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Title: Progress of reinforced concrete roadbed construction in Front St. at Green St. looking south, December 17, 1917.
Description: Negative number: 5156, View of the snow-covered concrete roadbed of the elevated railway, looking south from Green Street. Shows construction equipment in the distance. The Philadelphia Warehousing & Cold Storage Company building is visible on the east side of the railway.
Date: December 17, 1917

Title: Progress of steel construction - arch over Lehigh Ave. and Kensington Ave. Richmond Branch P & R Ry., bent 273, August 28, 1916.
Description: Negative number: 2993, View looking north at the construction of an elevated railway bridge over the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad tracks that span Kensington Avenue near Lehigh Avenue. Shows crowds of men standing on both sidewalks around the construction site at steel bent 273. Includes a partial view of Strathmann's Coal at the northeast corner of Kensington and Lehigh Avenues.
Date: August 28, 1916

Title: Progress of steel construction at bent 113, looking north on Front St., showing crosswires, July 17, 1916.
Description: Negative number: 2711, Street view looking north toward Girard Avenue from construction site at bent 113 . A horse-drawn buggy stands in the right foreground. A group of young boys stand in the road in the distance. Includes Kensington Loan & Storage Co., pawnbrokers, at 100 Girard Avenue, and a whiskey distillery across the street.
Date: July 17, 1916

Title: Progress of steel construction at bent 113, looking south on Front St., July 17, 1916.
Description: Negative number: 2710, Street view looking south at piles of lumber and steel near construction site at bent 113. J.A. Dougherty's Sons, distillers, sits at 1136 North Front Street. Gustav Berger, manufacturer of sash doors, is also visible.
Date: July 17, 1916

Title: Perspective of structure in Front St. above Girard Ave., showing absence of longitudinal station girders, Sept. 12, 1916.
Description: Negative number: 3119, View looking south at recently constructed steel bents and through trusses on Front Street, below Girard Avenue. Includes horse-drawn cart advertising Abbotts "A" milk, Philadelphia and Seashore.
Date: September 12, 1916

Title: Perspective of structure in Front St. below Girard Ave., showing absence of longitudinal station girders, September 12, 1916.
Description: Negative number: 3118, View looking north at recently constructed steel bents and through trusses on Front Street, near Girard Avenue. Includes signboard for Gustav Berger's sash door business.
Date: September 12, 1916

Title: Progress of steel construction - bent 62, looking south, May 29, 1916.
Description: Negative number: 2372, Street view looking south from the most recently constructed steel bent, Bent 62, showing installation of through-Pratt trusses resting on the steel bents. Construction materials and debris line the cobblestone street.
Date: May 16, 1916

Title: Progress of steel construction - bent 39, Apr. 24, 1916.
Description: Negative number: 2217, Street level view showing materials piled in horse-drawn carts underneath of the steel skeleton, labeled "Bent 39."
Date: April 24, 1916

Title: Perspective from tower of storage warehouse, Front St. below Green, looking south, May 19, 1916.
Description: Negative number: 2290, Perspective looking south from the Philadelphia Warehousing & Cold Storage Co building on North Front Street. Shows through-Pratt trusses supported by steel bents running the length of Front Street, as far as the eye can see. Includes the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad's Outward Freight building no. 6 in the foreground.
Date: May 16, 1916

Title: Girard Ave crossover without station girders - Front Street, September 14, 1916.
Description: Negative number: 3120, Street view looking west at a section of the unfinished elevated railway crossing over Girard Avenue. A group of young boys stand in the middle of the street. Shows William Penn Hose Co. and Kensington National Bank in the distance.
Date: September 14, 1916

Title: Progress of steel construction, Front St., bent 85, looking south, June 12, 1916.
Description: Negative number: 2507, Street view looking south at construction scene near steel bent 85 on North Front Street.
Date: June 12, 1916

Title: Arch over Lehigh Ave. showing detail construction under road-bed, looking north, June 4, 1917.
Description: Negative number: 4535, View looking north along Kensington Avenue, showing the underbelly of the arch spanning Lehigh Avenue and the truss bridge carrying the elevated railway over the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad pony plate girder bridge. Includes a partial view of the Port Richmond division of the Young Men's Christian association (left). A trolley car travels south on Kensington Avenue.
Date: June 4, 1917

Title: South end of span over Port Richmond branch, PRR, on Kensington Ave., showing progress of construction, September 11, 1916.
Description: Negative number: 3109, View looking north at the construction of an elevated, deck truss railway bridge over the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad tracks that span Kensington Avenue near Lehigh Avenue. Shows a locomotive sitting on the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad tracks and crowd of men standing in the foreground, looking at the bridge. Includes the business sign for Strathmann's Coal at the northeast corner of Kensington and Lehigh Avenues.
Date: September 11, 1916

Title: Progress of steel construction in Kensington Avenue at bent 265, looking north, showing crosswires, October 16, 1916.
Description: Negative number: 3299, View looking north along Kensington Avenue at the construction of a truss bridge that will carry the new elevated railway over the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad tracks near Lehigh Avenue. A horse-drawn delivery wagon sits on the west side of the road. Businesses include a "money back store"; a shoe store; a saloon; Hamilton clothing store; S. Weinstein, tailor; and Chas. Schmelz, tobacconist. Includes a partial view of the Young Men's Christian association, Port Richmond division up on the hill near the railroad tracks.
Date: October 16, 1916

Title: Progress of steel construction in Kensington Ave., Perspective of Kensington Ave. & Lehigh Ave., looking north, Oct. 23, 1916.
Description: Negative number: 3308, View looking north from the corner saloon at the southeast corner of Kensington and Lehigh Avenues at the construction of the elevated railway bridge spanning the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad tracks. Men stand around the construction scene on the sidewalks and on Lehigh Avenue. Includes an exterior view of the Port Richmond division of the Young Men's Christian Association, a three-and-a-half story brick building elevated above the street at the northwest corner of Kensington and Lehigh Avenues.
Date: October 23, 1916

Title: Progress of steel construction in Kensington Ave. at bent 244, looking north, October 9, 1916.
Description: Negative number: 3268, View looking north from a marker for bent 244 on Kensington Avenue. The east sidewalk is crowded with spectators. A man sits in a large cart hitched to a team of horses on the west side of the block. A trolley travels down the tracks in the distance. The elevated railway bridge spanning the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad tracks near Lehigh Avenue is also visible. Businesses include Edward C. Johnson's liquor store (2473 Kensington Avenue) and Munch's Saloon (2500 Kensington Avenue).
Date: October 9, 1916

Title: Perspective of road-bed looking north from Huntingdon St., June 4, 1917.
Description: Negative number: 4534, View from a rooftop on the west side of Kensington Avenue looking north from Huntingdon Street showing the recently installed steel bents and though Pratt trusses of the elevated railway. Includes a clear view of Orinoka Mills and Hulton Dyeing & Finishing Co., two brick, industrial buildings that tower over neighboring properties near Somerset Street, behind the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad tracks. Also shows the bridge crossing the tracks in the distance.
Date: June 4, 1917

Title: Progress of steel construction in Kensington Ave., arch over Lehigh Ave., looking south, October 30, 1916.
Description: Negative number: 3381, Depicts the underbelly of the bridge spanning the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad tracks at Lehigh Avenue. View looks south at the 2600 block of Kensington Avenue.
Date: October 30, 1916

Title: Temporary supports on sidewalk for arch over P. & R. Ry. Kensington Ave., September 14, 1916.
Description: Negative number: 3122, View looking north at the pony plate girder bridge carrying the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad tracks over Kensington Avenue. Above this bridge spans the recently constructed truss bridge carrying the new elevated railway over the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad tracks.
Date: September 14, 1916

Title: Profile of arch over Lehigh Ave. looking west, June 4, 1917.
Description: Negative number: 4536, View looking west on Lehigh Avenue, showing the arch of the bridge spanning Lehigh Avenue and the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad bridge.
Date: June 4, 1917

Title: Progress of Steel Construction, Perspective of Kensington Ave. & Lehigh Ave., looking south, October 23, 1916.
Description: Negative number: 3307, View from the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company tracks running parallel to Lehigh Avenue, showing the construction of a steel bent on the 2600 block of Kensington Avenue. A crane rises high above the street. Image includes partial views of St. Cecilia's Roman Catholic Church, the five-story brick building of a carpet manufactury, and a row of residences, all on Lehigh Avenue. Spectators stand in the street and on the sidewalks.
Date: October 23, 1916

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: Railroad Guards, fall in! With officers that have seen service in the field To arms! To arms! $50 bounty $50 Recruits wanted to fill Co. "H," Railroad Guards 100 days service. Apply at head-quarters: Frankford Road, above Huntingdon Street. Pay and rations as soon as mustered and pay from time of enrollment
Description: Charles S. Brown, Captain of Co. H of the 91st Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, resigned Feb. 22, 1862. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 3, p. 222., The illustration, signed L. Johnson & Co., is an eagle on a shield with a blank banner., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Railroad Guards, Company H.
Date: [1862?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1862 Railroad (1)5777.F.55b (McAllister)

Title: Train entrance of the Philadelphia subway, Front & Arch Sts. [sic], Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Depicts the train entrance for the Market Street subway near Front and Market Streets looking west, showing a train emerging from underground about to loop around a steep incline to continue along Delaware Avenue. Also depicts commercial store fronts on the south side of Market Street., Numbered 302 on verso., 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: 158A01., Divided back. Post marked 1914., 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. 1914
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Transit - 158]

Title: Transportation Building. 250 x 960 feet. Cost $280,000
Description: Trade card issued during the Columbian Exposition of 1893 advertising M&D Wrought Steel Ranges. Contains a view of the Transportation Building built after the designs of Adler & Sullivan and lower cornice vignettes showing a ship and a train. The exposition held in Chicago May 1-October 30, 1898 celebrated the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492., Copyright by A. L[os?]se & Co., Illustration and advertising text printed on verso. Illustration depicts a Mason & Davis cooking range, including six burners. Text reads: M & D Wrought Steel Ranges for Coal, Wood or Gas. All Sizes and Styles. For Families, Restaurants and Hotels. Mason & Davis Co., 72 Lake St., Chicago, Ill., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Michael Zinman.
Date: c1892
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection - Trade cards [P.2008.36.82]

Title: Adams & Co's express. Eastern, Western, and Northern package express, for the conveyance of merchandise, specie, baggage, &c, &c, and insurance effected, whenever required on any package, to its full amount of value
Description: Bill of lading for the Philadelphia branch (est. circa 1843) of the rail express service company started by Alvin Adams of Boston in 1840. Contains vignette showing an "Adams & Co. Express" train crossing over a stone bridge under which a horse-drawn wagon travels. In the background, a ship sails and in the foreground, two men watch the train from a valley., Name of proprietors (Alvin Adams, W.B. Dinsmore, E. S. Sanford, E. S. Shoemaker) and office locations (Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, and Richmond) printed below and to side of image., Contains N.B. explicating that Adams & Co. are "alone responsible for the loss or injury of any article or property of any description entrusted to their care...", Completed in manuscript for J. S. Myers shipping one tin box to Wm. Gadsby, Washington, DC., dated March 17, 1852, signed: For the Proprietors, [D Nussing?]., Numeric calculations inscribed on verso., 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., Small section of bottom edge torn off.
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Receipts [P.2011.10.116]

Title: Thomas Borbidge, forwarding and commission merchant, no. 278 Market Street
Description: Bill of lading for the Philadelphia merchant containing a view showing a locomotive hauling canal boats past two buildings in a scenic region., Completed in manuscript for C. Schrack for shipping 2 Kegs and 1 Box to Helfneck & Pepper, Chambersburg, dated December 6, 1849 and signed W. B. Smith., 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: [1849]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Receipts [P.2011.10.123]

Title: Henry McShane Manufacturing Company, brass and iron founders and finishers. And proprietors of the McShane Bell Foundry, Phoenix Iron Works and Baltimore Sheet Metal Works Established 1856
Description: Pictorial envelope containing a bird's eye view and advertising text on the verso. View shows the McShane manufactory complex over two blocks at "415 to 441 North St." Also shows street traffic, including horse-drawn carts and an omnibus, and a train. Advertising text list the addresses of the foundry and branch houses and "Highest Awards for Church Bells and Chimes" awarded at fairs and exhibitions between 1873 and 1887, including the Centennial Exhibition 1876. The McShane firm, also known as the McShane Bell Foundry, operated under the name Henry McShane Manufacturing Company beginning circa 1891., Title from illustration on verso., Date inferred from ink-stamp postmarks on recto and verso: Baltimore, MD, Aug 15, 1893, 6 PM and Received Philadelphia, PA, Aug 16, 1893, 1 30 A[M]., Return address printed in upper left corner: REturn to Henry McShane Mfg. Co., 441 North St., Baltimore, Md. If not delivered within 5 days., Addressed in manuscript to: The J.D. Johnson Co., Plumber Supplies, 139-41 N. seventh St., Philadelphia, Pa., Contains on recto: cancelled two-cent stamp printed in green and depicting a profile portrait of George Washington., 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. 1893]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Envelopes [P.2011.10.83]

Title: Souvenir calendar and memorandum book. Compliments of McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. Chicago, Ill
Description: Advertisement souvenir containing illustrated calendar pages and "Memorandum" sheets printed with paragraphs of promotional text about McCormick and his machinery. Illustrations depict seasonal, genre and landscape scenes, including a man fishing (July), a couple canoeing (August), ducks on promenade down a dirt path (September), a waterfall and winter scene near a homestead (October and November), and deers in a snow-covered forest (December). Promotional text describes the superiority of the McCormick mowers based on "Durability. Convenience and Light Draft"; the machines' prevalence, profitability, history, patents, and awards; the ingenuity of McCormick, the plant, and his employees; and the "best farmers" paying higher prices for McCormick mowers because " Others may cut the prices but the McCormick cuts the grain." Also contains a "Map of the Business Portion of Chicago" and views of a horse-drawn McCormick reaper ("The Winner of the Grand Prizes All Around the World") and draft mower no. 4 ("The Most Durable and Lightest Draft Mower on Earth") on the inside front and back covers., Front and back cover illustrated. Front cover depicts a view of a field lined with bundles of harvested wheat. Image overlaid with an inset of a portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick. Pictorial details of a flower and vinery complete the image. Back cover depicts "Birdsye View of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co.'s Works. In Capacity the Largest in the World." Also shows several trains stopped on tracks in front of the complex., Date inferred from text: Fifteen thousands tops of McCormick Binding Twine will be used in the harvest fields of 1893., 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., McCormick Harvesting Machine Co., previously Cyrus H. McCormick and Brothers, was established in Chicago in 1847 by first-successful mechanical reaper inventor Cyrus W. McCormick (1809-1884) and his brother Leander J. McCormick. Brother William Sanderson McCormick joined the firm in 1849. In 1902, the firm was incorporated into the International Harvester Company.
Date: [1893]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Calendars [P.2011.10.166]

Title: Guns in front of Gov't B'l'd'g
Description: View showing Rodman guns and carriages lined up near the entrance to the U.S. Government Building, designed by James Windrim, looking southeast along Belmont Avenue. Also shows a train next to the covered platform across the street and the music pavilion in the middle of the intersection of Belmont and Fountain Avenues. 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., 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.9047.165]

Title: Elevated railway, Centennial Grounds
Description: View showing the monorail, also known as the "Safety Elevated Railway," consisting of a steam locomotive and passenger car straddling a beam elevated above the ground. Male passengers stand on the outside of the car while others inside the car poke their heads out of the windows. Designed by General Roy Stone, the monorail transported spectators between Horticultural Hall and Agricultural Hall over Belmont Ravine. 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., Manuscript note on verso: Laura C. Bumpus., White curved mount with rounded corners., 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.9229.8]

Title: Adams & Co.'s Express, 116 Chestnut St. Philadelphia Commissions executed in all the principal cities of the world
Description: Label for the Philadelphia branch (est. circa 1843) of the rail express service company started by Alvin Adams of Boston in 1840. Contains an ornate border and vignettes. Vignettes depict a horse-drawn delivery wagon transporting several crates; sailing ships; and traveling railroad trains. Border details include filigree and flowers., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Madelyn Wolke, Lucianne Reichert, and Clifford A. Mohwinkel Jr.
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Serz [P.9773.38o]

Title: United States Express Company, principal office, 82 Broadway, branch offices, 291 (corner Reade) and 416 Broadway. New York D.N. Barney, prest. T.B. Marsh, treas. C.A. Dewitt, genl. supt. East. Henry Kip, genl. supt. West
Description: Bill of lading containing an illustration comprised of a montage of scenes. In the left, a horse-drawn cart loaded with freight arrives at a train station at which several crates are piled by the tracks. In the right, a train travels through a town, past a church steeple. In the center, an American eagle perches, under a beacon of stars, on a safe box labeled "Security Speed." The privately-owned United States Express Company, operated 1854-1914, and served the northern states from New England west to Colorado. Ashbel H. and Danforth Barney founded the company., Completed in manuscript for "one box" shipping to F. Lamprecht, St. Paul, Minn., dated April 8, 1864, and signed (416) [D.M.L.?], Advertising text printed below image: General Express Forwarders and Collecting Agents to All Points throughout the West, North West, South West, Canada West, and on the Line of the New-York and Erie R.R. and its branches, under Charge of Special Messengers, on Passenger Express Trains., Liability terms printed on recto, including United States Express Company shall not be held liable for "any loss or damage by fire, the acts of God, or of the enemies of the Government, the restraint of Governments, mobs, riots, insurrections, pirates...nor upon frail fabrics....; nor upon any fabrics consisting of or contained in glass.", Manuscript note on verso: 1864 New York. April 8th. United States Express Co. Bill., 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: Lossing & Barritt, engraver
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Receipts [P.2011.10.147]

Title: Crown Can Company plant, vicinity of I Street and Erie Avenue, Juniata Park, Philadelphia
Description: Aerial views of the Crown Can Company plant in the Juniata Park section of Philadelphia. Other industrial facilities can be seen, including those of Richardson's Mints and Cuneo Press. The Crown facility spans several city blocks and sits adjacent to the Bellvue Cemetery, a stadium, railroad tracks and areas of row homes. A trolley car is visible on the trolley tracks., Negative numbers: 19842s, 19848s, 19849s., Manuscript note on negative sleeve: Crown Can Co., Phila, Pa., June 26, 1939.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: 1939
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.19842s; P.8990.19848s; P.8990.19849s]

Title: Office of the Adams Express Comp'y. 320 Chestnut St. Philadelphia, January 27, 1862 The Adams Express Co. having enlarged their facilities at Washington, D.C., by building a railroad depot, and having acquired additional capacity for transportation, are now prepared to forward heavy express freights, packages and parcels to Washington, Georgetown, Alexandria, Annapolis, Frederick, Adamstown, Fortress Monroe, and other places south occupied by the army, at greatly reduced rates. Special agreements made for merchandise in large lots. Sutler's goods and army supplies at satisfactory prices, on application at our office. Soldier's parcels taken at much less than our usual rates. Heavy and bulky packages received and receipted for at our depot, S.E. corner Broad and Locust Streets
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Adams Express Company
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1862 Adams 5786.F.136b (McAllister)

Title: [Philadelphia and Reading Railroad facilities, Reading, Pennsylvania.]
Description: Aerial view of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company's railroad shop, yard and railroad tracks in Reading, Pennsylvania. Residential areas adjacent to the yard, farmlands and fairgrounds are visible in the distance. Seventh St. view is south to north. Probably taken September 12-16, 1922., Negative numbers: 2757., Record revised with information supplied by former Aero Service employee Carl H. Winnefeld, Jr.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: ca. 1922
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.2757]

Title: Bird's eye view, Centennial buildings. 1876. Fairmount Park, Philadelphia
Description: Bird's eye view looking west from the Schuylkill River toward the exhibition grounds in West Fairmount Park. Includes the Reading Railroad depot (in the foreground), the Main Building, Machinery Hall, the Art Gallery (Memorial Hall), Judges Hall, Ladies Pavilion, U.S. Government Buildings, Horticultural Hall, Agricultural Hall, the observatory on George's Hill, the 24th Ward reservoir, the Globe Hotel, and the Pennsylvania Railroad Depot. Also shows a train approaching the Reading Railroad station, the bridge over Lansdown Valley, and smaller exhibition venues, including the Photograph Gallery, City Pavilion, Vienna Bakery and Coffee House, restaurants, state buildings, fountains and monuments. The grounds are lined with trees, bushes, and landscaped paths. Contains the names and dimensions of the major buildings, and a miniature diagram of the view and corresponding key below the image. Key identifies 51 depicted sites. Several of the buildings were built after the designs of Henry Petit, Hermann Schwarzmann, and Joseph Wilson. The Centennial Exhibition celebrated the anniversary of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 42, Gift of David Doret.
Date: c1875, c1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Centennial [P.2002.49.2]

Title: S.E. corner of 22nd & Green Sts. Philada
Description: Exterior view of the front and east elevations of the three-story brick row houses at 2146-2148 Green Street. Includes the side entrance of the corner property and a street lamp. Two women, three girls, and a baby in a carriage pose on the corner. Also shows a partial view of a horse-drawn streetcar (labeled "40" on the rear) turning the corner and heading east on Green Street., Title from manuscript note on verso., Initials and date from manuscript note on verso: J.B. 9/10/61., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: September 10, 1861
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Streets [P.9751.1]

Title: St. James Church. West Philada Rev. F. P. O'Neill, Pastor
Description: View showing the stone edifice of St. James Church, the church's first building, constructed in 1851 after the designs of John T. Mahoney at the southeast corner of Thirty-eighth and Chestnut Streets and two adjacent structures, possibly the church rectory and orphans' home. Shows pedestrians promenading on the sidewalks, including two women walking arm-in-arm along Thirty-eighth Street in the foreground. Also depicts a horse-drawn Chestnut-Walnut Street car travelling west along Chestnut Street. Reverend Francis P. O'Neill served as pastor of the church from 1875 until his death in 1882. Structure demolished in the summer of 1881 for the erection of the Gothic Revival church designed by Edwin F. Durang., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 233, PAHRC: Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. James Church
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center. | Graphics Collection. PAHRC Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. James Church

Title: Works, East Schuylkill Falls. Powers & Weightman, manufacturing chemists, Philadelphia. Established 1818 Tartaric and citric acid department, Falls of Schuylkill. ; Laboratory for fine chemicals, Ninth and Parrish Streets
Description: View showing the laboratory complex of processing plants and storage sheds established in 1848 on Ridge Avenue near Schuylkill Falls (i.e., East Falls). Within the complex, laborers haul goods by horse among the several buildings, smoke stacks, and trees. Men and women converse near the entrance to the complex in the foreground, as a horse-drawn cart exits the compound. In the background, a locomotive travels past the complex (right) and a laborer works with a team of horses that pull several railroad carts loaded with goods (left) on the series of tracks surrounding the complex. View also shows adjacent lots of pasture land. In the lower corners are two vignettes depicting exterior views of the tartaric and citric acid department and the laboratory for fine chemicals at Ninth and Parrish Streets. In 1847, Powers & Weightman succeeded Farr & Kunzi (established in 1818), and became internationally renown for their manufacture of medicinal and other fine chemicals. The company was the first to introduce quinine to the United States. A second factory complex operated between 9th, Parrish, Brown, and Darien Streets. The East Falls operation included housing for employees., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 867, A. Blanc worked as an artist for Longacre & Co. between 1870 and 1876.
Creator: Blanc, Albert, 1850-, artist
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | PRINTS PRINTS *BW-Industry [P.2008.34.23]

Title: Green Mt. engine & car at Summit, Rob. Mickle standing by cab, [Mount Desert Island, ME]
Description: Glass negative showing a train engine and car sitting on the tracks at Mount Desert Island. Rob Mickle stands next to the engine while two men sit or stand inside the engine. Three other men sit in the car. Mount Desert Island, the largest island off the coast of Maine, was popularized in the mid-19th century by Hudson River School painters as a nature retreat. From the late 19th century to around the 1930s the Island was a tourist destination for the social elite., Photographer remarks: Intens. 10/88, Time: 3:55, 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: July 16, 1888
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1319]

Title: View of James River & mountains from road above S[henandoah] V[alley] R[ail]r[oad] bridge at Nat[ural] Bridge Station, [VA]. Looking S
Description: Glass negative showing the Shenandoah Valley Railroad bridge over James River. A road winds down a hill in the foreground and higher peaks rise in the distance., Time: 4:10, The emulsion is dark and is peeling along the edges of the plate., 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: October 16, 1886
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1056]

Title: Group on the engine at Hurd, N.J. Near view
Description: Glass negative showing a group posed on the engine of a train. People stand and sit on the engine and the coal car while the engineer leans out the window and another man stands on the ground near the tracks., Photographer remarks: Poor neg., Time: 8:15 A.M., Light: Fair sun., 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: August 12, 1889
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1566]

Title: Scenery of the Allegheny Mountains and Pennsylvania Central R[ail] R[oad]
Description: Incomplete collection of the series, published by John Moran circa 1863, showing scenic views of the Allegheny Mountains and Conemaugh and Susquehanna rivers along the Pittsburgh division of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The railroad (incorporated in 1846) traveled from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh through the mountain passage known as the "Horse Shoe Curve," completed in 1854. Three views attrtibuted to Moran titled, "Head Waters of the Susquehanna, Cambria Co., PA.," "Kittaning Point, Allegheny Mountains," and "The pass through Jack's Mountain, Huntingdon, Co." included as part of the series., Views depict: the forest at the summit of the Alleghanies; an overlook and rocky valley at Kittaning Point in the Alleghenies; old bed of the Conemaugh River; sand ridge at Mapleton at the foot of Jack's Mountain; views of the head waters of the Susquehanna River in Cambria County, and a canal lock in "Jack's Narrows" on the Juniata River. Three of the views include posed male figures., Cream mounts with square corners., Photographer's label pasted on verso of six views in the series., Six of the series are numbered: No. 237, 244, 254, 259, 260, and 294., Title stamped on mounts., 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. He resided at 806 Coates Street between 1862 and 1864.
Creator: Moran, John, 1831-1903
Date: [ca. 1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Moran - Views [P.8979.10; P.8992.14-19; P. 9462.20; P.9466.15]

Title: Sliding down Jacob's Ladder, Mt. Washington Railroad
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 three men on slideboards sliding down the cog rack of the steepest section of the railway., Photographer's imprint printed on verso., Negative number printed on mount: 691., 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.61j]

Title: The Allegheny Tunnel, at the Summit
Description: View showing the portal of the Pennsylvania Railroad Tunnel, completed in 1854, running beneath the summit of the Allegheny Mountains at Gallitzin, Pa. Includes passengers waiting at the train station near a stopped locomotive and a sign post advertising the Gallitzin House hotel. In the far background, the borough is visible above the tunnel., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Title printed on the mount., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Purviance, W. T. (William T.)
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Purviance - Transportation [P.9577.21]

Title: Willow Grove Park postcards
Description: Contains views of Willow Grove Park, a trolley amusement park located in the Philadelphia suburb of Willow Grove in Montgomery County. Images document buildings, grounds and attractions at the park including night and day time views of the lighted or "electric rainbow" fountain; the music pavilion, a open air theater which served as performance space for summer concert series featuring John Philip Sousa and others; the artificial lakes which were used for boating; popular rides including the Mountain Scenic Railway, the Airships (also known as the Captive Flying Machine), the Coal Mine (a roller coaster), and Venice (a gondola ride); the midway; the lake side pavilion which also served as a soda fountain; the casino; and boat landing. Also contains bird's eye views; views of the grounds and picnic areas; the entranceway; the cafe; a natural spring; and the Women's Building. Two postcards contain group portraits of Sousa's band and Victor Herbert's Orchestra., Postcards issued by a variety of different publishers with the greatest number (over thirty cards each) issued by J.M. Canfield and W.N. Jennings, a Philadelphia photographer. Includes part of two series Philadelphia Post Card Company, no. 1001-1012 and Illustrated Post Card Company, no. P-22 to P-30., Contains 134 postcards printed in color and 22 in black and white. Also includes 4 linen postcards., 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: bulk 1902-1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Willow Grove - 168]

Title: Elevated r[ail] r[oad], highest point, New York
Description: View of steam-powered locomotive pulling cars around curved elevated track, sometimes called Suicide or Angels' Curve, located at 110th and 8th Avenues on New York City's 9th Avenue line. Two standing figures and a wagon with two passengers are at street level. After 1903 steam powered locomotives were no longer used on this line., View is numbered 7815 in a series., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920, photographer
Date: between 1896 and 1903
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Rau - transportation [P.9600.9]

Title: At Tamaqua, Pa
Description: View of a locomotive and passenger car at rest in the coal mining town. The town, laid out in 1829 by the Little Schuylkill, Navigation, and Railroad Company, served as the transition point between the Little Schuylkill and Catawissa railroads. The Catawissa Railroad, incorporated in 1831 and opened in 1854, traveled through the mountains near Blue Ridge connecting Port Clinton and Williamsport, Pennsylvania., Photographer's label pasted 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: Moran, John, 1831-1903
Date: [ca. 1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereos - Moran - Views - Cattawissa Railroad [P.9373]

Title: [Steam dummies, Fifth & Sixth Street line, with crowd]
Description: Depicts a crowd of people standing near the number 8 steam dummy that operated along Fifth and Sixth Streets, between Frankford and Southwark, at one point known as the Frankford-Southwark Passenger Railway. An engineer or driver stands alone in soiled overalls next to an open compartment, as if he's just repaired or inspected the car. The conductor and a uniformed policeman stand with other male passengers in the background, in front of the attached trailer, which has seats on the roof of the car., 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.9332.4]

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