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Title: Works, East Schuylkill Falls. Powers & Weightman, manufacturing chemists, Philadelphia. Established 1818 Tartaric and citric acid department, Falls of Schuylkill. ; Laboratory for fine chemicals, Ninth and Parrish Streets
Description: View showing the laboratory complex of processing plants and storage sheds established in 1848 on Ridge Avenue near Schuylkill Falls (i.e., East Falls). Within the complex, laborers haul goods by horse among the several buildings, smoke stacks, and trees. Men and women converse near the entrance to the complex in the foreground, as a horse-drawn cart exits the compound. In the background, a locomotive travels past the complex (right) and a laborer works with a team of horses that pull several railroad carts loaded with goods (left) on the series of tracks surrounding the complex. View also shows adjacent lots of pasture land. In the lower corners are two vignettes depicting exterior views of the tartaric and citric acid department and the laboratory for fine chemicals at Ninth and Parrish Streets. In 1847, Powers & Weightman succeeded Farr & Kunzi (established in 1818), and became internationally renown for their manufacture of medicinal and other fine chemicals. The company was the first to introduce quinine to the United States. A second factory complex operated between 9th, Parrish, Brown, and Darien Streets. The East Falls operation included housing for employees., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 867, A. Blanc worked as an artist for Longacre & Co. between 1870 and 1876.
Creator: Blanc, Albert, 1850-, artist
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | PRINTS PRINTS *BW-Industry [P.2008.34.23]

Title: View of the encampment of the Corn Exchange Regiment 118th. Penn. Vols. near Falls of Schuylkill
Description: Shows a line of civilians near a large flagpole watching the regiment drill in front of their tents at the camp near East Falls, Philadelphia. Civilians include men and women on horseback, women in a carriage, a family with their pet dog, and a child playing with a hoop. Also shows a military band leading the troops, officers on horseback, and other civilians walking the tree-lined circumference of the camp called Camp Union. Also contains the names of the "Committee of the Corn Exchange Regiment" printed below the image. The Exchange raised an infantry of 1000 men during the summer of 1862 through the enticement of a liberal bounty., Printed below the title: To the President and members of the Corn Exchange and the officers and men of the Regiment this Plate is respectfully dedicated by the Artists., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 795, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc54 P544., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places and Events.
Creator: Magee, John L., artist
Date: 1862
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W429 [5779.F]

Title: View of the reception of the 29th Regiment, P. V., at Philadelphia
Description: An innovatively designed view of the December 23, 1863 procession of the Pennsylvania Volunteer regiment in honor of their heroic service with the Army of the Potomac. Depicts the procession as a serpentine with the order of procession arranged from top to bottom, with a large eagle, holding an American shield, and patriotic flags by the "Ladies for the 29th" flanked by banners reading "Welcome Home" above the entire view. Soldiers on horseback lead the procession, followed by infantrymen transported in horse-drawn wagons, with one also pulling a cannon, which are followed by a small brass military band. After the musicians, the 29th Regiment marches on foot, some carrying flags, amongst which additional military bands and officers on horse-back also process. Horse-drawn volunteer fire company ambulances carrying soldiers follow the troops, including the vehicles of Northern Liberty Fire Co. no. 1, Vigilant Fire Co., Assistance Fire Co., Weccacoe, Southwark Hose Co., and Hope Hose Company. Along the route men, women, and children watch and join the procession, shake soldier's hands, and cheer. Also shows two boys in a scuffle among the spectators., Buildings line the route, most in shadowy, partial views except the Cooper Shop Soldiers Home at Race and Crown (opened December 1863) and the adjacent buildings near the top of the view. Women crowd the windows of the home and a large American flag marked "Cooper Shop Soldiers Home" stands in front of the building. Also contains the names by Field and Staff Officers, Non-Commissioned Staff, and by Company, of the "Veterans of the 29th," including the African American Company K in addition to the names of the "Board of Managers of the Cooper Shop Soldiers' Home." The procession commenced at about one o'clock from Market Street Bridge down Market Street to Twenty-First Street eventually arriving at the Cooper Shop Soldiers Home where the members of the 29th regiment had dinner before proceeding to the National Guards Hall (518-520 Race Street) to be welcomed by Colonel John Price Wetherill. The order of the procession was as follows the First City Troop; 27th New York Battery; Liberty Coronet Band; Henry Guards; four companies of invalids corps; Provost Guard; discharged members of the regiment; Birgfield's Band; former (Murphy) and present (Rickards) commander of the regiment; Lieut. Col. Zulick of the regiment; the regiment; female family members; First Regiment, Jefferson Coronet Band, Pennsylvania Military Institute cadets, City Council members, and other guards and regiments; and lastly the ambulances of the firemen. The veterans of the 29th Regiment home on furlough re-inlisted for additional service, which was announced at the procession., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 807, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc85 B347., Reception described in the Philadelphia Inquirer (December 24, 1863).
Date: c1863
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ***W435 [P.2262 and (12) 1540.F]

Title: Volunteer Refreshment Saloon, supported gratuitously by the citizens of Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Print containing an exterior view and three titled interior views of the saloon and hospital of the volunteer relief agency located near the Navy Yard at Swanson and Washington Avenues. Exterior view shows heavy street activity. A Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad train stops on the grounds in front of a cheering crowd of spectators. Hundreds of soldiers line up to enter and depart the "Hot Coffee and Refreshment" and "Water" stand and "Dining Saloon Free for Volunteers"; officers direct foot traffic onto the train; and other soldiers enter the adjacent "Post Office" and are greeted by women in front of a row of adjoining row homes. Also shows the O.K. House in the background, the fence of "W. Thorn Lehigh & Schuylkill Coal Yard," and an American flag marked "Union for Ever" adorning the saloon. Interior views, framed by scroll ornaments, shows a line of soldiers at, and others waiting for a row of wash basins at the "Washing Department"; the "Interior of the Dining Saloon Free for Union Volunteers" where soldiers wait in line for food, eat standing up at tables, and are served by female volunteers; and civilian spectators watching the men volunteers of the "Cooking Department" attend cauldrons atop ovens, and carry baskets of food and large coffee pots. Also contains facsimile signatures of saloon supporters and a vignette portrait of General Winfield Scott below the image. Portrait framed by a laurel wreath held in the beak of an eagle surrounded by American flags, a fasces, cannons, and a banner reading "Respectfully dedicated by the Committee to Winfield Scott General in Chief of the U.S.A." Situated at the transportation hub between the North and the South on land leased en gratis from the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad, the agency provided meals, hospital care, washing, sleeping, and writing facilities to military personnel, refugees, and freedmen. It served over 800,000 men, 1,025,000 meals before closing., Second state., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 813.2, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 32 U 58b (3 copies). Two of HSP copies contain blind stamp of B.S. Brown.
Creator: Boell, William
Date: c1861
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W438.2 [P.9001.2]

Title: Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Saloon, the first opened for Union Volunteers in the United States. 1009 Otsego St. Philadelphia
Description: Print containing an exterior and interior view of the Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Saloon situated near the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad station, the transportation hub between the North and the South. Exterior view shows recently arrived troops marching toward and into the saloon passed civilians and intermingling soldiers, including Zouaves. Banners and flags promoting the Cooper Shop and soliciting contributions adorn the saloon buildings. Interior view shows the saloon committee gathered in the dining hall in front of a long table at which soldiers dine. Female volunteers attend to the men who also stand at a dining bar. Also shows officers dining at a smaller table to the right next to an unidentified woman, possibly Mrs. William M. Cooper, posed near the committee. The names of the thirty committee members are printed below the image. Also contains the figure of liberty astride an eagle in front of a banner printed "Unanimitas Hodie Et In Aeterum Virtus, Libertas et Indepentia." The Saloon, established in 1861 in the old cooperage of William M. Cooper & Co., was a volunteer relief agency that provided meals, hospital care, washing, sleeping, and writing facilities to over 400, 000 military personnel, refugees, and freedmen., Depicted committee members include S.W. Nickles; E.S. Cooper; L.W. Thornton; E.T. Hall; Philip Fitzpatrick; J. Coward; Thomas H. Rice; A.H. Cairn; Isaac Plant; Wm. R.S. Cooper; B. Frank Palmer; C.V. Fort; H.W. Pearce; Capt. A.O. Davis; William M. Maull; E. Herety; A.M. Simpson; William Sprole; R.G. Simpson; J.J. Hill; William H. Dennis; L.B.M. Dolby; Jacob Plant; Walter R. Melon; R.H. Ransley; T.L. Coward; Wm. H. Morrison; and H.H. Webb., Copyrighted by Wm. M. Cooper, C.V. Fort & Co., (i.e., Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Saloon Committee), Contains the seal of the Cooper Shop Refreshment Saloon blindstamped on the recto., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 160, Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 32 C7849., Original watercolor of exterior scene held in the collections of HSP., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War volunteer saloons and hospitals materials.
Creator: Traubel, M. H. (Morris H.), 1820-1897
Date: c1862
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W85 [5778.F Cooper Shop]

Title: View of Camp Gallegher [sic] 13th Pennsylvania Cavalry, 2d Battalion. near Falls of Schuylkill
Description: View showing the Civil War camp under the command of Col. James A. Galligher. Soldiers drill on foot and on horseback in front of drill sergeants, officers-in-charge, and camp visitors, including men, women, and children. Also shows rows of tents; flagpoles; and a horse-drawn streetcar from the Girard College and Manayunk line passing the campgrounds. Also includes the names and ranks of the commanding officers and their respective companies below the image., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 785, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War views., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Upper right corner repaired., Illegible inscription upper left corner.
Creator: Boell, William
Date: [ca. 1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Military [5779.F.62]

Title: Philadelphia Zouave Corps Pennsylvania Volunteers
Description: Shows the troops of the 114th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, led by four drummers and four buglers marching past the old City Hall, Independence Hall, and Congress Hall on the 500 block of Chestnut Street. The commanders, wearing caps, long jackets, and pants, march in front and beside the men attired in their turbans, cropped jackets, and baggy pantaloons. Several spectators, including a girl hold a pail next to a man in an apron, line the street. An American and French flag frame and are integrated into the side borders of the view., Manuscript note on recto: A M. T. Batiste Saulane membre honoraire de la compagnie des Philadelphia Zouaves End. [Gaudin?] captaine, Philadelphia on Stone, POS 601, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 525 Q 3
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: [ca. 1861]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 525 Q 3

Title: Mower U.S.A. General Hospital, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia
Description: View showing the Civil War hospital, built in 1862 after the designs of Philadelphia architect John McArthur, Jr. between Stenton, Germantown, Springfield and Abington avenues opposite the Chestnut Hill track of the Reading Railroad (7900-8000 blocks Stenton Avenue). Hospital contains a central complex of administrative and utility buildings, and radiating hospital wards. A train approaches the station at which people wait opposite the hospital. Trees surround the complex. Also shows a neighboring factory building and visitors walking toward the entrance of the hospital and on the grounds., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 491, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 15 M 936
Creator: Andrews, W. S., artist
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 15 M 936

Title: Citizens Volunteer Hospital, corner of Broad St. & Washington Avenue
Description: Print containing a montage of 11 exterior and interior views of the volunteer hospital opened September 5, 1862 opposite the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad depot. Central view shows a bustling street scene outside of the hospital. Horse-drawn carriages, possibly including an ambulance, arrive and depart; injured soldiers are carried by stretcher and assisted by fellow soldiers to the building; male and female pedestrians converse and traverse the streets; two boys attempt to help a man with his valise; and Zouaves patronize a female vendor's stand. Other views show the "Interior of Hospital" where women volunteers and doctors attend to bed-ridden soldiers; the "Kitchen" equipped with an ice box, cooking stove, and heating stove where two women prepare food on a counter; the "Dining Room" in which several soldiers eat at three long rows of tables near a heating stove; the "Laundry" room where women sort, fold, and wash cloths in a sink, near a large vat of boiling water; the "Ladies Kitchen" containing cupboards of dishware, a small cooking stove, and a rack of cooking utensils in which three women work; the "Wash Room" in which four men wash up at a trough of sinks; the "Drug Room" in which a pharmacist distills drugs for a soldier and women volunteer in front of a wall of medicinal bottles; a female volunteer at the counter of the "Store Room" attended by a man surrounded by several shelves packed with supplies; the "Bath Room" lined with tubs in which a soldier begins to undress; and female volunteers setting tables in the "Officers Dining Room.", Also includes two American flags draped over the borders of one of the views. The hospital provided care to the most seriously injured before their reassignment to other hospitals. Closed on August 11, 1865., Philadelphia on Stone, Library of Congress: PGA - Queen--Citizens ... (D size) [P&P], Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 15 C 581 b copy 1, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 15 C 581 b copy 2, HSP copy 2 missing blue tint stone.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: [ca. 1862]
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PGA - Queen--Citizens ... (D size) [P&P]

Title: Synagogue for the Congregation Rodef Sholam [sic], s.e. corner Broad & Mount Vernon Strts. Phila
Description: Exterior view showing the Moorish-style synagogue built 1869 after the designs of Fraser, Furness, & Hewitt. In the foreground, couples and families, including children tugging eagerly at their guardians in site of something out of view, walk in the street. Building razed in 1925. Congregation was founded in 1795 as the first Ashkenazic synagogue established in the Western Hemisphere., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 733, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 133 R 687
Date: 1869
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 133 R 687

Title: United Firemen's Insurance Company, Philadelphia. Office no. 723 Arch Street Insure buildings household furniture & merchandise generally from loss by fire. C.B. Andress prest. W.A. Rolin tresr. W.H. Fagen secy
Description: Advertisement containing a firefighting scene to promote the insurance company chartered April 2, 1860 by members of old volunteer fire departments. Shows several volunteer companies of firefighters racing past Independence Hall to a fire on the south side of Chestnut Street. In the foreground, a police officer waves to volunteers commandeering a hose carriage and horse-drawn steam engine that is chased by a dog. The hose truck is attached to a fire hydrant. In the distance, spectators run toward the fire where other firefighters use a steam engine to battle the flames., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 773, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Society Collection - Posters & Broadsides - Advertisements - Miscellaneous Folder 2 - United
Creator: Boell, William
Date: [ca. 1866]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Society Collection - Posters & Broadsides - Advertisements - Miscellaneous Folder 2 - United

Title: Firemen's furnishing house. Fire hats, belts, fatigue caps, shirts, &c. J.M. Migeod & Son 27 South Eighth St. Philada. Manufacturers of firemen's, military & society goods Service and parade horns, lanterns, torches, spanners, metal badges, ball badges, marshal's badges, sashes and batons for parades. Mourning draperies for hose carriages and steamers, feather plumes for horses, flags, banners and markers. Gold and silver fringe and trimmings, gloves of all kinds, woolen neck ties, coat buttons ad covers, firemen's pictures. Military & fire companies and societies fitted out with every article required
Description: Advertisement containing vignettes, and firefighting, military, and patriotic iconography. Central scene shows firefighers rushing equipment to and battling a building on fire during the evening. Other vignettes show a military parade and a masonic parade. Iconography includes an American eagle clutching a bundle of firefighting tools, American flags, men in Zouave and firefighting uniforms, a firefighter's and dress calvary helmet. The business J.M. Migeod was renamed J.M. Migeod & Son in 1866., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 254, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Society Collection - Posters & Broadsides - Advertisements - Miscellaneous Folder 2, Haehnlen operated a lithography studio until ca. 1873.
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Society Collection - Posters & Broadsides - Advertisements - Miscellaneous Folder 2

Title: Armory of the First Troop Philadelphia City Calvary
Description: View of the first permanent First City Troop armory erected in 1863 at 21st and Ludlow streets below Market Street. Shows mounted members of the troop, including a bugler making a call, creating a formation on the street beside the building. Troop members on foot enter the building and walk on the sidewalk as two on mounts exit from the side of the armory. Also shows civilian spectators and pedestrians, including a gentleman tipping his hat to a couple of ladies. Armory was rebuilt in 1874. The First City Troop, a private military organization and one of the oldest continually mounted U.S. military units, was organized in 1774 to defend against British invasion., Manuscript note on recto: With kind regards to Thomas Wallis, son of Genl. H. S. Huidekoper, W. S. Vols. From the General's comrade in the field., Inscribed on recto: 21st St. South of Market., Inscribed on verso: Walter Huidekoper May 8, 1944., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 24, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 5 P 544, Trimmed.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 5 P 544

Title: P.S. Duval & Son's lithographic establishment, s.w. corner of 5th & Minor sts. (near Chestnut.) Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement containing a view of a chemistry laboratory during the middle ages. Shows the chemist and his assistants performing experiments surrounded by flasks of chemical solutions, books, a cauldron, and a fish hanging from the ceiling. Scene surrounded by an ornate border containing flags, flowers, chemical packets, and equipment used in chemistry including flasks, mortars, and burners. Also contains advertising text lithographed on the verso announcing the employment by Duval & Son of James Queen as superintendent of their drawing department. Text also promotes the ability of the firm to "execute any style of work" including portraits, anatomical and engineer drawings, views of factories, show cards, bill heads, and circulars., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 121
Creator: P.S. Duval & Son
Date: [ca. 1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Advertisements - D [(2)5786.F.121a]

Title: Grand Union ball in honor of the recent brilliant victories achieved by the land and naval forces of the United States, at the Academy of Music, Tuesday evening, March 4, 1862
Description: Advertisement containing a gothic-style ornamental border surrounding text providing the date of the ball, names of sponsors, ticket information, and entertainment details. Border includes vignettes of cherubs; allegorical figures representing the arts including painting, sculpture, and music; a portrait of George Washington; a mythical scene; and a view. Scene shows a bare-chested woman on a horse being attacked by a tiger surrounded by symbols of industry, science, and the humanities. View shows a seventeenth-century landing party aboard a skiff. Sponsors include Alexander Henry, Commodore C.J. Pendegrast, and Capt. W.S. Ogden. Master of Ceremonies was M[iecislaw] Hlasko (a dancing and gymnastics teacher who offered drill classes at his physical institute) and music was under the direction of the Hassler Brothers., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 97, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies.
Creator: Weeber, L., lithographer
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Advertisements - A [(2)5786.F.147a]

Title: Rail shooting on the Delaware
Description: Genre print showing two men standing in a small boat navigating through the tall reeds and lily pads of a marshy section of the Delaware River. The gentleman in the front of the boat is poised to shoot a rail, a slow and steady game bird, while the man in the back poles slowly through the water., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, Smithsonian Institution, NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection: DL*60.2797
Date: c1866
Location: Smithsonian Institution | NMAH Home and Community Life Collection SI NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection [DL*60.2797]

Title: [Marriage certificate]
Description: Marriage certificate from a Bible illustrated with an ornate border containing a romantic scene. Scene shows a couple sailing in a gondola adorned with a garland of flowers. Border also includes flowers, vinery, doves, tassels, drapery, clasped hands, and the Bible., Title supplied by cataloguer., Copyrighted by William Flint. Name of copyright holder from duplicate (15129.Q)., Copyright statement partially illegible., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 143
Date: c1868
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1868 This 14333.Q [Roughwood]

Title: [Marriage certificate]
Description: Marriage certificate illustrated with an ornate border containing a romantic scene. Scene shows a couple, accompanied by the female allegorical figure Love, sailing in a gondola. Love holds an arrow and torch and the gondola is adorned with a garland of flowers. Border also includes flowers, vinery, doves, the Bible, and clasped hands over the Biblical quote "What God hath joined together let not man put asunder, Matth. XIX.6.", Title supplied by cataloguer., Copyrighted by J.R. Jones in Washington, D.C., Not in Wainwright., Issued to Mr. Daniel S. Schaeffer of Fleetwood Berks co. Pa. and Miss Mary F. Potteiger of Jefferson Twp. Berks Co. Pa. on September 4, 1875. Signed by Rev. Thomas Calvin Leinbach of Womelsdorf. Witnessed by Adam N. Potteiger and Adam S. bright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 144
Date: c1870
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 14342.Q [Roughwood]

Title: [Marriage certificate]
Description: Marriage certificate from a Bible illustrated with an ornate border containing a romantic scene. Scene shows a couple sailing in a gondola adorned with a garland of flowers. Border also includes flowers, vinery, doves, tassels, drapery, clasped hands, and the Bible. Certificate attached to a record sheet for marriages and births. Birth section contains annotations., Title supplied by cataloguer., Copyrighted by William Flint., Copy 15129.Q [Roughwood] records the marriage of Daniel Kemmer of Ober Wilford and Maryan Sangler of Wilford Bucks on August 10, 1867 at Fogelsville by William W. Kelfrich, Reformirfer Prediger., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 145/146, One of prints [P.2009.12] gift of David Doret.
Date: c1868
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 15129.Q [Roughwood], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Certificates [P.2009.12]

Title: Specimen of coloring printing, from wood cuts
Description: Specimen showing a bunch of flowers. Cornices contain rose details. George S. Harris established his printing business, which specialized in labels, in 1847. In 1852, he relocated to Fourth and Vine Streets where he operated as George S. Harris until 1872 when he partnered with his son George T. Harris and renamed the business George Harris & Son., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 85, Forms part of Specimens Album [P.9349].
Creator: Harris, George S.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.171i]

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: First annual prize exhibition of the Philadelphia Sketch Club held at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts December 1865
Description: Poster containing seated figures incorporated into the lettering to promote the exhibition of the professional artists' club founded in 1860. Figures include a female muse working with a sketch, and cherubic boys sculpting a bust and painting from a palette. Letters designed as trees, vinery, and a fish tail., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 80, Stein & Jones established in 1859 was active under that name until the death of Stein in 1871., Cresson, an illustrator, was an early member and served as secretary of the club 1863-1864.
Creator: Cresson, William Emlen, 1843-1868, artist
Date: [1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.75b]

Title: First annual prize exhibition of the Philadelphia Sketch Club held in New York January 1866
Description: Poster containing Gothic-style lettering bordering a central vignette. Vignette depicts an oval-framed mid-length portrait of a lady in medieval attire holding a pencil and sketchpad. The lady's hand with pencil ascends outside of the frame. The professional artists' club was founded in 1860., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 79, Stein & Jones established in 1859 was active under that name until the death of Stein in 1871.
Date: [1866]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.75a]

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: [Interior and exterior of the Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon hospital, southwest corner of Washington and Swanson Avenues, Philadelphia]
Description: Proof print containing side by side views of the volunteer hospital situated at the transportation hub between the North and the South. Interior view (left) shows a hospital ward. Mainly empty beds line the walls, including a small draped off area, and a male and female volunteer (carrying a tray of medicine) attend to two patients, one seated, and the other in a bed. The ward also includes a stove, books resting on a draped table, and framed prints adorning the walls. Exterior view (right) shows a patient arriving by gurney outside of the small hospital building that is adorned with a flag pole and eagle ornament. A volunteer waits by the open door as children and female passers-by watch the scene. Also includes two boys playing on a wood gate, two dogs in the street, and the main building of the volunteer saloon in the background., Attributed to James Queen., Not in Wainwright., Title supplied by cataloger., Philadelphia on Stone, Library of Congress: DLC-PP-1997: 105 Queen prints and drawings (C size)-55 prints Saloon Hospital
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC DLC-PP-1997: 105 Queen prints and drawings (C size)-55 prints Saloon Hospital

Title: Second grand ball of the Lithographic Printers Union On Monday ev'g May 18th 1863 at the Musical Fund Hall
Description: Invitation to the second grand ball for the Lithographic Printers Union illustrated by three vignettes, including a man drawing on a stone in a studio; men and women dancing at a ball; and a man rolling ink onto a stone. The title and illustrations are surrounded and separated by cherubs and filigree enlaced with flowers., Not in Wainwright., On recto in fine print: Master of ceremonies: Henry Morris. Floor managers: John Tolland, John Collins, James Deady, T.S. Whitehead, Wm. Smith. Committee: J.P. Tolland, John Collins, James Deady, T.S. Whitehead, Henry Morris, A.L. Wiese, Peter Alexander, J.N. Conklin., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 205, The constitution and by-laws of the Lithographic Printers Union were instituted on February 28, 1854. Fred C. Munson, "History of the Lithographers Union," p. 1, suggests that a lithographic trade union existed in Philadelphia as early as 1843.
Creator: Bigot, Alphonse, ca. 1828-1872 or 3, artist
Date: 1863
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *trade cards - Lithographic Printers Union [P.9349.277]

Title: Freiheit Edelmuth & Bruderliebe, Unabhangiger Orden der Rothmaenner [membership certificate]
Description: Membership certificate for the Pocahantas Chapter of the Independent Order of Redmen at Philadelphia. Print contains seven small vignettes depicting scenes from the life of Pocahontas, the treaty between William Penn and the American Indians, and other scenes of Native American life. A larger scene showing a Native American chief addressing a group gathered around a fire surmounts the text. Vignettes of Native Americans hunting (left) and a Native American man providing a white man with a drink (right) flank the scene. At the bottom, an American Indian and a white man sit on a globe showing the Western Hemishere, clasping hands and holding a peace pipe. The vignettes are surrounded by intertwined icanthus leaves. Includes a red embossed seal in the lower left corner., Not in Wainwright., Issued to Otto Gratz on February 10, 1863. Signed by John Rumig and Heinrich Bissout., Includes a red embossed seal in the lower left corner., Philadelphia on Stone, Smithsonian Institution, NMAH, Home and Community Life Collection: *60.2396
Creator: Feusier, A.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Smithsonian Institution | NMAH Home and Community Life Collection SI NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection [DL *60.2396]

Title: Independence Square recruiting camps
Description: Trade card depicting well-dressed children on the central promenade of Independence Square when used as Camp Independence, Civil War recruitment camp, in September and October 1862. Tents manned by soldiers line the promenade and the children who carry drums, flags, and a hoop, walk between a group of men and a mother and son. Mary Shoemaker operated from 2 North Eighth Street circa 1862-circa 1864., Printed on recto: Childrens Central Clothing Emporium. M. Shoemaker No. 2 North Eighth Street Philadelphia., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 380, Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Philadelphia on Stone
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, lithographer
Date: 1862
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W183 [(2)5786.F.138b]

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: Thos. S. Dixon & Sons, 1324 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Manufacturers of low-down & elevated grates, furnaces, ranges, &c All our grates are made either low down or elevated & finished in each of the different styles
Description: Advertisement depicting nine types of fireplace grates for burning coal and wood. Includes Dixons' Low Down Grate (Polished ) (Plate 1); Dixon's Elevated Grate (Polished) (Plate 2); Dixon's Elevated Grated (Japanned) (Plate 3); Dixon's Low Down Grate (Japanned & Ornamented) (Plate 4); Dixon's Low Down Grate (Red Metal) (Plate 5); Dixon's Low Down Grate Dead Ground (with Japd square Plate) (Plate 6); Dixon's Wood Black Grate (Polished) (Plate 7); Dixon's Wood Back (Polished Front) (Plate 8); and Dixon's Low Down Grate (Polished in Mantel) (unnumbered). Some of the grates are depicted with coals or burning wood., Manuscript notes in lithographic ink printed on recto give the patent number (594-602) and date of deposit (August 17, 1867) for each of the grates., Manuscript note in lithographic ink on recto: Filed August 16, 1867 by Thos S. Dixon & Sons Proprs., Copyrighted by Thomas S. Dixon & Sons., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 253, Duplicate in the collections of the Print and Photograph Department of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Creator: Boell, William
Date: c1867
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Advertisements [8097.F.1]

Title: Citizens Volunteer Hospital. Corner of Broad St. and Washington Avenue
Description: Fundraising certificate containing views of the exterior and interior of the volunteer hospital opened September 5, 1862 opposite the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad depot. Exterior view shows civilians and a troop of Union soldiers standing in front of the hospital as a train arrives. Interior view shows rows of beds lining a central hallway. Women volunteers attend to bed-ridden soldiers and set a long table for a meal. Framed by decorative motifs including the seal of Philadelphia; angels hovering above an able-bodied and an injured soldier in front of columns inscribed "The Glory of the Volunteer"; American flags; and floral elements. The hospital provided care to the most seriously injured before their reassignment to other hospitals. Closed on August 11, 1865., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 130, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 15 C 581, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of material concerning Civil War volunteer saloons and hospitals.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W68 [5778.F Citizens Volunteer]

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: Philadelphia Carnival. Easter Monday Night April 18th 1881 at the Academy of Music
Description: Ticket depicting a festive scene for the Philadelphia Carnival Bal Masque organized by the Maennechor Society, the city's German singing society. Scene depicts a man masquerading as a jester in a red costume breaking out of an egg-shaped prop (adorned with the date and location of the event) that lies on the back of a man costumed as a clown. The clown is attired in a white ensemble and is prone, lying on his stomach, and propped up by his hands. The clown wears a pointed hat, ruffled collar, wide-sleeved shirt, and blue-striped pants. Another jester, attired in a red head dress, blue shirt, and tan leggings, stands and watches to the left of the cracking egg from which his fellow jester propels himself. Above the standing jester, a putti pulls up a green drape with gold trim. In the right, in front of the clown and jester in red, a man with long blonde hair and costumed in colonial-era attire bows. He holds a tri-corn hat in his hand and wears a dark-brown coat, blue pantaloons, red shoes, and a flowing gold cape. In the right background, stands a group of male and female spectators costumed as a renaissance man, scullery maid, bald-headed clown, wizard, knight, and Quaker couple. The Maennerchor Society's Carnival Bal Masque began about 1864 and continued throughout at least the 1890s. The Carnival was usually a charity event and included masquerade, music, singing, dancing, and tableaux., Title and date from item., Contains gilt border., Purchased with funds for the Visual Culture Program (Junto Fund 2015).
Date: [1881]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ephemera - Tickets - P [P.2017.92.1]

Title: T. Sinclair's lithographic establishment removed from 311 Chestnut to 506 & 508 North St. bet. Market & Arch Bonds, maps, certificates, bill heads, circulars, show cards, checks, labels, scientific plates. Drawings of every description and chromo lithography in the finest style of the art
Description: Advertisement for the Philadelphia lithographer containing a whimsical scene with costumed figures in a theater box. Thomas Sinclair started his lithographic career in Philadelphia ca. 1838 and in 1840 operated his own establishment. Sinclair relocated to North Street in 1868., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 94, American Antiquarian Society: Graphic Arts Ephemera Late Trade Print 0113
Creator: Sinclair, Thomas S., ca. 1805-1881
Date: [1868]
Location: American Antiquarian Society AAS Graphic Arts Ephemera Late Trade Print 0113

Title: F. Moras’ Lithographic Establishment, Philadelphia. 610 Jayne Street
Description: Trade card for Moras, a German-born lithographer who established his own firm in 1853 from which he retired in 1890. The firm continued to operate until the late 1890s. Contains two vignettes separated and bordered by Gothic details, vinery, and scrolls. Vignettes show a lithographer and a lithograph printing room. Lithographic artist uses a hand rest and draws on stone from a sketch displayed on his sketch table. Printing room scene shows printers at work, including rolling ink on stones on hand-presses, checking proof prints, and moving stones. Also shows lithographic stones resting against a support column and the rooms adorned with wall lamps., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 29, Library of Congress: DLC/PP-1997:105 Queen Prints - 23 (AA size) F. Moras
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC DLC/PP-1997:105 Queen Prints - 23 (AA size) F. Moras

Title: Office of Thomas Sinclair's Lithographic Establishment, 506 & 508 North Street, Philadelphia. [billhead] Chromo lithography in the finest style of art. Drawings of every description
Description: Billhead for the Philadelphia lithographer containing a vignette showing the bust-profile of a woman wearing exotic attire and smelling a flower. Sinclair relocated to 506-508 North Street in 1868. The firm was renamed Thomas Sinclair & Son in 1873 after his son joined the firm in 1870., Not in Wainwright., Issued to Messrs. Rice, Goddard Co. for the amount $519.50., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 67, American Antiquarian Society: Lithf Sinc Offi
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: American Antiquarian Society AAS Graphic Arts Lithf Sinc Offi

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: Great Central Fair for the Sanitary Commission [certificate]
Description: Certificate of appreciation for work with the "Committee on the Restaurant of the Great Central Fair" containing a border of scenes and vignettes depicting the presence of the Sanitary Commission at the battlefront. Shows commission supply wagons arriving and depositing crates of goods at a campsite; soldiers assisting other soldiers in walking, receiving refreshments, and being transported by a gurney; and an unloaded crate of bottles of beverages, oranges, tins, and bandages. Also contains the seal of "The Great Central Fair for the U.S. Sanitary Commission." Seal depicts the female figure of Charity handing a glass to a soldier attending a wounded soldier., Not in Wainwright., Issued to Rebecca W. English on June 25, 1864. Signed by Jno. Welsh, Chairman of Executive Committee; Mary McHenry, Chairman of Ladies Committee on the Restaurant; Mrs. G. T. Lewis, Vice Chairman; F. P. Steel, Treasurer; Mary P. Norris, Treasurer., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 328, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 8 D 983, Accompanied by P.S. Duval & Son 's "Great Central Fair Buildings, Philadelphia" souvenir card.
Date: [1864]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Ba 8 D 983

Title: Unabhangiger Deutscher Orden der Harugari. Dieses diploma [certificate]
Description: Certificate written in German for the German Order of the Harugari composed of text surrounded by eight allegorical vignettes, symbols of the fraternal order, and filigree and scrollwork. The top vignette depicts a robed, bearded man holding a staff. Other vignettes depict a robed female figure holding a liberty pole; two men with shovels in the woods; a mother and father consoling a young child; a group of men standing near an open grave; a husband and wife standing next to their bedridden child; a man held by soldiers awaiting crucifixion; and a man being arrested. Symbols of the fraternal order include a handshake, a winged hourglass, crossed canes, a skeleton with a scythe, gavels bound with a ribbon, crossed swords, a skull and crossbones, a heart in hand, three crossed arrows, a half moon, a beehive with farm implements and an open Bible. Includes the society's seal at the bottom. Secret society founded in 1847., Not in Wainwright., Issued to Otto Gratz, Humboldt Loge No. 71, Philadelphia, 15 Marz 1868. Signed Albr. Loechner O.B. and Wm. Zimmermann Secr., Majority of inscription illegible., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 258, Smithsonian Institution, NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection: DL*60.2405, Herline & Hensel operated their lithographic establishment from 632 Chestnut Street 1862-1866.
Date: ca. 1865
Location: Smithsonian Institution | NMAH Home and Community Life Collection SI NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection [DL*60.2405]

Title: Cut outs of firefighting scenes from The Fire Insurance Company of the County of Philadelphia advertisement
Description: First cutout is captioned "1800" and is within a border containing a banner reading "Incorporated 1832 Charter Perpetual." Shows several volunteers, attired in long coats and top hats, operating a hand-pumper engine near a pond of water and water pump during the day. Other men operate the water pump and use buckets to collect water from the pond as flames shoot from two windows of a building in the background. Two volunteer firefighters, including Joseph Tipler of the United States Engine Company, in uniform flank the scene. The second firefighter's shirt and hat is adorned with "1." Second cutout is captioned "1866" and is surrounded by a border of filigree. Shows several volunteers, during the evening, using steam engines to battle the blaze of two multi-story buildings. Men run and operate hoses from the ground and by ladder, pull equipment, and direct their fellow firefighters. Some volunteers hold an ax or a horn. United States Engine Company was incorporated in 1832., Title supplied by cataloguer., Attributed to Breuker & Kessler from duplicate print in auction catalog., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 169, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Firefighting Album Am 3989 Cutouts
Date: [ca. 1866]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Firefighting Album Am 3989 Cutout 1, Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Firefighting Album Am 3989 Cutout 2

Title: Cut outs of firefighting scenes from The Fire Insurance Company of the County of Philadelphia advertisement
Description: First cutout is captioned "1800" and is within a border containing a banner reading "Incorporated 1832 Charter Perpetual." Shows several volunteers, attired in long coats and top hats, operating a hand-pumper engine near a pond of water and water pump during the day. Other men operate the water pump and use buckets to collect water from the pond as flames shoot from two windows of a building in the background. Two volunteer firefighters, including Joseph Tipler of the United States Engine Company, in uniform flank the scene. The second firefighter's shirt and hat is adorned with "1." Second cutout is captioned "1866" and is surrounded by a border of filigree. Shows several volunteers, during the evening, using steam engines to battle the blaze of two multi-story buildings. Men run and operate hoses from the ground and by ladder, pull equipment, and direct their fellow firefighters. Some volunteers hold an ax or a horn. United States Engine Company was incorporated in 1832., Title supplied by cataloguer., Attributed to Breuker & Kessler from duplicate print in auction catalog., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 169, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Firefighting Album Am 3989 Cutouts
Date: [ca. 1866]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Firefighting Album Am 3989 Cutout 1, Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Firefighting Album Am 3989 Cutout 2

Title: Great Central Fair buildings, Philadelphia
Description: Souvenir card after the chromolithograph of the exhibition grounds at Logan Square printed and for sale daily at the fair. Shows the square from the northwest, including the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul in the background. The Great Central or Sanitary Fair of June 1864, displayed art, craft, and historical exhibits to benefit the soldier relief organization, the U.S. Sanitary Commission., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 66 variant, Originally part of McAllister scrapbook on the Sanitary Commission., Housed with chromolithograph 5781.F.1.
Creator: P.S. Duval & Son
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W35 (variant) [(2)5781.F.53c]

Title: P.S. Duval, Son & Co. Designers & lithographer Philadelphia Portraits & all subjects of fine arts executed in chromo
Description: Frontispiece advertisement containing a Western-themed scene set within a mirror-shaped panel with Victorian details. Scene shows a canyon valley in which miners prepare to depart from their log cabin base. The men sit on logs and a wagon loaded with small crates, carry picks, and engage in discussion. In the background, miners pick at rocks near a waterfall emptying into a stream within the valley. The oval-shape image is bordered by the figure of a Native American man holding a gun and a pipe, and an African American man holding a hoe, smoking a pipe, and seated next to a plant on the base of the panel. Floral details and an American flag adorn the upper frame of the oval. The Duval firm operated under the name P.S. Duval & Son or P.S Duval, Son & Co. circa 1857-circa 1879., Not in Wainwright., Published in Edwin Freedley's Philadelphia and its manufactures: a hand-Book of the great manufactories and representative mercantile houses of Philadelphia, in 1867 (Philadelphia: Edward Young & Co., 1867(Philadelphia: Edward Young & Co., 1867), frontispiece., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 71
Creator: P.S. Duval & Son
Date: [1867]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1867 Free 55213.O.frontispiece

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: Entered apprentice. Fellow-craft. Master mason
Description: Print containing masonic iconography to depict the three degrees of Freemasonry. Shows emblems and vignettes representing the benevolent fraternal organization, including the "Three Graces" of Faith, Hope, and Charity; the "Three Pillars," i.e., Ionic, Doric, and Corinthian columns of ancient Greek architecture, representing wisdom, strength, and beauty; allegorical figures and symbols of time, justice, and truth; the theological ladder; mosaic pavement; the masonic charter, by laws, constitution, apron, plumb, square, level, and compass; the Holy Scripture and eye of God; the high hill and low vale; symbols of industriousness; and tools of masonry. Also includes a lamb (i.e., innocence), the three steps of life, a coffin, and pot of incense (i.e., pure heart)., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 65, Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Rosenthal, L. N. (Louis N.), lithographer
Date: c1864
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Organizations [P.2006.31.12]

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: Birds-eye view of property on Alleghany Avenue Philadelphia 25th Ward formerly 19th looking S.E. from Frankford Road
Description: Bird's eye view designed as a grid plan looking southeast from Frankford Road (Northeast Philadelphia) toward the Delaware River showing the city between Westmoreland Street and a few blocks south of Columbia Street. Predominately depicts the open land surrounding the Aramingo Canal, Reading Railroad Depot between Lehigh Avenue and Somerset Street, and the Philadelphia, Trenton, and New York Railroad line. A few dwellings, churches, and other structures comprise the landscape with clusters and heavier congestion of buildings visible near Columbia Street. In the foreground, dwellings, most with plots of ground, a church, and the "Second & Third Street Passenger Railway Depot" line Frankford Road. Two street cars, one marked "Second & Third St.," travel in the street. In the background, congested blocks of buildings forms the majority of the cityscape. View also includes the Port Richmond railroad terminus; a train traveling on the Philadelphia, Trenton and New York Railroad line; locomotives pulling coal cars on the Reading Railroad line; industrial buildings; a small number of trees; and street names. The 25th Ward comprised of parts of the 19th and 23rd wards was formed in 1861. View possibly related to the Junction project, a project commissioned by the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore, the Pennsylvania, and the Reading Railroad to create a non-stop route between New York and Washington. By 1863, a stop gap all-rail passenger service through Philadelphia had been initiated., Copyrighted by R. Weir., Publication information supplied by duplicate in the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 54, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Creator: Boell, William
Date: [c1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W29 [P.2013]

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