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- Title
- Indian Queen Hotel. [graphic].
- Description
- Manuscript note on verso: No. 15 So. Fourth Street., Print trimmed and lacking caption., Poulson inscription on recto: 1831, no. 15 So. Fourth Street., Advertisement depicting the three-and-a-half story hotel at 15 South Fourth Street operated, as indicated by a placard above the door, by Horatio Wade. Wade remained proprietor from 1831 until 1833. Elegantly dressed guests enter the building, converse on the sidewalk, and rest and read inside near the first floor windows. On the sidewalk, well-dressed pedestrians stroll and an African American hotel porter pushes a wheelbarrow of luggage. The Indian Queen Hotel established in 1771, the building altered several times until razed in 1851, was until the mid 19th century incorrectly identified as the site of Thomas Jefferson's writing of the Declaration of Independence.
- Date
- [[1831]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W184.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W184 [P.2051]
- Title
- P.S. Duval's lithographic establishment, No. 7 Bank Alley, Philadelphia Long and favourably known under the firm of Childs & Inman. P.S.D. respectfully infroms the artists of Philadelphia, and the public in general, that he is prepared to execute orders in all the various branches of the above art in a superior style. N.B. Likenesses drawn from life on stone, maps, charts, plans, bill heads, bills of exchange, cheques, professional and visiting cards, labels &c. &c. will receive prompt attention, and no exertion spared to render perfect satisfaction in every department of lithography
- Description
- Directory advertisement containing an ornamental border around advertising text., Published in The Philadelphia circulating business directory. For 1838. (Philadelphia: Published at Morris's Xylographic Press, 1838), p. 106., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 77
- Date
- [1838]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Dir Phila 1838 (35) 10840.O.106
- Title
- J.T. Bowen, lithographer & print colourer, no. 94 Walnut Street, Philadelphia N.B. Views of public buildings, landscapes, maps, plans, charts, circualrs, &c. executed in the most beautiful style, and at the shortest notice; also portraits taken from life, or reduced from paintings, or enlarged from miniatures
- Description
- Directory advertisement containing an ornamental border around advertising text., Published in The Philadelphia circulating business directory. For 1838. (Philadelphia: Published at Morris's Xylographic Press, 1838), p. 107., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 41
- Date
- [1838]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Dir Phila 1838 (35) 10840.O.107
- Title
- John Collins, lithographer, no. 79 South Third Street, Philadelphia Plans, maps, circulars, portraits, landscapes, anatomical, and other drawings executed in the most accurate and highly finished style
- Description
- Directory advertisement containing an ornamental border around advertising text., Published in The Philadelphia circulating business directory. For 1838. (Philadelphia: Published at Morris's Xylographic Press, 1838), p. 107., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 49
- Date
- [1838]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Dir Phila 1838 (35) 10840.O.107
- Title
- [Taylor & Teese, saddlers and A. R. Chambers, currier, 67 & 69 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.]
- Description
- Advertisement showing the 4-story adjacent storefronts for Andrew R. Chambers, leather dealer and Taylor & Teese, saddlers at 67-69, i.e., 223-225 Chestnut Street. Signage for the businesses, the street numbers, and a drain pipe marked "1832" adorn the building. Merchandise adorns the display windows and sidewalk of Taylor & Teese. Includes a stack of trunks, a harness, saddles, and a feedbag. Rolled merchandise is also visible through the open doorway of Chambers. Taylor & Teese and Chambers resided as neighbors circa 1832-circa 1837., Title supplied by cataloguer., Date supplied by Wainwright., Poulson inscription on recto: Chestnut Street, Chestnut Street, Aug 1847., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 743, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Childs & Inman, a partnership between engraver and lithographer Cephas G. Childs and portraitist Henry Inman, was active in Philadelphia between 1830 to 1833.
- Creator
- Lehman, George, d. 1870, artist
- Date
- [1832]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W365 [P.2201]
- Title
- Philadelphia Arcade. Joseph L. Moore, dealer in fancy & staple dry goods, corner of Pine & Water Streets New-York Having established a branch in the Arcade south front, and fitted up his store with a separate apartment for selling at whole sale, is constantly receiving from New-York auctions every description of goods in his line which will be sold at very reduced prices. at whole sale & retail. N.B. Country merchants are respectfully invited to call and exame [sic] before making their purchases
- Description
- Advertisement showing the Moore storefront within the two-story shop gallery built 1826-1827 after the designs of John Haviland at 615-619 Chestnut Street. Statuary, above empty niches, adorns the front facade of the four-arched gallery entrance and "JLM" is visible above the centrally-located storefront that is flanked by corridors lined with stores. Pedestrians walk in front of the arcade. Neighboring buildings, including the Bolivar House hotel (611-613), are visible. Also shows, in the foreground, a gentleman peering at the arcade from across the street. The building was later used as a bathhouse and hotel before being demolished circa 1859-1860., Date supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 572, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
- Creator
- Lehman, George, d. 1870, artist
- Date
- [1833]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W279 [P.2169]
- Title
- Roper's Gymnasium. 274 Market Street, Philadelphia
- Description
- Advertisement showing the interior of the well-attended gymnasium, operated by James Roper on the 800 block of Market Street, in which several men exercise in front of a crowd of spectators. In the right, three men perform balance moves on a balance beam next to a wall adorned with a rack from which boxing gloves and squash rackets hang. Beside the beam, two men wearing boxing gloves converse near the pommel horse that two men utilize. In the front center and left of the room, two pairs of men, one pair wearing face guards, fence; two men pull weights attached to the ceiling; and another tests his strength on the parallel bars near men climbing poles. To the rear, other exercisers climb vertical and inclined ropes, hang and climb from exercise ladders, straddle and perform pull-ups on horizontal poles, and dangle upside down from a trapeze. Around the room, spectators including several men and a few women in winter clothing, stand and sit to watch the gym attendees. Roper established the gymnasium circa 1831 which relocated to the 800 block of Walnut Street circa 1833., Several of the figures annotated with a number that probably corresponds to an unlocated key., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 659, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Lower left corner missing and repaired.
- Creator
- Clay, Edward Williams, 1799-1857, artist
- Date
- [ca. 1831]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W320 [P.2181]
- Title
- [Wine & liquor store. Charles Egner 10 North Third Street, Philadelphia]
- Description
- Advertisement showing the busy four-story storefront for "Charles Enger Wine & Liquor Store." Two white gentleman converse near a row of stacked barrels within the store and two male workers, including an African American man, hoist a barrel at the second entranceway. In front of the open cellar to the building, a white man employee rolls one of several barrels lined on the sidewalk. To the left of the worker, three barrels stand upright and a white gentleman approaches. Also shows boxes in the first-floor store window; the shutters and windows of the upper floors in various states of being open; and partial views of the adjacent buildings., Poulson inscription on recto: N. Third St. Third Street. Oct. 1846., Title supplied by cataloger., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 845, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., LCP copy trimmed and lacking title., Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
- Creator
- Breton, William L., approximately 1773-1855, artist
- Date
- [ca. 1837]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W460 [P.2244]
- Title
- United States Hotel Chesnut [sic] Street, Philadelphia. This hotel under the presant [sic] management has under gone many important alterations and has been entirely refurnished with rich and elegant furniture. The situation of the house is acknowledged by all to be the most favourable of any in the city for either the man of business of pleasure. The proprietor respectfully solicits the patronage of friends and the public. Thomas C. Rea
- Description
- Advertisement looking east down Chestnut Street showing the large, prominent hotel opened in 1826 following the conversion by John Rea of several properties at 419-423 Chestnut Street. Gentlemen convene near the entranceway and portico of the hotel in front of which a carriage is parked. On the north side of the street, east of the hotel, several individuals, including couples and families, promenade and converse on the several blocks of businesses visible to the riverfront. Opposite the hotel, on the south side of the street, a couple promenades and boys play marbles in front of the former Second Bank of the United States (420 Chestnut) as another couple and several shadowy figures of pedestrians walk down the sidewalks in the background. In the street, a couple on horseback, an omnibus, and carriage travels. Also shows a partial view of the Farmers & Mechanics Bank (425-429) adjacent the hotel and a few trees and street lamps landscaping the street. A patron ascends the stairs to the bank. The hotel, altered in 1840, was demolished in 1856 for the erection of the new building for the Bank of Pennsylvania. Thomas C. Rea, son of John Rea, operated the property until his death in 1846., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 779, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
- Creator
- Quintin, David S., artist
- Date
- [ca. 1840]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W417 [P.2228]
- Title
- C.J. Fell & Brother's chocolate manufactory
- Description
- Exterior view of the mill complex at Faulkand, near Wilmington Delaware for the Philadelphia spice and chocolate manufacturer. Signage reading "C.J. Fell & Brother's Chocolate Manufactory" adorns the main building surrounded by smaller outbuildings and an overpass over the millrace. A horse-drawn wagon and man on horse-back travel on the property and bushes and trees line the race. A residence and pastureland is visible in the background. Factory purchased by Jonathan Fell in 1828., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 75
- Creator
- Lehman, George, d. 1870, artist
- Date
- [ca. 1835]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Industries [P.8970.6]
- Title
- [F. Leaming & Co. hardware, nail, steel, hollow-ware & looking glass store. No. 215 Market Street]
- Description
- Crudely-printed advertisement showing the four-story storefront at 215 Market Street (i.e., 500 block Market). A patron approaches the glass-paned door of the business and a couple strolls on the sidewalk. Building contains partially visible cellar doors. Leaming operated at the location 1831-1833., Title supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 223, LCP copy trimmed and lacking title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
- Date
- [ca. 1831]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W119 [P.9094]
- Title
- Dawson's Brewery. N.W. corner of 10th & Filbert Streets
- Description
- Advertisement depicting an exterior view of the three-story corner brewery constructed circa 1822 and operated by Mordecai L. Dawson and William Morrison. Includes a partial view of the rear ell (right) and two signboards on the facade that read, "M.L. Dawson's Brewery". Barrels line the sidewalk of Filbert Street in front of the brewery where two men load them one-by-one onto a horse-drawn dray. Dawson and Morrison opened their brewery at 79 Chestnut Street in 1820, and moved to Tenth and Filbert Streets in 1830, after purchasing the old Farmers' Brewery in 1829. Dawson went into business with Charles Poultney, Frederick Collins and William Massey after Morrison passed in the late 1840s, and the brewery eventually became Massey Brewing Co., Published in James Mease and Thomas Porter's Picture of Philadelphia from 1811 to 1831: Giving an account of its origin, increase and improvements in arts, sciences, manufactures, commerce and revenue. (Philadelphia: Published by Robert DeSilver, No. 110 Walnut Street, 1831) vol. II, opposite page 56 and in Thomas Porter's Picture of Philadelphia 1881 to 1831: Giving an account of the improvements of the city, during that period (Philadelphia: Published by Robert DeSilver, No. 110 Walnut Street, 1831) vol. II, opposite page 56., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 172, Library Company of Philadelphia: in Am 1831 Mease 68582.D; in Am 1831 Mease Log 4072.D; Am 1831 Mease 20876.D; and Am 1831 Mease 104520.D., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
- Creator
- Breton, William L., artist
- Date
- [1831]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W92 [Am 1831 Mease 68582.D.56a], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W92 [Am 1831 Mease Log 4072.D.56a], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W92 [Am 1831 Mease 20876.D.56a], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W92 [Am 1831 Mease 104520.D.56a]
- Title
- [Dickson & Co.] Watches, fine cutlery, jewellery
- Description
- Advertisement showing the five-story storefront for "Dickson and Co. Importers of Watches Clocks Jewellery & Plated Ware" at 14 North Fifth Street (between Market and Arch streets). Signage adorns the building, including over a side doorway. Building also contains large display windows where merchandise is visible, particularly plated ware and tea kettles. Merchandise is also visible on shelves, inside of the store, near an open doorway. In the street, a horse-drawn dray passes near crates piled at the street corner. Dickson & Co. was renamed from Dickson & Harper in 1840 and the import business operated from 5th and Commerce under the new name until 1841., Poulson inscription on recto: No. 14 n. Fifth Street. N.W. cor. of "Commerce" St. late "South Alley.", Philadelphia on Stone, POS 182, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Trimmed.
- Date
- [ca. 1840]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W95 [P.2035]
- Title
- [Marshall House, 207 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. E. Badger, proprietor]
- Description
- Stark advertisement showing the front facade of the hotel at 625-631 Chestnut Street. A couple walks toward the entrance. Edmund Badger, a former proprietor of The City Hotel, operated the Marshall House at 207 Chestnut Street 1837-1841. Hotel was later renamed the Columbia House and razed in 1856., Title and date from Poulson inscription on recto: Feb. 1, 1837. E. Badger, Proprietor. Chestnut St. near Seventh St., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 458, LCP copy trimmed and lacking title and imprint., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
- Date
- [February 1, 1837]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W228 [P.2102]
- Title
- Indian Queen Hotel
- Description
- Advertisement depicting the three-and-a-half story hotel at 15 South Fourth Street operated, as indicated by a placard above the door, by Horatio Wade. Wade remained proprietor from 1831 until 1833. Elegantly dressed white guests enter the building, converse on the sidewalk, and rest and read inside near the first floor windows. On the sidewalk, well-dressed white men and women pedestrians stroll. An African American hotel porter, attired in a black top hat, a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, pants, and shoes, pushes a wheelbarrow of luggage. The Indian Queen Hotel established in 1771, the building altered several times until razed in 1851, was until the mid 19th century incorrectly identified as the site of Thomas Jefferson's writing of the Declaration of Independence., Title from item., Manuscript note on verso: No. 15 So. Fourth Street., Print trimmed and lacking caption., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 381, Poulson inscription on recto: 1831, no. 15 So. Fourth Street., Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
- Date
- [1831]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W184 [P.2051]
- Title
- A. Koellner, painter, No. 74 corner of Chestnut and Exchange Streets, Philadelphia
- Description
- Advertises Kollner as a painter of portraits of "ladies and gentlemen on horseback" and "horses, correct and in every possition [sic]." Reflects Kollner's failed attempt to establish himself as an equestrian portrait painter upon his arrival in Philadelphia. Soon after this advertisement was issued, Kollner was hired by Duval to create lithographic portraits of military personnel, many on horseback, for the U.S. Military Magazine., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 2, See Nicholas B. Wainwright's "Augustus Kollner, Artist" in Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (Vol. 84, 1960), pages 325-351.
- Date
- [1840]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Advertisements [8115.F.1]
- Title
- Peter Parker, No. 249 North Second St. [Philadelphia] A la mode
- Description
- Advertisement for hats depicting a jumbled assortment of men's hats displayed on top of an anvil shaped pedestal adorned with an image of a beaver. Parker is listed at this address from 1829 to 1841., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 170, Originally part of John McAllister's scrapbook "Costumes, English & American, 1800-1869."
- Creator
- Erwin, J., artist
- Date
- [ca. 1836]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Advertisements [5743.F.94]
- Title
- A. Russell & Co. 104 Chestnut Street. Philadelphia. Fashionable hat and cap maunfacturers First in fashion. Ladies fur muffs, tippets, pelerines, boas &c.&c. Gente;men's furs caps, collars, gloves &c.&c
- Description
- Advertisement depicting a jumbled assortment of men's and boy's hats on top of an anvil-shaped pedestal. Hats lie on their side, top, and rim., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 3, Originally part of John McAllister's scrapbook "Costumes, English & American, 1800-1869."
- Date
- [ca. 1832]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Advertisements [5743.F.95]
- Title
- Wm C. Rudman’s Philadelphia pale ale on draught, warranted for from all pernicious drugs and alcoholic admixture, Brewery, 121 Green Street, Northern Liberties
- Description
- Advertisement looking down the alley way of the brewery, also known as Eagle Brewery, established in 1829. Includes the "Pale Ale Brewery Counting House" (left) and adjoining and adjacent processing buildings. In the foreground, within the doorway of the red brick counting house, a clerk interacts with a drayman. The brewery employee hands the driver a small piece of paper as the deliveryman also holds the reigns of his horse harnessed to a dray loaded with beer barrels. The horse wears blinders. Behind the clerk, a gentleman holding a mug of beer stands with another man in the doorway. In the alley, laborers, some in aprons, transport barrels out off a three-archway storage building, pause near a dray loaded with barrels, and stand by a row of barrels near a doorway of a building opposite the counting house. In the background, other workers hoist a sack to an upper receiving door of a building. Also shows a pipe extending between the storage house and the building lined with kegs. Brewery operated from 121, i.e., 309-311 Green Street 1829-1862. Brewery purchased by Robert Gray., pdcp00028, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Oversize Philadelphiana - Factories and Foundries (N-Z)
- Creator
- Breton, William L., artist
- Date
- [ca. 1835]
- Location
- Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Oversize Philadelphiana - Factories and Foundries (N-Z)
- Title
- O.N. Thacher, wholesale & retail hat, cap, & fur ware-house Nth Third St. No. 40 opposite the City Hotel Philadelphia
- Description
- Advertisement depicting the retail shop interior, showing a pile of hats, caps, and fur garments piled on the sales counter. Shelves built into the walls are lined neatly with merchandise behind the counter. An adjacent room is visible through an open door showing a male and a female worker standing over steaming tubs. Includes a vignette of a beaver, a symbol of the fur trade, gnawing through a tree near a stream. Oliver N. Thacher tenanted 40 North Third Street, opposite the City Hotel, from 1840 to 1842., Philadelphia on Stone, Library of Congress: PGA - Duval - O.N. Thacher...Ware-house (Size A) [P & P]
- Creator
- Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
- Date
- [ca. 1840]
- Location
- Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PGA - Duval - O.N. Thacher...Ware-house (Size A) [P & P]
- Title
- [Andrew Berryhill (sic)]
- Description
- Advertisement proof showing the four-story establishment for Andrew Berrybill at 25 South Eighth Street adorned by a large mortar and pestle and a signboard that reads "Andrew Berryhill." The drugstore's display windows on the first floor are flanked by columns. A gentleman stands in the doorway as a laborer loads a barrel onto a horse-drawn dray in the foreground. Barrels and crates pulled from the cellar sit on the sidewalk. Andrew Berrybill tenanted this property from 1839-1840., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 20, New York Public Library: MEZDB (Duval)
- Creator
- Hoffy, Alfred M., b. ca. 1790, artist
- Date
- [ca. 1839]
- Location
- New York Public Library NYPL MEZDB (Duval)
- Title
- No. 150 Chesnut [sic] Street Philadelphia
- Description
- Advertisement showing the three-story, three bay building with swan neck pediments flanking the sign "Loud & Brothers Piano Forte Manufacturers" at 150 Chestnut Street (ie. north side of the 600 block of Chestnut Street) across from the Philadelphia Arcade. Pianos are on display in their wide, decorative shop window and laurel wreaths adorn the transom windows above the two doorways to the shop. The piano manufactory, the largest of its kind in the country at the time, was purportedly behind the store. Thomas Loud Evenden and his brothers formed the Loud & Brothers piano business in the early 1820s and were the most extensive manufacturer until the Chestnut Street shop closed in the late 1830s., Artist and publisher assigned by Wainwright., Published in James Mease and Thomas Porter's Picture of Philadelphia from 1811 to 1831: Giving an account of its origin, increase and improvements in arts, sciences, manufactures, commerce and revenue. (Philadelphia: Published by Robert DeSilver, No. 110 Walnut Street, 1831), vol. II, opposite page 60 and in Thomas Porter's Picture of Philadelphia 1811 to 1831: Giving an account of the improvements of the city, during that period (Philadelphia: Published by Robert DeSilver, No. 110 Walnut Street, 1831), vol. II, opposite page 60., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 509, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Am 1831 Mease 68582.D; Am 1831 Mease Log 4072.D; Am 1831 Mease 20876.D; and in Am 1831 Mease 104520.D., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Society Print Collection - Small - Stores & factories - Pianos - Box 56, Folder 12, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Streets - Chestnut Street - 6th-7th
- Creator
- Breton, William L., artist
- Date
- [1831]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W251 [Am 1831 Mease 68582.D.60a], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W251 [Am 1831 Mease Log 4072.D.60a], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W251 [Am 1831 Mease 20876.D.60a], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W251 [Am 1831 Mease 104520.D.60a]
- Title
- Philadelphia Citizen's Line of steam boats to New York & Baltimore
- Description
- Book illustration advertisement showing the busy "Philadelphia Citizens" steamboat wharf at Arch Street and the Delaware River. Also shows the "Citizen's Line" office building (right foreground) adjacent to Jacob Ridgway's Ferry House and Hotel. Swarms of people line the wharf and several walk on the sidewalks. Horse-drawn drays and a carriage line the street in front of the office and hotel. Partial views of surrounding buildings are also visible. Vessels for New York, Baltimore, and Wilmington left the wharf daily., Name of printer supplied by Wainwright., Published in James Mease and Thomas Porter's Picture of Philadelphia from 1811 to 1831: Giving an account of its origin, increase and improvements in arts, sciences, manufactures, commerce and revenue. (Philadelphia: Published by Robert DeSilver, No. 110 Walnut Street, 1831), vol. II, opposite page 17 and in Thomas Porter's Picture of Philadelphia 1811 to 1831: Giving an account of the improvement of the city, during that period (Philadelphia: Published by Robert DeSilver, No. 110 Walnut Street, 1831), vol. II, opposite page 21., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 577, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.9830.2 a&b and in Am 1831 Mease 68582.D and in Am 1831 Mease Log 4072.D and in Am 1831 Mease 20876., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Loose prints gift of Jay Snider.
- Creator
- Breton, William L., ca. 1773-1855, artist
- Date
- [1831]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W283 [P.9830.2 a&b]
- Title
- Moss, upholsterer, No. 127 Walnut Street, Philadelphia Venetian blinds. Bedding
- Description
- Advertisement showing the ground level storefront of the upholstery and venetian blind business of James P. Moss. Pillasters flanking the two shop windows and the front entrance are surmounted by an entablature adorned with rosettes and other floral designs. Also visible are blinds and other upholstery in the windows, and an interior stairway leading to a door in the shop interior., Artist and publisher most likely W.L. Breton, del. and Kennedy & Lucas's Lithography. Assigned by cataloger., Published in James Mease and Thomas Porter's Picture of Philadelphia from 1811 to 1831: Giving an account of its origin, increase and improvements in arts, sciences, manufactures, commerce and revenue. (Philadelphia: Published by Robert DeSilver, No. 110 Walnut Street, 1831), vol II, oppostie page 108 and in Thomas Porter's Picture of Philadelphia 1811 to 1831: Giving an account of the improvements of the city, during that period (Philadelphia: Published by Robert DeSilver, No. 110 Walnut Street, 1831), vol. II, opposite page 108., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 488, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Am 1831 Mease 68582.D; Am 1831 Mease Log 4072.D; Am 1831 Mease 20876.D; and Am 1831 Mease 104520.D., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Society Print Collection - Small - Stores & factories - Dry goods (M-R) - Box 55, Folder 7
- Creator
- Breton, William L., artist
- Date
- [1831]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W238 [Am 1831 Mease 68582.D.108a], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W238 [Am 1831 Mease Log 4072.D.108a], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W238 [Am 1831 Mease 20876.D.108a], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W238 [Am 1831 Mease 104520.D.108a]
- Title
- Bowlby & Weaver's hardware store No.77 Market Street Philadelphia
- Description
- Advertisement showing the four-story, three-bay storefront tenanted by the hardware store of Richard Bowlby and William Weaver (77, i.e., south side of the 200 block of Market Street). Bowlby & Weaver relocated to this site in 1831 from 101 High Street, where they had operated since 1820. The business was managed under the name Bowlby & Weaver until 1835 when it was renamed to William Weaver & Co. In the image, the names of the partners are painted on a saw that hangs above the front door. Visible through the open doorway are two men, who stand face to face, one on each side of a table displaying the store's wares., Published in James Mease and Thomas Porter's Picture of Philadelphia from 1811 to 1831: Giving an account of its origin, increase and improvements in arts, sciences, manufactures, commerce and revenue. (Philadelphia: Published by Robert DeSilver, No. 110 Walnut Street, 1831) vol. II, opposite page 113 and in Thomas Porter's Picture of Philadelphia 1811 to 1831: Giving an account of the improvements of the city, during that period (Philadelphia: Published by Robert DeSilver, No. 110 Walnut Street, 1831) vol. II, opposite page 113., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 61, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Am 1831 Mease 68582.D and in Am 1831 Mease Log 4072.D and in Am 1831 Mease 20876.D., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Stores & Shops
- Creator
- Breton, William L., ca. 1773-1855, artist
- Date
- [1831]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare W32 [Am 1831 Mease 68582.D], Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare W32 [Am 1831 Mease Log 4072.D], Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare W32 [Am 1831 Mease 20876.D]
- Title
- Robert Morris Hotel & Fairmount House Kept by B.W. Brackin. Coates Street Wharf, Schuylkill. Opposite Fairmount Waterworks near Philadelphia
- Description
- Advertisement showing the four-story hotel opposite the race bridge of the waterworks. Guests stand and walk on the verandahs, roof deck, and observatory tower, and are visible in the entranceways of the hotel. A horse-drawn omnibus filled with passengers passes and a horse-drawn dray is parked across from barrels in front of the building. The back of a coach is also visible under an adjacent passageway. The hotel was often used as a meeting place by the boat clubs nearby on the Schuylkill River. Also shows adjacent businesses. Hotel razed circa 1868., Not in Wainwright., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 653
- Creator
- Lehman, George, d. 1870, artist
- Date
- [ca. 1833]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Hotels, Inns and Taverns [6484.F]
- Title
- Stationer & blank book binder, Hymen L. Lipman successor to Samuel M. Stewart. No. 139 Chestnut St. opposite the Philadelphia Bank. Philadelphia Merchants’ account books of superior paper and binding made to any pattern at short notice and warranted. A constant supply of stationery, English, French and American, of every description, suitable for banks, public offices and counting houses. Prompt attention given to orders from engineers for field books, drawing materials and every article used in the field or in the office. Job printing of every description. Visiting and address card plates engraved in the newest style. Copper plate printing neatly executed
- Description
- Advertising label for the Philadelphia stationer. Between the words of the title is a tabletop crowded with stationers’ products, including an artist’s palette with brushes, a box of watercolor paints, quill pens, a pair of compasses, boxes of paper, and books. Samuel M. Stewart moved to New Orleans in 1840 and Lipman operated from the Chestnut Street address through 1849., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 240, American Antiquarian Society: Graphic Arts Lithf Duva Stat
- Date
- [ca. 1840]
- Location
- American Antiquarian Society AAS Graphic Arts Lithf Duva Stat
- Title
- Stephen P. Morris & Co. Manufacturers of wrought iron welded tubes for gas and other purposes Philadelphia
- Description
- Illustrated advertisement and price sheet for wrought iron pipes. Nineteen figures with numbers corresponding to the list below illustrate the available "tubes," including various bends, a "reducing socket," T and cross branches, and a burner jet. Also contains a vignette depicting the seal of Pennsylania featuring two horses and an eagle flanking a shield. Morris, Tasker, and Morris was founded by Stephen Morris in 1821 as a stove and grate manufactory. In the late 1820’s, Henry Morris and Thomas Tasker joined the firm which was renamed S.P. Morris & Co. Circa 1836 the firm was renamed Morris, Tasker, & Morris when Wistar Morris assumed the position of Stephen and the firm began to manufacture gas pipes. In 1856, the firm was renamed Morris, Tasker & Co. The factory closed in 1896., Not in Wainwright., Manuscript note on recto: 4th mo. 1st, 1838., Title annotated in ink: Now Morris, Tasker & Morris., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 243, American Antiquarian Society: Graphic Arts Lithf LehmD KramG Morr
- Creator
- Kramm, Gustavus, artist
- Date
- [ca. 1835]
- Location
- American Antiquarian Society AAS Graphic Arts Lithf LehmD KramG Morr