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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Volume composed of reprinted "Saturday Jaunts" columns (spring and summer 1891) and 25 photographs documenting the one-day excursions of the "Saturday Jaunters," employees of the Public Ledger in Philadelphia. Saturday Jaunters (identified with "monkish" pseudonyms) referenced in and authors of the columns include Bonifacius (William E. Meehan), Benedict (Addison B. Burk), Chrysostum (Joel Cook), Angelo (John J. Mckenna), Damon (Charles S. Spangler), Photius (Edmund Stirling), Friar Tuck (Edward Robinson), Constantius (Stephen J. Burke), Pius (Israel F. Sheppard), Sacristan (C. Johann), Fabian (Dr. William H. Burk), Medicus, Ananias (Collins W. Walton), Titian (John A. Johann), Cephas (Peter J. Heborn), and Brother Alban (Captain Robert C. Clipperton). Contains the columns: I. Marble Hall and Spring Mill. II. A Visit to the Coal Fields of Pottsville. III. A Trip along Cresheim Creek and the "Happy Valley." IV. A Roundabout Journey to Edge Hill. V. A Pilgrimage through the Gulf and to Belvoir. VI. A Pilgrimage through the Gulf and to Belvoir (Continued). VII. A Pleasant Pilgrimage into New Jersey. VIII. A. Walk Up the Wissahickon Valley. IX. A Trip to Reading and Its Grand Environs. X. The Soapstone Quarries and Rockdale. XI. Villanova and Its Vicinity. XII. Glimpses from a Car window of a Picturesque Country. XIII. A Trip to Mount Gretna and the Cornwall Ore Banks.
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.
Lively advertising print for the dime museum operated by W. D. Hagar and W. T. Campbell 1883-1885. Shows throngs of people entering the mansard-roofed building, heavily adorned in signage and over 40 pictures of the museum's performers, at the northwest corner of Ninth and Arch Streets. Signs read "Specially Adapted for Ladies & Children: Open Daily from 1 to 10 P.M."; "Curiosities Constantly Arriving From All Parts of the World"; and "Philadelphia's Pleasure Palace Containing Countless Curiosities / Peerless Parlor Peformances." Other signs announce the hours of operation, the museum's purpose for the "instruction and amusement" of ladies and children, and the admission price - 10 cents. Performer's pictures primarily depict human curiosities and include tattooed men and women, a bearded lady, clowns, a two-headed woman, little people, an armless man, a man eating a slate, exotic and native costumed figures, as well as a magician and a ventriloquist. Graphics also show exotic animals and birds. Building also adorned with flags promoting the museum and its attractions, including "birds, beasts, and mechanical marvels." In the street, three street cars (nos. 44, 33, and 26) and one wagon, advertising Hagar & Campbell's, travel and stop in front of the museum. Wagon is composed of billboards illustrated with an image of seven women with floor-length hair and captioned "Seven Wonders of the World.", Also shows adjacent buildings, a crowd of people at the side of the museum, and pedestrians and passersby in the street, on the sidewalk, and near and looking at the street vehicles. Print also contains portraits of owners W. D. Hagar and W. T. Campbell in the upper corners. By 1884, Campbell and Hagar were officers in the Barnum and London show managing "Privileges." Campbell stayed with Barnum until at least the early 1890s., Date inferred from title., Gift of Barbara Fahs Charles and Robert Staples., POSP 286
Date
[1883]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ***BW - Advertisements - H [P.2013.82]
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.
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.
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.
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.
Negative number: 7201, Depicts the demolition of a building at Front and Green Streets under the elevated railway. Broadsides advertising the Imperial Theatre and The Bijou are posted on the first floor exterior of the vacant brick building. A man works on the second floor near wooden scaffolding erected against the neighboring three-and-a-half story property. Rubble from demolition litters the sidewalk.
Negative number: 2995, Street view looking north on Front Street at a marker for bent 167 near Palmer Street. Men and boys have gathered on the corners for the photograph. The Kensington Freight Yard of the Pennsylvania Railroad occupies the entire east side of the block. H. Siemon & Son's barrel business is visible on the west side of the block (1750 North Front Street).
Negative number: 3298, View looking south from the most recently constructed steel bent, number 265, on Kensington Avenue. The sidewalks are crowded with spectators, mostly men, who are watching six men working on top of bent 265. Businesses on the block include Robert Kearn's liquor store (2629-31 Kensington Avenue) and an oysters shop.
Negative number: 2883, View looking south from bent 155 on Front Street. Large crowds have gathered on the east and west sidewalks. Construction supplies and rubble flank the tracks running along the cobblestone street.
Negative number: 3110, View looking south at construction site around bent 189 on Front Street. Includes a partial view of the Kensington passenger depot and ticket office for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company on the east side of the block.
Negative number: 2353, Street view looking north along North Front Street showing a man holding up a sign next to a steel column: "Front St. Bent 61." Beams line both sides of the street. A horse-drawn carriage and horsecar travel south on the tracks in the distance.
Negative number: 2762, Street view looking south at construction site around bent 114, showing beams, piles of lumber and steel. J.A. Dougherty's Sons, distillers, sits at 1136 North Front Street. Gustav Berger, manufacturer of sash doors, is visible across the street at 1143 North Front Street.
Negative number: 24170, Exterior view looking southwest at the brick, one-story Philadelphia Rapid Transit office building under the elevated railway on Frankford Avenue near Bridge Street. A car is parked next to the side of the building.
Negative number: 3111, View looking north at traffic and pedestrians on Front Street near Norris Street, from bent 189. Includes a partial view of Ninth National Bank (left), American Loan Company (1953 North Front) and H.F. Mayer, liquors, at 1957 North Front).
Negative number: 2865, View looking north, showing construction materials flanking the cobblestone street. Includes horse-drawn carts and buggies and people sitting on front stoops of properties along North Front Street.
Negative number: 2884, View looking north from bent 155 on Front Street. A large crowd, including a police officer, has gathered on the west sidewalk. Construction supplies and rubble flank the tracks running along the cobblestone street. The corner property at 1700 North Front Street is occupied by Daniel Morris, liquors.
Negative number: 2864, View looking south at the most recently completed steel bent, bent 137, showing construction materials flanking the cobblestone street. A man stands on the steel skeleton near a crane looking down in the direction of the photographer. John J. McGrath, railway supplies, occupies 1340 North Front Street.
Negative number: 4306, View looking south along Kensington Avenue at the most recently completed steel bent, number 374, near Ontario Street. Stores and shops occupy the east side of the block, but the west side, below Ontario, is vacant. The Non Pariel Theater, also known as the Ontario Palace Theater, sits the southwest corner (3361 Kensington Avenue). A horse is harnessed to a cart pulling machinery (right).
Negative number: 2663, Street view looking south at the most recently completed steel bent, number 108, showing beams, rubble, and through Pratt trusses on the sides of the cobblestone street.
Negative number: 2650, Street view looking north from the most recently completed steel bent, number 108, showing beams, rubble, and through Pratt trusses on the sides of the cobblestone street. Pedestrians sit on the beams and linger around the construction site. Businesses include Gustav Berger's sashes and an unidentified cooperage.
Negative number: 2643, Street view looking south at the most recently completed steel bent, number 108, showing beams, rubble, and through Pratt trusses on the sides of the cobblestone street.
Negative number: 2811, Street view looking south at construction site around bent 121, showing horse-drawn buggies in the cobblestone street. Includes Nathan Rosenstein's grocery store at 1214 North Front Street.
Negative number: 3159, View looking north along Front Street, showing the marker for bent 227. Pedestrians, mostly men and boys, stand around the scene. Businesses include S.S. Kresge 5 & 10-cent store (2336 North Front) and McNeil's drug store (2401 Kensington Avenue). A carpet manufactury occupies the east side of the block.
Negative number: 2573, Street view looking north from the most recently completed steel bent, number 99, showing beams and rubble on the sides of the cobblestone street. Pedestrians sit on the beams and linger around the construction site.
Negative number: 2508, Street view looking north at steel bent 85 on North Front Street. Shows a locomotive pulling a freight car containing through Pratt trusses. A group of men stand on the sidewalk nearby. The signboard for M.F. Gates & Son coal yard is visible in the distance, which places this scene along the 1000 block of North Front Street. A small portion of Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church is visible as well.
Negative number: 2450, Street view looking north at a marker for Bent 74, near Poplar Street. Shows construction materials flanking the cobblestone street, a large horse-drawn carriage travelling north, and store fronts including Alfred Box & Co., and a bar with a "Schmidt's Beer" signboard hanging over the front entrance. A group of men sit on a cart on the east side of the block.
Negative number: 3136, View of the construction site at the most recently completed steel bent, bent 211, looking south from Susquehanna Avenue. "Street Closed" signs sit on both sides of the street. A police officer monitors the scene. Crowds have gathered on both sidewalks under the awnings that shade the first-floor store fronts.
Negative number: 2572, Street view looking south at construction scene near steel bent 99 on the 1000 block of North Front Street. Shows Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church and Max Bernstein & Son wool pullers.
Negative number: 2352, Street view looking south along North Front Street showing the most recently constructed steel bent, Bent 61, along North Front Street. Beams and other construction materials line both sides of the street. A locomotive approaches the photographer on the old tracks in the cobblestone street.
Negative number: 2449, Street view looking south at the steel bents ending with Bent 72 on North Front Street. Shows construction materials flanking the cobblestone street and freight cars sitting on the tracks underneath the steel bents in the foreground.
Negative number: 3166, View looking west at the beginning of Kensington Avenue, branching off from Front Street. Shows the most recently constructed bent, number 234. Pedestrians, mostly men and boys, stand around the construction site, looking at the curve of the elevated tracks above them. Includes a partial view of McNeil's drug store (2401 Kensington Avenue) and Ferguson jeweler (2362 North Front Street).
Negative number: 3158, View looking south along Front Street, showing the most recently constructed bent, number 227. Pedestrians, mostly men and boys, stand around the scene on the sidewalks. A large brick carpet manufactury occupies the entire east side of the block. D. Strumpf Shoes (2322-24 North Front) and F.W. Woolworth & Co. 5 and 10-cent store (2320 North Front) are visible on the west side of the block.
Negative number: 3099, Street view looking south on Front Street at construction site near the most recently constructed steel bent, bent 187. Beams and piles of debris line the road. ,A streetcar approaches in the distance.
Negative number: 4339, View looking south along Kensington Avenue at the most recently completed steel bent, number 378, near Schiller Street. Three horse-drawn lifts sit in the middle of the street. Spectators line both sidewalks, watching the construction scene. Includes a partial view of a Philadelphia Electric Co. station.
Negative number: 3534, View looking south along Kensington Avenue at the most recently completed steel bent, number 369, near Thayer Street. Two lifts on carts pulled by teams of two horses sit on the steel rails in the cobblestone street. Men work on top of the steel bents. Stores and shops occupy the east side of the block, but the west side is vacant.
Negative number: 3267, View looking south from the most recently constructed steel bent, number 244, on Kensington Avenue. The sidewalks are crowded with spectators. Men stand on a lift under bent 243.
Negative number: 3167, View looking north at a trolley approaching the photographer on Kensington Avenue. View from the most recently constructed steel bent, number 234. The sidewalks are crowded with spectators and shoppers. Delivery carts for a nearby furniture store are parked on the side of the road. Businesses include a stationer, oyster house, barber, tailor, drug store and the People's Theater.