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Title: Old Concord School House. Main St. Germantown, Pa. Built 1775
Description: Shows the one-room school house completed in 1775 near the Upper Burying Ground at 6309 Germantown Avenue. View includes a gated brick fence and headstones. The school, built from subscription funds to educate the citizens of the upper end of Germantown, was altered to include a second floor in 1818 to accommodate town meetings., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title from manuscript note on mount., Slide number: 84., Inscribed on mount: Ortol [type of developer].
Creator: Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date: 1913
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.80]

Title: Union Business College Phila
Description: Shows a classroom of male students, including young boys, at the business school, later renamed Peirce's Business College, at 931 Chestnut street. View also includes a manned registration desk adorned with signage reading "Thomas M. Peirce & Co.," instructors, a gallery, and chandeliers., Title from photographer's label pasted on verso., Yellow mount with rounded corners., 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. 110., Arcadia caption text: This crowded classroom at the Union Business College, located on the 900 block of Chestnut Street, shows young men and boys studying while instructors look on. Thomas May Peirce founded this practical business school months after the Civil War ended to prepare former soldiers for employment. While this c. 1873 scene shows only male students, the college also designed a Ladies Department for women seeking work in the business world. Renamed Peirce College, the school still operates today., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: R. Newell & Co., photographer
Date: ca. 1872
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Education [P.2004.11]

Title: Girard College; Merchant's exchange Girard's waisen hau bei Philadelphia; Kauffmann's borse in Philadelphia
Description: Lettersheet containing views of two Greek Revival buildings: Girard College at Girard Avenue near Corinthian Avenue and the Merchants' Exchange at 3rd and Walnut Streets. College buildings, designed by Thomas Ustick Walter, were constructed 1833-1847 as a school for orphans. Merchants' Exchange, designed by William Strickland and constructed 1832-33, was one of the earliest stock exchanges in the United States., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 310
Date: [ca. 1840]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Education [P.9454.7]

Title: Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind. Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view of the school located at the northwest corner of Sassafras (i.e. Race) and Schuylkill Third (i.e. 20th) Streets. Founded in 1833, the school first occupied this building in October 1836. View includes pedestrians strolling in the street and a watchman's guardhouse., Copyrighted by J.T. Bowen in 1838., Originally issued as plate 12 in Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). The lithographic stones for the views were acquired by John T. Bowen and reissued in 1838 and in 1848 with hand coloring., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 562.3. Digital image shows fourth state of print., Synder, Martin. "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1838
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W277.3 [P.2166]

Title: Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind. Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view of the school located at the northwest corner of Sassafras (i.e. Race) and Schuylkill Third (i.e. 20th) Streets. Founded in 1833, the school first occupied this building in October 1836. View includes pedestrians strolling in the street and a watchman's guardhouse., Copyrighted by J.T. Bowen in 1840., Originally issued as plate 12 in Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). The lithographic stones for the views were acquired by John T. Bowen and reissued in 1838 and in 1848 with hand coloring., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 562.4, Synder, Martin. "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: [1848]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W277.4 [P.2167]

Title: [Academy of the Visitation, soutwest corner Broad and Poplar streets, Philadelphia]
Description: Exterior view of the religious educational institution incorporated in 1850 under the direction of the Ladies of Visitation. The Academy, the former residence of gentleman Benjamin Stiles, also housed the Convent of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The order was founded in Philadelphia in 1848., Manuscript note on recto: SW Corner Broad & Poplar Sts., Title supplied by cataloguer., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., McClees, a prominent Philadelphia photographer and daguerreotypist, produced some of the earliest paper photographic views of Philadelphia between 1853 and 1859.
Creator: M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.), photographer
Date: ca. 1853
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - McClees - Education [(7)1322.F.23b]

Title: Philadelphia from Girard College - 1850
Description: Panoramic view looking south from above Girard College (2000-2490 North College Avenue) showing the city to South Philadelphia. Shows the boy's school predominately featured in the foreground. At the center, Founder's Hall looms. Several visitors walk around the building and a number partake of the vista from the roof. Boys walk and play near the eastern and western outbuildings and a woman hangs wash on a clothesline in one of the courtyards. Near the campus, pasture land and scattered development, including a church, is visible. In the background, blocks of buildings, industrial smokestacks, and church steeples comprise the cityscape. Also shows the Market Street Bridge spanning the Schuylkill River and Blockley Almshouse in West Philadelphia in the right of the image. The college buildings, designed by Philadelphia architect Thomas Ustick Walter in the Greek Revival style, were constructed 1833-1847. Girard College was established through a bequest from Stephen Girard, a Philadelphia financier and philanthropist, for the creation of a school for poor white male orphans., Copyrighted by Francis Smith in Pennsylvania., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 585, LCP exhibit catalogue: Made in America #69., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., The Smith brothers, Benjamin, Francis, David and George, were premier and prolific artists and publishers of panoramic city views during the pre-Civil War era., Free Library of Philadelphia: Oversize Philadelphiana - Views - Philadelphia from Girard
Creator: Smith, Benjamin F., Jr., 1830-1927, artist
Date: c1850
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Third floor storage - Rack 7a [7633.F]

Title: Old first high school house - Juniper street, Penn Square
Description: View showing the first building of the Old Central High School for Boys, the first public high school in the city, built 1837-1838 on Juniper Street between Market and Chestnut streets. Building contained an astronomical observatory tower. Razed in 1853., Title, date, and photographer from accompanying manuscript note by collector., Originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 5, page 59. The scrapbooks contained approximately 120 photographs by Philadelphia painter and pioneer photographer Richards of 18th-century public, commercial, and residential buildings in the city of Philadelphia commissioned by Poulson to document the vanishing architectural landscape., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., See Poulson's scrapbook, vol. 5, p. 13., 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. 101., Arcadia caption text: On October 21, 1838, Philadelphia’s first four-year public school opened with an enrollment of 89 boys. Central High School, located on Juniper Street between Market and Chestnut streets, offered superior courses taught by respected faculty. This photograph was taken in 1853, the year the school sold the site to the Pennsylvania Railroad and began construction of a larger school. The observatory tower visible in the background reportedly had better telescopes than Harvard University.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: [photographed ca. 1853, printed January 1854]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Education [(5)2526.F.59]

Title: School house of St. Marks. Church Locust St. Philada
Description: Shows the attached school of the Episcopal church built 1848-1851 after the designs of John Notman at 1607-1627 Locust Street. View includes an ironwork fence in the foreground., Photographer, title, and date from manuscript note on accompanying label., Buff paper mount with square corners., Paper backing pasted on verso., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., 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. 103., Arcadia caption text: The parish school of Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church opened in January 1850, only three months after the church held its first service. Built on the western end of the church lot in the Tudor Gothic tradition after the designs of John Notman, the parochial school served the underprivileged members of the community around 1625 Locust Street until the eve of World War I. This view dated c. 1859 shows the L-shaped schoolhouse’s steep roofs and tower with battlements and cross., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Coates, Andrew, photographer
Date: ca. 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Coates - Religion [(8)1322.F.91a]

Title: [Central High School for Boys, South Juniper Street facing Penn Square below Market Street, Philadelphia]
Description: View showing the first building of the Old Central High School for Boys, the first public high school in the city, built 1837-1838 on the Juniper Street between Market and Chestnut streets. Building contained an astronomical observatory tower. Razed in 1853., Attributed to F. De B. Richards., Title supplied by cataloguer., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: [photographed ca. 1853, printed January 1854]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Education [(6)1322.F.115c]

Title: Sacred Heart Convent, "Eden Hall." Torresdale, Pa
Description: View of the girls boarding school and convent administered by the Society of Sacred Heart Sisters that was built 1849-1850 after the designs of Frank Wills at 4800 Grant Avenue in Northeast Philadelphia. The stone building contains several wings and a chapel. Crosses adorn the roofs. Girls play on the grounds landscaped with trees. Also shows a woman and child walking up the path to the school entrance and a man with a horse-drawn wagon near the chapel. A border, arched at the top with simple art details, frames the image. The society purchased the Torresdale estate of F. Cowperthwait in 1847 and operated a school on the property until 1969., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 199, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Walker & Co., the Boston lithography firm established in 1879, sought the patronage of Roman Catholic clergy in the early 1880s.
Creator: Geo. H. Walker & Co.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Religion - Sacred Heart Convent [P.9372]

Title: Convent of the Sacred Heart, Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view showing several nuns and female students in front of the convent and boarding school, also known as Eden Hall, built 1849-1850 after the designs of Frank Wills, at 4800 Grant Avenue in Torresdale. Several students wear white gowns, possibly habits., Title printed on mount., Photographer from embossed stamp., 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., The Langenheim brothers, William and Frederick, were pioneer photographers and stereograph publishers who operated a photographic studio in Philadelphia from the 1840s to 1874 and the death of William.
Creator: W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
Date: ca. 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - Religion [1322.F.69a]

Title: Convent of the Sacred Heart, Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view showing several nuns and female students in front of the convent and boarding school, also known as Eden Hall, built 1849-1850 after the designs of Frank Wills, at 4800 Grant Avenue in Torresdale. Several students wear white gowns, possibly habits., Title printed on mount., Photographer from embossed stamp., 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., The Langenheim brothers, William and Frederick, were pioneer photographers and stereograph publishers who operated a photographic studio in Philadelphia from the 1840s to 1874 and the death of William.
Creator: W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
Date: ca. 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - Religion [1322.F.69a]

Title: Convent of the Sacred Heart, Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view showing several nuns and female students in front of the convent and boarding school, also known as Eden Hall, built 1849-1850 after the designs of Frank Wills, at 4800 Grant Avenue in Torresdale. Several students wear white gowns, possibly habits., Title printed on mount., Photographer from embossed stamp., 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., The Langenheim brothers, William and Frederick, were pioneer photographers and stereograph publishers who operated a photographic studio in Philadelphia from the 1840s to 1874 and the death of William.
Creator: W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
Date: ca. 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - Religion [1322.F.69a]

Title: Centre Mission School of Christ Church Germantown This engraving is respectfully presented to the friends of the mission
Description: View showing the double-entranced stone school house containing a small bellfry. Townscape is visible in the left of the image and a country house with farmland in the right., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 97, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 132 C 555
Date: [ca. 1858]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Ba 132 C 555

Title: Handel and Haydn Hall corner of Eighth and Spring Garden Sts. Benefit of the John Quincy Adams School! in aid of the Sanitary Commission Wonderful metamorphoses in natural magic: modern thaumaturgics and ancient sorcery, combined with immence powers of ventriloquism, and the learned canary birds! Sig'r Blitz the world-renowned ventriloquist and magician, will give his performances at the above place, Friday afternoon and evening April 22d--commencing at 3 and 8. ... To conclude with the wonderful Dance of six plates on a common table! Admission, 25 cents. Children, 15 cents Time--evening--doors open at 7 o'clock, to commence at 8 o'clock. Afternoon--doors open at 2 o'clock, to commence at 3
Description: April 22 fell on a Friday in 1864., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Blitz, Antonio, 1810-1877
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB 1864 Blitz (27)5761.F.57c (McAllister)

Title: [Commemorative print] presented by the Roxborough Baptist Sunday School, New Year 1876
Description: Print containing several vignettes commemorating the forthcoming Centennial Exhibition of 1876, predominately views depicting exhibition buildings. Depicts the Main Exhibition Building, Machinery Hall, Memorial Hall and Art Gallery, Agricultural Hall, and Horticultural Hall. Views also show landscaped promenades and boulevards with street and pedestrian traffic. Also contains a view of the Roxborough Baptist Church; a liberty bell; lists of the "Officers of the Roxborough Baptist Sunday School 1876" and "Teachers of the Roxborough Baptist Sunday School"; and a decorative border. The Centennial Exhibition of 1876 celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 150, Gift of David Doret.
Date: [1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Centennial [P.2006.31.11]

Title: New Olney High School, N. Phila
Description: Aerial views showing Olney High School under construction. Located at North Front Street and Duncannon Avenue in the Olney section of Philadelphia, the building was designed by Irwin T. Catharine in the Academic Gothic style. Includes views of nearby rowhomes., Negative numbers: 12618, 12619.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: June 4, 1930
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.12618-12619]

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: New Central High School and La Salle University, Phila., Pa
Description: Aerial views showing the campuses of Central High School and La Salle University in the Logan (or Olney) section of Philadelphia. Depicts school and university buildings, as well as row homes in the vicinity of Olney and Ogontz avenues. Central High School was designed by Irwin T. Catharine and built 1937-1939., Negative numbers: 19839s, 19841s, 20940n., Negatives 19839s and 19841s dated June 26, 1939., Negative 20940n dated May 12, 1940.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: 1939-1940
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8890.19839s; P.8990.19841s; P.8990.20940n]

Title: St. Francis Xavier's Church. Philadelphia, Penna Rev. James Maginn, Pastor
Description: View showing the Roman Catholic church at Twenty-fifth and Biddle Streets (i.e., Buttonwood Street) below the Fairmount Waterworks Basin in Fairmount. Church contains a dome and bell tower. Also shows an adjacent four-story rectory building, convent, or school. Building contains an attached covered shed. Trees line the church properties. Street and pedestrian traffic includes individuals crossing the street, strolling on the sidewalk, and a horse-drawn carriage with passengers. Rev. Maginn was appointed pastor in 1863. The church relocated to a new building at 24th and Green streets in 1898 with the Philadelphia Museum of Art erected at the prior location., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 232, PAHRC: Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. Francis Xavier's Church
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center. | Graphics Collection. PAHRC Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. Francis Xavier's Church

Title: At dinner, Girard College, Philadelphia
Description: Interior view of the dining hall, showing boys seated at rows of long rectangular tables ready to eat their dinner on the tables in front of them., Title on negative., Additional places of publication printed on mount, including St. Louis and Liverpool, Eng., Distributor's imprint on mount., Yellow curved mount 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.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Griffith & Griffith - Education [P.9047.121]

Title: Girard College with statue of Stephen Girard
Description: View showing the front foyer of Founder's Hall, constructed 1833-1847 in the Greek Revival style after the designs of Philadelphia architect Thomas Ustick Walter, at 1201-1211 West College Avenue. View includes the statue installed in front of the sarcophagus holding Girard's remains located in the foyer. Girard College was established through a bequest from Stephen Girard, a Philadelphia financier and philanthropist, for the creation of a school for "poor white orphans.", Yellow mount with square corners., Title from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's label 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, photographer
Date: ca. 1863
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Moran - Education [P.8464.14]

Title: Deaf & dumb asylum, n.w. corner Broad & Pine Street, Philadelphia
Description: View looking northwest showing the building constructed 1824-26 after the designs of John Haviland at 320 South Broad Street. View includes street railroad tracks, street lamps, and adjacent residences. The school, incorporated in 1821, provided instruction in trades and manufactures to deaf and mute persons., Title and date from manuscript note on verso., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., 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. 107., Arcadia caption text: This 1858 view of Broad Street looking northwest from Pine Street depicts the thoroughfare as more structures were springing up near the once rural area. The massive Greek Revival building, familiar today as the University of the Arts’ Dorrance Hamilton Hall, was erected 1824-1826 for the Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb after the designs of John Haviland. This school, chartered in 1821, taught deaf and mute students industrial and trade skills, such as tailoring and lithography. The school left the building in 1893, at which time the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art (now University of the Arts) purchased it.
Creator: M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.), photographer
Date: June 1858
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *photo - McClees [8339.F.19]

Title: Church of St. Edward the Confessor Philadelphia, Penna Rev. P. F. Sullivan pastor
Description: View showing the Roman Catholic Church at 2401-2427 North 8th Street built as an Episcopal church and bought by the Archdiocese for the parish established in 1865. Also shows the adjacent church school. The church, which does not contain a tower, and school are surrounded by a yard with trees that is protected by a picket fence. A few pedestrians, including a woman and child, walk on the sidewalk in front of the property. Rev. P. F. Sullivan assumed the pastorship of the church in 1873. A cornerstone for a new church was laid in 1883., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 36, PAHRC: Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Church of St. Edward the Confessor
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center. | Graphics Collection. PAHRC Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Church of St. Edward the Confessor

Title: [John Mundell & Co. trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards for John Mundell & Co.'s solar tip shoes manufactured in Philadelphia. One illustration, labeled "Girard College Philada, where 200 boys wear our solar tip shoes," depicts a small group of girls watching a large group of boys playing ball on the lawn in front of Founder's Hall, Girard College. A marching band passes through in the background. Also shows two scenes, "The foolish man" depicting a flustered father surrounded by bills and upset children wearing worn shoes juxtaposed with "The wise man" who purchased solar tip shoes and is surrounded by happy, smiling children. Girard College, designed by Philadelphia architect Thomas Ustick Walter and constructed between 1833-1847, occupied a site between what became Girard Avenue and Ridge Avenues at Corinthian Avenue. Girard College was established through a bequest from Stephen Girard, a Philadelphia financier and philanthropist, for the creation of a school for poor white male orphans., Printers and engravers include E. Ketterlinus & Co. (Philadelphia)., Advertising text printed on versos includes John Mundell & Co.'s trademark and promotes solar tip shoes., Distributor's imprint printed on verso of P.9806: At wholesale by McKee & Branham, Indianapolis, Ind., Distributors' imprints printed on verso of P.9800: wholesale dealers, Dunn, Salmon & Co., Syracuse, N.Y.; sold at retail by M.E. Aldrich, Philadelphia, N.Y., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Mundell [P.9800 & P.9806]

Title: Philadelphia showing Girard College
Description: Aerial view of Philadelphia's Fairmount neighborhood, looking east from East Fairmount Park (foreground) to the Delaware River (background). View shows Girard College, the Corinthian Avenue Reservoir, and Eastern State Penitentiary in the distance. Also shows a railroad tunnel bordering the park. Row homes and factories are visible., Negative number: 1651.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: ca. 1915
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.1651]

Title: Girard College, Phila., Pa
Description: High-altitude aerial view of Girard College at Girard Avenue including Founder's Hall and the eastern and western outbuildings. The school buildings, designed by Philadelphia architect Thomas Ustick Walter in the Greek Revival style, were constructed 1833-1847. Girard College was established through a bequest from Stephen Girard, a Philadelphia financier and philanthropist, for the creation of a school for poor white male orphans. It opened in 1848. Eastern State Penitentiary is visible in the foreground. View looks north and includes North Philadelphia., Negative number: 5376.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: ca. 1925
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.5376]

Title: Hall of the Spring Garden Institute March 5th, afternoon and evening, evening, at half-past 7 o'clock; afternoon at 3. Sig. Blitz will give entertainments, as above, for the benefit of the Girls' Grammar School Fifteenth Ward. Admission--Adults, 25 cents. Children, 13 cents Children, take your parents to see Blitz. Parents, take your children to see Blitz and his canary birds. ... The evening's entertainment will conclude with the celebrated Dance of six dinner plates on a common table, ... Lessons given by Sig. Blitz, of whom may be purchased a variety of family amusements, magical scrap books, &c. Instruction given in ventriloquism. Admission, 25 cents Children, 13 cents
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Blitz, Antonio, 1810-1877
Date: [1863?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB 1863 Blitz (27)5761.F.124b (McAllister)

Title: Asylum for the Blind, Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view of the school located at the northwest corner Twentieth and Race streets. Founded in 1833, the school first occupied this building in October 1836. View includes pedestrians standing on the sidewalk and a watchman's guardhouse., Title from manuscript note on verso., Yellow mount with square corners., 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. 107., Arcadia caption text: Founded in 1833, the Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind attempted to teach its pupils self-sufficiency through learning skilled trades. The school’s buildings at the northwest corner of Twentieth and Race streets provided classrooms, workshops, and living space for its blind and visually impaired students, The curriculum included elementary through high school courses of study, practical handiwork, and music. In 1869, around the time of this photograph, the school erected a store to sell the students’ wares, such as brushes, brooms, chairs, and needlework., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Hurn, J. W. (John White), d. 1887, photographer
Date: ca. 1869
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Hurn - Education [P.9145.5]

Title: Simon Gratz School
Description: Aerial views of Simon Gratz High School and Elizabeth D. Gillespie Junior High School, located at 18th Street and Hunting Park Avenue in the Nicetown section of Philadelphia. Depicts the Academic Gothic style buildings designed by Irwin T. Catharine and built concurrently from 1925 to 1927. Gratz was named in honor of Philadelphia lawyer, educator, and philanthropist Simon Gratz. Views include nearby rowhomes, churches, and industrial facilities such as John Warner Hardwoods & Building Lumber, Beck & Co. Coal Pockets, and John J. Felin & Co., Negative numbers: 7271, 7272.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: ca. 1927
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.7271-7272]

Title: Statue of Stephen Girard, Girard College, Phila
Description: View of the full-length Girard College statue of Stephen Girard, his hands crossed at his waist. The life-size marble statue, instated in 1846, was installed in front of Girard's sarcophagus in the Main Hall (i.e., Founder's Hall) of Girard College around 1851., Title printed on mount., Photographer's blind stamp on mount., Publisher's label pasted on verso., Distributor's label pasted on verso: From James W. Queen & Co., opticians, No. 924 Chestnut St., Philadelphia., White mount with square corners., Founder's Hall, also identified as the main building, built 1833-1847 after designs by Thomas Ustick Walter. Endowed by philanthropist Stephen Girard to educate boys without fathers. Girard ran away from home in France at the age of fourteen, worked his way up to ship captain and landed in the states in 1776. He became one of the wealthiest men in America before his death seventeen years before the opening of Girard College in 1848., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., The Langenheim Brothers copyrighted a series of stereographs with labels inscribed: "American Stereoscopic Co., Langenheim, Loyd & Co., Philadelphia" in 1858. They continued to produce stereographs until 1865, when they withdrew from the American Stereoscopic Co.
Creator: American Stereoscopic Company
Date: c1858
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - Monuments and statues [P.9462.4]

Title: Relics of S. Girard at Girard College
Description: Interior view showing relics and furniture belonging to Stephen Girard in Founder's Hall, constructed 1833-1847 in the Greek Revival style after the designs of Philadelphia architect Thomas Ustick Walter, at 1201-1211 West College Avenue. Relics include an architectural model of Founder's Hall enclosed in a glass case, a large orrery in the middle of the room, chests, chairs, and paintings. Girard College was established through a bequest from Stephen Girard, a Philadelphia financier and philanthropist, for the creation of a school for "poor white orphans.", Title from printed series label pasted on verso., Probable photographer inferred from series label on verso. See Bartlett & French [P.9466.1], Distributor's blind stamp on mount., Manuscript note on verso: No. 160, Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., George W. Thorne operated from 60 Nassau Street in New York from 1864 to 1879.
Creator: Bartlett & French, photographer
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Thorne - Education [P.9541]

Title: Reunion of the students and graduates of the Quaker City Business College, Thursday evening, February 14, 1867 Exercises to commence at eight o'clock
Description: A program and dance card., A.H.G. Richardson, master of ceremonies., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Quaker City Business College (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: [1867]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1867 Quaker 3321.F.8

Title: Philadelphia from State House steeple
Description: Panoramic view looking northeast from the State House at 520 Chestnut Street. Includes Quaker City Business College and Jacob Lutz, morocco, cabinet case, and pocket book manufacturer (439 Chestnut); and H.J. Toudy & Co., practical lithographer (503-505 Chestnut). Also shows the steeple of Christ Church and businesses' rooftop signage advertising drugs, clothing, umbrellas and parasols., Distributors' imprints printed on verso: For Sale By James S. Earle & Sons, 816 Chestnut St., Philadelphia. Wilson, Hood, & Co., 822 Arch St., Philadelphia. James Cremer, 18 S. Eighth St., Philadelphia., Gift of Robert M. Vogel., 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 - Views [P.9047.23]

Title: "Friends" schoolhouses - East side of Fourth St. south of Chestnut Street
Description: Shows the former school building of the Friends' Academy, erected in 1744, rebuilt in 1803, and razed in 1859, boarded up for demolition on the 100 block of South 4th Street. Building adorned with signage promoting a "stationery & printing" shop. Also shows adjacent businesses G. Krouse, gas fitter (117 S. 4th); Quaker City Bag Factory; and Moses Thomas & Sons, auctioneers (139-141 S. 4th). Friends' Academy, established in 1689 by the Religious Society of Friends, suspended operations in 1842 and was re-established as the William Penn Charter School in 1875., Date inscribed in negative., Title from manuscript note by collector on mount., Manuscript note by collector on mount: On the 9th of April '59 workmen commenced demolishing the "old Quaker schools houses" pictured above. The over-topping wall &c (gable) at termination of the picture are parts of the auction store of Moses Thomas & Sons -near but one house to the N.E. cor. of Fourth & Harmony St. [Note the northern school - house only was removed on the site of which are now erected 3 noble stores 4 stories high, Aug. 27th 1859. CP., Duplicate of 8339.F.6., Originally part of a Poulson's scrapbook., See Poulson's scrapbook, vol. 4, p.35. [(4)3602.Q]., Richards, Philadelphia painter, etcher, and photographer produced some of the earliest successful paper photographic prints in the city, including photographs commissioned by local historian Charles Poulson to document Philadelphia.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: April 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Education [(4)3602.Q.1]

Title: "Friends" schoolhouses - East side of Fourth St. south of Chestnut Street
Description: Shows the former school building of the Friends' Academy, erected in 1744, rebuilt in 1803, and razed in 1859, boarded up for demolition on the 100 block of South 4th Street. Building adorned with signage promoting a "stationery and printing" shop. Also shows adjacent businesses G. Krouse, gas fitter (117 S. 4th); Quaker City Bag Factory; and Moses Thomas & Sons, auctioneers (139-141 S. 4th). Friends' Academy, established in 1689 by the Religious Society of Friends, suspended operations in 1842 and was re-established as the William Penn Charter School in 1875., Date inscribed in negative., Title and name of photographer from duplicate., Originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 5, page 39 1/2. The scrapbooks contained approximately 120 photographs by Philadelphia painter and pioneer photographer Richards of 18th-century public, commercial, and residential buildings in the city of Philadelphia commissioned by Poulson to document the vanishing architectural landscape., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Select link below for a digital image., Duplicate of (4)3602.F.1.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: April 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Education [(5)2526.F.39 1/2 / 8339.F.6], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/8339f6.jpg

Title: Free Quakers meeting house. On the southwest corner of Fifth Street. Benjm. Tucker's schools, for many years, were kept in upper portion of this building
Description: Shows the former meeting house built 1783 after the designs of Free Quakers Timothy Matlack and Samuel Price Wetherill at 500 Arch Street. Building tenanted by the Apprentice's Library 1841-1897. View includes a vendor's stand in front of the library and slabs of stone laying in the street. Building served as the Free Quakers' meetinghouse until circa 1838. Second floor added 1788. Free Quakers were excommunicated from the Society of Friends because of their violent resistance during the American Revolution., Date inscribed on photograph., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount of 3599.Q.110., One of images originally part of a Philadelphia scrapbook directory for 1768 compiled by John McAllister, Jr., Charles Massey, Jr. and Charles Poulson., One of images originally part of a series of eight scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson entitled " A collection of Miscellaneous Scraps: Illuminating the history of the city of Philadelphia in the 'olden time,'" volume 4, page 36a., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Select link below for a digital image.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: March 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Churches and meetinghouses [3599.Q.110 (Poulson); (4)3602.F.36a (Poulson)], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/3599q110.jpg

Title: St. Augustine's Church. Philadelphia, Penna
Description: View showing the second edifice of the Roman Catholic church built 1848-1849 after the designs of Napoleon Le Brun at 260-262 North Fourth Street. Building contains the steeple added in 1867 after the designs of Edwin F. Durang. Neighboring residences, a business adorned with an awning, and the church cemetery are visible adjacent to St. Augustine's. In front of the church, pedestrians, including a mother and child, stroll; a newsboy runs toward a parked carriage; and a man crosses the street. Also shows a fire hydrant, street lamps, and the church property protected by an ironwork fence and stone wall with doorway., Not in Wainwright., Contains inset titled "St. Augustine's School and Parochial Residence, E.F. Durang, Arch't." Shows the three-story school rebuilt in 1870 and the adjoining parochial residence on the north side of the church. Includes light pedestrian traffic., Reproduction of print published as frontispiece to Rev. Francis X. McGowan, ed., Historical Sketch of St. Augustine's Church, Philadelphia, Pa. 1796-1896 (Philadelphia: Published by the Augustinian Fathers, 1896), Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 230, PAHRC: Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. Augustine's
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center. | Graphics Collection. PAHRC Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. Augustine's

Title: St. Bonifacius Church. Norris Square Philadelphia, Penna
Description: View showing the Roman Catholic church, also known as St. Boniface, built 1868-1872 at Diamond and North Hancock streets in Kensington. St. Boniface School stands adjacent to the church. An American flag adorns the roof. Pedestrians walk and greet one another on the sidewalk in front of the church and on the opposite side of the street in front of Norris Square. Two gentlemen cross the street near a parked carriage and another transporting two ladies. Iron work fences line the church and square in which trees are visible., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 231, PAHRC: Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. Bonifacius
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center. | Graphics Collection. PAHRC Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. Bonifacius

Title: The city of brotherly love
Description: Bird's eye view from City Hall tower looking north showing the cityscape surrounding Broad Street. Identifiable buildings include Masonic Temple (1-33 North Broad, built 1868-1873, James H. Windrim, architect); the Arch Street Methodist Episcopal Church (1344-1348 Arch, built 1869, Addison Hutton, architect); First Baptist Church (northwest cor. Broad and Arch, built 1856, Stephen Decatur Button, architect); Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (118-126 North Broad, built 1872-76, Furness & Hewitt, architects); Offenbach's Garden, carriage depository or bazaar, formerly the site of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Depot (southeast corner of Broad and Cherry Streets); cyclorama building that displayed the Battle of Gettyburg in the early 1890s (northeast corner of Broad and Cherry Streets); Hahnemann Medical College (230 North Broad); and Roman Catholic High School (301-313 North Broad, built 1890, Edwin Forrest Durang, architect). Horse-drawn vehicles on Broad Street are also visible., Title printed on mount., Photographer's imprint printed on verso., Buff curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of J.F. Dallet.
Creator: Kilburn, B. W. (Benjamin West), 1827-1909
Date: c1891
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Kilburn - Views [P.9418.2]

Title: Central High School, Broad and Green Streets
Description: View looking southeast showing the west front and north flank of the second building of the Central High School for Boys (established 1838), the first public high school in the city, built 1853 at the southeast corner of North Broad and Green Streets. Also shows the Swedenborgian Church of the New Jerusalem, constructed in 1854 after designs by Collins & Autenreith, situated immediately north of Spring Garden Institute, built 1851-1852 after designs by Stephen Decatur Button at the northeast corner of Broad and Spring Garden Streets., Title from photographer's label on verso. Also lists forty-one other views in the series (No. 140-180)., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Bartlett, George O., photographer
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett - Education [P.2002.21.6]

Title: Girard-college
Description: View of Girard College at Girard Avenue facing northwest from Corinthian Avenue including Founder's Hall and the eastern and western outbuildings. Street scene in the foreground includes an omnibus drawn by a team of six horses, a man on horseback, and a carriage. Elegantly dressed men, women, children, and couples stroll, and an African American man leans against a pole smoking a pipe. The college buildings, designed by Philadelphia architect Thomas Ustick Walter in the Greek Revival style, were constructed 1833-1847. Girard College was established through a bequest from Stephen Girard, a Philadelphia financier and philanthropist, for the creation of a school for "poor white orphans.", Title from item., Copyrighted by Augustus Kollner in New York., Plate 9 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.", Philadelphia on Stone, POS 316, Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Deroy, Laurent, 1797-1886, lithographer
Date: 1848
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Education [P.2283.23]

Title: Girard-college
Description: View of Girard College at Girard Avenue facing northwest from Corinthian Avenue including Founder's Hall and the eastern and western outbuildings. Street scene in the foreground includes an omnibus drawn by a team of six horses, a man on horseback, and a carriage. Elegantly dressed men, women, children, and couples stroll, and an African American man leans against a pole smoking a pipe. The college buildings, designed by Philadelphia architect Thomas Ustick Walter in the Greek Revival style, were constructed 1833-1847. Girard College was established through a bequest from Stephen Girard, a Philadelphia financier and philanthropist, for the creation of a school for "poor white orphans.", Title from item., Plate 9 of a series of fifty-four views published by Goupil, Vibert & Company from 1848 to 1851 that were drawn by Kollner and lithographed by Deroy, and later bound under the title "Views of American Cities.", Philadelphia on Stone, POS 305, Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Deroy, Laurent, 1797-1886, lithographer
Date: [1848]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Education [P.2283.15]

Title: Ledger carriers annual greeting 1862 Girard College (Philadelphia)
Description: View of Girard College at Girard Avenue facing northwest from Corinthian Avenue including Founder's Hall and the eastern and western outbuildings. Street scene in the foreground includes a streetcar drawn by a team of six horses; elegantly dressed white pedestrians strolling, including men and women couples; and an African American man leaning against a pole smoking a pipe. The college buildings, designed by Philadelphia architect Thomas Ustick Walter in the Greek Revival style, were constructed from 1833-1847. Girard College was established through a bequest from Stephen Girard, a Philadelphia financier and philanthropist, for the creation of a school for poor white male orphans., Title from item., After drawing by Augustus Kollner published as plate 9 of a series of fifty-four lithographs executed by Isidore Laurent Deroy issued as a bound volume in New York and Paris by Goupil, Vibert and Company from 1848 to 1851 under the title "Views of American Cities.", Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *PhPr - Education - Girard [1883.F.182]

Title: [Woodshop class at Philadelphia Orthopedic School, 22nd & Brown Streets]
Description: Depicts the young students, including African American boys, from the Willis and Elizabeth Martin Orthopedic School at their desks with their woodworking tools. They are overseen by a man instructor on crutches at the back of the class in the left. The students sit in rows and look towards the viewer. In the right, girls sit around a table. Opened in 1936, the Public Works Administration funded school, named after the Philadelphia judge and health care reformer and his philanthropist wife, provided the students with medical care and a curriculum of humanities, arts, crafts, and drama., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inscribed on negative: No. 12220; 4-5-37., Manuscript note on verso: Phila. Orthopedic School, 22nd & Brown Sts., Forms part of Philadelphia Public Schools Photograph Collection., Gift of Mrs. Arthur Kushlan, 1980., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [April 5, 1937]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photos - unidentified - Education [P.8578.12]

Title: Daily Vacational Bible School #63
Description: Group portrait photograph depicting the African American Bible school, students and instructors, posed before a large brick residence, probably in Philadelphia. The students and men and women teachers sit and stand in five rows. In the right back row, two boys hold baseball bats., Title, date, and photographer's imprint inscribed in negative., Purchase 1989., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Paul, Dan E., photographer
Date: 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *group portrait photographs - education [P.9273.7]

Title: Photograph Album of Philadelphia and Vicinity
Description: Photograph album compiled by Philadelphia photographer Robert Newell containing views by the photographer and his peers, including F. De. B. Richards. Images depict major city landmarks and views of Fairmount Park, including benevolent, educational and financial institutions, historic sites, residences, churches and meetinghouses, bridges, and hotels and taverns. Sites documented include Broad Street (Civil War) Hospital; Foster Home (Twenty-Fourth and Poplar); Germantown Academy; the former bookstore and printing office of William Young (200-204 Chestnut); Landing Avenue during alterations (East bank of Schuylkill); Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (old and new); Carpenters Hall; Independence Hall; Academy of Music; Merchants' Exchange; Girard, Farmers', Mechanics', Pennsylvania, and Fourth National banks; Bartram's, Keene, and Rittenhouse mansions; Woodford residence (Fairmount Park); Washington's residence (Germantown); Womrath property, "where the first 4th of July" was celebrated" (4216 Frankford); Oldest house in Lansdown" (West Fairmount Park); Old Farm house (Broad and Oxford); St. Judes Episcopal church; Fairmount Water Works, and boat houses and ice houses along the Schuylkill; Cedar Hill, Laurel Hill and Woodlands cemeteries; Columbia, Old Callowhill Street, Girard Avenue, and New York Connecting Railroad bridges; Continental, Valley Green, Maple Spring, Markley's and Cole's hotels; and "Punch Bowl" (2100 Broad), "Abbey" (Hunting Park and Wissahickon Aves), Old Buck? (Lancaster Pike) and Old Grey's Ferry taverns.

Title: [Uncut proof sheet of vignette views of Philadelphia landmarks]
Description: Contains eight, titled vignettes with varying Kollner imprints depicting "Girard College," "State House," "Fairmount," and "Exchange," i.e., the Merchant's Exchange. The Girard College, State House, and Merchant Exchange views are repeated. Girard College vignette shows Founder’s Hall and the eastern and western outbuildings built 1833-1847 after the designs of Thomas Ustick Walter. State House vignette shows Independence Hall, built 1732-1748 after the designs of Andrew Hamilton and Edmund Woolley at 520 Chestnut Street. Also shows City Hall built 1790-1791 after the designs of David Evans, Jr. (500 Chestnut) and Congress Hall built 1787-1789 (540-558 Chestnut). Fairmount vignette shows the Fairmount Waterworks and the Wire Bridge at Fairmount. The waterworks were originally built 1812-1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff and the bridge was built 1841-1842 after the designs of engineer Charles Ellet, Jr. Exchange vignette shows the exchange building constructed 1832-33 for the Philadelphia Exchange Company after the designs of William Strickland at 143 South Third Street. A line of horse-drawn carriages is parked in front of the building., Not in Wainwright., Includes registration marks., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 768
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813, artist
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Education - G [P.8662.16]

Title: Chestnut Street east of Eighth St
Description: View looking east from below Eighth Street showing the Masonic Hall at 713-721 Chestnut. The hall, built 1853-1855 after the designs of Sloan & Stewart, was razed by fire in 1886. Shows adjacent businesses, including Marxsen & Witte, china and glass (713 Chestnut); James E. Brown, trunk manufacturer (708 Chestnut); Crittenden's Philadelphia Commercial College (7th and Chestnut); Charles Dumming & Co., musical instruments (633 Chestnut); Farrel & Herring, fire-proof safe manufacturers (629 Chestnut); and a cafe. Also includes signage advertising Willis P. Hazard, bookseller and publisher (724 Chestnut), and L. Feigle, millinery (722 Chestnut), in the lower right corner of the image. Several pedestrians walk on the sidewalks and horse-drawn carriages and wagons travel the streets., Title from accompanying photographer's label., Yellow mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Stereoview incorrectly identified as "East of 7th St." on photographer's label., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Newell, Robert, 1822-1897
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Associations [(8)1322.F.25n]

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