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Title: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view of the University's twin buildings, Medical Hall and College Hall, located on the west side of 9th Street between Market and Chestnut Streets. Designed by Philadelphia architect William Strickland and constructed 1829-1830, the buildings housed the University until its removal to West Philadelphia in the 1870s. View includes a group of students gathered in a doorway, and several pedestrians including two women carrying parasols., Issued as plate 15 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 in 1838, and later sold as a bound volume of twenty views., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 782.1. Digital image shows third state of print., Synder, Martin. "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: [1838]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W419 [P.2229]

Title: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view of the University's twin buildings, Medical Hall and College Hall, located on the west side of 9th Street between Market and Chestnut Streets. Designed by Philadelphia architect William Strickland and constructed 1829-1830, the buildings housed the University until its removal to West Philadelphia in the 1870s. View includes a group of students gathered in a doorway, and several pedestrians including two women carrying parasols., Copyrighted by J.C. Wild and J.B. Chevalier in 1838., Issued as plate 15 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 in 1838, and later sold as a bound volume of twenty views., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 782.1. Digital image shows third state of print., Synder, Martin. "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: [1838]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W419 [P.2230]

Title: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view of the University's twin buildings, Medical Hall and College Hall, located on the west side of 9th Street between Market and Chestnut Streets. Designed by Philadelphia architect William Strickland and constructed 1829-1830, the buildings housed the University until its removal to West Philadelphia in the 1870s. View includes a group of students gathered in a doorway, and several pedestrians including two women carrying parasols., Copyrighted by J.T. Bowen in 1838., Originally issued as plate 15 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 782.2. Digital image shows third state of print., Synder, Martin. "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: [1838]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W419 [P.2231]

Title: University of Pennsylvania
Description: Exterior view of the University's twin buildings, Medical Hall and College Hall, located on the west side of 9th Street between Market and Chestnut Streets. Designed by Philadelphia architect William Strickland and constructed 1829-1830, the buildings housed the University until its removal to West Philadelphia in the 1870s. View includes a group of students gathered in a doorway, and several pedestrians including two women carrying parasols., Copyrighted by J.T. Bowen in 1842., Originally issued as plate 15 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 782.3, Synder, Martin. "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: [1848]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W419 [P.2232]

Title: View of the city of Philadelphia, and its principal buildings
Description: Print containing a central panoramic view of Philadelphia surrounded by vignettes of prominent Philadelphia institutions. View looks west from Camden, New Jersey, showing islands and vessels in the Delaware River. Vignettes include the Almshouse, Fairmount, Girard College, Merchants' Exchange, Moyamensing Prison, Chestnut Street Theatre, U.S. Naval Asylum, State House, U.S. Mint, and the University of Pennsylvania. Most vignettes include small details like carriages, horses and pedestrians on foot., Philadelphia on Stone, Atwater Kent Museum: 40.14.19
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813, artist
Date: 1842
Location: Atwater Kent Museum | Print Department AKM AKM 40.14.19

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