View of a mule standing near a wooden fence, dividing the mule from the man holding its ears., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1890
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.72]
Depicts coal miners covered in coal dust leading a mule-drawn coal car on makeshift tracks in the western Pennsylvania mountains. Other coal-workers, including a boy, work near a mound of dirt and ride a horse. Wood shacks stand in the background., Title from manuscript note on verso., Attributed to John Moran., Yellow mount with square corners., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Moran, John, 1831-1903
Date
[ca. 1862]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Moran - Industry [P.8992.20]
View depicting a team of six mules pulling a Pennsylvania Railroad car past the south west corner of Broad Street and South Penn Square, Philadelphia in 1860. The team led by a man travels past a row of three-story residences with shuttered windows and dormers across from the square in which trees grow behind a wrought iron fence. Pedestrians walk in front of the houses., Title and date from item., Signed by the artist in the lower right., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019., Henry B. McIntire (1872-1963) was an architectural illustrator active in Philadelphia from the 1930s to 1950s. His 1936 book, Philadelphia Then and Now, contained drawings of no longer extant buildings and contemporary images of those locations. He often used an offset lithographic printing process called aquatone in his work.
Creator
McIntire, Henry B., 1872-1963, artist
Date
1939
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.62.13]
Sketch depicting a bird’s eye view probably of the Lehigh Canal in Mauch Chunk, Pa. Depicts two boats, each with one man, being pulled with ropes by mules along the canal that runs through a valley. The boats also hold material that is probably coal. View also shows trees growing on the hillside bordering the canal, and in the left background, rail cars moving on the tracks towards wooden buildings along the waterway. Mauch Chunk was founded in 1818 and changed its name to Jim Thorpe in 1955. The Lehigh Canal opened in 1829 and ran until the 1930s., Title and date from manuscript note written on verso: Mauch Chunk, PA Canal, Augt 15th, 1859., Artist’s initials written on verso: E.S.H., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019.
Date
Aug. 15, 1859
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.62.2]
Lithograph showing mules walking on towpaths pulling canal boats in the Schuylkill River in the foreground. Also shows distant views of West Fairmount Park properties, including Belmont Mansion, the estate house and country seat of Judge Richard Peters; the smokestack of the Belmont Waterworks engine house, designed by Frederick Graff in the late 1860s; and Mount Pleasant Mansion (i.e. Arnold Mansion) built after designs by Thomas Nevil 1761-1765 for Captain John Macpherson. Includes a locomotive traveling north on the west bank of the river in the right background. Macpherson, a privateer during the Seven Years’ War, purchased the estate with profits from these operations. Free white and Black laborers, indentured servants, and at least four enslaved people of African descent, whose names are unknown, worked on the plantation. In 1779, General Benedict Arnold purchased Mount Pleasant for his wife Peggy Shippen, but they never occupied the house. In 1792, General Jonathan Williams purchased the mansion. The City of Philadelphia purchased the property from the Williams family in 1869. On behalf of the city, the Philadelphia Museum of Art restored the house in 1926., Title from item., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Kollner advertised four volumes of small folio pictures, including "Bits of Nature and Some Art Products, in Fairmount Park ..." in 1878. Several of the lithographs from this volume were based on sketches he executed in the 1840s.
Creator
Kollner, Augustus, 1813-1906
Date
[ca. 1878]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Kollner [*Am 1878 Kol 2086.F.7]
