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Title: Panoramic view of Philadelphia west from State House
Description: Panoramic view showing the north side of the the 600 block of Chestnut Street, including the office buildings constructed for patent medicine manufacturer Dr. David Jayne. Includes a hat manufactory (Sixth and Chestnut); Rockhill & Wilson, clothiers (603-605 Chestnut); the Bulletin Building covered with scaffolding (607 Chestnut, built 1866); Perry & Co., clothiers (609 Chestnut); the Jayne Office Building known as the Commonwealth Building (611-613 Chestnut); Jayne's Marble Building (615-619 Chestnut, built 1860); and Jayne's Hall (625-631 Chestnut, built 1856)., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Title from manuscript note on verso., Gift of Robert M. Vogel., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: ca. 1866
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Views [P.9462.23]

Title: [Southwest corner West 3rd Street and Market Square, Williamsport, Pa.]
Description: View showing the southwest corner of Market Square in downtown Williamsport, Pa. Businesses include Philadelphia & Erie railroad ticket office with John A. Vanderslice, agent; S.M. Beck & Co., hardware store; W.M. Harrison & Co., stationery and wallpaper store; and a piano forte warehouse. Ticket office covered in signage. Also shows several men standing near a lamp post adorned with advertisements in front of the ticket office; farm implements on display in front of the hardware store; and a blanketed horse standing in front of the stationery store., Buff mount with rounded corners., Manuscript note on verso: S.W. corner W. 3rd and Market Square., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: ca. 1870
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unid. - non-Philadelphia [P.9466.10]

Title: Seventh National Bank, 401 Market Street, Philadelphia, Pa
Description: View showing the bank at the northwest corner of Fourth and Market streets. Also shows adjacent businesses on North Fourth below Arch, including Musselman & Kirk, cotton goods, wood and willoware (12 N. 4th); L. Snively, ladies' boot and shoe manufacturer (18 N. 4th); T.P. and S.S. Smith, ladies' boot and shoe manufacturer (20 N. 4th); and a trimmings store. Crates line the sidewalks., Photographer's label pasted on verso., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Title from manuscript note on verso., Manuscript note on verso: Inc. May 1864 at 216 Market St, moved shortly to 401 Market., Gift of Robert M. Vogel., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.)
Date: [ca.1866]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Simons - Banks [P.9047.22]

Title: Seventh National Bank, 401 Market Street, Philadelphia, Pa
Description: View showing the bank at the northwest corner of Fourth and Market streets. Also shows adjacent businesses on North Fourth below Arch, including Musselman & Kirk, cotton goods, wood and willoware (12 N. 4th); L. Snively, ladies' boot and shoe manufacturer (18 N. 4th); T.P. and S.S. Smith, ladies' boot and shoe manufacturer (20 N. 4th); and a trimmings store. Crates line the sidewalks., Photographer's label pasted on verso., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Title from manuscript note on verso., Manuscript note on verso: Inc. May 1864 at 216 Market St, moved shortly to 401 Market., Gift of Robert M. Vogel., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.)
Date: [ca.1866]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Simons - Banks [P.9047.22]

Title: Elevated railway, 42nd Street
Description: View looking west from the railway station over 42nd Street showing the elevated railroad tracks constructed past the Grand Central Depot (built 1871, remodeled 1913) visible in the far right background. The railway, established in 1868, was extended to the depot in 1878. The tracks pass several buildings and businesses including the Grand Union Hotel and Restaurant; a wallpaper manufactory; and Murtaugh's dumbwaiter manufactory., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Title printed on mount., Gift of Saul Koltnow., Digitization 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 - unid. - non-Philadelphia - New York [P.9022.24]

Title: Col. M. Corcoran addressing the crowds in front of the Continental Hotel, Phila., August 21, 1862
Description: Rooftop views looking east from above Ninth Street showing a massive crowd in front of the Continental and Girard House hotels on the 800 block of Chestnut Street. Shows a large horse-drawn enclosed platform resting near the crowd and a caravan of horse-drawn carriages traveling up the street. People look out the windows and stand on the balconies of nearby businesses. Businesses include the Root Gallery photographic studio operated by J.J. Bushnell from 1862-1863 (901 Chestnut) and J.H. Richelderfer's "Boy's Clothing Bazaar" (903 Chestnut). Corcoran, colonel of the Sixty-Ninth New York Brigade, i.e., the Irish Brigade travelled through Philadelphia following his release as a prisoner of war from Libby Prison., Title and date from unmounted stereograph 5779.F.12e, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Variant in the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. [Penrose Collection, Box 18]., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [August 21, 1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - unidentified - Events [(6)1322.F.27a; P.2282.12], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - 5x7 - unidentified - Events [(7)1322.F.69e], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Events [5779.F.12e]

Title: [Market Street, showing businesses on the south side between 11th and 12th Streets, Philadelphia]
Description: View shows businesses occupying 1106 to 1114 Market Street including Waterman & Ramson, dealer in candies, etc. (1106 Market); Pfeil's hats and caps (1108 Market); Manigle's stoves, heaters & ranges (1110 Market); a carpet store (1112 Market); and Sam Whalley & Co. wines and liquors (1114 Market). Also shows display windows at street level, numerous signboards on the front facades, and three horse-drawn carts parked on the south side of Market Street., Title supplied by cataloger., Photographer's imprint from blind stamp on recto., Yellow mount with square corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Bartlett & Smith, photographer
Date: [ca. 1867]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & Smith - Streets [P.9486.2]

Title: Chestnut St. above 4th St. south side
Description: View showing the south side of the 400 block of Chestnut Street. Includes the Philadelphia Bank Building (400-408 Chestnut, built 1836); the U.S. Customhouse, (420 Chestnut, formerly the Second Bank of the United States, completed in 1824 after the designs of William Strickland); and the U.S Post Office and U.S. Courts Building (426-428 Chestnut, 1863-1884). Signage adorns the Philadelphia Bank Building, including advertisements for the resident businesses of William M. Clark, engraver on wood, and Boswell & Co., insurance agents. Also includes vendor stands in front of the U.S. Customhouse and pedestrians walking on the sidewalk., Title from manuscript note on verso., Attributed to James Cremer based on other stereographs with same series title and mount, with the photographer's label pasted on verso., Publication information from duplicate and variant stereoviews. (P.9260.49a and P.8931.2)., Orange mount with rounded corners., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Mount discolored., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: [May 21, 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Government buildings - C [(8)1322.F.19h]

Title: Goal, in Walnut Street Philadelphia
Description: Active street scene at Sixth and Walnut streets with a view of the Walnut Street Jail, completed in 1776, after the designs of Philadelphia architect Robert Smith. Depicts several individuals, including a child, lining Sixth Street witnessing a large wood shed on wheels, possibly the first edifice of the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, being moved by a team of horses. A dog runs in the street and another sits next to a spectator in the right foreground. The prison closed and was razed in 1835, the prisoners relocated to Moyamensing Prison. The first edifice of Bethel Church, a former blacksmith shop, was transported to Sixth and Lombard streets., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000), pl. 24., Accessioned 1979., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: W. Birch & Son
Date: 1799
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 24/P.2276.56]

Title: Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, from Ninth to Tenth, [south] side
Description: View showing the south side of the 900 block of Chestnut Street. Shows the Burd Building at 900-904 Chestnut tenanted by Howell & Brothers, paperhangings, J.E. Caldwell & Co., jewelers, and J.F. and E.B. Orne, carpets. Also includes: E. Clinton & Co., brush manufacturer (908 Chestnut) and F. Augustus Wenderoth, William C. Taylor, and J. Henry Brown, photographers (912 & 914 Chestnut). Signage adorns many of the buildings promoting merchandise, including pianos, ladies dresses, and fancy goods. A man stands on the opposite corner near a dray and a lamppost with an advertisement for Fox's American Variety Theater (built 1863, burned 1867)., Stereograph mounted on green mount with square corners., Title and photographer's imprint printed on stereograph mount., 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: Newell, Robert, 1822-1897
Date: ca. 1866
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Streets [(6)1322.F.95c; (8)1322.F.27h]

Title: Girard Bank
Description: View looking northeast from Dock Street showing Girard National Bank, formerly the First Bank of the United States (built 1795-1797, Samuel Blodgett, architect), at 116-120 South Third Street. The bank, operated by Stephen Girard as Girard's Bank from 1812-1831, was chartered by the state in 1832 as the Girard National Bank. Includes adjacent building (114 South Third) tenanted by practical lithographer Theodore Leonhardt and The City Item newspaper office. Signage for Goodyear's Rubber Warehouse adorns the building. Also shows slabs of stone laying on the sidewalk beside a telegraph pole near the bank; a horse-drawn milk delivery wagon stopped across the street; and a group of men sitting on the steps of the bank., Title printed on mount., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Purple mount with rounded corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., 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: Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.), photographer
Date: ca. 1870
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Simons - Banks [(8)1322.F.11d]

Title: Girard Bank
Description: View looking northeast from Dock Street showing Girard National Bank, formerly the First Bank of the United States (built 1795-1797, Samuel Blodgett, architect), at 116-120 South Third Street. The bank, operated by Stephen Girard as Girard's Bank from 1812-1831, was chartered by the state in 1832 as the Girard National Bank. Includes adjacent building (114 South Third) tenanted by practical lithographer Theodore Leonhardt and The City Item newspaper office. Signage for Goodyear's Rubber Warehouse adorns the building. Also shows slabs of stone laying on the sidewalk beside a telegraph pole near the bank; a horse-drawn milk delivery wagon stopped across the street; and a group of men sitting on the steps of the bank., Title printed on mount., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Purple mount with rounded corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., 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: Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.), photographer
Date: ca. 1870
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Simons - Banks [(8)1322.F.11d]

Title: [New Chestnut Street Theatre]
Description: View looking northwest at the north side of the 1200 block of Chestnut Street showing the Chestnut Street Theater built in 1863 after designs by John Crump. Includes signs for Joseph M. Durr's restaurant (1211 Chestnut) at street level, Allen's furniture store (i.e., Joseph Allen, cabinet maker, 1209 Chestnut) and a concert hall west of the theater building. All of the properties have awnings shading the street level, except for the theater, which has street lamps lining the sidewalk and a broadside advertising "The Black Crook" near the entrance. Also includes trolley tracks and three horse-drawn coaches travelling in the street., Title and series name and number from duplicate: (8)1322.F.29b., Date supplied by cataloger., The Black Crook played at the Chestnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia in 1868., See duplicates: Bartlett & French (8)1322.F.29b and (8)1322.F.35i, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Bartlett & French was a partnership between Philadelphia photographers George O. Bartlett and William French circa 1867-1869.
Creator: Bartlett & French
Date: [1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - Theaters [(7)1322.F.1c]

Title: New Lutheran Church, in Fourth Street Philadelphia
Description: Street scene based on a watercolor study by William Birch. Depicts Speaker of the House of Representatives, Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg, on tour with a delegation of Native American men across from the second edifice of the New Zion Lutheran Church, built on Fourth Street below Cherry Street 1795-1796. The first church building, erected 1766-1769 to accommodate the overflow of the growing German congregation of St. Michael's Lutheran Church, was rebuilt in its original form following a fire in 1794. Scene also includes street and pedestrian traffic of a loaded horse-drawn dray and cart; and a laborer hauling a barrel upon his back. Native American delegations visited the city to pay respect and to negotiate land treaties when Philadelphia served as the nation's capitol. Muhlenberg lead a tour of several tribal groups in 1793., Illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's Views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000), pl. 6., LCP holds related watercolor study. (LCP P.9666)., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834, engraver
Date: [1804]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch, William-Views of Philadelphia [Sn 6b/P.2276.12]

Title: [Jayne Building, 242-244 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia]
Description: View looking southwest showing the building built 1849-1850 for David Jayne, chemist and manufacturer of patent medicines, after the designs of William Johnston and Thomas Ustick Walter. Building includes the six story wings built 1851 after the designs of Walter (238-40 and 246 Chestnut Street). Signage advertising "Importer of German Woolens" adorns the building. Also shows adjacent businesses including Goodyear's rubber warehouse (226 Chestnut) and the newspaper publishing office, the Public Ledger Building (300 Chestnut)., Title supplied by cataloguer., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Select link below for a digital image.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: [ca. 1859]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo- Richards - Businesses - J [(6)1322.F.75b], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/1322f75b.jpg

Title: [Masonic Hall, Chestnut Street below Eighth, Philadelphia]
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 and tenant businesses, including Marxsen & Witte, china and glass (713 Chestnut); H. A. Osterle & Co., trimmings; and Marvin & Co., safes (721 Chestnut)., Title supplied by cataloguer., Yellow paper mount with square corners., Attributed to Bartlett & French., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with 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. 83., Arcadia caption text: In 1855 the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Pennsylvania opened a new hall on the north side of the 700 block of Chestnut Street, the site of an earlier Masonic Hall. The Masons occupied the top three floors of the Gothic brownstone building, designed by Philadelphia architect and Mason Samuel Sloan, and rented the first floor out to commercial tenants. Initial enthusiasm for the building faded quickly as problems with water in the basement and poorly ventilated rooms became apparent. By the time of this c. 1868 view, a Masonic committee had described the building as “a gross failure both in its plan and its construction.”, Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Bartlett & French, photographer
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - Associations [(8)1322.F.27b]

Title: Continental Hotel Philada
Description: View looking east from above Ninth Street showing the luxury hotel at the southeast corner of Ninth and Chestnut streets (824-838 Chestnut). Completed in 1860 after the designs of John McArthur Jr., the hotel contained several businesses in its lower level including "Charles Oakford & Son" hat shop. View also shows adjacent businesses including publishers and booksellers Porter & Coates operating from the former building of J.E. Caldwell & Co. built 1858 after the designs of McArthur. (822 Chestnut); John Wanamaker & Co., luxury clothing store, established 1869 (818 Chestnut); James S. Earle, looking glasses and picture frame manufactory (816 Chestnut), and John W. Scott, shirt manufactory (814 Chestnut). Includes horse-drawn wagons travelling the street and a partial view of the north side of the block., Title from manuscript note on mount., Yellow mount with square corners., Attributed to Bartlett & Smith., 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: Bartlett & Smith, photographer
Date: ca. 1869
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & Smith - Hotels [(8)1322.F.29h]

Title: Arch Street, with the Second Presbyterian Church
Description: Street scene showing Arch Street between Third and Fourth Streets including the Second Presbyterian Church. Depicts many well-dressed white men and women pedestrians walking down the sidewalks, a horse-drawn carriage and cart traveling up the cobblestone street, and an African American boy leaning against a lamp post upon which a saddled horse is hitched. The Second Presbyterian church, ministered by New Light Gilbert Tennent, was built between 1750 and 1753 after the split between the Old and New Light Presbyterians. It was demolished around 1838., Title from item., Illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's views of Philadelphia. (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000), pl. 5., LCP copy has a large vertical crease down the center of the print., Accessioned 1979., 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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: W. Birch & Son
Date: 1799
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 5/P.2276.9]

Title: Old Lutheran Church, in Fifth Philadelphia
Description: Street scene showing Fifth Street with the Old Lutheran Church (i.e., St. Michael's Church). Depicts well-dressed white women in small groups, a woman and child, and men strolling passed the church, a horse-drawn carriage traveling down the street, and three white men conversing around a horse hitched to a post near two African American girls. One of the girls holds out her hand. Also shows dogs standing and running in the street. St Michael's Church, built 1743-1748 and demolished in 1872, was occupied in 1777 by British chaplains and used as the garrison church of the British troops during the American Revolution., Title from item., Illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000), pl. 7., Accessioned 1979., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: W. Birch & Son
Date: 1800
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 7/P.2276.13]

Title: High Street, from Ninth Street. Philadelphia
Description: View of High (Market) Street from Ninth depicting a detachment of the First City Troop of Philadelphia drilling on horseback. The troop promenades up the busy street where several horse-drawn carts and a dray travel and several pedestrians, including an African American man and boy (in the right), watch the guard and/or stroll the tree-lined sidewalks. A market shed is seen in the distance. The First City Troop, one of the oldest continually mounted U.S. military units, was organized in 1774 to defend against British invasion. The Troop used a variety of arenas to perform drills including circuses, riding schools, and various public grounds., Title from item., Illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982), pl. 12., LCP copy has large vertical crease down the center of the print., Accessioned 1979., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: W. Birch & Son
Date: 1799
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 12/P.2276.23]

Title: High Street, from Ninth Street. Philadelphia
Description: View of High (Market) Street from Ninth depicting a detachment of the First City Troop of Philadelphia drilling on horseback. The troop promenades up the busy street where several horse-drawn carts and a dray travel and several pedestrians, including an African American man and boy (in the right), watch the guard and/or stroll the tree-lined sidewalks. A market shed is seen in the distance. The First City Troop, one of the oldest continually mounted U.S. military units, was organized in 1774 to defend against British invasion. The troop used a variety of arenas to perform drills including circuses, riding schools, and various public grounds., Title from item., Illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982), pl. 12., Accessioned 1979., 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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: W. Birch & Son
Date: 1799
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 12/P.2276.24]

Title: [Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company tracks under construction to raise grade crossings, Ninth Street above Poplar Street in Philadelphia]
Description: View of fenced in railroad tracks under construction with a railroad construction crew in the distance. The project, to raise tracks above street level to prevent pedestrian casualties from Wayne Junction to Spring Garden Street, lasted from 1907 to 1911. Residences and businesses line the street. Inside the fence, pedestrians, including African Americans, look on from and traverse the makeshift dirt walkways. An African American woman looks on from a second story window, Negative inscribed: 10255; 3-7-10; 0-65., Title supplied by cataloger., Manuscript note on verso: Meyers STW 4 23 13., Forms part of: Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company Photograph Collection., 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: Harrison, Edward, photographer
Date: March 7, 1910
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company [P.9260.420]

Title: New market, in South Second Street Philadelphia
Description: Street scene with a view of the New Market shed on South Second Street. Depicts a group of men, women, and children with a dog, possibly a procession of a butcher's trade association, gathered across from the shed and by a bull decorated with garlands of flowers. An African American man fiddle player entertains the group as an African American boy and a dog runs toward them. Attached to the back of the shed is the fire engine house with cupola, known as the "headhouse." The New Market, erected about 1745, was created following a petition by the growing population of South Philadelphia residents who found it a hardship to cross Dock Creek to reach the High Street Market. The shed was razed in 1956 and rebuilt in 1963., Title from item., Illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's views of Philadelphia. (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982), pl. 16., Accessioned 1979., 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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: W. Birch & Son
Date: 1799
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 16/P.2276.35]

Title: Brown St. above 4th, north side three doors west of Fourth
Description: View of the Zoar Methodist Episcopal Church, the oldest African American congregation within the organized structure of United Methodism, founded in 1794. The church, with a for sale sign, stands between a livery stable and C.W. Kramer's light carriage and wagon factory. Pedestrians, including African Americans, stand on the sidewalk. Contains two boxes of text below and above the image inscribed: "Zoar M.E. Church, Founded 1791, Rebuilt 1838" and "This church propt. for sale. Lot 50 x 190. Apply to F. Snyder, N.W. Cor. 5th & Green." The church relocated to Melon Street, near Twelfth Street., Title from item., Commissioned by Philadelphia antiquarian Ferdinand Dreer., Lib. Company. Annual report, 1975, p. 6-11., Purchase 1975., 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.
Creator: Evans, B. R. (Benjamin Ridgway), 1834-1891, artist
Date: 1884
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Evans watercolors [P.2298.138], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/evans/files/plc138.html

Title: Sandeago - Cuba
Description: Scene of a street in Santiago, Cuba showing pedestrian traffic including a team of Black laborers near a horse-drawn dray. In the left, six Black men sit and stand around the dray. Buildings line both sides of the street with signs in Spanish. Men walk in front of the buildings and in the street. Two men walk towards the viewer. Several horse-drawn drays and wagons are visible in the background., Title from caption on mount., Purchase 1988., 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., Rich, a professional Philadelphia landscape photographer, was an avid traveler.
Creator: Rich, James Bartlett, 1866-1942, photographer
Date: [ca. 1905]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Lantern Slides - Rich [P.9266.1241]

Title: Market St[reet] west from 10th [Street]
Description: View of the commercial street, above Tenth Street, south side. Businesses include: Clark's Heating & Ventilating Warehouse at 1008 Market Street; Dale & Thomas, carpets, at 1010 Market Street; James Spear & Co., stoves, heaters, and ranges at 1014 Market Street; William Ray, clothier, at 1018 Market Street; William F. Simes, saddlery and harnessmaker, at 1026 Market Street; and the Bingham House hotel (named after express and freight agent John Bingham), established in 1867, at the corner of 11th and Market streets. Several of the businesses display their merchandise in front of their stores, including the stove warehouses and the clothier. A telegraph pole stands in the foreground. A horse-drawn wagon rests in front of the carpet store., Title from manuscript note on verso., Publication information from duplicate stereograph. [P.9047.94], Orange mount with rounded corners., 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: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: [ca. 1874]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Streets [P.9260.53]

Title: [Construction on Market Street between 17th and 18th Streets, Philadelphia, July 8, 1904]
Description: View of a fenced exposed area of the street with unearthed pipes protected by a series of wood girders. African American construction workers guide a steel bin over the girders and haul dirt from the site with a horse-drawn cart. Several spectators, including a well- dressed African American man, line the fence. In the distance, a white boy with a bucket rests on a crane near a workman's shed. Businesses line the street including "Leiber's Red Front Dining Room, 1788 Market Street." Painted advertisements for Coca Cola and a liquor dealer adorn the building visible on the street corner., Title supplied by cataloger., Negative inscribed: 554., 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.
Date: [July 8, 1904]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - unidentified - Construction [P.9260.362]

Title: Before Girard Bank on Broad & Chestnut
Description: View looking north from the east side of Broad and Chestnut Streets showing part of the 000 block of Broad Street and City Hall. Shows in the left, the West End Trust & Safety Deposit Co. skyscraper building built 1898 after the designs of Furness, Evans & Co. at 1404 South Penn Square. Adjacent buildings on Broad Street include one adorned with "For Rent. B. F. Teller & Bro. 606 Chestnut St." signage. View also includes street and pedestrian traffic. In the left foreground, an African American man, attired in a bowler hat and jacket, walks with a bundle under his right arm. In the background, men and women, some as couples walk on the sidewalk near a utility pole and a horse-drawn carriage parked in the street. City Hall is visible in the far background., Title from manuscript note on verso., Date inferred from attire of pedestrian traffic documented in image., Description reviewed 2022., Access points reviewed 2022.
Date: [ca. 1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Robert Swayne Collection [P.2017.88.61]

Title: 1227 + 1229 Market St., [Philadelphia, PA]
Description: Glass negative showing a view of 1227-1235 Market Street. Horse-drawn carriages and carts stand on the cobblestone street. Awnings and large signs hang from the buildings. 1235 Market Street has a sign reading "[Wil]liam B. Drew, [...] and Feathers." 1233 Market Street has signs reading "Established 1831, W.P. Walter's Sons, 1233 Hardware 1233." 1231 Market Street has signs reading "Commonwealth Brewing Co., Real German Lager., Ostendorff's." 1229 Market Street has signs reading "Firmin Michel originator of the hot roast beef sandwich Lunch and Dining Room. D.C. Humphreys Adv. Sign Co., 1227 Market St., 25c Regular Dinners, Light Lunch Cafe." 1227 Market Street has signs reading "E.C. Eisenbrey's Famous Shirts., Tents and Decorations, D.C. Humphrys & Co. 1227 Signs, Headquarters for G.A.R. Decorations.", Originally housed in negative box inscribed “Bought 12/27, 1899.”, Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: 1900
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [*P.2013.13.556]

Title: 1227 + 1229 Market St., [Philadelphia, PA]
Description: Glass negative a view of 1227-1235 Market Street. Horse-drawn carriages and carts stand on the cobblestone street. Awnings and large signs hang from the buildings. 1235 Market Street has a sign reading "[William] B. Drew [...] Feathers." 1233 Market Street has signs reading "Established 1831, W.P. Walter's Sons, 1233 Hardware 1233." 1231 Market Street has signs reading "Commonwealth Brewing Co., Real German Lager., Ostendorff's." 1229 Market Street has signs reading "Firmin Michel originator of the hot roast beef sandwich Lunch and Dining Room. D.C. Humphreys Adv. Sign Co., 1227 Market St., 25c Regular Dinners, Light Lunch Cafe." 1227 Market Street has signs reading "E.C. Eisenbrey's Famous Shirts., Tents and Decorations, D.C. Humphrys & Co. 1227 Signs, Headquarters for G.A.R. Decorations.", Originally housed in negative box inscribed “Bought 12/27, 1899.”, Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: 1900
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [*P.2013.13.557]

Title: South east corner of Fifth & Market sts. Phila
Description: Advertisement showing storefronts with pre-consolidation addresses on the 400 block of Market Street. Businesses include Rockhill & Co., clothiers, Levick, Jenkins & Co., shoes, bonnets, hats, & caps/ Levick, Brothers & Co., boots, shoes, & straw goods, and Rhoads Brother & Co., importer of Paris fancy goods (160); Atwood & Co., dry goods (162); Chaffees & Stout, dry goods (164); Haddock Reed & Co./Haddock, Haseltine & Reed, boots, shoes, caps & straw goods (164-166) ; Field & Langstroth, hardware (166); and T. E. Chapman, stationer & blank book manufacturer, E. Morris & Co., silk hat manufactory, Henry C. Baird, publisher & bookseller, G. W. & L. B. Taylor, boots & shoes (168). Signage adorns the storefronts. Trunks and barrels line the sidewalk on which a laborer creates a pile of crates. Two gentlemen stand in the doorway of Haddock Reed & Co. and a woman holding a parasol strolls past the Taylor storefront. Also shows E. Morris, hat manufactory on North Fifth Street. Two men converse under an awning adorning the building., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 700, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 87 M 345
Creator: Jones, Paul, artist
Date: [ca. 1851]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 87 M 345

Title: View of Chestnut Street between 8 & 9 sts. (south side,) Philadelphia
Description: Busy street view showing businesses on the 800 block (802-824) of Chestnut Street. Majority of the storefronts show merchandise displays in the windows. Includes a storefront to let (800); Lewis Ladomus & Co., watches, jewelry & silver ware (802); Theodore H. McCalla, hats and caps (lower floor) and A. F. Lupus, morocco cases "upstairs" (804); Anthony Mustin, trimmings (806); Charles Dummin, importer, musical instruments, fancy goods & toys (812); J.W. Scott, gentleman's furnishing store and shirt manufactory (814); James S. Earle & Son, looking glasses & picture frames (816); Root Photographic Gallery operated by Dr. Bushnell and Ladd Webster & Co., sewing machines (818); Caldwell & Co., jewelers (822); and the Continental Hotel tenanted by Charles Stokes, "First Class Clothing One Price" and "Made to Order Short Notice," Charles Oakford & Sons, "hatters, furriers, hats, caps, cans [sic] & umbrellas, gentleman's furnishing goods" (near the ladies entrance of the hotel) and Frederick Brown Jr., druggist (824-838). Hotel also includes window shades for an unidentified store advertising watches and jewelry. In the foreground, heavy street and pedestrian traffic is visible in front and across from the storefronts. Several horse-drawn vehicles travel in the street past the sidewalks congested with pedestrians. Pedestrians include a newspaper boy, couples on promenade, a gentleman escorting two ladies greeting another gentleman, and patrons looking at store windows and entering the businesses., Vehicles include a "Chestnut & Walnut Sts." omnibus, horse-drawn carriages, a partially unloaded dray, and a Farrel & Herring (safe manufactory) delivery wagon drawn by three horses. Also shows men waiting at the main entrance of the hotel, mannequins attired in suits displayed outside of Stokes, and a model eagle holding a watch adorning the roof of the store of Ladomus., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 786, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 87 C 525a, Print torn in two.
Creator: Boell, William
Date: 1860
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania | Print Department | HSP at LCP HSP Bc 87 C 525a

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: Funeral Car, used at the obesequies of President Lincoln, in Philadelphia, April 22nd, 1865, [graphic] : Designed and built by E.S. Earley, Undertaker, south east corner of Tenth and Green Streets, Philadelphia / Tholey.
Description: Reproduced in Edwin Wolf's Philadelphia: Portrait of an American City (Philadelphia: The Library Company of Philadelphia in cooperation with Camino Books, 1990), p. 221., LCP AR [Annual Report] 1971 p. 43., Scene depicting the procession of the catafalque transporting the flower covered casket with the President to Independence Hall. Funeral officials, dressed in black and wearing top hats, attend the open air funeral car with canopy, draped in black cloth, and drawn by eight horses. Mourners line the city street including an African American man and woman.
Creator: Tholey (Firm), lithographer., creator
Date: [1865]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W146.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W146 [7929.F]

Title: Girard Bank
Description: View looking northwest from Dock Street showing the bank originally built 1795-1797 after the designs of Samuel Blodgett. The bank, operated by Stephen Girard as Girard's Bank from 1812-1831, was chartered by the state in 1832 as Girard National Bank. View includes adjacent building tenanted by E. Roger, wood engraver, and the Saturday Evening Post newspaper office (132 South Third Street); the top floors of the Mariner & Merchant Building (300 Chestnut Street) and two commercial buildings on the north side of Dock Street near Third (129 South Third Street and 241 Dock Street)., Inscribed in negative: 3295., Title from negative sleeve., Modern reference print available.
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Hand [P.9259.89]

Title: [Chestnut Street, rooftop view east from Odiorne's studio at 920 Chestnut Street]
Description: View looking east from above Ninth Street showing the south side of the 800-900 blocks of Chestnut Street. Businesses include the hotels built after the designs of John McArthur, Jr.; the Continental Hotel (824-838 Chestnut) completed in 1860 and the Girard House hotel (823-825 Chestnut) built 1851. Also shows the Masonic Temple including signage for Marxsen & Witte, china and glass (713-721 Chestnut); the roof of the Burd mansion (900-906 Chestnut); and signs advertising a boy's clothing bazaar, shooting gallery, shirt manufactory, and looking glasses. Street lamps line the sidewalk., Title supplied by cataloguer., Attributed to Henry B. Odiorne., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Creator: Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer
Date: ca. 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Odiorne - C [(6)1322.F.46; P.2282.15]

Title: [Chestnut Street in the snow, view east from Odiorne's studio at 920 Chestnut Street]
Description: View photographed following a snowstorm showing the 900-800 blocks of Chestnut Street. Includes the Girard House hotel, built 1851-1852 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr., at 823-838 Chestnut Street. Also shows signage adorning Besson & Son, mourning store (918 Chestnut) and Geo. Fryer, dry goods store (916 Chestnut) in the foreground. Snow covers buildings' awnings and the street. A few pedestrians walk on the sidewalk, a man sits on an awning, and an individual leans from an upper window to sweep snow from a ledge., Attributed to Henry B. Odiorne., Title supplied by cataloguer., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Creator: Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer
Date: 1859-1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Odiorne - C [(6)1322.F.163b; (7)1322.F.63a]

Title: Fifth above Arch Street, westside, Philadelphia
Description: View showing the westside of the 100 block of North Fifth Street. Businesses include Garrigues & Magee, manufactuers of photographic and daguerrian chemicals (108 N. 5th); Tripple's Shoe Store (110 N. 5th), and William Seefeldt, musical instrument store (114 N. 5th). Several musical instruments are displayed in the window of the musical instrument store. Magee, a photographer, operated his chemical business circa 1857 to the early 1890s., Date and photographer's monogram inscribed in negative., Inscribed in negative: 20., Title from manuscript note on recto: 5th above Arch., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer
Date: August 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Odiorne - F [(6)1322.F.81c]

Title: [Chestnut Street from the Custom House, Philadelphia]
Description: View looking east from the U.S. Custom House at 420 Chestnut Street. Shows the tobacco store of M.B. Dean (413 Chestnut) and partial views of the Philadelphia National Bank building (419 Chestnut) and the Philadelphia Bank Building (400-408 Chestnut Street, built 1836). Also shows adjacent businesses; horse-drawn carts and carriages traveling and lining the street; and flags adorning several of the buildings., Photographer, title, and publication information from duplicate. (8)1322.F.23d or b., Manuscript note on verso: Chestnut St. Philadelphia, Yellow mount with square corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Newell, Robert, 1822-1897
Date: [April 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Streets [7992.F.18]

Title: At a fire. What boys may expect when they get in firemen's way
Description: One of a series of satires mocking the ineptitude of Philadelphia volunteer firefighters. Shows a volunteer, in full uniform, spraying a boy bystander in the face, instead of a crumbling, burning building, with a fire hose. Fire house is attached to a hand-pumper visible in the background. Also shows fire debris, a hose attached to a hydrant, other fire fighters attending the fire engine, and the storefront of "F. Adams.", Philadelphia on Stone, POS 253d, Harrison & Weightman was a partnership between Henry G. Harrison and William N. Weightman., Variant of P.8970.11., Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - The Fireman (Cartoons)
Date: c1858
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Fires and Firefighting [P.8970.14]

Title: Broad St. from the Academy of Music
Description: View looking north on South Broad Street from the Academy of Music showing two horse-drawn vehicles in the foreground and buildings adjacent to the main thoroughfare, including the second building of the Academy of Natural Sciences (built 1839-1840, John Notman, architect) and La Pierre House Hotel (built 1853, John McArthur, architect) in the distant left background. Row homes are visible on the east side of the street in the foreground and a four story building with gothic-arch windows on the west side, possibly the future site of the Stratford Hotel. Construction of the Union League and City Hall has not yet begun., Title from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's label pasted on verso., 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. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Moran - Streets [P.8464.16]

Title: E. S. 18th St. N. of Spruce
Description: View looking north along Eighteenth Street showing three mansions near Rittenhouse Square on the east side of the block. Mansions include the residence of hotel entrepreneur Edwards built 1849 after the designs of Napoleon Le Brun (1724 Walnut); the residence of locomotive engineer Joseph Harrison, Jr. built 1855-1857 after the designs of Samuel Sloan (221-225 S. 18th); and the residence of gentleman William H. Harrison (227-229 S. 18th)., Title on negative., Manuscript note on verso: Mansion of Joseph Harrison in center., 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 Robert M. Vogel.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Streets [P.9047.63]

Title: Chest. St. Theatre, Phila. Pa
Description: View looking northwest at the north side of the 1200 block of Chestnut Street showing the Chestnut Street Theater built in 1863 after designs by John Crump. Includes signs for Allen's furniture store (i.e., Joseph Allen, cabinet maker, 1209 Chestnut) and a concert hall north of the theater building. All of the properties have awnings shading the street level, except for the theater, which has street lamps lining the sidewalk and a broadside advertising "E.L. Davenport's Theatre...A Dream of Life" near the entrance. Also includes trolley tracks, pedestrians on the sidewalks, and a few horse-drawn carts and coaches travelling in the street., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Manuscript notes in red pen appear on mount., Manuscript note in red pen on verso: Mrs. Mihesell Vane 11/3/63 270/10.00 (3), Yellow mount with rounded corners., Davenport managed the theater from 1869-1873. "A Dream of Life" played there un 1872., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Bell began his photographic career in 1848 working for his brother-in-law's daguerreotype studio in Philadelphia and thereafter was associated with many commercial studios as partner or sole proprietor. He served as the chief photographer for the U.S. Army Medical Museum in 1865 and replaced Timothy O'Sullivan on George M. Wheeler's survey of the territories west of the 100th meridian in 1872. He returned to Philadelphia, went into business with his future son-in-law William Rau in 1875, and was active in the photography community until his death in 1910.
Creator: Bell, William, 1830-1910
Date: [ca. 1872]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bell - Theaters and halls [P.9189.2]

Title: St. Augustine views, by the Florida Club
Description: Views of St. Augustine, Florida showing narrow streets and buildings with overhanging balconies; a hotel with guests on the balconies; the stone wall of the star-shaped Castillo de San Marcos, built 1672-1695 to protect Spanish territory in Florida from outside attacks; and a dwelling surrounded by palm trees., Publisher's imprint on mounts., The Florida Club, a business cooperative for photographers, was formed by George Pierron, Charles Seaver, Jr., W.H. Cushing, and J.N. Wilson., Contains four stereographic prints mounted on orange mounts with rounded corners, two on yellow mounts with square corners, two on mint green mounts with rounded corners, and one on a violet mount with rounded corners. Manuscript note on verso of one [P.9022.63]: Portion of old city wall built AD 1594., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Mr. Saul Koltnow.
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Florida Club [P.9022.55-63]

Title: Bruner & George Livery & Boarding stables, Germantown Avenue, Germantown
Description: Glass negative showing a view Bruner & George Livery at 5434 Germantown Avenue, a two-story stone building. Trolley tracks line the brick road in front of the building. A second two-story building on the right has a blacony on the third floor and a fence extending from the right side. A sign that reads "Bruner & George Livery & Boarding Stables" hangs on the side wall between the buildings. Bruner and George were a livery and boarding stables in Germantown, Philadelphia owned by Henry B. Bruner and Riter W. George. The business existed from circa 1858 to circa 1918. This property was owned by William Ashmead, a wagon manufacturer, after the American Revolution. Elliston Perot Morris bought the building in 1907., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: 1890
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [*P.9895.7.8]

Title: [Elliston Morris'] Store [715-719 Arch Street] from H. Heller's 2nd story window
Description: Glass negative showing a large, multi-story building owned by Marriott C. Morris' father Elliston P. Morris at 715-719 Arch Street. The top of the building is decorated with a pediment, half-circle window and finnials. A fire escape runs down the left facade above the neighboring building, which is under construction. The building to the right has two signs, one on the side reading "St Cloud Hotel," and one over the entrance reading, "This property for sale. 91 feet front. ...", Time: 12:10, Light: Good sun., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: April 8, 1887
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1094]

Title: Father's building, 715-19 Arch St. [from H. Heller's 2nd story window, Philadelphia]
Description: Glass negative showing a large, multi-story building owned by Elliston P. Morris at 715-719 Arch Street. The top of the building is decorated with a pediment, half-circle window and finnials. A fire escape runs down the left facade above the neighboring building, which is under construction. The building to the right has two signs, one on the side reading "St Cloud Hotel," and one over the entrance reading, "This property for sale. 91 feet front. ...", Same as last., Time: 2, Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: April 8, 1887
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1095]

Title: 715-19 Arch St[reet], Phila[delphia]
Description: Glass negative showing a five-story building owned by Marriott C. Morris' father Elliston P. Morris at 715-719 Arch Street. The building has a storefront on the first level, awnings over the second story window, and the roof is decorated with a niche surmounted by a pediment and finials. A sign on the third floor reads, "Upper floors to let, 65x130, elevators & power." A horse-drawn cart rests on the road outside the building and a vacant lot surrounded by a fence stands on the right., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: 1887
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.104.13]

Title: 7th & Filbert streets, [Philadelphia]
Description: Glass negative showing a view of the corner of Seventh and Filbert Streets. Signs are also visible for Tom Keene Cigar on an adjacent building and on the relocated Philada Photo Electrotype Co. Designer & Engravers (705-707 Filbert Street). Includes the storefronts, adorned with signs, for Rider Erickson Engine Company; H.W.B. Conrad Publishers (705-707 Filbert Street); Quindlen Company Ladies Undergarments (707-709 Filbert Street); and Lit Brothers Jobbers in Cotton & Woolen Dress Goods (714-738 Filbert Street). For Sale and For Rent signs hang from the Quindlen Company building in the left. Telephone poles and wires line the brick road. A fire escape winds down the side of the four-story building (705-707 Filbert Street) in the center of the image. Philadelphia Photo Electroype Company relocated from the Filbert Street address in January 1894., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: ca. 1900
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [*P.9895.11.7]

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