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Title: Germantown Town Hall postcards
Description: Depicts steeple of original Germantown Town Hall built in 1855 by Napoleon LeBrun. View of building obscured by trees., Contains 1 postcard printed in color and 1 printed in black and white., Sheet numbers: 100A07 and 100B10., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Brightbill, George M., collector
Date: 1900-1910
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Germantown - Buildings - 100]

Title: Germantown schottisch To Miss Julia Rogers
Description: Prince printed on recto: 2 1/2., Includes the sheet music., Sheet music cover containing a view of the Germantown Town Hall built circa 1854-1855 after the designs of Napoleon LeBrun at 5928 Germantown Avenue. The hall contains a cupola and is protected by an ornate iron fence. Trees flank the building. The hall was occupied by the police station and rented for entertainment and political meetings before use as a hospital during the Civil War. The building was declared structurally unsafe in 1920 and a new town hall was erected in 1923., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 302, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 22 G 317, Library Company of Philadelphia: Sheet Music 11308.F (Doret), Athenaeum of Philadelphia: General Prints Collection - PRM098
Date: c1856
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 22 G 317

Title: View of city from roof of building [715-719 Arch St.], Looking W., [Philadelphia]
Description: Glass negative showing the Philadelphia cityscape seen from the roof of Elliston Perot Morris' property at 715-719 Arch Street. Buildings of various sizes, signs, and awnings extend toward the horizon with a clear sky above. The large tower of City Hall under construction is visible in the distance., Photographer remarks: Continuous with preceding picture., Time: 9:56, Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: September 21, 1886
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1029]

Title: [Philadelphia City Hall, detail of marble in the Common Council Chamber]
Description: Detail of marble in Common Council Chamber (i.e. City Council Chamber, Room # 400). Designed by architect John McArthur, Jr., City Hall was built 1871-1901., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Not an anatomical subject, a picture of a woman on the right side of photo. There is the form of a man on the left side, though it requires a greater stretch of the imagination to see it than it does to decern [sic] the form of the woman. This is in the old common council room. 4" floor City Hall - under centre window, north side., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 37 [P.8513.37], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson37.htm

Title: [Philadelphia City Hall, Select City Council Chamber]
Description: Depicts Select City Council Chamber (i.e. Office of Chief Clerk, Room # 402) including rows of ornate desks and elaborate wood paneling lining walls. Designed by architect John McArthur, Jr., City Hall was built 1871-1901., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Rear-Council Room. To the right of the doorway is the marble slab on which appears the seascape, a "close up" of which is shown on another photo in this collection. The discovery of this seascape was made by the writer. Note: Public Gallery. (work out halations around lights under gallery.), Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 42 [P.8513.42], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson42.htm

Title: [Philadelphia City Hall, stairway]
Description: Designed by architect John McArthur, Jr., City Hall was built 1871-1901., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: View of self-supporting stairway. City Hall corner towers., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 31 [P.8513.31], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson31.htm

Title: [Philadelphia City Hall, view from below of stairwell]
Description: Designed by architect John McArthur, Jr., City Hall was built 1871-1901., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: City Hall: self-supporting stairway, corner towers. Looking directly upward. Stairs of Granite. Banisters [sic] of Bronz [sic]. 156 steps., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 39 [P.8513.39], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson39.htm

Title: [Philadelphia City Hall, detail of walnut panel in Finance Committee Room]
Description: Depicts detail of walnut woodwork in Finance Committee Room (i.e. City Council Administration, Room # 496). Designed by architect John McArthur, Jr., City Hall was built 1871-1901., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Panel of Circassian Walnut in Finance room, City Hall. There are 32 such panels in this room. Note: two grotesque heads like jack o'lantern faces. Two women in flowing robes under each head. Bay and landscape in bottom panel. All of these things are in the grain of the wood. Note master workmanship of carving. This is not putty moulding., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 38 [P.8513.38], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson38.htm

Title: [Philadelphia City Hall, Common Council Chamber]
Description: Depicts large and ornate desk situated in front of arch in the Common Council Chamber (i.e. City Council Chamber, Room # 400). Two American flags rise above the arch behind the desk. Designed by architect John McArthur, Jr., City Hall was built 1871-1901., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Old Common Council room. Vermont marble. Dark orange colored walls. Blue and gold leaf ceiling. Direct overhead lighting creates too much glare. Public galleries on either side. The impression created by the room is entirely too bizarre. It could be greatly improved by toning down or rearranging the lighting., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 33 [P.8513.33], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson33.htm

Title: [Philadelphia City Hall, Common Council Chamber]
Description: View of Common Council Chamber (i.e. City Council Chamber, Room # 400) filled with desks and chairs. Two American flags rise above arch that is situated behind large desk at front of room. Designed by architect John McArthur, Jr., City Hall was built 1871-1901., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Old Council Chambre. 4" floor City Hall. There are pictures of many past presidents of council under the balconies on either side of the room., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 32 [P.8513.32], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson32.htm

Title: [Philadelphia City Hall, Common Council Chamber]
Description: Depicts Common Council Chamber (i.e. City Council Chamber, Room # 400). Designed by architect John McArthur, Jr., City Hall was built 1871-1901., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Old Common Council Room. It is now used by councilmen as a meeting place between themselves and their constituents, as a place for informal discussions as applied to pending bills; for the smoking of rank cigars and as an employment agency for the faithful. Under the large window are the two marble slabs, "close up" of which is in this collection and in which there is an outline of a woman's form., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 44 [P.8513.44], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson44.htm

Title: [Philadelphia City Hall, Select City Council Chamber]
Description: Depicts Select City Council Chamber (i.e. Office of Chief Clerk, Room # 402), including ornate wood paneling, desks and chairs. Designed by architect John McArthur, Jr., City Hall was built 1871-1901., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Council Chamber. 4th floor N.S. City Hall. All chairs and desks, solid mahogany. All panels inlaid. Highly ornamental carving. Surbase [sic] Italian marble. Bronz [sic] scroll guards on desks. Outer curtins [sic] yellow silk. Inner curtins [sic] dark blue silk. Ceiling gold leaf., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 43 [P.8513.43], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson43.htm

Title: Independence Hall
Description: Depicts the south elevation and bell tower of Independence Hall. Built 1732-1748 by Andrew Hamilton and Edmund Woolley. Extensive renovations and additions completed incrementally between 1750 and 1973. Meeting place of the Second Continental Congress from 1775-1783 and the site where the Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4, 1776., Inscribed in negative: 2247., Title from negative sleeve., Also identified as the Pennsylvania State House.
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Hand [P.9259.28]

Title: Independence Hall
Description: Oblique view of the south elevation and bell tower of Independence Hall from Fifth Street, showing the stone wall that surrounds the square. Built 1732-1748 by Andrew Hamilton and Edmund Woolley. Extensive renovations and additions completed incrementally between 1750 and 1973. Meeting place of the Second Continental Congress from 1775-1783 and the site where the Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4, 1776., Inscribed in negative: 2248., Title from negative sleeve., Also identified as the Pennsylvania State House.
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Hand [P.9259.29]

Title: Philadelphia City Hall postcards
Description: Contains views of the exterior of City Hall building from several angles sometimes including surrounding buildings such as Wanamaker's Department store (1300-1326 Market Street) and the Masonic Temple (1-33 North Broad Street). Depicts City Hall illuminated at night; the interior courtyard; the statue of Stephen Girard; the William Penn statue on top of the tower and people feeding pigeons on the sidewalk near City Hall. Constructed 1871-1901 after designs by John McArthur Jr., Contains 96 postcards printed in color and 43 in black and white. Also includes 5 linen postcards., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Brightbill, George M., collector
Date: 1900-1930
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [City Hall - 54-56]

Title: Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pa
Description: View looking north from a tree-lined path in Independence Square at the rear elevation of the State House built 1732-1748 after the designs of Andrew Hamilton and Edmund Woolley. Also includes the front facades of buildings on the north side of Chestnut Street., Copyright 1902 by H.C. White Co. on mount below image., Additional places of publication printed on mount, including Chicago; New York; and London., Title and publisher's imprint printed in gold on mount, along with the following numbers and letters: 973; 917.7, 88, A., Explicative paragraph of text describing Independence Hall printed on verso with series title and stereograph title., Stamped on verso: Fresno County Free Library ; 75, 37, Dark gray curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Robert M. Vogel.
Date: [Printed ca. 1903; photographed c1902]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - White - Government buildings [P.9047.155]

Title: [Philadelphia City Hall, Finance Committee Room]
Description: Depicts Finance Committee Room (i.e. City Council Administration, Room # 496) filled with desks and chairs; ornate wood paneling lines walls. Designed by architect John McArthur, Jr., City Hall was built 1871-1901., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Finance Room, City Hall. Masterly example of cabinetmakers [sic] art. Doorway leads into old common council chambre. To the right of this doorway is the panel of which a "close up" view may be seen in this collection., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 40 [P.8513.40], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson40.htm

Title: [Philadelphia City Hall, detail of marble in Common Council Chamber]
Description: Depicts detail of marble in Common Council Chamber (i.e. City Council Chamber, Room # 400). Designed by architect John McArthur, Jr., City Hall was built 1871-1901., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Top. Seascape outline in marble base S.W. cor., Council Chambre 4" floor City Hall. Note cloud, wave and beach effects also sand dunes., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 36 [P.8513.36], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson36.htm

Title: [Philadelphia City Hall, detail of column in Common Council Chamber]
Description: Depicts detail of column in Common Council Chamber (i.e. City Council Chamber, Room # 400). Designed by architect John McArthur, Jr., City Hall was built 1871-1901., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Outline of mermaid in granite column of Orphans Court, 4" floor City Hall. This and other similar markings appear in stone by chance according to the cut, polish and location or run of the dark veins or lighter divisions of the stone - as the case may be. There is a striking outline of a dog in the wainscoating [sic] of this room but its location is too dark for photography. (Tell about the janitor giving the mermaid a bath with a bucket of water, soap and scrub brush)., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 35 [P.8513.35], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson35.htm

Title: [Philadelphia City Hall, stairway and landing]
Description: Depicts third floor doorway off of City Hall corner stairway. Designed by architect John McArthur, Jr., City Hall was built 1871-1901., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Sectional view of self-supporting stairway. City Hall corner towers., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 200 [P.8513.200], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson200.htm

Title: [Philadelphia City Hall, Finance Committee Room]
Description: Depicts Finance Committee Room (i.e. City Council Administration, Room # 496) filled with rows of desks and chairs, with ornate wood paneling on walls. Designed by architect John McArthur, Jr., City Hall was built 1871-1901., Manuscript note on verso: Finance Room, 4 floor City Hall Circasian Walnut, hand carved, fine proportions with respect to length, breadth and heighth of room. Undoubtly [sic] the most artistic room in the City Hall. (get more data as to coloring of ceiling, walls and draperies.), Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 41 [P.8513.41], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson41.htm

Title: [Spring Garden Hall, N.W. corner Thirteenth & Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia.]
Description: Exterior view of the hall containing the district's police station and Mayor's office completed in 1848 after the designs of William L. Johnston at Spring Garden and North Thirteenth streets. Shows the Greek-Revival style building, the largest of the commissioners' halls buildings, adorned with a steeple built by Jacob Berger and containing a clock made by T. Tyson. Prior to the city's consolidation with bordering townships in 1854, neighborhoods maintained and housed their own police stations, mayors, and other government officials in commissioners' halls, including Spring Garden. Razed circa 1892., Photographer's imprint blindstamped on mount., Manuscript note on recto: 12th and Spring Garden; 13th & Sp. Garden., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Probably originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., McClees & Germon, a partnership between Philadelphia photographers James E. McClees and Washington Lafayette Germon, was active between 1854-1855.
Creator: McClees & Germon
Date: ca. 1855
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *photo - McClees [8339.F.18]

Title: Spring Garden Hall, N.W. corner Thirteenth & Spring Garden St
Description: Exterior view of the hall containing the district's police station and Mayor's office completed in 1848 after the designs of William L. Johnston at Spring Garden and North Thirteenth streets. Shows the Greek-Revival style building, the largest of the commissioners' halls buildings, adorned with a steeple built by Jacob Berger and containing a clock made by T. Tyson. Also shows a gentleman at the entranceway of the building; neighboring buildings; and trees in cages, including one adorned with a broadside, lining the street in the foreground. Prior to the city's consolidation with bordering townships in 1854, neighborhoods maintained and housed their own police stations, mayors, and other government officials in commissioners' halls, including Spring Garden. Razed circa 1892., Title, date, and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on accompanying label., Originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 5, page 69. The scrapbooks contained photographs of 18th-century public, commercial, and residential buildings in the city of Philadelphia collected by Poulson to document the vanishing architectural landscape., McClees 1855-12., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1980), entry #94., McClees, a prominent Philadelphia photographer and daguerreotypist, produced some of the earliest paper photographic views of Philadelphia between 1853 and 1859.
Creator: M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.), photographer
Date: 1855
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - McClees - Government Buildings [(5)2526.F.8a]

Title: [Philadelphia City Hall, detail of wood panels in Select City Council Chamber]
Description: Depicts detail of panels in Select City Council Chamber (i.e. Office of Chief Clerk, Room # 402). Designed by architect John McArthur, Jr., City Hall was built 1871-1901., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: 2 panels in Councilroom. 4" floor City Hall. Note: masterly inlay work and a triumph of woodcarving., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 46 [P.8513.46], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson46.htm

Title: State House, (rear.)
Description: View looking north from a tree-lined path in Independence Square at the rear elevation of the State House built 1732-1748 after the designs of Andrew Hamilton and Edmund Woolley. Also shows a street lamp., Title from photographer's label pasted on verso., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Bartlett & French was a partnership between Philadelphia photographers George O. Bartlett and William French circa 1867-1869.
Creator: Bartlett & French
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - Government Buildings [P.8484.17]

Title: Laying corner stone of public building, July 4, 1874, Philadelphia, Penn'a
Description: Outdoor scene of crowd of people surrounding a large stone attached to a pulley. A man stands on the stone which is the cornerstone for Philadelphia's City Hall., Title from manuscript note on verso., Publisher's imprint on paper label on verso., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., From 1873 to 1875, Cremer documented the construction of Philadelphia's City Hall in a series of stereographs produced for the Commissioner for the Erection of the Public Building.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: 1874
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Construction [P.9644.9]

Title: Philadelphia City Hall postcards
Description: Contains views of City Hall built 1871-1901 after designs by John McArthur Jr. Includes several exterior views of the building, showing construction of the tower looking west on Market Street; the completed building and tower from 15th and Arch Streets and another from North Broad Street looking south. Also depicts an interior view of the Mayor's office., Contains 1 postcard printed in color and 4 printed in black and white., Accession numbers: P.8712.5c, P.9076.7, P.9255, P.2002.67.17 and P.2002.67.22., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: 1900-1980
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Government buildings - [various]

Title: Independence Hall postcards
Description: Contains views of Independence Hall including exterior views of the front facade on Chestnut Street; oblique views of the state building from Fifth and Sixth Streets and the rear elevation facing Independence Square showing the Commodore Barry Monument designed by Samuel Murray in 1908. Interior views portray the room where the Declaration of Independence was signed, also called the Assembly Room, Philadelphia Room, Declaration Chamber and Independence Chamber. Others include the banquet room, Supreme Court room, main stairway and the ballroom., Contains 12 postcards printed in color and 13 printed in black and white., Built 1732-1748 by Andrew Hamilton and Edmund Woolley. Extensive renovations and additions completed incrementally between 1750 and 1973. Meeting place of the Second Continental Congress from 1775-1783 and the site where the Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4, 1776., Also identified as the Pennsylvania State House., About one third (11 out of 23) of the postcards were issued by the Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence., Accession numbers: P.8712.5e, P.8712.5k, P.9048.260, P.9048.281, P.9049.27, P.9049.35, P.9049.41, P.9050.66, P.9076.6, P.9076.17, P.9105.20 - 22. P.9441.3, P.9441.5 - 11, P.9441.13 - 16., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: 1905-1935
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Historic buildings and sites - [various]

Title: Clock tower of Independence Hall, Philada
Description: Depicts the bell tower of Independence Hall looking west. Constructed from 1750 to 1753, about ten years after Andrew Hamilton and Edmund Woolley built the original portion of the building. Bell tower reconstructed by William Strickland in 1828. The mansard roof of the original Public Ledger building is visible in the background., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title given in manuscript on mount.
Creator: Browne, John C. (John Coates), 1838-1918, photographer
Date: ca. 1913
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.174]

Title: Independence Hall postcards
Description: Contains architectural images and copies of paintings depicting Independence Hall and the leading politicians associated with the Declaration of Independence. Architectural images include exterior views of the front facade on Chestnut Street; oblique views of the state building from Fifth and Sixth Streets and the rear elevation facing Independence Square showing the Commodore Barry Monument designed by Samuel Murray in 1908. The overwhelming majority of interior views portray the room where the Declaration of Independence was signed, also called the Assembly Room, Philadelphia Room, Declaration Chamber and Independence Chamber. Others include the banquet room, Supreme Court room, main stairway and the ballroom. Paintings include portraits of Robert Morris, Richard Henry Lee, Samuel Huntingdon, Thomas McKean and Benjamin Franklin and the signing of the Declaration by these iconic figures. Also depicted is a popular series called the Cradle of Liberty, a collage of exterior and interior images of Independence Hall, the Liberty Bell and George Washington., Contains 188 postcards printed in color and 97 printed in black and white. Also contains 25 linen postcards., Built 1732-1748 by Andrew Hamilton and Edmund Woolley. Extensive renovations and additions completed incrementally between 1750 and 1973. Meeting place of the Second Continental Congress from 1775-1783 and the site where the Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4, 1776., Also identified as the Pennsylvania State House., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Brightbill, George M., collector
Date: 1900-1950
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Independence Hall - 122 - 127]

Title: City Hall and Penn Square, Broad and Market Streets, Philadelphia
Description: Aerial views of Philadelphia's City Hall, originally known as the New Public Buildings, and Penn Square at Broad and Market Streets in Philadelphia. Built from 1871-1901 after the designs of architect John MacArthur, Jr. with Thomas U. Walter as a consultant on the project. Views show City Hall from the north in its entirety as well as a vertical perspective that looks into the interior courtyard., Negative number: 14412n, 15887n.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: 1931-1933
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.14412n; P.8990.15887n]

Title: Broad St. New public buildings
Description: View looking from City Hall under archway supported by scaffolding at vehicles on Broad Street. Shows horse-drawn carriage parked in the foreground., Title from photographer's printed series list on verso with fifty-nine other titles from "Philadelphia" (1-31) and "Washington, D.C." (32-59) series., Photographer's imprint printed on mount, Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Peabody, Edwin N.
Date: [ca. 1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Miscellaneous - Peabody [P.9099.6]

Title: Architectural model of City Hall, Philadelphia
Description: Views show an architectural model of City Hall designed by John McArthur, Jr. Features a dome instead of the tower that was eventually constructed. One view includes a model of Independence Hall to give a sense of proportion. City Hall built 1871-1901 on Penn Square., Title supplied by cataloger., Photographer's imprint on mount., Yellow mounts with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Mr. Walter C. Brenner., From 1873 to 1875, Cremer documented the construction of Philadelphia's City Hall in a series of stereographs produced for the Commissioner for the Erection of the Public Building.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: [ca. 1873]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Government Buildings [P.8533 and P.8603]

Title: Town Hall from Rittenhouse St., [Germantown]
Description: Glass negative showing the Germantown Town Hall, a three-story building with a prominent spire. Buildings stand in front of the town hall across from a yard strewn with construction debris. A sign reading "[...]use and Sign Painter" is visible on the left while a sign reading "Horse Shoeing" is visible on the right. The Germantown Town Hall was authorized by the legislature in 1848 and built circa 1854. A hospital during the Civil War, the building was declared unsound in 1920., Photographer remarks: Weak negative., Time: 10:30 A.M., Light: Fair., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: September 4, 1883
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.181]

Title: Commissioners Hall, Spring Garden
Description: Exterior view of the hall containing the district's police station and Mayor's office completed in 1848 after the designs of William L. Johnston at Spring Garden and North Thirteenth streets. Shows the Greek-Revival style building, the largest of the commissioners' halls buildings, adorned with an American flag and including a steeple built by Jacob Berger with a clock made by T. Tyson. Also shows street and pedestrian traffic, including strolling couples, a man on horseback, and a horse-drawn street car. Prior to the city's consolidation with bordering townships in 1854, neighborhoods maintained and housed their own police stations, mayors, and other government officials in commissioners' halls, including Spring Garden. Razed circa 1892., Names of artists and date supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 152, Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Kuchel, Charles Conrad, b. 1820, artist
Date: [1851]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W 80 [P.2004.41.1]

Title: State House
Description: Vignette view looking southeast showing the State House, i.e., Independence Hall, built 1732-1748 after the designs of Andrew Hamilton and Edmund Woolley at 520 Chestnut Street. Also shows City Hall built 1790-1791 after the designs of David Evans, Jr. (500 Chestnut) and Congress Hall built 1787-1789 (540-558 Chestnut). Includes minimal pedestrian traffic and a guard house., Not in Wainwright., Originally part of a Poulson scrapbook of Philadelphia illustrations., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 718
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813, artist
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Government Buildings - S [(1)1525.F.38e]

Title: [Girard Trust Company Building under construction at Broad Street and Penn Square, Center City, Philadelphia.]
Description: Aerial view of the Girard Trust Company Building under construction. The building was designed by the architecture firm of Furness, Evans & Co. and was later finished by McKim, Meade & White. City Hall, the Lincoln Liberty Building and other buildings adjacent to Penn Square can be seen in some detail. The view faces southeast from a vantage point just northwest of City Hall., Negative number: P194.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: 1931
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.P194]

Title: Public building, Phila
Description: Oblique view of the north side of City Hall built 1871-1901 after designs by John McArthur, Jr., including the lower portion of the tower. Begun in 1884, the tower was in the final stages of construction at the time of this photograph. Also shows a crane and construction materials on the sidewalk in front of the City Hall and a horse-drawn coach and pedestrians traveling around Penn Square in the foreground., Title on negative., Buff mount with rounded corners., John S. Johnston, known primarily for yacht photography and landscape views, was active in New York City in the late 1880s until his death in 1899., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Robert M. Vogel.
Creator: Johnston, J. S. (John S.), photographer
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Johnston - Government buildings [P.9047.49]

Title: Independence Hall
Description: View looking southeast showing the front elevation of the State House built 1732-1748 after the designs of Andrew Hamilton and Edmund Woolley. Includes the clock tower and statue of George Washington in the left background., Title on negative., Explicative paragraph of text on verso surmounted by the title "Independence Hall, or "State House," Philadelphia" with a vignette of the seal of Pennsylvania., Yellow trimmed mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William L. Schaeffer.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Government Buildings [P.9113.3]

Title: Public building, Phila
Description: Oblique view of the north side of City Hall built 1871-1901 after designs by John McArthur, Jr., including the tower surrounded by scaffolding at the top. Begun in 1884, the tower was in the final stages of construction at the time of this photograph. Also shows a horse-drawn omnibus and pedestrians traveling around Penn Square in the foreground., Title inscribed in negative., Photographer's imprint on mount., Label pasted on verso includes paragraph describing the "Public Buildings.", Buff curved mount with rounded corners., Photograph and mount are water stained., Gift of Ken Graitzer., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Campbell, Alfred S., 1840-1912
Date: c1896
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Campbell - Government Buildings [P.2003.31.2]

Title: Back of the State House, Philadelphia
Description: View of the courtyard and rear of the State House, with the mason tall case clock visible on the west wall. Several visitors utilize the grounds, including a delegation of Native Americans on tour, strolling couples, women promenading, and boys playing near a grove of trees. In the background, stand the American Philosophical Hall (built 1789); the site of the Library Company of Philadelphia, Library Hall (built 1791); and guard houses. Also visible is signage for Peale's Museum, housed in American Philosophical Hall between 1794 and 1811., Contains watermark: AMIES PHILA and dove with branch., Illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's Views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000), pl. 22., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834
Date: [1828]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [ Sn 22c/P.2276.50]

Title: [Back of the State House, Philadelphia]
Description: View of the courtyard and rear of the State House with the mason tall case clock visible on the west wall. Several visitors utilize the grounds including a delegation of Native Americans on tour, strolling couples, women promenading, and boys playing near a grove of trees. In the background, stand the American Philosophical Hall (completed in 1789); the site of the Library Company of Philadelphia, Library Hall (completed in1791); and guard houses. Also visible is signage for Peale's Museum, housed in American Philosophical Hall between 1794 and 1811., Print trimmed., Title from duplicate print., Illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's Views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000), pl. 22., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: W. Birch & Son
Date: 1799
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 22a/P.2276.49]

Title: State House. Philadelphia
Description: Winter, evening scene looking southeast from Sixth and Chestnut streets toward the State House (Independence Hall) showing light pedestrian traffic. Pairs of men and women walk, converse, and cross the snow-covered street near Congress Hall and the intersection. A man and woman street vendor attend their stand near a watchman's house. Also shows City Hall (500 Chestnut) built 1790-1791 after the designs of David Evans, Jr. in the background. The State House (520 Chestnut) was built 1732-1748 after the designs of Andrew Hamilton and Edmund Woolley and Congress Hall (540-558 Chestnut) was built 1787-1789., Artist's imprint lower left corner of stone., Copyrighted by J.C. Wild and J.B. Chevalier., Issued as plate 11 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 720.1. Digital image shows fourth state of print., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2193 and in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 6626.F., 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 W352.1 [P.2193]

Title: State House. Philadelphia
Description: Winter, evening scene looking southeast from Sixth and Chestnut streets toward the State House (Independence Hall) showing light pedestrian traffic. Pairs of men and women walk, converse, and cross the snow-covered street near Congress Hall and the intersection. A man and woman street vendor attend their stand near a watchman's house. Also shows City Hall (500 Chestnut) built 1790-1791 after the designs of David Evans, Jr. in the background. The State House (520 Chestnut) was built 1732-1748 after the designs of Andrew Hamilton and Edmund Woolley and Congress Hall (540-558 Chestnut) was built 1787-1789., Artist's imprint lower left corner of stone., Copyrighted by J.C. Wild and J.B. Chevalier., Issued as plate 11 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 720.2. Digital image shows fourth state of print., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2194 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 W352.2 [P.2194]

Title: State House. Philadelphia
Description: Winter, evening scene looking southeast from Sixth and Chestnut streets toward the State House (Independence Hall) showing light pedestrian traffic. Pairs of men and women walk, converse, and cross the snow-covered street near Congress Hall and the intersection. A man and woman street vendor attend their stand near a watchman's house. Also shows City Hall (500 Chestnut) built 1790-1791 after the designs of David Evans, Jr. in the background. The State House (520 Chestnut) was built 1732-1748 after the designs of Andrew Hamilton and Edmund Woolley and Congress Hall (540-558 Chestnut) was built 1787-1789., Artist's imprint lower left corner of stone., Copyrighted by J. T. Bowen., Originally published as plate 11 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 720.3. Digital image shows 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 W352.3 [Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q]

Title: State House. Philadelphia
Description: Winter, evening scene looking southeast from Sixth and Chestnut streets toward the State House (Independence Hall) showing light pedestrian traffic. Pairs of men and women walk, converse, and cross the snow-covered street near Congress Hall and the intersection. A man and woman street vendor attend their stand near a watchman's house. Also shows City Hall (500 Chestnut) built 1790-1791 after the designs of David Evans, Jr. in the background. The State House (520 Chestnut) was built 1732-1748 after the designs of Andrew Hamilton and Edmund Woolley and Congress Hall (540-558 Chestnut) was built 1787-1789., Artist's imprint lower left corner of stone., Copyrighted by J.T. Bowen. Loose print lacking copyright statement., Originally published as plate 11 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 720.4, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: P. 2195 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
Date: c1840, 1848
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W352.4 [P.2195]

Title: Arch Street postcards
Description: Contains images of Arch Street, including views looking east from Fifteenth Street and west from Broad Street, showing the Young Men's Christian association building (1417-23 Arch Street) and the United Gas Improvement Building (1401 Arch Street). Also includes an image of the Arch Street Methodist Episcopal Church (55-65 North Broad Street), Masonic Temple (1-33 North Broad Street), and City Hall tower near Broad and Arch Streets., Sheet number: 156A01., Divided backs., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Brightbill, George M., collector
Date: 1910-1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Streets - Miscellaneous - 156]

Title: [Peace Jubilee, Triumphal Arch and Court of Honor, looking north from Walnut Street.]
Description: Depicts the Triumphal Arch (i.e. Athenean Arch) and temporary columns of the Court of Honor along South Broad Street, showing pedestrians and horse drawn carts, looking north from Walnut Street. The south facade of City Hall is decorated with patriotic bunting. The Triumphal Arch and Court of Honor were erected after designs by Joseph M. Huston for the Peace Jubilee, a celebration of the end of the Spanish American War in 1898. Included a military parade that passed through the Court of Honor, along with other festivities that lasted several days in October. Includes the Lafayette Hotel, erected in 1853 as the LaPierre House, expanded and renamed in 1876, and razed circa 1900 (southwest corner Broad and Sansom); Land Title Building, built 1897-1898 after the designs of Daniel H. Burnham & Co. (100-118 S. Broad) and the Real Estate Title & Trust Company Building, built 1897-1898 after designs by Edgar Viguers Seeler (101-113 S. Broad)., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: October 1898
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.240]

Title: Independence Hall, where Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776, Philadelphia, Pa
Description: View looking northeast from Independence Square at the rear elevation of the State House built 1732-1748 after the designs of Andrew Hamilton and Edmund Woolley. Shows the statue of Commodore John Barry sculpted by Samuel Murray in 1906 and presented to the City of Philadelphia by the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick in 1907. Also includes a temporary frame structure adorned with American shields set up behind the statue near the rear entrance and partial views of Old City Hall built 1790-1791 after designs by David Evans, Jr. and the Lafayette Building constructed in 1907 after designs by John T. Windrim (northwest cor. Fifth and Chestnut)., Title printed on mount., Additional places of publication printed on mount, including New York, NY; Portland, Oregon; London, Eng.; and Sydney, Aus., Publisher's imprint printed on mount., Printed above image on mount: H69., Explicative paragraph of text providing brief history of Independence Hall printed on verso. Includes table of numbers indicating "series" and "position"., Gray curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Robert M. Vogel.
Date: [ca. 1907]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Keystone View Company - Historic buildings and sites [P.9047.153]

Title: Commissioners Hall, Northern Liberties, Phila
Description: Exterior winter view of the hall as it looked on February 22, 1852, with adjoining fenced property, adorned with an American flag, and containing the district's police station and Mayor's office, on the busy, snow covered Third Street between Buttonwood and Green streets. Several warmly dressed white pedestrians, hall officials, and a policeman mill about and converse on the sidewalk; white children throw snowballs and play with a sled; horse-drawn sleighs pass by; white men shovel snow off the street and hall steps; and an African American man carrying a basket of celery and a dead goose stops in the street and looks behind him and toward the passing sled. A broadside inscribed, "Washington, 22nd Feb. 1852" adorns a nearby building. Prior to the city's consolidation with bordering townships in 1854, neighborhoods maintained and housed their own police stations, mayors, and other government officials in Commissioners Halls, including Northern Liberties. Built in 1814, the Northern Liberties' hall served as the quarters of the Northern Liberty Barracks until the American Revolution, and was torn down circa 1869 for the erection of Northern Liberties Grammar School., Title from item., Date of publication supplied by Wainwright., Reproduced in Edwin Wolf's Philadelphia: Portrait of an American city (Philadelphia: Camino Books in cooperation with the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1990), p. 199. Incorrectly identified as Commissioners Hall, Spring Garden., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 151, Print described in Public Ledger, July 1, 1853., Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Kuchel, Charles Conrad, 1820-, artist
Date: [1853]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W79 [P.2034]

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