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Title: Wholesale price list of patent diaries for 1869.
Description: Folded circular for diaries., Provenance: Gift of David Doret, 2007., Provenance: Advertisements in the collection were sent by various manufacturers to John C. Clark & Sons, a Philadelphia stationery firm.
Date: [1868].
Location: Doret Ephemera

Title: A new article.
Description: Two copies of sign for India rubber copying press sheets., Provenance: Gift of David Doret, 2007., Provenance: Advertisements in the collection were sent by various manufacturers to John C. Clark & Sons, a Philadelphia stationery firm.
Date: ca. 1866.
Location: #Doret Ephemera

Title: Asher M. Childs clothes renovating establishment, No. 145 N. 9th St Old clothes made to look equal to new, by cleaning or dyeing without taking a part. Also repairing, and altering done to the latest fashions. All work done in a superior manner
Description: Advertisement containing an exterior view of the storefront flanked by patriotic vignettes. Vignettes show the figure of liberty and a sailor, with a woman at his feet, holding an American flag. Also includes interior scenes of employees dying and brushing clothes., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Ph Pr - 8 x 10 - Advertisements - C [(2)5786.F.162a]

Title: H.G. Clagston, 806 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, manufacturer of military and naval goods Corps badges- - - Army of the Potomac
Description: Advertisement containing 18 red, white, and blue specimens of corps badges for the 1st, 2d, and 3d Divisions of the 1st, 2d, 3d, 5th, 6th, and 12th Corps. Also contains a decorative border and advertising text promoting new designs and bargain presentation swords., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Ph Pr - 11x14 - Advertisements - H [(2)5786.F.1a]

Title: [Specimens album loose prints collection]
Description: Collection of loose prints from a specimen album probably compiled by a printer once associated with the Philadelphia lithographic firm Stein and Jones. Contains chromolithographic art supplements and advertising specimens; proof sheets; checks, bank notes billheads, and receipts; trade cards and labels; vignette specimens; proof sheets; and illustrations. Businesses and trades represented include banks, manufacturers, and the textile industry. Collection also includes a proof of a trade catalog for gas pipe fittings; job work, including an 1877 broadside for an "Assessor's Registry of Voters" of a Philadelphia ward; an advertising print for the Walnut Street House (Cincinnati, Oh.); and a sheet music cover containing a landscape view., Title supplied by cataloger., Various printers, including Simeon Boerum; Ehrgott, Fobriger & Co.; Geo. S. Harris & Sons; J. Ottmann; and Wm. F. Murphy Sons., Originally part of Specimens Album [P.9349]., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1860-ca. 1898]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *albums (flat) [P.9349.275-472]

Title: Oxford Carpet Mills, Wm. Hogg, Jr. Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement depicting the manufactory complex at 140 Oxford Street built between 1858 and 1868 in Kensington. Also shows light street and pedestrian traffic, including a horse-drawn omnibus. The business was established by William Hogg, Sr. in 1832. William Hogg, Jr. assumed sole operation in 1850., Probably engraved by John Serz., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Madelyn Wolke, Lucianne Reichert, and Clifford A. Mohwinkel Jr.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Serz [P.9773.78c]

Title: [X. Bazin, steam fancy soap works and perfumery, 917 Cherry Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Advertisement depicting the manufactory and laboratory complex. Also shows crates lining the sidewalks and street and pedestrian traffic, including a horse-drawn wagon hauling crates and departing the complex. Bazin served as the lab director for perfumer Eugene Roussel from circa 1840 to circa 1849 when he assumed proprietorship of the business. Bazin continued to use Roussel’s name until circa 1853. The Bazin family owned the business until 1884., Probably engraved by John Serz., Title supplied by cataloger., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Madelyn Wolke, Lucianne Reichert, and Clifford A. Mohwinkel Jr.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Serz [P.9773.76a]

Title: Joseph J. Cana[v]an morocco factory Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement depicting the manufactory complex at 1225 North Fifth Street (Canal Street between Thompson and Girard avenues). complex included a slaughterhouse, drying rooms, pulling shop, and office and sales room. A horse-drawn dray loaded with goods departs from the exit way between two sections of buildings that contain a flag and working smokestack. Also shows a worker in a doorway and a few pedestrians., Probably engraved by John Serz., Name of business misspelled in title: Canaran., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Madelyn Wolke, Lucianne Reichert, and Clifford A. Mohwinkel Jr.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Serz [P.9773.76b]

Title: Allen's Furniture Warehouse, Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement depicting the multi-story storefront for cabinetmakers Allen & Bro. (Joseph and James C.) erected in 1860 at 1209 Chestnut Street. Also shows pedestrians looking at furniture visible in the large display windows. The building contained salesrooms on the lower floors and upholstery and finishing rooms on the upper ones. Allen & Bro. was originally established by William Allen in 1836. The business specialized in custom orders and exhibited at the Centennial Exhibition of 1876., Probably engraved by John Serz., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Madelyn Wolke, Lucianne Reichert, and Clifford A. Mohwinkel Jr., Variant wood engraving published in I. L. Vansant, ed., The royal road to wealth (Philadelphia: Samuel Loag, (1869?)], opp. p. 43.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Serz [P.9773.76c]

Title: Wm. Simpson & Sons, Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement for the calico printers showing a sepulchral monument composed of three mourning female figures attired in Roman garb beside a casket. The business, established in 1836 in the Falls of Schuylkill by William Simpson, was renamed William Simpson & Sons from "The Washington Print Works" in 1869. In 1877, the firm was incorporated as Eddystone Manufacturing Company., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress A.D. 1869 by W. Simpson & Sons in the Clerk's Office of the District of the East. District of Penna., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Madelyn Wolke, Lucianne Reichert, and Clifford A. Mohwinkel Jr.
Date: 1869
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Serz [P.9773.9e]

Title: [Joseph Beckhaus carriage factory, 1204 Frankford Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: Advertisement depicting the factory and office at 1204 Frankford Avenue. Coaches line the street in front of the establishment and pedestrians walk on the sidewalk. Beckhaus was originally established as Beckhaus, Allgaier, and Petry in 1853. Beckhaus assumed sole operation about 1869., Probably engraved by John Serz., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Madelyn Wolke, Lucianne Reichert, and Clifford A. Mohwinkel Jr.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Serz [P.9773.76d]

Title: Bind your own music, newspapers, pamphlets, pictures, documents, &c. Use adhesive binding tags and portfolios. Heyl's patent For sale by music dealers and stationers. H.R. Heyl & Co., sole manufacturers, No. 113 South Fourth St., Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Circular containing eight pages of text bound into a pamphlet using binding tags. Text details who should purchase the tags, including orchestras, bands, musical societies, choirs, editors, authors, teachers, ministers, druggists and physicians; how to adhere them by "rubbing them down with the thumbnail or something hard"; and other products sold by Heyl, including "extensible portfolios for music" and "firm back postfolios especially adopted to the new method of binding.", Title from front and back covers., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Heyl [P.2006.20.2]

Title: Rabbit hunt Jacob Shaffer, No. 628 N. Second St., Phila
Description: Illustrated "hidden puzzle" trade card depicting a winter scene showing a small building with a large flag inscribed "Jacob Shaffer, No. 628 N. Second St., Phila." Includes bare, broken trees and boulders in the foreground in which the figures of a hunter and at least two rabbits are "hidden." Jacob Shaffer was a propietor of a varieties and notions store during the 1860s., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Shaffer [P.9582.85]

Title: [Advertisement calendar for printer]
Description: Advertisement calendar for 1858 containing classical figures, patriotic imagery, and scenes of a printer's establishment. Imagery includes the allegorical figures for art, music, prosperity, commerce, and time; the American eagle, shield, and flag; birds; cherubs; water sprites; and floral ornamentations. Scenes show artisans at work at lithographic and printing presses, a woman colorist, an artist at his drawing table, and a printer choosing typeface. Other pictorial elements depict symbols of art, trade, and industry, including a palette, globe, and bust. Filigree borders several of the images., Not in Wainwright., Name of possible printer from manuscript note on verso., Inset cut in upper portion of print., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 3, Originally part of Charles A. Poulson's scrapbooks of illustrations of Philadelphia.
Date: [1858]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Advertisements - C [(2)1525.F.3]

Title: Hall & Carpenter. Tin plate & metals. 709 Market St. Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement calendar for 1873 promoting the tin plate firm founded in 1867 by Augustus R. Hall and George W. Carpenter. Products advertised include spelter, antimony, pig copper, pig lead, pig tin, sheet iron, sheet zinc, sheet copper, bolt copper, rivets and brass, copper, iron, and steel wire. Contains filigree accents. Firm continued after the death of Carpenter in 1883., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 104, Gift of Helen Beitler.
Date: 1873
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Advertisements - H [P.2002.67.72]

Title: [Geo. H. Vandike & Co., importer of wines & liquors], 630 Market St. Philada
Description: Advertisement, possibly from a circular or verso of tradecard, containing an exterior view of the four-story storefront. Gentlemen talk at the entrances of the building as laborers load a horse-drawn dray` and cart, parked in the street. First two numbers of address depicted in reverse on store. Also shows partial views of adjacent buildings., Not in Wainwright., Printer inferred from related tradecard. [P.9349.153f], Philadelphia on Stone, POS 295, Leonhardt operated from 114 S. 3rd Street 1867-1871.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.153i]

Title: Philadelphia Sketch Club
Description: Souvenir print, or possibly design for a membership certificate, for the professional artists' club founded in 1860. Contains an oval-framed depiction of a near nude, slightly draped cherubic boy, holding a scroll under one arm, and an artist's tongs in his other hand, as he leans on a bust of Minerva. Includes a silhouette of the boy and bust. Clasp-shaped adornments containing filigree details flank the oval. Clasps adorned with a sketchbook and paint palette that enclose a pencil and paintbrush, respectively., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 187, Stein & Jones established in 1859 was active under that name until the death of Stein in 1871.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.69]

Title: Prince & Co's world renowned authentic organs. Melodeons and harmoniums James Bellak, 279 & 281 South 5th Street, ab. Spruce, Philadelphia. Sole agent. Over 33,000 in use. Methode for the melodeon by James Bellak. Op. 1753. $1.50 net
Description: Advertisement containing a vignette of a Prince & Co. organ. The company founded by George A. Prince in 1846, was the leading manufacturer of reed organs in the United States from the 1850s until the 1870s., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, Stein & Jones established in 1859 was active under that name until the death of Stein in 1871., Bellak, a prominent member of the Philadelphia Jewish community, was a composer and music store proprietor known as a dealer of quality pianos.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.76]

Title: F. & L. Ladner's Northern Military Hall, nos. 528, 530 & 532 North Third Street, Philadelphia Concert saloon
Description: Advertisement showing the busy interior of the saloon and concert hall built 1857 on the 500 block of North Third Street. Men, women, and children patrons sit, drink, read, approach, and are served at several tables in front of a stage. In the foreground, men gather near two bars on each side of the saloon. The bar in the right of the image contains a soda fountain. Each is manned by bartenders and is stocked with bottles of liquor. A framed painting, a wall clock, and a large mirror decorate the areas. Several hanging and plotted plants adorn the balconies that are lined with windows. In the background, an actor and two actresses perform on the stage that is flanked by statuary and has a painted backdrop. Also contains a vignette, bordered by filigree, showing the exterior of the hall. View includes crowds of patrons entering the two entrances of the establishment. The Ladners operated the hall 1857-1881., Artist possibly Max or Morris Rosenthal., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 222, Stein & Jones established in 1859 was active under that name until the death of Stein in 1871.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Hotels, Inns & Taverns [P.9008]

Title: Savournin’s Celebrated Snow White Diamond for beautifying the complexion
Description: Diamond-shaped advertisement with ornamental border containing a vignette-size, waist-length portrait of a young lady stroking her hands through her long tresses., Leonhardt operated from 114 So. 3rd Street circa 1868-1871., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 202, Gift of Margaret Robinson.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.46]

Title: Philadelphia Sketch Club
Description: Souvenir print, or possibly design for a membership certificate, for the professional artists' club founded in 1860. Contains an oval-framed depiction of a near nude, slightly draped cherubic boy, holding a scroll under one arm, and an artist's tongs in his other hand, as he leans on a bust of Minerva. Includes a silhouette of the boy and bust. Clasp-shaped adornments containing filigree details flank the oval. Clasps adorned with a sketchbook and paint palette that enclose a pencil and paintbrush, respectively., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 187, Stein & Jones established in 1859 was active under that name until the death of Stein in 1871.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.69]

Title: Theo. Wilson & Co.'s steam ship bread, cracker, & cake bakery, 212 & 214 North Front St. Phila
Description: Advertisement depicting the one-block deep manufactory and "retail sales rooms" adorned in signage. Signs advertise "bread and crackers" for export and "All Kinds of Crackers, Soda Biscuits, Sugar Biscuit, Cakes &c &c. Pilot and Navy Bread." Barrels are visible in upper freight windows and pedestrians walk on the sidewalk. During the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, the company, renamed Walter G. Wilson & Co., introduced animal crackers to America. The building was razed by fire in 1879., Probably engraved by John Serz., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Madelyn Wolke, Lucianne Reichert, and Clifford A. Mohwinkel Jr.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Serz [P.9773.79b]

Title: Baugh & Sons, manufacturers of raw bone super phosphate of lime. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Description: Advertisement depicting the manufactory at 20 South Delaware Avenue. Freight ramps are visible, and vessels sail on the Delaware River in the foreground. Edward P. and son Daniel Baugh formed Baugh & Sons in 1855 in Chester County. The plant relocated to Philadelphia in 1860. Daniel assumed operations of the business with branches in Baltimore and Norfolk, Va. in 1888., Probably engraved by John Serz., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Madelyn Wolke, Lucianne Reichert, and Clifford A. Mohwinkel Jr.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Serz [P.9773.79a]

Title: White, Hentz & Co., refiners of spirits & importers of wines & liquours, 222 North Second Street Philadelphia, Penn
Description: Advertisement depicting the "front view" and "rear view" of the four-story storefront of the liquor business originally established in 1793 by Philip Wager. Barrels are visible in the first floor and rear of the establishment. Signage adorns the buildings. Also includes pedestrian traffic, a laborer, and partial views of the adjoining businesses. William R. White and J. Henry Hentz, Jr. assumed the business in 1849 and erected the 222 building in 1860. The business operated from the location until 1918., Probably engraved by John Serz., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Madelyn Wolke, Lucianne Reichert, and Clifford A. Mohwinkel Jr.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Serz [P.9773.96a]

Title: [Philadelphia Brewery]
Description: Advertisment showing the brewery marked as established "1861" and adjacent residences. Horse-drawn wagons loaded with barrels from the brewery depart the fence-lined, landscaped property from under an archway reading "Philadelphia Brewery" and travel in the street in the foreground. Also shows a couple walking on the sidewalk in front of one of the residences., Not in Wainwright., Title supplied by cataloger., Philadelphia on Stone, Trimmed, Library of Congress: DLC PP 2001: 068 [Philadelphia Brewery]
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC DLC PP 2001: 068 [Philadelphia Brewery]

Title: John H. Pray, Sons & Co. Importers of and dealers in carpetings oil cloths, &c. Nos 192 Washington, 23 Franklin & 63 Hawley sts French & English carpets of the choicest style and manufacture constantly on hand. Best American goods viz: "Lowell" "Hartford" "Bigelow" "Roxbury" and other leading manufactures at agent prices. An extensive assortment always in stock at the lowest trade prices
Description: Advertisement calendar for the year 1870 containing a whimsical tromp l'oeil design composed of ornate carpets and rugs. Rolled and partially rolled carpets surround the calendar and advertising text. Two rugs adorn the lower corners. Patterns and scenes decorating the floor coverings include flowers, cherubs, vinery, geometric shapes and scenes showing a hunted elephant and a lounging dog. Pray, Sons & Co. was established in 1817., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1869]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.96]

Title: [Ruins of William C. Patterson & Co.'s bonded warehouse, South Front and Lombard Streets, Philadelphia]
Description: Rooftop view looking east showing men standing on rubble and ruins, formerly the bonded warehouse complex of William C. Patterson & Co. built in 1854 at Front and Lombard Streets, after a fire on August 4, 1869 destroyed thousands of barrels of whiskey stored there. Intact row houses facing Penn Street are visible in the background, including the rear of Denison, Kelly & Co. at 424 South Delaware Avenue (i.e. 425 South Penn Street). The bare masts of a ship on the Delaware River are also visible in the right background., Title supplied by cataloger., Advertisement printed on verso: Richmond & Co. first-class furniture, warerooms, 45 South Second St., Philadelphia., 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. 1869]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Fires and firefighting [P.9742]

Title: Raspberryade
Description: Advertisement containing pictorial details depicting sprigs from a raspberry bush with raspberries at different stages of ripeness., Inscribed lower left corner: 131., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.76a]

Title: Jacob Haehnlen's lithographic and steam power letter press printing rooms. Goldsmith's Hall, Library Street, opposite post office, Philadelphia. 1867-1868 All kinds of commercial & fancy printing executed promptly. Keep in stock the largest & most varied assortment of wine, liquor, druggists, perfumery & fancy labels and show cards in the United States. Several styles of pharmacy & physicians labels kept on hand of the latest publications, importer, dealer & manufacturer of fancy paper, ornaments, sachets &c. All kinds of materials for printers & lithographers
Description: Advertisement calendar for 1867 and 1868 containing a filigree border surrounding a view of the exterior of the six-story brownstone and print shop owned by lithographer Haehnlen at 420 Library Street. Signage advertising the "lithographic establishment" adorns the doorway, front, and side of "Goldsmith's Hall." Building also adorned with large display windows and an American flag. View includes street and pedestrian traffic. Pedestrians walk and stand on the sidewalk. Horse-drawn wagons and drays pass in the street. Shop included salesrooms and offices, a machine shop, a drying room, lithographic presses, and card, handbill, and pamphlet printing presses. Haehnlen established his own studio at Goldsmith's Hall in 1866 and operated his business from all but the first floor. He sold his shop to the firm Lehman & Bolton in 1873. Building destroyed by fire on December 20, 1882., Not in Wainwright., Manuscript note on recto: Manuscript note on recto: Gold Smith Hall erected by L.J. Dreer 1851., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 44, Smithsonian Institution NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection [DL *60.3090]
Date: [1866]
Location: Smithsonian Institution | NMAH Home and Community Life Collection SI NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection [DL *60.3090]

Title: Atlantic Petroleum Storage Company for refined oil. Empire stores for crude oil Warehouse: Point Breeze. Office: 115 Walnut Street} Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement containing a view of the company's oil storage facilities at Point Breeze on the Schuylkill River, a plan of the grounds by Hexamer, and text describing the facilities. View depicts sailing ships docked at the wharves adjoining the "refined" and "crude" oil warehouses. Horse-drawn carriages travel on River Road toward the wharves. Individuals mill along the banks and on the wharves. The "Garden Farm" is visible in the background. Hexamer plan contains 7 numbered buildings, including the oil warehouses, crude oil wharf, and office in addition to cooper shops, crude oil tanks, and the railroad. Also identifies the surrounding plots of land including, the Garden Farm, Empire Stores for Crude Oil, Farmland of the Atlantic Petroleum Storage Co., and B.J. Crew's Atlantic Petroleum Refinery. Advertising text promotes the experience and care of the "those having charge of the business" and the erection of "large and commodious" warehouses and docks. It describes the warehouses and docks of the "Crude and Refined Oil Departments," including their length, capacity, and construction. Text also describes the safety of the property from fire due to the separation of the warehouses, tanks and docks in addition to the beneficial proximity of the warehouses to the Pennsylvania Central, and Philadelphia and Erie railroads in allowing a direct connection to the oil regions of the West as well as preventing the loss and destruction of oil from leaks and the sun., Also contains a list of the company's board of directors and officers for 1866. Philadelphia members include James A. Wright, Wm. G. Warden, and Clement A. Griscom. Atlantic was founded by Charles Lockhart and William Warden in 1866 and renamed Atlantic Refining in 1870. The firm was purchased by John D. Rockerfeller in 1874 for incorporation into Standard Oil., Not in Wainwright., Digitized for AMD: Global Commodities., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 31, Reproduced and described in Edwin Wolf 2nd and Marie Lena Korey, eds. Quarter of a Millennium (Philadelphia: The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1981) entry #178., Free Library of Philadelphia: Oversize Philadelphiana - Refineries, Oil, Possibly Wainwright 295.
Date: [1866]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW-Industries [P.2145]

Title: Pavillion [sic], George's Hill
Description: Promotional stereograph depicting the bandstand, built in 1872, on George's Hill near Fifty-Second Street in West Fairmount Park. The hill was given to the city by siblings Jesse and Rebecca George in 1868. Shows a crowd of men and women, including two African American men, possibly carriage drivers, posing in front of the pavilion. In the foreground, a coach is parked., Title from manuscript note on verso., Date inferred from content and the people's attire., Buff mount with rounded corners., Contains label posted on verso promoting Young's Favorite Blue Grass Rye and Wheat Whiskies distributed by New York wine shop, Acker, Merrall & Condit, and distilled by Philadelphia distiller Alexander Young & Co., Purchase 2000., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitization 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 - unidentified - Parks [P.9774.2]

Title: [North entrance, Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia]
Description: Promotional stereograph depicting the Roman Doric two-story stone building gateway near Ridge Road designed by Philadelphia architect John Notman., Title supplied by cataloguer., Buff mount with rounded corners., Contains label pasted on verso advertising Young's Favorite Blue Grass Pure Rye and Wheat Whiskies distributed by New York wine shop Acker, Merrall & Condit and distilled by Philadelphia distiller Alexander Young & Co., Digitization 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 - unidentified - Cemeteries [P.9774.1]

Title: Schlichter & Zug, Proprietors. 929 Market Street, Philadelphia If you wish for perfect health use the National Bitters
Description: Advertisement showing a bust-length portrait of a beautiful young woman looking over her bare shoulder and holding an open book beside her face displaying the text "If you wish for perfect health use the National Bitters." She wers her hair in pincurls and tied back with a pearl hair clip. She also wears a pearl necklace and a pearl earring., Copyrighted by Schlichter & Zug., Manuscript note on recto: No. 611., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 204
Date: c1867
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Advertisements [8092.F]

Title: Philadelphia, western & southern trade journal. Illustrated supplement Devoted to the commercial and manufacturing interests of Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement supplement containing 23 titled vignettes depicting and promoting prominent landmarks and businesses within Philadelphia. Landmarks include the State House; Girard College; U.S. Mint at Chestnut and Juniper streets; Merchants' Exchange; Chamber of Commerce at Dock and Walnut streets; Custom House at 420 Chestnut Street; Carpenters' Hall; the Navy Yard at Southwark; and Fairmount Water Works. Businesses include George W. Plumly, paper box manufacturer; Harrison, Havemeyer & Co.'s Franklin Steam Sugar Refinery; R. & G.A. Wright, manufacturers of fine perfumery; F. Gutekunst, photographer; Brooke, Colket & Co., commission merchants; McKeone VanHaagen & Co. Soap Works; Henry Disston's Keystone Saw, Tool & Steel works; Seyfert, McManus & Co.'s Reading Iron Works; Charles Magarge & Co., dealers in paper; Howsons' United States & Foreign Patent Offices; Wilson, Childs & Co., Philadelphia Plantation & Road Wagon Works; Dohan & Taitt, tobacco commission merchants; Lafourcades Brothers & Irwin, importers of cloths, cassimeres & vestings; and Lockwood's Paper Collar Factory. Also contains several passages of text recounting the history of the city and describing the depicted landmarks., Title from item., Various delineators and engravers, including Van Ingen & Snyder, Matthias Reiff Longacre, and Lauderbach & Schell., Accessioned 1992., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., 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: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ***Ph Pr - Government Buildings [P.9384a-w]

Title: Mrs. S. A. Lingle, 734 Spring Garden St
Description: Advertisement depicting a woman shopkeeper showing a hat to a woman and two girls near a hat display., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Ph Pr - 8 x 10 - Advertisements - L [(7)1322.F.471x]

Title: Concentrated leaven or bread powders
Description: Advertisement for baking powder depicting an African American woman cook, portrayed as a racist caricature, displaying her oversized bread to a white woman. In the right, the African American woman, attired in a yellow kerchief, hoop earrings, a red dress with the sleeves rolled up, a white apron, white stockings with red stripes, and yellow shoes, holds a shovel in her left hand and points to the bread with her right hand. The gargantuan bread in the pan rests on a table covered in a white tablecloth alongside other pans of baked goods. Behind the table, the brown-haired, white woman, attired in a white dress with blue stripes with lace at the neck and sleeves, holds her hands up in shock over the over-proved bread. Underneath the table, the cook’s young daughter, attired in a short-sleeved yellow dress, sits on a rug and makes bubbles with a bowl and stick to play with a cat. Image also includes an oven and a metal basin., Not in Wainwright, Title from item., Date from content., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 40, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of engravings relating to Philadelphia. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Advertisements [(7)1322.F.441b]

Title: Leadbeater's renowned stove polish
Description: Racist advertisement for Leadbeater & Co.’s stove polish depicting a white woman and an African American woman polishing stoves. In the left, the brown-haired white woman, attired in a blue ruffled dress, white gloves, a necklace, and bracelets, stands holding a bottle of Leadbeater’s stove polish in her left hand, which she brushes onto a heating stove. In the right, an African American woman domestic, attired in a yellow head kerchief, gold hoop earrings, a red collared shirt with the sleeves rolled to her elbows, and a green skirt with black stripes, kneels as she brushes polish on the cooking stove. She turns her head to see her reflection on the stove in the left. Also visible in the image are a framed portrait, landscape, and still life, and a green sideboard with white plates and a cup. Leadbeater & Company, was a one year partnership between Philadelphia stove polish merchants, F.C. Leadbeater and D.L. Wells, at 920 Market Street., Title and date from manuscript note written on recto: Leadbeater's Renowned Stove Polish; Feb. 1861., Not in Wainwright, Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 134, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of engravings relating to Philadelphia. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Date: [February 1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Advertisements [(7)1322.F.441a]

Title: Charles Oakford & Sons, No. 834 & 836 Chestnut St., Philadelphia. 1866. Wholesale and retail dealers and manufacturers of hats, caps & furs Our stock of hats is complete in every department including a large assortment of wool hats at all prices. We invite attention to style no. 1, a sundown for ladies and children, made of mackinaw straw celebrated for its durability. This popular sun hat supercedes the old style shaker hood and bids fair to be fashionable for seasons to come thereby avoiding an accumulation of old stock. The prices per dozen for trimmed and untrimmed range from $6 to $60. We are ready to receive and fill orders for all kinds of hats which we guarantee to sell at lower prices for cash than any other house in the country. We are constantly receiving the newest styles and our manufactory facilities are such as enable us to compete with any other establishment. March 1866. Please put this up in a conspicuous place
Description: Advertisement with ornamental lettering depicting a display of 12 numbered men's and women's hats. The women's hats (1-4, 7, 10) are adorned with feathers, ribbons, and other embellishments, except for the "sundown." Hats are displayed on a hat rack and three stands at its base. Oakford established his business in 1827 and located to 104 Chestnut in 1843 where he began his wholesale trade in 1850. He operated from the address until 1852 when he relocated to 624 Chestnut Street. In 1860 he moved his business to the Continental Hotel., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 25
Date: March 1866
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Advertisements [P.9465]

Title: From the Paris mantilla cloak and fur emporium. 920 Chestnut Street, Philada J. W. Proctor & Co
Description: Advertisement label showing an exterior view of the clothing store. Several cloaks are displayed in the storefront windows. A female clerk helps a customer at the entrance. Pedestrian traffic, predominately women wearing cloaks, pass on the sidewalk. Proctor relocated his store from 708 to 902 Chestnut Street in 1862., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 287, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Print Collection - Small - Stores & Factories - Box 55, Folder 7, LCP holds engraved copy of advertisement. [Ph Pr - 8x10 - Businesses (7)1322.F.453i].
Date: [ca. 1862]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Print Collection - Small - Stores & Factories - Box 55, Folder 7

Title: J. M. Hafleigh & Co. Retail dry goods. No. 1012 & 1014 Chestnut St
Description: Advertisement showing an exterior view of the dry goods store built by contractor John Ketcham. Patrons enter and several pedestrians, including women with parasols, walk in front of the store. Large draped mounds are visible in the display windows. Also shows the proprietors name and address etched in the frieze above the entryway as well as an "H" on an arched tablet adorning the roof., Not in Wainwright, Philadelphia on Stone, POS 398, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Print Collection - Small - Stores & Factories - Box 55, Folder 5, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Streets - Chestnut - 10th-11th
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Print Collection - Small - Stores & Factories - Box 55, Folder 5

Title: Ficken & Williams, steam sugar refiners, Crown, Willow and Fifth streets
Description: Advertisement containing a view of the refinery complex in Northern Liberties. View surrounded by an ornamental border. Includes the office building adorned with signage. Horse-drawn wagons travel and are parked in front of the buildings. A man on horseback passes coal bins lining the side of the multi-storied processing plant of the complex. Also shows smokestacks and a tank. Advertising text flanking the view promotes "Double Loaf," two types of "A Crushed" "Patent Cut Loaf," "Chip Crushed," "Pulverized," "Lozenge do." and "Granulated" in addition to "A" "B" and "C" coffee and "X Yellow" and "Yellows.", Not in Wainwright, Published in Edwin T. Freedley’s Philadelphia and its manufactures : a handbook of the great manufactories and representative mercantile houses of Philadelphia in 1867 (Philadelphia: E. Young, 1867), opp. p. 472., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 246, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Print Collection - Small - Stores & Factories, Box 57, Folder 6
Date: [1867]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Print Collection - Small - Stores & Factories, Box 57, Folder 6

Title: Andrew Wurfflein manufacturer & importer of guns, rifles & pistols, no. 208 North Second St. 5 doors above Race. Philadelphia Repairing in all its various branches
Description: Advertisement showing the exterior of the storefront containing a display window and a large model rifle above the entrance. An American flag projects from the muzzle of the model that is attached to the building by ropes. Patrons holding rifles and attired in hunting gear depart from the store as other patrons sit and stand near the open cellar doors of the establishment. A dog flanks the hunters and a boy walks ahead with two other dogs on leashes. Rifles, hunting bags, and guns adorn the display window. Street activity includes an African American laborer pushing a handcart of rifles and a boy carrying a wrapped rifle over his shoulder. Also shows neighboring buildings. Wurfflein's son, Andrew assumed the business circa 1871 and operated it until 1915., Printed on lower sides: Wholesale; Retail., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 21, Atwater Kent Museum: 54.3.3/2
Date: [ca. 1861]
Location: Atwater Kent Museum | Print Department AKM AKM 54.3.3/2

Title: Continental Hotel, corner of Chestnut & Ninth St. Philadelphia J. B. Kingsley & Co., proprietor
Description: Advertisement showing heavy pedestrian and street activity in front of the large, prominent hotel built 1860 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr. at 824-838 Chestnut Street. A group of men gathers at the entrance of the hotel. Several pedestrians walk and peruse shop windows on the block in front of the building. Street traffic includes promenading couples, a woman walking a dog, a delivery boy, a First City Troop officer, carriages, an omnibus, and men on horseback. Also shows adjacent buildings and the brick wall across the street adorned with an arched window below a sign indicating "Chestnut St." (site of the Shippen-Burd residence, demolished circa 1862). Trees stand in front of and behind the wall., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 157, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 32 C 762
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania | Print Department HSP Bc 32 C 762

Title: Hoopes & Townsend. Manufacturers. Buttonwood Street, below Broad Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Advertisement utilizing a trompe l'oeil motif to promote the bolt works manufactory at 1330 Buttonwood Street. Shows, from the perspective of looking down, a variety of several types of nuts and bolts, including a "bridge bolt" laid out on a flat surface. Hoopes & Townsend was founded by Barton and Edward Hoopes and S. Sharpless Townsend in 1849 in Wilmington, Delaware. The factory relocated to the Philadelphia address in 1852., Date from manuscript note on recto: No 1097. Filed Nov. 30 1868. Hoopes & Townsend., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 111, Library of Congress: PGA - Easton--Hoopes & Townsend, manufacturers... (C size) [P&P], Easton was a Philadelphia civil engineer and printer of lithographs.
Date: [1868]
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PGA - Easton--Hoopes & Townsend, manufacturers...

Title: [Medley of Soaps]. Manufactured by McKeone, Van Haagen & Co. Philada. & N. York
Description: Advertisement showing a medley of "family and fancy" soaps, most not in wrappers, of different shapes (rectangular, oval, and square), sizes, and colors (brown, yellow, pink, and white). Scents and makes of soap include detersive soap, almond soap; "Brown Windsor," musk soap, honey & glycerin, elder flower, and "Oriental Shaving Soap." McKeone, Van Haagen & Co. was founded in 1854., Not in Wainwright., Copyrighted by McKeone, Van Haagen & Co., Copyright date from manuscript note on recto: #55. Filed January 27, 1865 by McKeone, Van Haagen & Co., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 147, Library of Congress: PAGA, Rosenthal, Medley of Soaps (B size) McKeone
Date: cJanuary 27, 1865
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PAGA, Rosenthal, Medley of Soaps (B size) McKeone

Title: Ficken & Williams, steam sugar refiners, Crown, Willow and Fifth streets, Philadelphia Office 416. Crown Street Philada. Office. 119 So. Front St. Philada. Office 80 Wall Street New York
Description: Advertisement showing a busy street scene with a view of the refinery complex in Northern Liberties. Includes the office building adorned with signage "Ficken & Williams Steam Sugar Refinery" attached to the large multi-storied processing plant of several connected buildings marked at the corner "Crown St." and "William St." Smoke stacks and a large American flag adorn the facility. Two men converse at the doorway of the office across from a horse-drawn carriage parked in the street that is congested with refinery traffic. Several drays, some loaded with barrels, and a cart loaded with coal travel to and from the refinery. Factory employees also load a dray with barrels, sit on a barrel, converse, and emerge from a building entrance. Other street traffic includes two boys crossing the intersection, a woman and girl on promenade, dogs, and a driver leading a team of mules hauling freight cars of coal. Also shows pedestrian traffic, including three men convened in conversation, on the sidewalks around the factory., pdcp00036, Not in Wainwright, Reduced variant published in Edwin T. Freedley’s Philadelphia and its manufactures : a handbook of the great manufactories and representative mercantile houses of Philadelphia in 1867 (Philadelphia: E. Young, 1867), opp. p. 472., Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Oversize Philadelphiana - Factories and Foundries (A-M)
Date: [ca. 1867]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Oversize Philadelphiana - Factories and Foundries (A-M)

Title: Elm flax mills, yarns, twines, shoe threads, flax, hemp, &c.
Description: Provenance: Gift of David Doret, 2007., Provenance: Advertisements in the collection were sent by various manufacturers to John C. Clark & Sons, a Philadelphia stationery firm.
Creator: A. H. Hart & Co., creator
Date: [1867?].
Location: Doret Ephemera

Title: Price list of J. W. Guttknecht's lead pencils, imported only by A. Schmidt & Co., sole agents for the United States, 16 Murray Street, New York.
Description: Provenance: Gift of David Doret, 2007., Provenance: Advertisements in the collection were sent by various manufacturers to John C. Clark & Sons, a Philadelphia stationery firm.
Creator: A. Schmidt & Co., creator
Date: [1867?].
Location: Doret Ephemera

Title: Green Point Iron Foundry, cor. Washington and Quay Streets.
Description: Copying and seal presses., Provenance: Gift of David Doret, 2007., Provenance: Advertisements in the collection were sent by various manufacturers to John C. Clark & Sons, a Philadelphia stationery firm.
Creator: Alexander, John., creator
Date: 1868.
Location: Doret Ephemera

Title: Factory established 1865. American Lead Pencil Co., N.Y.
Description: Large circular with manuscript notations., Provenance: Gift of David Doret, 2007., Provenance: Advertisements in the collection were sent by various manufacturers to John C. Clark & Sons, a Philadelphia stationery firm.
Creator: American Lead Pencil Co., creator
Date: ca. 1866.
Location: #Doret Ephemera

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