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- Title
- The terrible conflagration at Ninth and Washington Streets, Philadelphia. On the morning of Wednesday February 8th 1865. [graphic].
- Description
- Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Reaccessioned as P.2215., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
- Date
- 1865.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W397.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W397 [6549.F]
- Title
- View of the ruins caused by the great fire northeast corner of Sixth and Market st. which began on the night of Weds. April 30, 1856 - From the northwest
- Description
- Shows burnt ruins and fire debris lining Sixth Street above Market from the fire begun in the rag and paper warehouse of Jessup & Moore on North Street below Arch. Includes a line of men standing on debris and Independence Hall in the background. The fire razed forty-four buildings, which caused a loss of half of a million dollars., Title 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 77. 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 1856-5., See clippings in Poulson scrapbook "Illustrations of Philadelphia," vol. 5, p .21., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., 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
- 1856
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - McClees - Fires and firefighting [(5)2526.F.9a]
- Title
- Independence Hall or State House, from the N.E. across the ruins made by the great fire N.W. corner of Chestnut & Fifth St
- Description
- View looking northeast showing the State House built 1732-1748 after the designs of Andrew Hamilton and Edmund Woolley at 520 Chestnut Street. In the foreground, a partial view of the fire ruins from the expansive fire of the Artisan Building near Fourth and Chestnut streets on April 11th, 1856 is visible. Shows the exposed side of a damaged building adorned with broadsides., Title from transcribed scrapbook inscription., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Probably 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 30. 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., 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 #76., 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
- Spring 1856
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - McClees - Government Buildings [8339.F.31]
- Title
- Ocean County forest fire, New Jersey
- Description
- Aerial view shows smoke most likely from the Ocean County forest fire on May 4, 1930 that destroyed part of the town of Forked River. View of Forked River from east to west looking across Barnegat Bay from the vicinity of what is now Island Beach State Park, a portion of which is also visible., Negative numbers: 12387., Record created with information supplied by former Aero Service employee Carl H. Winnefeld, Jr.
- Creator
- Aero Service Corporation, photographer
- Date
- 1930
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.12387]
- Title
- [Man among fire ruins of a building]
- Description
- Glass negative showing a man walking through the ruins of a building. Two tall poles and the outer wall still stand among the rubble. The ruins were likely from a fire at 721-723 Arch Street that also damaged Marriott C. Morris' father Elliston P. Morris' property at 715-719 Arch Street., 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
- ca. 1900
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [*P.9895.8.11]
- Title
- [Fire ruins of a building]
- Description
- Glass negative showing a view of a ruined building. A few tall columns and an outer wall still stand among the rubble. The ruins were likely from a fire at 721-723 Arch Street that also damaged Marriott C. Morris' father Elliston P. Morris' property at 715-719 Arch Street., 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
- ca. 1900
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [*P.9895.8.12]
- Title
- [Election night mob]
- Description
- Scene depicts an incident that occurred in Philadelphia (the city proper and Moyamensing) on Election night, October 11, 1849. The incident began when a group of white boys and men dragged a flaming furniture car through the area around St. Mary Street, a neighborhood inhabited primarily by blacks. As the car travelled along, a shot was fired, and a cry arose that a white man had been shot. Having heard this, the mob headed toward the California house at Sixth and St. Mary, which was kept by a black man who was rumored to have a white wife. A riot ensued, and the California house was destroyed in a fire that claimed many other buildings and numerous lives., Frontispiece for Life and Adventures of Charles Anderson Chester: the notorious leader of the Philadelphia "killers." (Philadelphia: Printed for the publishers, 1850, c1849)., Accompanied by the following caption: "A cry at once arose that a white man was shot, and the attention of the mob was directed to the California House, at the corner of Sixth and St. Mary street.", Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Resistance.
- Date
- [1850]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1850 Lif 76423.O (Mrs SM Brenner) frontispiece, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2780
- Title
- Conflagration of the steam boat New Jersey on the Delaware River opposite Philada. March 15 1856 in which 50 persons lost their lives
- Description
- Shows, under the winter night sky, in the distance, clouds of smoke rising from the Philadelphia and Camden Ferry Co. steamboat as rowboats race to the wreck. In the right of the image, a partial view of the ferry "Dido" traveling to the rescue is visible. 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 the result of defective boilers. 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., Reduced variant of print issued by the same artist and publisher [Wainwright 81]. Title altered from "60 persons" to "50 persons.", POS 155, Philadelphia on Stone, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
- Creator
- Heiss, George G.
- Date
- [1856]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W82 [P.2026]
- Title
- [The Morro Castle (ship) beached near shore at Asbury Park, New Jersey]
- Description
- Depicts a large crowd of people gathered near the beached SS Morro Castle on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean in Asbury Park, New Jersey. People inspect the right flank of the burned and abandoned ship facing the land., The SS Morro Castle was a cruise ship built in 1929 for the New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Company, also known as the Ward Line, to operate between New York City and Havana, Cuba. On September 8, 1934, the ship caught fire on its way to New York and beached at Asbury Park, New Jersey., Gift of Emily Riese., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
- Creator
- Davis, Eugene H., photographer
- Date
- ca. 1935-1936
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Davis [P.9332.8]
- Title
- The terrible conflagration at Ninth and Washington Streets, Philadelphia On the morning of Wednesday February 8th 1865
- Description
- Disaster print showing the scene at the "disastrous conflagration commenced in the storage yard [of Blackburn & Co.] at Ninth & Washington Street" in the early morning hours of February 8, 1865. In the foreground, displaced and panicked residents of all ages attired in their night clothes, many holding their few possessions, run down and gather on the snowy streets. Amongst the commotion, police officers assist residents with their possessions (trunks, bedding, and cookware) and direct firefighters toward the blaze and burnt ruins of and surrounding the coal yard. The firefighters transport a ladder, hoses, and hose carriage toward the burning buildings as other volunteers rush to smother a man on fire and comfort a fleeing girl. Others depicted at the scene include two men laying an unconscious man attired in a nightshirt on the ground; a man and woman clutching their children to their chests; and a woman falling and dropping her baby in her flight as a dog runs past them. In the background, a small number of survivors and firefighters carrying victims, run down the 1100 block of Ninth Street that is lined with burning and destroyed buildings. Across from the coal yard, presumably the proprietor, James McManus, holds a bundle, and prepares to exit the doorway of the "Lager Beer Saloon" on the northeast corner of Washington Avenue and Ninth Street. Furniture covers the sidewalk in front of his establishment, the upper floors visibly on fire., Also contains several lines of text explicating the economic and human cost of the fire, including "loss of property" at "$400, 000," the "property destroyed" at about "one hundred structures," and the "List of Dead and Missing - Mrs. Barbara Ware, aged 43 years. Miss Annie Ware, 23 years._Emma Ware, 20 year._Helen Ware, 13 years._Isabella Ware, 4 years._Rebecca Ware._Albert Ware, 17 years._Clayton Ware, 10 years._The Scott Family is missing._Samuel McMenamin Fleetwood". A barrel of coal oil ignited through arson stored at Blackburn & Co. started the blaze shortly after 2 A.M. The fire destroyed the coal yard, which then caused a stream of burning oil to flow down Washington Avenue and Ninth Street that spread the fire to neighboring blocks of Federal and Ellsworth streets., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 746, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Reaccessioned as P.2215., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Fire described in the Philadelphia Inquirer, February 9, 1865, p. 8.
- Date
- 1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W397 [6549.F]
- Title
- Crawford, Martha, d. 1844.
- Description
- In Serious almanac, 1845-’46, p. [31]., Mrs. Crawford, the wife of William Crawford Jr., died in their home in Elkton, Md. Apparently, she started a fire while lighting a pipe. Cf. Philadelphia inquirer (May 21, 1844)., Full-length portrait of Mrs. Crawford, burning to death, with a pipe on the floor nearby., The same image appears in Tragic almanac 18-46 (New York, 1845), p. [17].
- Date
- [1845?]
- Title
- Destruction by fire of Pennsylvania Hall. On the night of the 17th May, 1838. [graphic].
- Description
- Artist and publication information supplied by Wainwright., Exterior view of Pennsylvania Hall engulfed in flames. A large crowd looks on. Fire fighters spray water on an adjoining building. Pennsylvania Hall was constructed 1837-1838 at Sixth and Haines Streets in Philadelphia as a meeting place for local abolitionist groups. Dedication ceremonies began on May 14, 1838 and continued over several days in a climate of growing hostility. On the night of May 17, 1838 a mob stormed the Hall and set it on fire. Fire companies refused to fight the blaze, and the building was completely destroyed. Bowen issued this print commemorating the event within a few days of the fire., Gift of Mrs. S. Marguerite Brenner.
- Creator
- Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist., creator
- Date
- [1838]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W094.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W94 [P.9057.27]
- Title
- Allemannia Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, Pa. Jos. Abel, president. G.W. Hammer, secretary Losses paid since organization over $2,000,000
- Description
- Advertising blotter containing a view of a fire company attending to a blaze at a large, possibly municipal, building. Shows firemen utilizing steam engines and hoses to pump water onto the flames, and ladders to scale the building. Scene bordered in lower left corner by horn and lantern details. Allemannia was chartered in 1868., Printed below title: Insure with the Oldest Agency Company of Western Pennsylvania. Time Tried and Fire Tested. Insure Your Dwelling With This Company., Stamped on recto: Guiles & Wensell, Agents, No. 103 N. 2d. Street, Harrisburg, Pa., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
- Date
- [ca. 1890]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.4]
- Title
- Broad Street Independant [sic] Church, Philadelphia
- Description
- Exterior view of the First Independent Church, later renamed Chambers Presbyterian Church, built 1831 at the northeast corner of Broad and Sansom streets. Also shows a partial view of an adjacent building and pedestrian traffic. Pedestrians include a couple with a child and two men greeting one another. Also contains amateur ink-drawn and hand-colored modifications. Retouches show fire hoses in front of the buildings leading to firefighters using a hand-pumper to fight a blaze in the background. Some pedestrian figures also altered with firefigher hats and capes. The church, altered in 1853 to include a front portico, housed the independent congregation of Rev. John Chambers. Congregation admitted to the Presbytery in 1873., Inscribed on recto: S.A. Jackson; see p. 81., Title annotated with a slash through the "a" in "Independant.", Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 64, Originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 4, page 85. 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.
- Creator
- Town, E.
- Date
- [ca. 1850]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Churches and meetinghouses [(4)2526.F.85]
- Title
- [Ruins of William C. Patterson & Co.'s bonded warehouse, South Front and Lombard Streets, Philadelphia]
- Description
- Rooftop view looking east showing men standing on rubble and ruins, formerly the bonded warehouse complex of William C. Patterson & Co. built in 1854 at Front and Lombard Streets, after a fire on August 4, 1869 destroyed thousands of barrels of whiskey stored there. Intact row houses facing Penn Street are visible in the background, including the rear of Denison, Kelly & Co. at 424 South Delaware Avenue (i.e. 425 South Penn Street). The bare masts of a ship on the Delaware River are also visible in the right background., Title supplied by cataloger., Advertisement printed on verso: Richmond & Co. first-class furniture, warerooms, 45 South Second St., Philadelphia., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- [ca. 1869]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Fires and firefighting [P.9742]
- Title
- Terrible conflagration and destruction of the steamboat "New Jersey," on the Delaware River, above Smith's Island, on the night of March 15th, between 8 and 9 o'clock, in which dreadful calamity over 50 lives are supposed to have been lost
- Description
- Dramatic view of the steamboat, its nameplate visible, engulfed in flames and smoke, as the passengers escape into the icy river. Panicked passengers huddle, jump and dive into the water already teeming with disaster victims. The river-bound men and women bob; swim; and lie on, attempt to stay upon, and assist others onto cakes of ice and debris. In the lower right of the image, a rowboat containing a rower and a man holding a baby as well as a victim hanging on to the rear of the vessel arrives at the nearby wharf. The rescuer hands the limp baby to its mother, next to whom a man stands with a look of concern. In the left background, signage for "Baths" adorns the riverbank. 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., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 745, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 19:33
- Date
- 1856
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W366 [P.2202]
- Title
- Brud's block, Toledo, O. Burned Feb. 23d 1868
- Description
- View showing the block of storefronts covered in ice following a fire. Also shows spectators gathered on the street corners near horse-drawn carts and wagons., Yellow mount with square corners., Title from manuscript note on verso., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- February 1868
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - non-Philadelphia - Ohio [5739.F.7b]
- Title
- The darktown fire brigade - saved!
- Description
- Comic print using racist imagery to satirize African American men firefighters. Shows a brigade of eight African American firefighters during a rescue of an African American family from a burning wooden house. Flames and smoke extend from the right side of the roof of a two-story residence. In the center foreground, two firefighters, one not wearing a helmet, hold open a striped blanket. A woman attired in a white nightgown and holding her gown down with one hand and a fan with the other is midair and about to drop, feet first, into it. In the left, another firefighter runs out of the doorway of the building and with a woman over his shoulder. She wears a white cap and night gown. In the right, a fourth firefighter sprays water from a hose into the body of a man in a white nightshirt stuck in a hole in the roof. His head and chest poke through the hole and his legs project out through an upper floor window. The firefighter uses a hose that extends from a fire engine marked "Niagara."It is being pumped by four other firefighters in the right background. The firefighters stand on barrels and push the lever of the water pump on the engine. In the far right distance, another firefighter attends to a donkey. The firefighters are attired in red shirts, blue pants, and black boots. Four men wear helmets, one man wears a top hat, and two men are bare-headed. The men and women figures are portrayed with wide eyes and lips, and large feet. The rescued family members are bare foot. The Darktown series of over 100 prints was originally issued mid 1870s-1890s. Thomas Worth was the artist of several of the prints in the reported popular and profitable series. Joseph Koehler reissued the prints in the early 1900s., Title from item., Reprint of number from "Darktown" comics series originally published in 1884. Joseph Koehler purchased over 200 lithographic stones, including the "Darktown" series, from the Currier & Ives firm following its dissolution in 1907., Contains copyright statement: Copyright 1884, By Currier & Ives, N. Y.
- Creator
- Currier & Ives
- Date
- [ca. 1907]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Genre - Darktown [P.2019.55.4]
- Title
- 1227-1229 Market St. after the great fire at Hunt, Wilkinson + Co's 1212-19 Market St., [Philadelphia, PA]
- Description
- Glass negative showing a view of a collapsed building at 1227 Market Street. A building with a sign reading "1229 Freihofer's Central Branch" stands with broken windows to the left. A sign reading "D.C. Humphrys Co. Signs, 13 N. 13th St." rest on top of the rubble., Originally housed in negative box inscribed “Bought 12/27, 1899.”, 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
- October 25, 1901
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [*P.2013.13.558]
- Title
- Conflagration of the steam boat New Jersey on the Delaware River opposite Philada March 15th 1856 in which 60 persons lost their lives
- Description
- Shows, in the distance, clouds of smoke rising from the Philadelphia and Camden Ferry Co. steamboat under the winter night sky as rowboats race to and from the wreck. In the foreground, two survivors sit and cling to cakes of ice near floating debris. In the right of the image, her sister ferry "Dido" travels to the rescue, the ship's reflection visible in the water. 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 the result of defective boilers. 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., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 154, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 83 N 548, See reduced variant "Conflagration of the steam boat New Jersey on the Delaware River opposite Philada. March 15th 1856 in which 50 persons lost their lives" [LCP Wainwirght 82, P.2026]
- Creator
- Heiss, George G.
- Date
- [1856]
- Location
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 83 N 548
- Title
- Ruins of St. Augustines Church North 4th Street Phila. Destroyed by a mob on the evening of the 8th of May 1844. [graphic] / L.F.
- Description
- Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Date
- 1844.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W322.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W322 [P.2182]
- Title
- In commemoration of the great parade of the Philadelphia Fire Department October 16th 1865 [graphic] : Dedicated to the Philadelphia firemen and their visiting brethren / on stone by Jas. Queen; designd. by Schell; P.S. Duval & Son lith. Philada.
- Description
- Copyrighted by Barclay & Co., Commemorative print containing a portrait of Chief Engineer David M. Lyle; three vignettes including a view of the Citizens Volunteer Hospital, a horse drawn steam engine, and fire fighters battling a blaze; and a list of fire companies who participated in the parade.
- Creator
- Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist. P.S. Duval & Son, lithographer., creator
- Date
- c1865.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W181.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W181 [P.2272]
- Title
- Terrible conflagration and destruction of the steam-boat "New Jersey," [graphic] : 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
- Copyrighted by A. Pharazin., Date of publication supplied by Wainwright., Dramatic view of the steamboat engulfed in flames and smoke, the captain still at the helm as the passengers, including African Americans, escape for their lives into the icy river. Panicked passengers jump into the water already teeming with disaster victims 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 frantically and desperately throw a rope to a woman standing afloat a cake of ice. 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 the result of defective boilers. 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.
- Date
- [[1856]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W478.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W478 [P.2252]
- Title
- Dr. Jayne's Building, Carter's Alley, March 5th 1872
- Description
- Views looking east, one from Third Street, at the rear elevation of the fire-ravaged Jayne building with ice hanging from its exterior. One of the images includes a partial view of the cast iron front of 117 South Third Street in the foreground. Dr. David Jayne, a chemist and Philadelphia manufacturer of patent medicines, moved into an eight story building at 84-86 Chestnut Street (i.e., 242-244 Chestnut Street), between 2nd and 3rd Streets in 1850, after it was completed after designs by William J. Johnston and Thomas Ustick Walter. His business occupied the building until his death in 1866. It burned on March 5, 1872., Titles and photographer's imprint from manuscript notes on versos., Yellow mounts with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Bell began his photographic career in 1848 working for his brother-in-law's daguerreotype studio in Philadelphia and thereafter was associated with many commercial studios as partner or sole proprietor. He served as the chief photographer for the U.S. Army Medical Museum in 1865 and replaced Timothy O'Sullivan on George M. Wheeler's survey of the territories west of the 100th meridian in 1872. He returned to Philadelphia, went into business with his future son-in-law William Rau in 1875, and was active in the photography community until his death in 1910.
- Creator
- Bell, William, 1830-1910, photographer
- Date
- March 5, 1872
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bell - Fire Ruins [8281.F.1-2]
- Title
- 715-17-19 Arch Street after fire of 2/23/1900
- Description
- Glass negative showing the five-story building at 715-719 Arch Street owned by Marriott C. Morris' father Elliston P. Morris with damage to the upper stories from a fire. Telephone wires run between the building and the shorter building to the left. The fire started on February 23, 1900 at 721-723 Arch Street and spread to the buildings on either side., 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
- March 24, 1900
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [*P.9895.8.13]
- Title
- 715-17-19 Arch Street after fire of 2/23/1900
- Description
- Glass negative showing the five-story building at 715-719 Arch Street owned by Marriott C. Morris' father Elliston P. Morris with damage to the upper stories from a fire. Telephone wires run between the building and the shorter building to the left. The fire started on February 23, 1900 at 721-723 Arch Street and spread to the buildings on either side., 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
- March 24, 1900
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [*P.9895.8.14]
- Title
- [Fire] Ruins of 715-19 Arch St. from Garner's window, [possibly] 710 Arch, [Philadelphia]
- Description
- Glass negative showing Marriott C. Morris' father Elliston P. Morris' severely damaged building at 715-719 Arch Street. The pillars of the front facade stand. Piles of rubble lay in front of the ruins. The damaged buildings on either side are visible, and an undamaged building is visible behind the ruins in the background. The fire began in the elevator shaft of Morris' building on the night of January 26, 1886, and spread down Arch Street and onto Cherry Street., Time: A.M., 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
- January 26, 1886
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.821]
- Title
- [Ruins of 715-19 Arch St. from Garner's window. Possibly 710 Arch, Philadelphia]
- Description
- Glass negative showing Marriott C. Morris' father Elliston P. Morris' severely damaged building at 715-719 Arch Street. The pillars of the front facade stand. Piles of rubble lay in front of the ruins. The damaged buildings on either side are visible, and an undamaged building is visible behind the ruins in the background. The fire began in the elevator shaft of Morris' building on the night of January 26, 1886, and spread down Arch Street and onto Cherry Street., Same as last., Time: A.M., 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
- January 26, 1886
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.822]
- Title
- Front of father's building 715-719 Arch St., the morning of the fire, [Philadelphia]
- Description
- Glass negative showing Marriott C. Morris' father Elliston P. Morris' severely damaged building at 715-719 Arch Street. The pillars of the front facade stand. Piles of rubble lay in front of the ruins. The fire began in the elevator shaft of Morris' building on the night of January 26, 1886, and spread down Arch Street and onto Cherry Street., Photographer remarks: Taken with Geo. N. Latham's camera. Overtimed., Time: A.M., Light: No sun., 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
- January 26, 1886
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.815]
- Title
- [Fire] Ruins of 715-19 Arch St. from [George S.] Harris [& Sons, lithographers] 2nd story, [Philadelphia]
- Description
- Glass negative showing Marriott C. Morris' father Elliston P. Morris' severely damaged building at 715-719 Arch Street. The pillars of the front facade stand. Piles of rubble lay in front of the ruins. The fire began in the elevator shaft of Morris' building on the night of January 26, 1886, and spread down Arch Street and onto Cherry Street., Time: A.M., 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
- January 26, 1886
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.817]
- Title
- [Fire] Ruins of 715-19 Arch. From a window of [George S.] Harris [& Sons, lithographers] 2nd story, [Philadelphia]
- Description
- Glass negative showing Marriott C. Morris' father Elliston P. Morris' severely damaged building at 715-719 Arch Street. The pillars of the front facade stand. Piles of rubble lay in front of the ruins. The fire began in the elevator shaft of Morris' building on the night of January 26, 1886, and spread down Arch Street and onto Cherry Street., Time: A.M., Farther E. than last., 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
- January 26, 1886
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.819]
- Title
- [Ruins of 715-19 Arch. From a window of (George S.) Harris' (& Sons, lithographers) 2nd story, Philadelphia]
- Description
- Glass negative showing Marriott C. Morris' father Elliston P. Morris' severely damaged building at 715-719 Arch Street. The pillars of the front facade stand. Piles of rubble lay in front of the ruins. The fire began in the elevator shaft of Morris' building on the night of January 26, 1886, and spread down Arch Street and onto Cherry Street., Same as 819., 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
- January 26, 1886
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.820]
- Title
- Destruction by fire of Pennsylvania Hall. On the night of the 17th May, 1838
- Description
- Exterior view of Pennsylvania Hall engulfed in flames. A large crowd looks on. Fire fighters spray water on an adjoining building. Pennsylvania Hall was constructed 1837-1838 at Sixth and Haines Streets in Philadelphia as a meeting place for local abolitionist groups. Dedication ceremonies began on May 14, 1838 and continued over several days in a climate of growing hostility. On the night of May 17, 1838, a mob stormed the Hall and set it on fire. Fire companies refused to fight the blaze, and the building was completely destroyed. Bowen issued this print commemorating the event within a few days of the fire., Title from item., Artist and publication information supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 179, Gift of Mrs. S. Marguerite Brenner, 1984., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
- Creator
- Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), approximately 1804-1846, artist
- Date
- [1838]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W94 [P.9057.27]
- Title
- United Firemen's Insurance Company, Philadelphia. Office no. 723 Arch Street Insure buildings household furniture & merchandise generally from loss by fire. C.B. Andress prest. W.A. Rolin tresr. W.H. Fagen secy
- Description
- Advertisement containing a firefighting scene to promote the insurance company chartered April 2, 1860 by members of old volunteer fire departments. Shows several volunteer companies of firefighters racing past Independence Hall to a fire on the south side of Chestnut Street. In the foreground, a police officer waves to volunteers commandeering a hose carriage and horse-drawn steam engine that is chased by a dog. The hose truck is attached to a fire hydrant. In the distance, spectators run toward the fire where other firefighters use a steam engine to battle the flames., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 773, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Society Collection - Posters & Broadsides - Advertisements - Miscellaneous Folder 2 - United
- Creator
- Boell, William
- Date
- [ca. 1866]
- Location
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Society Collection - Posters & Broadsides - Advertisements - Miscellaneous Folder 2 - United
- Title
- Ruins of the National Theatre, s.e. cor. of Chestnut and Ninth St
- Description
- Watercolor showing a view of the ruins of the National Theatre built in 1837 at 824-836 Chestnut Street, which was razed by fire on July 5, 1854. Shows partial fragments of the brick walls left standing. A broadside or poster is pasted on a fragment of the brick wall in the center. Bricks and debris are visible on the ground. Partial view of unburnt adjacent building in the left and in the background. The fire also destroyed the neighboring Philadelphia Museum known as the Chinese Museum built circa 1836-1838 after the designs of Isaac Holden at Ninth and Sansom Streets. The museum served as an exhibition space including the display of Nathan Dunn's Chinese artifact collection, and as a concert, public meeting, and lecture space., Title and date from manuscript note on accompanying mount., Manuscript on the note reads "R.H. Wells" but is likely mistaken and probably should read "C.H. Wells" who created many sketches for Charles A. Poulson., Originally part of Poulson scrapbook of illustrations of Philadelphia.
- Creator
- Wells, C.H., (Charles H.), approximately 1832-1884, artist
- Date
- March 1857
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *drawings & watercolors - Wells [P.8756.11]
- Title
- The great conflagration in Philadelphia on Tuesday July 9th 1850 Terrific explosion of saltpetre [sic] in Water Street. Houses destroyed by the fire 500 _ Killed 57_Wounded 115_ Loss of property over one million of dollars
- Description
- Disaster scene showing the commotion in front of the partially destroyed stores of John Brock & Co., and Gordon and Berger at 39 (i.e., 100 block) North Water Street. People hold a crowd back as fire fighters attend to the collapsing building spewing a cloud of smoke. A family, including a mother and child, flee past fire fighters rushing to a fallen comrade as debris falls down upon them. Also shows a man kneeling near the Vine Street Wharf as another stands in the center of the view with his arms up in the air. The explosion emanated from a fire started by the friction of a hoisting-machine igniting a large store of gunpowder and saltpeter in the Brock, and Gordon and Berger building. The blaze that spread about one square mile between Front and Callowhill streets destroyed actually about 367 houses and stores. Several people were blown into the Delaware River and residents evacuated as a result of the explosion., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 329, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 83 P 544, Rosenberg, a landscape, portrait, and figures painter, worked in New York and Philadelphia during the 1850s and 1860s.
- Creator
- Rosenberg, Charles G., artist
- Date
- c1850
- Location
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 83 P 544
- Title
- At a fire. What boys may expect when they get in firemen's way
- Description
- One of a series of satires mocking the ineptitude of Philadelphia volunteer firefighters. Shows a volunteer, in full uniform, spraying a boy bystander in the face, instead of a crumbling, burning building, with a fire hose. Fire house is attached to a hand-pumper visible in the background. Also shows fire debris, a hose attached to a hydrant, other fire fighters attending the fire engine, and the storefront of "F. Adams.", Philadelphia on Stone, POS 253d, Harrison & Weightman was a partnership between Henry G. Harrison and William N. Weightman., Variant of P.8970.11., Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - The Fireman (Cartoons)
- Date
- c1858
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Fires and Firefighting [P.8970.14]
- Title
- America Fire Engine Co. of the city of Philadelphia
- Description
- Fire company membership certificate containing two side panel views, vignettes, and firefighting iconography. The left panel shows firefighters running from the fire house on Buttonwood Street, below Third Street. Two men stand lookout on the tower above the house, as others pull the fire engine from the garage. The right panel shows the fire company attempting to extinguish the January 14, 1869 fire caused by an explosion of a steam boiler at the southeast corner of Ninth and Chestnut Streets. Flames shoot from the top of three adjacent businesses on land formerly occupied by the Burd Mansion including, Howell & Brothers, paper hanging (900 Chestnut Street); J.M. Hafleigh, dry goods (902 Chestnut Street); and J.F. & E.B. Orne, carpets & oil cloths (904 Chestnut Street). The center vignette, below the membership text, depicts a man standing in front of the two horses that are hitched to a carriage pulling the fire company's engine. At the top of the certificate, American and Pennsylvania flags flank the image of lady liberty sitting on the wing of an eagle. With a lightning bolt in her left hand, she floats above a banner that reads "Allways [sic] ready and willing to assist". Fire fighting equipment, including a helmet, engine, and bugles, are drawn as decorative elements interspersed with the side panel views. Also contains the company's number "No. 9" and institution date, April 10th 1790. Incorporated on April 13, 1844., Not in Wainwright., Signed by Thomas F. Moore, president, and Frank Jacoby, secretary., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 16, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Certificates - Fire Companies - American Fire Engine
- Date
- [ca. 1870]
- Location
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Certificates - Fire Companies - American Fire Engine
- Title
- Ice scenes after the burning of the Jayne Building on March 5, 1872, Philadelphia
- Description
- Series of views entitled "Jaynes building after the fire" and "Scene in street the day after the burning of Dr. David Jayne's building." Views look east showing the rear elevation of the fire-ravaged Jayne building with ice hanging from its exterior. One image also shows buildings on the north and south sides of Carter's Alley, men standing with shovels on a mound of ice in the alley, and in the distant right background, a business sign for "trusses" at 220 Carter's Alley. Dr. David Jayne, a chemist and Philadelphia manufacturer of patent medicines, moved into an eight story building at 84-86 Chestnut Street (i.e., 242-244 Chestnut Street), between 2nd and 3rd Streets in 1850, after it was completed after designs by William J. Johnston and Thomas Ustick Walter. His business occupied the building until his death in 1866. It burned on March 5, 1872., Titles written in manuscript notes on labels pasted on versos., Photographer's label pasted on versos., Initials "H.F.O." and "No. 3" written in manuscript note on verso on one item [P.8548]., Yellow mounts with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- R. Newell & Co.
- Date
- [ca. 1872]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Fire Ruins [P.8548 and P.9082.5]
- Title
- [Fire] ruins part of Father's & May's property, No. 721 Arch [Street, Philadelphia]
- Description
- Glass negative showing two severely damaged buildings at 715-721 Arch Street. In the right, a small section of the frame of Marriott C. Morris' father Elliston P. Morris' building stands. In the left, the front wall of the fire-gutted building stands. Signs reading "S. May & Bro., 721 Straw and Millinery Goods" and "Metropolitan Straw Works, 723" adorn the remaining facade. Piles of rubble cover the ground. The fire began in the elevator shaft of Morris' building on the night of January 26, 1886, and spread down Arch Street and onto Cherry Street., 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
- January 26, 1886
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.818]
- Title
- [700 block of Arch Street with fire ruins of Morris building]
- Description
- Glass negative showing a view of the 700 block of Arch Street with Marriott C. Morris' father Elliston P. Morris' building in ruins on the right. Horse-drawn carts travel down the brick street lined with trolley tracks and people walk down the sidewalk., 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
- 1886
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.59.2]
- Title
- Good Intent Hose, Hook & Ladder Company of Philadelphia
- Description
- Fire company certificate containing a large central vignette of fire fighters with fire fighting vehicles in front of the State House in Philadelphia surrounded by six smaller vignettes depicting the company's three fire stations (dating 1804, 1848, and 1860); fire fighters battling blazes at T. Morris Perot's drug store (located on 600 block of Market Street, burned December 3, 1868) and at a block of rowhouses; and fire engines. Different era company firemen in uniform stand to either side of the central scene. At the top an eagle holds an empty oval frame and a bundle of fire fighting equipment including ladders, axes, and a bullhorn., Issued to Thaddeus L.Butcher [who] was duly elected a member...April 5th, 1859. Signed by W.B.R. Selly, president, and Frank Gallen, secretary., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 318/319, Duval and Hunter was a partnership between Stephen C. Duval (P.S. Duval's son) and Thomas Hunter that lasted from P.S. Duval's retirement in 1869 until 1874., Gift of Maxwell Whiteman., Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Fire Companies. FLP copy contains portrait photograph.
- Date
- ca. 1870
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Certificates - Fires and fire fighting [6532.F]
- Title
- Good Will Fire Company of Philadelphia
- Description
- Fire company certificate containing vignettes depicting fire fighters extinguishing a blaze at the Union League of Philadelphia (burned September 7, 1866); the Good Will fire station; and a horse-drawn fire engine. Fire fighting equipment including a fire hat, a ladder, an axe, and other tools are drawn bundled together to form decorative elements on both sides. Pictorial elements are divided by a twisting fire hose. A company ambulance resting upon two intertwining American flags appears above the text., Not in Wainwright., Issued to William H. Urian on October 12, 1868. Signed by Lewis B. Heins, president, and John M'Cullough, secretary., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 319, Gift of Maxwell Whiteman., Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Fire Companies. FLP copy tinted with two stones.
- Creator
- Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
- Date
- ca. 1867
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Philadelphia certificates - Fires and fire fighting [6526.F]
- Title
- Washington Hose Company of Philadelphia [certificate]
- Description
- Fire company certificate containing vignettes depicting fire fighters arriving at a fire at J.F. [i.e. J.E.] Caldwell & Company's store at 902 Chestnut Street (burned January 14, 1869); the company fire station on Lombard Street, east of 11th Street; and fire fighters pulling a fire engine past University of Pennsylvania buildings on 9th Street. Fire fighting equipment including a fire hose, a ladder, an axe, a bullhorn and other tools are drawn bundled together to form decorative elements on both sides. A small oval photographic portrait of a fireman is pasted above the text., Not in Wainwright., Issued to William H. Taylor on January 6, 1871. Signed by David B. Baker, president, and Joseph J. Ryan, secretary., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 820/821, Duval and Hunter was a partnership between Stephen Orr Duval (P.S. Duval's son) and Thomas Hunter that lasted from P.S. Duval's retirement in 1869 until 1874., Gift of Maxwell Whiteman.
- Creator
- Bosch, A. H., lithographer
- Date
- ca. 1870
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Philadelpia certificates - Fires and fire fighting [6530.F]
- Title
- Washington Hose Company of Philadelphia
- Description
- Fire company certificate containing vignettes depicting fire fighters arriving at a fire at J.F. [i.e. J.E.] Caldwell & Company's store at 902 Chestnut Street (burned January 14, 1869); the company fire station on Lombard Street, east of 11th Street; and fire fighters pulling a fire engine past University of Pennsylvania buildings on 9th Street. Fire fighting equipment including a fire hose, a ladder, an axe, a bullhorn and other tools are drawn bundled together to form decorative elements on both sides. A small oval portrait of George Washington adorns the top., Not in Wainwright., Issued to William G. Myers on April 6, 1871. Signed by David B. Baker, president, and [Joseph J. Ryan], secretary., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 820/821, Duval and Hunter was a partnership between Stephen Orr Duval (P.S. Duval's son) and Thomas Hunter that lasted from P.S. Duval's retirement in 1869 until 1874.
- Creator
- Bosch, A. H., lithographer
- Date
- ca. 1870
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Certificates - Fires and fire fighting [P.9303.11]
- Title
- Mechanic Fire Engine Company
- Description
- Fire company certificate containing five vignettes: "The Old Engine House"; "View of Steamer" illustrating a steam-powered fire engine; "Race By Moonlight" depicting two groups of fire fighters pulling fire equipment racing down a city street; the new fire house located on Brown Street, east of 15th Street; and "Burning of Maguire's Mill" depicting fire fighters extinguishing a blaze at Maguire's planing mill on Ridge Road (burned October 12, 1870). Additional decorative elements include an eagle grasping a bundle of fire fighting equipment including a fire hose, ladders, and an axe; and two company fire hats., Not in Wainwright., Issued to John A. Supplee on April 6, 1871. Signed by Daniel R. Erdmann, president, and Edwin J. Cress, secretary., Duval and Hunter was a partnership between Stephen Orr Duval (P.S. Duval's son) and Thomas Hunter that lasted from P.S. Duval's retirement in 1869 until 1874., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 464
- Date
- ca. 1871
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **Philadelphia Certificates - Fires and fire fighting [P.9303.12]
- Title
- [The Morro Castle (ship), near Asbury Park Convention Hall, New Jersey]
- Description
- Depicts the SS Morro Castle in the Atlantic Ocean near the piers of the Convention Hall in Asbury Park, New Jersey. A barge rides beside the once-luxurious cruise ship, possibly towing it away from the coast to be dismantled., The SS Morro Castle was a cruise ship built in 1929 for the New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Company, also known as the Ward Line, to operate between New York City and Havana, Cuba. On September 8, 1934, the ship caught fire on its way to New York and beached at Asbury Park, New Jersey., The Asbury Park Convention Hall was constructed ca. 1923 after designs by the New York architectural firm Warren and Wetmore., Gift of Emily Riese., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
- Creator
- Davis, Eugene H., photographer
- Date
- ca. 1935-1936
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Davis [P.9332.9]
- Title
- At a fire. What boys may expect when they get in firemen's way
- Description
- One of a series of satires mocking the ineptitude of Philadelphia volunteer firefighters. Shows a volunteer, in full uniform, spraying a boy bystander in the face, instead of a crumbling, burning building, with a fire hose. The fire hose is attached to a hand-pumper visible in the background. Also shows fire debris, a hose attached to a hydrant, other fire fighters attending the fire engine, and the storefront of "F. Adams.", Philadelphia on Stone, POS 253d, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Harrison & Weightman was a partnership between Henry G. Harrison and William N. Weightman., Variant of P.8970.14., Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - The Fireman (Cartoons)
- Date
- c1858
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Fires and Firefighting [P.8970.11]
- Title
- [Ruins of the Hall]
- Description
- Depicts the burnt ruin of the abolitionist meeting place at Sixth and Haines Streets in Philadelphia. Several white men and women pedestrians walk on the sidewalk. The hall was erected in 1838 as an arena for "free discussion." On May 17, 1838, after 3 days of interracial dedication ceremonies and services, hostile mobs set the hall on fire. The ruin continued to stand until the Odd Fellows Society built a hall on the lot in 1846., Title from P. Lee Phillip's, "A Descriptive list of maps and views of Philadelphia in the Library of Congress, 1683-1865" (Philadelphia: Geographical Society of Philadelphia, 1926), p. 49., Originally published in: [Samuel Webb's], History of Pennsylvania Hall. (Philadelphia: Printed by Merrihew and Gun, 1838). Last page contains advertisement for a limited supply of larger frameable versions of the plate to be sold at the Anti-Slavery Office, No. 29 N. 9th Street, in Philadelphia., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of engravings related to Philadelphia. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Creator
- Gilbert, Reuben S., engraver
- Date
- [1838]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Ph Pr-8x10-Associations-Pennsylvania Hall [(6)1322.F.98c]
- Title
- [Destruction of the hall]
- Description
- Depicts a street scene with the abolitionist meeting place, Pennsylvania Hall, engulfed in flames at Sixth and Haines Streets in Philadelphia. Crowds, including a group of drunken men and other revelers, look on as several fire companies using handpumps hose the adjoining spared building. The hall, erected in 1838 as an arena for "free discussion," was set on fire by a mob of hostile citizens who had witnessed 3 days of interracial dedication ceremonies and services. For disputed reasons, the fire companies did not attempt to extinguish the burning hall. The building was razed and never rebuilt., Title from: [Samuel Webb's], "History of Pennsylvania Hall," p. 136., Manuscript note on verso: Destroyed by a mob by fire on the night of 17th May 1838., Originally published in: Samuel Webb's History of Pennsylvania Hall. (Philadelphia: Printed by Merrihew and Gun, 1838). (Am 1838 Hist Pa Hall). Last page contains advertisement for a limited supply of larger frameable versions of the print to be sold at the Anti-Slavery Office, No. 29 N. 9th Street, in Philadelphia., LCP exhibition catalogue: Negro History #101., Accessioned 1979., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.LCP exhibit catalogue: Negro History #101., Sartain, a member of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society and a premier 19th century Philadelphia engraver, often instilled his work with his reformist beliefs.
- Creator
- Sartain, John, 1808-1897, engraver
- Date
- [1838]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department PhPr - 8x10 - Events - Fires [P.2283.2]