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Title: Market Square Germantown postcards
Description: Contains views of Germantown's Market Square where the prison, stocks, public scales, market house (1714) and firehouse (1814) were located. Depicts views of Market Square with the Market Square Presbyterian Church in the background, along with views of the square looking at the Executive Mansion, or Robert Morris House, where George Washington stayed during the drafting of the Constitution in 1787. Most views include the Civil War monument looking northeast, erected in 1883 by the members of Ellis Post, No. 6, Grand Army of the Republic. Shows the granite figure of a soldier at "parade rest." Monument moved to Moved to Belmont Avenue and George's Hill Drive in West Fairmount Park in 1909. Includes an original painting of the square as it appeared in 1830, owned by the Germantown Historical Society., Contains 8 postcards printed in color and 6 printed in black and white., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Brightbill, George M., collector
Date: 1900-1915
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Germantown - Market Square - 103]

Title: An unfinished house, in Chesnut [sic] Street Philadelphia
Description: View showing "Morris' Folly", the unfinished brick and marble mansion on Chestnut Street above Seventh Street, designed by Pierre Charles L'Enfant for Philadelphia merchant and financier Robert Morris. Individuals stroll the grounds, and a laborer carries a ladder passed a guardhouse. Morris' mansion, begun about 1796 and unfinished as a result of his bankruptcy, was demolished in 1800, the building materials sold to finance creditors., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's Views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000), pl. 14., Reproduced with article in Poulson's Scrapbook of Philadelphia History, vol. VII, p. 54-55. (LCP reference copy Uy 8, 2526.F)
Creator: W. Birch & Son
Date: 1800
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 14a/P.2276.27]

Title: [An unfinished house, in Chestnut Street Philadelphia]
Description: View showing "Morris' Folly," the unfinished brick and marble mansion on Chestnut Street above Seventh Street designed by Pierre Charles L'Enfant for Philadelphia merchant and financier Robert Morris. Individuals stroll the grounds, and a laborer carries a ladder passed a guardhouse. Morris' mansion, begun in 1796 and unfinished as a result of his bankruptcy, was demolished in 1800, the building materials sold to finance creditors., Title from duplicate print., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's Views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000), pl. 14., Reproduced with article in Poulson's Scrapbook of Philadelphia History, vol. VII, p. 54-55. (LCP reference copy Uy 8, 2526.F).
Creator: W. Birch & Son
Date: [180[0]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 14a/P.2276.28]

Title: [Artist's study for an unfinished house in Chesnut [sic] Street. Philadelphia]
Description: View showing "Morris' Folly," the unfinished brick and marble mansion on Chestnut Street above Seventh Street, designed by Pierre Charles L'Enfant for Philadelphia merchant and financier Robert Morris. Individuals stroll the grounds and a laborer carries a ladder past a guardhouse. Construction began on the mansion about 1796 and was halted as a result of Morris's bankruptcy. The building was demolished in 1800 and its materials sold to finance creditors., Title from plate 14 in the first edition of Birch's "Views of Philadelphia.", Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., See Martin Snyder's "William Birch: His Philadelphia Views," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 73 (July 1949), p. 271-315., Reproduced in Julius Sachse's Pictures of old Philadelphia from the originals in the collection of the Library Company of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, 1901), vol. 1, plate 44. (LCP Print Room Albums)., Also accessioned as P.9661.
Creator: Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834, artist
Date: [ca. 1800]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department drawings & watercolors - Birch - Unfinished House [5394.Q]

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