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Title: Reward of merit
Description: Contains central vignette showing a steamboat departing a dock. People line the dock across from a passing train., One of prints [P.2011.10.152]: Presented to R. Wallace Harnt. By E. A. [Cord?]., Includes verse: Remember thy Creator. Child with the glad, glad heart. And joy shall be thy portion, When thou with life shall part., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Rewards of Merit [P.2011.10.152 & 153]

Title: Reward of merit
Description: Contains central patriotic-themed vignette showing an American eagle, with the U.S. shield, and sailing a river on an American flag. A steam boat and train are visible in the background., Includes verse: Worship to God alone belongs, Worship to him alone we give, His be our heart & his our songs. And to his glory we would live., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Rewards of Merit [P.2011.10.156]

Title: North from Landsdowne Terrace
Description: Landscape view looking north from Landsdowne (i.e., Lansdowne) terrace in West Fairmount Park showing freight cars on railroad tracks traveling north., 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., Gift of Morris Finkel.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Parks [P.8643.5]

Title: Horseshoe Curve
Description: View of a train going around the Horseshoe Curve on a double set of railroad tracks. A steep embankment drops down from either side of the tracks and a forested mountain rises up in the background. The Horseshoe Curve opened to train traffic on February 15, 1854 and allowed trains to travel over Pennsylvania's Allegheny Mountains., Image is made from the same negative as P.9644.22., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., William T. Purviance became an official photographer for the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1867.
Creator: Purviance, W. T. (William T.), photographer
Date: ca. 1870
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo-Purviance-transportation [P.9644.20]

Title: [Trolley car at 69th and Market Streets, Philadelphia]
Description: Depicts trolley car on blocks above rails., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: 69" and Market Sts. Do you remember them when they were like this? Men grabed [sic] the hand rail and swung aboard before the car came to a stop. The pole was always parting company with the wire. The boys and men crowded the front and back platforms. You froze inthem during the winter, baked during summer and all year around, after a long ride, got off at your destination with a backache, because the seats were so comfortable - not. Them was the good old days - maybe., 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 154 [P.8513.154], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson154.htm

Title: Reward of merit
Description: Contains central vignette showing a Native American man seated on a hillside and watching a train approaching a town. Another train travels past the town., Includes verse: Tis sweet oh sweet to know, If we our time improve, We shall be happy while below, And dwell in heaven above., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Rewards of Merit [P.2011.10.158]

Title: [Electric trolley at unidentified shoreline]
Description: Photograph showing a trolley traveling through a sandy landscape. Tall slender trees dot the dune and a bay stands in the distance. Various buildings occupy either side of the trolley tracks., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: ca. 1880-ca. 1900
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.2120]

Title: Susquehanna Valley and Starucca Viaduct
Description: Landscape view showing railroad tracks near the Susquehanna River. Incorporated as the New York and Erie Railroad in 1832, the railroad was reorganized as the Erie Railway in 1861. The Starucca Viaduct in Lanesboro, Pa., constructed by the railroad in 1848 after the designs of engineers James P. Kirkwood and Julius W. Adams, is visible in the distant background. A man stands in the foreground., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Title printed on mount., Possibly photographed by C.W. Buell., Walker, a stationery store owner and publisher of New York stereographic views, had a working relationship with photographer C.W. Buell, who operated a studio from Walker's business address., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Walker, Lewis E., 1826-1916
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Miscellaneous - Walker [P.9168.8]

Title: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Commemorative Medal
Description: Inscription reads, “The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company 1827-1927; Peter Cooper’s Tom Thumb.”, A card accompanying the medal reads, “This medal is issued on the one hundredth birthday of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company to commemorate not merely the important milestone in its own history but the rounding out of a century of a definite American Railroad achievement. The Baltimore and Ohio was the first American railroad to operate its line for the public handling of passengers and freight. This was early in 1830. In all the one hundred years of its life it has changed neither its corporate name, its charter nor its fundamental organization. The obverse of the medal depicts one of the most modern trains of the Baltimore and Ohio—The Capital Limited or The National Limited—drawn by one of the largest and most modern passenger locomotives built. The spirit of Transportation guides the locomotive on its onward flight. The reverse shows the Tom Thumb, designed by Alderman Peter Cooper of New York and the first steam locomotive to be built in the United States even though it was never put into practical service. Mr. Hans Schuler, director of the Maryland Institute in Baltimore, is the sculptor who designed the medal and it was reproduced direct from his models by the Medallic Art Company of New York City.”, Gift of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, 1927.
Creator: Schuler, Hans
Date: 1927
Location: OBJ 158

Title: Harrisburg, Pa. (Bridgeport)
Description: Pictorial lettersheet containing a bird's eye view showing Bridgeport (later Lemoyne) across the Susquehanna River from Harrisburg. Townscape lines the riverbanks and a train travels across a bridge parallel to a covered one. In the background, mountains are visible, and in the foreground, rail cars rest on tracks near the bottom of a hillside. Bridgeport was renamed Lemoyne in 1905., Printed below image: No. 1., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Creator: Magnus, Charles
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Receipts [P.2011.10.135]

Title: [View of rocky hillside near railroad in Mill Creek Valley, Schuylkill County]
Description: View of the rocky terrain adjacent to a railroad, most likely the Mill Creek Railroad, which extended from Port Carbon, Pa. up the valley of Mill Creek to the mines. A man stands near the tracks in the righthand edge of the image., Title supplied by cataloger., Photographer's imprint from label pasted on verso., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Yellow mount with square corners., A.M. Allen, born in Deerfield, Mass., relocated to Pottsville, Pa. ca. 1852 and set up his studio at the southwest corner of West Market and North Centre Streets. He retired from the business in 1894., Cataloging of copy no. P.9844.20 funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift from the heirs of Paul D.I. and Anna S. Maier: James H. Maier, Anthony M. Maier, Marianna M. Thomas, and Cynthia C. Maier.
Creator: Allen, A. M. (Amos Morrel), 1823-1900, photographer
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Allen - Views [P.9844.20]

Title: [Henry Brenster driving a horsecar, Fifth & Sixth Street line, Sixth and Jackson Streets, Philadelphia.]
Description: Depicts the driver, Henry Brenster, seated and holding the reigns and a whip in the number 16 horsecar at Sixth and Jackson Streets. The uniformed conductor stands next to Brenster and another man stands on the cobblestone street next to the vehicle. Two stalled white horses are attached to the car and wear blinders. A young boy stands on the sidewalk at the corner of the intersection, near brick row homes that line the street., Title, location, and imprint date from manuscript note on verso of duplicate., Gift of Emily Riese., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Davis, Eugene H., photographer
Date: 1894
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Davis [P.9332.1]

Title: A Brakesman.
Description: The brakesman operates a wheel from behind a train grill. He wears a red hat, yellow trousers, and a short green jacket. He has a beard and moustache., Text: "Down brakes," don't come with so much dash, / Or else I fear there'll be a smash -- / Not of my heart, but your head, I fear; / For know, young man, the brake's not clear., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Date: [between 1840 and 1880?]

Title: Conductor.
Description: The smirking conductor wears a green uniform and red cap. The valentine criticizes him for paying too much attention to a woman passenger., Text: O! gallant Conductor, pray don't think us blind, / We saw you conduct her with airs so refined; / Pray alter your conduct, or proceed with care, / Your quite too attentive collecting your fair., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Date: [between 1840 and 1880?]

Title: Memorial Hall.
Description: View of Memorial Hall looking north from Main Building. Depicts railroad passing in front.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co., photographer., creator
Date: 1876
Location: Centennial - stereos [P.9047.166]

Title: West Park Trolley Station postcards
Description: Depicts the number 33 trolley sitting in front of the West Park Trolley Station., Contains 1 postcard printed in color and 1 in black and white., Sheet numbers: 86A19 and 86B11., 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: 1900-1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Fairmount Park - Miscellaneous - 86]

Title: Elevated railroad, Fortieth Street Station, Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Depicts two trains traveling through the Fortieth Street elevated station., The Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company (PRT) built the Market Street subway - elevated from 15th Street to 69th Street in 1907. Construction expanding the line eastward to Delaware Avenue finished in 1908, but the elevated section connecting Frankford to the Center City line was not completed until 1922., Sheet number: 158A08., Divided back. Text on verso., 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: ca. 1910
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Transit - 158]

Title: Interior of elevated car, Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Depicts the interior of an elevated railroad car, including several passengers., The Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company (PRT) built the Market Street subway - elevated from 15th Street to 69th Street in 1907. Construction expanding the line eastward to Delaware Avenue finished in 1908, but the elevated section connecting Frankford to the Center City line was not completed until 1922., Sheet number: 158A09., 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: ca. 1910
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Transit - 158]

Title: "All Aboard!" car on Philadelphia and West Chester Trolley
Description: Depicts a Philadelphia and West Chester Traction Company trolley car on the tracks., Numbered 134 on verso., Sheet number: 158B01., Undivided back. Post marked 1907., 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: ca. 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Transit - 158]

Title: Delaware Avenue elevated railroad postcards
Description: Depicts sections of the Market Street elevated railroad along Delaware Avenue looking north and south, showing the Delaware Avenue station and the Market Street and Chestnut Street Ferry stations., The Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company (PRT) built the Market Street subway - elevated from 15th Street to 69th Street in 1907. Construction expanding the line eastward to Delaware Avenue finished in 1908, but the elevated section connecting Frankford to the Center City line was not completed until 1922., Sheet numbers: 158A02, 158A06, 158A07 and 158A11., 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: 1907-1916
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Transit - 158]

Title: Elevated railroad bed postcards
Description: Depicts the railroad bed along the Market Street elevated railroad near an unidentified station., The Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company (PRT) built the Market Street subway - elevated from 15th Street to 69th Street in 1907. Construction expanding the line eastward to Delaware Avenue finished in 1908, but the elevated section connecting Frankford to the Center City line was not completed until 1922., Sheet number: 158A03., Divided backs., 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: ca. 1910
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Transit - 158]

Title: Elevated railroad at 69th Street station postcards
Description: Depicts the elevated railroad bed and tracks near 69th Street Station, showing residences in the background., The Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company (PRT) built the Market Street subway - elevated from 15th Street to 69th Street in 1907. Construction expanding the line eastward to Delaware Avenue finished in 1908, but the elevated section connecting Frankford to the Center City line was not completed until 1922., Sheet number: 158A04., Divided backs., 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: ca. 1910
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Transit - 158]

Title: Elevated railroad from 32nd Street, West Philadelphia postcards
Description: Depicts the elevated tracks of the Market Street subway near 32nd Street looking east toward City Hall at night., The Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company (PRT) built the Market Street subway - elevated from 15th Street to 69th Street in 1907. Construction expanding the line eastward to Delaware Avenue finished in 1908, but the elevated section connecting Frankford to the Center City line was not completed until 1922., Sheet number: 158A05., Divided backs., 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: 1908-1911
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Transit - 158]

Title: Near east park, Phila
Description: Etching looking southeast showing two men walking between two large mounds of land, one with a goat standing near the edge, the other surmounted by a frame shack surrounded by a fence. Also includes dwellings, a tower and a train traveling south on tracks running along Pennsylvania Avenue in the right background., Manuscript note on album page: S.E. corner 27th & Aspen., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., 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: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Kollner [*Am 1878 Kol, 2086.F.16]

Title: The Philadelphia & Chester Valley Railroad Company
Description: Stock certificate for the railroad chartered in 1850 as the Chester Valley Railroad Company. Contains central vignette showing a train, including a "U.S. Mail" car, traveling through countryside. A steamboat travels on a river in the background. Company reincorporated as Philadelphia and Chester Valley Railroad company in 1888. The train operated between Philadelphia and Downingtown., Pictorial details printed above title labeled "Number 191" and "Shares.", Contains ornamental border. Printed within border: Shares $50 Each., Transfer agreement printed in letterpress on verso. Includes monogram "L.S.", Reissue statements dated "188_" printed on flap., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler., Allen, Lane & Scott partnered by 1875.
Date: [ca. 1888]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Miscellaneous [P.2011.10.180]

Title: Reading's Sesqui-Centennial, Reading, Pa. Jubilee Week June 5th to 12th, 1898. 150th Anniverary
Description: Pictorial envelope designed by Sesqui-centennial committee members Samuel Dilbert, W. Morris Deischer and Howard L. Boas containing a menagerie of imagery bordering two vignettes. Vignettes depict a view of the Reading "Court House, 1782-1841" and a view captioned "1748" showing Native Americans near a teepee watching a traveling Conestoga wagon from across a river. Other images show a locomotive, factories, train shed, and a winged female allegorical figure holding a trumpet and bolt of lightning, probably representing progress. An anvil, gear, and angle rest at the figure's feet. Over 700, 000 envelopes were printed and distributed nationally. The sesqui-centennial celebration included band concerts; civic, firemen, and industrial parades; grand illuminations; fireworks; and an equestrian and bicycle day., Addressed in manuscript to: Ronalds & Johnson Co., 139 N. 7th St., Philadelphia, Pa., Printed in red ink on recto: Return to E. S. Summons' Plumbing & Heating Co., 209 N. 6th St., Reading, Pa., Ink-stamp postmark on verso: Received Philadelphia, PA Mar 31, 1898 6 30 PM., Publication information from Morton Luther Montgomery, History of Reading, Pennsylvania: and the anniversary proceedings of the sesquice-centennial, June 5-12, 1898 (1898)., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [c1897]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Envelopes [P.2011.10.89]

Title: Memorial Hall
Description: Oblique view showing the front and west flank of the exhibition hall, also known as the Art Gallery, built 1874-1876 after designs by Hermann J. Schwarzmann. In the foreground, a locomotive pulls open-air coaches west, parallel to the Avenue of the Republic. The fair celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Title on negative., Photographer's imprint printed on mount and on verso. Imprint on verso contains initials "CPC" in decorative border surmounted by date range 1776-1876., Stamped on mount in black ink: Grade 2, White curved mount with rounded corners., Gift of Robert M. Vogel., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co.
Date: c1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Centennial Photographic Co. [P.9047.166]

Title: Evans printer. The fast cardpress, Philadelphia, cor. Fourth and Library Sts
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a patriotic column surmounted by an eagle and adorned by American flags and an American shield. Includes a partial view of a train in the background. Evans, the self-promoted first "fast card press in the city" operated his firm at Fourth and Library Streets until 1880. In 1860, his press executed the advertisements for the Philadelphia City Directory., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Evans [5786.F.10e]

Title: Harnden's southern express office, No. 607 Chestnut Street The Harnden express, at the earnest solicitation of its numerous customers, has been extended to Baltimore and Washington and are now prepared to forward to above named cities. Also, to Alexandria, Fortress Monroe, Hatteras Inlet, Port Royal, &c. Soldiers' freights taken at extremely low rates. They have greatly increased their facilities on their old established line to New York, Boston and the East, and having removed to their present commodious office, are determined to use every exertion to satisfy all who may favor them with their patronage. All kinds of collecting and commissions attended to. Money and valuables forwarded at unusually low rates. The greatest dispatch given to freights. Howard & Co's northern & western express Howard & Co. have also removed to same office, and will forward to all towns in Northern Pennsylvania. Also, to Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, and all points North and West, or Canada West
Description: The Harnden Express Co. and Howard & Co., Frederick Lovejoy, superintendent, are listed at this address in Philadelphia directories from 1862 to 1866., The illustration shows a train., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Harnden Express Co.
Date: [1862?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1862 Harnden 5786.F.136c (McAllister)

Title: A plan for the regulation of cars stopping at crossings Suggested by the Citizens Association, for the improvement of streets and roads of Philadelphia
Description: Plan showing horse-drawn street cars stopped at adjacent blocks at the intersection of Fifth and Chestnut streets. Stone formations are visible at the rear and front of the street cars. Figures representing passengers board and disembark from the rear of the cars. The Citizen's Association for the Improvement of the Streets and Roads of Philadelphia was formed in 1870., Manuscript note on recto: The blocks opposite the rear platform to join the crossing stones as stepping stones to the car, those opposite the front platform to indicate to the driver the stopping point., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 606
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Transportation [6541.F]

Title: Scenery of Pennsylvania. Cattawissa Rail Road
Description: Incomplete collection of the series, published by John Moran between 1862 and 1868, of scenic views along the Catawissa Railroad, including views in Lycoming, Carbon, and Schuylkill County. Two unlabeled views titled "Bridge over the Susquehanna at Williamsport" and "Tunnel at Summit Station" included as part of the series. Incorporated in 1831 and opened in 1854, the passenger and commercial railroad traveled through the mountains near Blue Ridge connecting Port Clinton and Williamsport, Pennsylvania., Views predominately depict Catawissa Island, a retreat on the Susquehanna River below the town of Catawissa. Views include scenes near a farm and the river. Series also contains views of Lycoming Creek; McCauley Mountain and Railroad; Pine Swamp at Ringtown; base of Summit Hill, Quakake Railroad; and head waters of the Schuylkill River, Summit Station. Many of the views contain posed male figures, including possibly John Moran. Two of the views include a railroad car and railroad tracks., Buff and cream mounts with square corners., Photographer's label pasted on verso of sixteen views in the series., Imprint of distributor, James W. Queen & Co., 924 Chestnut Street, Phila. stamped on verso of two of the series., Label of distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia pasted on verso of one of the series., Five of the series are numbered: No. 150, 153, 158, 162 1/2, 174, and 184., Title stamped on mount of sixteen of the series., Three of series originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Pennsylvania views and political miscellany., Includes accession numbers: 5759.F.9b; 5759.F.3h; 5759.F.1j; P.8546; P.8992.1-.11; P.8979.6-9., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Moran, a Philadelphia photographer, specialized in landscape photography and often took artistic excursions with his painter brothers, Thomas and Edward. The men visited and documented the Catawissa Valley around 1862.
Creator: Moran, John, 1831-1903
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Moran - Views [5759.F.9b; 5759.F.3h; 5759.F.1j; P.8546; P.8992.1-11; P.8979.6-9]

Title: The great trestle, Mt. Washington Railway
Description: View of the first mountain climbing railway in the world, completed in 1869, in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. The brain-child of Sylvester Marsh, the cog railway utilized coal-powered locomotives. Shows "Tip Top," the first four-cylinder locomotive used on the railway pulling a passenger car labeled "Mt. Washington" down a steep decline of track. Passengers stand near the car windows. A boy stands in front of the trestle., Photographer's imprint printed on verso., Negative number printed on mount: 1825., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of American Views., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Kilburn Brothers, was a partnership between brothers Benjamin West Kilburn and Edward Kilburn from 1865 to 1877.
Creator: Kilburn Brothers
Date: [ca. 1874]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Kilburn Bros. - Views [5739.F.62d]

Title: [Steam dummy, with crowd, near Frankford Dummy Depot, Frankford Avenue and Arrott Street, Philadelphia.]
Description: Depicts two men attired in three-piece suits and hats standing in front of the number 7 steam dummy belonging to the Fifth & Sixth Street line, which operated between Frankford and Southwark. A group of men, including a conductor, stand in the back, near the attached trailer. The distinctive shingled, pyramidal roof of the Dummy Depot clock tower is visible in the background., Title from manuscript on verso., According to Jackson's Encyclopedia of Philadelphia, steam dummies were first used on the Frankford branch of the Frankford-Southwark Passenger Railway in 1863 and operated until 1893 when electric streetcars replaced them., Gift of Emily Riese., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Davis, Eugene H., photographer
Date: 1894
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Davis [P.9332.2]

Title: [Jackson Street and Mifflin Street electric trolleys, with drivers and passengers.]
Description: Depicts two open-air Electric Traction Company trolleys, # 901 destined for Mifflin Street and # 1005 on a Jackson Street route in South Philadelphia. Passengers are seated on wooden "walkover" benches underneath of advertisements. On both cars are tacked identical posters advertising "Brooke and his Famous Chicago Marine Band" at Willow Grove Park. The conductors, attired in uniforms, stand on the ledge of the cars., Title from manuscript note on verso of duplicate., Gift of Emily Riese., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Davis, Eugene H., photographer
Date: 1898
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Davis [P.9332.3]

Title: Reading Cold Storage, Reading, Pennsylvania
Description: Aerial views of two Reading Cold Storage facilities in Reading, Pennsylania. 11185 and 11186 show Reading Cold Storage facility no. 2 located at 9th and Laurel Streets looking southwest to northeast. 11188 shows Reading Cold Storage facility no. 1 located at Reed and Elm Streets looking northwest to southeast. Railroad yards and surrounding industrial buildings and row homes are also visible. Images probably taken August 21, 1929., Negative number: 11185; 11186; 11188., Record created with information supplied by former Aero Service employee Carl H. Winnefeld, Jr.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: 1929
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.11185; P.8990.11186; P.8990.11188]

Title: Aerial views of Darby, Pennsylvania
Description: Aerial views from very high altitude showing Darby, Pennsylvania. Views are from northwest to southeast, with the Elmwood section of Philadelphia visible [5587]; from southwest to northeast with the B & O and Pennsylvania Railroads, Chester Pike, and MacDade Boulevard visible [5593]; and from west to east showing Darby Creek, Cobbs Creek, and the Fels & Company plant formerly at Woodland and Island Avenues [5615]. The General Electric plant formerly at 69th and Elmwood Avenues is visible in all three views. Probably taken April 1926., Negative numbers: 5587; 5593; 5615., Record created with information supplied by former Aero Service employee Carl H. Winnefeld, Jr.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: [ca. 1926]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.5587; P.8990.5593; P.8990.5615]

Title: The Camden & Atlantic Railroad. The short and popular route to Atlantic City Pocket time card-season of 1882. Depots in Philadelphia foot of Vine-Street and Shackamaxon Street
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a vignette of a well-dressed family on the beach, including the father wearing a top hat and cane and the mother holding a yellow parasol. Two girls play near the waves while their parents look on. Vignette inset into a larger scene depicing a sailboat in the ocean, a lighthouse, and seashells lining the shore in the foreground. The Camden & Atlantic Railroad began regular service between Camden and Atlantic City, New Jersey in 1855. The railroad was taken over by the West Jersey & Seashore Railroad in 1883., Contains a condensed timetable ("summer arrangement") for trains traveling between Atlantic City and Philadelphia printed on verso. Includes times for the South Atlantic City Branch and the locations of ticket offices in Philadelphia, Germantown, and Camden, New Jersey., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: 1882
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Camden [1975.F.25]

Title: Progress of steel construction in Front St., at bent #62, looking north, May 29, 1916.
Description: Negative number: 2373, Street view looking north from the most recently constructed steel bent, Bent 62. Beams and other construction materials line both sides of the street. Men and boys stand and sit on the sidewalks in front of the store fronts.
Date: May 16, 1916

Title: Progress of steel construction in Front St. at bent #40 looking south, May 1, 1916.
Description: Negative number: 2226, View looking south from Produce Avenue showing a man holding up a "Front St. Bent 40" sign next to a steel column. Men stand around the construction scene. Two horses are attached to carts carrying supplies. Store fronts on North Front Street are shaded by awnings. A sign for "419 Willard & Mitten" is visible.
Date: May 1, 1916

Title: Guns in front of Government Building.
Description: View facing west from rear of U.S. Government Building. Depicts several large guns and railroad in the background.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co., photographer., creator
Date: 1876
Location: Centennial - stereos [P.9047.165]

Title: Progress of construction - Allegheney [sic; Allegheny] Ave. station, S.W. cor., Kensington & Allegheney [sic] Aves., December 11, 1919.
Description: Negative number: 6600, Depicts wooden scaffolding covering the partially-constructed Allegheny station, which sits on a triangular lot next to the elevated railway tracks at the southwest corner of Kensington and Allegheny Avenues. Horse-drawn carriages and vehicles travel along Kensington Avenue.
Date: December 11, 1919

Title: Progress of steel construction in Front St. at bent #57 looking south, May 16, 1916.
Description: Negative number: 2283, Street level view looking south at the 500 block of North Front Street. A man holds up the sign "Front St. Bent 48" next to a steel column in the foreground. Railroad tracks divide up the cobblestone street. Steel beams and other supplies sit on the side of the road. The brick building of the Philadelphia Warehousing & Cold Storage Co. occupies the entire east side of the block.
Date: May 16, 1916

Title: Progress of steel construction in Front St. at bent #48 looking south
Description: Negative number: 2285, Street level view looking south at a "Front St. Bent 48" sign next to a steel column. Men work from railroad freight cars underneath of the steel tracks. A loading dock sits on the east side of the block. A covered wagon and "Pork Packers" car sit near the loading dock. A signboard for Sam Katzowsky, clothing and shoes, is visible at 446 North Front Street.
Date: May 1, 1916

Title: Progress of construction, Allegheney [sic; Allegheny] Ave. station, N.E. cor. Kensington & Allegheney [sic] Aves., December 11, 1919.
Description: Negative number: 5156, Depicts the construction of the Allegheny station next to the elevated railway tracks at the northeast corner of Kensington and Allegheny Avenues. Iron railings sit outside of the three story structure, waiting for installation. A sign for the Allegheny Hat Renovating Co. is visible on Kensington Avenue, behind the station building. A man and a boy stand in street looking at the photographer in the foreground.
Date: December 11, 1919

Title: [Construction of wall, unid. location], August 31, 1922.
Description: Negative number: 7611, Depicts a construction site around a large brick warehouse or depot for the Frankford Elevated Railway. A locomotive sits on the railroad tracks at the end of the line nearby. Wooden scaffolding covers sections of the building where windows are waiting to be installed. Two African American workers stand near piles of bricks near the building.
Date: August 31, 1922

$1036 N. Front St. showing fracture in front wall caused by pile driver, October 26, 1915.$

Title: 1036 N. Front St. showing fracture in front wall caused by pile driver, October 26, 1915.
Description: Negative number: 1614, Street level view of delapidated, abandoned storefront.
Date: October 26, 1915

Title: Cross wires on Front St. north from bent 39, April 24, 1916.
Description: Negative number: 2220, Street level view showing steel beams on North Front Street in the foreground. Horse-drawn vehicles and a steam dummy are also visible on the cobblestone street in the distance. Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Outward Freight buildings flank tracks running parallel to Willow Street. Includes a view of the brick Philadelphia Warehousing & Cold Storage Co. building.
Date: April 24, 1916

Title: Construction of wall, unid. location], August 31, 1922.
Description: Negative number: 7610, Depicts a construction site around a large warehouse or depot for the Frankford Elevated Railway. Wooden scaffolding covers sections of the building. Workers are laying bricks in the foreground, while a group of men with shovels dig near a brick smokestack in the distance.
Date: August 31, 1922

Title: [Beneath tracks, unid. location], September 6, 1922.
Description: Negative number: 7623, View of the elevated railway's underside at an unidentified location. Piles of dirt sit near wooden scaffolding that surrounds some of the steel beams. Two white horses are harnessed to a cart near the construction area.
Date: September 6, 1922

Title: [Beneath tracks, unid. location], September 6, 1922.
Description: Negative number: 7688, Depicts wooden scaffolding surrounding a steel beam underneath of the elevated railway in an unidentified location.
Date: September 6, 1922

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