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- Title
- 6019 Germantown Ave. Built by Daniel Pastorius. Also known as the Green Tree Inn
- Description
- Exterior view of west front and south flank of tavern built in 1748 by Daniel and Sarah Pastorius adjacent to the homestead of his grandfather Francis Daniel Pastorius. Also known as the Saddler's Arms, The Hornet's Nest, and Mackinett's Tavern. David Mackinett was Sarah's second husband after the death of Daniel Pastorius. Includes partial views of properties north of the old tavern, most likely demolished when the tavern moved north in 1930 for the expansion of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Germantown. Later used as church offices., Inscribed in negative: 2753., Title from negative sleeve., Modern reference print available.
- Creator
- Hand, Alfred, photographer
- Date
- October 13, 1920
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Hand [P.9259.53]
- Title
- Pastorius House, Germantown
- Description
- Exterior view of west front of tavern looking south toward the First Methodist Episcopal Church. Built in 1748 by Daniel and Sarah Pastorius adjacent to the homestead of his grandfather Francis Daniel Pastorius. Also known as the Saddler's Arms, The Hornet's Nest, and Mackinett's Tavern. David Mackinett was Sarah's second husband after the death of Daniel Pastorius. Building moved north in 1930 for the expansion of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Germantown and used as church offices., Inscribed in negative: 2754., Title from negative sleeve.
- Creator
- Hand, Alfred, photographer
- Date
- October 13, 1920
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Hand [P.9259.54]
- Title
- Washington House, Germantown, blt. 1740
- Description
- View showing the west and north elevations of the Washington House, built in 1740. Several signs, one painted on the west front, identify Stephen A. Henry as the proprietor of the tavern at the time of this photograph. A man smoking a pipe leans against the wooden telegraph pole marking the car stop on Germantown Avenue. An advertisement for Sun Lite Coffee is visible on the north flank of the building south of the tavern., Inscribed in negative: 2755., 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.9259.55]
- Title
- 6019 Main St. Old Green Tree Tavern, once kept by Daniel & Sarah Pastorius until his death in 1754. Shows also 6021 & 23
- Description
- Exterior view of west front and south side of tavern built in 1748 by Daniel and Sarah Pastorius adjacent to the homestead of his grandfather Francis Daniel Pastorius. Includes partial views of properties north of the old tavern. Building was moved north in 1930 for the expansion of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Germantown and used as church offices. Also known as the Saddler's Arms, The Hornet's Nest, and Mackinett's Tavern., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount.
- Creator
- Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
- Date
- Negative April 6, 1913
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.52]
- Title
- Rear of old Swan Tavern, Ridge Ave & Nicetown Lane
- Description
- Exterior view of the side and rear ell of the Old Swan Tavern, showing two dog houses, a man holding a rake and an old shed attached to the ell. The tavern sign is barely visible near the road in front of the house., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount.
- Creator
- Browne, John C. (John Coates), 1838-1918, photographer
- Date
- Negative December 17 1881
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.168]
- Title
- Old Blue Anchor Tavern, Front & Dock Sts
- Description
- Depicts the Garman House at the northwest corner of Front and Dock Streets, originally the Blue Anchor Tavern. A large anchor projects from the building, near a painted anchor surrounded by the date 1682 on the brick building. Adjacent to a row of houses called Budd's Long Row, built after the tavern opened. A saloon occupies the lot north of the Garman House. Bushel baskets and barrels are piled outside of William Andrews fruit and produce business, located in the Garman House at the time of this photograph., Inscribed in negative: 2194., 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.9259.11]
- Title
- Smith House. Main St. abv. High. DPS 1748 on gabel
- Description
- Exterior view of west front and south flank of tavern built in 1748 by Daniel and Sarah Pastorius adjacent to the homestead of his grandfather Francis Daniel Pastorius. Also known as the Saddler's Arms, The Hornet's Nest, and Mackinett's Tavern. David Mackinett was Sarah's second husband after the death of Daniel Pastorius. The building was moved north in 1930 for the expansion of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Germantown and used as church offices., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount.
- Creator
- Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
- Date
- Negative April 1899
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.132a]
- Title
- Blue Bell Tavern, Paschalville, Darby Road, kept for many years by Charlie Lloyd, May 1880
- Description
- Depicts the Blue Bell Tavern at 7303 Woodland Avenue, built in 1766 and operated by Charlie Lloyd at the time this image was painted. Also includes a "To Suffolk Park, Russell" sign on the building, a horsecar in the foreground, two parked carriages outside of the tavern and a partial view of an adjoining building., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with corrections., LCP AR (Annual Report) 1975, p. 6-11.
- Creator
- Evans, B. R. (Benjamin Ridgway), 1834-1891, artist
- Date
- May 1880
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Evans watercolors [P.2298.98], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/evans/files/plc098.html
- Title
- [Blue Bell Tavern]
- Description
- View of three-and-a-half story stone building built at 7301-7399 Woodland Ave. in 1766. Tavern served as the southern gateway to Philadelphia; George Washington stopped here often. Top row of windows and dormer windows are boarded up., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Island Rd. and Woodland Ave. Blue Bell Inn., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
- Creator
- Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1923
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 194 [P.8513.194], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson194.htm
- Title
- Branchtown Hotel, York Road and Church Lane. Built by Joseph Spencer 1790
- Description
- Exterior view of the Branchtown Hotel built by Joseph Spencer in 1790, opposite the dwelling built by him in 1748., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount.
- Creator
- Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
- Date
- Negative February 21, 1913
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.109]
- Title
- "Congress Hall"
- Description
- 1859-PIC., R86., Title from Watson inscription., Imprint date inscribed on photo., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with corrections.
- Creator
- Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
- Date
- 1859
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department [66037.D.4]
- Title
- [Eugene Duffy, inn, southwest corner of Dock and Water streets]
- Description
- View showing the inn operated by Eugene Duffy at 225 S. Water Street (i.e., s.w. corner Dock and Water). Awnings and painted letters adorn the building reading "Commerical House" and "Telegraph House." Also shows a man and boy standing near an idle wagon across from the inn and adjacent businesses, including a tavern., Attributed to Henry B. Odiorne., Title supplied by cataloguer., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
- Creator
- Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1860
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Odiorne - D [(7)1322.F.45d]
- Title
- Washington Inn, Washtn. Lane & Main St., known as Washington Tavern, 1793
- Description
- Exterior view of west front and south flank of tavern known as Washington Tavern since 1793. Also used as a market house in the 19th century. Includes a partial view of the entrance and storefront of the store located south of the tavern on Germantown Avenue., Slide number 74., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount.
- Creator
- Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
- Date
- 1911
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.69]
- Title
- 5242-44 Main St., formerly Indian Queen Hotel
- Description
- Exterior view of front facade of former Indian Queen Inn, opened in 1809 by Michael Riter. Image includes Finninger's Ice Cream and Fancy Cakes which occupies the store front at 5242 Main Street (i.e. Germantown Avenue)., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title given in manuscript on mount.
- Creator
- Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1913
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.21]
- Title
- Blue Bell Tavern, Woodland Ave. & Island Road (about 74th St.) built 1766. Patronized by Washington
- Description
- View of three-and-a-half story stone tavern built in 1766. Served as the southern gateway to Philadelphia., Inscribed in negative: 3860., Title from negative sleeve., Original negative housed in freezer.
- Creator
- Hand, Alfred, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1920
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.160]
- Title
- Fourth Street above Pine Street
- Description
- View looking south on Fourth Street, including Daniel Donnelly's tavern (310 S. 4th). Three men stand near the entranceway of the tavern. Also shows the adjacent business, "Browning's new cheap store," possibly the cigar store of Ellen Browning. Browning tenanted 315 S. 4th Street in 1858., Date and photographer's monogram inscribed in negative., Title from manuscript note on mount: 4th above Pine., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Published in Robert F. Looney's Old Philadelphia in early photographs 1839-1914 (New York: Published in cooperation with The Free Library of Philadelphia by Dover Publications, Inc., 1976), plate 53.
- Creator
- Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer
- Date
- August 1860
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Odiorne - F [(7)1322.F.71a
- Title
- Old Washington Tavern At the corner of Washington Lane and the Main Street Germantown
- Description
- Shows several man standing in front of the Revolutionary War era tavern, also used as a market house in the 19th century, on the 6200 block of Germantown Avenue. Planks of wood rest on the side of the building. Also shows a fenced lot, a nearby hotel, and a view of signage advertising "H. Strouse carpet weaver" on an adjacent building., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Date inscribed on photograph., Originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 3, page 133. 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., Also included in an annotated album containing twenty photographs by Richards entitled "Pictorial Views of Houses & Places in Germantown yr 1859." (LCP 66037.D.20)., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Select link below for a digital image.
- Creator
- Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
- Date
- April 1859
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Germantown - W [(3)2526.F.133 (Poulson)], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/2526f133.jpg
- Title
- The old tavern at the Wire Bridge, Philadelphia
- Description
- View showing the Upper Ferry Tavern on the West Bank of the Schuylkill River (Fairmount Park). The tavern, opened in 1820, was also known as Harding's Hotel after Richard Harding, one of its later proprietors. Includes partial views of adjacent buildings., Attributed to William and Frederick Langenheim., Title printed on mount., Yellow mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Image faded., 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. 1861
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereos - Langenheim - Hotels [(7)1322.F.35f; (8)1322.F.13e]
- Title
- Clark's Inn &c. facing the State House; Bridge & Benezett's house in Chestnut Street
- Description
- Trimmed book illustration showing Clark's Inn also known as the State House Inn on the north side of the 500 block of Chestnut Street. Includes a woman with a pail by a side door of the tavern, two male pedestrians, and neighboring buildings. The inn, built circa 1693, served as a respite for members of Congress and purportedly William Penn., Plate published in John F. Watson's Annals of Philadelphia...(Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1830), opp. p. 316., Accompanied by "The MacReynolds Collection, Doylestown, Pennsylvania" label inscribed: Clark's Inn &c facing the State House. Lithograph, anon. n.d. 4 1/4 x 2 3/4. $30.00 #7014., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 140
- Creator
- Breton, William L., artist
- Date
- [1830]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Hotels - Clark's Inn [P.8678]
- Title
- [Valley Green Inn, partial view focusing on Forbidden Drive, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia.]
- Description
- Distant view of the Valley Green Inn built by Thomas Livezey circa 1850 near the Wissahickon Creek. The inn, managed by several proprietors under the Livezey family, was purchased by the city in 1872 and given over to the supervision of a patriotic women's society circa 1900. Lettering spelling "Valley Green" is visible on the side of the inn. Also shows young boys sitting on benches and stones across from the inn and the incline of the Valley Green Bridge in the distance., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
- Creator
- Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1895
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.57]
- Title
- "Ship" House, Main St., G'tn. 6338 Main St. Built 1760. At one time an inn. First public hall in Gt'n. was in rear. One of first three hand fire engines kept here
- Description
- Exterior view of north flank of house known for the plaster-of-Paris model of a ship on the lower gable of the house. Includes three women standing in front of the house, with two baby carriages. Original portion of house built circa 1760. In the rear of the property was the first public hall in Germantown. The Germantown Fire Company housed a small engine known as the "Bull Dog" on the property. Kept as a hotel until 1836, when James Ford purchased the property and opened a boarding school for girls. Demolished circa 1906., Slide number 85., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title given in manuscript on mount., Also known as Bockius House, for the family that resided here circa 1902.
- Creator
- Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1906
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.81]
- Title
- Mermaid Tavern, Main St., Chestnut Hill
- Description
- Exterior view of west front of hotel, purportedly constructed in 1734. Several men and women stand or sit on the porch and are looking curiously toward the camera. Two large trees and a trough are visible in the foreground. Demolished in 1913 to make way for Winston Road., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount.
- Creator
- Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
- Date
- Negative June 1896
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.102]
- Title
- Old tavern on Wissahickon Drive below Lincoln Drive
- Description
- View depicting the original Indian Rock Hotel, opened in 1848 by Reuben Sands north of Rex Avenue Bridge at the corner of Gypsy Lane and Lincoln Drive (near Indian Rock in the Wissahickon Valley). The hotel was sold to the Fairmount Park Commission in 1872 and Sands opened a second Indian Rock Hotel at a nearby location. Building later used as police headquarters., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title given in manuscript on mount., Also identified as Wissahickon Hall and the Fairmount Park Guard House.
- Creator
- Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1913
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.124]
- Title
- Indian Rock Hotel, upper Wissahickon Drive
- Description
- Exterior view of the Indian Rock Hotel, named after the statue of Tedyuscung that stands on Indian Rock overlooking Wissahickon Creek. Located at Monastery Avenue and Wissahickon Drive, near Wissahickon Creek. Depicts the second hotel, built in the early 1870s following the purchase of the original building by the Fairmount Park Commission, procured by Charles Weingartner in 1894. The building was razed prior to 1916., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title given in manuscript on mount.
- Creator
- Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1913
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.125]
- Title
- Valley Green on Wissahickon
- Description
- View showing the inn built by Thomas Livezey circa 1850 near the Wissahickon Creek. The inn, managed by several proprietors under the Livezey family, was purchased by the city in 1872 and given over to the supervision of a patriotic women's society circa 1900. Shows signage adorning the building advertising a tea room and a telephone pay station. Lettering spelling "Valley Green" is visible on the side of the inn. Also shows a stone fence and a stable adjacent to the building., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount.
- Creator
- Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
- Date
- Negative 1911
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.162]
- Title
- Valley Green Inn on Wissahickon, Philadelphia
- Description
- View showing the inn built by Thomas Livezey circa 1850 near the Wissahickon Creek. The inn, managed by several proprietors under the Livezey family, was purchased by the city in 1872 and given over to the supervision of a patriotic women's society circa 1900. Shows signage adorning the building advertising a tea room. Lettering spelling "Valley Green" is visible on the side of the inn. Also shows a stone fence and a stable adjacent to the building. Several people sit on the front porch overlooking the dirt drive., Title from negative sleeve.
- Creator
- Hand, Alfred, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1920
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Hand [P.9259.2]
- Title
- Valley Green, Fairmount Park, Phila
- Description
- View showing the inn built by Thomas Livezey circa 1850 near the Wissahickon Creek. The inn, managed by several proprietors under the Livezey family, was purchased by the city in 1872 and given over to the supervision of a patriotic women's society circa 1900. Shows signage adorning the building advertising a tea room. Lettering spelling "Valley Green" is visible on the side of the inn. Also shows a stone fence and two horses stopped near a stable adjacent to the building. A car is parked in front of the inn., Inscribed in negative: 3682., Title from negative sleeve., Original negative housed in freezer.
- Creator
- Hand, Alfred, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1920
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.140]
- Title
- Drawbridge & Blue Anchor Inn
- Description
- Book illustration showing the Blue Anchor Tavern built circa 1682 and purchased by Thomas Budd in 1690 at the northwest corner of Front Street and Dock Creek (i.e., Dock Street). To the right of the image, the drawbridge over the creek is visible. Individuals walk along the banks of the waterway on which rowboats, one manned, are visible. Also shows neighboring buildings, including Budd's Long Row to which the tavern, painted with an anchor, is attached. The creek was covered 1767-1784 and the tavern was demolished in 1828., Plate published in John F. Watson's Annals of Philadelphia...(Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1830), opp. p. 283., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 189, Gift of James Rush.
- Creator
- Breton, William L., artist
- Date
- [1830]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Hotels [9245.Q.25]
- Title
- Philadelphia in 1702
- Description
- Print containing a panoramic view of the city in 1702 and three titled vignette views representing the early settlement of the city. View looks west from Camden, New Jersey and shows the Delaware River and burgeoning Philadelphia cityscape. Includes Swedes Church (1); Old Horse Mill (2); Pont House from Chester (3); Sven Svener's House (4); Duck Pond and Indian Huts at 3rd & Pine (5), Loxley's House (6); Dock Creek and drawbridge (9); Blue Anchor Tavern (13); Budd's Row (18); Carpenter's House, Brewery and Bakery (20); Old Slate House (22); Friends Public School (24); Benezet House (25); Duck Pond at 4th & Market (26); Baptist & Presbyterian Meeting House at 2nd & Chestnut (27); Friends Meeting (28); London Coffee House (31); Market Shambles (34); Christ Church (36); Jones Row (37); Turners Famous House (39); Arch Street under Arch (40); Friends Bank Meeting (42); Penny Pot House (43); Pegg's Run (44); Swedish settlement (48); Fairman's Mansion & Treaty Tree (49); and Floating Windmill (50) in the Delaware. Also shows other early dwellings and taverns, sailing vessels on the river, and activity at the riverfront that is lined with a few piers. Vignettes show "Penn's Treaty" after the Benjamin West painting; "Site of Philada. When in Possession of the Swedes before the Landing of Penn" covered with forests; "Landing of the First Families" who gather with their posessions at the shore near a cave and in the presence of Native Americans. "Landing" vignette also shows a man cooking at a spit and a cabin under construction on a hillside in the background., Copyrighted by Smith & Cremens in Washington, D.C., Not in Wainwright., Print priced at 50 cents., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 590, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 864 W 119. HSP copy contains separately-issued key to 50 sites depicted in image pasted on verso. Facsimile of key provided with LCP copy of print., Trimmed.
- Creator
- Smith & Cremens
- Date
- c1875
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Views [5225.F.4]
- Title
- Leary & Co.'s cheap book store, no. 138 North Second Street, ten doors below New Street, Philadelphia Where are kept constantly on hand, and for sale, over 100,000 volumes of new, old, and scarce books in every department of literature, wholesale and retail. All the latest editions of school books. Latin, Greek, French, Hebrew, Spanish, Italian, and German books. N.B. Cash paid for rags
- Description
- Advertisement showing the exterior of the four-story bookstore of W.A. Leary & Co. on the 200 block of North Second Street. Signage, including a model of a book, adorns the facade. Patrons stand in the doorway and read books retrieved from the several shelves inside, and display tables and boxes on the sidewalk. Also shows laborers loading a wagon, an approaching couple, and a partial view of the neighboring "Camel Tavern." A sign post stands in front of the wooden building across from a man seated on a bench. Image also contains border details. Leary operated from the site ca. 1841-ca. 1857, including the publication of works as Leary & Getz., Forms part of Poulson scrapbooks, Illustrations of Philadelphia, volume 4., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- [ca. 1850]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Poulson scrapbooks - vol. 4 [(4)2526.F.92]
- Title
- Bank of Pennsylvania, South Second Street Philadelphia
- Description
- View showing the second edifice of the Bank of Pennsylvania (established 1780), built between 1798 and 1801, after the designs of architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe, on South Second Street above Walnut Street. Includes views of the mansion of Jewish merchant David Franks, and the City Tavern (opened in 1773) used as a tavern, banquet hall, and merchant's exchange by colonial Americans, including the Continental Congress. Depicts individuals walking the sidewalks, including a man with a handcart, and several patrons gathered outside the tavern. The first American building built in the Greek Revival style, the bank was razed in 1867. The tavern, razed in 1854, was reconstructed for the Bicentennial., 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. 27.
- Creator
- W. Birch & Son
- Date
- [1800]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views[Sn 27a/P.2276.62]
- Title
- Bank of Pennsylvania, South Second Street Philadelphia
- Description
- View showing the second edifice of the Bank of Pennsylvania (established in 1780), built between 1798 and 1801, after the designs of architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe on South Second Street above Walnut Street. Includes views of the mansion of Jewish merchant David Franks, and the City Tavern (opened in 1773) used as a tavern, banquet hall, and merchant's exchange by several eminent colonial Americans, including the Continental Congress. Depicts individuals walking the sidewalks, including a man with a handcart, and several patrons gathered outside the tavern. The first American building built in the Greek Revival style, the bank was razed in 1867. The tavern, razed in 1854, was reconstructed for the Bicentennial., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Illustrated in S. Robert Teitleman's Birch's Views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000), pl. 27.
- Creator
- W. Birch & Son
- Date
- [1860]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 27b/P.8717]
- Title
- [New England House and Edward France Hotel, 114 Dock Street, Philadelphia.]
- Description
- View showing a man and a group of boys posed in front of the hotel, tavern, and oyster house. Textual advertisements promoting oysters and ale adorn the windows. Also includes a partial view of the adjacent building., Attributed to Henry B. Odiorne., Title supplied by cataloguer., Manuscript note on recto: Dock St. formerly Thomas Shippen., Inscribed in negative: 30., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
- Creator
- Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1860
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Odiorne - N [(7)1322.F.71b]
- Title
- Bell Tavern - west side of Eight Street, north of Sansom Street - (a primitive building.) Demolished May 1858
- Description
- Shows the small tavern adorned with signage on South Eighth Street between Market and Chestnut streets. Sign reads "Jas. Boylew's Bottleing [sic] Cellar." Also shows barrels laying in front of the building and partial views of adjacent buildings, including Conrad Liebrach, patent lock manufacturer (46 S. 8th). Bell Tavern served as a "resort" for early 19th-century politicians and later became known as a "three cent shop" frequented by a racially integrated clientele., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Select link below for a digital image., Originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 2, page 39. 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., Reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1980), entry #73., Tavern described in J. Thomas Scharf and Thompson Westcott's History of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: L.H. Everts & Co., 1884), vol. 2, p. 992.
- Creator
- Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
- Date
- May 1857
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - [(2)2526.F.6a (Poulson)], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/2526f6a.jpg
- Title
- Old Tun Tavern
- Description
- David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell Collection, 2018., Label on the front reads: Old Tun Tavern, Philadelphia, Where the First Grand □ of F. & A.M. was Held in America. Tun Tavern stood at the intersection of King (later Water) Street and Wilcox (later Tun) Alley. It was the location of the first lodge of Free and Accepted Masons in the colonies as early as 1732. The June 26, 1732 Pennsylvania Gazette contains an announcement of William Allen being chosen Grand Master. The Tavern is also regarded as the location where the United States Marines held their first recruitment drive in 1775. In 1781, Tun Tavern burned down. A reproduction was built on the grounds of the 1926 Sesquicentennial and demolished after the exposition ended.
- Date
- circa 20th c
- Location
- OBJ 907
- Title
- Penny Pot Tavern & landing, and Griscom's Academy
- Description
- Book illustration showing the 18th-century inn named for serving beer at a penny a pot on Vine Street below Front Street. Includes a man seated on a pile of logs at the nearby landing, a partial view of a ship at the neighboring shipyard of Charles West, and a horse-drawn cart traveling past the tavern. Also shows the row of treble stone buildings, the private academy advertised in 1770 and operated by D. Griscom at Front and Water streets, in the background., Plate published in John F. Watson's Annals of Philadelphia...(Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1830), opp. p. 139., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 565
- Creator
- Breton, William L., artist
- Date
- [1830]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Hotels [P.8970.34]
- Title
- [Charles Gilbert's stove manufactory, 249 North Second Street, Philadelphia]
- Description
- Advertisement showing the stove manufactory covered in signage in German and English on the 400 block of North Second Street. Patrons enter the storefront and a clerk, possibly the proprietor, greets a patron at a second entrance. Stoves line the walls, and are displayed at the entrances and in the shop windows. The appliances, of variant styles, including a cooking stove with a tea kettle, also line the sidewalk. Laborers work at the upper floor windows. A man and woman figure adorn two of the stoves, which flank the entrances. Also shows partial views of the adjacent businesses, including P. McBride & Co., grocer (251) and Salon [sic] Walton (247), operated by Salem Walton. A sign post illustrated with a horse for the tavern stands in front of the building., Date from Poulson inscription Dec. 1846. N. Second Street., Title supplied by cataloguer., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 105, LCP copy trimmed and lacking title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H., artist
- Date
- [December 1846]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W54 [P.2021]
- Title
- A new song suitable to the season, to the tune of good English beer
- Description
- A cartoon supporting the Old Ticket Party of Pennsylvania which advocated a conversion from a proprietary government to a royal colony. Depicts well-to-do Philadelphians in a tavern drinking and singing "Huzza Old ticket, Old Ticket Forever." An African American server serves the men as he states in patois his support of the Old Ticket. As the devil exits the tavern, he indicates his support for the New Ticket Party which supported the existing proprietary government. Contains an electioneering song of six verses from which the depicted Philadelphians sing verses. The tavern was often used as a place to canvass election support and treat voters., Place and date of publication supplied by Evans., Possibly the work of Henry Dawkins., 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., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
- Date
- [1765]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons -[1765] - New [959.F.87a]
- Title
- [Eagle Hotel and Farmer's and Mechanic's House, probably at Water and Spruce streets]
- Description
- View showing the conjoined taverns, probably on the 100 block of Spruce Street. Men, including possibly an African American man, stand near and sit at the entranceways of the Eagle Hotel (right). The seated men sit near barrels. Repaired shingles are visible on the pent roof to the building. Also shows signage adorning the adjacent Farmer's and Mechanic's House indicating the proprietor as Michael MacVey and the street number as 129, as well as a bulkhead cellar door., Title supplied by cataloger., Date and photographer's monogram inscribed in negative., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
- Creator
- Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer
- Date
- September 1860
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Odiorne - E [(7)1322.F.53e]
- Title
- Clark's Inn &c. facing the State House; Bridge & Benezett's house in Chestnut Street
- Description
- Book illustration showing Clark's Inn also known as the State House Inn on the north side of the 500 block of Chestnut Street, and the residence of Quaker abolitionist Anthony Benezet at 325 Chestnut Street. Inn view includes a woman with a pail by a side door of the tavern, two male pedestrians, and neighboring buildings. Residence view includes the nearby bridge across Dock Creek. A pedestrian walks over the bridge as a manned rowboat emerges from under it. The Benezet residence built for David Breintnall circa 1700 was one of the first brick houses built in the city. The inn, built circa 1693, served as a respite for members of Congress and purportedly William Penn., Plate published in John F. Watson's Annals of Philadelphia...(Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1830), opp. p. 316., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 139, Gift of James Rush., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
- Creator
- Breton, William L., artist
- Date
- [1830]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Residences - Benezet [9245.Q.27a&b]
- Title
- Northwest corner of Eleventh and Pine Streets. Demolished 1889. Present site of the Gladstone
- Description
- View depicting the commercial Philadelphia street corner with the grey wood shack of Michael Traynor, licensed tavern and oyster house, for sale. Storefronts include a stove and heater manufactory; a store selling birds; Schriber, tin and sheet iron worker; a "segar" store; and a lager beer hall. Street trolleys are partially visible to the far right and left. Several pedestrians, predominately African Americans, walk the sidewalks. Individuals board and depart the trolleys. The Gladstone, erected between 1889 to 1890, was the city's first apartment hotel. In the nineteenth century, the neighborhood, known as Washington Square West, contained one of the city's largest populations of African Americans., 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
- 1883, circa 1890
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Evans watercolors [P.2298.121], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/evans/files/plc121.html
- Title
- Northwest corner of Eleventh and Pine Streets. Demolished 1889. Present site of the Gladstone
- Description
- View depicting the commercial Philadelphia street corner with the grey wood shack of Michael Traynor, licensed tavern and oyster house, for sale. Storefronts include a stove and heater manufactory; a store selling birds; Schriber, tin and sheet iron worker; a "segar" store; and a lager beer hall. Street trolleys are partially visible to the far right and left. Several pedestrians, predominately African Americans, walk the sidewalks. Individuals board and depart the trolleys. The Gladstone, erected between 1889 to 1890, was the city's first apartment hotel. In the nineteenth century, the neighborhood, known as Washington Square West, contained one of the city's largest populations of African Americans., 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
- 1883, circa 1890
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Evans watercolors [P.2298.121], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/evans/files/plc121.html
- Title
- Macknett's Tavern "It is picturesque," writes Mr. Watson; "it existed in the time of the revolution, and was then, and afterwards, the prominent tavern for visits of city gentleman. It is now owned by George W. Carpenter, and has no history." On the Main Street, this side of "Congress hall" - Germantown
- Description
- Shows the property, formerly a tavern and the residence of Rev. John Rodney, owned by Philadelphia merchant George W. Carpenter, on the 5900 block of Germantown Avenue., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Date inscribed on photograph., Originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 3, page 129. 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., Also included in an annotated album containing twenty photographs by Richards entitled "Pictorial Views of Houses & Places in Germantown yr 1859." (LCP 66037.D.13)., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Select link below for a digital image.
- Creator
- Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
- Date
- April 1859
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Germantown - M [(3)2526.F.129], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/2526f129.jpg
- Title
- The " Black Bear" Tavern; Girard estate offices; the residence of Thos. Sully, and his studio, and the music store of Geo. E. Blake; up to Fred. Brown's iron building and apothecary shop, at the n.e. corner of Fifth and Chestnut St., and the east side of Fifth St. continued, below (s. of) Chestnut in the perspective. The original Black bear tavern was on south side of Market east of Fifth Street. The stables &c are on the same lot that fronted Market Street
- Description
- View looking west on Fifth Street below Chestnut Street showing the businesses and residence. Shows the tavern building tenanted by Jeremiah Starr, grocer (11 S. Fifth) and Schaffer & Montgomery, wine and liquors (13 S. 5th). Also includes the office building operated by the estate of Stephen Girard; the residence of artist Thomas Sully (23 S. 5th); Blake's music store (25 S. 5th); and the renovated drug and chemical store of Frederick Brown (rebuilt late 1850s). Carts and wagons line the street and a group of men stand in front of the tavern. Tavern building razed 1859 for the erection of the Eastern Market at Fifth and Merchant streets., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Date inscribed on photograph., Manuscript note by Poulson on mount: (see p. 56 1/2)., Originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 3, page 58. 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.
- Creator
- Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
- Date
- February 1859
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo -Richards - Streets - Fifth [(3)2526.F.58 (Poulson)]
- Title
- The London Coffee House
- Description
- Exterior view showing the coffee house and merchants' exchange during the colonial era at the southwest corner of Front and Market streets in Philadelphia. An auction of enslaved people occurs outside the coffee house and pedestrians traverse the sidewalks. Partial view of the adjacent printing house of "Pennsylvania Journal" publisher, William Bradford, is visible. Erected in 1702 and established as a coffee house in 1754 by Bradford, the site was a public center for social and economic activities during the later 18th century, including auctions of enslaved people. The building was razed in 1883., Title from item., Published in John F. Watson's Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, in the olden time:....Embellished with engravings, by T.H. Mumford (Philadelphia, 1844), vol.1 and later editions., After wash study by Edward Mumford., Originally part of McAllister scrapbook of engravings relating to Philadelphia. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., 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
- Mumford, Thomas Howland, 1816-, engraver
- Date
- [ca. 1844]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Ph Pr - 8x10 - Hotels, Inns, Taverns [(6)1322.F.47a]
- Title
- London Coffee House
- Description
- Wash study for engraving by Mumford's brother, Thomas Mumford, appearing in several editions of John F. Watson's "Annals of Philadelphia,...with engravings by T.H. Mumford" published by various publishers between 1844 to 1870. Depicts an exterior view of the coffee house and merchants' exchange at the southwest corner of Front and Market streets in colonial Philadelphia. An auction of enslaved people occurs outside the coffee house and pedestrians traverse the sidewalks. Partial view of the adjacent printing house of "Pennsylvania Journal" publisher, William Bradford, is visible. Erected in 1702 and established as a coffee house in 1754 by Bradford, the site was a public center for social and economic activities during the late 18th century, including auctions of enslaved people. The building was razed in 1883., Title from manuscript note on recto., Manuscript note on recto: Original., Accessioned 1982., 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
- Mumford, Edward William, 1812-1858, artist
- Date
- [ca. 1844]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Drawings & Watercolors-Mumford [P.8757.18]
- 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
- German Lutheran school house. Next to the N.E. corner of Cherry and Fourth St. on Cherry Street
- Description
- View looking northeast from above Third Street showing the former school house, known as the Zion Lutheran School, built in 1761 after the designs of Robert Smith, at 325-7 Cherry Street. Building tenanted by Joseph Wrigley's hotel and tavern. Also shows the adjacent G. Goebel's Hotel and Lager Beer Saloon (N.E. cor. 4th and Cherry). Two men, including a peddler with a basket, lean on the hotel signpost in the foreground. The school built by the Zion Lutheran Church also served as a parish hall and as the meeting place of the German Society., Title and date from duplicate., Attributed to F. De B. Richards., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., 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 congregation of St. Michael’s Lutheran Church commissioned prominent Philadelphia architect-builder Robert Smith to construct this school house at 325 Cherry Street. Completed in 1761, the building faced some disapproval from the reverend because of its cost. Nonetheless, the Zion Lutheran School, as it became known, provided a meeting space for the German Society of Pennsylvania, a parish hall for the Zion Lutheran Church across the street, and room for classes. Antiquarian Charles Poulson’s note on this 1859 photograph mentions that the center window on the first floor was originally a front door., 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
- May 1859
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Education [(7)1322.F.57a]
- Title
- The election day in Philadelphia
- Description
- Print from an unfinished plate by Philadelphia engraver Alexander Lawson, after the 1815 painting (owned by the engraver) titled "Election Scene. State House in Philadelphia" by his friend and genre painter, John Lewis Krimmel that was exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Exhibition of 1816. Depicts the rowdy immoral atmosphere during the afternoon of a Philadelphia election at the State House on Chestnut Street between Fifth and Sixth Streets. Voters arrive, complete and switch votes, and block the polls as politicians and campaigners, including former mayor John Barker, lobby for votes and engage in debate. A band and patriotic float parade down the street; a tavern quarrel occurs; two young African Americans attempt to rob a distracted woman peddler; an oyster vendor does a brisk business; and mothers and couples stroll and children play. Flags are displayed on the buildings, including Peale's Museum., Title from duplicate print at Henry Francis Dupont Winterthur Museum., Plate deposited by artist's daughter at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1887 from which 42 prints were produced between 1888 and 1904., Anneliese Harding's John Lewis Krimmel. Genre artist of the early republic (Winterthur, Delaware: The Henry Francis Dupont Winterthur Museum, 1997), p. 83-90., Milo Naeve's John Lewis Krimmel: An artist in federal America (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1987), p. 118-119., LCP exhibition catalogue: Made in America,, Accessioned 1992., 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
- Lawson, Alexander, 1773-1846, engraver
- Date
- [ca. 1894]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ***PhPr-Gov't Buildings-Independence Hall [P.9380]
- Title
- London Coffee House
- Description
- Exterior view of the coffee house and merchants' exchange at the southwest corner of Front and Market streets in Philadelphia during the colonial era. An auction of enslaved African American people occurs outside the coffee house and pedestrians traverse the sidewalks and street, including an African American woman carrying a basket on her head. Views of the adjacent printing house and book store of "Pennsylvania Journal" publisher, William Bradford, are visible. Erected in 1702 and established as a coffee house in 1754 by Bradford, the site was a public center for social and economic activities during the later 18th century, including auctions of enslaved people. Razed in 1883., Title from item., Plate published in John F. Watson's Annals of Philadelphia...(Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1830), opp. p. 339., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 442, Gift of James Rush., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
- Creator
- Breton, William L., lithographer
- Date
- [1830]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Hotels, Inns, Taverns [9245.Q.20], http://www.lcpimages.org/afro-americana/F-London.htm