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Title: U.S. iron clad steamer, New Ironsides Machinery & armour by Merrick & Sons. Hull by Cramp & Sons. Philadelphia
Description: View of the Civil War armored vessel, with full sailing rig, out at sea. Also includes the names and titles of the "Officers of the U.S.S. Frigate 'New Ironsides'" and figures for the dimensions, weight, horse power, and armament of the ship below the image. Ship commissioned by the U.S. Navy in 1862 and built by Philadelphia machinists Merrick & Sons and shipbuilders Cramp & Sons. Ship destroyed by fire on December 16, 1866., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 257, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War views.
Creator: Rease, W. H.
Date: [ca. 1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Transportation [5779.F.61]

Title: U. S. Naval Asylum; State House = Malrosen Hospital bei Philadelphia; Das Rathhaus in Philadelphia
Description: Lettersheet containing vignette exterior views of the U.S. Naval Asylum, the convalescence home for retired sailors, and the State House, i.e., Independence Hall. Views show street and pedestrian traffic, including a horse-drawn wagon and omnibus as well as a man on horseback. Asylum built 1827-1833 after the designs of William Strickland at 2420 Gray's Ferry Avenue. State House built 1732-1748 after the designs of Andrew Hamilton and Edmund Woolley at 520 Chestnut Street., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 766/767
Date: [ca. 1840]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Hospitals [P.9454.6]

Title: U. S. Naval Asylum. Philadelphia
Description: View showing the U.S. Naval Asylum, the convalescence home for retired sailors built 1827-1833 after the designs of William Strickland at 2420 Gray’s Ferry Avenue. A small grove of trees adorns the yard in front of the colonnade portico entrance of the three-story building known as Biddle Hall. Two men with canes talk in front of the stone and iron-work fence protecting the property. Also shows, in the background, a sailboat on the Schuylkill River and the Blockley Almshouse, built 1833 in West Philadephia, also after the designs of Strickland. The asylum also served 1839-1845 as the first naval school under the administration of Commodore James Biddle., Copyrighted by J.C. Wild and J.B. Chevalier. Loose print lacking copyright statement., Issued as plate 7 in Views of Philadelphia, and its vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838), a series of views originally published as five numbers of four prints each, and later sold as a bound volume of twenty views., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 765.1. Digital image show fourth state of print., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2222 and in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 6626.F., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bd862 W644 pl. 7., Described in Martin Snyder’s "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1838
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W410.1 [P.2222]

Title: U. S. Naval Asylum. Philadelphia
Description: View showing the U.S. Naval Asylum, the convalescence home for retired sailors built 1827-1833 after the designs of William Strickland at 2420 Gray’s Ferry Avenue. A small grove of trees adorns the yard in front of the colonnade portico entrance of the three-story building known as Biddle Hall. Two men with canes talk in front of the stone and iron-work fence protecting the property. Also shows, in the background, a sailboat on the Schuylkill River and the Blockley Almshouse, built 1833 in West Philadephia, also after the designs of Strickland. The asylum also served 1839-1845 as the first naval school under the administration of Commodore James Biddle., Copyrighted by J.C. Wild and J.B. Chevalier., Issued as plate 7 in Views of Philadelphia, and its vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838), a series of views originally published as five numbers of four prints each, and later sold as a bound volume of twenty views., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 765.2. Digital image show fourth state of print., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2223 (Hand-colored) and in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Poulson)., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Described in Martin Snyder’s "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1838
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W410.2 [P.2223]

Title: U. S. Naval Asylum. Philadelphia
Description: View showing the U.S. Naval Asylum, the convalescence home for retired sailors built 1827-1833 after the designs of William Strickland at 2420 Gray’s Ferry Avenue. A small grove of trees adorns the yard in front of the colonnade portico entrance of the three-story building known as Biddle Hall. Two men with canes talk in front of the stone and iron-work fence protecting the property. Also shows, in the background, a sailboat on the Schuylkill River and the Blockley Almshouse, built 1833 in West Philadephia, also after the designs of Strickland. The asylum also served 1839-1845 as the first naval school under the administration of Commodore James Biddle., Copyrighted by J. T. Bowen., Originally published as plate 7 in Views of Philadelphia, and its vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). The lithographic stones for the views were acquired by John T. Bowen and reissued in 1838 and in 1848 with hand coloring., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 765.3. Digital image show fourth state of print., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Rush)., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Described in Martin Snyder’s "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1838
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W410.3 [Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Rush)]

Title: U. S. Naval Asylum
Description: View showing the U.S. Naval Asylum, the convalescence home for retired sailors built 1827-1833 after the designs of William Strickland at 2420 Gray’s Ferry Avenue. A small grove of trees adorns the yard in front of the colonnade portico entrance of the three-story building known as Biddle Hall. Two men with canes talk in front of the stone and iron-work fence protecting the property. Also shows, in the background, a sailboat on the Schuylkill River and the Blockley Almshouse, built 1833 in West Philadephia, also after the designs of Strickland. The asylum also served 1839-1845 as the first naval school under the administration of Commodore James Biddle., Copyrighted by J.T. Bowen., Originally published as plate 7 in Views of Philadelphia, and its vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). The lithographic stones for the views were acquired by John T. Bowen and reissued in 1838 and in 1848 with hand coloring., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 765.4, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2224 and in Print Room *Am 1848 Wild 3007.Q (Poulson) and in Print Room *Am 1848 Wild 1514.F and in Print Room *Am 1848 Wild 1515.Q., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Described in Martin Snyder’s "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1840, 1848
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W410.4 [P.2224]

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