Active scene showing the pleasure garden resort conceived by Philadelphia lawyer Peter A. Browne that was built 1828 in the style of a Chinese pagoda after designs by John Haviland on the 2400 block of Fairmount Avenue. Couples stroll on the veranda. Horse-drawn sulkies race near a man on horseback and a boy running in the foreground. Also shows horse-drawn carriages parked in a stable. The resort failed circa 1829 and was soon demolished., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 538, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 81 H 388, Copy contains repairs to missing sections of lower edge and lower right corner, including retouches.
Creator
Bridport, Hugh, 1794-ca. 1868, artist
Date
[1828]
Location
Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 81 H 388
Carrier's greeting containing a view looking northeast from the intersection of Broad and Filbert streets showing the temple built 1868-1873 after the designs of Freemason and Philadelphia architect James H. Windrim at 1-33 North Broad Street. The new hall was erected to accommodate the local lodges increasing membership. Also shows street and pedestrian traffic, including a horse-drawn carriage, a man on horseback, and strolling couples., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 502.2
Creator
Wynkoop, John J.
Date
[ca. 1873]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Associations [P.8970.23]
View looking northeast from the intersection of Broad and Filbert streets showing the temple built 1868-1873 after the designs of Freemason and Philadelphia architect James H. Windrim at 1-33 North Broad Street. The new hall was erected to accommodate the local lodges increasing membership. Also shows street and pedestrian traffic, including a horse-drawn carriage, a man on horseback, and strolling couples., Not in Wainwright., Title supplied by variant P.8970.23., Distributed by frame seller and agent Alex. M'Cune., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 502.1
Creator
Wynkoop, John J.
Date
[ca. 1873]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Associations [P.2008.34.26]
Bird's eye view of the exhibition building, the Art Gallery or Memorial Hall, designed by Herman Schwartzmann. View includes heavy visitor traffic by foot and carriage in the foreground. Couples stroll the grounds, enter the hall, converse, and are transported by carriage. Also shows a fountain in the right of the image. The fair celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Copyrighted by the Centennial Board of Finance., Probably by Louis Aubrun., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 25, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator
Aubrun, Louis, artist
Date
c1874
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Centennial [5225.F.4]
Bird's eye view of the Main Building designed by Henry Pettit and Joseph M. Wilson. View includes heavy visitor traffic by foot, carriage, and omnibus in the foreground. Couples stroll the landscaped grounds, enter the hall, converse, and are transported by carriage. Landscaping includes clusters of bushes and a partial view of a path in the right of the image. Also contains the dimensions (length, width, and area in feet and acres), in the lower corners, for the buildings. The fair celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Copyrighted by the Centennial Board of Finance., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 449, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator
Aubrun, Louis, artist
Date
c1874
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Centennial [5225.F.5]
Advertisement showing the four-story hotel opposite the race bridge of the waterworks. Guests stand and walk on the verandahs, roof deck, and observatory tower, and are visible in the entranceways of the hotel. A horse-drawn omnibus filled with passengers passes and a horse-drawn dray is parked across from barrels in front of the building. The back of a coach is also visible under an adjacent passageway. The hotel was often used as a meeting place by the boat clubs nearby on the Schuylkill River. Also shows adjacent businesses. Hotel razed circa 1868., Not in Wainwright., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 653
Creator
Lehman, George, d. 1870, artist
Date
[ca. 1833]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Hotels, Inns and Taverns [6484.F]
View showing two men and a horse-drawn tank wagon transporting oil between Millerstown and Pittsburgh stopped in front of a passing West Penn Rail Road locomotive. The tank wagon rests on a platform leading to railroad tracks near a sign inscribed, "Look out for the locomotive." Another tank wagon turns at a fork in the road in the distance. Also includes a residence in the background. Clothes drying on a clothesline in the backyard of the residence are visible. Oil tank wagons were used following the continual destruction of pipe lines by Pennsylvania Railroad Company workers., Buff mount with rounded corners., Title and publisher's imprint printed on verso., Brief history of the conflicts caused by the transport of oil from the fields to storage tanks printed on verso., Digitized for AMD: Global Commodities., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Robbins, Frank, b. 1846
Date
[ca. 1875]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Robbins - Industry [P.9276.60]
Photograph of a lithograph showing the Main Exhibition Building designed by Henry Pettit and Joseph M. Wilson for the Centennial fair, which celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art. View includes heavy visitor traffic by foot, carriage, and omnibus in the foreground. Couples stroll the landscaped grounds, enter the hall, converse, and are transported by carriage. Landscaping includes clusters of bushes., Title from inscription on print., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Green mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Gift of Ms. Jane Carson James.
Creator
Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date
[ca. 1876]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Exhibitions [P.9299.30]
View showing one of the two factories operated by the lamp, chandelier, and gas fixture factory. The multi-storied factory, marked "Cornelius & Baker," extends down most of a city block and contains a cupola adorned with a weather vane and a smaller adjoining building. Also shows street traffic, including a horse-drawn carriage and omnibus. A couple also strolls on the sidewalk. Cornelius & Baker was founded in 1835 and operated 2 factories and a storefront by the 1850s. The firm was succeeded by Cornelius & Sons in 1869., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Sept. 59., One of two views of Cornelius & Baker's factories published as plates in Description of the establishment of Cornelius & Baker, manufacturers of lamps, chandeliers & gas fixtures, Philadelphia (Philadelphia: J.B. Chandler, Printer, 306 Chestnut Street, 1856?) (LCP Am 1856 Corne (17160.O.15)). Both views issued as a separate print on a single sheet by P.S. Duval & Son's lithographers (LCP P.2023 *BW-Industry)., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 145
Date
[1859]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Industry [P.2024b]
Advertisement showing a funeral possession led by an empty hearse passing by the two-and-one-half story residential business front of undertaker "P.R. Schuyler." A sign with the name of the proprietor and illustrated with a coffin adorns the arbor adjacent to the building. Trees line the sidewalk on which a lady, holding a parasol, strolls. She precedes the first (and fully visible) horse-drawn carriage in the procession on the cobblestone street. Also shows partial views, predominately roof and upper windows, of neighboring and surrounding buildings. The hearse driver wears mourning attire including a top hat with ribbon., Title from duplicate in the collections of the Atwater Kent Museum., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: [illegible] NE cor. Beaver & 4th. Aug. 1847., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 537, LCP copy trimmed and lacking title in English and German., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator
Rease, W. H., artist
Date
ca. 1848
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W261 [P.2151]
View looking west possibly from below Tenth Street. Shows the commercial street, including a bath house, possibly Silas H. Rowland at 1013 Chestnut Street. Lampposts adorn a building and the sidewalk in the foreground. Horse-drawn carriages and wagons travel the street and several pedestrians walk on the sidewalks., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Buff mount with rounded corners., Title inscribed in negative., Gift of Robert M. Vogel., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Campbell, Alfred S.
Date
c1896
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Campbell - Streets - Chestnut [P.9117.3]
Stock certificate containing a vignette of a horse-drawn carriage and wagon traveling on a road near a country estate and a pictorial element of "textured" filigree surrounding the incorporation date. Company incorporated 1852 to build a toll road linking South Penn Township and Germantown., Issued to Samuel Welsh for ten shares on June 11, 1857. Signed by Jno. Welsh, president; and Jas. Stuber, treasurer., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 153, Gift of Mrs. Nicholas B. Wainwright.
Date
[ca. 1855]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Philadelphia Certificates - Transportation [P.9408.3]
Advertisement depicting a bird's eye view looking northwest at Robert Buist's enclosed nursery and greenhouses on Twelfth Street, south of Lombard Street. Two long rows of hotbed frames extend west from Twelfth Street and run the length of Rodman Street behind a three-story building marked "140" (a preconsolidation address). Men and women stroll along the central walk that separates the two rows of hotbed frames inside the grounds, accessed from Twelfth Street by the entrance gate adorned with the proprietor's name "R. Buist". Outside of the nursery, several men and women converse on the sidewalk. One of the men holds a driving whip, and is presumably the driver of the stalled horse-drawn carriage in front of the entrance. Another driver stands in front of a team of horses pulling a covered cart, grasps the reins, and leads them along Rodman Street toward a man attempting to rein in a rearing horse. Also shows men, women, children, and dogs on the sidewalk. A few trees dot the empty landscape behind the nursery. Buist established his business in the late 1820s, which was known as Robert Buist Company well into the twentieth century., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 790, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator
Hoffy, Alfred M., b. ca. 1790, artist
Date
1846
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W423 [P.2261]
Advertisement showing the four-story, three-bay building tenanted by the china, glass and queensware business of Wm. P. Hacker at 60 (ie. 108) North Second Street. Pitchers, vases and bowls in various shapes and sizes are stacked on shelves lining the walls of the shop interior, and are also displayed in the storefront window, which is flanked by two wide doors on the ground level. In the left doorway, a man lifts a barrel using a pulley system running all the way to the top floor of the building. Another worker loads hampers onto a horse-drawn dray. Barrels and hampers line the sidewalk and cobblestone street in front of the shop. Signboards marked "china, glass" and "queens-ware" cover the front facade of Hacker's shop. Also shows bits of the interior of adjacent properties, including the stairway in 58 North Second Street (left) and casks (presumably of wine) in 62 North Second Street (right). A man and woman stroll by arm in arm on the sidewalk. William P. Hacker moved his business to several nearby properties on North Second Street, starting out at 64, moving to 62 and then inhabiting 60 in 1851. Hacker was president of the Philadelphia Common Council from 1855 to 1856., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Aug. 1848., Wainwright suggests date of circa 1851., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 814, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator
Rease, W. H., artist
Date
[ca. 1848]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W439 [P.2264]
View showing the 1100 block of Market Street, including the Farmers' Market and several storefronts. The Farmer's Market was the largest of several market houses constructed in 1859 after market sheds and stalls were removed from Market Street. Street scene includes a variety of parked horse-drawn carts and wagons, strolling pedestrians, and horse-drawn omnibuses traveling the street., Title supplied by cataloguer., Half of mounted stereoview., Yellow mount with square corners., Misidentified on mount: 19th and Market Sts., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., See clipping in Poulson's scrapbook vol. 1, pg. 57., Digitization 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 - Streets [(8)1322.F.51c]
Advertisement with a street scene showing "Bennett's Tower Hall Clothing Bazaar." Signage and a flag adorn the tower-shaped storefront in front of which two men converse and ladies approach. Also shows heavy street activity. Two horse-drawn omnibuses travel near an unusually-designed "Tower Hall Clothing Bazaar 518 Market St." wagon and a drayman stopping his dray of goods in front of the store. The "West Philadelphia" omnibus is filled with passengers and a lady departs from the rear of the "Hestonville Market Street Camden Ferry" vehicle. Also shows adjacent buildings. Established at this address in 1849, named Tower Hall in 1853, renumbered as 518 Market Street in 1856 (formerly 182 Market Street)., Not in Wainwright., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Dec. 1858., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 37, Originally part of a Poulson scrapbook of illustrations of Philadelphia.
Date
[1858]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Business [P.2017]
Advertisement showing the multi-story factory on the 800 block of Cherry Street. A tower and American flag adorn the building in which workers are visible at a number of the open windows. At the far left end of the building, a wagon travels near a man carrying a basket and through an archway to the courtyard. A horse-drawn wagon is parked near the main entrance of the factory. The entry contains the name of the firm and a small stoop adorned with iron work. At the corner, a boy with a light fixture walks past a lamppost, as in the street, a horse-drawn wagon travels behind a carriage occupied by three gentlemen. The vehicle is drawn by two agitated horses that the driver attempts to settle. At the east side of the building, two gentlemen converse and another horse-drawn wagon drives down the street. Also shows a woman strolling past a tree at the adjacent corner, and neighboring buildings. Cornelius & Baker was founded in 1835 and operated 2 factories and a storefront by the 1850s. The firm was succeeded by Cornelius & Sons in 1869., Published in Colton's atlas of America, illustrating the physical and political geography of North and South America... Commercial edition with business cards of prominent houses in Philadelphia. (New York: J.H. Colton and Company, 1856) (HSP O 458), Philadelphia on Stone, POS 161, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 38 C 814b., Also included as one of two images of separately issued print. See **W86.
Creator
Rease, W. H., artist
Date
[1856]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W88 [P.2038]
Exterior view of the two-story Gothic hall adorned with battlements, pointed windows and doors, and a 180-feet-high wood steeple. Constructed between 1808 and 1811, purportedly after the designs of William Strickland, adjacent to brick row houses on the north side of Chestnut Street. Pedestrian traffic in front of the hall includes three men conversing on the sidewalk, a couple strolling by, two ladies walking arm-in-arm, and an older woman moving with a basket balanced on her head. A fancy horse-drawn carriage moves west along Chestnut Street. The hall, rebuilt in 1820 following a fire the previous year, was demolished in 1853., Transcription of inscription on corner stone of building included on recto., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 460, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc05 S917.
Creator
Chillas, David, artist
Date
c1853
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W229 [P.2130]
View looking northeast from the intersection of Dock, Third, and Walnut streets showing the Merchants’ Exchange (143 S. Third) built between 1832 and 1833 after the designs of William Strickland. Men walk around, and horse-drawn omnibuses arrive and are parked in front of, the building. Light pedestrian traffic is visible in the street and at the corners, including near the office of the Saturday Courier (72 Dock, pre-consolidation). Also shows streetcar tracks in the foreground and another omnibus passing Girard National Bank (116-120 S. Third) in the background., Copyrighted by J. T. Bowen., Originally published as plate 3 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 472.3. Digital image shows the fourth state., 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 W232.3 [Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Rush)]
View looking northeast from the intersection of Dock, Third, and Walnut streets showing the Merchants’ Exchange (143 S. Third) built between 1832 and 1833 after the designs of William Strickland. Men walk around, and horse-drawn omnibuses arrive and are parked in front of, the building. Light pedestrian traffic is visible in the street and at the corners, including near the office of the Saturday Courier (72 Dock, pre-consolidation). Also shows streetcar tracks in the foreground and another omnibus passing Girard National Bank (116-120 S. Third) in the background., Originally published as plate 14 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 472.4, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2092 and in *Am 1848 Wild 3007.Q (Poulson) and in *Am 1848 Wild 1514.F and in *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 W232.4 [P.2092]
Advertisement showing the Schweitzer and Grim brewery complex on the 1100 block of Columbia (i.e., Cecil B. Moore) Avenue. Complex includes a three and half–story red brick office building and shop with two adjacent entrances. A man enters one of the entrances, and at the other, two men shake hands while a couple approaches the walled entryway to an addition attached to the rear of the office. The addition also contains a roofed porch area. To the left, a two-horse team is visible at the opening of a passage in the wall that spreads between the brew house (left) and addition (right). A man with a child, and a couple, walk on the sidewalk near the passageway. A weather vane, smoke stacks, and slatted windows adorn the brew house. Smoke rises from the stacks and steam pours out of the window slats. In the foreground, a “Tenth & Eleventh Street" horse-drawn omnibus picks up passengers, a four-horse team truck loaded with barrels departs the brewery, and a couple in a horse-drawn carriage and a man on horseback travel., pdcp00037, Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Breweries, Waeschle operated from 142 North Third Street 1867-1868., Trimmed.
Date
[ca. 1868]
Location
Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - Breweries
Advertisement showing the U-shaped factory complex for “Chas. A. Smith. Barbers Supplies” established in 1866 at the southwest corner of Jefferson and North Randolph streets. The factory buildings are adorned with several windows, smokestacks, skylights, and signage including one reading “Barber’s Furniture and Supplies.” At the corner, a horse-drawn carriage is parked in front of the office entrance of the complex. In the left, several pedestrians walk along the side of the factory and horse-drawn wagons and carriages travel in the street. Wagons also travel through the passageway into, are parked within, and transport furniture away from the fenced courtyard to the complex. Also shows a few men walking, and the hood of a utility building marked “China Decorating,” in the yard. Blocks of cityscape are visible in the background., pdcp00043, Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 28, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Factories, etc.
Date
[ca. 1880]
Location
Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - Factories, etc. - S
Vignette view of the Girard House hotel built 1851-1852 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr., at 823-835 Chestnut Street. Pedestrians walk at the street corner near the hotel while a horse-drawn carriage and omnibus travel near a coach parked in front of the building., Not in Wainwright., Date from manuscript note on recto: Philada. 1872., pdcp00006, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana – Streets – Chestnut - 8th-9th
Date
1872
Location
Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - Streets - Chestnut - 8th-9th
View showing the educational institution built 1824-1826 after the designs of John Haviland at 320 South Broad Street. Trees are visible in the courtyard. Near the street intersection, a driver leads a horse-drawn cart loaded with goods, a horse-drawn omnibus travels, and a man rides on horseback. On the sidewalks across from the institution, two gentlemen converse and two woman stroll next to a neighboring building that is enclosed by a wall., Manuscript note on mount: c. 1850., pdcc00001, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 9:62
Creator
Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813
Date
[ca. 1850]
Location
Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Photograph Collection. FLP Castner 9:62
Sheet music cover containing a street scene with the Gothic-style hall built 1853-1855 after the designs of Sloan & Stewart at 713-721 Chestnut Street. Also shows slight views of adjacent businesses, including Washington House hotel (709-711) and heavy pedestrian and street traffic. On the sidewalk, men and women stroll and convene in conversation. In the street, a horse-drawn omnibus filled with passengers and a carriage with passengers travel past two men on horseback and couples crossing the street near a dog. Building sold circa 1873 following the completion of the new Masonic Temple on North Broad Street., Dedication: Dedicated to the order in commemoration of the opening of the their New Hall in Chesnut [sic] St. Philada., Not in Wainwright., Price printed on recto: 5., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 870, Johns Hopkins University: Levy Collection Box 178, Item 133
Date
c1855
Location
Johns Hopkins University | Special Collections at the Sheridan Libraries. JHU Levy Collection Box 178, Item 133, http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/catalog/levy:178.032
Sheet music cover containing an exterior view, during the evening, of the temporary main building of the exhibition held under the auspices of the Franklin Institute (September 2 to October 11, 1884) at the 3200 block of Lancaster Avenue. Also shows the adjacent old Pennsylvania Railroad Station used as a display annex. A covered overpass connects the buildings. Light shines through the several windows of the main building adorned with Gothic towers. Visitors walk the grounds of both buildings and horse-drawn buggies and an omnibus travel in the street. Also includes an inset depicting a round electric light bulb. The exhibition of about 2,000 exhibits included historical and electrical displays, an extensive library, as well as the first public demonstration of a vacuum tube., Not in Wainwright., Price printed on recto: 4., Probably printed by Burk & McFetridge. See "The Exhibition. Lithograph Chart-Ordinance Display-Visitors and Commissioners," Philadelphia Inquirer, July 31, 1884., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 283, Johns Hopkins University: Levy Collection Box 165, Item 026
Date
c1884
Location
Johns Hopkins University | Special Collections at the Sheridan Libraries. JHU Levy Collection Box 165, Item 026, http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/catalog/levy:165.026
Sheet music cover containing an exterior view of the Main Building of the exhibition celebrating the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art. Visitor traffic, on foot, and by carriage and omnibus, traverse the paths of the grounds around the building designed by Henry Pettit and Joseph M. Wilson. Landscaping includes clusters of bushes and trees., Not in Wainwright., Price printed on recto: 5., Copyrighted by Lee & Walker., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 871, Johns Hopkins University: Levy Collection Box 164, Item 074
Date
c1875
Location
Johns Hopkins University | Special Collections at the Sheridan Libraries. JHU Levy Collection Box 164, Item 074, http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/catalog/levy:162.115
Advertisement showing the busy "Car Factory & Bolt Nut & Washer Works," of John Murphy and J. C. Allison, also proprietors of the Girard Tube Works, who established a partnership in 1851 at 1908 Market Street. A completed rail car and a horse-drawn double decker omnibus depart from the sign-covered factory and "Office of the Girard Tube Works." A worker labors on a rail car in an upper window, a man on horseback stops near the entrance to the "Blacksmith Shop," and clusters of pedestrians walk in front of the works. A small crowd flanks the omnibus that is adorned with illustrations of rail cars as it leaves the factory bay. In the foreground, men and boys, across from two men shaking hands, inspect an ornately painted "City Passenger R.R." car on display in the street in front of the factory. Nearby, a boy admires an elegantly dressed lady while a newsboy hawks a paper to a gentleman on promenade with two ladies who pass a woman, possibly attired in mourning garb. Murphy & Allison assumed proprietorship of Girard Tube Works, manufacturer of wrought iron gas tubes, in 1856 and began construction of cars for the City Passenger Railways circa 1857. The firm made several improvements to the cars including adding more head room and lamps to the center of car roofs and in front of the overshoots., Not in Wainwright., Annotated in stenciled letters below title: DESTROYED BY FIRE SATURDAY MAY 3. 1863 AT 3-AM., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 494, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 35 M 978, Label pasted on verso: Purchased at auction from Freemans May 20, 1959 Library Fund., Rease, a prolific lithographer of advertising prints, relocated his studio to 4th and Chestnut in 1857.
Creator
Rease, W. H.
Date
[ca. 1857]
Location
Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 35 M 978
Advertisement showing the four buildings of the wholesale department (organized 1866) of the business established by Thomas Leedom and Adam Shaw in 1865. Laborers load and hoist rolled carpets into company wagons and carts in the street and in a courtyard. Carpets dry on racks on the roof of a small building bordering the courtyard. Also shows street and pedestrian traffic, including horse-drawn wagons hauling crates, barrels, and wood slabs, and several pedestrians on promenade. Robert and Arthur Stewart joined the firm in 1869, which remained in business until 1885., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 433, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 35 L 484, Longacre & Co. operated at 30 & 32 S. 7th Street in 1871.
Creator
Blanc, Albert, artist
Date
[ca. 1871]
Location
Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 35 L 484
Advertisement for Daniel Mershon's Sons heating and ventilating warehouse at 1203 Filbert Street. Shows busy street and pedestrian traffic in front of the four-story red brick warehouse heavily adorned with signage and a "Russian Heater Works" flag at the northwest corner of Twelfth and Filbert streets. Signs advertising patent airtight heaters, grates, registers, ventilators, fireplace heaters, ranges, slate mantels, and house warming and cooking ranges are visible near the doorway and in the show windows of the storefront. Stoves, ranges, and fireplaces are displayed in the windows and on the sidewalk. Laborers load heating equipment into a store delivery wagon marked "Prepare for Winter" as a patron leaves the store near a policeman standing at the corner of the building. Several pedestrians wearing heavy coats, hats, and muffs walk in the street and on the sidewalks near several horse-drawn vehicles, including sleighs and a "Twelfth Street Passenger Railway" streetcar. Also shows partial views of horse-drawn wagons and of neighboring buildings in addition to a man on horseback. The business, established as Fink, Potts & Savoy in 1838, was known for the "Mershon" Patent Shaking Grate" and was renamed Daniel Mershon's Sons following the death of the original successor, Daniel Mershon, in 1865., Not in Wainwright., Filbert St. and Twelfth St. printed below the image as key., Copyrighted by H.H. & Geo. Mershon. Original letter of copyright held in the Print and Picture Collection of the Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa. Copyright letter No. 2333A. [Oversize Philadelphiana - Factories & Foundries (A-M)]., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 846, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 38 M 574, Longacre & Co. operated at 30 & 32 S. 7th Street in 1871.
Creator
Blanc, Albert, artist
Date
[ca. 1871], c1870
Location
Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 38 M 574
Advertisement showing the exterior of the six-story brownstone and print shop owned by lithographer Haehnlen at 420 Library Street. Signage advertising the "lithographic establishment" adorns the doorway, front, and side of "Goldsmith's Hall." Building also adorned with large display windows and an eagle above the entranceway. View includes street and pedestrian traffic. Pedestrians walk on the sidewalk, stand in doorways, and enter the shop. In the street, horse-drawn wagons and drays, including one hauling crates marked "J.H.," pass in the street near a man pushing a hand-cart loaded with crates. Shop included salesrooms and offices, a machine shop, a drying room, lithographic presses, and card, handbill, and pamphlet printing presses. Haehnlen established his own studio at Goldsmith's Hall in 1866 and operated his business from all but the first floor. He sold his shop to the firm Lehman & Bolton in 1870. Building destroyed by fire on December 20, 1882., Not in Wainwright., Published in Philadelphia southern steamship manufacturers and mercantile register (Philadelphia: M'Laughlin Brothers, 1866) [LCP Am 1866 Phi Sou Mai, 62062.O]. Accompanying page of text references the relocation of the shop and advertises "Orders received for Furniture Labels for Druggists, on Glass; also, Show Cards of all descriptions, on Glass executed to order., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 48, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Prints - Stores & Factories - Box 57, Folder 2, Accompanying page of text
Creator
Haehnlen, Jacob, b. 1824
Date
[1866]
Location
Historical Society of Pennsylvania | Print Department | HSP at LCP HSP Prints - Stores & Factories - Box 57, Folder 2
Quirky advertisement showing heavy street traffic in front of the clothing store, designed as a medieval tower, at 518 Market Street. Patrons and pedestrians gather near the entrance of the store across from a saddled horse and a dray loaded with crates parked in front of the building. Other street traffic includes a stopped "Hestonville, Market Street, Cambridge Ferry" omnibus from which a lady departs from the rear while a chariot-like horse-drawn vehicle advertising "Tower Hall Clothing Bazaar Market Street" passes her. The unique vehicle is followed by an ornately painted "West Philadelphia" street car crowded with passengers, including men seated on the roof beside the driver. Also shows neighboring buildings. Joseph M. Bennett opened his clothier establishment in 1849, which he named Tower Hall in 1853., Title supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, Atwater Kent Museum: 88.98.393/2, Trimmed. Varnished.
Date
[ca. 1859]
Location
Atwater Kent Museum | Print Department AKM AKM 88.98.393/2
Advertisement with heavy street activity showing the manufactory at 1601 North Sixth Street for the firm founded by Benjamin J. and J. Lewis Crew and Stephen R. Rogers in 1860. Shop laborers load barrels onto a horse-drawn cart parked in front of the laboratory and unstack and shift crates and barrels that line the sidewalks. A company horse-drawn wagon passes in the street. Other traffic includes horse-drawn drays, a "Frankford & Southwark" street car, and elegantly-attired women and men crossing from and to street corners. Also shows a company wagon entering a bay and a dray entering a storage yard at the factory. Surrounding buildings, including probably the warehouse at the lumber yard of Jacob and George A. Binder (6th & Oxford), are visible in the background., Inscribed on recto: About 1854. Used during Civil War 1863-1865 as U.S. laboratory under charge of Prof. John M. Maisch. Maisch was a professor at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and secretary of the American Pharmaceutical Association., Philadelphia on Stone, Atwater Kent Museum: 88.98.423/90
Creator
Rease, W. H.
Date
[ca. 1860]
Location
Atwater Kent Museum | Print Department AKM AKM 88.98.423/90
Advertisement showing an exterior view of the brewery complex operated as Peter Schemm & Son 1887-1908 that was originally built in 1855 and expanded between 1885 and 1887. The depicted red brick buildings include the brew house, storerooms, office building, and carriage house. The roofs are adorned with a cupola, smoke stacks, an American flag, and a weather vane. One building also contains a date marker (1885). Pedestrians, including boys in baseball uniforms and a family, walk in front of the brewery. Workers convene near the entrance and handle horses at and depart with drays and wagons at driveways and cartways of the complex. A laborer pushes a handcart past several large barrels lining the sidewalk near an idle truck and a man on horseback riding in the street. A Schemm delivery wagon loaded with barrels drives past the brewery on Poplar Street across from street cars approaching and departing from the adjacent block, West College Avenue. At the opposite corner, pedestrians walk past a curved brick wall behind which a tree stands and a couple in the street wave to a male passenger at the front of the approaching street car. Neighboring buildings are visible in the background. Also contains an inset titled “City Office, 238 Race St.” showing a patron entering the building with signage advertising “Office of Schemm’s Brewery” and “C.A. Widmayer.” Barrels are piled on the sidewalk across from a man talking to another man in a militia uniform. Pictorial elements in the upper right and lower left include a full beer mug, a Schemm’s Standard Lager beer bottle, twigs of barley and hops, and a banner reading “Lager Beer” (right) and a beer cask marked “P. Schemm & Son Brewers” (left)., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 171, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 31 S 323
Creator
Mueller, A. M. J., artist
Date
[ca. 1887]
Location
Historical Society of Pennsylvania | Print Department | HSP at LCP HSP Bc 31 S 323
Advertisement showing heavy pedestrian and street activity in front of the large, prominent hotel built 1860 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr. at 824-838 Chestnut Street. A group of men gathers at the entrance of the hotel. Several pedestrians walk and peruse shop windows on the block in front of the building. Street traffic includes promenading couples, a woman walking a dog, a delivery boy, a First City Troop officer, carriages, an omnibus, and men on horseback. Also shows adjacent buildings and the brick wall across the street adorned with an arched window below a sign indicating "Chestnut St." (site of the Shippen-Burd residence, demolished circa 1862). Trees stand in front of and behind the wall., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 157, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 32 C 762
Date
[ca. 1860]
Location
Historical Society of Pennsylvania | Print Department HSP Bc 32 C 762
Printer: Lithograph by T. Sinclair., Cover illustration is a chromolithograph, with hand-coloring including an ornate border containing American flags, vinery, and a vignette showing the Philadelphia coat of arms. Depicts the Continental Hotel, built 1857-1860 after designs by John McArthur, Jr., at the southeast corner of Ninth and Chestnut Streets. Also shows street and pedestrian traffic, including horse-drawn carriages, an omnibus, and couples on promenade., Schottisch., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 159, Free Library of Philadelphia Music Department holds copy., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator
Perry, Oscar P., composer
Date
c1860
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *Sheet Music Continental P.9303.3, http://www.lcpimages.org/wainwright/W084.htm
View showing the gatehouse, designed by Thomas Ustick Walter, to the cemetery chartered 1849 near Diamond and Twenty-Fourth streets. Street and pedestrian traffic is visible in the foreground. Men, women, and children walk and stand on the sidewalk to and in front of the gatehouse. In the street, a carriage and wagon pass as several individuals ride on horseback, including a man fending off a barking dog raised on his hind legs. Also shows trees, a chapel, and a monument on the cemetery grounds. Cemetery removed 1951. Per contemporary published accounts, architects Hoxie & Button designed the gatehouse constructed., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 518, See Ballou's Dollar Monthly Magazine (April 1860), p. 316.
Creator
Hoffy, Alfred M., b. ca. 1790, artist
Date
c1849
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Cemeteries [P.8613]
Panoramic view of two of the exhibition buildings - the Main Exhibition Building and Machinery Hall designed by Henry Pettit and Joseph M. Wilson. View shows crowds of visitor traffic by foot, carriage, and on horseback in the foreground. Visitors include individuals in native costume, couples, children, and a mother pushing a pram. A tree partially obstructs the view of Machinery Hall in the right of the image. The fair celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Copyrighted by Pettit & Wilson., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 451, Gift of David Doret.
Creator
Camp, John Henry, 1822-1881
Date
c1876
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Centennial [P.2007.36.3]
Bird's eye views of two of the exhibition buildings - the Art Gallery or Memorial Hall designed by Herman Schwartzmann and the Main building designed by Henry Pettit and Joseph M. Wilson. Views include heavy visitor traffic by foot, carriage, and omnibus in the foreground. Also contains the dimensions of the buildings in the lower left corner. The fair celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Copyrighted by the Centennial Board of Finance., Gift of David Doret., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 26
Creator
Aubrun, Louis, artist
Date
c1874
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Centennial [P.2006.28.7]
Advertisement in Spanish, English, and French for the Bush Hill Iron Works originally established by Oliver Evans in 1809 and operated by Neall, Matthews & Moore 1846-1854. Shows the bustling complex of several buildings and grounds littered with cylinders, tubes, castings and a pile of coal around which several laborers toil. The workers transport machinery by horse-drawn cart, hoist cylinders onto a dray, hammer castings, push handcarts, fuel the furnace, and labor in the workshops. Also shows a man entering the "Neall & Matthews" office. Image surrounded by decorative border. Contains several lines of advertising text below the titles promoting the products of the works, including cylinders, steam engines, boilers, mills, pans, hammers, anvils, and castings; the efficiency of two Air-Furnaces to fill roll orders "without delay"; and "all orders for machinery or castings thankfully received and promptly executed." James Neal retired in 1854 and Matthew and Moore carried on the business until 1870 when James Moore assumed sole proprietorship. The iron works constructed machinery for some of the leading rolling mills of the United States during the 19th century., Inscribed on recto: Compliments of William Volmer 3/20/[18]99., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 500, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 35 N 348
Creator
Rease, W. H., artist
Date
[ca. 1853]
Location
Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 35 N 348
Centennial music cover page paired with six different songs. Cover page is bound with the song Grand Centennial march by E. Mack with this copy [11479.F (Zinman)]., Cover page copyrighted by J.E. Ditson & Co., Song copyrighted by Lee & Walker., Publisher's advertisement on last page for Oliver Ditson & Company., Cover illustration is a lithograph depicting an exterior view of the Main Building of the exhibition celebrating the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art. Visitor traffic, on foot, and by carriage and omnibus, traverse the paths of the grounds around the building designed by Henry Pettit and Joseph M. Wilson. Landscaping includes clusters of bushes and trees., Printer: J.H. Bufford's Sons Lith., 141 Franklin St. Boston., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 94, Stamped on the cover page: Schaefer Bros. music dealers, Steubenville, O.
Creator
Mack, Edward, 1826-1882, cmp
Date
c1876, c1875
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *Sheet Music Cent 11479.F (Zinman)
View showing the Main Building designed by Henry Pettit and Joseph M. Wilson. View includes flags adorning the building and heavy visitor traffic by foot, carriage, and streetcars in the foreground. Couples stroll the landscaped grounds, enter the hall, converse, and are transported by carriage. Landscaping includes clusters of bushes. Also contains the dimensions (length, width, and area in feet and acres), in the lower corners, for the buildings. The fair celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 325
Date
1876
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Centennial [P.9210.12]
View of Girard College at Girard Avenue facing northwest from Corinthian Avenue including Founder’s Hall and the eastern and western outbuildings. Shows several figures walking the grounds of the school in addition to street and pedestrian traffic including horse-drawn carriages and coaches, men on horseback, promenaders, and a laborer pushing a hand cart. The college buildings, designed by Philadelphia architect Thomas Ustick Walter in the Greek Revival style, were constructed 1833-1847. Girard College was established through a bequest from Stephen Girard, a Philadelphia financier and philanthropist, for the creation of a school for "poor white orphans.", Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 307/308, Library of Congress: DLC PP 2001: 068 Girard College
Creator
Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date
[ca. 1845]
Location
Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC DLC PP 2001: 068 Girard College
Billhead for the refinery established between River Road, Peters Lane, and the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad in 1865 by Newhouse, Nusbaum & Co. in West Farimount Park. Contains central vignette view showing the refinery complex, including a Treating House, Engine House, Receiving House, offices, and dwelling houses for operatives. A horse-drawn wagon leaves the complex while a horse-drawn carriage traverses the road in front of it. On the riverbank, a man drives a team of mules near a promenading couple and a boat on the Schuylkill. In the background, a train travels and dwellings are visible on a hillside. The refinery operated until 1870 when the lot was purchased by the city for inclusion into Fairmount Park., Printed above title: Our Responsibility ceases when Oils leave Bonded Ware House., Digitized for AMD: Global Commodities., Trimmed., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., See also specimen of depicted vignette [P.9349.151o].
Date
[ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.136a]
Birds eye view looking south toward the city showing the Art Gallery or Memorial Hall designed by Herman Schwartzmann and the Main Building designed by Henry Pettit and Joseph M. Wilson. View includes flags adorning the building and heavy visitor traffic by foot, carriage, and streetcars in the foreground. Wooded areas enclose the buildings and cityscape is visible in the background. Also contains the dimensions (length, width, and area in feet and acres) for the buildings below the image. The fair celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 52, Library of Congress: PGA - Currier & Ives--Birds eye view of the Centennial Exhibition ... (A size) [P&P]
Date
c1875
Location
Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PGA - Currier & Ives--Birds eye view of the Centennial Exhibition ... (A size) [P&P]
Billhead of the Philadelphia druggist containing an exterior view of the four-story storefront, heavily adorned in signage, at the southeast corner of Market and Fifteenth Streets. Pedestrians walk on the sidewalk and a horse-drawn omnibus passes in the street. Print also contains two frame-shaped pictorial details. One surrounds a list of products, including white lead, window glass, sal soda, calcined plaster, and "pure wines & liquors for medicinal purposes" and the other, the text "E. C. Jones, Vermin Exterminator Has No Equal." Edward C. Jones & Co. was originally established as a firm by Amos Yarnell for whom Jones served as an apprentice 1860-1864. Jones became Yarnell's partner in the later 1860s and succeeded to the head of the firm in 1877. Jones retired by the early 1890s and W.H. Earl & Co. assumed the operations of the business until 1895 when taken over by A. Eugene De Reeves., Completed in manuscript to Joseph P. Remington on October 24, 1887 for varnish for $1.65., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date
[ca. 1880]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - Billheads 1880- (E-M) -E [P.2011.46.343]
Billhead of the Philadelphia druggist containing ornate lettering and an exterior view of the firm's storefront on Fifth Street. View also shows street and pedestrian traffic, including a horse-drawn omnibus and a man pushing a hand cart. Print also contains a pictorial detailed composed of a ribbon overlaid filigree and reading "All Claims to Be Reported Within Ten Days After Receipt of Goods." Terms of payment and shipping are also included. Russell & Landis relocated from the 400 block of Market and Fifth Street circa 1870., Completed in manuscript to F. P. Magraw on October 27, 1870 for $12.60., Stamped on recto: Paid Jul 19, 1904, E.K. Thompson & Son., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - Billheads -1879 (N-R) - R [P.2011.46.389]
Billhead of the Philadelphia firm containing ornate lettering and an exterior view of the business's six-story store front at 609 Market Street. View also shows crates in the second floor windows, a passing horse-drawn omnibus, and laborers loading crates onto drays. Joseph S. Bennett entered into the established business of Peter T. Wright & Co. in 1858, which was reestablished as Stretch, Bennett & Co. circa 1865. The firm was later succeeded by Joseph S. Bennett & Co., Completed in manuscript to Ebun Somers on January 21, 1867 for two items for $14.80., Manuscript note in pencil on recto: Pd by Cash. E. Pope., Manuscript note in ink on recto: Rec'd Payment Stretch Bennett & Co. pr Grigg., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date
[ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - Billheads -1879 (N-R) - R [P.2011.46.407]
Trade cards containing views of "Studebaker Platform Spring Truck. No. 281." and "Studebaker Platform Spring Coal Wagon. No. 481 " Views also show horse teams hitched to the vehicles, the drivers, and background scenery of a storefront and coal mill. One of the cards also contains vignette views of Stuebaker Bros. Mfg. main and branch buildings printed on the verso. Buildings depicted include "Carriage Works, South Bend, Ind."; "Factory & Repository, 203-205 Michigan Ave. Chicago"; and "Wagon & Spring Wagon Works, South Bend, Indiana." Views include street and pedestrian traffic. Strudebaker Bros., established in 1852 and incorporated in 1868, opened a Chicago factory in 1884. Other "Branch Houses" included New York City; San Francisco; Kansas City; Portland, Oregon; St. Joseph, Mo.; and Salt Lake City Utah., Title supplied by cataloger., 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.
Creator
Gray & Parker, artist
Date
[ca. 1890]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.60 & 61]
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