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- Title
- [Wine & liquor store. Charles Egner 10 North Third Street, Philadelphia] [graphic] / On stone by W. L. Breton.
- Description
- Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Creator
- Breton, William L., creator
- Date
- ca. 1837.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W460.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W460 [P.2244]
- Title
- S. Tobias, importer & general dealer in wines, liquors, cordials and syrups, No. 68, North 3d. Street, above Arch, Philadelphia. [graphic] / Drawn on stone by Wm. H. Rease, No. 17 1/2 S. 5th. St.
- Description
- Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H., creator
- Date
- ca. 1846.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W325.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W325 [P.2183]
- Title
- B. Lieber, importer of brandies, wines, gins, brown-stout, scotch ale, No. 121 North Fourth Street between Vine & Callowhill Streets Philadelphia. [graphic].
- Description
- Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Date
- ca. 1847.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W022.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W22 [P.2015]
- Title
- [Sarah A. Wright's ale, porter & lager beer saloon, 5226 Ridge Avenue, Manayunk]
- Description
- Tree foliage obscures part of Sarah A. Wright's lager beer saloon, depicted here in an Italianate corner property at Ridge and Manayunk avenues., Modern reference prints available., Gift of Richard R. Frame.
- Creator
- Berry, Frank, b. 1863, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1907
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Berry [P.8986.13]
- Title
- White, Hentz & Co., refiners of spirits & importers of wines & liquours, 222 North Second Street Philadelphia, Penn
- Description
- Advertisement depicting the "front view" and "rear view" of the four-story storefront of the liquor business originally established in 1793 by Philip Wager. Barrels are visible in the first floor and rear of the establishment. Signage adorns the buildings. Also includes pedestrian traffic, a laborer, and partial views of the adjoining businesses. William R. White and J. Henry Hentz, Jr. assumed the business in 1849 and erected the 222 building in 1860. The business operated from the location until 1918., Probably engraved by John Serz., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Madelyn Wolke, Lucianne Reichert, and Clifford A. Mohwinkel Jr.
- Date
- [ca. 1870]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Serz [P.9773.96a]
- Title
- [Wines and liquors. Wholesale and retail store, northeast corner Second and Spruce streets]
- Description
- View looking north from below Spruce Street showing businesses occupying rundown rowhouses on the 200 block of South Second Street. Includes a wine and liquor store and the Plough Hotel. A stack of barrels rests near the entrance of the liquor store. Also shows the corner of Spruce and Water streets., Attributed to Henry B. Odiorne., Title supplied by cataloguer., Inscribed in negative: 31., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
- Creator
- Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer
- Date
- September 1860
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Odiorne - W [(7)1322.F.45a]
- Title
- Tally Ho. Alex. Kenney. 102 South Broad St., Philadelphia
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards depicting anthropomorphic frogs smoking, playing leapfrog, and wearing a beret and holding a paddle., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Kenney [1975.F.475-477; 1975.F.479]
- Title
- M.F. McDonough & Co., importers, No. 117 South Front St., Philadelphia
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting a scroll with the title inscribed superimposed onto two scenes, including a rose and diagonial border of rosettes and other geometric shapes and a snow-covered dwelling surrounded by bare trees., Title printed in purple ink., Letter printed on verso marked "Philadelphia, June, 1882" notifies M.F. McDonough & Co. patrons about the sale of "Eugene Clicquot" brand of champagne from France., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- 1882
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - McDonough [1975.F.626]
- Title
- [Fernberger Bros. trade cards]
- Description
- Series of illustrated stock trade cards promoting Fernberger Bros. liquor store at 1230 Market Street in Philadelphia depicting a man wearing a conductor's cap asleep on a train with his mouth open and his head in his left hand. A suitcase with the name of the business superimposed onto the side sits on the floor next to him. Also shows a couple, sitting cheek-to-cheek, reading a paper labeled "pure liquors for medicinal use". Solomon and Henry Fernberger operated their liquor and whiskey shop from 1230 Market Street between 1877 and 1902., Advertising text printed on rectos: "rock and candy rye whiskey, pleasing, healing and strengthening" and "wonderful in colds, throat and lung diseases"., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Fernberger [1975.F.301 & 302]
- Title
- [Geo. H. Vandike & Co., importer of wines & liquors], 630 Market St. Philada
- Description
- Advertisement, possibly from a circular or verso of tradecard, containing an exterior view of the four-story storefront. Gentlemen talk at the entrances of the building as laborers load a horse-drawn dray` and cart, parked in the street. First two numbers of address depicted in reverse on store. Also shows partial views of adjacent buildings., Not in Wainwright., Printer inferred from related tradecard. [P.9349.153f], Philadelphia on Stone, POS 295, Leonhardt operated from 114 S. 3rd Street 1867-1871.
- Date
- [ca. 1870]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.153i]
- Title
- Apprentices' Library
- Description
- Shows the expanded building of the library, formerly the Free Quaker Meetinghouse, built 1783 after the designs of Timothy Matlack and Samuel Price Wetherill at 500 Arch Street. Also shows partial views of the adjacent buildings, including a liquor store and a business adorned with an iron-wrought balcony. The library, the oldest free circulating library in the United States, was established in 1820 to aid in the knowledge of apprentices. Building housed the library 1841-1897 and was expanded in 1868 after the designs of Stephen Decatur Button., Photographer's imprint and title printed on mount., Lavender paper mount with rounded corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 11., Arcadia caption text: The Apprentices’ Library was founded in 1820 to provide young people free access to books. No idle reading of sensational fiction was done here. The board of managers reviewed every book before placing it on the shelf, with the goal of promoting “orderly and virtuous habits,” the diffusion of knowledge, and betterment of scientific skill. The library rented this building (designed in 1783 by Timothy Matlack and Samuel Price Wetherill) at 500 Arch Street from the Society of Free Quakers from 1841 until 1897, and provided separate reading rooms for girls and boys. This view dates to c. 1870.
- Creator
- Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.), photographer
- Date
- ca. 1870
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Simons - Libraries [(8)1322.F.5e-2]
- Title
- Maison Doree, No. 8 South Broad Street, Philadelphia. W.A. Clawson
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards depicting children at play, including two girls playing with a jack-in-the-box; two boys playing with a balloon and a dog; a boy playing a guitar and serenading a girl; and a boy and two girls dangling a cat toy on a string in front of their pet cat., Title from text printed on versos of three prints [1975.F.640-642]., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Clawson [1975.F.638; 1975.F.640-642]
- Title
- Church, Broad & Arch Sts., Phila. (Methodist) New Masonic Temple in the background
- Description
- View looking southeast at the Methodist Episcopal church constructed 1869-70 after designs by Addison Hutton. Shows the west front of the adjacent Masonic Temple built 1868-1873 after the designs of James H. Windrim, a coach parked in the right foreground, and the liquor store operated by Charles P. Collins at the northeast corner of Broad and Arch Streets., Title from two different manuscript notes on verso., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of David Doret.
- Creator
- R. Newell & Son
- Date
- [ca. 1873]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Religion [P.2010.6.18]
- Title
- Mayer, Strouse & Baum's continental bitters. No. 116 North 3rd St. Philadelphia Importers of wines, brandies, gin &c
- Description
- Tradecard containing a vignette of the "Continental Hotel, Philadelphia" at 824-838 Chestnut Street. View also shows street and pedestrian traffic, including horse-drawn carriages, an omnibus, and a man on horseback. Mayer, Strouse & Baum, was active 1861-1863. The hotel was built 1860 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 462, Stein & Jones established in 1859 was active under that name until the death of Stein in 1871.
- Date
- [ca. 1862]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.140g]
- Title
- Mayer, Strouse & Baum's continental bitters. No. 116 North 3rd St. Philadelphia Importers of wines, brandies, gin &c
- Description
- Tradecard containing a vignette of the "Continental Hotel, Philadelphia" at 824-838 Chestnut Street. View also shows street and pedestrian traffic, including horse-drawn carriages, an omnibus, and a man on horseback. Mayer, Strouse & Baum, was active 1861-1863. The hotel was built 1860 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 462, Stein & Jones established in 1859 was active under that name until the death of Stein in 1871.
- Date
- [ca. 1862]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.140g]
- Title
- S. Tobias, importer & general dealer in wines, liquors, cordials and syrups, No. 68, North 3d. Street, above Arch, Philadelphia
- Description
- Advertisement showing the four-story storefront adorned with signage on the 100 block of North Third Street. A patron enters one of the two open entryways at which a straw basket and wine cask are displayed across from a large-cask shaped sign. Sign reads "S. Tobias No. 68 Importer & Dealer in Wines Liquors Cordials and Syrups." At the other entryway, a laborer rolls a cask out the door near a worker entering the cellar. Within the store, the backs of a patron and a clerk are visible in the rear of the store in which shelves of liquor bottles, straw baskets, wine casks, and barrels are displayed on shelves, the floor, and the open display window. Other boxes, bottles, casks, and barrels are visible at the upper floor windows. Barrels and boxes, one marked "S. Tobias" line the sidewalk, near a street lamp in front of the store. Also shows partial views of the adjacent businesses and the signage adorning the storefronts of Charles M. Schott, dry goods (66 N. 3rd St.) and Scattergood & Whitall, druggists' glassware (70 N. 3rd St.). A clerk is visible working at a table through the doorway of Schott, and a pulley and boxes are visible within the open doorway of Scattergood & Whitall. Tobias tenanted the site starting in 1845 and renamed his business Soloman Tobias & Son in 1847., Date from Poulson inscription on earlier mount: Imperfect dup. impression. Dec. 1845., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 671, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H., artist
- Date
- [December 1845]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W325 [P.2183]
- Title
- [Wine & liquor store. Charles Egner 10 North Third Street, Philadelphia]
- Description
- Advertisement showing the busy four-story storefront for "Charles Enger Wine & Liquor Store." Two white gentleman converse near a row of stacked barrels within the store and two male workers, including an African American man, hoist a barrel at the second entranceway. In front of the open cellar to the building, a white man employee rolls one of several barrels lined on the sidewalk. To the left of the worker, three barrels stand upright and a white gentleman approaches. Also shows boxes in the first-floor store window; the shutters and windows of the upper floors in various states of being open; and partial views of the adjacent buildings., Poulson inscription on recto: N. Third St. Third Street. Oct. 1846., Title supplied by cataloger., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 845, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., LCP copy trimmed and lacking title., Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
- Creator
- Breton, William L., approximately 1773-1855, artist
- Date
- [ca. 1837]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W460 [P.2244]
- Title
- [Water Street at Spruce Street, Philadelphia.]
- Description
- View looking north from below Spruce Street showing several businesses occupying rundown rowhouses on the 200 block of Water Street. Depicts a wine & liquor store, boarding houses with taverns, and an oyster house, including Hughes Hotel and the Saffin House. Also shows a peddler with his basket posed at the street corner and a cart and horse in the background., Date and photographer's monogram inscribed in negative., Title supplied by cataloguer., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Published in Robert F. Looney's Old Philadelphia in early photographs, 1839-1914 (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1976), plate #26.
- Creator
- Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer
- Date
- September 1860
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Odiorne - W [(7)1322.F.37b]
- Title
- Christopher Gallagher. Wholesale liquor dealer 806 Lombard St
- Description
- Advertisement showing the two-story brownstone storefront, adorned with signage, of the liquor dealer who relocated to 806 Lombard Street circa 1875. Barrels, visible through the open central entry, are stacked within the space on the first floor. Architectural ornamentations and etched, arched windows adorn the upper story facade. A man, possibly proprietor Gallagher, stands near one of two other doorways to the establishment across from a laborer prying on one of several barrels lined on the sidewalk. In the street, a boy attends to one of two horses drawing a cart loaded with more barrels. Also shows partial views of adjacent buildings. Gallagher immigrated to the United States in 1856 and established a wholesale liquor business in Philadelphia. He was a member of the Hibernian Society, Catholic societies, and president of the Building and Loan Association., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 121, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Firefighting Album Am 3989 Gallagher
- Date
- [ca. 1875]
- Location
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Firefighting Album Am 3989 Gallagher
- Title
- John Hibler, importer & wholesale dealer in foreign & American wines & liquors. No. 56, North Third Street, (second door above Arch,) Philadelphia. [graphic] / On stone by W.H. Rease, 17 So. 5th St., Phila.
- Description
- Date of publication supplied by Wainwright., Advertisement depicting the four-story shop containing signage advertising wines & liquors. The doors, windows, and cellar are open for business. Inside the shop, wine casks, crates, jugs, and bottles line the floors and a laborer raises a cask with a pulley. Outside, a laborer loads casks onto a horse-drawn cart as nearby. An African American peddler with a basket and ringing a bell passes by. Partial views of the adjacent stores, possibly an apothecary and bolting cloth business, are visible. Hibler, operated the wine business at the location from 1840 until 1844, where afterward he operated a grocery.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H., lithographer., creator
- Date
- [1844]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W203.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W203 [P.2116]
- Title
- M.E. Church Broad and Arch Sts., Philada
- Description
- Exterior views of the church constructed 1869-70 after designs by Addison Hutton, including one looking southeast on Broad Street at the north and west elevations of the church and the other looking northwest from a construction site, with a horse-drawn dray, in front of Masonic Temple. Both views include the west front of the adjacent Masonic Temple built 1868-1873 after the designs of James H. Windrim, the cobblestone tree-lined street in the foreground and the liquor store operated by Charles P. Collins at the northeast corner of Broad and Arch Streets., Title on mounts., Photographer's imprint on mounts., Yellow mounts with rounded corners., Charles P. Collins moved his liquor business from 1627 Market Street to the northwest corner of Broad and Arch Streets in 1872., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., P.9047.56 gift of Robert M. Vogel.
- Creator
- Cremer, James, 1821-1893
- Date
- [ca. 1872]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Religion [P.9047.56 and P.9135]
- Title
- South-east corner of Twelfth and Locust streets
- Description
- View of the business and residential Philadelphia street corner with a two-story, wooden building advertising the sale of cigars, tobacco, coal, and oil. Barrels and carts line the sidewalk. Rowhouses are interspersed amongst the businesses including a liquor store, a lager beer hall, and Palace Segar store. Men, women, and children pedestrians, including African Americans, walk on the sidewalk. In the nineteenth century, the neighborhood, known as Washington Square West, contained one of the city's largest populations of African Americans., Title from item., Possibly commissioned by Philadelphia antiquarian Ferdinand Dreer., Lib. Company. Annual report, 1975, p. 6-11., Select link below for a digital image., Purchase 1975., 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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Creator
- Evans, B. R. (Benjamin Ridgway), 1834-1891, artist
- Date
- 1883
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Evans watercolors [P.2298.120], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/evans/files/plc120.html
- Title
- B. Lieber, importer of brandies, wines, gins, brown-stout, scotch ale, absinthe, segars, &c. and manufacturer of punch essence, cordials, lemon syrup, raspberry, lavender, rose, blackberry and wild-cherry. Brandies, bitters &c. No. 121 North Fourth Street between Vine & Callowhill Streets Philadelphia
- Description
- Advertisement showing the four-story storefront adorned with signage and displays on the 300 block of North 4th Street. Bottles, small boxes, and broadside advertisements, predominately for French cordials and bitters, fill the display window, and a large model cask with advertising text and stacks of labeled boxes flank the open entrance. Box labels include "Ysla de Cuba," "Assorted Cordials," "Glorias," "Habano." A clerk confers with a patron within the entrance as a laborer enters the cellar to continue to retrieve barrels of "Madeira No.1" and "Port," which line the sidewalk. In the street, a drayman departs with his delivery of a cask of "J. Hennesy [sic] & Co. Cognac." Image also includes a massive post adorned with a weather vane designed as a Native American figure, and partial views of adjacent buildings., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: April 1849., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 32, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
- Date
- [April 1849]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W22 [P.2015]
- Title
- [Market Street, showing businesses on the south side between 11th and 12th Streets, Philadelphia]
- Description
- View shows businesses occupying 1106 to 1114 Market Street including Waterman & Ramson, dealer in candies, etc. (1106 Market); Pfeil's hats and caps (1108 Market); Manigle's stoves, heaters & ranges (1110 Market); a carpet store (1112 Market); and Sam Whalley & Co. wines and liquors (1114 Market). Also shows display windows at street level, numerous signboards on the front facades, and three horse-drawn carts parked on the south side of Market Street., Title supplied by cataloger., Photographer's imprint from blind stamp on recto., Yellow mount with square corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Bartlett & Smith, photographer
- Date
- [ca. 1867]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & Smith - Streets [P.9486.2]
- Title
- John Hibler, importer & wholesale dealer in foreign & American wines & liquors. No. 56, North Third Street, (second door above Arch,) Philadelphia
- Description
- Advertisement depicting the four-story shop containing signage advertising wines & liquors. The doors, windows, and cellar are open for business. Inside the shop, wine casks, crates, jugs, and bottles line the floors and a laborer raises a cask with a pulley. Outside, a white man laborer loads casks onto a horse-drawn cart. In the right, an African American man peddler with a basket and ringing a bell passes by. Partial views of the adjacent stores, possibly an apothecary and bolting cloth business, are visible. Hibler, operated the wine business at the location from 1840 until 1844, where afterward he operated a grocery., Title from item., Date of publication supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 410, Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Rease, a prominent mid-19th century Philadelphia trade card lithographer known to highlight details of human interest in his advertisements, partnered with Francis H. Schell in the 1850s and eventually operated his own press until 1872.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H., lithographer
- Date
- [1844]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W203 [P.2116]