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Title: [J.H. Davis driving a horsecar out of a carbarn, Fifth & Sixth Street line, Fifth & Jackson Streets, Philadelphia.]
Description: Depicts J.H. Davis seated in the drivers position holding the horses' reigns in the number 20 horsecar, operated along the Fifth & Sixth Street line, also known as the Frankford-Southwark Passenger Railway. Four men and a boy stand near the car as it exits a carbarn at Fifth and Jackson Streets., Title, description, and location from manuscript note on verso., 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.9332.15]

Title: [John Davis driving a horsecar out of a carbarn, Fifth & Sixth Street line, Fifth & Jackson Streets, Philadelphia.]
Description: Depicts John Davis seated in the drivers position holding the horses' reigns in the number 12 horsecar, operated along the Fifth & Sixth Street line, also known as the Frankford-Southwark Passenger Railway. A uniformed conductor stands next to Davis and five men, including one policeman, stand near the car as it exits a carbarn at Fifth and Jackson Streets. A sign attached to the car above the windows reads: "Lincoln Park on the Delaware, Steamers every 45 minutes, Race and Christian St. Wharves. 3 concerts daily", Gift of Emily Riese., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Davis, Eugene H., photographer
Date: ca. 1894
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Davis [P.9332.16]

Title: Panorama Hill, Hestonville, West Philadelphia This property, embracing over 350 acres, adjoins Hestonville in the 24th Ward, and is distant 3 1/2 miles from Market St. Bridge. It extends from the Lancaster Turnpike to the Monument Road, and it is intersected by the old Lancaster Road, thus having the advantage of three excellent roads. It also has constant communication of passenger rail road. The elevation is 250 feet above tide, the highest ground within an equal distance of the center of the city, of which it commands a splendid panoramic view. The gas has been introduced and the property is well supplied with spring water and possesses all the advantages of the more densely populated wards. For public institutions or elegant residences this locality is unsurpassed
Description: Print containing panoramic views of Panorama Hill in Hestonville, West Philadelphia and "Panorama of Philadelphia as Seen from Panorama Hill." "References" to 32 sites total in both views printed below the images. Central view shows the Pennsylvania Railroad (labeled) cutting through the area that is lined with trees, farmland, and a small number of residences. In the foreground, trains travel in opposite directions on the rail tracks that overpass Old Lancaster Road (labeled). Horse-drawn carriages and wagons travel on Lancaster and under the overpass, cows and horses graze on the hillsides, and the residences of David George (1), Jesse George (2), and Edmund George (3) are visible in the background. Also shows the ravine for a proposed lake (4), the distant steeple of Episcopal Hospital (5), and the toll house (6) on Lancaster Road. Upper view shows the Philadelphia skyline from Panorama Hill. Cows graze in the foreground in front of fenced pastures. In the distant background, steeples and roofs of prominent landmarks, predominately churches, are visible. Includes Girard College (1); House of Refuge (2); Eastern State Penitentiary (3); Shot tower (15); Catholic Cemetery (23); Delaware River (24); Lunatic Asylum (25) and Pennsylvania Railroad (26). Churches include Christ Church (6); St. Peters (12); St. Marks (16); and Trinity Church Maylandville (22). Also contains an inset map showing the property outline between 49th and 56th streets and Haddington and York avenues. Map also includes proposed lake and compass with north pointing left., Manuscript note on recto: Made about 1867., Philadelphia on Stone., POS 539, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., LCP also holds duplicate in very poor condition., Free Library of Philadelphia: Oversize Philadelphiana - Views (2 copies)
Creator: Moras, Ferdinand, 1821-1908
Date: [ca. 1867]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - View [P.2132]

Title: Pipe line, and rail road war. Transferring oil across rail road
Description: View showing two men and a horse-drawn tank wagon transporting oil between Millerstown and Pittsburgh stopped in front of a passing West Penn Rail Road locomotive. The tank wagon rests on a platform leading to railroad tracks near a sign inscribed, "Look out for the locomotive." Another tank wagon turns at a fork in the road in the distance. Also includes a residence in the background. Clothes drying on a clothesline in the backyard of the residence are visible. Oil tank wagons were used following the continual destruction of pipe lines by Pennsylvania Railroad Company workers., Buff mount with rounded corners., Title and publisher's imprint printed on verso., Brief history of the conflicts caused by the transport of oil from the fields to storage tanks printed on verso., Digitized for AMD: Global Commodities., 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: Robbins, Frank, b. 1846
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Robbins - Industry [P.9276.60]

Title: Ninth and Market streets - Philadelphia
Description: View looking east from Ninth Street showing the south side of the 800 block of Market Street. Depicts Gimbel Brother's Department Store, opened in 1894, at the southeast corner of Ninth and Market streets. Street and pedestrian traffic includes trolleys and horse-drawn carriages., Tile from label on negative., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Printed on mount: Made especially for fine trade., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: ca. 1895
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Streets [P.9260.82]

Title: John T. Hammitt, No. 111 South 3d. Street above Spruce, Philadelphia Bank, office and counting house furniture, manufactured to order and constantly on hand. Personal attention paid to, and plans furnished for banking rooms, offices, and legislative halls. Begs leave to call special attention to his patent elevating & graduating table, which can be used in a standing, sitting or intermediate position as a flat or desktop; it permits that desirable change to those who have to perform protracted labours
Description: Advertisement containing vignettes depicting four types of desks manufactured by the firm and an image of passengers seated or napping in Hammitt's patented railway car seats. Image captioned "Patentee of the Improved Night & Day Car Seats now in use on several important Rail Roads, by their use fatigue is avoided and needful rest is secured while traveling by day or night." Includes a list of 38 local banks, insurance companies and other firms as references. References include David S. Brown & Co.; Pennsylvania Insurance Co.; Morris, Tasker, & Morris; Masonic Hall; J.M. Gries; and S.D. Button., Printed above title: Six Silver Medals Awarded for Articles of Useful Invention, Published in Colton's atlas of America, illustrating the physical and political geography of North and South America...Commercial edition with business cards of the prominent houses in Philadelphia. (New York: J.H. Colton and Company, 1856), page 37. (HSP O 458), Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 126, Reaccessioned as P.8729.18., Duplicate in broadside collection: #Am 1854 Hammitt (9596.F)., Free Library of Philadelphia: Kollner Collection - Lithographs - Tradesmen's Cards
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813
Date: [1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Advertisements [7844.F]

Title: Wall Rope Works, Beverly, New Jersey
Description: Aerial view of the Wall Rope Works factory plant at Railroad Avenue and Mt.Holly Road in Beverly, New Jersey. Wall Rope Works was an industrial complex of national importance. The heart of the factory was its ropewalk, a long narrow building where strands of material were laid and twisted into rope. The 1,700 foot-long facility was the largest in the U.S. The company supplied rope products for the military beginning with the Spanish-American War; its products were used in the construction of the Kennedy Space Center. View is from northwest to southeast. Railroad tracks and adjacent residential areas are visible., Negative number: 1837., Record created 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.8990.1837]

Title: Morrisville Yard, Morrisville, New Jersey
Description: Aerial view of the Morrisville Yard, a rail yard originally used by the Pennsylvania Railroad for freight trains. The yard is now used by New Jersey Transit rail operations. Images show views of the yard surrounded by farms and croplands. View (1226) from the southwest from west of the Five Points/Fallsington area. View (1227) shows a major curve in tracks as they turn northeast with Morrisville and possibly Trenton in the background., Negative numbers: 1226, 1227., Record created with information supplied by former Aero Service employee Carl H. Winnefeld, Jr.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: ca. 1921
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.1226; P.8990.1227]

Title: Eli Hess' Penn Steam Marble Mantel Manufactory, Coates St. above Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement with much street activity showing the manufactory and warerooms operated 1856-1878 by Hess at 1434 Coates Street. At the "Penn Steam Marble Mantel Manufactory," a horse-drawn dray hauling a slab of marble marked "Eli Hess" enters the fenced yard lined with stones. Workers using upright sawing machines cuts slabs of marble within the workshop of the factory that is adorned with statuary on its roof. Patrons enter the adjacent three-story warerooms. Evergreen trees protected by iron-work fencing are visible near the entrance. Statuary in recesses, window shades marked with the business name, and a figure of William Penn mounted on the roof adorn the building. In the foreground, well-dressed passengers embark the rear of a stopped ornamentally painted "Green and Coates Sts. Manayunk via Steamboat. Exchange & Fairmount" horse-drawn street car. Several passengers are visible in the windows of the vehicle. Also shows signage for the neighboring coal yard of Samuel Rogers., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 205, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 38 H 586
Creator: Rease, W. H.
Date: [ca. 1859]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 38 H 586

Title: Adams & Co.'s American Express General agency, forwarding & commission house
Description: Advertisement for the Philadelphia branch (est. circa 1843) of the rail express service company started by Alvin Adams of Boston in 1840. Shows a line of freight cars being pulled by a fireball and lightning across train tracks on a stone culvert in a wilderness setting. The cars are marked with the city and name of its recipients, including Boston & New York, Adams & Co.; Philada. & Baltimore, Adams & Co.; Baltimore, Washington & Richmond, Rogers & Co.; Baltimore & Wheeling, Green & Co. A creek with rocky banks flows through the culvert. Also includes an American eagle standing on a rocky ledge rising about the freight cars. The express service incorporated in 1854 served as the Union Army paymaster., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 5, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 67 A 211, Trimmed.
Creator: Weaver, Matthias S., 1815 or 16-1847, artist
Date: [ca. 1843]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 67 A 211

Title: Reliance Portable Boat Company's line of portable iron boats for the transportation of goods between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh
Description: Advertisement for the shipping company established by John Dougherty as Reliance Transportation Company circa 1835. Company operated on the Allegheny Portage Railroad, a system of inclined planes opened in 1834 that transported canal boats, box cars, and carriages by horse and steam engine to connect the east and west branches of the Pennsylvania Main Line canal. Contains two views of canal boats on trucks being transported on the railroad by locomotive. Upper image depicts a bird's eye view of a locomotive that is hauling boat sections approaching an incline to the canal. A long canal boat traverses the waterway. In the background, a farm and farmland are visible on the numerous hillsides. Lower image depicts a close-up view of the portable boats being hauled on the round-bottomed trucks by a locomotive exiting a tunnel and passing dwellings along the route. In 1839, the company was renamed Reliance Portable Boat Company following the departure of Dougherty., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 193, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 67 L 528, Trimmed.
Creator: Lehman, George, d. 1870, artist
Date: [ca. 1840]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 67 L 528

Title: Porter ale and lager beer brewery at Fountain Green of Engel & Wolf Office Dillwyn St. above Vine 26 & 28 betw. 3d & 4th Sts. Philada. Pa
Description: Tradecard containing a view of the facility at Fountain Green (Fairmount Park) for the brewery established in 1844 by Charles Engel & Charles Wolf. Includes the wash house and entrance to the vault on the lowest level of the hill, the office (middle level), fermenting and brewing building, and three-story storage house with fermenting cellar (upper level). A Columbia and Philadelphia Railroad locomotive pulling one train car passes in the foreground. Engel & Wolf purchased Fountain Green in 1849 to dig lager beer vaults to ferment and age the beer brewed at Dillwyn Street. A third-story was added to the storage house after 1855 and the plant was remodeled in 1859. The brewery ceased operations in 1870 when Fountain Green, the former estate of Samuel Meeker, was seized by the city for the park., pdcp00024, Philadelphia on Stone, POS 615, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Breweries
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813
Date: [ca. 1859]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - Breweries

Title: Powers-Weightman-Rosengarten Co. Works, East Schuylkill Falls. Powers & Weightman, Manufacturing Chemists, Philadelphia. Established 1818
Description: Advertisement showing the large industrial complex, including warehouses, storage sheds, and a reservoir originally established in 1848 by Powers & Weightman. Several of the buildings contain working smokestacks. A horse-drawn wagon departs from the main entranceway and a number of others are visible within the complex. Train tracks run within and along the periphery of the plant. A locomotive with train cars, horse–drawn freight cars, and free standing freight cars are visible on the tracks. Fenced pasture land is visible in the background. Also contains two titled insets in the lower corners. "Tartaric and Citric Acid Department, Falls of Schuylkill" includes horse-drawn wagons arriving and crossing a small bridge in the foreground. "Laboratory for Fine Chemicals, Ninth and Parrish Streets" includes trains traveling in the foreground. 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. Powers & Weightman merged with Rosengarten & Sons to form Powers, Weightman, Rosengarten Co. in 1905., pdcp00047, Not in Wainwright., Probably a later reprint with variant title of circa 1876 lithograph., Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Factories, etc.
Creator: Blanc, Albert, artist
Date: [ca. 1905]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - Factories, etc. - P

Title: Powers & Weightman manufacturing chemists Philadelphia East view of Schuylkill Falls Laboratory. Office at City Laboratory Ninth & Parrish Sts. New York Office No. 6 Maiden Lane
Description: View showing the laboratory complex established in 1848 on Ridge Avenue near Schuylkill Falls (i.e., East Falls). In the foreground, the “No. 40” coal-tender locomotive approaches from one of the series of tracks surrounding and within the factory grounds. Nearby, a line of freight cars, some covered in tarp rest on a set of tracks. Within the factory grounds comprised of processing plants and storage sheds, a horse-drawn cart travels and stacks of wood slabs are piled on an elevated, centrally-located piece of land. Smokestacks adorn several of the buildings. Another stack of wood and hillside are visible in the right background. 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., pdcp00035, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Oversize Philadelphiana - Factories and Foundries (N-Z)
Creator: Rease, W.H
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Oversize Philadelphiana - Factories and Foundries (N-Z)

Title: Centennial opening - the orators.
Description: Opening day ceremony of the 1876 Centennial Exhibition, May 10, 1876. Depicts Art Gallery with trolley cars and crowd of attendees with umbrellas under stormy skies.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co., photographer., creator
Date: 1876
Location: Centennial - stereos [P.9047.162]

Title: Elevated railway - Centennial grounds.
Description: Exhibit title: Safety Elevated Railway, designed by Roy Stone, Exhibit #175. One of the cars on the elevated railway. Men standing at the railway of the car.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co., photographer., creator
Date: 1876
Location: Centennial - stereos [P.9229.8]

Title: Centennial opening - the orators.
Description: Opening day ceremony of the 1876 Centennial Exhibition, May 10, 1876. Depicts Art Gallery with trolley cars and crowd of attendees with umbrellas under stormy skies.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co., photographer., creator
Date: 1876
Location: Centennial album [P.8965.2d]

Title: Soldiers Rest, Alexandria, Va. [graphic].
Description: Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War views, places & events., Bird's eye view of the rest station and "lodge for invalid soldiers" operated by the U.S. Sanitary Commission, a soldier relief organization. Shows an enclosed barracks flanked by tents and railroad tracks. Soldiers walk, relax, and drill on the grounds as others disembark and arrive via locomotive. Also shows the railroad roundhouse in the far left background near signage reading "Sanitary Commission Lodge for Invalid Soldiers" and "Soldiers Rest U.S. Sanitary Commission"; horse-drawn wagons travelling past and into the barracks; and the surrounding town.
Creator: Magnus, Charles., creator
Date: c1864.
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Hospitals [5779.F.57]

Title: Thaw, William H., -1889
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: December 4, 1857

Title: Dupuy, Charles M., 1823-1898
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: April 6, 1876

Title: Delavan House, Chas. E. Leland & Co., proprietors. Warren F. Leland Clarendon Hotel, Saratoga Springs. Rossmore Hotel, junction Broadway, Seventh Avenue and 42d St., three blocks from Grand Central Depot, N.Y. and 20 minutes from Wall street. Chas. E. Leland, proprietor
Description: Breakfast menu containing an exterior view of the hotel operated by Leland 1865-1882. Also shows street and pedestrian traffic, including strolling couples, a train, and and horse-drawn coaches, carriages, carts and an omnibus. Menu organized as beverages (coffee, chocolate, and green and black tea); "Bread"; "Broiled"; "Fried"; "Stewed"; "Fish"; "Eggs"; "Cold"; and "Potatoes." Menu also includes hours of service for meals; notice of "Milk from Charles E. Leland's Valley Farm"; and the disclaimer "Dishes Ordered not on the Bill of Fare charged extra. All Meals, Lunches, Dessert or Fruit sent to Rooms, will be charged extra. Full prices charged for children occupying seat at the Public Table.", 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. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Miscellaneous [P.2011.10.184]

Title: Aultman, Miller & Co., Akron, O. U.S.A. A happy New year, 1890
Description: Calendar depicting scenes in the making and distribution of the "Buckeye" machinery produced by the Akron company founded in 1863. Front cover contains scene "Getting out Lumber for the World-famed Buckeye Binders and Mowers" showing a hunter and trapper watching oxen haul logs, loggers cut trees, and camp hands carry buckets and tend a dutch oven over a campfire. Internal views show "Receiving and Dressing Lumber for Buckeye Machines"; "Partial View of Wood Department Mammoth Buckeye Works, Akron, Ohio"; "Mining and Reducing the Ores for use in Buckeye Harvesting Machines"; "Partial view of Buckeye Foundry, Akron, Ohio"; "The Perfected Buckeye Binder and Mower, The World's Standard" and "Shipping the Celebrated Buckeye Machines to all parts of the civilized Globe." Views include calendar insets, laborers and foremen at work, industrial machinery (wood saws, smelters, power drills) in use, trains, and ships being loaded at a loading dock. Back cover depicts a scene showing several plowmen using horse-drawn "Buckeye" binders (i.e., combines) reaping a large field of wheat. View also contains an inset depicting a man mowing his pasture. Flowers and a banner reading "The World's Victors" border the inset. Aultman, Miller & Co. began to only build threshing machines, traction engines, and saw mills in 1890. The firm was bought out in 1911., 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: [1889]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Calendars [P.2011.10.162a]

Title: Centennial opening - the orators. 1876
Description: View showing a large crowd of visitors gathered around and on top of Memorial Hall (i.e., Art Gallery, built 1874-1876 after designs by Hermann J. Schwarzmann) on Opening Day on May 10, 1876. Pedestrians, many with parasols, walk toward the speakers' stands to hear President Ulysses S. Grant speak. Includes two West End Passenger Railway Company streetcars in the foreground. 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 contain 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.9047.162]

Title: Street cars, Philadelphia
Description: View shows a horse-drawn railway car ready to pull away from the Ridge Avenue passenger depot or car barn. "Girard College" and "Ridge Avenue" flank the number "15" on the side of the car. A string of text running the length of the car above the windows reads, "Odd Fellows Cemetery, Laurel Hill, Falls of Schuylkill & Wissahickon". Other signboards read, "Through by railway" and "Girard College and Manayunk". A group of men, one holding the reins of the hitched horses, stand on or near the car. A woman disembarks from the front., Title printed on mount below image., Explicative paragraph of text about street cars in Philadelphia printed on verso below series title and surmounted by eagle clutching "United States of America" banner in its talons. Text and vignette enclosed within decorative border., Distributor's blindstamp on mount., Creme mount with square corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Transportation [P.8464.32]

Title: Heintz Manufacturing Company plant, Olney Avenue and Front Street, Olney, Philadelphia
Description: Aerial views of the Heintz Manufacturing Company steel fabricating plant in the Onley section of Philadelphia. The factory and its watertower can be seen from several angles adjacent to railroad tracks, surrounded by rowhomes and undeveloped land., Negative numbers: 11295, 11296, 11297, 11298, 11300, 11301, 11302.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: 1929
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.11295-11298; P.8990.11300-11302]

Title: Tioga Steel & Iron Company plant, Grays Avenue and 51st Street, Kingsessing, Philadelphia
Description: Aerial views of factories and industrial buildings in the Kingsessing neighborhood of Philadelphia. Though the focus is on the Tioga Iron and Steel Company plant (absorbed by the Taylor-Wharton Iron & Steel Company in 1913) adjacent industrial facilities are also visible, includingt he Geo. W. Smith Woodworking Co., Breyer's Ice Cream and the Mason Adams Coal Company. Residential areas of row houses and railroad tracks and yards servicing the factories can also be seen., Negative numbers: 7913, 7914, 7915.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: 1929
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.7913; P.8990.7914; P.8990.7915]

Title: Leeds and Northrup Company plant, 4901 Stenton Avenue, Nicetown-Tioga, Philadelphia
Description: Aerial views of the Leeds and Northrup plant and laboratory in the Nicetown-Tioga section of Philadelphia. The company was founded by Morris E. Leeds and Edwin F. Northrup in 1903. Originally known as Morris E. Leeds & Company, the organization produced electrical measuring instruments for laboratory and testing use and was an important supplier of this equipment to industrial markets. In the late 1990's, the company became the L&N Metallurgical Products Company. The facility consists of several buildings and sits alongside railroad tracks very near a residential area with row homes., Negative numbers: 11312, 11313, 11314, 11315, 11316, 11319.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: 1929
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.11312-11316; P.8990.11319]

Title: E. Ketterlinus steam power letter press and lithographic printer, Arch and Fourth street, Philadelphia
Description: City directory advertisement containing gilt shading and a patriotic vignette for the studio established by Eugene Ketterlinus in 1842. Vignette depicts a female figure, Columbia, attired in a breast plate, crown, and cape leaning over a globe and standing on a block of stone. She holds a map which reads "North America," and an American flag, over the globe. In the background, locomotives travel over the landscape that also includes a railroad bridge spanning a river. Ketterlinus was one of the earliest Philadelphia lithographers to produce stock cards, and embossed and colored mercantile labels. The firm remained in business until the 1970s., Not in Wainwright., Published in Gopsill's Philadelphia city directory for 1870... (Philadelphia: Published by James Gopsill, 1870), opp. p. 854 (verso)., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 23/24, Advertisement for "Wm. Wilson & Son Manufacturers of Solid Silverware and Importers of Plate Ware s.w. cor. 5th & Cherry Sts. Philadelphia" on verso.
Creator: Ketterlinus, Eugene, d. 1886
Date: [1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Dir Phila 1870 (75) 16994.0.854b

Title: Boger and Crawford textile mill, vicinity of East Ontario, Janney, J, and Venango Streets, Harrowgate, Philadelphia
Description: Aerial views of the Boger and Crawford yarn processing plant in the Harrowgate section of Philadelphia. The facility sits near row homes, a playground, Harrowgate Square and Frankford elevated tracks near tioga Station. An area of what appear to be croplands is visible across the street from it., Negative numbers: 19843s., Manuscript note on negative sleeve: Boger & Crawford [plant], Phila, June 26, 1939.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: 1939
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.19843s]

Title: Diamond State Fibre Company, Bridgeport, Pennsylvania
Description: Aerial views of the Diamond State Fibre Company industrial facility on the banks of the Schuylkill River just south of DeKalb Pike in Bridgeport, Pennsylvania. The facility contained the company's main offices and a fiber processing mill and factory. Views show the facility and the adjacent railroad tracks that serviced it. Bridges over the Schuylkill River and portions of Norristown are also visible., Negative numbers: 1576, 7096, 7097, 7098, 7099.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: ca. 1915-1926
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.1576; P.8990.7096-7099]

Title: [Glen Gery Brick Company factory and environs, Wyomissing, Pennsylvania.]
Description: Aerial view of the Glen Gery Brick factory building and adjacent farmlands and railroad tracks. The Wyomissing plant was built in 1898, the same year the company reorganized as the United States Brick Company. The Wyomissing facility applied the continuous firing process in what was then the largest brick kiln in the United States. View is southeast to northwest. Location is immediately across Park Rd. from Vanity Fair textile mill along the Reading Railroad tracks. Probably taken September 12-16, 1922., Negative numbers: 2772., Record revised with information supplied by former Aero Service employee Carl H. Winnefeld, Jr.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: 1922
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.2772]

Title: F. & L. Ladner's Military Hall. No. 532 North Third St. Philadelphia Free concerts nightly
Description: Tradecard containing an exterior view of the saloon and concert hall built 1857 on the 500 block of North Third Street. Male patrons convene at and near the entry as pedestrians, including women, walk past the three-and one-half-story twin building with showcase windows. In the street, a horse-drawn carriage is parked and a "Richmond & Navy Yard/Second & Third St." street car travels. Also shows partial views of adjacent businesses, including a tobacconist. The Ladners operated the hall 1857-1881., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 221, See related advertisement print **BW - Hotels, Inns & Taverns [P.9008], Stein & Jones established in 1859 was active under that name until the death of Stein in 1871.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.153o]

Title: Pennsylvania and Reading Railroad terminus on the Delaware River, vicinity of Lehigh Avenue and Richmond Street, Port Richmond, Philadelphia
Description: Aerial views of the terminus of the Pennsylvania and Reading Railroad at Port Richmond, Philadelphia. Railroad ends at the Delaware River, where an extensive network of railroad tracks, piers and industrial buildings are visible along the riverfront, many of which served the coal trade. Large ships are visible on the river and portions of the city to the north and west of the terminus can be seen in the distance., Negative numbers: 2841, 2842, 4862., Record revised with information supplied by former Aero Service employee Carl H. Winnefeld, Jr.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: ca. 1925
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.2841; P.8990.2842; P.8990.4862]

Title: Overbrook High School
Description: Aerial view of Overbrook High School under construction. Located at 59th Street and Lancaster Avenue, the school was built 1924-1926 in the Academic Gothic style after designs by Irwin T. Catharine. View includes Pennsylvania Railroad tracks and rowhomes in the surrounding area., Negative number: 5216.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: ca. 1925
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.5216]

Title: Hotel Aubry, Walnut Street from 33rd to 34th Sts. Philadelphia Jas. T. Stover manager. Geo. A. Kelly, president. Jas. W. Packer, treasurer. Reuben C. Kelly, secretary. Directors: Geo. A. Kelly, Wm. T.B. Roberts, Jno. C. Allen, Jr., Jas. W. Packer, David C. Moore, Frederick Shinn, Wm. S. Kimball, Andrew M. Jones
Description: View showing the "dwelling house" hotel built on Walnut Street between 33rd and 34th streets for the Centennial Exhibition in 1876. Guests stand on the porch of the twenty-six house hotel and elegantly dressed men, women and children stroll the grounds in front of the hotel. The house number of each of the twenty-six properties, from 3300-3350, is labeled above the roof line. A Chestnut and Walnut Street streetcar filled with passengers travels east as horse-drawn carriages and coaches travel in both directions on Walnut Street. The hotel, built on inexpensive land considered undesirable for a permanent hotel, was composed of rows of several houses that were to be later sold or leased as individual dwellings. During the Centennial Exhibition, Hotel Aubry accommodated about 50,000 people between April and November of 1876., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 364
Date: ca. 1870
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW-Hotels [P.2008.34.25]

Title: Engel & Wolf's brewery & vaults at Fountain Green. Office No. 26 & 28 Dillwyn St. between Vine & Callowhill & Third & Fourth Sts. Philadelphia Including five large vaults containing 50,352 cubic feet cut out of the solid rock and about 45 feet below ground, where they keep their well known lager beer. Temperature of the vaults in midsummer 40 degrees of Fahrenheit. They are situated on the Columbia Rail Road, about one mile above the Fairmount Waterworks, Philadelphia Co
Description: Advertisement showing the facility at Fountain Green (Fairmount Park) for the brewery established in 1844 by Charles Engel & Charles Wolf. Includes the wash house and entrance to the vault on the lowest level of the hill, the office (middle level), fermenting and brewing building, and storage house with fermenting cellar (upper level). Horse-drawn wagons loaded with barrels exit from different level entries to the buildings and a laborer working on a barrel toils within the brewery. Two gentlemen stand on the porch to the office and a woman with children uses the property for recreation. In the foreground, a Columbia and Philadelphia Railroad locomotive pulls a train car full of passengers, a double-decker horse-drawn omnibus travels, men ride on horseback, and individuals (woman with child and two men) stroll and descend the river embankment to greet a man arriving by rowboat. A weather vane designed as a beer barrel adorns the storage house. Engel & Wolf purchased Fountain Green in 1849 to dig lager beer vaults to ferment and age the beer brewed at Dillwyn Street. A third-story was added to the storage house after 1855 and the plant was remodeled in 1859. The brewery ceased operations in 1870 when Fountain Green, the former estate of Samuel Meeker, was seized by the city for the park., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 209, Atwater Kent Musuem: 54.3.6/3. Copy unlocated. Description based on Wainwright and second state of print held in the collections of the Library Company. See POS 210 for digital image of second state.
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Atwater Kent Museum | Print Department AKM AKM 54.3.6/3

Title: Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society [certificate]
Description: Diploma depicting six vignettes and graphic elements symbolizing agriculture and horticulture separated into distinct scenes by borders designed as trees and foliage. At the top, a winged, female allegorical figure, attired in a robe and laurel wreath, sits with her arms outstretched over a shield surmounted by an eagle. She holds a bugle in her left hand and a laurel wreath in her right, and she reaches in the direction of two horses that flank the shield. Images of a railroad locomotive crossing a stone arch bridge (left) and a waterfront industrial complex (right) flank the winged figure. On the sides, scenes depict cattle and sheep grazing, men harvesting a field with a horse-drawn reaper, and a man feeding horses near a large bale of hay. At the bottom, tools and agricultural products surround the society's blind stamp, and include farm produce, scythes, pitchforks and wheelbarrows. The Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society was founded in 1851 by representatives from 50 counties with the object to "foster and improve agriculture, horticulture, and the domestic and household arts." The first annual exhibition of the society was held the same year., Not in Wainwright., Awarded to S.M. Mertzler for display of wines etc. at the exhibition of said society held at Lancaster in 1875, signed D.W. Seiler, secretary, and George Scott, president., Society's blind stamp on recto., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 166, Gift of David Doret., Edward Herline and Howard B. Hamilton, the proprietors of Herline & Co., moved their lithographic operations from 630 Chestnut Street to 39 South Tenth Street in 1871.
Creator: Rosenthal, Max, 1833-1918, artist
Date: [ca. 1871]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Philadelphia certificates - Agriculture [P.2003.37.1]

Title: This diploma was awarded by the Luzerne County Agricultural Society at their [blank] annual fair held at Wyoming [blank] 18[blank]
Description: Diploma containing two vignettes and and a dominant scene symbolizing agriculture separated by borders comprised of sheaves of wheat, a shovel, farm produce, and vinery. In the upper right, vignettes depict a farmer reaping his field with a horse-drawn reaper and an industrial view of a train passing a coal breaker factory across from a coal mine in which horse-drawn coal cars arrive and depart. The dominant scene shows a farm with livestock, including a pig, turkeys, chickens, and ducks milling the grounds near a woman milking a cow while farmhands corral cows out of a yard, transport a wagon of hay from a barn, and plow a field. View also shows horses before a pasture of grazing sheep and other homesteads, the Wyoming Monument (erected in 1833 in memory of victims of the Wyoming Massacre 1778), and treescaped hills in the distance. The Luzerne County Agricultural Society was founded in 1858 by persons interested in farming and gardening with the mission "to foster and improve agriculture, horticulture, and the domestic and household arts." The first annual fair was held in 1859 and stopped after circa 1879 and before 1891., Not in Wainwright., Dilpoma completed in manuscript: This diploma was awarded by the Luzerne County Agricultural Society at their [Thirteenth] Annual Fair held at Wyoming [Sept. 25, 26 & 27] 18[72] To [William H. Shoemaker Esq. of Wyoming] for [best bottle of grape wine]. [Steuben Jenkins], Prest. and [W. H. Jenkins], Secy., Glued onto a modern mat by previous owner., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 287, Steuben Jenkins was a respected lawyer, farmer, historian, and antiquarian of Wyoming County.
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Philadelphia certificates - Agriculture - Luzerne [P.2014.11]

Title: Almost there. -- Lizzie Bourn's [sic] monument
Description: View of a monument adjacent to the Mount Washington Cog Railway. The monument, constructed of rocks and a marker, memorializes Lizzie Bourne, a 23 year-old hiker, who died September 14, 1853 while attempting to ascend Mount Washington. The railway organized and directed by Sylvester Marsh was completed in 1869. Shows a man sitting on the tracks directly opposite the monument., Photographer's imprint printed on verso., Negative number printed on mount: No. 112., 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.63a]

Title: D & H Canal & coal dock, Honesdale, Pa
Description: View showing the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company boat and coal dock on the canal. The Delaware and Hudson canal, constructed from 1825-1828 after the designs of engineer Benjamin Wright, was conceived by Philadelphia merchants, William and Maurice Wurtz, as a means to transport anthracite coal from northeastern Pennsylvania to New York. Depicts in the foreground, workers standing on one of several docked canal boats used to transport coal hauled to Honesdale by the Pennsylvania Coal Company gravity railroad. In the background, a Pennsylvania Coal Company locomotive steams down the tracks past mountains of coal., Orange mount with rounded corners., Title from manuscript note on mount., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: ca. 1885
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified -Transportation [P.9212.4]

Title: Engel & Wolf's brewery & vaults at Fountain Green. Office No. 26 & 28 Dillwyn St. between Vine & Callowhill & Third & Fourth Sts. Philadelphia Including five large vaults containing 50,352 cubic feet cut out of the solid rock and about 45 feet below ground, where they keep their well known lager beer. Temperature of the vaults in midsummer 40 degrees of Fahrenheit. They are situated on the Columbia Rail Road, about one mile above the Fairmount Waterworks, Philadelphia Co
Description: Advertisement showing the facility at Fountain Green (Fairmount Park) for the brewery established in 1844 by Charles Engel & Charles Wolf. Includes the wash house and entrance to the vault on the lowest level of the hill, the office (middle level), fermenting and brewing building, and storage house with fermenting cellar (upper level). Horse-drawn wagons loaded with barrels exit from different level entries to the buildings and a laborer working on a barrel toils within the brewery. Two gentlemen stand on the porch to the office and a woman with children uses the property for recreation. In the foreground, a Columbia and Philadelphia Railroad locomotive pulls a train car full of passengers, a double-decker horse-drawn omnibus travels, men ride on horseback, and individuals (woman with child and two men) stroll and descend the river embankment to greet a man arriving by rowboat. A weather vane designed as a beer barrel adorns the storage house. Engel & Wolf purchased Fountain Green in 1849 to dig lager beer vaults to ferment and age the beer brewed at Dillwyn Street. A third-story was added to the storage house after 1855 and the plant was remodeled in 1859. The brewery ceased operations in 1870 when Fountain Green, the former estate of Samuel Meeker, was seized by the city for the park., Title annotated in hand-written script: Die erste Lagerbier-Brauerei in Amerika., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 210, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., LCP AR [Annual Report] 1980, pg. 54.
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W112.2 [P.8434]

Title: Merchants' Exchange. Philadelphia
Description: View from the intersection of Third, Walnut and Dock Streets showing the Merchant’s Exchange constructed 1832-33 after the designs of Philadelphia architect William Strickland for the Philadelphia Exchange Company. View includes street and pedestrian traffic concentrated near the financial institution. Several men converse and greet one another in front of the exchange as several horse-drawn street cars travel by and around the building. In the left, several couples promenade along a block of Walnut Street lined with buildings and a few trees. Also shows railroad tracks, and Girard National Bank (120 South Third) and neighboring businesses in the right background., Artist's initials on stone lower left corner. Name of artist supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 474, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: O'Connor, M., artist
Date: c1840
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W233 [P.2103]

Title: Construction of airplane hangars, South Philadelphia, Philadelphia
Description: Aerial views of airplane hangars under construction at the site of what is now Philadelphia International Airport. Starting in 1925 the Pennsylvania National Guard used the site (known as Hog Island) as a training airfield. The site was dedicated as the "Philadelphia Municipal Airport" by Charles Lindbergh in 1927, but it had no proper terminal building until 1940. 5924 shows a view of the hangars from southwest to northeast along Island Avenue. 5926 shows a slightly more distant view from west to east including the Schuylkill and Delaware Rivers, Philadelphia Naval Shipyard as well as the hangers under construction. The Pennsylvania Rail Road is also visible. Probably taken May 1926., Negative numbers: 5924; 5926., 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.8990.5924; P.8990.5926]

Title: St. Agatha's Church Philadelphia, Penna Rev. John E. Fitzmaurice pastor
Description: View showing the Roman Catholic Church built 1874-1878 in the High Victorian Gothic style after the designs of Durang at 3801 Spring Garden Street in West Philadelphia. Building includes the octagonal spire erected 1882-1883 and a gable-roof with cross-gables. Near the church, a woman strolls with a parasol, two men convene near a street lamp, two ladies converse with a gentleman, and a man carries a package in front of a fire hydrant. In the street, individuals cross the intersection near a man on horseback and the "Race, Hestonville, Vine, Fairmount & Exchange, Zoological Garden" horse-drawn street car. Also shows a fenced residence adjacent to the church. Residence contains a covered side-porch, addition, and iron-work fencing. Trees surround the property., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 227, PAHRC: Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. Agatha's
Date: [ca. 1883]
Location: Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center. | Graphics Collection. PAHRC Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. Agatha's

Title: Machinery Hall - North Avenue - April 1
Description: Interior view of Machinery Hall along North Avenue. Shows railroad track along the entire isle. A railcar is positioned on the tracks. Depicted on either side of the rail tracks are machine parts and tools.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co., photographer., creator
Date: 1876
Location: Centennial - album [P.8965.19c]

Title: U.S. Government Building and State Avenue from West end.
Description: View of Government Building with railroads, carriages, and pond in foreground.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co., photographer., creator
Date: 1876
Location: Centennial album [P.8965.12d]

Title: Birdseye view from Main Building.
Description: Architects: Judge's Pavillion, Bldg. #109 - H.J. Schwarzmann, Hugh Kafka; World's Ticket Office, Bldg. #84 - H.J. Schwarzmann, Hugh Kafka; Centennial Photographic Association Building, Bldg. #110 - H.J. Schwarzmann. Overview of exhibition grounds, with railroad, buildings, and people visible. In the center is a lake. Flags top most buildings.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co., photographer., creator
Date: 1876
Location: Centennial - stereos [P.9573.28]

Title: Pennsylvania Day - instantaneous view.
Description: Large crowds along the roads around exhibition buildings. Buildings visible include U.S. Government Building, Cook's World Ticket Office, Judge's Hall, Photographic Association's Studio, and Women's Pavilion. Railroad, lake, walkways and statues also visible.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co., photographer., creator
Date: 1876
Location: Centennial - stereos [P.9047.180]

Title: Fairmount
Description: Puzzle showing a Reading Railroad Co. train with passengers in the foreground and the Fairmount Waterworks and Wire Suspension Bridge from the west bank of the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia in the background. Includes spectators surrounding a hot air balloon behind the train and rowers and a steamboat on the Schuylkill River. The waterworks, originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff, were altered and expanded after the designs of Philadelphia engineers Henry P.M. Birkinbine and Frederick Graff, Jr. The Wire Bridge of Fairmount, the first suspension bridge in the United States, was built over the Schuylkill River from 1841-1842 after the designs of engineer Charles Ellet, Jr. and was removed in 1874., One of four puzzles housed in clamshell box., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1858]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *albums (flat) - Four Lithographic Puzzles [8418.F.1]

Title: The best flour inside View of the famous Washburn, Crosby Co. flour mills and St. Anthony Falls, Minneapolis, Minn
Description: Illustrated, metamorphic trade card depicting a windmill with panels that open to show bags and a barrel of "Superlative" and "Gold Medal" flour in the foreground and in the background, a bird's eye view of the Washburn-Crosby Co.'s flour mill complex, including "Mill C Elevator", adjacent to the St. Anthony Falls in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Also shows a train crossing the Mississippi River near the falls on the curved Stone Arch Bridge, which was built in 1883 by railroad tycoon James J. Hill for his Great Northern Railway. Cadwallader C. Washburn's business began as the Minneapolis Milling Company at the St. Anthony Falls site ca. 1856. John Crosby entered the partnership in 1877. Consolidated into General Mills in 1928 with twenty-six other national mills., Advertising text printed on verso promotes the "Superlative" and "Gold Medal" brands of flour produced by the Washburn-Crosby Co. of Minneapolis, Minnesota., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Washburn [P.9993.2]

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