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Title: ASSU Illustration 7524
Description: Block numbered in two places: 7524, also 1688 on small adhesive label on back of block., Image of two girls, one entering a room from the outside through a door and the other seated inside; the latter holds flowers in her hands and sits in front of a bush or small tree, suggesting that she may be in an indoor nursery., "V. Grottenthaler, 402 Library St Phila." – Back of block. Vincent Grottenthaler is listed (as a dealer in boxwood) at this address in Philadelphia city directories from 1869 to 1876.
Date: [between 1869 and 1876?]
Location: ASSU Woodblocks -- Box 24

Title: View of Robert Buist's city nursery & greenhouses No. 140 South Twelfth Str. Phila. 1846. [graphic] / Taken on the spot & lithographed by A. Hoffy.
Description: Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator: Hoffy, Alfred M., b. ca. 1790 lithographer., creator
Date: 1846.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W423.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W423 [P.2261]

Title: [Scene with fence, garden, and buildings]
Description: Depicts a garden beyond a fence in the foreground, with buildings in the background., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 53a [P.8513.53a], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson53a.htm

Title: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society [certificate] Horticultural Hall stock
Description: Stock certificate containing the Pennsylvania coat of arms; an allegorical figure representing horticulture; an arrangement of flowers; and ornamental stamp and border. Issued in 1865 and 1866 to raise funds for the construction of a hall for the society on Broad Street between Spruce and Locust Streets. The hall, designed by Philadelphia architect Samuel Sloan, was completed in 1867., Not in Wainwright., Issued to Samuel Welsh for ten shares purchased for a total of $500 on November 7, 1866. Signed by W. L. Schaffer, president; and Henry A. Drew, treasurer., Contains blindstamp of the illustrated seal of the Horticultural Society of Pennsylvania. Illustrated with a man plunging a shovel into the dirt., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 165, Gift of Mrs. Nicholas B. Wainwright.
Date: [1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Philadelphia Certificates - Organizations [P.9408.10]

Title: Vick's Illustrated Monthly Magazine, $1.25 a year. Floral guide 10cts. James Vick, seedman, Rochester, N.Y
Description: Pictorial envelope advertising the horticulture periodical established in 1878 by printer and horticulturist James Vick. Contains a vignette composed of ornate details framing advertising text. Details include flowers, vinery, and foliage. "Vick's Illustrated Monthly" was issued 1878-1909., Title from printed return of address., Addressed to H.D. Rohrer, Lancaster, Pa., Contains a one-cent stamp printed in blue and depicting a profile portrait of Benjamin Franklin cancelled with ink-stamp postmark: Rochester, N.Y.., Manuscript notes in pencil on verso. Notes refer to deliveries of flowers., 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. 1878]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Envelopes [P.2011.10.91]

Title: [Cedar and oak trees on a private estate along the upper Delaware River]
Description: Depicts rows of cedar trees, a taller oak tree behind them, and part of a building's porch., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: 7 little cedar trees with an old oak forming the background. Note the inviting little entrance into the sylvan enclosure. Mayhap if one were a child, one could see fairies and sylphs disporting themselves in the moonlight within this little haven. Private estate along the upper Delaware., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 51 [P.8513.51], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson51.htm

Title: Mammoth Grape Vine in Santa Barbara
Description: Exterior view showing a mammoth grape vine with a man seated beneath. Also shows surrounding grape vines and shrubs with a partial view of a shed.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co., photographer., creator
Date: 1876
Location: Centennial album [P.8965.27d]

Title: Croston Nurseries, bought of J. G. Dannaker & Son, nurseryman, King-of-Prussia, Montgomery Co. Pa J. G. Dannaker. J. B. Dannaker
Description: Billhead containing a vignette showing a bushel basket of produce on a patch of grass., Completed in manuscript to Mrs. Anna Marris on November 10, 1876 for 6 apple trees @ 25: $1.50., Printed below image: [Pointed finger] Terms Cash. All claims for damages or deficiencies must be made within ten days after delivery. We guarantee all stock to be in good condition when delivered, after which no responsibility will be assumed by us except only when insured. All stock planted and insured to be paid for on the job being completed., 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. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Receipts [P.2011.10.137]

Title: At P[ennsylvani]a School of Horticulture, Ambler
Description: Film negative showing five women and one man standing among trees and other foliage in front of a three-story building at the Pennsylvania School of Horticulture for Women. Founded by Jane Bowne Haines (1869-1937) in 1911, the Pennsylvania School of Horticulture for Women was one of the first horticultural schools for women in the United States. It had a mostly female faculty and board and taught women skills including gardening, landscape design, beekeeping, botany, and more. The school started on the site of McAlonan farm in Ambler. The colonial farmhouse on the site served as the main classroom and office building. In 1958 it merged with Temple University Ambler and became coeducational., Originally located in negative album [P.2013.13a], 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: [1912]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.540]

Title: View of Robert Buist's city nursery & greenhouses No. 140 South Twelfth Str. Phila. 1846 Wholesale & retail horticultural & agricultural warehouse No. 84 Chesnut [sic] St. below 3d. St. south side. We invites an inspection of his stock either at his warehouse nurseries or seed farm. Seeds, fruit & ornamental trees, implements & books of every description for the garden, farm or pleasure ground. Orders promptly attended to & every article warranted to be what is represented
Description: 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]

Title: [University of Pennsylvania, entrance to Botanical Gardens, off Woodland Avenue, Philadelphia]
Description: View of iron gate and walkway extending into the distance between University of Pennsylvania buildings. Trees border walkway in distance., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: U. of P. Entrance to Botanical Gardens - off Woodland Ave., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 157 [P.8513.157], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson157.htm

Title: The Delaware County Society, for the Promotion of Agriculture, Horticulture, Manufactures, and the Mechanic and Household Arts
Description: Fair certificate containing vignettes and scenes related to farming, industry, and domestic work. Predominately contains farm images that show farmers reaping, plowing, and threshing fields, transporting a truck of hay near the coastline, scraping feathers from a goose on a table as a locomotive travels past in the distant background, and a woman milking a cow in the field. Industrial images include women working at sewing machines and operating mechanical looms; a printer at a press; a mill; and a hull of a ship under construction. Vignettes also show farm animals and produce; bakeware, cookware, and other implements to prepare food; and the figure of William Penn., Not in Wainwright., Issued September 1857 to J[ohn?] Davidson for H[orse?] General Scott 2 years old. James Andrews, President. Abram P. Morgan, Secretary., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 49, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 65 D 343, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Societies - Certificates
Date: [ca. 1857]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 65 D 343

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