clutching large American flags and a pro-Union banner above the scenes. Situated at the transportation hub between the North and the South, the relief organizations provided hospital care, washing, sleeping, and writing facilities to over 1,000,000 military personnel, sailors, refugees, and freedmen during the war., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to An Act of Congress in the Year 1861 by Job T. Williams in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 806, Print trimmed., Gift of Isadore Lichstein, 1984., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Queen, a Philadelphia lithographer and pioneer chromolithographer known for his attention to detail, served in the Civil War militia from 1862 until 1863, and created several lithographs with Civil War subjects, including views of and contribution certificates for the city's relief institutions.
Creator
Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 1821-1886, artist
Date
1861
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W434 [P.9001.6]