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Title: Philadelphia taste displayed. Or, bon-ton below stairs
Description: Satiric scene showing high society, i.e., "bon-ton" in a Philadelphia oyster cellar. A "gentleman" descends the stairwell to the swankly decorated cellar where a motley gathering of men drink, smoke, gossip, and suck oysters. An African American bartender serves drinks from decanters in the left of the image. The bar is adorned with a notice reading "City Privilege still without license." Another African American attends the oyster bar. Plates, crackers, salt, and vinegars line the edge. In the right of the image, a sick-faced patron wobbles and spills his drink next to a tall clock with a decorated face and the inscription "Music has charms." Possibly, the cellar at 806 Market Street operated by African American proprietor James Prosser from about 1830., Inscribed on verso: Said Wm Van [?] of the Walnut/ Chestnut? St. Theatre., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 598, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 38 O 97, LCP exhibit catalogue: Made in America #40., Jackson, Joseph, Encyclopedia of Philadelphia, p. 386-387
Creator: Akin, James, ca. 1773-1846, artist
Date: [ca. 1830]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 38 O 97

Title: F. Defoney's oyster saloon, No. 545 North Third Street, Philadelphia. Fried oysters a specialty
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards depicting birds, nests, butterflies, and flowers., 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 - Defoney's [1975.F.247; 1975.F.275-276]

Title: [New England House and Edward France Hotel, 114 Dock Street, Philadelphia.]
Description: View showing a man and a group of boys posed in front of the hotel, tavern, and oyster house. Textual advertisements promoting oysters and ale adorn the windows. Also includes a partial view of the adjacent building., Attributed to Henry B. Odiorne., Title supplied by cataloguer., Manuscript note on recto: Dock St. formerly Thomas Shippen., Inscribed in negative: 30., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer
Date: ca. 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Odiorne - N [(7)1322.F.71b]

Title: [Little Dock and Spruce streets, northwest corner, Philadelphia.]
Description: View looking west on Spruce Street from below Little Dock Street (i.e., Mattis Street). Shows a ramshackle building tenanted by B. Naylor's Hotel, including an oyster saloon at 127 Spruce (i.e., n.w. corner Spruce and Little Dock). Also shows an adjacent sign painting shop and a boy near the entranceway to the saloon., Attributed to Henry B. Odiorne., Title supplied by cataloguer., Manuscript note on recto: Dock St. -- Westside - opposite Tobacco store., 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: Published in cooperation with The Free Library of Philadelphia by Dover Publications, Inc., 1976), plate 40.
Creator: Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer
Date: ca. 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Odiorne - L [(7)1322.F.37c]

Title: Public baths. Thos. E. J. Kerrison's arcade-baths
Description: Advertisement showing the public bathhouse originally built 1826-1827 as a shop gallery after the designs of John Haviland at 615-619 Chestnut Street. Patrons enter one of the four arches to the visible interior of the arcade that contains stairs over a central enclosed space that is flanked by corridors of rooms. The front facade also contains statuary and advertising signs in two niches above gated cellar entrances to "D. Gibb, Franklin House." The signs promote the tenant oyster house. Also shows a boy posting a broadside on the building and a man and woman passerby. Kerrison operated the baths 1845-1849. Building demolished circa 1859-1860., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Aug. 1847. Chestnut between Sixth and Seventh St., Wainwright suggests date of circa 1845., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 628, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., LCP copy trimmed and lacking caption.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [August 1847]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W301 [P.2176]

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: The oysterman
Description: Plate from children's moral instruction book showing an an oysterman's horse and wagon on the side of a cobblestone street. The oysterman provides a gentleman with a sample of products from the rear of the wagon, while a young African American female waits with a basket nearby. They stand in front of a fenced-in city park area., Published in Common sights in town & country. Delineated & described for young children (Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, No. 146 Chestnut Street, [ca. 1853])., Accompanied by text titled "The oysterman" moralizing that prosperity comes from "the proper discharge of duty" and by being prompt and an honest businessman., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 535, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bd 61 K 8342.17, Atwater Kent Museum: 54.76.63.1
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813
Date: [ca. 1853]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bd 61 K 8342.17

Title: Thomas Hargrave ornamental carver and sculptor s.w. corner of Ridge Road & 13th St
Description: Advertisement showing the three-story business facade, adorned with signage, and the adjacent marble yard at N. 13th Street and Ridge Avenue (east of North Broad and north of Spring Garden streets). A female patron enters the doorway of the establishment in which a monument adorned with a figure in recline is visible within the window. Below the window, signage for "Union Refectory. Oysters Terrapins & Game in Season by Charles Epley" hangs. A male patron descends the stairs to the oyster cellar. A man and boy admire the sepulchral monuments and headstones, many ornamented, which crowd the adjacent fenced, marble yard. Ornamentations include eagles, urns, a female figure at recline, and the inscription "Mother." In the street, a horse-drawn cart is positioned to receive goods across from a stopped "Girard College & Green Hill Chesnut [sic] and Thirteenth" omnibus. A couple exits the rear of the horse-drawn vehicle that is filled with passengers. A landscape view decorates the cab. In the background, neighboring buildings, one with smoking chimneys, are visible. Hargrave established his business at the address in 1844 and operated from the location until the later 1860s., Date supplied by Wainwright., Poulson inscription on recto: Dec. 28, 1858, Philadelphia on Stone, POS 751, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Reynolds worked from Gaskill Street 1844-1852.
Creator: Reynolds, Robert F., artist
Date: [ca. 1848]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W402 [P.2217]

Title: [View of the north side of Chestnut Street, east of Second Street, to the river Delaware]
Description: Shows businesses and storefronts on the north side of the 100 block of Chestnut Street including a hotel, a carpenter, refrigerator dealer, oyster house, and John Gibson, distiller (31 Chestnut). Also shows a horse drawn-wagon in the street and a partial view of a gas lamp in the foreground., Title from duplicate removed from Poulson's scrapbook of illustrations of Philadelphia, vol. II, page 37.[(2)2526.F.37]., Reproduction of daguerreotype by William G. Mason photographed June 5, 1843., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Duplicate of [(2)2526.F.37]; (7)1322.F.59c; and (6)1322.F.121b., Variant 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), entry #114., Image faded.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: [June 5, 1843, ca. 1859]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards [(6)1322.F.69c]

Title: [View of the north side of Chestnut Street, east of Second Street, to the river Delaware]
Description: Shows businesses and storefronts on the north side of the 100 block of Chestnut Street including a hotel, a carpenter, refrigerator dealer, oyster house, and John Gibson, distiller (31 Chestnut). Also shows a horse drawn-wagon in the street and a partial view of a gas lamp in the foreground., Title from duplicate removed from Poulson's scrapbook illustrations of Philadelphia, vol. II, page 37.[(2)2526.F.37]., Reproduction of daguerreotype photographed June 5, 1843 by William G. Mason., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with corrections., Variant 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), entry #114., Duplicate of (2)2526.F.37 and (6)1322.F.59c.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: [photographed June 5, 1843, ca. 1859]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards [(6)1322.F.121b]

Title: View of the north side of Chestnut Street, east of Second Street, to the river Delaware
Description: Shows businesses and storefronts on the north side of the 100 block of Chestnut Street including a hotel, a carpenter, refrigerator dealer, oyster house, and John Gibson, distiller (31 Chestnut). Also shows a horse drawn-wagon in the street and a partial view of a gas lamp in the foreground., Reproduction of daguerreotype photographed June 5, 1843 by William G. Mason., Title and name of photographers from manuscript note by collector on mount., Mount inscribed with directions: N. E. S. W., Originally part of a Poulson scrapbook of Illustrations of Philadelphia, volume II, page 37., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Variant 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), entry #114., Duplicate of (6)1322.F.121b and (7)1322.F.59c.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: [photographed June 5, 1843, ca. 1859]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Streets [(2)2526.F.37]

Title: [Chestnut Street, east of Second Street, south side, Philadelphia]
Description: View showing the south side of the 100 block of Chestnut Street, including a gentlemen's clothing store, an oyster house, several wool and cotton dealers, and Robert Patterson & Co.,commercial merchants. Men stand in front of the storefronts and horse-drawn drays, crates, and barrels line the street and sidewalks., Attributed to Robert Newell., Unmounted half of stereoview., Title supplied by cataloguer., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Newell, Robert, 1822-1897, photographer
Date: ca. 1870
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Streets [(6)1322.F.69e]

Title: View of the United States Hose house & apparatus, Philadelphia To the Independent Fire Co. of Baltimore & the Franklin Fire Co. of Washington, this print is respectfully dedicated, (as a slight token of appreciation of their generous hospitality) by the United States Hose Co. of Philadelphia
Description: Keepsake print containing a rollicking view of members of the volunteer hose company racing their hose carriage around the corner from their firehouse at Tamany (i.e., Buttonwood) Street below York Avenue. Firefighters, most in gear, pull the carriage, run from behind the vehicle, and suit up in the entry to their firehouse. The house contains an iron-work verandah, and a tower from which a volunteer directs the company. Adjacent to the station house at the corner stands "Tamany Hall," an oyster house adorned in signage, including the name of proprietor "Jas. Griffiths" and street signs. The proprietor stands at his doorway, a server watches from outside, and a patron rushes out a rear entry. At the opposite corner, the grocery store of "Tunis O. Bancroft" stands. A female clerk stands in the doorway and merchandise displays, including brooms and buckets, line the storefront. The store owner, attired in an apron and top hat, stands out front, under an awning, and watches the commotion. Another hose carriage, ornately decorated, rests nearby in the street. A small toolbox, bucket, and sponge lie in the street next to the apparatus. View also shows the neighboring residential buildings on the block and around the corner. United States Hose Company was instituted on July 4, 1826 and incorporated on March 13, 1833. Baltimore held a Fireman's Celebration in cooperation with Washington D.C. in November 1851 that was attended by the United States Hose Company. The United States Hose Company hosted the Independent Fire Company of Baltimore during the 1852 Firemen's Parade in Philadelphia., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 808, LCP exhibit catalogue: Made in America #75., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Artist possibly James Queen., Trimmed. Lower edge containing title reattached., Firemen's Celebration
Date: [ca. 1851]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W436 [P.2237]

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