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- Title
- Pancoast & Maule, 243 & 245 South Third St., Philadelphia
- Description
- Trade card die cut and shaped into a pipe thread. Pancoast & Maule was formed by Henry B. Pancoast and Francis I. Maule in Philadelphia., List of available tubes, pipes, radiators, gauges, tools and supplies printed in two columns on verso., 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 - Pancoast [P.9788]
- Title
- Jos. Hindermyer & Son, brass foundry, brass finishing & coppersmith shops, 911 & 913 Vine St., Philadelphia Manufacturers of fire department supplies, manufacturers of the celebrated "Jones patent" hose couplings and of every description of screw couplings, nozzles, brass and leather branch pipes, and all necessaries for fire apparatus of most approved styles. A specialty of coppersmiths', brewers', and bottlers' supplies. Orders for best quality brass castings for machinists, executed with accuracy and dispatch, and at lowest prices. Estimates furnished on application
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting detailed views of "Jones" hose couplings, one connected, the other disconnected., 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 - Hindermyer [P.2006.20.6]
- Title
- Mt. Airy water pipes
- Description
- View showing the water pipes called the Pipe Bridge over the Wissahickon Creek. The pipe aqueduct, constructed in 1870 to provide water to Germantown from the Schuylkill River via the Mount Airy reservoir, was built after the designs of engineer Frederick Graff, Jr. It was razed in 1891. In the foreground, a man sits on a cliff near the pipe bridge., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Orange mount with rounded corners., Inscribed in negative: 84., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Newell & Son, a partnership between Robert and his son, Henry, was active from circa 1870 until 1897 and the death of the elder Newell.
- Creator
- R. Newell & Son, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1875
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Public Utilities [P.8709.8]
- Title
- Finale of a breakfast on biscuits made of Heckers' self-raising flour
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting an anthropomorphic frog attired in trousers and suspenders smoking a pipe. Heckers' self-raising flour was introduced in 1850 by Hecker & Brother, a partnership started in 1843 between John Hecker, Jr. and George Valentine Hecker in New York City., Advertising text printed on verso: Housekeepers should always be ready to take advantage of anything that will lighten their laborous duties and relieve them from some of the many vexations that are sure to occur in their busy lives. Certainty of results, saving of time, trouble and labor are only a few of the many advantages that may be gained from using Hecker's self-raising flour. This flour comes put up in 3 and 6 lb. packages, ready for use at a moment's notice; requires no salt, yeast or baking powder. Only the exact proportions of raising material are put in, thus insuring a perfect certainty. Your grocer sells it. Directions on every package., 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 - Heckers [1975.F.411]
- Title
- Brennan, jeweler, 13 South Eighth St., Phila
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting a beach scene with a large beached ship in the background. In the foreground, two women in bathing suits mischievously hold a magnifying glass over the back of an old man's head, concentrating the sun's rays and burning his head. He sits unaware, smoking a pipe with his back to them and grasping an empty net. Birds peck at the sand nearby., Copyrighted Ketterlinus, Philada., 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 - Brennan [1975.F.53]
- Title
- Pavilion
- Description
- View looking northwest from the forebay at the Fairmount Water Works on the Schuylkill River showing the peristyle temple (i.e., pavilion). The pavilion, built after the designs of Frederick Graff, Jr., was added to the old mill house between 1867 and 1872 during alterations to the structure to replace the building's water wheels with turbines. Also shows the ascending main connected to the old mill house during the remodeling., List of over fifty views of Fairmount Park issued by the publisher printed on the verso., Publisher's imprint printed on mount., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- H. Ropes & Co.
- Date
- [ca. 1872]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Ropes - Public Utilities [P.9281.5]
- Title
- Water works. B
- Description
- View looking north from Reservoir Hill at the Fairmount Water Works on the Schuylkill River showing the forebay. Includes a promenade on Reservoir Hill; a park guard standing near a handcart and leaning on a fence lining the mill race; and the ascending main pipe connected to the old mill house during renovations between 1867 and 1872. Also shows the race bridge in the background. The waterworks, originally constructed between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff, were altered and expanded after the designs of Philadelphia engineers Henry P.M. Birkinbine and Frederick Graff, Jr., until 1872., Publisher's imprint printed on mount., List of over 50 views of Fairmount Park issued by publisher printed on verso., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- H. Ropes & Co.
- Date
- [ca. 1872]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Ropes - Public Utilities [P.9281.2]
- Title
- J. Smith, manufacturer of fine cigars, and dealer in tobacco, snuff, pipes, &c. 720 West Dauphin Street, near 4th and 8th Sts. depot, Philadelphia
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting embossed vignettes of crossed tobacco pipes, a bundle of cigars, the figure of an Indigenous woman, and a man smoking a cigar., Embossed., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1875]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Smith [P.9349.403]
- Title
- Pavilion, Fairmount Water Works, Philadelphia, Pa
- Description
- View looking northwest from south of the forebay at the Fairmount Water Works on the Schuylkill River. Shows the peristyle temple (i.e., pavilion) on the old mill house. Also shows the ascending main, installed between 1867-1872 after the designs of Frederick Graff, Jr., across the millrace. The waterworks, originally constructed between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff, were altered and expanded until 1872., Orange mount with rounded corners., Title printed on mount., Advertisements for six Boston businesses printed on verso, including a piano forte wareroom; perfumery; hat bleachery; children's carriage manufactory; tea store, and the patent medicine, Chester's Cure., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- [ca. 1875]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Public Utilities [8353.F.27]
- Title
- Water Works, general view
- Description
- View looking north from the forebay showing the race bridge at the Fairmount Water Works on the Schuylkill River. Also shows the ascending mains connected to the old mill house after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff, Jr. during the replacement of the house's water wheels by turbines between 1867-1872. The waterworks, originally constructed between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff, were altered and expanded until 1872., List of over fifty views of Fairmount Park issued by publisher printed on verso., Publisher's imprint printed on mount., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- H. Ropes & Co.
- Date
- ca. 1872
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Ropes - Public Utilities [P.9644.17]
- Title
- Fairmount waterworks
- Description
- View looking south from the forebay at the Fairmount Water Works on the Schuylkill River. Shows the old engine house converted to a refreshment saloon adorned with signage advertising,"Ladies Ice Cream Saloon" and "Ice Cream & Refreshments." Also shows the ascending main connected to the old mill house during the replacement of the house's water wheels by turbines between 1867-1872 after the designs of Frederick Graff, Jr. The waterworks, originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff, were altered and expanded until 1872., Attributed to Robert Newell., Title from manuscript note on mount., Publisher's imprint printed on verso., Printed on mount: No. 4., Pink mount with rounded corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Gift of Jane Carson James., 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], c1876
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Public Utilities [P.9299.68]
- Title
- Celluloid waterproof collars, cuffs & shirt bosoms
- Description
- Trade card advertising J.H. Richelderfer’s celluloid collars and cuffs and depicting a racist caricature of a Chinese boy smoking a pipe and carrying a cane. Shows the boy, wearing a queue hairstyle with a pink bow tied at the end of his braid and attired in a colorfully patterned Chinese robe with oversized celluloid cuffs, collar, and hat, and red, slip-on, cloth shoes. He holds the smoking pipe to his lips with his left hand and carries a walking cane in his right hand., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Stamped on recto: J.H. Richelderfer, Gent’s furnishing and over-gaiters, 1032 Chestnut St., S.E. Cor. of 11th., Text printed on verso: Celluloid (Waterproof linen.) Collard, cuffs and shirt bosoms. The following will commend the use of these goods to all who study convenience, neatness and economy. The interior is fine linen. The exterior is Celluloid – the union of which combines the strength of Linen with the Waterproof qualities of Celluloid. The Trouble and expense of washing is saved. When soiled simply rub with soap and water (hot or cold) used freely with a stiff brush. They are perspiration proof and are invaluable to travelers, saving all care of laundrying. Advice. In wearing the turn-down Collar, always slip the Necktie under the roll. Do not attempt to straighten the fold. The goods will give better satisfaction if the Separable Sleeve Button and Collar Button is used. Twist a small rubber elastic or chamois washer around the post of Sleeve Button to prevent possible rattling of Button, To remove Yellow Stains, which may come from long wearing, use Sapolio, Soap or Saleratus water or Celluline, which latter is a new preparation for cleansing Celluloid. Goods for sale by all dealers., RVCDC
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Richelderfer [1975.F.741]
- Title
- [Philadelphia Inquirer art supplements]
- Description
- Series of art supplements depicting genre, historical and allegorical scenes, landscapes, portraiture, and character studies. Includes "Aurora" showing a white female fairy figure smelling a flower; "The Pilot" portrait of an older white man sea captain smoking a pipe; "The Partners" showing a white girl and boy with a broom and shovel; "Tambourine Girl"; "Playmates" depicting a white girl holding a cat; "Deep Sea Fisherman"; "Night of the Ball" depicting an exterior view of a palatial estate in the snow with an inset showing a young white woman in evening attire; "One of the Four Hundred" showing a white boy costumed as a vagabond; "By the Sea" showing an older African American seaman, attired in a grey top hat, a white collared shirt, a blue and gold bowtie, red suspenders, a yellow jacket with a flower boutonniere, brown pants, and boots, smoking a pipe; an older white man reading "Fairy Tales" to a white girl; "Sheik of the Desert" a bust-length portrait of an Arab man; "A Lively Scrimmage" during a football game; a dog inspecting "Five O'Clock Tea"; a white clergyman having "A Disappointing Luncheon"; a view "Off the Belgium Coast near Ostend"; "Spring" and fall landscapes; "Does You Mother Know You're Out" depicting a white girl with a newly hatched chick; "Napoleon and the Old Guard"; "Wellington and His Soldiers"; a white man and woman couple on "A Honeymoon at Niagara"; and a white lady portrayed fancifully "Among the Roses.", Title supplied by cataloger., Various artists, including M. Duboy, C.L. Van Vredenburgh, Charles P. Gruppe, A. I. Keller, and W. Merritt Post., Various printers, including Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company; Leopold Gast & Brother; Julius Bien & Co.; Donaldson Bros.; Ketterlinus; and J. Ottmann., Two of prints designed to stand as display cards., Originally part of Specimens Album [P.9349]., Gift of Margaret Robinson, 1991., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- [ca. 1894-1898]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Specimens Album Loose Prints Collection - Philadelphia Inquirer [P.9349.282, 287, 295, 310, 313, 323-325, 330-331, 413, 424, 432, 434, 440, 457, 463-464, 466, & 469]
- Title
- Slave emancipation; or, John Bull gulled out of twenty millions
- Description
- Anti-abolitionist satire of the indemnification expenses to be paid as a result of the abolition of slavery in the British colonies in 1833. Depicts William Wilberforce, a prominent British abolitionist, leading a tour group comprised of a white man enslaver, a white man Whig, and "John Bull" through the dwellings of enslaved people. As the tour passes, a group of happy and celebrating Black men, attired in yellow, blue, or green pants and shoes and portrayed in racist caricature, dance and smoke from pipes. One man sits with his back to the viewer and smokes a pipe beside a jug labeled, "Rum." Wilberforce preaches about the necessary expense of emancipation and the wretched condition of the enslaved to which Bull laments about "our poor innocent factory children, for whom you haven't one small spark of pity." The white men comment about the personal effect of emancipation on them., Title from item., Date and place of publication inferred from content., Lib. Company. Annual report, 1978, p. 55., Purchase 1978., RVCDC, 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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- [ca. 1833?]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons - 1833 - Sla [8392.F]
- Title
- Engravings by William Humphrys Scrapbook
- Description
- Scrapbook of print specimens and proofs engraved by Philadelphia and London engraver William Humphrys. Contents include postage stamp proofs, book and periodical illustrations, tile pages, portrait prints, advertisements, and cut outs of banknote and certificate vignettes. Majority of graphics depict allegorical imagery or illustrations of genre, religious, sentimental, and literary scenes, some from the plays of Shakespeare. Illustrations include scenes of courtship; female friendship; children with animals; a ghoulish-looking woman with a torch; a European man smoking a hookah; Jesus Christ; Adam & Eve; and imagery from Edmund Spencer's "Faery Queen", John Milton's "Palemon's Story," and John Gay's "Thursday: or The Spell." Allegorical works depict the figures of Columbia, Minerva, Mercury, Neptune, Bounty, Agriculture, Commerce, Justice, Hope, and Apollo, as well as scenes with the American eagle; caducei for the "Liverpool Apothecaries Company"; citizens fighting a fire; cherubs charting a globe; Native Americans; a family; sailing ships; and symbols of farming, trade, and industry. Vignettes also show a portrait of Benjamin Franklin; Pocahontas saving John Smith; and a female warrior slaying a man of royalty captioned "Sic Semper Tyranus."
- Title
- Engravings by William Humphrys
- Description
- Scrapbook of print specimens and proofs engraved by Philadelphia and London engraver William Humphrys. Contents include postage stamp proofs, book and periodical illustrations, tile pages, portrait prints, advertisements, and cut outs of banknote and certificate vignettes. Majority of graphics depict allegorical imagery or illustrations of genre, religious, sentimental, and literary scenes, some from the plays of Shakespeare. Illustrations include scenes of courtship; female friendship; children with animals; a ghoulish-looking woman with a torch; a European man smoking a hookah; Jesus Christ; Adam & Eve; and imagery from Edmund Spencer's "Faery Queen", John Milton's "Palemon's Story," and John Gay's "Thursday: or The Spell." Allegorical works depict the figures of Columbia, Minerva, Mercury, Neptune, Bounty, Agriculture, Commerce, Justice, Hope, and Apollo, as well as scenes with the American eagle; caducei for the "Liverpool Apothecaries Company"; citizens fighting a fire; cherubs charting a globe; Native Americans; a family; sailing ships; and symbols of farming, trade, and industry. Vignettes also show a portrait of Benjamin Franklin; Pocahontas saving John Smith; and a female warrior slaying a man of royalty captioned "Sic Semper Tyranus.", Portrait prints, some probably from the British periodical "Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country," depict Israel Putnam; George Washington; Gustavus Adolphus; Mrs. Sloman, of Covent Garden Theatre in the Character of Baltimore; Thomas Carlyle; William Dunlop; Letitia Elizabeth Landon; D. M. Moir; and Henry Purcell. Scrapbook also contains an 1844 banknote specimen of "La Provincia de Buenos Aires" illustrated with vignettes of ostriches; ca. 1845 postage stamp proof depicting Queen Victoria after the Chalon portrait; a full-length portait of an unidentified man, possibly Humphrys; and an advertisement for the Philadelphia artist Joshua Shaw showing a man leading his horse down a bucolic path, as well as engravings after his work of a landscape and an advertisement for Cohen's Lottery Exchange Office, Baltimore., Title from stamp on spine., Morocco binding., Various American and British artists, including W. Chatfield, John Opie, Joshua Shaw, Robert Smirke, C. R. Leslie, Charles L. Eastlake, W. E. West, George Smithard, Carlo Dola, A.E. Chalon, J. Wood, J. Stephanoff, Pastorini, Alfred Croquis (i.e., Daniel Maclise), A. F. Tireggi, John James Barralet, J. Banks, J. M. Wright, Thomas Stothard, P. Williams, Camille Roqueplan, and R. Westall., Various American and British printers and publishers, including H. S. Singleton, J. P. Davis, and James Fraser., Manuscript letter by Humphry completed January 10, 1865 to Anna Holloway pasted on opening page to scrapbook. Letter details his ill health, which in spite of, he still appreciates "the brightness of the sun, the greeness of the earth, and the beauty of extreme nature.", Some scrapbook pages contain manuscript notes identifying the genre of the specimen., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Lib. Company. Annual report, 1967, p. 55., William Humphrys (1795-1865), born in Dublin, immigrated to the United States early in his life and studied engraving under George Murray in Philadelphia. He worked as an engraver in the city circa 1815-1823 producing book illustrations, advertisements, and banknote and certificate vignettes. He also served as secretary for the Association of American Artists. Relocating to England, he produced similar work before returning to the United States in 1843. In 1845, he moved to Dublin to engrave "The Reading Magdalene" for the Royal Irish Art Union before returning to England where he worked as an engraver for the firm Perkin, Bacon, and Co. During this employ, he was noted for his re-engraving of the head of Queen Victoria for the 1 d postage stamp. Humphrys retired from engraving in his later years and worked as an accountant for the printing firm Novello & Co. He died at the Novellos' Genoa villa on January 21, 1865.
- Creator
- Humphrys, William, 1795-1865
- Date
- [ca. 1817-ca. 1845]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Humphrys [7607.F]