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Title: Winter scene in Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement for Daniel Mershon's Sons heating and ventilating warehouse at 1203 Filbert Street. Shows busy street and pedestrian traffic in front of the four-story red brick warehouse heavily adorned with signage and a "Russian Heater Works" flag at the northwest corner of Twelfth and Filbert streets. Signs advertising patent airtight heaters, grates, registers, ventilators, fireplace heaters, ranges, slate mantels, and house warming and cooking ranges are visible near the doorway and in the show windows of the storefront. Stoves, ranges, and fireplaces are displayed in the windows and on the sidewalk. Laborers load heating equipment into a store delivery wagon marked "Prepare for Winter" as a patron leaves the store near a policeman standing at the corner of the building. Several pedestrians wearing heavy coats, hats, and muffs walk in the street and on the sidewalks near several horse-drawn vehicles, including sleighs and a "Twelfth Street Passenger Railway" streetcar. Also shows partial views of horse-drawn wagons and of neighboring buildings in addition to a man on horseback. The business, established as Fink, Potts & Savoy in 1838, was known for the "Mershon" Patent Shaking Grate" and was renamed Daniel Mershon's Sons following the death of the original successor, Daniel Mershon, in 1865., Not in Wainwright., Filbert St. and Twelfth St. printed below the image as key., Title from item., Date inferred from original letter of copyright issued to H.H. & Geo. Mershon held in the Print and Picture Collection of the Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa. Copyright letter No. 2333A. [Oversize Philadelphiana - Factories & Foundries (A-M)]., Gift of David Doret., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 846 variant, Variant copy at Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 38 M 574, Longacre & Co. operated at 30 & 32 S. 7th Street in 1871.
Creator: Blanc, Albert, artist
Date: [ca. 1871], 1870
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection - Prints [P.2022.62.3.38]

Title: Independence Hall in 1876
Description: Busy street view showing Independence Hall built 1732-1748 after the designs of Andrew Hamilton and Edmund Woolley at 520 Chestnut Street. Also shows the old City Hall built 1790-1791 after the designs of David Evans (500 Chestnut) and Congress Hall built 1787-1789 (540-558 Chestnut). Pedestrians and horse-drawn vehicles, including a woman pushing a baby carriage, wagons, carriages, and street cars, congest the sidewalks and roadway. Trees line the sidewalk and a large American flag adorns Independence Hall., Title from item., Date inferred from title., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 880, Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Government Buildings [P.2010.6.30]

Title: Ten fine steel plate views of places of interest, new map and guide to Philadelphia
Description: Views include Carpenter's Hall; Centennial Art Gallery; Chestnut St. Bridge; Girard College; Independence Hall in 1876; Lincoln Monument; Masonic Temple; Independence Hall in 1776; United States Mint; and View in Fairmount Park (i.e., Girard Avenue Bridge). Most of the views also show street and pedestrian traffic, including horse-drawn vehicles. Chestnut St. Bridge image includes men in row boats and other small vessels on the Schuylkill River. Carpenter Hall print depicted as a winter view. The Centennial Exhibition celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Title from wrapper., Printed on recto of wrapper: Price 25 cts., Housed with complementary uncut sheet of ten titled views of places of interest in Philadelphia. [P.2011.45.8]., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *PhPr - Views [P.2011.45.9]

Title: Ten fine steel plate views of places of interest, new map and guide to Philadelphia
Description: Views include Carpenter's Hall; Centennial Art Gallery; Chestnut St. Bridge; Girard College; Independence Hall in 1876; Lincoln Monument; Masonic Temple; Independence Hall in 1776; United States Mint; and View in Fairmount Park (i.e., Girard Avenue Bridge). Most of the views also show street and pedestrian traffic, including horse-drawn vehicles. Chestnut St. Bridge image includes men in row boats and other small vessels on the Schuylkill River. Carpenter Hall print depicted as a winter view. The Centennial Exhibition celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Title from wrapper., Printed on recto of wrapper: Price 25 cts., Housed with complementary uncut sheet of ten titled views of places of interest in Philadelphia. [P.2011.45.8]., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *PhPr - Views [P.2011.45.9]

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