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Title: Philadelphia Riding School
Description: Interior view of the riding school operated by Thomas Craige & Son at 4th Street above Vine Street. Showing a large room filled with men and women attired in riding habits riding horses along the periphery. The women, including one attended by a man not on a mount at the center of the room, ride side saddle. The walls, some adorned with windows, are decorated with landscape murals. A woman and a boy holding riding crops stand and watch, with a small dog, by a railing in the foreground. Two crops and a sash rest at the opposite end of the railing. Craige, a riding master, operated a riding school on Fourth Street circa 1840-circa 1860s. The school was advertised as the largest building of its kind in the United States in 1850., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 592, LCP AR [Annual Report] 1989, p. 46., School advertised in Philadelphia Inquirer (February 1, 1850).
Creator: Dacre, Henry, b. ca. 1820, artist
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Recreation - P [P.9284]

Title: Masonic Temple. New Masonic Hall, Chestnut St. Philadelphia To the right worshipped grand lodge of Pennsylvania (A.Y.M.) and the masonic fraternity in general this print is respectfully dedicated by Wm. F. Spieler, no. 212 Chestnut St. Phila
Description: Exterior view showing the Gothic-style hall built 1853-1855 after the designs of Sloan & Stewart at 713-721 Chestnut Street. Also shows adjacent businesses, including Washington House hotel, and those tenanting the lower level of the hall. On the sidewalk, pedestrians (men, women, and children) greet one another, converse, stroll, and admire storefront displays. Displays include textiles, books, framed prints, and men's clothing. In the street, a man and woman ride on horseback in the path of a crossing couple. Image surrounded by border designed as an archway comprised of gothic elements. Pictorial elements include gargoyles, masonic iconography, and the figure of a crusader. Also contains the names of the 8 members of the building committee printed below the image. Building sold circa 1873 following the completion of the new Masonic Temple on North Broad Street., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 461, Spieler was a Philadelphia photographer who operated a studio at 720 Chestnut Street 1859-1861.
Creator: Haugg, Louis, 1827-1903, artist
Date: c1855
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Associations [P.8610]

Title: Laurel-Hill Cemetery
Description: View looking northeast toward the grounds of the rural cemetery built 1836-1839 after the designs of John Notman at 3822 Ridge Avenue. Shows two men in riding clothes, on horseback, galloping on the tree-lined dirt road above the cemetery. Visitors on foot and by carriage approach the main gate of the memorial site visible in the background. Tombs, monuments, and a chapel are visible in the cemetery., Plate 10 of series of fifty-four views published by Goupil, Vibert and Company from 1848 to 1851 that were drawn by Kollner and lithographed by Deroy, and later bound under the title "Views of American Cities.", Copyrighted by August Köllner., Printed above the title: 10., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 431
Creator: Deroy, Laurent, 1797-1886, artist
Date: c1848
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Cemeteries - L [P.2283.25]

Title: Laurel-Hill Cemetery
Description: View looking northeast toward the grounds of the rural cemetery built 1836-1839 after the designs of John Notman at 3822 Ridge Avenue. Shows two men in riding clothes, on horseback, galloping on the tree-lined dirt road above the cemetery. Visitors on foot and by carriage approach the main gate of the memorial site visible in the background. Tombs, monuments, and a chapel are visible in the cemetery., Plate 10 of series of fifty-four views published by Goupil, Vibert and Company from 1848 to 1851 that were drawn by Kollner and lithographed by Deroy, and later bound under the title "Views of American Cities.", Printed above the title: 10., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 431
Creator: Deroy, Laurent, 1797-1886, artist
Date: [c1848]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Cemeteries [P.2283.16]

Title: St. Paul's German Lutheran Church. N. East, corner of Brown and St. John sts., Phila
Description: Exterior view of the church built 1840 after the designs of architect A.D. Caldwell on the 200 block of Brown Street. Also shows pedestrian and street traffic, including a man and woman admiring the church from a street corner; a couple in a carriage acknowledging a gentleman passing on horseback; and a man seated side-saddle on a stopped horse conversing with a man in the street., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 714, Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Wagner, T. S. (Thomas S.), artist
Date: c1840
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W349 [P.2004.44.30]

Title: Cornelius, Baker & Co. manufacturers of lamps, chandeliers, gas fixtures etc Manufactories: 181 Cherry Street and Columbia Avenue & 5th Street, Philadelphia. Store, No. 176 Chestnut Street
Description: Advertisement containing two views showing the manufactories at "Columbia Avenue and Fifth Street" and "No. 181 Cherry Street." "Columbia Avenue" view shows the multiple-level industrial building with two-story addition comprising most of the 500 block of Columbia Avenue. A cupola containing a weather vane and an American flag adorn the roof of the main building. Near one of the factory entries, probably the office, a man holds the reigns of a horse hitched to a one-seat carriage as a horse-drawn omnibus passes from around the corner at the end of the block. In the foreground, in the street, and across from the factory, near a small pile of debris, passengers, including a woman and a family, wait at, and enter the rear of a stopped "Germantown Road North Fifth Street" horse-drawn omnibus. A man on horseback approaches the omnibus. A drayman leads his horse-drawn vehicle loaded with a crate past the opposite street corner on which a couple promenades. Also shows, neighboring buildings, in the left of the image., "Cherry Street" view shows the multi-story factory on the 800 block of Cherry Street. A tower and American flag adorn the building in which workers are visible at a number of the open windows. At the far left end of the building, a wagon travels near a man carrying a basket and through an archway to the courtyard. A horse-drawn wagon is parked near the main entrance of the factory. The entry contains the name of the firm and a small stoop adorned with iron work. At the corner, a boy with a light fixture walks past a lamppost, as in the street, a horse-drawn wagon travels behind a carriage occupied by three gentlemen. The vehicle is drawn by two agitated horses that the driver attempts to settle. At the east side of the building, two gentlemen converse and another horse-drawn wagon drives down the street. Also shows a woman strolling past a tree at the adjacent corner, and neighboring buildings. Cornelius & Baker was founded in 1835 and operated 2 factories and a storefront by the 1850s. The firm was succeeded by Cornelius & Sons in 1869., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 162, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Free Library of Philadelphia: Oversize Philadelphiana - Factories and Foundries (A-M). FLP copy divided into two sheets., Images also issued as separate prints. See **W87 and **W88.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W86 [P.2028]

Title: Cornelius & Baker, manufacturers of lamps, chandeliers, gas fixtures, etc. Manufactories: No. 181 Cherry St & Columbia Avenue & 5th St, Philadelphia. Store, 176 Chestnut Street Columbia Avenue and 5th Street
Description: Advertisement showing the multiple-level industrial building with two-story addition comprising most of the 500 block of Columbia Avenue. A cupola containing a weather vane and an American flag adorn the roof of the main building. Near one of the factory entries, probably the office, a man holds the reigns of a horse hitched to a one-seat carriage as a horse-drawn omnibus passes from around the corner at the end of the block. In the foreground, passengers, including a woman and a family, wait at, and enter the rear of a "Germantown Road North Fifth Street" horse-drawn omnibus stopped, in the street, and across from the factory, near a small pile of debris. A man on horseback approaches the omnibus. A drayman leads his horse-drawn vehicle loaded with a crate past the opposite street corner on which a couple promenades. Also shows, neighboring buildings, in the left of the image. Cornelius & Baker was founded in 1835 and operated 2 factories and a storefront by the 1850s. The firm was succeeded by Cornelius & Sons in 1869., Published in Colton's atlas of America, illustrating the physical and political geography of North and South America... Commercial edition with business cards of prominent houses in Philadelphia. (New York: J.H. Colton and Company, 1856) (HSP O 458), Philadelphia on Stone, POS 163, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 38 C814a., Free Library of Philadelphia: Oversize Philadelphiana - Factories and Foundries (A-M)., Also included as one of two images of separately issued print. See **W86.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W87 [P.2036]

Title: John Baird, steam marble works, Ridge Road above Spring Garden St. Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement containing an exterior view showing the Ridge Road entrance to the "John Baird," "Spring Garden Marble Mantle Manufactory" and "Steam Marble Works" erected in 1846. Works include a central courtyard, offices, and adjoining yard marked "Garden Statuary, Vases, Ornamental Sculpture, &c." that contains a variety of fountains, vases, and statues on the platform roof. A cupola adorns a rear building of the factory. In front of the courtyards, gravestones are displayed and workers move large slabs of marble with a lever and by dolly. On the roof of the central courtyard, a clerk shows patrons a selection of monuments. In front of the factory, couples promenade on the sidewalk, a horse is hitched, a couple rides on horseback and dogs greet each other in the street. The woman rides side-saddle. Also shows employees within the courtyard, office windows, and visible through an open entryway climbing a flight of stairs. Baird established his business in 1841 gaining a reputation as a vanguard in the modern operations of marble works., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 406, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Date: [ca. 1848]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W199 [P.2066]

Title: United States Hotel Chesnut [sic] Street, Philadelphia. This hotel under the presant [sic] management has under gone many important alterations and has been entirely refurnished with rich and elegant furniture. The situation of the house is acknowledged by all to be the most favourable of any in the city for either the man of business of pleasure. The proprietor respectfully solicits the patronage of friends and the public. Thomas C. Rea
Description: Advertisement looking east down Chestnut Street showing the large, prominent hotel opened in 1826 following the conversion by John Rea of several properties at 419-423 Chestnut Street. Gentlemen convene near the entranceway and portico of the hotel in front of which a carriage is parked. On the north side of the street, east of the hotel, several individuals, including couples and families, promenade and converse on the several blocks of businesses visible to the riverfront. Opposite the hotel, on the south side of the street, a couple promenades and boys play marbles in front of the former Second Bank of the United States (420 Chestnut) as another couple and several shadowy figures of pedestrians walk down the sidewalks in the background. In the street, a couple on horseback, an omnibus, and carriage travels. Also shows a partial view of the Farmers & Mechanics Bank (425-429) adjacent the hotel and a few trees and street lamps landscaping the street. A patron ascends the stairs to the bank. The hotel, altered in 1840, was demolished in 1856 for the erection of the new building for the Bank of Pennsylvania. Thomas C. Rea, son of John Rea, operated the property until his death in 1846., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 779, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Quintin, David S., artist
Date: [ca. 1840]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W417 [P.2228]

Title: Wm. D. Rogers' coach and light carriage manufactory, corner of 6th & Master Streets, Philadelphia Carriages of every description built to order, which for style, durability & elegance of finish, shall not be surpassed by any in the country. The work is conducted under the immidiate superintendance [sic] of the proprietor, who is himself a practical coach maker. N.B. orders from any part of the world, promptly executed. Southern & western merchants will find it to their advantage to call at this establishment. The 6th St. line of omnibuses run from the exchange to the factory every few minutes
Description: Advertisement depicting an exterior view of the Rogers' industrial complex, the "model coach factory of America," at the busy corner of Sixth and Master streets. A white man clerk displays a carriage to a man and woman couple as laborers work on the upper stories. Drays, surreys, "Rogers" delivery carts, and a young African American man with a horse traverse the intersection. A white man passenger disembarks from a Sixth Street line horse-drawn omnibus near the factory entrance. A second omnibus rests at the corner, the white man driver unhappily receiving a citation from a white man constable; his young, white boy passenger watching with a look of awe sitting beside his mother. Rogers, the business established in 1846, and the factory erected in 1853, absorbed rival manufactory George W. Watson in 1870. The business operated over sixty years., Title from item., Date supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 855, Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Rease, a prominent mid-19th century Philadelphia trade card lithographer known to highlight details of human interest in his advertisements, partnered with Francis H. Schell in the 1850s and eventually operated his own press until around 1872.
Creator: Rease & Schell, artist
Date: [ca. 1854]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W464 [P.2268]

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