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Title: [A view of the Fairmount Water-Works with Schuylkill in the distance. Taken from the mount.] [graphic].
Description: LCP copy lacking title and imprint., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Date: 1838.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W008.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W8 [P.2004]

Title: View of the Fairmount Waterworks with Schuylkill in the distance. Taken from the mount. [graphic].
Description: LCP copy lacking title and imprint., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 88 B786.
Date: c1838.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W009.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W9 [P.2006]

Title: [A view of the Fairmount Water-Works with Schuylkill in the distance. Taken from the mount.]
Description: View looking west toward the Schuylkill River from Fairmount showing part of the Fairmount Water Works. Several elegantly-attired visitors traverse the site. In the foreground, individuals, including a couple, descend a walkway that leads to the gazebo on the mount. Within the pavilion, a number of men and woman traverse and enjoy the vista over the roof of the millhouse. A figure adorns the top of the open air gazebo and individuals descend the walkway and stairs that lead from that observation deck. More visitors stand in the doorways of the partially visible engine house to the far right of which, past the millhouse, the mound dam and gazebo are visible. On the west bank, the superintendant’s house of the Schuylkill Navigation Company stands across from the canal lock. A few buildings and several trees complete the landscape. In the river, a man fishes from one of a few rock formations, sailboats glide, waterfowl swim, and three teams of scullers drill near docks adjacent to the waterworks and bordering the east river bank. The sun peaks through one of some clouds visible on the horizon. The Fairmount Water Works were originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff., Title and publication information from duplicate in the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 796, LCP copy trimmed and lacking title and imprint., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Date: [1838]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W8 [P.2004]

Title: [Manufacturing cigars for the poodles. A sketch from the Havannah.]
Description: Print depicting West Indian Black men cigarmakers, portrayed in racist caricature, and their English customers criticizing the use of tobacco and the corrupt nature of enslaved labor. The cigarmakers, attired in sarongs or loinclothes and some with caps, speak in the vernacular, "You mak'a nice ting for Massa Poodle to suck." They soak tobacco, which is dripping wet and giving off a stench, in a large barrel labeled "hospital tub," and in their own urine and vomit to produce "high flavored" cigars. In the left, a Black man vomits into a basin filled with tobacco leaves and says, "What a tink! de smell mak'a me sick." In the right, a man squats and urinates into another basin filled with tobacco. Horrified British dandies look on while one comments, "Oh the Negers, is that the way they make the high flavored cigars, I'll never Suck another.", Title from duplicate copies at the William L. Clements Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan and The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut., Purchase 1991., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: October 5, 1827
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1827 [P.9345]

Title: Clermont Academy
Description: Handbill containing a view of the boy's boarding school built in 1804 for brothers John Thomas and Charles Carre at Heart Lane and Nicetown Lane, between Germantown and Frankford. School property includes landscaped lawns, a barn, and trees. A man approaches the entrance of the school where a woman waits at the door. Pupils are visible in the first floor windows. Also contains several paragraphs signed by administrator Samuel S. Griscom describing the school, including location, "Course of Instruction," "Terms for Tuition," and the school philosophy in addition to names of references. The school was acquired by Griscom in 1828., Variant of engraving "Clermont Seminary, near Philadelphia" from The Casket (April 1830)., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 142, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Print Collection - small - Schools & Colleges, Box 48, Folder 4
Date: [ca. 1830]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Print Collection - small - Schools & Colleges, Box 48, Folder 4

Title: Camp Dupont Advance Light Brigade, under Brigadier General Cadwalader
Description: View showing the War of 1812 camp for Pennsylvania volunteers above the Brandywine River, near Wilmington, De. In front of rows of tents, troops drill on foot, perform mock battles on horseback, and exercise their mounts. In the foreground, on the dirt road lining the fenced enclosure of the encampment, a man and supply wagon are stopped by sentries on guard as a carriage travels in the opposite direction. Camp Dupont was organized on Oak Hill in the spring of 1814 in response to the threat of British attack on the Dupont powder mills. The militia was largely comprised of volunteers from Philadelphia., Not in Wainwright., After aquatint originally published in The Martial Music of Camp Dupont (Philadelphia: George E. Blake, ca. 1816), Philadelphia on Stone, POS 78, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 54 D 928
Date: [ca. 1830]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Ba 54 D 928

Title: Billiards. J. Jeater's subscription room. No. 40, South 5th Street
Description: Advertisement showing the interior of the billiard hall operated by probably Joseph Jeater. At the corner of the table, a gentleman in shirt-sleeves lines up his cue stick to the billiard ball as his opponent watches on. Four gentlemen, two just arrived, watch the match. One stands and another sits beneath three framed pictures hanging on the wall. A gas lamp chandelier hangs over the billiard table., Title and publication information supplied by Wainwright., Inscribed on verso: Presented by Mrs. John C. Broome. Oct. 10, 1918., Artist possibly E. W. Clay., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 40, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 04 C 436, Trimmed.
Date: [1830]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 04 C 436

Title: Philadelphia taste displayed. Or, bon-ton below stairs
Description: Satiric scene showing high society, i.e., "bon-ton" in a Philadelphia oyster cellar. A "gentleman" descends the stairwell to the swankly decorated cellar where a motley gathering of men drink, smoke, gossip, and suck oysters. An African American bartender serves drinks from decanters in the left of the image. The bar is adorned with a notice reading "City Privilege still without license." Another African American attends the oyster bar. Plates, crackers, salt, and vinegars line the edge. In the right of the image, a sick-faced patron wobbles and spills his drink next to a tall clock with a decorated face and the inscription "Music has charms." Possibly, the cellar at 806 Market Street operated by African American proprietor James Prosser from about 1830., Inscribed on verso: Said Wm Van [?] of the Walnut/ Chestnut? St. Theatre., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 598, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 38 O 97, LCP exhibit catalogue: Made in America #40., Jackson, Joseph, Encyclopedia of Philadelphia, p. 386-387
Creator: Akin, James, ca. 1773-1846, artist
Date: [ca. 1830]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 38 O 97

Title: Stone Prison at Philadelphia, 1728
Description: Reversed view set during the colonial era showing the High Street Prison built circa 1723 at Third and High (Market) streets. The site included a debtor's jail (High Street side) and workhouse (Third Street side) joined together by a wall that formed part of a yard enclosure. Men in colonial attire walk in front of the jail and past the wall to the workhouse. A horse stands between two small outbuildings in the right of the image. The prison operated until the early 1770s when replaced by the Walnut Street Prison., Plate published in John F. Watson's Annals of Philadelphia...(Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1830), opp., Manuscript note on recto: Same in 2 book. Reversed and variant in th [sic] book., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 726, Gift of James Rush., See Martin Snyder, "William J Breton, Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia Artist," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (April 1961), p. 194 about the later impressions of the view reversed and printed from a redrawn stone.
Creator: Breton, William L., artist
Date: [1830]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Prisons [9245.Q.24]

Title: First Christ Church, Philada
Description: View showing the wood-plank building that served as the first sanctuary for the church founded and built in 1695 by the Church of England at 22-34 North Second Street. A wood fence protects the single-story, cabin-style building and the church bell hangs from the trunk of a tree fashioned as a bell tower. Wood buildings, including a dwelling, flank the church in front of which pedestrians walk. A woman stands in the doorway of the residence and a woman enters the gateway to Christ Church., Published in John F. Watson's Annals of Philadelphia...(Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1830), opp. p. 315., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 258, Trimmed. Originally part of a plate of two images. Second image shows "Shippen's House, So. Second Street.", Originally part of a Poulson scrapbook of "Illustrations of Philadelphia."
Creator: Breton, William L., artist
Date: [1830]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Religion [(2)1525.F.51]

Title: Pegs Run
Description: View showing the stream running above Callowhill Street in Northern Liberties named after nearby property holder Daniel Pegg. In the foreground, a man steers a boat by pole and exits from the culvert under the dirt road that crosses the waterway. Cows graze on the adjacent marshland and Pegg's farm is visible in the distant background. Also shows a wagon and pedestrian traversing the dirt road and overpass., Plate published in John F. Watson's Annals of Philadelphia...(Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1830), opp. p. 379., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 548
Creator: Breton, William L., artist
Date: [1830]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Views - P [P.8970.35]

Title: Carpenter's mansion
Description: Exterior view of the Sixth Street side of the isolated residence of brewer Joshua Carpenter built 1701-1722 at 615-619 Chestnut Street. Two men walk on the path next to the dwelling surrounded by trees. House razed 1826 following its sale by its last owner, Judge Tilghman, to the Arcade Company., Published in John F. Watson's Annals of Philadelphia...(Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1830), opp. p. 323., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 83, Gift of James Rush.
Creator: Breton, William L., artist
Date: [1830]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Residences - C [9245.Q.22]

Title: Slate roof house _ Residence of W. Penn 1700
Description: View showing the H-shaped building built circa 1687-circa 1699 on the 100 block of South Second Street. The dwelling served as the residence for Penn 1699-1701. A couple enters the entrance and two men walk on the sidewalk along the residence. Evergreens are seen behind the house and a partial view of an adjacent building is visible., Plate published in John F. Watson's Annals of Philadelphia...(Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1830), opp. p. 151., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 698, Gift of James Rush.
Creator: Breton, William L., artist
Date: [1830]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Residences - P [9245.Q.18]

Title: Drawbridge & Blue Anchor Inn
Description: Book illustration showing the Blue Anchor Tavern built circa 1682 and purchased by Thomas Budd in 1690 at the northwest corner of Front Street and Dock Creek (i.e., Dock Street). To the right of the image, the drawbridge over the creek is visible. Individuals walk along the banks of the waterway on which rowboats, one manned, are visible. Also shows neighboring buildings, including Budd's Long Row to which the tavern, painted with an anchor, is attached. The creek was covered 1767-1784 and the tavern was demolished in 1828., Plate published in John F. Watson's Annals of Philadelphia...(Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1830), opp. p. 283., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 189, Gift of James Rush.
Creator: Breton, William L., artist
Date: [1830]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Hotels [9245.Q.25]

Title: Penny Pot Tavern & landing, and Griscom's Academy
Description: Book illustration showing the 18th-century inn named for serving beer at a penny a pot on Vine Street below Front Street. Includes a man seated on a pile of logs at the nearby landing, a partial view of a ship at the neighboring shipyard of Charles West, and a horse-drawn cart traveling past the tavern. Also shows the row of treble stone buildings, the private academy advertised in 1770 and operated by D. Griscom at Front and Water streets, in the background., Plate published in John F. Watson's Annals of Philadelphia...(Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1830), opp. p. 139., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 565
Creator: Breton, William L., artist
Date: [1830]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Hotels [P.8970.34]

Title: Arch Street Bridge at Front Street ; Friends' Bank Meeting
Description: Book illustration containing two views of historical Philadelphia landmarks. Upper view shows the bridge constructed in the late 17th century known as the arch over Mulberry (i.e., Arch) Street to provide access between elevated sections of Front Street near the house and shop of shipbuilder Robert Turner at the Delaware River. Bridge razed circa 1721. View includes two buildings, probably the Turner dwelling; a horse-drawn cart traveling under the bridge; pedestrians; and ships on the river. Lower view shows the exterior of the meeting house built 1685 on Front Street above Arch Street. Shows a group of Quakers proceeding to the meeting house. Building razed in 1789., Published in John F. Watson's Annals of Philadelphia...(Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1830), opp. p. 335., Manuscript note below each image: Different from book., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 23, Gift of James Rush.
Creator: Breton, William L., artist
Date: [1830]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Bridges [9245.Q.29a&b]

Title: Penn's landing at Essex House, Chester
Description: Book illustration showing the reception of the William Penn landing party arriving ashore at Upland, renamed Chester, from the ship "Welcome" in October 1682. A couple, Robert and Lydia Wade, walks from the Essex House, the residence of Wade, toward the party. Cows graze nearby. Also includes a partial view of Penn's ship. The residence and temporary home for Penn, was situated near the intersection of Chester Creek and the Delaware River. Penn moored his ship at Chester, and arrived in Philadelphia via a barge upriver., Plate published in John F. Watson's Annals of Philadelphia...(Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1830), opp. p. 117., Manuscript note on recto: a different plate from that of the book., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 163, Gift of James Rush.
Creator: Breton, William L., artist
Date: [1830]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Events [9245.Q.10]

Title: The old court house & Friends Meeting
Description: View showing the courthouse (built 1707 by carpenter Samuel Powell) and meeting house known as Market Street Meeting House (erected 1695, rebuilt 1775-1776) on North Second Street above Market Street. Also shows pedestrian traffic, including a woman carrying a basket on her head walking in the street. Courthouse was utilized as the town hall, seat of the Legislature, market house, and the Pennsylvania statehouse until Independence Hall was opened in 1748. Building demolished in 1837., Plate published in John F. Watson's Annals of Philadelphia...(Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1830), opp. p. 295., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 521/522, Gift of James Rush.
Creator: Breton, William L., artist
Date: [1830]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Government Buildings [9245.Q.23]

Title: North-east view of St. Peter's Church (Episcopal) Philada
Description: Exterior view of the Protestant Episcopal church built 1758-1761 after the designs of Robert Smith at 300-340 Pine Street. The cupola replaced in 1842 by a tower and steeple adorns the building that is surrounded by a brick wall and ironwork fencing that exposes the church cemetery. Pedestrians, prominently women, and possibly parishioners, walk on the sidewalk. A woman street vendor with her table of wares sits near the wall at the corner. Also shows several trees on the grounds of the church and a lady attired in a broad-rimmed hat with veil standing on the opposite street corner in the right of the image., Manuscript note on recto: From the East., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 511, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edit., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Creator: Breton, William L., artist
Date: 1829
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W253 [P.2148]

Title: High Street and market shambles
Description: View looking east from above Third and High (Market) streets showing the High Street Prison built circa 1723 and the nearby old market stalls during the colonial era. Shows white men in colonial attire walking on the sidewalks and street. In the right of the image, an African American man walks beside a white man. Two African American men are depicted in a stockade and attached to a whipping post near the jail. The man attached to the whipping post is attired in a white cloth that is tied around his waist. The prison operated until the early 1770s when replaced by the Walnut Street Prison. The market shambles were replaced by the permanent Jersey Market circa 1765., Plate published in John F. Watson's Annals of Philadelphia...(Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1830), opp. p. 301., Title from item., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 354, Gift of James Rush., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., RVCDC, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Streets - High (2 copies)
Creator: Breton, William L., artist
Date: [1830]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Markets [9245.Q.21]

Title: Office of Foreign Affairs at Philadelphia 1780.; Letitia house
Description: View showing the building utilized as a foreign embassy after the American Revolution on the 100 block of South Sixth Street. Also shows a woman standing in the entranceway of the adjacent building. Building razed in 1846., View showing the building known incorrectly as the Letitia Penn House on Letitia Street between Market and Chestnut streets. The misidentified residence, purportedly built in 1682 by William Penn and given to his daughter in 1701, was relocated to Fairmount Park in 1883., Plate published in John F. Watson's Annals of Philadelphia...(Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1830), opp. p. 365., Manuscript note on recto: Same in 2 book., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 520, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Breton, William L., artist
Date: [1830]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Residence [9245.Q.30a&b]

Title: Residence of Washington in High Street, Philada.; British Barracks, Philadelphia
Description: View showing the house, also known as the Robert Morris House, built circa 1767-1768 at 526-530 Market Street, resided in by the president during construction of the executive mansion on Ninth Street. The walled garden adjacent the residence and the neighboring Sheaff's Wine Store (512 Market) are also visible. Includes pedestrian traffic of two men with canes. The residence burned in 1780 and was demolished in 1803., View showing the barracks built in 1757 in Northern Liberties for the quartering of British soldiers. Infantrymen drill across from a soldier presiding over a cannon in the courtyard of the buildings. The Barracks extended between Second, Third, Tammany, and Green streets and were razed soon after the American Revolution., Plate published in John F. Watson's Annals of Philadelphia...(Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1830), opp. p. 361., Manuscript note below images: different from 2 book., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 644a&b. POS 644a: Residence. POS 644b: British Barracks., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Gift of James Rush., Residence view reproduced in Edward Lawler Jr.'s "The President's house In Philadelphia: The rediscovery of a lost landmark." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 2002), pp. 5-95.
Creator: Breton, William L., artist
Date: [1830]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Residence [9245.Q.31a&b]

Title: Shippen's House, So. Second Street.; First Christ Church, Philada
Description: View showing the residence, near Dock Creek, purchased in 1693 by the second mayor of Philadelphia Edward Shippen. Dwelling includes a fenced side yard. Pedestrians, including a woman and child, walk on the sidewalk. Also shows a grove of trees and surrounding buildings., View showing the wood-plank building that served as the first sanctuary for the church founded and built in 1695 by the Church of England at 22-34 North Second Street. A wood fence protects the single-story, cabin-style building and the church bell hangs from the trunk of a tree fashioned as a bell tower. Wood buildings, including a dwelling, flank the church in front of which pedestrians walk. A woman stands in the doorway of the residence and a woman enters the gateway to Christ Church., Published in John F. Watson's Annals of Philadelphia...(Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1830), opp. p. 315., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 694a&b, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Gift of James Rush.
Creator: Breton, William L., artist
Date: 1830
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Residences [9245.Q.28a&b]

Title: Clark's Inn &c. facing the State House; Bridge & Benezett's house in Chestnut Street
Description: Book illustration showing Clark's Inn also known as the State House Inn on the north side of the 500 block of Chestnut Street, and the residence of Quaker abolitionist Anthony Benezet at 325 Chestnut Street. Inn view includes a woman with a pail by a side door of the tavern, two male pedestrians, and neighboring buildings. Residence view includes the nearby bridge across Dock Creek. A pedestrian walks over the bridge as a manned rowboat emerges from under it. The Benezet residence built for David Breintnall circa 1700 was one of the first brick houses built in the city. The inn, built circa 1693, served as a respite for members of Congress and purportedly William Penn., Plate published in John F. Watson's Annals of Philadelphia...(Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1830), opp. p. 316., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 139, Gift of James Rush., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Breton, William L., artist
Date: [1830]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Residences - Benezet [9245.Q.27a&b]

Title: Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Philada Founded in 1794 by the Revd. Richard Allen, Bishop of the first African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States. Rebuilt in 1805
Description: Exterior view of the rough cast second edifice of the African American church at 125 South 6th Street. Pedestrians and church attendees, predominately women, stroll the sidewalk and enter the house of worship adorned with a simple stone tablet inscribed, "Bethel Church." Known as "Mother Bethel," the church was formed from African American congregants discriminated against by the Methodist Episcopal Church. The 1805 building, the site of the first convention of the Unified African Methodist Episcopal Church, stood until 1841 when a third building was erected on the site., Title from item., Kennedy and Lucas, operated by David Kennedy and William B. Lucas, printed the city's first commercial lithographs, a series of church subjects drawn by W.L. Breton, probably including "Mother Bethel.", Philadelphia on Stone, POS 39, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Description revised 2021., Accessioned 1965., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Breton, William L., artist
Date: July 1829
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W26 [7500.F]

Title: Clark's Inn &c. facing the State House; Bridge & Benezett's house in Chestnut Street
Description: Trimmed book illustration showing Clark's Inn also known as the State House Inn on the north side of the 500 block of Chestnut Street. Includes a woman with a pail by a side door of the tavern, two male pedestrians, and neighboring buildings. The inn, built circa 1693, served as a respite for members of Congress and purportedly William Penn., Plate published in John F. Watson's Annals of Philadelphia...(Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1830), opp. p. 316., Accompanied by "The MacReynolds Collection, Doylestown, Pennsylvania" label inscribed: Clark's Inn &c facing the State House. Lithograph, anon. n.d. 4 1/4 x 2 3/4. $30.00 #7014., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 140
Creator: Breton, William L., artist
Date: [1830]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Hotels - Clark's Inn [P.8678]

Title: Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Philada. [graphic] : Founded in 1794 by the Revd. Richard Allen, Bishop of the first African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States. Rebuilt in 1805. / Drawn on Stone by W.L. Breton.
Description: Kennedy and Lucas, operated by David Kennedy and William B. Lucas, printed the city's first commercial lithographs, a series of church subjects drawn by W.L. Breton, probably including "Mother Bethel.", Exterior view of the rough cast second edifice of the African American church at 125 South 6th Street. Pedestrians and church attendees, predominately women, stroll the sidewalk and enter the house of worship adorned with a simple stone tablet inscribed, "Bethel Church." Known as "Mother Bethel," the church was formed from black congregants discriminated against by the Methodist Episcopal Church. The 1805 building, the site of the first convention of the Unified African Methodist Episcopal Church, stood until 1841 when a third building was erected on the site.
Creator: Breton, William L., artist., creator
Date: July 1829.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W026.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W26 [7500.F]

Title: Comly Ville near Frankford - Philadelphia Co. [graphic] / Kennedy & Lucas's Lithography.
Description: Location: Asylum Road near Frankford Creek., Published by L. A. Godey in the first volume of his Lady's Book., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.9210.15 and in (1)7397.O., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Creator: Breton, William L. artist. Kennedy & Lucas's Lithography lithographer., creator
Date: 1830.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W078.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W78 [P.9210.15]

Title: Philadelphia baths, corner of George and Seventh Sts., near Chestnut Street
Description: Advertisement showing the bath house established in 1828 by patent medicine proprietor William Swaim at the northeast corner of Seventh and George, i.e., Sansom streets. A woman and man enter separate entrances to the three-and-a-half story facility, and two pairs of women and a man walk on the sidewalk. Also shows the fenced courtyard adjoining, and the buildings behind and neighboring the bathhouse. The bathhouse contained separate apartments for women and men with fifty tubs made of tin-plated copper or Italian marble. The men's space also included a bar room., Manuscript note on recto: Swaim's, Publication information supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 574, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Breton, William L., ca. 1773-1855, artist
Date: [ca. 1829]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W280 [P.2170]

Title: A fourth day morning view of Friends Meeting House on Cherry Street, Philadelphia This building which is about 43 feet front on Cherry Street by 100 feet deep was commenced on the 19th of 11th month 1827, and completely finished so that Meeting was held therein on first day the 3rd of 2nd month 1828._A period of only 66 working days in the most inclement season of the year._ Such despatch has been hitherto unknown in this, or perhaps any other city
Description: View showing a throng of plain-dressed Quakers promenading past the first Philadelphia Hicksite meeting house on the 400 block of Cherry Street. Trees adorn the property protected by a brick wall. Many of the women carry parasols. Also shows neighboring buildings. In 1827, the Society of Friends split into the Orthodox and Hicksite Quakers as a result of a theological division provoked by minister Elias Hicks over the role of scripture within the faith. The Hicksites, who believed that the “inner light” of God was a higher authority than the Bible, formed their own meeting houses., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 272, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Breton, William L., ca. 1773-1855, artist
Date: [ca. 1829]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W2 [8153.F]

Title: Comly Ville near Frankford - Philadelphia Co No. 5 of the Lady's Book
Description: Pastural view showing mill and factory buildings along Frankford Creek in Comleyville. Includes the mill converted to a calico print works by Smith & Brother in 1827, the loom factory of "Mr. S. Steel," and the dye works of "Mr. Horrick", i.e., Jermiah Horrocks. In the foreground, two horse-drawn wagons and a man travel on Asylum Road. Horses and cows graze in fenced pasture lands along the road and dwellings are visible on a hillside rising up from the creek., Published with description titled "Calico Print Works at Comlyville" in The Lady's Book (1830), vol. 1, opp. p. 225. [LCP Per G 43, vol. 1], Attributed to William L. Breton., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 149, Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.9210.15 and in (1)7397.O., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Creator: Breton, William L., ca. 1773-1855, artist
Date: [1830]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W78 [P.9210.15]

Title: A Monday morning view of Friends Meeting House and Academy, Philada. Forty years ago
Description: Busy street scene showing the meetinghouse and school protected by a brick wall with five entrances at the southeast corner of Fourth and Chestnut streets. Shows young and old Friends departing and arriving, including J. P[emberton?], W. Waring, J. Evans, Robert Proud, [Jam?]es Pemberton, Nick Waln, and Thomas Morris. Many of the older Quakers use canes. Also shows two African American boys riding and chasing a pig near a street vendor and neighboring buildings. Meetinghouse completed in 1764 and razed in 1859., Inscribed on recto: 4th & Chestnut. 1789., Inscribed on verso: Gift of Mrs. C. M. Thomas Sept. 5, 1919., Contains inscriptions identifying several of the Quaker figures below the image., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 479, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 862 B 756 #45, HSP copy trimmed.
Creator: Breton, William L., ca. 1773-1855, artist
Date: 1829
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 862 B 756 #45

Title: A Sunday morning view of the African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas in Philadelphia._ Taken in June 1829
Description: Busy street scene showing elegantly-dressed African American parishioners of all ages entering the first African Episcopal church in the United States at the corner of Fifth and Adelphi (i.e. Saint James) streets. Includes a date stone in the eave of the church that reads "The African Church MDCCXCIII." Also shows a man leading a horse near the rear of the building. The church was established in 1794 by the religious and beneficent organization, the Free African Society, as a result of the discriminatory practices of the city’s congregations. Absalom Jones, a freed slave, became rector of the church in 1796 and remained as its minister until his death in 1818., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 729, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 862 B 756 #44, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 28:26, trimmed, staining.
Creator: Breton, William L., ca. 1773-1855, artist
Date: 1829
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 862 B 756 #44

Title: City Hotel, 41 North Third Street Philadelphia by Heiskell & Niblo, from Virginia
Description: Advertisement showing the very busy four-and-a-half story hotel opened in 1807 on Third Street below Arch Street. Several male guests sit, stand, and put their feet up on the porch of the hotel that is covered by an awning. Also shows guests at the first and second floor windows and a couple strolling on the sidewalk. The hotel closed soon before the Civil War., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 132, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 862 B 756 #41
Creator: Breton, William L., ca. 1773-1855, artist
Date: [ca. 1830]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 862 B 756 #41

Title: Second Presbyterian Church, city of Philada. Founded 1750. Enlarged 1809
Description: View showing the church built 1749 after the designs of Robert Smith at the northwest corner of North Third and Arch streets. Also shows pedestrian traffic, including two strolling women and three men conversing at the corner. Church was demolished 1837-1838 following the relocation of the congregation., Letter "s" printed backward in artist's imprint., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 687, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 862 B 756 #46, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 23:28., Upper left corner torn.
Creator: Breton, William L., ca. 1773-1855, artist
Date: 1830
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 862 B 756 #46

Title: Deutsche Ev: Luth: Zions Kirche. (gegrundt 1766.) = The German Lutheran Zion Church. (founded 1766.)
Description: View of the Zion Lutheran Church, also known as the New Lutheran Church, rebuilt 1794-1796 at Cherry and North Fourth streets following a fire in 1794. Church originally built 1766-1769 after the designs of Robert Smith. Also shows a partial view of neighboring buildings and pedestrian traffic. Pedestrians include a boy, and women carrying parasols and baskets., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 181, Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Breton, William L., lithographer
Date: [1829]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Churches & meetinghouses [P.2005.20]

Title: Unitarian Church Philadelphia
Description: View of the front facade of the First Congregational Unitarian Church built in 1828 after the designs of Philadelphia architect William Strickland on the 900 block of Locust Street. Includes pedestrian traffic and a partial view of neighboring buildings obscured by trees. The columns supporting the portico of the church were salvaged from Benjamin Latrobe's pump house at Center Square. Church was demolished in 1885., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 772, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Creator: Breton, William L., lithographer
Date: [April 1829]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W413 [(4)1322.F.99]

Title: A fourth day morning view of Friends Meeting House on Cherry Street. Philadelphia. [graphic] / Drawn on stone by W. L. Breton.
Description: Location: Cherry Street, northside, between Fourth and Fifth., Wainwright retrospective conversion project.
Creator: Breton, William L. lithographer., creator
Date: ca. 1829.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W002.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W2 [8153.F]

Title: North-east view of St. Peter's Church (Episcopal) Philada. [graphic] / Drawn on stone by W. L. Breton.
Description: Location: Third and Pine Streets., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, with corrections., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Creator: Breton, William L. lithographer., creator
Date: 1829.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W253.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W253 [P.2148]

Title: Philadelphia Baths, corner of George and Seventh Sts., near Chestnut Street. [graphic] / WLB.
Description: Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator: Breton, William L. lithographer., creator
Date: ca. 1829.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W280.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W280 [P.2170]

Title: Unitarian Church Philadelphia. [graphic] / W. L. Breton.
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, View of the front facade of the First Congregational Unitarian Church built in 1828 after the designs of Philadelphia architect William Strickland on the 900 block of Locust Street. Includes pedestrian traffic and a partial view of neighboring buildings obscured by trees. The columns supporting the portico of the church were salvaged from Benjamin Latrobe's pump house at Center Square. Church was demolished in 1885.
Creator: Breton, William L., lithographer., creator
Date: [1829]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W413.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W413 [(4)1322.F.99]

Title: Camp-meeting
Description: Religious view showing a backwoods revivalist meeting, probably near Philadelphia. On a rickety covered wood stage used as an altar, a minister enthusiastically preaches, his hands in the air, to a crowd of followers. Four men, two distracted by a nearby horn blower, sit on a bench, on the stage, behind the preacher. The followers, predominately women, kneel, dance, stand, and raise their hands with the spirit in an opening between benches. Others, including an older woman and a mother with child, remain seated on the benches as one man holds a fainting woman and another with a euphoric look leans on a tree. Onlookers, many elegantly-dressed, surround the camp meeting attendees. A few look with repugnance and point while others converse in seeming obliviousness. Also shows, in the foreground, three dogs, two wearing collars. One sniffs another's face in greeting. In the distant background, among clearings in trees, the tents and wagons of the attendees are visible. Camp meetings were usually conducted by Methodists in the early 19th century., Copy-right secured., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 21, LCP exhibit catalogue: Made in America #41., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Bridport, Hugh, 1794-ca. 1868, artist
Date: [ca. 1830]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Religion [5812.F.46]

Title: The pagoda and labyrinth garden
Description: Active scene showing the pleasure garden resort conceived by Philadelphia lawyer Peter A. Browne that was built 1828 in the style of a Chinese pagoda after designs by John Haviland on the 2400 block of Fairmount Avenue. Couples stroll on the veranda. Horse-drawn sulkies race near a man on horseback and a boy running in the foreground. Also shows horse-drawn carriages parked in a stable. The resort failed circa 1829 and was soon demolished., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 538, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 81 H 388, Copy contains repairs to missing sections of lower edge and lower right corner, including retouches.
Creator: Bridport, Hugh, 1794-ca. 1868, artist
Date: [1828]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 81 H 388

Title: Sketches of Character. Plate 3. At Home. Abroad
Description: Philadelphia on Stone, POS 697, Cited by Wainwright as in the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Copy unlocated., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: copy unlocated
Creator: Clay, Edward Williams, 1799-1857, artist
Date: 1830
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania W337 [HSP unlocated]

Title: Back to back
Description: Racist caricature ridiculing attendees of an African American dance ball. Depicts an African American man woman couple with their backs together as they learn a dance step of which the man has "cocht de figure now!" In the left, the woman looks to the left, holds a fan and handkerchief to her left side, and stands on her toes. She is attired in a headpiece consisting of feathers, ribbons, and pearls, and an off-the-shoulder, ankle-length ball gown with puff sleeves and a pleated skirt, as well as patterned stockings, slipper shoes, and jewelry, including earrings, necklace, and a bracelet. In the right, the man holds his arms to his sides, and his hands open, as he stands on his toes. He wears a mustache and is attired in a coat with a wide collar and tails, a patterned vest and shirt with turned up collar, pantaloons, patterned stockings, and black slipper shoes adorned with buckles. The figures are portrayed with oversized and exaggerated features., Title from item., Date inferred from content and name of artist., Due to the similar content of this caraciature to the prints in the original "Life in Philadelphia" series, Murrell classifies this lithograph as a part of the series., Contains one line of dialogue in the vernacular and dialect above the image: I reckon I’ve cotch de figure now!, Imagery similar to earlier work by artist "African Fancy Ball" in Lessons in dancing, : exemplified by sketches from real life in the city of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: Published by R.H. Hobson, Chesnut Street, 1828). Copy in the holdings of the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA and Rosenbach Library and Museum, Philadelphia, PA., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Acquired in 1968.
Creator: Clay, Edward Williams, 1799-1857, artist
Date: [ca. 1829]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Life in Philadelphia (Philadelphia Set) [7688.F]

Title: Brandywine Springs Hotel near Wilmington Del
Description: View showing the elegant four-story hotel completed in 1826 after the designs of Thomas U. Walter in Brandywine Springs, Delaware. Elegantly attired guests crowd the first floor porch, are visible in some upper floor windows, and walk and lounge on the grounds. A man on horseback, and a horse-drawn carriage arrive at the hotel near two dogs chasing each other in the driveway. The hotel served as a summer retreat for the well-to-do of the region. The building was razed by fire in 1853., Title from manuscript note in ink on recto., pdcc00012, Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 19, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 11:54
Creator: Clay, Edward Williams, 1799-1857, artist
Date: 1830
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Photograph Collection. FLP Castner 11:54

Title: A dead cut
Description: Racist caricature portraying a middle-class African American man-woman couple as snobs who slight a working-class African American man shoeshiner and former acquaintance. Depicts the African American shoeshiner greeting the African American couple who feign ignorance of the man's acquaintance after their return from "de Springs." The laborer, attired in a rumpled top hat, torn overcoat with tails, and patched pants holds his rod of boots in his left hand, and uses his right one to grab the hand of "Cesa." "Cesa," dressed in a flat-top cap, and heavy, long overcoat with handkerchief in the pocket, and plaid pants, looks suspiciously at their joined hands. He holds a walking stick and his companion's parasol in his other hand. He states that the shoeshiner has mistaken his identity (You must be mistaking in de person black man!). His companion, her hand around his elbow, and dressed in a Dunstable bonnet, dark-colored overcoat, and button-down shirtwaist with a collar, agrees. With her hand placed on her hip and holding a purse, she declares, "What does the imperdent nigger mean?" Figures are depicted with oversize and exaggerated features., Title from item., Publication information from duplicate in collection and advertisement in the Philadelphia Inquirer, December 30, 1829, p. 3. Advertised as entitled "A Dead Cut, or an attempt to slight old Acquaintance.", Nancy Reynolds Davison's E.W. Clay: American political caricaturist of the Jacksonian Era (PhD. diss., The University of Michigan, 1980), p. 80-81. (LCP Print Room Uz, A423.O)., Sarah Hart was a Jewish Philadelphia fancy goods store owner and printseller who with her son future Philadelphia publisher Abraham Hart, assumed publication of the "Life in Philadelphia" series in 1829. Sarah Hart solely reprinted the entire series of 14 prints in 1830. She also published complementary in subject lithographs after the work of Clay during the same period., Described in the Daily Chronicle, December 26, 1829, p. 2., Accessioned 1893., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Clay, Edward Williams, 1799-1857, etcher
Date: [1829]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | PRINT. Life in Philadelphia (Philadelphia Set) [5656.F.39]

Title: A dead cut
Description: Racist caricature portraying a middle-class African American man-woman couple as snobs who slight a working-class African American man shoeshiner and former acquaintance. Depicts the African American shoeshiner greeting the African American couple who feign ignorance of the man's acquaintance after their return from "de Springs." The laborer, attired in a rumpled top hat, torn overcoat with tails, and patched pants holds his rod of boots in his left hand, and uses his right one to grab the hand of "Cesa." "Cesa," dressed in a flat-top cap, and heavy, long overcoat with handkerchief in the pocket, and plaid pants, looks suspiciously at their joined hands. He holds a walking stick and his companion's parasol in his other hand. He states that the shoeshiner has mistaken his identity (You must be mistaking in de person black man!). His companion, her hand around his elbow, and dressed in a Dunstable bonnet, dark-colored overcoat, and button-down shirtwaist with a collar, agrees. With her hand placed on her hip and holding a purse, she declares, "What does the imperdent nigger mean?" Figures are depicted with oversize and exaggerated features., Title from item., Publication information from duplicate in collection and advertisement in the Philadelphia Inquirer, December 30, 1829, p. 3. Advertised as entitled "A Dead Cut, or an attempt to slight old Acquaintance.", Nancy Reynolds Davison's E.W. Clay: American political caricaturist of the Jacksonian Era (PhD. diss., The University of Michigan, 1980), p. 80-81. (LCP Print Room Uz, A423.O)., Sarah Hart was a Jewish Philadelphia fancy goods store owner and printseller who with her son future Philadelphia publisher Abraham Hart, assumed publication of the "Life in Philadelphia" series in 1829. Sarah Hart solely reprinted the entire series of 14 prints in 1830. She also published complementary in subject lithographs after the work of Clay during the same period., Described in the Daily Chronicle, December 26, 1829, p. 2., Accessioned 1893., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Clay, Edward Williams, 1799-1857, etcher
Date: [1829]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | PRINT. Life in Philadelphia (Philadelphia Set) [5656.F.39]

Title: A dead cut
Description: Racist caricature portraying a middle-class African American man-woman couple as snobs who slight a working-class African American man shoeshiner and former acquaintance. Depicts the African American shoeshiner greeting the African American couple who feign ignorance of the man's acquaintance after their return from "de Springs." The laborer, attired in a rumpled top hat, torn overcoat with tails, and patched pants holds his rod of boots in his left hand, and uses his right one to grab the hand of "Cesa." "Cesa," dressed in a flat-top cap, and heavy, long overcoat with handkerchief in the pocket, and plaid pants, looks suspiciously at their joined hands. He holds a walking stick and his companion's parasol in his other hand. He states that the shoeshiner has mistaken his identity (You must be mistaking in de person black man!). His companion, her hand around his elbow, and dressed in a Dunstable bonnet, dark-colored overcoat, and button-down shirtwaist with a collar, agrees. With her hand placed on her hip and holding a purse, she declares, "What does the imperdent nigger mean?" Figures are depicted with oversize and exaggerated features., Sarah Hart was a Jewish Philadelphia stationer who assumed printing of the "Life in Philadelphia" series in 1829. She reprinted the entire original series of 14 prints in 1830., Pendelton, Kearny, & Childs, in operation from 1829 until 1830, was the first successful lithographic firm in Philadelphia. The firm's partners were John Pendleton, Frances Kearny, and Cephas G. Childs., Nancy Reynolds Davison's E.W. Clay: American Political Caricaturist of Jacksonian America (PhD. diss., The University of Michigan, 1980), p. 80-81. (LCP Print Room Uz, A423.O)., Described in Daily Chronicle, December 26, 1829, 2 and “The Dead Cut,” Philadelphia Inquirer, December 31, 1829, 2., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Acquired in 1970.
Creator: Clay, Edward Williams, 1799-1857, etcher
Date: 1829
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Life in Philadelphia (Philadelphia Set) [7893.F.1]

Title: Whalebone A noted horse for speed & bottom, Brightbay, 15 hands 3 1/2 inches high, has strong points & shews great blodd, was sired by Hamiltonian & Hamiltonian by old Messenger. He was bred by General Coles of Long Island
Description: Racing print showing Whalebone running, mid-galop, during a harness race. The jockey wears a cap tied under his chin and holds a whip in his right hand. Also contains several lines of promotional text describing Whalebone's excellent performances including an 1827 New York trotting course race, which "he accomplished in 54 minutes & 6 seconds with great ease"; his defeat of Creeper, Lady Kate, Grey Squirrel & Moonshine on May 15, 1828 in a Hunting Park Association race worth $200; his victory over Mr. Spicer in another Hunting Park Association course on October 15, 1829, in which he ran 16 miles in 4 mile heats in the unprecedented time of 46 minutes & 11 seconds, and performed the third heat in 11 minutes and 17 seconds; another Hunting Park Association victory on October 23, 1830, winning a purse of $300 for "beating Sir Peter, Jerry, Comet & Top Gallant, and distancing all on the 4th heat"; his defeat of the Calf, Comet and Sir Andrew, winning the 2nd and 3rd heats (the Calf took the first) on the Union Course Long Island on December 6, 1830; his victory over Sweet Brier on the Hunting Park Course, where he won each mile except the 2nd and the 5th; and his performance of 8 minutes 20 seconds in a 2nd 3 mile heat in harness on the Hunting Park course on October 14, 1829. For these reasons, Whalebone was considered one of the best bottomed horses in the country., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 275, Smithsonian Institution, NMAH, Home and Community Life Collection: DL*60.3564
Creator: Hillman, Richard S., artist
Date: ca. 1830
Location: Smithsonian Institution | NMAH Home and Community Life Collection SI NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection [DL*60.3564]

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