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Title: Charles Oakford's hat & cap store, wholesale & retail, No. 104, Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. [graphic] / Jas. Queen, delt.
Description: Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886 artist., creator
Date: ca. 1843.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W057.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W57 [P.2039]

Title: Charles Oakford's model hat store, 158, Chestnut Street Philadelphia. Hats, caps and furs, wholesale and retail. [graphic].
Description: Location: [Chestnut Street], Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Date: ca. 1854.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W058.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W58 [P.2030]

Title: Charles Oakford & Sons in the Continental, hats, caps, and furs, wholesale and retail, 826-828 Chestnut St., Philadelphia
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a bust portrait of Charles Oakford. Filigree surrounds the oval-shaped portrait. Charles Oakford established his hat store in 1827 and relocated to the Continental Hotel in 1860., Manuscript list on verso includes dates and prices: Nov. 22/60: $8.33; Jan. 10/61 due 21st; Jan. 28/61: due 21st [?]; March 1/61: due 21st Feb.; March 28/61: [illegible]., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Creator: Steel, James W., 1799-1879, engraver
Date: [ca. 1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Oakford [(7)1322.F.443l]

Title: Charles Oakford United States steam leuring model hat manufactory Hats, caps, & furs wholesale and retail. 104, Chestnut Street, Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement showing the interior of the wholesale and finishing department (est. 1850) of the manufactory for the hat business established in 1827. Oakford stands with a business client in the center of the room across from his steam powered leuring lathe and several male employees at work. The laborers stand and form hats at their stations, which line two-thirds of the room. The stations include a drawer as well as a cubby for pieces under construction. Toward the back of the room, another employee stacks hats on a table across from shelves lined with them. In the foreground, a boy packs the merchandise into a box marked "From C. Oakford 104 Chestnut St. Phila." View also includes a wall clock and a shovel lying near the oven of the steam lathe. Leuring lathes turn hats to impart a sheen to the fur fibers and create a polished look., Philadelphia on Stone, Atwater Kent Museum: 46.57.5.2
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Atwater Kent Museum | Print Department AKM AKM 46.57.5.2

Title: Charles Oakford's hat & cap store, wholesale & retail, No. 104, Chesnut [sic] Street, Philadelphia Officers of the army & navy supplied with dress & undress caps of the latest regulations. Gentleman's fashionable hat & dress caps, also gentlemens', youths & childrens' dress & fancy caps with a large assortment of fancy travelling hats. Plain hats for Friends wear. This branch of the manufacturer is conducted by an old and experienced workman
Description: Advertisement containing a view of the exterior of the hat store (300 block Chestnut Street) surrounded by a decorative border comprised of hats and vignettes. Shows the proprietor of the business standing behind the double-sided glass door of his establishment. Displays of hats adorn the showcase windows of the store. Also shows a ribbon hanging from above the entrance, a shadowy figure of a patron, and a basement cellar door. Border includes military hats, boys caps, a Friend's hat, and beaver hat. Vignettes show a military officer on horseback and an outdoor scene with beavers at a tree. Oakford established his business in 1827 and located to 104 Chestnut in 1843 where he began his wholesale trade in 1850. He operated from the address until 1852., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 108, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W57 [P.2039]

Title: Charles Oakford's 1848 & 49 fashions for hats, caps & furs, wholesale & retail establishment, no. 104 Chestnut St., Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement for the hat manufacturer containing a full-length portrait of a young woman wearing a hat and fur accessories surrounded by 11 bust portraits showing men, women and children in a variety of hats. Most of the women's and girl's hats contains ribbons, bows, and feathers. Oakford established his business in 1827 and located to 104 Chestnut in 1843 where he began his wholesale trade in 1850. He operated from the address until 1852., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP26
Creator: Kramer, Peter, 1823-1907, artist
Date: [1848]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Advertisements [P.8729.20]

Title: Charles Oakford's 1848 & 49 fashions for hats, caps & furs, wholesale & retail establishment, no. 104 Chestnut St., Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement for the hat manufacturer containing a full-length portrait of a young woman wearing a hat and fur accessories surrounded by 11 bust portraits showing men, women and children in a variety of hats. Most of the women's and girl's hats contains ribbons, bows, and feathers. Oakford established his business in 1827 and located to 104 Chestnut in 1843 where he began his wholesale trade in 1850. He operated from the address until 1852., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 26
Creator: Kramer, Peter, 1823-1907, artist
Date: [1848]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Advertisements [P.8729.19]

Title: Charles Oakford & Sons model hat store nos 826 & 828, Chestnut Street, Continental Hotel. Philadelphia. Hats, caps & furs, wholesale & retail
Description: Advertisement showing the ornately furnished interior of the hat store established by Oakford in 1827. Fitting tables adorned with lavish free standing light fixtures in front of glass display cases filled with men's hats line the sides of the room. In the foreground, Oakford assists a patron seated at one of the tables on top of which a number of hats lie. Behind the men, a clerk pulls a hat from one of the cases. In the background, in front of another fitting table on which hats sit, a clerk and gentleman patron stand and discuss hats in their hands. A third gentleman patron watches the exchange from across the aisle. Arches extend toward the visible rear of the store and are labeled "Charles Oakford & Sons"; "Gent's Furnishing Goods"; and "Wholesale Department." Tiles line the floor and the ceiling has minimal molding. Oakford admitted his sons to the firm in 1856 and relocated his business to the Continental Hotel in 1860., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 106, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Variant of **W58 [P.2030]., Artist's studies of the interior and exterior of the storefront held in the collections of the Library of Congress. [DLC-PP-1997-105-Drawings-Oakford] and [DLC-PP-1997-105-Drawings-Oakfordinterior], Ibbotson & Queen was a partnership between Harvey Ibbotson and James Queen.
Creator: Ibbotson & Queen, artist
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W55 [P.2029]

Title: Charles Oakford's model hat store, 158, Chestnut Street Philadelphia. Hats, caps and furs, wholesale and retail
Description: Advertisement showing the ornately furnished interior of a later store, at 624 Chestnut Street, of the the hat establishment established by Oakford in 1827. Fitting tables adorned with lavish free standing light fixtures in front of glass display cases filled with men's hats line the sides of the room. In the foreground, Oakford assists a patron seated at one of the tables on top of which a number of hats lie. Behind the men, a clerk pulls a hat from one of the cases. In the background, in front of another fitting table on which hats sit, a clerk and gentleman patron stand and discuss hats in their hands. A third gentleman patron watches the exchange from across the aisle. An arch labeled "Oakford" is visible to the center of the room that leads to the women's and children's section at the rear of the store. A clerk assists a woman patron seated near a rack of hats and across from a woman and girl as they browse. Large tiles line the floor and the ceiling is plain. Oakford operated from the site 1853-1860 before relocating to the Continental Hotel. Oakford admitted his sons to the firm in 1856., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 109, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Date: [ca. 1854]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W58 [P.2030]

Title: Collections from fugitive sources only, illustrative of the antiquities, progress & c. of the city Philadelphia
Description: Scrapbook containing newspaper clippings and prints, predominantly dated between 1850 and 1855, pertaining to the history and built environment, and social, cultural, and economic climate of Philadelphia. Subject matter mainly relates to improvements to the cityscape, transportation, businesses and industry; historical articles (some illustrated) about the evolution of the city, including notices of destruction of former landmarks; daily, yearly, and seasonal accounts about the weather; and reports (and prices lists) for mortality, election returns, real estate sales, city permits, taxables, debt, stock, trade, exports, and cattle, domestic, and produce markets. Articles about city improvements (some illustrated) describe new construction of churches, storefronts and factories, residences, and places of amusement, on major Center City streets and outerlying neighborhoods, including Arch Street, North Second Street, Market Street, Chestnut Street, Belmont district, Bush Hill, Germantown, Moyamensing, North Philadelphia, Penn District, the Seventh Ward, Southwark, West Philadelphia, and the “vicinity of the Navy Yard.”, Properties referenced include the American Sunday School Union (1100 block Chestnut); Bulletin Building (Third Street below Chestnut); New Presbyterian and Tabernacle Baptist churches; Major Eastwick’s estate at Bartram’s Gardens, Newlin’s Brewery (100 block N. Second), the Farquhar Building (opp. Merchant’s Exchange); Girard Buildings (Chestnut and Third); Matthew T. Miller & Co. (Third and Chestnut); New Masonic Temple (713-721 Chestnut); Stoddart & Co. (278-282 N. Second); M. Thomas & Sons (100 block S. Fourth); Cornelius, Baker & Co. (800 block Cherry Street); Caleb, Cope & Co. (429 Market); the Concert Hall; City Museum; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; Philadelphia Gas Works; Farmer & Mechanics Bank; Howell Evans, printing establishment (130 S. Fourth); New Iron Building (600 Arch); Xavier Bazin, perfumer (Seventh and Chestnut); T.W. Evans & Co., mantle and silk store (214-216 Chestnut); and the New Assembly Building (Tenth and Chestnut)., Also contains columns from the series “Benevolent Institutions of Philadelphia” (1849); “Churches and their Pastors” (1849); “Philadelphia in Olden times” (1853); “Reminiscences” (Sunday Dispatch, 1853); “The Progress of Philadelphia”; local historian Thompson Westcott’s “Street Scenes: Philadelphia in 1798, 1799 and 1800” (Sunday Dispatch, 1853); and "Revolutionary Relics" (1854). Topics of historical pieces include Cathedral Cemetery; several churches, including Assumption, Swedes, Tabernacle Baptist and Associate Presbyterian; Videll’s Alley; Market and Chestnut streets; Centre Square; the Pennsylvania Hospitals, including for the Insane in West Philadelphia; Naval Asylum; Commissioner’s Hall, Spring Garden; Robert Morris Mansion; the "libraries of Philadelphia," including the Library Company; and the city police, Quakers and Odd Fellows., Other articles report about the consolidation of the city (including a satiric piece criticizing the grand consolidation ball); Girard College; Philadelphia medical schools, including the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania; auctions conducted by M. Thomas & Sons and James A. Freeman; meteorological reviews, reports and bizarre weather lore, including the 1850 freshet on the Schuylkill; the gas industry in the city; various city water works, including Fairmount and Schuylkill; the number and improvements to omnibuses and their lines and other modes of transportation, including steam boats, ferries, and railroads; improvements to Camden; islands in the Delaware, including Windmill Island. Additional subject matter includes temporary housing of the Post Office in the Jayne Building on Dock Street; “haunts of vice and misery,” including raffling , i.e., gambling, and dance houses; the cleaning of streets through ordinances and sweeping machines; daguerreotypist M. A. Root as the first bidder of the auction of Jenny Lind Tickets in 1850; critical and satirical articles about the newest style of men’s striped pants, the 1855 city directory, the implementation of police hats, and artificial stone fronts on houses; an 1853 benefit at the Parisian Hippodrome; and a black book at the mayor’s office for the reception of “complaints of citizens.”, Scrapbook also contains wood engravings (several from newspaper and periodicals), engravings, cameo stamps, and lithographs. Graphics include predominantly advertisements and cameo stamps. Images show the various locations of the Charles Oakford hat manufactory, including his first shop on Lombard and the mulit-tenanted building on the 700 block of Chestnut; F.C. Kropff, chemical warehouse and laboratory (380 N. Sixth); Keen & Co., manufacturers of ranges and furnaces (Broad & Sansom); J. Smith Harris, merchant tailors (61 S. Fourth); Samuel Hart & Co., manufacturers of playing cards, mother o' pearl goods, and traveling bottles (236 S. Thirteenth); Thomas J. Dickson, brush manufacturer (66 S. Second); W.H. Maurice, blank book and stationery establishment (123 Chestnut); M. Thomas & Sons, auctioneers (67-69 S. Fourth); storefront and factory for Howell & Brothers, paper hangings; the storefront and Callowhill Street manufactory of Daniel Bohler & Co., essence of coffee; Horstmann’s Manufactory (Fifth and Cherry); James Moore’s Porter & Ale brewery (700 block S. Thirteenth); Inquirer Office Building (Third and Carter); interior view of George J. Henkels City Cabinet Warerooms (173 Chestnut); the New Hat Company’s Store (201 Chestnut); John H. Weaver & Co., grocers and tea dealers (Second and Pine); Homeopathic Medical College; J.W. McCurdy & Son, ladies boots and shoes (111 Chestnut); Pratt & Reath, watches & Jewelry (80 Market;) and "View of N.A. College of Health" (Fifth and Race)., Also includes views of benevolent and educational institutions and historical buildings; clipped vignettes showing “Parlors Stoves 1854,” "Newly invented chimney top ventilator," “Fashionable bonnet,” “Melodeons” (with descriptions and prices), spectacles, shoes dated 1832, a “Prize pianoforte,” and a “Washing Machine 1854”; and clipped images of street laborers, including a boy selling lozenges, a “pandy woman” holding a baby to her chest, a female “rag picker,” a girl selling fruit, an organ grinder, “itinerant news boy,” wood collector, and a street advertiser holding a picketed sign promoting "designer and engraver [David] "Scattergood." Latter annotated “a common method of advertising through the streets.”, Several of the clippings annotated by Poulson with dates and manuscript notes., Cut out designed as a monument-like edifice with ornamental pictorial details pasted on title page. Cut out frames title written in ink. Also includes vignette pen and ink sketch showing a beaver., Note by Poulson on verso of front free endpaper: "The dates affixed to the articles in this book, all generally, those of the newspapers from which they have been cut. CAP", Artists, engravers, and lithographers include J. H. Brightly, J. Cone, George T. Devereux, [ ] Farmelee, Alfred Hoffy, Francis Kearny, David Scattergood, R. Telfer, Wagner & McGuigan, and J. L. White., "Index to set in back part of vol. XI.", Volume 7 includes separate index to volume. Index detached and housed with original of volume., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, compiler
Date: 1828-1855, bulk 1850-1855
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Poulson scrapbooks - vol. 7 [(7)2526.F]

Title: [M'Clees & Germon daguerreotype rooms, 160 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia]
Description: View of the south side of Chestnut Street between 6th and 7th Streets showing the daguerreotype studio of McClees & Germon at 160 Chestnut Street. Neighboring tenants include Howell & Brothers, paper hangings (156 Chestnut); Charles Oakford, hats (158 Chestnut); James H. Orne, carpets (160 Chestnut); and the adjoining businesses of Jones Hotel and J.C. Smith, piano fortes and J. Couenhoven, music store (162 Chestnut). Also shows horse-drawn wagons parked in the foreground. The partnership between James E. McClees and Washington Lafayette Germon lasted from 1846 to 1855, and was located at this address from 1854 until a fire destroyed the studio on March 15, 1855., McClees 1855-10., 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. 56., Arcadia caption text: Photographer James McClees captured this view of the south side of the 600 block of Chestnut Street showing the studio he shared with Washington Lafayette Germon shortly before the building was destroyed by fire in March 1855. At the time, Philadelphia, a leading center of American photography, supported more than 120 photographers. Although signage on the building advertised the men as daguerreotypists, by the mid 1850s McClees was also producing some of the earliest photographic views of Philadelphia printed on paper., McClees, a prominent Philadelphia photographer and daguerreotypist, produced some of the earliest paper photographic views of Philadelphia between 1853 and 1859.
Creator: M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.), photographer
Date: ca. 1855
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - McClees - Businesses [(7)1322.F.57d]

Title: [Plate 4 and advertisements from Rae's Philadelphia pictorial directory & panoramic advertiser. Chestnut Street, from Second to Tenth Streets]
Description: Plate depicts section of the 300 block of Chestnut Street (93-110 pre-consolidation). South side includes Public Ledger Office (96); J. & J. L. Gihon, Book Bindery (98); J. P. & D. C. Collins & Co., Daguerreotypists, Office of the New Line of Magnetic Tela., and Belrose & Faye, Paper Hangings (100); John Kelley & Co., Tailor (102); Charles Oakford, Hats, Caps, & Furs Wholesale & Retail (104); Ennis’ Gallery of Daguerreotypes and watch and jewelry dealer J. & W. L. Ward (106); Wm. H. Maurice, Stationer (108); and merchant tailor H. S. Ogden and safe manufacturer Milnor & Shaw (110). North side includes Franklin House tenanted by Lewis Ladomus, Watches & Jewelry (103); J. Thornley's India Rubber Emporium & Manufactory and The Morse Magnetic Telegraph Offices (101); Bank of North America (99); R. Buist Nurseryman & Seed Grower (97); Shepherd, Clothing (95); and L. Pelouze, Phil. Type Foundry (93). Also shows parts of Third Street, Hudson’s Alley, and Franklin Place. Milnor & Shaw signage (110) included on plate as pasted-on detail. Also shows jewelry on display in the Ladomus windows., Advertisements promote the businesses depicted, including a full page for Milnor & Shaw, Manufacturers of the Phoenix Fire & Thief Proof Iron Safes, No. 10 Hudson’s Alley. Advertisement also includes vignettes of two different models of safe, one flat-topped and one curved-topped. The smaller advertisements contain ornamented type and lines of text. R. Buist (97) promotion also includes a decorative border comprised of farm implements and produce., Title supplied by cataloger., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Folder 5.
Creator: Rae, Julio H.
Date: [1851]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Rae - Folder 5 [*Am 1851 Rae, 2975.Q]

Title: [Plate 4 and advertisements from Rae's Philadelphia pictorial directory & panoramic advertiser. Chestnut Street, from Second to Tenth Streets]
Description: Plate depicts section of the 300 block of Chestnut Street (93-110 pre-consolidation). South side includes Public Ledger Office (96); J. & J. L. Gihon, Book Bindery (98); J. P. & D. C. Collins & Co., Daguerreotypists, Office of the New Line of Magnetic Tela., and Belrose & Faye, Paper Hangings (100); John Kelley & Co., Tailor (102); Charles Oakford, Hats, Caps, & Furs Wholesale & Retail (104); Ennis’ Gallery of Daguerreotypes and watch and jewelry dealer J. & W. L. Ward (106); Wm. H. Maurice, Stationer (108); and merchant tailor H. S. Ogden and safe manufacturer Milnor & Shaw (110). North side includes Franklin House tenanted by Lewis Ladomus, Watches & Jewelry (103); J. Thornley's India Rubber Emporium & Manufactory and The Morse Magnetic Telegraph Offices (101); Bank of North America (99); R. Buist Nurseryman & Seed Grower (97); Shepherd, Clothing (95); and L. Pelouze, Phil. Type Foundry (93). Also shows parts of Third Street, Hudson’s Alley, and Franklin Place. Milnor & Shaw signage (110) included on plate as pasted-on detail. Also shows jewelry on display in the Ladomus windows., Advertisements promote the businesses depicted, including a full page for Milnor & Shaw, Manufacturers of the Phoenix Fire & Thief Proof Iron Safes, No. 10 Hudson’s Alley. Advertisement also includes vignettes of two different models of safe, one flat-topped and one curved-topped. The smaller advertisements contain ornamented type and lines of text. R. Buist (97) promotion also includes a decorative border comprised of farm implements and produce., Title supplied by cataloger., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Folder 5.
Creator: Rae, Julio H.
Date: [1851]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Rae - Folder 5 [*Am 1851 Rae, 2975.Q]

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