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- Title
- The industrious man It is Saturday night. The industrious man returns home from his labour in peace-He is welcome to an humble home-Pleasant smiles and happy voices greet him. Let him fear and serve God will bless him and his household for ever
- Description
- Shows a man returning to his quaint home and family convened around the dining table after a day of work. He enters the door with a lunch pail in his hand and greets his son who runs to him. In front of the table, laid out with a pot of tea, an older daughter uses a plate of water to bathe her younger sister who has been stripped to her waist. At the end of the table, the mother holds a baby at her bosom. Nearby, the family cat sits in front of the stove slightly visible in the right of the image., Not in Wainwright., pdcp00026, Issued as plate in series Picture lessons, illustrating moral truth. For the use of infant-schools, nurseries, Sunday-schools & family circles (Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 146 Chestnut Street, between 1847 and 1853)., Manuscript note on verso: James L. & Isaac W. Morris from Aunt Sarah [Pitrom’s?] Christmas 1849, Accompanied by text titled "Welcome Home" moralizing that a happy home stems from a strong work ethic by the "honest laborer" who is one of the "noblest of men.", Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 117, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - American Sunday School Union
- Creator
- Traubel, M. H. (Morris H.), 1820-1897, artist
- Date
- [ca. 1849]
- Location
- Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - American Sunday School Union
- Title
- [Humane Society of Philadelphia]
- Description
- Scene showing Humane Society volunteers during a rescue on the Delaware River near the old Navy Yard in Southwark. Shows male volunteers attending a rescued man on land, carrying another man to shore, and rowing a boat to a third victim near a capsized vessel. The Delaware riverfront and sailing ships are visible in the background. Scene used as the illustration on the membership certificate for the Humane Society., Lithographer probably Matthew Schmitz., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 101, Gift of David Doret., HSP: Bc 72 S 355.
- Creator
- Schmitz, M., lithographer
- Date
- [ca. 1850]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W50 [P.2005.18.42]
- Title
- [Specimen sheet of volunteer fire fighting vignettes]
- Description
- Specimen sheet containing seven volunteer fire fighting vignettes numbered 998-1004. Vignettes depict a fire hydrant (998); firefighters racing a horse-drawn steam engine and hand-drawn hose carriage down a city street; the anchor emblem of the Hope Fire Company (1000); a firefighter in his uniform of helmet, long coat, and boats holding a hose with smoke in the background (1001); coat of arms of Philadelphia (1002); firefighters racing a horse-drawn ladder truck down a city street (1003); and a firefigher using a ladder to rescue a woman and baby from a smoke filled window with a hose at his side. In 1870 Philadelphia passed an ordinance establishing a paid fire department., Title supplied by cataloguer., Possibly printed by Theodore Leonhardt., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 226, Gift of Manuel Kean.
- Date
- [ca. 1870]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Fires & Firefighting [P.8511.1]
- Title
- Joseph Oat & Son, coppersmiths, No. 12 Quarry Street Philadelphia Make to order on the most approved principle, and of the best materials, all kinds of copper work, for locomotive and stationery engines, sugar houses on the old or vacuum plan, distilleries, manufactories, soda water apparatus, and generally every description of copper work ; also sheet iron sugar moulds of all sizes. Refer to Messrs. Joseph S. Lovering & Co., Messrs. M. & S.N. Lewis, Messrs. I.P. & Morris & Co., Frederick Brown, I.P. Wendell & Co. Philadelphia
- Description
- Advertisement showing the multi- and split-level factory "Jos. Oat & Son Copper Smiths" at 12, i.e., 232-234 Quarry Street. The name of the proprietors "Jos. Oat" and "G.R. Oat" adorn one of the lower window shutters. Several pieces of copper work, including cauldrons, a bell, and a distiller, line the front of the building on either side of the large, open entryway to the workshop. Within the shop, laborers hammer copper pieces, nail a crate shut, and work at a forge. Copper pieces surround the workers. At many of the upper windows, more workers toil on small pieces. In the street, a drayman loads a crate onto his horse-drawn vehicle not far from a fire hydrant. George R. Oat, entered his father's company, established in 1788 by his grandfather Jesse Oat, in 1843., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Aug. 1847., Title printed in type below the image., Title also printed in Spanish and French., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 417, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H., artist
- Date
- [August 1847]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W210 [P.2141]
- Title
- Black Diamond File Works illustrated price list G. & H. Barnett No. 39, 41 & 43 Richmond Street Philadelphia Pa
- Description
- Illustrated title page showing an exterior view of the factory complex for the file Works "established in 1863" in Richmond. Shows clerks and laborers moving and loading crates on to a company horse-drawn wagon parked in front of the office building. Individuals stand in the doorway of the building that is adorned with signage containing the name of the company and proprietors. In the rear of the office, the "File Factory" with several operating smokestacks, one adorned with a model of the company trademark, stands. Figures are seen in a window and door of sections of the edifice. At a two-story building, adjacent to the office, a worker carries planks of wood through the door. Also shows a "Richmond & Exchange" horse-drawn omnibus filled with passengers passing in the street., Not in Wainwright., Published as title page in Black Diamond File Works illustrated price list. ([Philadelphia, 1874])., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 57, Gift of David Doret.
- Date
- [1874]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare **Am 1874 G.& H. Barnett 10069.F.title page
- Title
- The coal-cart
- Description
- Plate from children's moral instruction book showing a cart-man standing, with his arms crossed, in front of a horse-drawn cart in the cobblestone street. A basket hangs upside-down from the handle of a shovel in the cart. A small home is visible in the background., Published in Common sights in town & country. Delineated & described for young children (Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, No. 146 Chestnut Street, [ca. 1853])., Accompanied by text titled "The coal-cart" moralizing that the "driver of a coal-cart has his duties to perform, and they are not the less important in their place, than the duties of a judge or governor." Praises those who fear God and keep their commandments and are "not given to strong drink"., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 144, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bd 61 K 8342.12, Atwater Kent Museum: 46.57.1.5
- Creator
- Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813
- Date
- [ca. 1853]
- Location
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bd 61 K 8342.12
- Title
- The oysterman
- Description
- Plate from children's moral instruction book showing an an oysterman's horse and wagon on the side of a cobblestone street. The oysterman provides a gentleman with a sample of products from the rear of the wagon, while a young African American female waits with a basket nearby. They stand in front of a fenced-in city park area., Published in Common sights in town & country. Delineated & described for young children (Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, No. 146 Chestnut Street, [ca. 1853])., Accompanied by text titled "The oysterman" moralizing that prosperity comes from "the proper discharge of duty" and by being prompt and an honest businessman., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 535, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bd 61 K 8342.17, Atwater Kent Museum: 54.76.63.1
- Creator
- Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813
- Date
- [ca. 1853]
- Location
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bd 61 K 8342.17
- Title
- Idle talk
- Description
- Plate from children's moral instruction book showing five laborers wearing porkpie hats listening to one man tell a story. They rest on or near a dray harnessed to a horse near the wharf and river., Published in Common sights in town & country. Delineated & described for young children (Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, No. 146 Chestnut Street, [ca. 1853])., Accompanied by text titled "Idle talk" moralizing that idle talk is a sinful waste of time and profit, and ruins the good name of others., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 367, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bd 61 K 8342.25, Free Library of Philadelphia:, Atwater Kent Museum: 46.57.1.3
- Creator
- Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813
- Date
- [ca. 1853]
- Location
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bd 61 K 8342.25
- Title
- The wood-cart
- Description
- Plate from children's moral instruction book showing an African American man and three passengers traveling in a horse-drawn cart down a dirt path towards the lumber yard. A residence facing the road is visible in the background., Published in Common sights in town & country. Delineated & described for young children (Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, No. 146 Chestnut Street, [ca. 1853])., Accompanied by text titled "The wood-cart" moralizing, through the tale of the diligent wood-carter, that good habits in this lifetime offer peace and comfort, and prepare us "for the better life which is to come"., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 865, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bd 61 K 8342.30, Free Library of Philadelphia:, Atwater Kent Museum: 46.57.1.3
- Creator
- Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813
- Date
- [ca. 1853]
- Location
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bd 61 K 8342.30
- Title
- Terrible conflagration and destruction of the steam-boat "New Jersey," On the River Delaware, opposite Philadelphia, on the night of Saturday, March 15th, 1856, between 8 and 9 o'clock, by which dreadful calamity sixty-one lives were lost. Names of all on board
- Description
- Dramatic view of the steamboat engulfed in flames and smoke, the captain still at the helm as the passengers escape into the icy river. Panicked-looking passengers jump into the water already teeming with disaster victims, including an African American man, who thrash, swim, and attempt to stay upon and assist others onto cakes of ice, debris, and a single rowboat. Rescuers from the nearby wharf, including firemen, work in a frantic manner and desperately throw a rope to a white woman standing on an ice floe. Also shows a horse on the fire engulfed deck and a white woman propelled by a flame off of the rear of the boat. A sign for "Baths" is visible on the riverbank in the background. Contains the names of the 107 white and "colored" dead, missing, and saved passengers in three columns below the image. Captained by Ebenezer Corson, the "New Jersey," on mid-voyage to Camden from Philadelphia via an alternate elongated route due to heavy ice, caught fire as a result of defective boilers, a fireplace, and brick work. With the fire spreading rapidly, Corson retreated to Arch Street Wharf in Philadelphia, and came within thirty feet of the pier when the pilot house collapsed leaving the boat unmanned and out of control. Corson survived by leaping ashore before the uncontrolled ship drifted back out on the river., Title from item., Date supplied by Wainwright., Copyrighted by A. Pharazin., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 744, Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
- Date
- [1856]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W478 [P.2252]
- Title
- Terrible conflagration and destruction of the steam-boat "New Jersey," On the River Delaware, opposite Philadelphia, on the night of Saturday, March 15th, 1856, between 8 and 9 o'clock, by which dreadful calamity sixty-one lives were lost. Names of all on board
- Description
- Dramatic view of the steamboat engulfed in flames and smoke, the captain still at the helm as the passengers escape into the icy river. Panicked-looking passengers jump into the water already teeming with disaster victims, including an African American man, who thrash, swim, and attempt to stay upon and assist others onto cakes of ice, debris, and a single rowboat. Rescuers from the nearby wharf, including firemen, work in a frantic manner and desperately throw a rope to a white woman standing on an ice floe. Also shows a horse on the fire engulfed deck and a white woman propelled by a flame off of the rear of the boat. A sign for "Baths" is visible on the riverbank in the background. Contains the names of the 107 white and "colored" dead, missing, and saved passengers in three columns below the image. Captained by Ebenezer Corson, the "New Jersey," on mid-voyage to Camden from Philadelphia via an alternate elongated route due to heavy ice, caught fire as a result of defective boilers, a fireplace, and brick work. With the fire spreading rapidly, Corson retreated to Arch Street Wharf in Philadelphia, and came within thirty feet of the pier when the pilot house collapsed leaving the boat unmanned and out of control. Corson survived by leaping ashore before the uncontrolled ship drifted back out on the river., Title from item., Date supplied by Wainwright., Copyrighted by A. Pharazin., Philadelphia on Stone, Purchase 1965., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
- Date
- [1856]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W478 [7541.F]