Depicts the driver, Henry Brenster, seated and holding the reigns and a whip in the number 16 horsecar at Sixth and Jackson Streets. The uniformed conductor stands next to Brenster and another man stands on the cobblestone street next to the vehicle. Two stalled white horses are attached to the car and wear blinders. A young boy stands on the sidewalk at the corner of the intersection, near brick row homes that line the street., Title, location, and imprint date from manuscript note on verso of duplicate., Gift of Emily Riese., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator
Davis, Eugene H., photographer
Date
1894
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Davis [P.9332.1]
Depicts J.H. Davis seated in the drivers position holding the horses' reigns in the number 20 horsecar, operated along the Fifth & Sixth Street line, also known as the Frankford-Southwark Passenger Railway. Four men and a boy stand near the car as it exits a carbarn at Fifth and Jackson Streets., Title, description, and location from manuscript note on verso., Gift of Emily Riese., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator
Davis, Eugene H., photographer
Date
1894
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Davis [P.9332.15]
Depicts John Davis seated in the drivers position holding the horses' reigns in the number 12 horsecar, operated along the Fifth & Sixth Street line, also known as the Frankford-Southwark Passenger Railway. A uniformed conductor stands next to Davis and five men, including one policeman, stand near the car as it exits a carbarn at Fifth and Jackson Streets. A sign attached to the car above the windows reads: "Lincoln Park on the Delaware, Steamers every 45 minutes, Race and Christian St. Wharves. 3 concerts daily", Gift of Emily Riese., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator
Davis, Eugene H., photographer
Date
ca. 1894
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Davis [P.9332.16]
Exterior view of the front and east elevations of the three-story brick row houses at 2146-2148 Green Street. Includes the side entrance of the corner property and a street lamp. Two women, three girls, and a baby in a carriage pose on the corner. Also shows a partial view of a horse-drawn streetcar (labeled "40" on the rear) turning the corner and heading east on Green Street., Title from manuscript note on verso., Initials and date from manuscript note on verso: J.B. 9/10/61., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
September 10, 1861
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Streets [P.9751.1]
View showing the "dwelling house" hotel built on Walnut Street between 33rd and 34th streets for the Centennial Exhibition in 1876. Guests stand on the porch of the twenty-six house hotel and elegantly dressed men, women and children stroll the grounds in front of the hotel. The house number of each of the twenty-six properties, from 3300-3350, is labeled above the roof line. A Chestnut and Walnut Street streetcar filled with passengers travels east as horse-drawn carriages and coaches travel in both directions on Walnut Street. The hotel, built on inexpensive land considered undesirable for a permanent hotel, was composed of rows of several houses that were to be later sold or leased as individual dwellings. During the Centennial Exhibition, Hotel Aubry accommodated about 50,000 people between April and November of 1876., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 364
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW-Hotels [P.2008.34.25]
