View of Founder's Hall, Girard College based on designs by Philadelphia architect Thomas Ustick Walter, issued separately as a souvenir of the building while it was still under construction. Constructed 1833-1847, the hall 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.
Creator
Lehman, George, d. 1870, lithographer., creator
Date
c1835.
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W154.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W154 [P.2057]
Issued as one of two annual "pictorial illustrations" for the Philadelphia Saturday Courier., LCP copy lacking title, imprint, and vignette., View of Founder's Hall at Girard College constructed 1833-1847 from designs by Philadelphia architect Thomas U. Walters. The Hall occupied a site between what became Girard Avenue and Ridge Avenue 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.
Creator
Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist. Philadelphia Saturday Courier., creator
Date
[1838]
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W155.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W155 [P.2058]
Copyrighted by J.T. Bowen in 1840., Originally issued as plate 5 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., Snyder, Martin. "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-75., Exterior 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 Revial 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.
Creator
Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846 artist., creator
Date
c1840, 1848.
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W379-4.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W379 [P.2211]
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., Snyder, Martin. "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-75., 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.
Creator
Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist., creator
Date
[1848].
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W277-4.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W277 [P.2167]
