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Title: A. Koellner, painter, No. 74 corner of Chestnut and Exchange Streets, Philadelphia
Description: Advertises Kollner as a painter of portraits of "ladies and gentlemen on horseback" and "horses, correct and in every possition [sic]." Reflects Kollner's failed attempt to establish himself as an equestrian portrait painter upon his arrival in Philadelphia. Soon after this advertisement was issued, Kollner was hired by Duval to create lithographic portraits of military personnel, many on horseback, for the U.S. Military Magazine., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 2, See Nicholas B. Wainwright's "Augustus Kollner, Artist" in Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (Vol. 84, 1960), pages 325-351.
Date: [1840]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Advertisements [8115.F.1]

Title: A. Russell & Co. 104 Chestnut Street. Philadelphia. Fashionable hat and cap maunfacturers First in fashion. Ladies fur muffs, tippets, pelerines, boas &c.&c. Gente;men's furs caps, collars, gloves &c.&c
Description: Advertisement depicting a jumbled assortment of men's and boy's hats on top of an anvil-shaped pedestal. Hats lie on their side, top, and rim., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 3, Originally part of John McAllister's scrapbook "Costumes, English & American, 1800-1869."
Date: [ca. 1832]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Advertisements [5743.F.95]

Title: Alms House. Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view of the Blockley Alms House on the Schuylkill River from eastern bank including the Market Street Bridge, Beck's shot tower, and in the far distance Eastern State Penitentiary. The Almshouse, designed by Philadelphia architect William Strickland, was constructed in 1833., Copyrighted by J.T. Bowen., Originally published as plate 8 in Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). The lithographic stones for the views were acquired by John T. Bowen and reissued in 1838 and 1848 with hand-coloring., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 14.3, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Rush)., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 862 W6442., Described in Martin Snyder's "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-75.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1838
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W14.3 [Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Rush)]

Title: Alms House. Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view of the Blockley Alms House on the Schuylkill River from eastern bank including the Market Street Bridge, Beck's shot tower, and a distant view of Eastern State Penitentiary. Almshouse, designed by Philadelphia architect William Strickland, was constructed in 1833., Issued as plate 8 in Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity. (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838), a series of views originally published as five numbers of four prints each in 1838, and later sold as a bound volume of twenty views., Described in Martin Snyder's "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-75., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 14.1. Digital image shows fourth state of print.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: [1838]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W14.1 [P.2008]

Title: American Classical and Military Academy at Mount Airy, Germantown, 8 miles from Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view. Right wing is the former country seat of Pennsylvania Chief Justice William Allen known as "Mount Airy." Founded as Mount Airy Seminary (later Mount Airy College or Collegiate Institute) in 1807, the school served as a military academy 1826-1835 under the superintendence of Augustus L. Roumfort. Demolished in 1848 or 1849., Contains overprinted letterpress title., Cephas G. Childs and Henry Inman were partners 1831-33., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 15.1
Creator: Lehman, George, d. 1870, artist
Date: ca. 1831
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W15 [P.2011]

Title: American Classical and Military Academy at Mount Airy, Germantown, 8 miles from Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view. Right wing is the former country seat of Pennsylvania Chief Justice William Allen known as "Mount Airy." Founded as Mount Airy Seminary (later Mount Airy College or Collegiate Institute) in 1807, the school served as a military academy 1826-1835 under the superintendence of Augustus L. Roumfort. Demolished in 1848 or 1849., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 15.1, Cephas G. Childs and Henry Inman were partners 1831-33., LCP copy right corner torn., Gift of Manuel Kean.
Creator: Lehman, George, d. 1870, artist
Date: [ca. 1831]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W15 [8333.F]

Title: [Andrew Berryhill (sic)]
Description: Advertisement proof showing the four-story establishment for Andrew Berrybill at 25 South Eighth Street adorned by a large mortar and pestle and a signboard that reads "Andrew Berryhill." The drugstore's display windows on the first floor are flanked by columns. A gentleman stands in the doorway as a laborer loads a barrel onto a horse-drawn dray in the foreground. Barrels and crates pulled from the cellar sit on the sidewalk. Andrew Berrybill tenanted this property from 1839-1840., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 20, New York Public Library: MEZDB (Duval)
Creator: Hoffy, Alfred M., b. ca. 1790, artist
Date: [ca. 1839]
Location: New York Public Library NYPL MEZDB (Duval)

Title: Banks & bribery, v.s. balls & bumbs scene 1st Or the destruction of aristocracy monopoly and oppression
Description: Cartoon concerning President Jackson's destruction of the Bank of the United States, including his veto of the Bank's recharter and the removal of its federal deposits. Depicts Jackson, "Jack Downing," and others attacking the Bank with axes, "veto mortar," and cannon balls. Jackson and "Downing" hollar about "smashing down" "Monopoly & Oppression" as well as the absence of a "nest of varmants" when the house was originally built. Members of Bank investigative "committees" flee the building, while others are crushed under the bank, its "deposit pillar" destroyed. Spectators, including evil sprites, run a press, clamor for tossed money bags labelled with alleged bribery amounts, and scream "This is a fair business transaction." Also includes sheets of paper scattered on the ground inscribed with allusions to the Bank War, including"Deranged Currency" and "Petitions.", Manuscript note on verso: From his Aunt Isabella 1840., Previous owner, probably C.P. Lukens. See Congressional Elephant political cartoons - 1832 - 2 (5760.f.42)., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, editions.
Date: [1834?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1834-4W [5760.F.58]

Title: Black and white beaux
Description: Portrays a black couple in New York; it appears within the context of Trollope's discussion of free blacks in the city, particularly their dress, taste, and comportment. "On one occassion," Trollope wrote, "we met in Broadway a young Negress in the extreme of fashion, and accompanied by a black beau, whose toilet was equally studied; eye-glass, guard-chin, nothing was omitted; he walked beside his sable goddess uncovered, and with an air of the most tender devotion. At the window of a handsome house which they were passing stood a very pretty white girl, with two gentlemen beside her; but alas! both of them had their hats on, and one was smoking!" (p. 279), Plate in Frances Trollope's Domestic Manners of the Americans (London: Printed for Whittaker, Treacher, & Co.; New York: Reprinted for the booksellers, 1832), p. 278., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Scenes from Daily Life.
Creator: Pendleton, lithographer
Date: [1832]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1832 Tro 8678.O p 278, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2732

Title: Blake’s collection of popular marches composed and arranged for the piano forte
Description: Sheet music cover containing a scene showing the volunteer militia company of Light Artillery Corps Washington Gray's marching down the 400 block of Chestnut Street. The four lines of men follow their officer who follows the military band. The men pass the Philadelphia Bank building (400-408, built 1836), the United States Bank (420, built 1819-1824 as Second Bank of the U.S.), and neighboring buildings, including the business with partially visible signage for Henry Por.... Also shows a street lamp, a man walking on the sidewalk in front of the United States Banks, and two figures on the top of the stairs to that financial institution. The Washington Grays established an armory at 8th and Chestnut 1837-1838., Inside cover title: The Washington Gray's new grand march & quick step : arranged for the piano forte by Charles Jarvis, Includes sheet music., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 59, Free Library of Philadelphia: Sheet Music 11707
Date: c1839
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Music Collection. FLP Sheet Music 11707

Title: Bowlby & Weaver's hardware store No.77 Market Street Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement showing the four-story, three-bay storefront tenanted by the hardware store of Richard Bowlby and William Weaver (77, i.e., south side of the 200 block of Market Street). Bowlby & Weaver relocated to this site in 1831 from 101 High Street, where they had operated since 1820. The business was managed under the name Bowlby & Weaver until 1835 when it was renamed to William Weaver & Co. In the image, the names of the partners are painted on a saw that hangs above the front door. Visible through the open doorway are two men, who stand face to face, one on each side of a table displaying the store's wares., Published in James Mease and Thomas Porter's Picture of Philadelphia from 1811 to 1831: Giving an account of its origin, increase and improvements in arts, sciences, manufactures, commerce and revenue. (Philadelphia: Published by Robert DeSilver, No. 110 Walnut Street, 1831) vol. II, opposite page 113 and in Thomas Porter's Picture of Philadelphia 1811 to 1831: Giving an account of the improvements of the city, during that period (Philadelphia: Published by Robert DeSilver, No. 110 Walnut Street, 1831) vol. II, opposite page 113., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 61, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Am 1831 Mease 68582.D and in Am 1831 Mease Log 4072.D and in Am 1831 Mease 20876.D., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Stores & Shops
Creator: Breton, William L., ca. 1773-1855, artist
Date: [1831]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare W32 [Am 1831 Mease 68582.D], Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare W32 [Am 1831 Mease Log 4072.D], Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare W32 [Am 1831 Mease 20876.D]

Title: Bowlby & Weaver's hardware store No.77 Market Street Philadelphia. [graphic].
Description: Published in James Mease and Thomas Porter's Picture of Philadelphia from 1811 to 1831: Giving an account of its origin, increase and improvements in arts, sciences, manufactures, commerce and revenue. (Philadelphia: Published by Robert DeSilver, No. 110 Walnut Street, 1831) vol. II, opposite page 113 and in Thomas Porter's Picture of Philadelphia 1811 to 1831: Giving an account of the improvements of the city, during that period (Philadelphia: Published by Robert DeSilver, No. 110 Walnut Street, 1831) vol. II, opposite page 113., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Am 1831 Mea 68582.D and in Am 1831 Mea Log 4072.D and in Am1831 Por 20876.D., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Creator: Breton, William L., creator
Date: [1831]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W032.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W32 [see above for holdings]

Title: [Bulkley's hat store, 149 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Advertisement showing the hat store operated by C & J. H. Bulkley on the 400 block of Chestnut Street. Hats are displayed in the windows. Includes the adjacent buildings, the United States Hotel (419-423) and R. H. Hobson, stationery and print store. Portrait prints and stationery adorn the display window of the print store. Also shows pedestrian traffic, including guests arriving at the hotel, an African American laborer transporting a valise on a hand-cart, a gentleman with an umbrella, and a lady and gentleman admiring the display at Hobson's. A dog stands on the sidewalk., Title and publication information supplied by Wainwright., Inscribed on verso: United States Hotel. Hotels., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 67, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 38 B 934, Trimmed.
Date: [ca. 1833]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Ba 38 B 934

Title: Cardington Foundry
Description: Proof print for Coleman Sellers & Sons (No. 3 No. 6th Street) billhead containing vignette views of their "Cardington Factory" ironworks built along Cobbs Creek near West Philadelphia in 1828. Vignettes accompanied by caption reading "Iron and brass castings. Mill gearing all kinds of paper making machinery. Hydraulic and Screw Presses. Paper Molds & Cutters. Wood & Cotton Machine Cards & also wirework of all descriptions. The factory made equipment for the textile, paper and locomotive industry before its bankruptcy in 1838., Not in Wainwright., Attributed to Charles Fenderich., Inscribed: Mr. Coleman Sellers & Sons Dr. to F[enderich] for following work. Engraved Bills $2.00; 200 copies [illegible] 2.00; $4.00, Philadelphia on Stone, POS 82, Library of Congress: PGA - Fenderich, no. 59 (A size) [P&P], Sheet music cover illustrated with a ballroom scene titled "Concordia...Respectuflly dedicated to Miss Fanny Kemble..." and with imprint Chs. Fenderich's Lith Press, No. 21 Callowhill St., Phiada. printed on verso. Scene shows several formally attired couples engaged in a waltz as other attendees socialize, watch the dancing, and attend to a woman who has fainted. Also shows the orchestra playing from a balcony above.
Creator: Fenderich, Charles
Date: [ca. 1833]
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PGA - Fenderich, no. 59 (A size) [P&P]

Title: [Certificate of the Guardians, Physicans and Surgeons of the] Philadelphia Alms House
Description: Certificate containing an exterior view of the Blockley Almshouse and Philadelphia General Hospital in West Philadelphia. Under a cloudy sky, a horse-drawn carriage passes and a few men walk in front of the building. A large yard and a tree are visible in the foreground. The Board of Guardians, the governing board of the Guardians of the Poor, established in 1782 and abolished in 1877, oversaw the operations of the almshouse, including admissions, accounts, and employment of the poor. The almshouse was completed in 1833 after the designs of Philadelphia architect William Strickland., pdcp00029, Title supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 100, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Alms House, Originally Castner 9:63.
Creator: Lehman, George, d. 1870, artist
Date: [ca. 1835]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - Alms House

Title: Christ Church Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view of the Protestant Episcopal church built 1727-1744 at 22-34 North 2nd Street. Also shows pedestrian traffic., Copyrighted by J.C. Wild and J.B. Chevalier., Issued as plate 17 in Views of Philadelphia, and its vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838), a series of views originally published as five numbers of four prints each, and later sold as a bound volume of twenty views., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 102.1, One of the images [(4)1322.F. 61c] originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Library Company of Philadelphia: (4)1322.F.61c; 3008.Q; in Print Room * Am 1838 Wild 6626.F and in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Poulson), Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb862 W6441 Pl.17., Described in Martin Snyder's "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-75.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1838
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W64.1 [(4)1322.F.61c; 3008.Q]

Title: Christ Church Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view of the Protestant Episcopal church built 1727-1744 at 22-34 North 2nd Street. Also shows pedestrian traffic., Originally published as plate 17 in Views of Philadelphia, and its vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). The lithographic stones for the views were acquired by John T. Bowen and reissued in 1838 and in 1848 with hand coloring., Copyrighted by J.T. Bowen., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 120.2, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Rush), Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb862 W644 Pl.17., Described in Martin Snyder's "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1838
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W64.2 [Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Rush)]

Title: The church in 13th Street above Market, Phila
Description: Exterior view of the front facade and flank of the Ninth Presbyterian Church showing well-dressed men, women and children entering the left and right entrances. The church, adorned with Gothic arched windows and details, was built circa 1815 on North Thirteenth Street with funds donated by Margaret Duncan to serve the poor and working class of Philadelphia. Originally named the Second Associate Reformed Church, the church was also commonly known as Margaret Duncan's Church or the Vow Church. Controversy over John Chambers appointment as a new minister of the church in the mid 1820s influenced his decision to form a new congregation with his supporters in 1830. They moved to the much larger First Independent Church at Broad and Sansom Streets. This lithograph may have been created to commemorate the installation of a new minister at the Thirteenth Street church in 1832., Not in Wainwright., Title from manuscript note on paper pasted onto lithograph., Date supplied by cataloger., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 122, LCP AR [Annual Report] 1999 p. 50.
Date: [ca. 1832]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Churches and Meeting Houses [P.9741]

Title: The City Hotel, No. 41 North Third St. near Market St. Philadelphia Is one of the most extensive establishments in the city, having in addition to its numerous double and single bedded chambers, for gentlemen. Parlors, with chambers attached, fitted up expressly for families. This house is in the centre of business and convenient to the post office, banks, and other public institutions of the city. R. W. Dunlap. Proprietor
Description: Advertisement showing the very busy four-and-a-half story hotel opened in 1807 on Third Street below Arch Street. Includes partial views of adjacent buildings. Several male guests lounge on the porch as a gentleman enters the hotel. Also shows pedestrians and a valet hauling luggage with a hand cart. Contains a N.B. about "charges moderate" for a "ladies' dining room, for the accommodation of families, that do not wish a private parlor." The hotel closed soon before the Civil War., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 133, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 32 B 813
Creator: Brown, Mannevillette Elihu Dearing, 1810-1896
Date: [ca. 1832]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 32 B 813

Title: C.J. Fell & Brother's chocolate manufactory
Description: Exterior view of the mill complex at Faulkand, near Wilmington Delaware for the Philadelphia spice and chocolate manufacturer. Signage reading "C.J. Fell & Brother's Chocolate Manufactory" adorns the main building surrounded by smaller outbuildings and an overpass over the millrace. A horse-drawn wagon and man on horse-back travel on the property and bushes and trees line the race. A residence and pastureland is visible in the background. Factory purchased by Jonathan Fell in 1828., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 75
Creator: Lehman, George, d. 1870, artist
Date: [ca. 1835]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Industries [P.8970.6]

Title: Classical Seminary. Franklin Square. S.E. corner Race & Seventh streets, Philadelphia
Description: View looking past Franklin Square showing the boy's school, later the Classical Institute, founded in 1837 by John W. Faires at 47 N. 8th Street. An iron-wrought fence separates the square from the row of buildings, including the school, in the background. In the foreground, children play and families stroll within the square. Two boys play with hoops and a couple admires the fountain., pdcc00003, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 17:20
Date: [ca. 1838]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Photograph Collection. FLP Castner 17:20

Title: A confederacy against the Constitution and the rights of the people with an historical view of the component parts of this diabolical transaction
Description: Cartoon during the Bank War satirizing the Whig Party as greedy, anti-democratic, pro-Bank, pro-business infidels who worship in the Temple of Mammon to the false god of riches. Atop the temple, a white man, holding a flag inscribed "No Veto! The Bank! Down with Democracy!" kneels on a pedestal inscribed "Bank Candidate. War, Pestilence, and Famine." Within the temple sit symbolic and political figures including: the Devil representing the "Hartford Convention" of 1815, which debated Northern secession; the "High Church" as a clergyman pleading for donations to preach; the "High Priest" Henry Clay with his "U.S. Bank Book" sitting on his throne the "Chair of State"; the "High Chancellor," Bank of the United States president, Nicholas Biddle pouring out a bag of money to buy newspaper editors; a Northerner ("High Tarrif") discussing slavery, "You Southern Barons have black slaves will you not allow us to make white slaves of our poor population in our Manufacturing Baronies"; and southern pro-nullification senator John C. Calhoun ("No Tariff"), who bemoans his association with Whigs in his personal campaign against political rival Martin Van Buren. In the foreground, worshipers, including monkeys, pray and are chained near a printing press, pro-Bank newspapers, and flags and banners. The flags and banners denigrate "Jefferson," "democracy," and "equal rights" and support "high tariffs," the "merchant class," the "Bank of the United States," and "white slavery.", Title from item., Artist's initial lower left corner: H., Probably published by labor radical Seth Luther., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Lib. Company. Annual report, 2001, p. 27, 30., Originally part of American political caricatures, likely a scrapbook, accessioned 1899. Collection primarily comprised of gifts from Samuel Breck, John A. McAllister, and James Rush., 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: [1833?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1833-20 [5760.F.43]

Title: County Goal, Moyamensing Philadelphia
Description: View showing Moyamensing Prison built 1832-1835 after the designs of Thomas Ustick Walter at Tenth and Reed streets. Shows three men walking past the castle-like building. Prison was demolished 1968., Title partially printed on mount., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 168, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 26 M 938
Date: [ca. 1839]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 26 M 938

Title: Dawson's Brewery. N.W. corner of 10th & Filbert Streets
Description: Advertisement depicting an exterior view of the three-story corner brewery constructed circa 1822 and operated by Mordecai L. Dawson and William Morrison. Includes a partial view of the rear ell (right) and two signboards on the facade that read, "M.L. Dawson's Brewery". Barrels line the sidewalk of Filbert Street in front of the brewery where two men load them one-by-one onto a horse-drawn dray. Dawson and Morrison opened their brewery at 79 Chestnut Street in 1820, and moved to Tenth and Filbert Streets in 1830, after purchasing the old Farmers' Brewery in 1829. Dawson went into business with Charles Poultney, Frederick Collins and William Massey after Morrison passed in the late 1840s, and the brewery eventually became Massey Brewing Co., Published in James Mease and Thomas Porter's Picture of Philadelphia from 1811 to 1831: Giving an account of its origin, increase and improvements in arts, sciences, manufactures, commerce and revenue. (Philadelphia: Published by Robert DeSilver, No. 110 Walnut Street, 1831) vol. II, opposite page 56 and in Thomas Porter's Picture of Philadelphia 1881 to 1831: Giving an account of the improvements of the city, during that period (Philadelphia: Published by Robert DeSilver, No. 110 Walnut Street, 1831) vol. II, opposite page 56., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 172, Library Company of Philadelphia: in Am 1831 Mease 68582.D; in Am 1831 Mease Log 4072.D; Am 1831 Mease 20876.D; and Am 1831 Mease 104520.D., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Creator: Breton, William L., artist
Date: [1831]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W92 [Am 1831 Mease 68582.D.56a], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W92 [Am 1831 Mease Log 4072.D.56a], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W92 [Am 1831 Mease 20876.D.56a], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W92 [Am 1831 Mease 104520.D.56a]

Title: Dawson's Brewery. N.W. corner of 10th & Filbert Streets. [graphic] / W. L. Breton.
Description: Published in James Mease and Thomas Porter's Picture of Philadelphia from 1811 to 1831: Giving an account of its origin, increase and improvements in arts, sciences, manufactures, commerce and revenue. (Philadelphia: Published by Robert DeSilver, No. 110 Walnut Street, 1831) vol. II, opposite page 56 and in Thomas Porter's Picture of Philadelphia 1881 to 1831: Giving an account of the improvements of the city, during that period (Philadelphia: Published by Robert DeSilver, No. 110 Walnut Street, 1831) vol. II, opposite page 56., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Am 1831 Mea 68582.D and in Am 1831 Mea Log 4072.D and in and Am1831 Por 20876., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Creator: Breton, William L., creator
Date: [1831]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W092.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W92 [see above for holdings]

Title: Destruction by fire of Pennsylvania Hall. On the night of the 17th May, 1838
Description: Exterior view of Pennsylvania Hall engulfed in flames. A large crowd looks on. Fire fighters spray water on an adjoining building. Pennsylvania Hall was constructed 1837-1838 at Sixth and Haines Streets in Philadelphia as a meeting place for local abolitionist groups. Dedication ceremonies began on May 14, 1838 and continued over several days in a climate of growing hostility. On the night of May 17, 1838, a mob stormed the Hall and set it on fire. Fire companies refused to fight the blaze, and the building was completely destroyed. Bowen issued this print commemorating the event within a few days of the fire., Title from item., Artist and publication information supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 179, Gift of Mrs. S. Marguerite Brenner, 1984., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), approximately 1804-1846, artist
Date: [1838]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W94 [P.9057.27]

Title: Destruction by fire of Pennsylvania Hall. On the night of the 17th May, 1838. [graphic].
Description: Artist and publication information supplied by Wainwright., Exterior view of Pennsylvania Hall engulfed in flames. A large crowd looks on. Fire fighters spray water on an adjoining building. Pennsylvania Hall was constructed 1837-1838 at Sixth and Haines Streets in Philadelphia as a meeting place for local abolitionist groups. Dedication ceremonies began on May 14, 1838 and continued over several days in a climate of growing hostility. On the night of May 17, 1838 a mob stormed the Hall and set it on fire. Fire companies refused to fight the blaze, and the building was completely destroyed. Bowen issued this print commemorating the event within a few days of the fire., Gift of Mrs. S. Marguerite Brenner.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist., creator
Date: [1838]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W094.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W94 [P.9057.27]

Title: [Dickson & Co.] Watches, fine cutlery, jewellery
Description: Advertisement showing the five-story storefront for "Dickson and Co. Importers of Watches Clocks Jewellery & Plated Ware" at 14 North Fifth Street (between Market and Arch streets). Signage adorns the building, including over a side doorway. Building also contains large display windows where merchandise is visible, particularly plated ware and tea kettles. Merchandise is also visible on shelves, inside of the store, near an open doorway. In the street, a horse-drawn dray passes near crates piled at the street corner. Dickson & Co. was renamed from Dickson & Harper in 1840 and the import business operated from 5th and Commerce under the new name until 1841., Poulson inscription on recto: No. 14 n. Fifth Street. N.W. cor. of "Commerce" St. late "South Alley.", Philadelphia on Stone, POS 182, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Trimmed.
Date: [ca. 1840]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W95 [P.2035]

Title: The disappointed abolitionists
Description: Anti-abolition print distortedly portraying the events of the New York freedom seeker episode, "The Darg Case." The case involved a freedom seeker of enslaver John Darg who stole $7000 from him, fled, and was harbored and assisted by African American abolitionist and writer David Ruggle, Quaker arbitrator Barney Corse, and Quaker abolitionist Isaac T. Hopper. Corse had arbitrated a deal with Darg that in exchange for the return of Darg's stolen money, the enslaved man's freedom would be granted, and a small stipend would be paid to Corse. The arbitration was discovered and annulled by the New York police who then arrested Ruggles and Corse. Depicts Darg's sitting room where Hopper is requesting a reward. Ruggles says, "I don't like the looks of this affair. I'm afraid my pickings will not amount to much!" Corse replies, "Yea verily I was but thy instrument Brother Hopper as Brother Ruggles here knoweth!" They are threatened by Darg with a chair to whom they have returned "$6908" of his stolen money, and who bitterly exclaims that they deserve prison., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entd accordd to Act of Congress in the year 1838 by H.R. Robinson, in the Clerk's office of the Distt Court of the U. States, for the southern District of New York., Purchase 1968., 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., Clay, born in Philadelphia, was a prominent caricaturist, lithographer, and engraver who created the "Life in Philadelphia" series which satirized middle-class African American Philadelphians in the late 1820s and early 1830s.
Creator: Clay, Edward Williams, 1799-1857, artist
Date: 1838
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons - 1838-40W [7779.F]

Title: The early settlement & progress of Philadelphia & Pennsylvania Philadelphia T. Holden Chesnut St. 1833
Description: Small vignette on the added title page depicting the site of the Treaty Tree, the legendary location of William Penn's treaty with the Delaware Indians in 1682. Shows boats and figures near the river. The Treaty Tree or Great Elm Tree blew down in 1810., Added title page in John F. Watson's Historic tales of olden time : concerning the early settlement and progress of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania ; for the use of families and schools ; illustrated with plates (Philadelphia : E. Littell : Thomas Holden, 1833)., William L. Breton and Kennedy & Lucas created many of the lithographic plates for Watson's Annals of Philadelphia, so it is probable that they also created the plates in Historic tales of olden time., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 197
Creator: Breton, William L., ca. 1773-1855, artist
Date: [1833]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Am 1833 Wat [Log 2794.D.title page]

Title: Eastern Penitentiary of Pennsylvania. Near Philadelphia
Description: View looking past farmland showing the prison built 1823-1836 after the designs of John Haviland at 2101-2199 Fairmount Avenue. In the foreground, two boys sit in a fenced pasture in which cows graze near sheds and an enclosed pond. Ducks swim on the pond. In the background, a farm is visible in front of the prison at which a carriage is parked and a man rides on horseback., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 202, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb26 L528., Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 19:22
Creator: Lehman, George, d. 1870, artist
Date: c1833
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W106 [P.2041]

Title: The Eastern Penitentiary. Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view from the south east showing the front facade, including the entrance gate, of the prison built 1823-1836 after the designs of John Haviland at 2101-2199 Fairmount Avenue. In the foreground, two children watch a man, seated across from a small farm located in front of the prison, sketch. Cows graze in the pasture., Copyrighted by J.C. Wild and J.B. Chevalier. Loose print lacking copyright statement., Issued as plate 6 in Views of Philadelphia, and its vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838), a series of views originally published as five numbers of four prints each, and later sold as a bound volume containing twenty views., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 201.1, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2204 and in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 6626.F., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Described in Martin Snyder’s "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1838
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W373.1 [P.2204]

Title: The Eastern Penitentiary. Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view from the south east showing the front facade, including the entrance gate, of the prison built 1823-1836 after the designs of John Haviland at 2101-2199 Fairmount Avenue. In the foreground, two children watch a man, seated across from a small farm located in front of the prison, sketch. Cows graze in the pasture., Copyrighted by J.C. Wild and J.B. Chevalier., Issued as plate 6 in Views of Philadelphia, and its vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838), a series of views originally published as five numbers of four prints each, and later sold as a bound volume containing twenty views., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 201.2, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2205 and in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Poulson)., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Described in Martin Snyder’s "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1838
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W373.2 [P.2205]

Title: The Eastern Penitentiary. Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view from the south east showing the front facade, including the entrance gate, of the prison built 1823-1836 after the designs of John Haviland at 2101-2199 Fairmount Avenue.In the foreground, two children watch a man, seated across from a small farm located in front of the prison, sketch.Cows graze in the pasture., Copyrighted by J. T. Bowen., Originally published as plate 6 in Views of Philadelphia, and its vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). The lithographic stones for the views were acquired by John T. Bowen and reissued in 1838 and in 1848 with hand coloring., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 201.3, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Rush)., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Described in Martin Snyder’s "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1838
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W373.3 [Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Rush)]

Title: Eastwick & Harrison's improved locomotive engine
Description: Shows the 4-4-0 steam locomotive, Gowan & Marx, built 1839 by the firm after the designs of Joseph Harrison, Jr. The locomotive, for its weight, was the most efficent for freight purposes at the time. The firm established as Garrett, Eastwick & Co. was renamed Eastwick & Harrison in 1839 after the retirement of Garrett, when Harrison, a junior partner became a full partner., Not in Wainwright., Manuscript note on recto and mount: This locomotive engine "Gowan & Marx" hauled the freight train over the Philadelphia & Reading R. Road from Pottsville to Philada. D. J. Kennedy., Attached to sheet containing two photographic reproductions of Philadelphia and Reading Railroad broadsides dated 1839 and 1840., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 63, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: K VII 46
Creator: Hoffy, Alfred M., b. ca. 1790, artist
Date: [ca. 1839]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP K VII 46

Title: Edwin A. Atlee
Description: Half-length portrait of the physician and abolitionist, attired in a white shirt, a waistcoat, and a jacket with spectacles perched on his forehead, facing left. Atlee was a prominent Philadelphia physician and author who was active in the abolition movement., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Dated based on the presented age of the sitter., Manuscript note on recto: When will this be ready for the press on Monday., Detailed manuscript notes, possibly by artist in a conversation with a hearing person, on verso about background and lightness of a print: John Carlin / I can make you another / Background with trees without / sky/ Without any work on it / any [Back?] I may make / will have much work on / account of the great size of / the Picture if you make / all sky much work / all trees / There is less work on [these?] / than any [other ?] Because / the Building is Light / you are all right / if you intend sending the Letter / you should be quick for else / you will lose much time / waiting, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Albert Newsam (1809-1864) was a respected deaf and non verbal Philadelphia engraver and lithographer who studied under Peter S. Duval. He received early art training at the Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb.
Creator: Newsam, Albert, 1809-1864, lithographer
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait prints - A [(1)5750.F.22a]

Title: [The Eighth Beatitude]
Description: Calligraphic text of the beatitude, which reads "Blessed Are They Which Are Persecuted For Righteousness Sake: For Theirs Is The Kingdom Of Heaven.", Title supplied by cataloguer., Printed in upper right corner: Plate 8., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 64
Creator: Probst, John, b. ca. 1805, lithographer
Date: [ca. 1838]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Religion [P.2004.13.3]

Title: The Emmanuel Episcopal Church. Marlboro' Str. Kensington, Phila
Description: Interior view of the Episcopal church, consecrated in 1838, on Marlborough Street above Girard Avenue in Kensington. Shows Rev. J. Gordon Maxwell, at the pulpit, giving a sermon to a full congregation. Includes congregants turned to each other and a female congregant turned toward two men conversing a few pews over. Simple chandeliers hang from the ceiling near Gothic-style windows., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 206, Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 132 E 549., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Reaccessioned as P.2208.
Creator: Wagner, T. S. (Thomas S.), lithographer
Date: [ca. 1840]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W374 [P.2208]

Title: Emmanuel Episcopal Mission Church. Marlboro Street Kn. Published to assist in liquidating the debt upon the church, by the wardens
Description: Exterior view of the Episcopal church, consecrated in 1838, on Marlborough Street above Girard Avenue in Kensington. Shows pedestrian traffic on the sidewalk and a woman and child entering the side entrance of the church., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 207, See 374 for interior view., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Accession number amended by cataloger., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc132 E54., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Creator: Wagner, T. S. (Thomas S.), lithographer
Date: [ca. 1840]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W110 [Log 1322.F.a]

Title: Emmanuel Episcopal Mission Church. Marlboro Street Kn. Published to assist in liquidating the debt upon the church, by the wardens
Description: Exterior view of the Episcopal church, consecrated in 1838, on Marlborough Street above Girard Avenue in Kensington. Shows pedestrian traffic on the sidewalk and a woman and child entering the side entrance of the church., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 207, See 374 for interior view., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Accession number amended by cataloger., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc132 E54., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Creator: Wagner, T. S. (Thomas S.), lithographer
Date: [ca. 1840]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W110 [Log 1322.F.a]

Title: Emmanuel Episcopal Mission Church. Marlboro Street Kn. Published to assist in liquidating the debt upon the church, by the wardens. [graphic] / Drawn from nature and lithd. by T. S. Wagner.
Description: See 374 for interior view., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc132 E54., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Exterior view of the Episcopal church, consecrated in 1838, on Marlborough Street above Girard Avenue in Kensington. Shows pedestrian traffic on the sidewalk and a woman and child entering the side entrance of the church.
Creator: Wagner, T. S. (Thomas S.) lithographer., creator
Date: [ca. 1840]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W110.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W110 [1322.F]

Title: [F. Leaming & Co. hardware, nail, steel, hollow-ware & looking glass store. No. 215 Market Street]
Description: Crudely-printed advertisement showing the four-story storefront at 215 Market Street (i.e., 500 block Market). A patron approaches the glass-paned door of the business and a couple strolls on the sidewalk. Building contains partially visible cellar doors. Leaming operated at the location 1831-1833., Title supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 223, LCP copy trimmed and lacking title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Date: [ca. 1831]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W119 [P.9094]

Title: F. Leaming & Co. hardware, nail, steel, hollow-ware & looking glass store. No. 215 Market Street. [graphic].
Description: LCP copy lacking title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Date: ca. 1831.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W119.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W119 [P.9094]

Title: FacSimile of the revolutionary flag, A.D. 1774
Description: Depiction of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry’s flag from 1774. Shows the flag with fringed edges on a spiked flagpole adorned with two tassels and held open by a rope from its upper right corner tied to a tree in the right. In the top left of the flag are thirteen stripes representing the colonies. In the center, flanking a shield illustrated with thirteen ropes tied into a Gordian Knot are allegorical figures representing Liberty and Fame. Liberty, depicted as a barefooted Native American figure attired in a headdress, feather skirt, and with a quiver of arrows on their back, carries a bow and a liberty cap on a pole. Fame, depicted as a winged angel, blows a trumpet. Above the shield is a horse’s head wearing a bridle with the letters “LHC,” which stands for light horse cavalry. A banner below the shield reads, “For these we strive.”, Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress in the Year 1839, by Wm. M. Huddy, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Penna., Printed on recto: Plate No. 4., Gift of David Doret., RVCDC
Date: 1839
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Prints [P.2019.64.33]

Title: Fairmount
Description: Landscape view looking west from Reservoir Hill showing the Fairmount Water Works originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff. Includes the engine house, mill house, and race bridge. Also shows visitors strolling the landscaped grounds of the works; scullers on the river; residences, including probably Lemon Hill, along the bucolic banks of the Schuylkill River; the Schuylkill Canal lock; and the river dam., Copyrighted by J. T. Bowen., Originally published as plate 1 in Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). The lithographic stones for the views were acquired by John T. Bowen and reissued in 1838 and in 1848 with hand coloring., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 225.3, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Rush), Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bd 862 W 6441., Described in Martin Snyder's "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1838
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W120.3 [Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q.1 (Rush)]

Title: Fairmount from the first landing The Fairmount Quadrilles, selected & arranged for the piano forte, and respectfully dedicated to Miss Agnes Franciscus (of Baltimore) by John H. Hewitt
Description: Sheet music cover containing a view of Fairmount looking south from Reservoir Hill at Fairmount Water Works. Includes a partial view of the Engine House, the landscaped South Garden with fountain, the Upper Ferry Bridge over the Schuylkill River, and Harding's Hotel, the popular resort on the west bank. Also show several park visitors ascending the hill and walking the grounds. The waterworks were originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Frederick Graff. The gardens were completed in 1835., Attributed to John Bufford., Ba 888 Z 99 includes the sheet music., Inscribed on recto of Ba 888 Z 99 c. 2 [Ba 81 F 166]: Looking toward Upper Ferry Bridge., Printed on recto: Price 50 Cts., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 231, Library Company of Philadelphia: Sheet Music Collection [9914.F], Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 888 Z 99, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 888 Z 99 c. 2 [Ba 81 F 166]
Creator: Bufford, John Henry, 1810-1870, artist
Date: c1836
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Ba 888 Z 99, Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Ba 888 Z 99 c. 2 [Ba 81 F 166]

Title: Fairmount, Philadelphia
Description: Landscape view looking west from Reservoir Hill showing the Fairmount Water Works originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff. Includes the engine house, mill house, and race bridge. Also shows visitors strolling the landscaped grounds of the works; scullers on the river; residences, including probably Lemon Hill, along the bucolic banks of the Schuylkill River; the Schuylkill Canal lock; and the river dam., Issued as plate 1 in Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838), a series of views originally published as five numbers of four prints each, and later sold as a bound volume of twenty views., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 225.2, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Poulson), Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bd 862 W 6442.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1838
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W120.2 [Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q.1 (Poulson)]

Title: Fairmount Waterworks. From the forebay
Description: View looking south showing the water works, forebay, and Fairmount, i.e., Reservoir Hill. Pedestrians stroll on the promenade of the mill house (right) and on the walkway near the engine house that leads to the pavilion on Fairmount. Pedestrians include couples and a family. Also shows swans swimming in the forebay. The Fairmount Water Works were originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff, Philadelphia on Stone, POS 240.1, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bd 88 L 528., FLP Castner 21: 7 with hand-coloring., American Antiquarian Society holds duplicate with variant imprint (POS 240.2): Lith. of D.W. Kellogg & Co. Hartford Ct. [AAS Graphic Arts Lithf KellD Fair].
Creator: Lehman, George, d. 1870, artist
Date: 1833
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W122 [P.2085]

Title: Fairmount Waterworks. From the Forebay. [graphic] / From nature & on stone G. Lehman; Childs & Inman Lithrs.
Description: Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bd88 L528.
Creator: Lehman, George, d. 1870 lithographer. Childs & Inman lithographer., creator
Date: 1833.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W122.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W122 [P.2085]

Title: [Fairmount Waterworks. Pictorial Embellishment of the Philada. Saturday Courier a family paper of the largest size published at two dollars a year in advance including two engravings of this kind yearly.]
Description: View from the west bank of the Schuylkill River looking south showing the Fairmount Water Works, Lancaster-Schuylkill Bridge, and buildings on the west bank of the river near the canal lock. In the foreground, a man stands on the bucolic river bank watching two sculling teams race near a rowboat in the river. In the left background, the engine house, mill house, and Fairmount, i.e., Reservoir Hill of the water works are visible. A dock floats above the works and the covered Lancaster-Schuylkill Bridge spans the river in the distance. Also shows the toll house or superintendant's house of the Schuylkill Navigation Company in the right of the image. The Fairmount Water Works were originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff. The bridge, also known as the Upper Ferry Bridge, was erected 1809-1812, with Robert Mills serving as architect, and Lewis Wernwag as engineer. It burned in 1838., Copyright secured by J. T. Bowen 1838., FLP Castner 21:6, Philadelphia on Stone, POS 241.2, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 21:6. FLP copy contains vignette sketch of the reservoir on Fairmount, i.e., Reservoir Hill depicted below the image. Includes text: Fairmount is one of the most beautiful spots in the world. There are six basins (a birds eye view of which is shown in the vignette) elevated upon a high hill above the tops of the houses of the city. The water is thrown into them by means of force pumps which are driven by a head of water from the river Schuylkill affording a never failing supply to the inhabitants of the city, the Northern Liberties & Southwark. The works cost upwards a million dollars., Trimmed LCP copy of POS 241.1 (duplicate image, variant imprint) shown in digital file.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: [c1838]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia | Print and Photograph Collection. FLP Castner 21:6

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