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Title: [Row houses, Philadelphia]
Description: Shows a row of vernacular-style dwellings, including one with closed window shutters. Also shows a small crate on the sidewalk and basement cellar doors., Attributed to John Moran., Buff mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Moran, John, 1831-1903, photographer
Date: ca. 1862
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Moran - Residences [(8)1322.F.1g; P.2282.45; P.2005.2.1], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - Moran - Residences [(8)1322.F.49j]

Title: North side of Green St. east of 22nd, Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view of the front elevations of two brick row houses on the north side of the 2100 block of Green Street. Shows round arch doorways and shutters obscuring all the windows. Ornate iron railings separate the front lawns from the sidewalk., 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.9751.2]

Title: Pine St. from 17th to 18th
Description: View of four-story, Italianate row houses on the 1700 block of Pine Street., Title inscribed on mount., Numbered 249 on mount., Reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 30., Arcadia caption text: One of the earliest speculative rows constructed west of Broad Street, this block of four-story, Italianate rowhouses on Pine Street between Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets was built for an upper middle-class market. ..., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Hemple, Alfred H., fl. 1860-1879, photographer
Date: ca. 1870
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Hemple - Residences [P.9047.57]

Title: Guard house, entrance to Fairmount Park
Description: View of a man, presumably a guard, standing in front of a small guard house at an entrance to Fairmount Park. Row houses are visible in the left background., Title printed on mount below image., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Raymond Holstein.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Parks [P.9013.1]

Title: Marble Terrace, West Philadelphia
Description: View looking east from Thirty-third Street and Woodland Avenue at "marble row" (i.e., marble terrace), a block of marble-fronted row houses with mansard roofs on the south side of Chestnut Street between Thirty-second and Thirty-third Streets. Also shows three men standing in the entrance of the storefront in the westernmost house on the block (3264 Chestnut Street). Built ca. 1870., Title from publisher's series list printed with 106 other numbered titles in the series (No. 139-245)., Manuscript note on mount: Marble Terrace - West Phila., Photographer's imprint from series list pasted on verso., Mint green mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Ms. Jane Carson James., Robert Newell's son Henry entered the business in 1872 and the name changed to "R. Newell & Son".
Creator: R. Newell & Son
Date: [ca. 1872]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Residences [P.9299.25]

Title: Locust St. east from Sixteenth
Description: View looking east from Sixteenth Street showing brick row houses on the south side of Locust Street and the Gothic-style Presbyterian church built 1851-1853 after the designs of John Notman (1508-1514 Locust Street). a pile of rubble sits in the street in the foreground. The church was completed for a dissenting congregation that included locomotive industrialist Matthias Baldwin who contributed $10,000 to the over $100,000 construction and land fees., Title on negative., Manuscript note on verso: 16th St. looking E. on Locust, Calvary Presbyterian Ch., Orange curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Streets [P.9208.6]

Title: Walnut Street Theatre, Philada
Description: View showing the Walnut Street Theatre at 827-833 Walnut Street (corner of Ninth and Chestnut streets). The theater, originally built as a circus in 1809, was altered to a theater in 1816, and remodeled from 1827-1828 after the designs of Philadelphia architect John Haviland. Also shows men sitting and standing near the corner of the building, along with adjacent row homes on the north side of the block looking east., Title from inscription on mount., Inscribed on mount: No. 1486., Reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 17., Arcadia caption text: The rowhouses on the north side of the 800 block of Walnut Street shown here c. 1865 no longer exist, but the Walnut Street Theatre still stands, holding the title of America’s oldest theater. Built by Victor Pepin and Jean Breschard, circus promoters who brought their equestrian and human acts to the United States from Europe, the theater has operated continuously since opening in 1809 as the New Circus. Architect John Haviland made extensive alterations in 1828, when it permanently changed its name to the Walnut Street Theatre., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893, photographer
Date: ca. 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer [P.9107.1]

Title: Elfreth's Alley, looking west towards Second Street. Philadelphia, Pa
Description: View of cobblestone street flanked by small rowhouses looking west toward Second Street. Shows a little girl halfway down the street on the sidewalk near a group of pigeons. Also includes signs for "Coach House Restaurant" and "Olde Alley ... Poor Richard" in the distant background., Title, photographer and date from manuscript note on verso., Manuscript note on verso: Bladen's Court extends north at arrow right. Lightfoot's daughter on pavement left by pigeons., Gray curved mount with rounded corners., Named after Jeremiah Elfreth, the blacksmith that owned a large number of the properties on Elfreth's Alley between Front and Second Streets. Oldest preserved residential street in Philadelphia consisting of brick Trinity houses built early to mid eighteenth century., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Robert M. Vogel.
Creator: Lightfoot, Frederick S., photographer
Date: November 4, 1947
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Lightfoot - Streets [P.9047.36]

Title: [Broad and Oxford Streets, Philadelphia]
Description: View looking northeast showing the front facades of row houses and dwellings on Broad Street, just below Oxford Street (1529-1535 North Broad). Also depicts the Oxford Presbyterian Church at the northeast corner, constructed 1879-1881 after a fire destroyed the original church and chapel. Church organized in 1867., Title supplied by cataloger., Copy photograph attributed to James Cremer based on duplicate stereograph bearing his imprint., Manuscript note on verso: Broad & Oxford Sts., Orange curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893, photographer
Date: [ca. 1881]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Streets [P.9260.52]

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: The Bible Christian Church, 3rd St., above Girard Avenue, Phila., 10/77
Description: Exterior views, one an elevated view, of the east front of the second church edifice constructed in 1845 on North Third Street above Girard Avenue to replace the frame structure built on the same site in 1817. Also shows the tombstones in the small burial ground surrounding the church. Includes adjacent brick row houses accessed from Gray's Court (i.e., Gay's Court)., Title from manuscript notes on versos., Photographer's imprint printed on mounts., Gray mounts with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Robert M. Vogel.
Creator: Schofield, John, 1835-1910
Date: 1877
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schofield - Religion [P.9047.78-79]

Title: Phila. from Girard College
Description: Rooftop view looking south showing the cityscape of Philadelphia from the upper floors or roof of Girard College's Founder's Hall. View includes the front entrance gate and landscaped school grounds in the foreground, row houses, the Corinthian Avenue Reservoir, and the outline of Eastern State Penitentiary in the distance background., Title from manuscript note on verso., Attributed to John Moran., Pale yellow mount with square corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Moran, John, 1831-1903, photographer
Date: [ca. 1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Moran - Views [P.8464.15]

Title: Looking west [sic] from Colosseum. Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Rooftop view looking south from the tower observatory of the Colosseum at the southeast corner of Broad and Locust Streets showing a partial view of the Beth Eden Baptist church built circa 1869 after designs by Edward Tuckerman Potter; a partially obscured view of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb (i.e., Deaf & Dumb Asylum) built 1824-26 after designs by John Haviland; and brick row houses facing Broad Street and Spruce Street. Originally constructed in 1873 in New York City, the Colosseum was dismantled and rebuilt in Philadelphia to exhibit cycloramas during the Centennial celebration in 1876. Removed to Boston in 1883 and stables built on the site by John Wanamaker., Title printed on mount., Publisher's imprint printed on mount., White mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Walker, Lewis E. (Lewis Emory), 1822-1880
Date: [ca. 1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Walker - Views [P.8452]

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