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Title: Wistar, Caspar
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: February 6, 1852

Title: Dr. Casper Wister house, S.W. cor. 4th & Locust Sts
Description: Exterior view of north and west elevations of dwelling from Locust Street, looking east toward 4th Street. Built circa 1765. Residence of William Shippen circa 1765-1797 and Caspar Wistar 1798-1809., Inscribed in negative: 2192., Title from negative sleeve., Also known as the Shippen-Wistar House.
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Hand [P.9259.9]

Title: Wistar party, [Mr. George F. Edmunds] requests the pleasure of [Mr. Dreer’s] company on Saturday evening [February 5th] at nine o’clock at [1724 Spruce Street] The favor of an early answer is requested
Description: Engraved invitation with script lettering from George F. Edmunds to Ferdinand J. Dreer. In the top is a bust-length, profile vignette portrait of Caspar Wistar. George F. Edmunds (1828-1919) was a U.S. Senator for Vermont. After leaving the Senate in 1891, he moved to Philadelphia to practice law. Ferdinand J. Dreer (1812-1902) was a Philadelphia goldsmith, jeweler, and autograph collector., Title and date from item., Date written in manuscript on recto: 1898., Gift of David Doret, 2019., See related invitations to Ferdinand J. Dreer [P.2019.64.7-10; P.2019.64.12-15].
Date: 1898
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Ephemera [P.2019.64.11]

Title: Caspar Wistar, M.D
Description: Bust-length portrait of the white Philadelphia physician, medical school professor, and a president of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society. Wistar is depicted seated at a desk, on top of which are a set of books. He holds a sheet of paper in his left hand. He is attired in a shirt with a ruffled collar, vest, and jacket., Gift of David Doret, 2004., 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., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Neagle, John B., ca. 1796-1866, engraver
Date: [ca. 1820]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - W [P.2004.44.18]

Title: House s.w. corner of Prune and Fourth street House built and occupied by Joseph P. Norris, Jr. - and also - St. Mary's church - the part of a house on the right of the picture is that occupied by Louis Phillip of France - see next page - The first house here pictured, was originally occupied by Dr. Shippen, afterwards by Dr. C. Wister; there was then a two-storied brick office, on the south of it, on Fourth Street, which gave place to the present mansion, now occupied by John Cadwalader. J.R. Tyson now lives in the "Wister-house." -April 4th 1858
Description: View looking south on Fourth Street from the northeast corner of Prune Street [i.e. Locust Street] showing the Shippen-Wistar House built circa 1765 at 238 South 4th Street. Includes a few men and boys posed on the street corner. Residence of William Shippen circa 1765-1797 and Caspar Wistar 1798-1809., Title, photographer's imprint, and date from Poulson inscription on mount., Originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 5, page 43. The scrapbooks contained approximately 120 photographs by Philadelphia painter and pioneer photographer Richards of 18th-century public, commercial, and residential buildings in the city of Philadelphia commissioned by Poulson to document the vanishing architectural landscape., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: September 1857
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Residences - S [(5)2526.F.5a (Poulson)]

Title: Caspar Wistar, M.D Late professor of anatomy to the University of Pennsylvania and President of the American Philosophical Society &c. &c
Description: Bust-length portrait of the white Philadelphia physician, medical school professor, and president of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society. Wistar is depicted sitting in a chair and is attired in a shirt with a ruffled collar and double-breasted jacket., Printed below image: From the original picture in the possession of Mr. Wistar., Variant appears in the Analectic magazine (Philadelphia: 1818) vol. 12, p. 441. (LCP Per A 192, vol. 12)., 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., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Charles Goodman and Robert Piggot, Philadelphia engravers, worked as partners from 1817 to 1822.
Creator: C. Goodman & R. Piggot, engraver
Date: [ca. 1818]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - W [1885.F.33]

Title: Caspar Wistar, M.D
Description: Bust-length portrait of the white Philadelphia physician, medical school professor, and a president of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society. Wistar is depicted sitting in a chair and is attired in a shirt with a ruffled collar and double-breasted jacket., Probably by C. Goodman & R. Piggot after painter Bass Otis., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits., 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., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., McAllister Collection, gift, 1886.
Date: [ca. 1818 - ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - W [5750.F.159c]

Title: Caspar Wistar, M.D
Description: Bust-length portrait of the Philadelphia physician, medical school professor, and a president of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society. Wistar is attired in a shirt with a ruffled collar and a double-breasted jacket., Appears in volume three of several editions of James Barton Longacre and James Herring's The National portrait gallery published by various Philadelphia publishers between 1835 and 1868. LCP holds the imprints: 1834-1839; 1856; and 1867, (3)5750.F.160c originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., P.9156.9 gift of Charles Rosenberg, 1986., P.9660.16 gift of William Helfand, 1999., Access points revised 2021., Description 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.
Creator: Longacre, James Barton, 1794-1869, engraver
Date: [ca. 1835 - ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - W [(3)5750.F.160c; P.9156.9; P.9660.16]

Title: Wistar, Caspar, 1832-1908
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: September 7, 1789

Title: Westside of Fourth St. from above Prune to Spruce St Upper cor. Louis Phillipe's house - lower cor. Dr. Shippen's house also Dr. Wister's, las Job R. Tyson's house - next J.P. Norris jrs - next St. Mary's Church; next H. Pratt's houses (2) corner of alley; &c. Mr. Tyson's house by orders of his execy. recently sold for $15,000 to Ricd. Smithurst
Description: View looking south on Fourth Street from above Locust Street showing the several residences. Includes the King Louis-Philippe residence (236 S. 4th); the Shippen-Wistar residence built circa 1765 (238 S. 4th); the Norris-Cadwalader residence built circa 1828 (240 S. 4th); and St. Mary's Church built 1763 (242-250 S. 4th). Job R. Tyson, was a Philadelphia attorney and politician., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Date inscribed on recto., Compass directions inscribed on mount., Manuscript note by Poulson on mount: see p. 95., Originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 3, page 11. The scrapbooks contained photographs of 18th-century public, commercial, and residential buildings in the city of Philadelphia collected by Poulson to document the vanishing architectural landscape., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., McClees 1858-15., 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: 1858
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - McClees - Streets - F [8339.F.33]

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