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- Title
- C.H. Garden & Co. 606 & 608 Market St. Philada. Fall 1875 Memorial Building, Centennial International Exhibition. Philadelphia 1776-1876
- Description
- Circular advertisement for the hat manufacturer established in 1841. Contains captioned images of 66 types of men's and children's hats for the "Fall" season of 1875. Captions detail style, finish, and colors. In tribute to the upcoming Centennial Exhibition, vignette at top depicts the proposed design for Memorial Hall, i.e., the Arts Gallery at the Centennial. View includes pedestrian traffic. Internal text promotes the quality and styles of men's and boys' hats offered, including fine soft hats, fur and wool hats, winter caps, dress caps, and black silk conductor and imported Scotch caps. Text on verso advertises "Ladies & Gent's Buckskin & Kid Gloves"; "Ladies' and Misses' Furs" and the "Millinery Department. Ladies & Misses Trimmed Hats" in addition to the request that orders contain the correct number of the style listed on the circular., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, American Antiquarian Society: Graphic Arts Lithff Mora Memo
- Date
- August 1875
- Location
- American Antiquarian Society AAS Graphic Arts Lithff Mora Memo
- Title
- Darlington, Runk & Co. Hosiery & underwear for fall & winter 1879 [pocket cicrular]
- Description
- Circular containing an exterior view of the three-story storefront for the dry goods store at 1126-1128 Chestnut Street on the back cover. Horse-drawn carriages travel in the street, pedestrians walk on the sidewalk, and sections of adjacent buildings are partially visible. Also contains advertising text printed internally., Not in Wainwright., pdcp00052, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana, POSP 47
- Date
- [ca. 1879]
- Location
- Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana
- Title
- Green's August Flower and Boschee's German Syrup. Portfolio of views in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia Presented by R.D. Pulford, druggist, Mineral Point, Wis
- Description
- Eight-page foldout advertisement for George Gill Green's "August Flower" and "Boschee's German Syrup" containing advertising text pages and five views of Fairmount Park including the Fairmount Water Works and Resevoir, originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff. Also shows horse-drawn carriages pulling men and women racing north on East River Drive under the New York Connecting Railway Bridge, built 1866-67 after designs by Joseph A. Wilson for the Pennsylvania Railroad. The Promontory Rock Tunnel, bored in 1871, is visible in the background. Other images include people leisurely rowing on a creek under the bridge to Lansdown Island; park visitors standing on a pathway that overlooks the Schuylkill River from the Fairmount Water Works; and men and women strolling, sitting, and traveling in horse-drawn carriages along Wissahickon Drive. Paragraphs of advertising text promote George Gill Green's "August Flower" as a "natural cathartic" that "corrects the acidity of the stomach," and "it is established fact in every town and village on this continent, that [Boschee's] German Syrup is the only remedy that has given satisfaction in severe cases of Lung Disease." Green was a patent medicine entrepreneur who purchased the rights of these two medicines from his father, Lewis M. Green., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 330
- Date
- [ca. 1876]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Helfand Trade Cards - Patent Medicine - G [P.9828.1686a]
- Title
- E. O. Thompson, merchant tailor, no. 908 Walnut St. Philadelphia Ready for the season. Please accept with the compliments of the proprietor this circular as a cordial invitation to visit his establishment
- Description
- Circular advertisement containing an "Interior view of E.O. Thompson's Merchant Tailoring Establishment, no. 908 Walnut Street, Philadelphia." Shows the elegantly furnished interior of the shop designed with a fresco ceiling and crown moldings. In the foreground, a display table lined with bolts of cloths stands in the center of the room. Surrounding furnishings include armoires, display dressers covered with bolts of cloth, large mirrors, and an ornate mantelpiece. Objet d'arts, books, and framed fashion plates adorn the mantel that is flanked by two wood chairs. A samovar on a small table stands in front of the mantelpiece. Framed fashion plates also adorn the walls in addition to chandeliers. In the background, four shop tailors trace patterns, and cut and measure cloth in a middle room that leads to another room with tables of cloth on display. Interior also includes an umbrella stand and wall clock. Covers of the circular show two full-length portraits of a younger and older man attired in suits. The younger wears a plaid suit and stands in front of a bureau displaying bolts of cloth. The older man wears a suit with a long coat and an overcoat. Both of the men hold hats. Cover and interior image also contain advertising text about the business hours, original and patented systems of cutting, and "nothing omitted essential to the business" and "everything and every effort to please." Thompson, a New York tailor, established his Philadelphia branch of his business in 1860, which expanded to include a ready-made clothing house in 1886. Thompson's sons Benjamin and E. O. Thompson, Jr. assumed the business in 1897., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 194, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Prints - Stores & Factories - Box 57, Folder 9, Inscribed: Mifflin Fund. October 31, 1955.
- Date
- [ca. 1875]
- Location
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania | Print Department | HSP at LCP HSP Prints - Stores & Factories - Box 57, Folder 9
- Title
- Plan for the permanent improvement of Independence Square Designed by George F. Gordon
- Description
- Circular illustration showing an oblique elevation looking southwest at Independence Square, situated between Fifth and Sixth Streets, and Chestnut and Walnut Streets, modified with George F. Gordon's proposed changes. Includes old City Hall built 1790-1791 after the designs of David Evans, Jr. (500 Chestnut); Independence Hall, built 1732-1748 after designs by Andrew Hamilton and Edmund Woolley (520 Chestnut Street); and Congress Hall built 1787-1789 (540-558 Chestnut). Eight equidistant walkways, "to be thirty feet wide, to be laid with variegated tile," radiate from the center to the corners of the square and are connected by a circular walk. Also shows the unexecuted Independence Monument (center), slated to be erected by the Thirteen Original States. Two fountains near Walnut Street demonstrate the creator's desire to beautify the square with "fountains, vases, statuary, and flower beds of all varieties"; and bronze statues on pedestals of the fifty-six signers of "The Declaration of Independence" lining the periphery of the square, which on three sides is completely open and accessible to pedestrians via granite steps. Statues of George Washington, William Penn, a group of Native Americans, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Daniel Webster, and Henry Clay would face Chestnut Street near Independence Hall., Contains passages of explicative text printed on verso. Text describes how to achieve this plan for the square. The old brick wall surrounding the square would be removed, along with the court house on Sixth Street, and the building occuppied by the Philosophical Society on Fifth Street. Gordon submitted his plan and description in January of 1875 "in the hope, that now, at last, in the Centennial hour of our nation, something may be done, worthy of the sacred place in our midst.", Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 605
- Creator
- Billings, H.B, artist
- Date
- 1874
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Parks & Squares [21095.O.7]