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Title: Ormiston Glen E. Park
Description: View showing a man sitting in a bare tree in the woods on the Ormiston estate in East Fairmount Park. Ormiston, located near the East Park Reservoir, was a farm and place of recreation with extensive orchards., Title from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's imprint in red text on mount., Explicative paragraph of text providing brief history of Fairmount Park entitled, "Fairmount Park and Water Works, Philadelphia" printed on verso. Text surmounted by vignette of state seal of Pennsylvania and surrounded by decorative border., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Parks [P.8923.10]

Title: Lemon Hill, near the mansion
Description: View showing a couple seated in the foreground on a landscaped, tree-lined path on the grounds of Lemon Hill estate. Other visitors are visible strolling the grounds in the background., Title from printed label on verso., Photographer's imprint in red text on mount., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Parks [P.9260.27]

Title: [Group fishing and sailing toy boats along the Schuylkill River, Philadelphia.]
Description: Depicts Al Lindsay standing on the rocky bank of the Schuylkill River near three children (possibly Alma Lindsay and Karl and Albert Lindsay Doering, sons of the photographer) as they fish and sail toy boats along the river., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1895
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.163]

Title: Schuylkill River, Fairmount Park , Phila. (Columbia Bridge)
Description: Lithograph showing people in rowboats on the Schuylkill River in the foreground and the Columbia Bridge in the background. One of the oldest railroad bridges in the United States, it was completed in 1834 after the designs of engineer John C. Trautwine for use by the Reading Railroad Company., 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, b. 1813
Date: [ca. 1878]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Kollner [*Am 1878 Kol, 2086.F.2]

Title: Rinkermink (Cobb) Creek, Mount Moriah Cemetery
Description: Landscape view showing two men, one standing and one squatting, in a creek. Leafy branches from trees and bushes on the creek's banks extend over the water. A bridge is visible in the background. Mount Moriah Cemetery is divided by Cobbs Creek, the boundry between Philadelphia and Delaware Counties., Title from printed label pasted on verso., Publisher's printed label pasted on verso., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Views [P.9644.18]

Title: In the goat-carriage at the "zoo" Philadelphia
Description: View showing two young girls seated in a carriage pulled by two goats at the Philadelphia Zoo. A smiling man stands next to them. Another man standing on an elevated pavilion or gazebo is visible in the background., Title printed on mount., Publisher's imprint stamped on mount., Distributor's imprint and logo stamped on mount., Gray curved mount with rounded corners., C.H. Graves published under the imprint "Universal Photo Art Co." between 1896 and 1904., See Darrah, The World of Stereographs, p. 52., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Robert M. Vogel.
Date: c1903
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Graves - Zoo [P.9047.150]

Title: Ferndale
Description: Landscape view showing a woman reading in the grass near a tree-lined path leading up to a rustic foot bridge in the background. Also shows two people standing on the bridge., Title from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's imprint in red text on mount., Explicative paragraph of text providing brief history of Fairmount Park entitled, "Fairmount Park and Water Works, Philadelphia" printed on verso. Text surmounted by vignette of state seal of Pennsylvania and surrounded by decorative border., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Parks [P.8923.8]

Title: Play ground at Sweet-Brier
Description: View showing a playground on the Sweet Briar estate, including two tents, one shading a merry-go-round, the other benches. Also shows a swing set in the foreground and a group sitting under the shade of trees on the lawn in the distance., Title from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's imprint in red text on mount., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Parks [8353.F.7]

Title: [Flying horse tent, Sweet Briar playground, West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia
Description: View showing a playground on the Sweetbriar estate in West Fairmount Park, including two tents (one shading a merry-go-round) and a swing set. Men sit and stand on the hillside in the foreground and under the empty tent and near the merry-go-round in the background., Title supplied by cataloger., Incorrect location in manuscript note on mount: Flying horse tents, Lemon Hill., Photographer's imprint obscured by photograph pasted on mount. Series number also partially obsured., Stamped on verso: Copyrighted Kiralfy Bros., Philadelphia, 1876., Pink curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Ms. Jane Carson James.
Creator: R. Newell & Son, photographer
Date: c1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Parks [P.9299.102]

Title: Mineral Spring
Description: View showing the gazebo housing the iron fountain on the Lemon Hill estate in East Fairmount Park. Also shows men, women, and children on the grounds near the fountain, including boys playing an informal game of baseball. The fountain was installed in 1871., Title from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's imprint in red text on mount., Manucript note on verso: Mrs. Wm. B. Higgins, Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: [ca. 1871]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Parks [P.9260.22]

Title: Fairmount Gardens, with the Schuylkill Bridge Philadelphia
Description: Anachronistic view showing two ladies and two gentlemen, wearing mid-19th-century attire, on a walkway, surrounded by trees, below the waterworks in Fairmount Garden, i.e. Fairmount Park. Also shows garden visitors near a water fountain and the Upper Ferry Bridge (i.e., Lancaster Schuylkill Bridge) over the Schuylkill River in the background. The bridge erected 1809-1812 with Robert Mills serving as architect, and Lewis Wernwag as engineer, burned in 1838., Contains partial label pasted on verso: From George S[?] Practical b[?] Polsloe., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 232, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Also issued as sheet music cover by Brewer & Co., 23, Bishopsgate St. witihin E.C. titled "The American Quadrille" by Stephen Glover.
Creator: Brandard, John, 1812-1863, artist
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Parks [7970.F]

Title: A correct view of the City of Philadelphia on the Delaware River as it appeared on 25th of January 1852
Description: Panoramic and bustling, winter view showing several men, women, and children, on the ice-covered river. In the center foreground, a small crowd gathers around a man reading a newspaper as around them, throngs of individuals traverse the frozen walkway, promenade as couples, make conversation, and fall, laugh, and grab one another as they slip on the ice. Several men skate, boys sled, dogs chase each other, and children frolic, including a pair retrieving a hat from a broken patch of ice. Others peddle refreshments from a table and flee from broken ice as ruffians engage in a fist fight. The cityscape of Philadelphia is visible in the background, including Christ Church and Independence Hall in addition to Spark's Shot Tower and Girard College. Also shows the frozen channel running through Windmill Island covered in barren trees in the far left of the image., Copyrighted by A.A. Dugan., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 165, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 72 R 815, Dugan was a Philadelphia engraver.
Date: c1852
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 72 R 815

Title: Cottage of W.H. Gatzmer, at Tacony
Description: View showing the ornately trimmed cottage house of railroad agent William H. Gatzmer. In the front lawn, a girl and a boy play hoop near a hobby horse. Vessels travel on the Delaware River in the background. The Tacony neighborhood formed in 1846, when Gatzmer secured a charter for the Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad and the riverfront area was used as a railroad terminus. In 1867, Gatzmer became president of the Camden & Amboy Railroad., Not in Wainwright., pdcc00024, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 18:8
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Castner 18:8

Title: [Garden with decorative urns, children playing]
Description: View of children playing in a tree-filled garden adorned with decorative urns. Includes a boy on hobby horse, a girl with doll carriage and kids on a hammock., Title supplied by cataloger., Photographer's imprint obscured by photograph pasted on mount., Stamped on verso: Copyrighted Kiralfy Bros., Philadelphia, 1876., Pink curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Ms. Jane Carson James.
Creator: R. Newell & Son, photographer
Date: c1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Recreation [P.9299.85]

Title: Carnival at G[erman]t[ow]n Boys Club playground
Description: Film negative showing a group of men, women, and children gathered around tables and chairs set up in a field at the Germantown Boys' Club. American flags hand grom the tables and the fence in the background. Three girls sit or stand in the foreground. Founded in 1887, the Boys’ Parlors Association of Germantown served as a safe space for neighborhood children whose parents worked longer hours in an industrializing city. The name changed in 1907 to the Germantown Boys’ Club after joining ranks with the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. Marriott Canby Morris served as the president of the club in the first decade of the 1900s., Inscription on negative: G.B.C. Carnival 6/22/1912 Playground, Originally located in negative album [P.2013.13a], Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: June 22 1912
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.501]

Title: [TCP (Thomas C. Potts), ERP (Ethel Rhoads Potts), and a boy and a woman at Pennypack Creek, Wood Hid Farm]
Description: Panoramic view showing a curved stretch of the creek. Barren trees and brush line the bed of the creek in the background. In the right foreground, a boy, a man and two women, in colder weather attire, sit and stand on the creek bank. The man and one of the women are probably Thomas C. Potts and Ethel Rhoads Potts., Title supplied by cataloger from manuscript note on verso: ?, TCP, ?, ERP. Wood Hid Farm., Manuscript note on verso: neg. L-64., Date inferred from attire of persons depicted., Attributed to Marriott C. Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: [ca. 1910]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris [P.2016.37.5]

Title: Classical Seminary. Franklin Square. S.E. corner Race & Seventh streets, Philadelphia
Description: View looking past Franklin Square showing the boy's school, later the Classical Institute, founded in 1837 by John W. Faires at 47 N. 8th Street. An iron-wrought fence separates the square from the row of buildings, including the school, in the background. In the foreground, children play and families stroll within the square. Two boys play with hoops and a couple admires the fountain., pdcc00003, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 17:20
Date: [ca. 1838]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Photograph Collection. FLP Castner 17:20

Title: [Fairmount Water Works near Philadelphia]
Description: View from the floodgates, i.e. race bridge, looking toward the eastern side of the water works that were originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff. Shows several park visitors on the bridge who observe one another. Includes couples on promenade; a boy with a hoop; a woman watching two men converse about a sheet of paper; and a family whose daughters meekly peer at an African American couple. Two dogs bark in the direction of the African American woman who sits next to her companion who stands. Pedestrians stroll on the promenade of the mill house, swans glide on the water, and the gazebo on Reservoir Hill is visible. Also shows the engine house, signage advertising "Soda Water, "and the William Rush statuary adorning the works, including "Mercury" atop the gazebo and "Schuylkill Freed" and "Schuylkill Chained" adorning the mill house., Title from duplicate in the collections of the Free Library of Philadelphia., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 236, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 88 F 331, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 30:88. Includes publishers' imprints: "Philadelphia published by Fenderich & Wild Callowhill St. No. 215" and "New York published by Thomas Cotrel No. 97... [portion missing]", Charles Fenderich and John Caspar Wild partnered as lithographers from 1833 to 1834., Lower left corner missing, repaired, and retouched.
Date: [ca. 1833]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 88 F 331

Title: Machine à vapeur sur la rivère Schuylkill. = Walet works on the Schuylkill River. = Machina vapore foeta juxta amnen Schuylkill. = Dampfmachine am Schuykill
Description: Landscape view looking northwest from Reservoir Hill showing the Fairmount Water Works originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff. Includes the engine house, mill house, and race bridge. Also shows visitors strolling the landscaped grounds of the works and on a walkway on Fairmount; cows grazing on an adjacent plot of land; residences, including probably Lemon Hill, along the bucolic banks of the Schuylkill River; and the river dam., Published in Itinéraire pittoresque du fleuve Hudson (Paris: H. Gaugain, 1828-29), no. 50., Printed above the image: 13e,, Livraison. Amérique Septentrionale - État de Pensylvanie. Pl. 2., Printed below image: No. 50., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 446/447, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 21: 84, uncolored., Milbert, a French naturalist, artist, and scholar, traveled through the Northeastern United States 1815-1823.
Creator: Arnout, Jules, artist
Date: [1828-1829]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Public Utilities - F [P.9965.3; P.9210.14]

Title: View at Sedgley
Description: View showing two children standing and three men reclining in the grass near a dirt path on the Sedgley estate. The cabin used by Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant on the east side of Carriage Drive in Fairmount Park is visible in the distance. The cabin served as Grant's headquarters and the supply center for the Union armies during the seige of Richmond. Moved to Philadelphia circa 1870 from City Point, Virginia as a gift to citizens of Philadelphia for their support during the Civil War. Transfered back to Virginia and rebuilt there in 1983., Title from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's imprint in red text on mount., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Parks [P.9022.26]

Title: Pleasure yacht, Flirt
Description: View looking west showing the boat, Flirt, docked with three men on board at the steamboat landing immediately north of the Fairmount Waterworks on the east side of the Schuylkill River. Also shows a woman standing on an elevated pavilion or gazebo overlooking the river in the background and buildings on the west bank of the river. Flirt was one of many recreational boats that transported passengers to various sites along the river. Dwelling on the west bank possibly the hotel inhabited and operated by Jeremiah King., Title from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's imprint in red text on mount., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Parks [8353.F.15]

Title: The Wissahickon Drive crowded with one-horse sleighs, Philadelphia, Penna
Description: Winter view looking north along Wissahickon Drive (i.e., Lincoln Drive) showing horse-drawn sleighs transporting people through the snow in both directions. Wissahickon Hall, erected below Gypsy Lane circa 1849 by Harry Lippen, is visible in the background., Additional places of publication printed on mount, including New York, N.Y.; Chicago, Ill.; and London, Eng., Title printed on mount., Attributed to William H. Rau., Publisher's imprint printed on mount., Gray curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Robert M. Vogel.
Creator: Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920, photographer
Date: [ca. 1905]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Rau - Recreation [P.9047.146]

Title: Fairmount
Description: Landscape view looking west from Reservoir Hill showing the Fairmount Water Works originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff. Includes the engine house, mill house, and race bridge. Also shows visitors strolling the landscaped grounds of the works; scullers on the river; residences, including probably Lemon Hill, along the bucolic banks of the Schuylkill River; the Schuylkill Canal lock; and the river dam., Originally published as plate 1 in Views of Philadelphia, and its vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). The lithographic stones for the views were acquired by John T. Bowen and reissued in 1838 and in 1848 with hand coloring., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 225.4, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2087 and in Print Room *Am 1848 Wild 3007.Q (Poulson) and in Print Room *Am 1848 Wild 1514.F and in Print Room *Am 1848 Wild 1515.Q., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bd862 W6441 pl.1., Trimmed.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1840, 1848
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W120.4 [P.2087]

Title: Fairmount [from the basin, Philadelphia.]
Description: Landscape view looking west from Reservoir Hill showing the Fairmount Water Works originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff. Includes the engine house, mill house, and race bridge. Also shows visitors strolling the landscaped grounds of the works; scullers on the river; residences, including probably Lemon Hill, along the bucolic banks of the Schuylkill River; the Schuylkill Canal lock; and the river dam., Issued as plate 1 in Views of Philadelphia, and its vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838), a series of views originally published as five numbers of four prints each, and later sold as a bound volume of twenty views., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 225.1. Digital image shows fourth state of print., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: 6626.F and in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 6626.F., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb862 W644., Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 21:1. Variant proof copy before letters. FLP copy lacks figures., Trimmed.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: [1838]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W120.1 [6626.F]

Title: [Anna D. Webster playing ball with her children on Stouton lawn, Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: Depicts Mabel C. and Horace D. Webster, the children of the photographer's brother, Albert Webster (1850-1913), playing ball with their mother, Anna Dutton Webster, on the lawn in front of Stouton, the former country seat of William MacPherson, owned by the Webster family since 1805. Mary S. Webster, the photographer's older sister, sits on a bench nearby, with her hands in a fur muff., William MacPherson was the son of Captain John MacPherson (1726-1792) from Edinburgh. William served as lieutenant for the British army during the first year of the Revolutionary War, but joined the Colonial army under the leadership of Lafayette. Appointed surveyor of the Port of Philadelphia in 1789 and commanded the Philadelphia battalion, the "MacPherson Blues", during the Whiskey Insurrection in 1794. Married Margaret Stout and resided at their country seat "Stouton". Site later named MacPherson Park., Attributed to John H. Webster but may have been taken by other Webster family members.
Creator: Webster, John H., 1861-1934, photographer
Date: ca. 1890
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Webster [P.9501.87]

Title: [Group playing ball on Stouton lawn, Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: Depicts Mabel C. and Horace D. Webster, the children of the photographer's brother, Albert Webster (1850-1913), playing ball on the lawn in front of Stouton, the former country seat of William MacPherson, owned by the Webster family since 1805. The photographer's mother, Lydia S. Webster, his sister, Mary S. Webster, and his sister-in-law, Anna D. Webster, stand together in the background., William MacPherson was the son of Captain John MacPherson (1726-1792) from Edinburgh. William served as lieutenant for the British army during the first year of the Revolutionary War, but joined the Colonial army under the leadership of Lafayette. Appointed surveyor of the Port of Philadelphia in 1789 and commanded the Philadelphia battalion, the "MacPherson Blues", during the Whiskey Insurrection in 1794. Married Margaret Stout and resided at their country seat "Stouton". Site later named MacPherson Park., Modern reference print #24 available in research file., Attributed to John H. Webster but may have been taken by other Webster family members.
Creator: Webster, John H., 1861-1934, photographer
Date: ca. 1890
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Webster [P.9501.91]

Title: [Group playing ball on Stouton lawn, Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: Depicts Mabel C. and Horace D. Webster, the children of the photographer's brother, Albert Webster (1850-1913), playing ball on the lawn in front of Stouton, the former country seat of William MacPherson, owned by the Webster family since 1805. The photographer's mother, Lydia S. Webster, his sister, Mary S. Webster, and his sister-in-law, Anna D. Webster, stand together in the background., William MacPherson was the son of Captain John MacPherson (1726-1792) from Edinburgh. William served as lieutenant for the British army during the first year of the Revolutionary War, but joined the Colonial army under the leadership of Lafayette. Appointed surveyor of the Port of Philadelphia in 1789 and commanded the Philadelphia battalion, the "MacPherson Blues", during the Whiskey Insurrection in 1794. Married Margaret Stout and resided at their country seat "Stouton". Site later named MacPherson Park., Modern reference print #24 available in research file., Attributed to John H. Webster but may have been taken by other Webster family members.
Creator: Webster, John H., 1861-1934, photographer
Date: ca. 1890
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Webster [P.9501.91]

Title: [Group with tennis rackets on Stouton lawn, Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: Depicts the photographer's sister-in-law, Anna D. Webster, with a tennis racket in her hands, hunching to be photographed with her son, Horace D. Webster, who's sitting on the lawn. Mary S. Webster, the photographer's older sister, crouches behind them. Anna D. Webster's daughter, Mabel C. Webster, sits off to the side, away from the group. Stouton, the former country seat of William MacPherson, was inhabited by the Webster family beginning in 1805., William MacPherson was the son of Captain John MacPherson (1726-1792) from Edinburgh. William served as lieutenant for the British army during the first year of the Revolutionary War, but joined the Colonial army under the leadership of Lafayette. Appointed surveyor of the Port of Philadelphia in 1789 and commanded the Philadelphia battalion, the "MacPherson Blues", during the Whiskey Insurrection in 1794. Married Margaret Stout and resided at their country seat "Stouton". Site later named MacPherson Park., Attributed to John H. Webster but may have been taken by other Webster family members.
Creator: Webster, John H., 1861-1934, photographer
Date: ca. 1890
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Webster [P.9501.94]

Title: Louis L. Peck manufacturer & dealer in burning fluid varnishes, pine oil, virgin & sp[iri]ts of turpentine absolute, apothecaries, deodorized and fluid alcohol, of a superior quality linseed oil, white lead, lamps of every description, German & English bronzes, Dutch metal, sand paper, &c Hecker's farina, family flour, & Hope Mills pure ground spices. Flour & farina store, 101 S. Front St. Varnish Store, 15 Dock Street. Lamp, pine oil & fluid store, 3 & 5 N. Eighth St. Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement showing the busy street corner at Front and Walnut streets near the Delaware River with a view of the building containing the oil manufactory, and the flour and farina store. The scene is depicted within a lithographed tromp l'oeil wood frame containing an inset of an exterior view of Peck's Works at Dock Street. Delivery wagons and drays traverse the business-lined streets, including one for Peck's driven by an African American man. Pedestrians walk the sidewalks and cross the intersection, and a white boy rolls a hoop past a white woman peddler sewing by her food stand. Visible in the background are the busy Walnut Street Ferry wharf and Smith and Windmill Islands in the Delaware River. Louis L. Peck's varnish business operated from around 1848 until 1855., Title from item., Date supplied by Wainwright., Printed below the image: Orders for the City, Country, or Shipping put up, with Care and Despatch, at the lowest market prices., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 444, Reproduced in Edwin Wolf's Quarter of a millennium (Philadelphia: The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1981, rev. 1990), p. 177., LCP exhibition catalogue: Made in America #79., Lithograph reproduced on the cover of Nicholas B. Wainwright's Philadelphia in the romantic age of lithography (Philadelphia: The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1958). Proof of cover in the Library Company's collections (W222.1)., Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Wagner & M'Guigan, was an early successful experimenter in chromolithography, winning a silver medal at the 1844 Franklin Institute exhibition.
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W222 [P.2134]

Title: [Recess at Philadelphia Orthopedic School, 22nd & Brown Streets]
Description: Depicts the young students, including African American children, from the Willis and Elizabeth Martin Orthopedic School at recess in the school's courtyard. The children, many in wheelchairs, with braces, or on crutches, are watched by several aides. Opened in 1936, the Public Works Administration funded school, named after the Philadelphia judge and his philanthropist wife, provided the students with medical care and a curriculum of humanities, arts, crafts, and drama., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inscribed on negative: No. 12217; 4-5-37., Manuscript note on verso: Phila Orthopedic School, 22nd & Brown Sts., Duplicate of P.8578.14., Forms part of Philadelphia Public Schools Photograph Collection., Gift of Mrs. Arthur Kushlan, 1980., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., 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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [April 5, 1937]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - unidentified - Education [P.8578.13]

Title: [Recess at Philadelphia Orthopedic School, 22nd & Brown Streets]
Description: Depicts the young students, including African American children, from the Willis and Elizabeth Martin Orthopedic School at recess in the school's courtyard. The children, many in wheelchairs, with braces, or on crutches, are watched by several aides. Opened in 1936, the Public Works Administration funded school, named after the Philadelphia judge and his philanthropist wife, provided the students with medical care and a curriculum of humanities, arts, crafts, and drama., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inscribed on negative: No. 12217; 4-5-37., Manuscript note on verso: Phila. Orthopedic School, 22nd & Brown Sts., Duplicate of P.8578.13., Forms part of Philadelphia Public Schools Photograph Collection., Gift of Mrs. Arthur Kushlan, 1980., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., 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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [April 5, 1937]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photos - unidentified - Education [P.8578.14]

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