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Title: East view of Philadelphia, Pennsylva. and part of Camden, New Jersey
Description: Bird's eye view looking from Camden toward the east side of the city. Tree-lined blocks of residential and commercial buildings in Camden predominate the foreground. The tower of the Philadelphia-Camden Ferry House and light traffic on Market Street comprises the townscape as well. Several types of vessels, including ferries, steamboats, and sailing ships traverse the Delaware River. In the distance, the cityscape of Philadelphia between Port Richmond and Southwark to West Philadelphia is visible. Includes Fairmount, Girard College, the Navy Yard, Blockley Almshouse, and the steeple of Christ Church. View also shows Smith and Windmill islands, and several ships docked along the piers lining the Delaware riverfront., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 200, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc864 K81.
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813
Date: c1856
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W104 [P.2083]

Title: Philadelphia. S.E. view
Description: Panoramic view looking northwest from the Delaware River showing the southeast part of the city. Several vessels, including sailboats, rowboats, and a steamboat travel in the Delaware past cityscape and Windmill and Smith Islands. Cityscape includes the Navy Yard, Spark's shot tower, and the steeple of Christ Church., Plate 7 of series of fifty-four views published by Goupil, Vibert and Company from 1848 to 1851 that were drawn by Kollner and lithographed by Deroy, and later bound under the title "Views of American Cities.", Copyrighted by Aug. Köllner., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 593/594, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Deroy, Laurent, 1797-1886, artist
Date: c1848
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - View [P.2283.22]

Title: Philadelphia. S.E. view
Description: Panoramic view looking northwest from the Delaware River showing the southeast part of the city. Several vessels, including sailboats, rowboats, and a steamboat travel in the Delaware past cityscape and Windmill and Smith Islands. Cityscape includes the Navy Yard, Spark's shot tower, and the steeple of Christ Church., Plate 7 of series of fifty-four views published by Goupil, Vibert and Company from 1848 to 1851 that were drawn by Kollner and lithographed by Deroy, and later bound under the title "Views of American Cities.", Copyrighted by Aug. Köllner., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 593/594, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Upper corners clipped.
Creator: Deroy, Laurent, 1797-1886, artist
Date: c1848
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Views [P.2283.21]

Title: Steam tugs, Columbus and Alert. Vessels of all classes towed to and from sea and about the harbor; towing to and from Schuylkill and all other descriptions promptly attended to. S. Flanagan No. 78 South Delaware Avenue
Description: Advertisement for two tug boats, Columbus and Alert, depicting in the foreground the Columbus tugboat breaking the ice with a square-rigged ship in tow. Foggy view includes the helmsperson in the wheelhouse, and a man swinging open a door on the port side of the cabin. The steam tug, Alert, is visible in the left background, along with the horizon of Philadelphia. This scene is likely on the Schuylkill River., Additional title information on recto of lithograph provides the dimensions of both tugboats., Date supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 725, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Rease & Schell, artist
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W353 [P.2258]

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: Philadelphia, von dem grossen Baume zu Kensington aus geschen, unter welchem William Penn den tractat mit den Indianern abschloss
Description: View looking toward the city from the Penn Treaty Tree and Monument in Kensington. In the foreground, two men stand between the monument marked "William Penn's Landing Place" and the elm tree across from men working at the piers and arriving by skiff at the riverbank. Laborers pile sacks on the dock, transport goods by boat, and load a wagon. In the background, tall ships are docked, vessels travel the Delaware River, and cityscape is visible. The monument was erected in 1827 by the Penn Society to commemorate the site of William Penn's Treaty with the Delaware Indians at the village of Shackamaxon (i.e. Penn Treaty Park, Kensington)., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 599, Originally part of a Poulson scrapbook of illustrations of Philadelphia., Traubel assumed proprietorship of the Kuhl lithography studio at 46 1/2 Walnut Street circa 1854 under the firm name Traubel & Co.
Creator: Traubel, M. H. (Morris H.), 1820-1897, artist
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Views - P [(1)1525.F.53c]

Title: View of the glass works of T. W. Dyott at Kensington on the Delaware nr Philada
Description: View showing the premier glass works in Kensington along the bank of the Delaware River, purchased in the late 1810s by English-born boot black maker and patent medicine dealer Thomas Dyott. Shows several of the buildings, including the factory adorned with the sign "T.W. Dyott's Glass Works," at the complex of the works. Smokestacks adorn all the buildings. Also shows a skiff docked near the factory and another sailing on the river. The works also contained a butcher shop, bakery, and chapel. Originally established as the Kensington Glass Works in 1771 by Towars and Leacock, the Dyottville Glass Works manufactured vials, bottles, flask, demijohns, and "indispensable articles." The factory ceased operations following Dyott's conviction for fraud in 1837 but resumed glass manufacturing in 1842 under the new ownership of Henry Seybert and was active until the end of the century., Published in James Mease and Thomas Porter's Picture of Philadelphia from 1811 to 1831: Giving an account of its origin, increase and improvements in arts, sciences, manufactures, commerce and revenue. (Philadelphia: Published by Robert DeSilver, No. 110. Walnut Street, 1831), vol. II, opposite page 24 and in Thomas Porter's Picture of Philadelphia 1811 to 1831: Giving an account of the improvements of the city, during that period (Philadelphia: Published by Robert DeSilver, No. 110 Walnut Street, 1831), vol. II, opposite page 24., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 801, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.9830.3 a&b and in Am 1831 Mease 68582.D and in Am 1831 Mease Log 4072.D and Am 1831 Mease 20876., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Creator: Breton, William L., ca. 1773-1855, artist
Date: [1831]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W431 [P.9830.3 a&b]

Title: Philadelphia, from Camden, - 1850
Description: Panoramic view looking west from Camden showing the city to West Philadelphia. In the foreground, several bustling piers line the Camden riverfront. Sail ships and steamboats are docked, horse-drawn wagons are loaded and transport goods, and individuals mill on the piers and near the Market Street ferry house. Several vessels, including sail ships, tug boats, and steam boats sail in the river near both riverfronts and around Smith and Windmill islands. In the background, the cityscape of Philadelphia is visible. Includes the Navy Yard, Spark's Shot Tower, the steeples of Christ Church and Independence Hall, and Girard College. Also shows rows of buildings, smokestacks, undeveloped land, and the Schuylkill River in the distant background., Copyright by Francis Smith in Pennsylvania., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 583, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., The Smith brothers, Benjamin, Francis, David and George, were premier and prolific artists and publishers of panoramic city views during the pre-Civil War era., Free Library of Philadelphia: Oversize Philadelphiana - Views
Creator: Smith, Benjamin F., Jr., 1830-1927, artist
Date: c1850
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ***BW - Views [P.8970.31]

Title: Rowley, Ashburner & Co.'s oil, alcohol, fluid & pine oil works Rowley, Ashburner & Co., manufacturers, Kensington screw dock, Penn Street above Maiden, Philadelphia. Store, No. 14 North Wharves, Philadelphia. Have constantly on hand, and for sale, at lowest market prices in bbls. and half bbls. alcohol, all qualities, burning fluid, pine oil, or camphene, rice in tierces and half ditto, spirits turpentine, soapmakers' rosin nos. 1, 2 & 3. common shipping rosin, tar, pitch and varnish, sperm oil, lard oil, elephant oil, whale oil, tanners' oil, linseed oil, machinery oil, refined paint oil, common greaing oil, extra refined winter machinery oil, winter, spring and summer strained in any size, refined winter greasing oil, refined black greasing oil, do do grease, no. 1 ship varnish
Description: Advertisement showing the Kensington Screw Dock on North Penn Street above Maiden (ie. Laurel) Street from the tumultuous Delaware River. Three small sailboats navigate the water in the foreground, while shipwrights work on the hull of a square-rigged ship raised in the dry dock in front of the firm's building. At the wharf, horse-drawn drays travel past the neighboring oil manufactory and distillery and a captain, with a dog, leans on a hitching post to which a tugboat is tied. In the rough water of the river, skiffs, sailboats, and a rowboat navigate the choppy waves. Also shows surrounding boathouses, wharves, and buildings lining the riverfront. Edward Rowley, Algernon Ashburner, and George B. Keen purchased the screw dock in 1850., Date supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 662, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Rease, W. H., lithographer
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W321 [P.2256]

Title: Philadelphia from the Navy Yard
Description: Marine view looking north on the Delaware River showing the Navy Yard between Prime and Wharton streets in Southwark. Ships are docked at the yard, and a steam boat and other vessels travel nearby in the water. Also shows several ships docked along the riverfront in the background and two men pushing a rowboat off the shore in the foreground. The naval yard, the first U.S. Navy Yard, established by shipbuilder Joshua Humphreys and Secretary of the Navy Benjamin Stoddert in 1801, built, overhauled, stored, and disposed of warships. It operated in Southwark until 1876 when the Navy Yard enlarged and relocated to League Island., Copyrighted by J.C. Wild and J.B. Chevalier., Issued as plate 10 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 586.1. Digital image shows fourth state., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 6626.F., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Views - Philadelphia from Navy Yard (3 copies), 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 W286.1 [Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 6626.F]

Title: Philadelphia from the Navy Yard
Description: Marine view looking north on the Delaware River showing the Navy Yard between Prime and Wharton streets in Southwark. Ships are docked at the yard, and a steam boat and other vessels travel nearby in the water. Also shows several ships docked along the riverfront in the background and two men pushing a rowboat off the shore in the foreground. The naval yard, the first U.S. Navy Yard, established by shipbuilder Joshua Humphreys and Secretary of the Navy Benjamin Stoddert in 1801, built, overhauled, stored, and disposed of warships. It operated in Southwark until 1876 when the Navy Yard enlarged and relocated to League Island., Copyrighted by J.C. Wild and J.B. Chevalier., Issued as plate 10 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 586.2. Digital image shows fourth state., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: 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 W286.2 [Print Room *Am1838 Wild 3008.Q (Poulson)]

Title: Philadelphia from the Navy Yard
Description: Marine view looking north on the Delaware River showing the Navy Yard between Prime and Wharton streets in Southwark. Ships are docked at the yard, and a steam boat and other vessels travel nearby in the water. Also shows several ships docked along the riverfront in the background and two men pushing a rowboat off the shore in the foreground. The naval yard, the first U.S. Navy Yard, established by shipbuilder Joshua Humphreys and Secretary of the Navy Benjamin Stoddert in 1801, built, overhauled, stored, and disposed of warships. It operated in Southwark until 1876 when the Navy Yard enlarged and relocated to League Island., Copyrighted by J. T. Bowen., Originally published as plate 10 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 586.3. Digital image shows fourth state., 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 W286.3 [Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Rush)]

Title: Philadelphia from the Navy Yard
Description: Marine view looking north on the Delaware River showing the Navy Yard between Prime and Wharton streets in Southwark. Ships are docked at the yard, and a steam boat and other vessels travel nearby in the water. Also shows several ships docked along the riverfront in the background and two men pushing a rowboat off the shore in the foreground. The naval yard, the first U.S. Navy Yard, established by shipbuilder Joshua Humphreys and Secretary of the Navy Benjamin Stoddert in 1801, built, overhauled, stored, and disposed of warships. It operated in Southwark until 1876 when the Navy Yard enlarged and relocated to League Island., Originally published as plate 10 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 586.4, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2171 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:, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Views -Philadelphia from Girard College (2 copies, without hand-coloring), 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 W286.4 [P.2171]

Title: Theodore M. Apple, guager & cooper, no. 2 & 4 Gray's Alley between Front & Second and Walnut & Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia Imitation brandy casks always on hand or made to order - Kegs of all sizes made of old stuff always on hand - Orders will receive prompt attention. Imitation stand-casks always on hand or made to order
Description: Advertisement containing a busy wharf scene on the Delaware River. Laborers fabricate and load numerous barrels onto a sailing ship while horse-drawn drays carrying barrels arrive on the scene. In the foreground, a man stands in one of two rowboats tied to the pier. His cohort unties his boat from the pier above. In the background, horse-drawn wagons arrive at a neighboring pier milling with activity. Also shows pairs and groups of men conducting business, a partial view of a loft house, and ships docked along the wharves and sailing in the river., Not in Wainwright, Philadelphia on Stone, POS 748, LCP AR [Annual Report] 1988 p. 42.
Date: [1858]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Industries [P.9225.1]

Title: Fairmount Water-Works
Description: Leisurely view showing the Fairmount Water Works originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff. Includes the engine house, mill house, pavilion on the mound dam, and Reservoir Hill. Activity pervades the view. In the foreground, a man with a sketchbook walks down a path to the lush riverbank. He passes two young men, seated, in conversation, on the ground. Across from them, another young men, lounges by a rock, with his dog. In the river, a crowded paddle boat, followed by a rowboat of men, travels in the water. In the background, other sailing vessels are visible near the Wire Bridge at Fairmount. A horse-drawn carriage and foot traffic cross the bridge in front of distant cityscape. Also shows visitors milling about the water works., Plate 13 of series of fifty-four views published by Goupil, Vibert and Company from 1848 to 1851 that were drawn by Kollner and lithographed by Deroy, and later bound under the title "Views of American Cities.", Printed above title: 13., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 239, Trimmed to borders., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Deroy, Laurent, 1797-1886, artist
Date: [1848]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Public Utilties [P.2283.17]

Title: Fairmount Water-Works
Description: Leisurely view showing the Fairmount Water Works originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff. Includes the engine house, mill house, pavilion on the mound dam, and Reservoir Hill. Activity pervades the view. In the foreground, a man with a sketchbook walks down a path to the lush riverbank. He passes two young men, seated, in conversation, on the ground. Across from them, another young men, lounges by a rock, with his dog. In the river, a crowded paddle boat, followed by a rowboat of men, travels in the water. In the background, other sailing vessels are visible near the Wire Bridge at Fairmount. A horse-drawn carriage and foot traffic cross the bridge in front of distant cityscape. Also shows visitors milling about the water works., Plate 13 of series of fifty-four views published by Goupil, Vibert and Company from 1848 to 1851 that were drawn by Kollner and lithographed by Deroy, and later bound under the title "Views of American Cities.", Printed above title: 13., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 238, Trimmed to borders., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Deroy, Laurent, 1797-1886, artist
Date: [1848]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Public Utilities [P.8970.3]

Title: Tygert-Allen Fertilizer Co., office 2 Chestnut St., Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view of the terminal, factory complex and railyard adjacent to the piers and wharves at Greenwich Point along the Delaware River in South Philadelphia. Signage reading "Tygert-Allen Fertilizer Co." adorns the storage warehouse on the pier in the foreground, and "Office Tygert-Allen Fertilizer Co." is painted in large letters on a smaller building nearby. The on-deck rail carries cargo on tracks to and from docked ships into the second floor of a long building that sits behind Tygert-Allen's warehouse on the pier. Super phosphates storage, millroom, storeroom, engine house and boiler house are all located within the long building. Locomotives and carts full of freight travel along the railroad tracks that run parallel to the factory buildings. Workers and horse-drawn carts and coaches labor throughout the complex. A barge carrying railroad cars is docked in front of a slip labeled "P.R.R. Ferry". Several lines of elevated railroad tracks carrying carts and locomotives run next to the slip and into the distance. Steamboats with smoke billowing from the stacks and sailing vessels with men on deck approach the piers in the foreground. The Tygert-Allen Fertilizer Co., formed by J.E. Tygert, H.S. Tygert and Penrose Allen about 1889, also operated an office at 2 Chestnut Street. A fire in February 1892 destroyed most of the buildings within the factory complex, causing a loss of about $50,000., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 256
Creator: Packard, Herbert S., 1850-1912, artist
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Industries [P.2008.34.29]

Title: Penn Steam Engine & Boiler Works. Foot of Palmer Street, Kensington, Philadelphia. Reaney Neafie & Co. engineers, machinists, boiler makers, black smiths & founders
Description: Advertisement showing several marine vessels docked in front of the engine & boiler works complex at the busy river front. Teams of several horses haul materials on trucks past the boiler works. Laborers work on the docks, piers, and boats at the complex. Docked vessels include the tug boats, steamboats, paddleboats, and a sailboat. The firm established as Reaney, Neafie & Levy in 1844, specialized in iron boats and engines, and later steam fire engines. Reaney left the partnership to start his own shipyard in 1859. Neafie & Levy remained in operation until 1907., Published in The Hibernia Fire Engine Company No.1 (Philadelphia: Printed by J. B. Chandler, 306 & 308 Chestnut St, 1859), page 109., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 551, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: in *Am 1859 Hibernia 11750.Q., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Factories, etc.
Creator: Rease, W. H., lithographer
Date: 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W271 [*Am 1859 Hibernia 11750.Q]

Title: Penn Steam Engine & Boiler Works. Foot of Palmer Street, Kensington, Philadelphia. Reaney, Neafie & Co. engineers, machinists, boiler makers, black smiths & founders Manufacturers of high & low pressure marine, stationery engines, boilers of all descriptions, propellers, iron boats, water tanks, heavy & light forgings & castings, pattern making &c. Having extensive wharf & dock room, are always prepared to repair steamers at the shortest notice & every facility offered for lifting heavy & light weights, being fully supplied with blocks, falls, shears &c. &c. Thomas Reaney. Jacob G. Neafie. John P. Levy
Description: Advertisement showing several marine vessels docked in front of the engine & boiler works complex at the busy river front. Complex contains several buildings, including a "boiler works," "iron foundry," "machine shop," and a "black smith shop." Teams of several horses haul materials on trucks past the boiler works. Laborers work on the docks, piers, and boats at the complex. Docked vessels include the tug boats, "Lion" and "Reliance," the steamboats "Carolina," "Edwin Forrest," and "Perseverance," along with paddleboats and a sailboat. Two men in a dory pull a spar marked F.H.S. The firm established as Reaney, Neafie & Levy in 1844, specialized in iron boats and engines, and later steam fire engines. Reaney left the partnership to start his own shipyard in 1859. Neafie & Levy remained in operation until 1907., Artist's initials printed on stone as part of the image., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 552, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc38 R288. HSP copy in color.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [ca. 1854]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W272 [P.2127]

Title: Souvenir of the coldest winter on record. Scene on the Delaware River at Philada. during the severe winter of 1856
Description: Frolicking genre scene showing hundreds of persons skating and sledding on the frozen river in front of the old Navy Yard at Southwark. Skaters and sledders include men pushing women in chairs with blades, men pushing a sleigh of women passengers, a man pulling a boy on a sled, and a man being pulled by a dog running through a crowd of skaters. In the foreground, a couple stands and watches the activity; a woman peddler, seated on a stool, sells an apple to a boy; and a man has fallen on the ice, near a boy leaning on another boy. In the background, a sleigh ride has been fabricated with several men pushing a large pivoted pole lever to propel a toboggan of women passengers in a circle on an area free from congestion. Watch houses stand near by, with throngs of people surrounding the sheds. Moored ships, steamboats, and sailing vessels line the shore. Also shows distant cityscape., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 704, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb72 Q3
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: 1856
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W342 [P.2190]

Title: Washington Mills, Gloucester, N.J. near Philadelphia David S. Brown & Co. Nos. 38 and 40 South Front Street, and No. 29 Letitia Street, Philadelphia, selling agents for the following American cotton and woolen goods
Description: Advertisement for David S. Brown & Co. textile merchants containing a view of the several factory buildings of the Washington Manufacturing Company's cotton mills on the Delaware River. Shows heavy maritime traffic, including a steamboat, sailboats, schooners, and a long boat with a crew transporting a bale of cotton. Also shows a church on the property in the far right of the image. Advertising text printed below the image lists the variety of the "Brown Cottons - Woolens - Prints - Pantaloonery &c. - and Bleached Cottons" available at Brown's as selling agents for other suppliers. Suppliers include Bates Mills, Essex Mills, Lion Mills, Whittenton Mills, Climax Mills, and Hale Mills. Products include sheetlings, shirtlings, jeans, flannels, shawls, zephyr coating, and corset jeans. Brown served as both senior partner in Brown & Co., and president and manager of Washington Mills., Published in Colton's atlas of America, illustrating the physical and political geography of North and South America...Commercial edition with business cards of the prominent houses in Philadelphia. (New York: J.H. Colton and Company, 1856), page 76. (HSP O 458), Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 269, Gift of George S. Macmanus Co., HSP copy BC 35 W 317., FLP copy Castner 20:21. Trimmed and folded.
Date: [1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Industries [P.8694]

Title: H. P. & W. C. Taylor perfumers Sons of and successors to Curtis Taylor original manufacturer of superior transparent soap shaving saponaceous compound &c. Eight highest premiums awarded to the Franklin and American Institute and at the World's Fair London 1851
Description: Advertisement for the perfumery containing a central scene set within a border designed as a monument that is adorned with a vignette and pictorial details. Central image depicts a shipping scene at a pier above the Navy Yard on the Delaware River. Shows laborers loading a tall ship with goods from a pier on which a horse-drawn wagon and cart are surrounded by crates across from warehouses. Several members from the crew of the ship line the deck of the vessel. A barge is also moored near the pier. In the foreground, on the dock, a horse-drawn coach passes near a man loading a dray with crates marked "H.P. & W.C. Taylors Fancy Soaps Phila." under the watch of a gentleman as a freight rail car approaches. Sailing vessels are docked at another pier visible in the left of the image. Barrels, crates, and planks of wood line the wharf on which draymen load and transport goods. Vignette shows the exterior of the "H.P. & W.C Taylor, Transparent & Soaps" factory at 379-381, i.e., 641-643 North Ninth Street. A locomotive and freight car of the Norristown and Germantown Railroad passes in the street and pedestrians walk in front of and enter the factory. Banners reading "1819 Business Established 1819 Philadelphia," filigree, and sprigs of flowers flank the vignette., Pictorial details include depictions of the Franklin medals grouped in a series of five and of three interspersed among strands of flowers, and two larger depictions of the recto and obverse of one of the medals won by the firm. One side shows an allegorical scene with the female figure "Britannia" laying a wreath on the head of "Industry" and reads "Dissociata Locis Concordi Pace II Gavit. H.P. & W.C. Taylor Class XXIX." Other side shows the head of a mustached man and that of a classical female figure and reads Victoria D.G. Brit Reg. F.D. Albertus Princeps Conjux MDCCCII.", Philadelphia on Stone, POS 338, LCP exhibit catalogue: Made in America #71., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Dreser, William, b. ca. 1820, artist
Date: [ca. 1851]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W165 [P.2074]

Title: [Fairmount
Description: View showing a section of the Fairmount Water Works on the Schuylkill River. Depicts the terrace roof of the new mill house built on the mound dam from 1860-1862 after the designs of engineer Henry P.M. Birkinbine. Visitors, predominately women with parasols, stroll on the terrace and adjoining promenade roof of the old mill house. Also shows steamboats; boat landings; boathouses; Lemon Hill; the Twenty-Forth Ward Water Works, known as the West Philadelphia Water Works; mills near the Schuylkill Canal Lock; and small sailing vessels on the river., Title, artist, and publication information from duplicate in the collections of the American Philosophical Society., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 229, Gift of David Doret., Trimmed., Reproduced in "The Fairmount Waterworks," Philadelphia Museum of Art Bulletin (Summer 1988), vol. 84, no. 360, 361, p. 35., Sketchbook of Jacob Kiehn (1866-1867) with sketches of Fairmount Waterworks held in the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania (#47, Bd 81 K543).
Creator: Kiehn, Jacob, 1835-1869, artist
Date: [c1867]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Public utilities [P.2004.44.25]

Title: S.F. Jacoby & Co. Importers & dealers in foreign and domestic marble in all their varieties. J.K. & M. Freedley dealers in American marble
Description: Advertisement for S.F. Jacoby & Co. containing a montage of three titled views showing the sites involved in its marble manufacturing operations. The scenes are separated and surrounded by an ornate border comprised of patriotic imagery on top, including an eagle clutching the American flag and shield near a bust of George Washington and the state seals of Pennsylvania and Massachusetts; filigree, foliage, and tassels decorate the central portion, where putti hold up a banner displaying the title of the central view; and a lion-mouth fountain adorns the bottom portion of the border. Upper view shows slabs of marble piled in railroad cars pulled by a locomotive at J.K. & M. Freedley's "Bay State Marble Works in West Stockbridge, Mass," and includes residences and cattle. The bustling central scene depicts slabs of marble being moved from the boats and piled onto the wharf at the "Marble Depot Chesnut [sic] St. Wharf Schuyl. Philadelphia," ready for finishing in nearby mills or to be sold by S.F. Jacoby & Co. Includes vessels on the Schuylkill River, a partial view of the Market Street Permanent Bridge (left), and adjacent manufacturing buildings and sites near the river. The bucolic bottom scene shows slabs of marble lined on the bank and hoisted by a crane onto canal boats to be transported to desinations across the country from the Key Stone Marble Works, Conshohocken, Pa.", Date supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 668, Upper left corner torn and repaired., LCP exhibit catalogue: Made in America #68., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W323 [P.2257]

Title: Gloucester Iron Works, Gloucester, N.J. on the river Delaware nearly opposite Philadelphia, Pa. David Matthew, superintendent For the manufacture of all kinds of stationary and marine steam engines, high and low pressure, boilers, locomotives, sugar mills, and mill work of every description. Iron and brass casting made at the shortest notice. Having extensive wharf accomodations, every convenience is afforded for the repairs of steam vessels. All orders entrusted to our care will be executed with promptness & in the best manner. C.M. & J.C. Siter
Description: Advertisement containing an exterior view of the works at which laborers work on the grounds and in the many workshops. In the foreground, a laborer shovels coal from a long rectangular bin into one of two wheelbarrows. He works across from crates, a wheel, and other engine parts strewn on the ground. Behind him, workers inspect and haul large pieces of machinery by horse-drawn truck, in addition to push a wheelbarrow, and lead a horse-drawn cart in the direction of a large workshed in the background. Workers are visible toiling at stations inside through the open entry. In the right, other factory employees use a hoist to load a cylinder onto a docked sailing ship. A flat carrying another piece of machinery to be loaded is stationed nearby. In the left of the image, a steam boat moored next to a furnace and piles of wood is visible. Also shows neighboring buildings., Not in Wainwright., Letters of title illustrated with leaf details., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 93
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - industries [P.8970.21]

Title: J.W. Paxson & Co. Philadelphia Shippers of moulding sand, pier 45, North Delaware Avenue. Manufacturers of foundry facings and foundry supplies
Description: Advertisement showing the busy "Pier 45" and factory of the firm at North Delaware Avenue. On the pier, laborers drive loaded and empty horse-drawn carts, unload sand from a barge, operate hoists from within sheds, and work on a raised platform between warehouses marked "Sand." Boatmen and workers operate equipment and perform manual labor on barges and boats, most with visible names, surrounding the pier. Names include Walter C. of Burlington, Sherman, Wilson, Willie Paxson of Philadelphia, Minerva, Samuel Miller, Estelle (built by Pusey & Jones, delivered 1884 to Paxson), and Saml. C. Bougher. In the background, the factory buildings, connected by an overpass, are visible neighbored by the B&O and P.R.R. freight depots, a pier covered in barrels and bales of wood, and other surrounding buildings. Also shows a locomotive at the P.R.R. freight depot, smokestacks, and carts departing from the Paxson pier under the overpass. Also contains a bust portrait of Paxson, and two lists of 18 types of sand, lead and facings available from the firm, printed below the image. Products include Lumberton Sand, Albany Sand, Crescent Sand, Fire Sand, Silica Sand, Columbo Lead, American Lead, Machinery Facing, and Pipe Blacking. Company moved to this location in 1882., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 123, Reproduced in Jennifer Ambrose's Nineteenth-century Philadelphia advertising prints, Magazine Antiques (August 2006), fig. 10., Contains crude repairs upper and lower edges.
Creator: Haugg, Louis, 1827-1903
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Industries [7813.F]

Title: Warnick & Leibrandt's Philadelphia stove works and hollow-ware foundry. First wharf above Noble St. Philadelphia Gunners Run & Franklin Avenue. Noble St. Wharf
Description: Advertisement containing two views of the stove works and hollow-ware foundries owned and operated by Charles W. Warnick and Frederick Leibrandt. The upper scene depicts the stove works at Gunners Run (ie. Aramingo Canal) and Franklin Avenue (ie. Girard Avenue). Viewed from the opposite bank of Gunner's Run, the scene shows laborers working with horse-drawn carts and drays on the bank of the canal, in front of a complex of industrial buildings labeled "Foundry" (left) and "Warnick & Leibrandt's Stove Works" (right). In the foreground, four laborers lift a large plank of wood, and men in groups of three move materials across the canal in row boats. Includes a docked sailing vessel (left) and smaller vessels in the canal. The bottom winter scene depicts the stove works looking northeast at the Noble Street Wharf (ie. northeast corner of Beach and Noble Streets) showing horse-drawn traffic in the snow-covered street outside of the company's wide, four-story brick building surmounted by a large cupola and weathervane. Includes drivers pulling horse-drawn sleds (left), speeding horse-drawn sleighs carrying a family of four (right), Warnick & Leibrandt covered wagons (center), and children playing with dogs and sleds on North Beach Street in the foreground. A group of bare masts is visible on the Delaware River behind the company's building. The Noble Street Wharf site later became home to the Philadelphia Sugar House., Date supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 818, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W442 [P.2267]

Title: City of Philadelphia, 1867 Presented by Gould & Co
Description: Advertisement souvenir print distributed by the Philadelphia furniture dealers containing a montage of 3 panoramas, 3 views, and 2 allegorical vignettes. Panoramas show schematic views of Philadelphia, and the views show Independence Hall, 1867 and Gould & Company's Union Depots located at N.E. cor. 9th & Market Sts. and at 37 & 39 N. Second Street. Panoramic views predominately show the Eastern, Western, and Central portions of the city from across the Schuylkill and Delaware rivers. Major landmarks are visually highlighted and identified by text below the images. Includes (lower view) the U.S. Mint, Market St. Bridge, Academy of Music, St. Mark's Church, Academy of Natural Science, Pennsylvania College, New Chestnut St. Bridge, Deaf & Dumb Asylum, Naval Asylum, Alms House, County Prison, Insane Asylum, Nth. Pennsylvania Bridge, Woodland Cemetery, U.S. Arsenal, Gray's Ferry Bridge, Navy Yard, Pennsylvania Hospital, and League Island; (center view) Laurel Hill Cemetery, Fairmount Park, Girard College, Fairmount & Water Works, Wire Bridge, Eastern Penitentiary, House of Refuge, Blind Asylum, [Central] High School, Cathedral (Sts. Peter & Paul), 7th Presbyterian Church, Gas Works, and Philadelphia Library (Library Company); (upper view) Merchant's Exchange, Girard Bank, Custom House, Smith's Island, Post Office, State House, Continental Hotel, Penn Cottage, Girard Hotel, Christ Church, Masonic Hall, Penn Treaty Monument, Petty's Island, Reading Coal Depot, and Port Richmond. Panoramas also contain maritime traffic., Vignettes show an allegorical view of "Peace" represented by a social gathering with food, drink, and music in a parlor and one of "War" represented by a marine battle. "Union Depot" vignettes show the busy storefronts. Merchandise lines the sidewalks of the businesses in which patrons enter, and in front of which heavy street and pedestrian traffic passes. Traffic includes horse and hand-drawn carts loaded with crates and furniture. Also shows the Market Street depot covered in advertising text. Independence Hall view contains heavy street traffic. Horse-drawn carts, carriages, delivery wagons, and omnibuses congest the street aside laborers pushing hand-carts, people on horseback, and pedestrians crossing the street. Pedestrians also walk in front of Independence Hall. American flags adorn the storefronts and Independence Hall. Other pictorial elements include the allegorical figure of peace, a cannon surrounded by other instruments of war, and borders comprised of vinery and filigree., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 138, Free Library of Philadelphia: Oversize Philadelphiana - Views
Creator: Rease & Kurtz
Date: [1867]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Views [P.8970.28]

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