J. Mason, informs her friends and those who may favour her with their patronage, that she has removed her seminary, to an open healthy situation, with every advantage of light and air, back of No. 86 Callowhill Street, between Second and Third Streets, wh
Title
J. Mason, informs her friends and those who may favour her with their patronage, that she has removed her seminary, to an open healthy situation, with every advantage of light and air, back of No. 86 Callowhill Street, between Second and Third Streets, where she continues to instruct girls in all the most useful branches of an English education
Description
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date
[ca. 1860]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Mason [P.9809.1]
Hall of the Spring Garden Institute : March 5th, afternoon and evening, evening, at half-past 7 o'clock; afternoon at 3. Sig. Blitz will give entertainments, as above, for the benefit of the Girls' Grammar School Fifteenth Ward. Admission--Adults, 25 cent
Title
Hall of the Spring Garden Institute March 5th, afternoon and evening, evening, at half-past 7 o'clock; afternoon at 3. Sig. Blitz will give entertainments, as above, for the benefit of the Girls' Grammar School Fifteenth Ward. Admission--Adults, 25 cents. Children, 13 cents Children, take your parents to see Blitz. Parents, take your children to see Blitz and his canary birds. ... The evening's entertainment will conclude with the celebrated Dance of six dinner plates on a common table, ... Lessons given by Sig. Blitz, of whom may be purchased a variety of family amusements, magical scrap books, &c. Instruction given in ventriloquism. Admission, 25 cents Children, 13 cents
Description
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator
Blitz, Antonio, 1810-1877
Date
[1863?]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB 1863 Blitz (27)5761.F.124b (McAllister)
[Girls High School class of 1900]
Title
[Girls High School class of 1900]
Description
Class portrait, including African American students, posed before the school at 17th and Spring Garden streets. The students sit on the front steps of the school and stand along the sides and at the top. Some hold and display personal mementoes. Established in 1848, the high school, located at Spring Garden from 1876 to 1958, was the first municipally funded secondary school for girls in the United States. The school relocated to 1400 West Olney Street in 1958., Right corner missing., Photographer's imprint ink stamped on verso., Title supplied by cataloger., Purchase 1991., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., 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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator
Broadbent Company, photographer
Date
[1900]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *group portrait photographs - education [P.9359]