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Title: Lithography, engraving and printing establishment. Augs. Kollner designer, engraver & lithographer. Henry Camp copperplate & lithographic printer. Phoenix Block corner of Second & Dock streets Philadelphia The Public is respectfully informed this establishment offers inducements for the execution of the finest down to the coarsest work in the different branches of this business, which no other similar establishment can offer. Any order will be thankfully received and promptly executed with neatness, dispatch, and at as moderate a price as will give entire satisfaction._ Original designs, as well as copies of any description, in any manner on paper, steel, copper & stone (lithographed), also printing and transferring from steel, copper, etc. executed in a superior style
Description: Advertisement containing an ornamental border, vignette examples of Kollner's work, and several lines of advertising text for the collaboration between Camp and Kollner at the Phonenix Block circa 1849-1851. Vignettes, marked with variant Kollner imprints, include General Washington, accompanied by two of his officers, and dismounted from a horse that is managed by a black handler (Servant William Lee?); a line drawing of the Phoenix Block building; the back of an old man, possibly Franklin, dressed in colonial attire, and seated at his secretary; and a view showing a grand building, probably a Capitol, along a river on which vessels sail. Border also includes vignettes. Vignettes depict a military scene with an officer on horseback accompanied by another soldier on the shore of an ocean on which a ship sails; and a trade scene between a gentleman and a Native American reviewing a stack of goods of commerce at a pier. Advertisement also contains depictions of female allegorical figures representing probably Spring and Fall flanking two ornamented poles entwined with banners. The banners are marked with the subject matter and types of prints issued by the partners, including "Portraits, Landscapes, Animals, taken from life. Vignettes from books, drafts, music titles etc." and "Showbills, labels, architectures, machine d. maps, plans, business & visiting cards.", Not in Wainwright., pdck00001, Printed on recto: To Publishers, Manufactures, etc. A.K. has taken from nature and is in possession of upwards of 500 views of picturesque scenery from the states of Pennsylvania, New York, Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, Delaware & Ohio., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 59, Free Library of Philadelphia: Augustus Kollner Collection - Drawings, Etchings, Lithographs Box - Lithographs-Tradesmen's Cards
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813, artist
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Photograph Collection. FLP Augustus Kollner Collection - Drawings, Etchings, Lithographs Box - Lithographs-Tradesmen's Cards

Title: The Magnetic Observatory at the Girard College
Description: Plate illustrating an oblique elevation and floor plan of the Magnetic Observatory building, the first magnetic observatory in the United States, constructed on the west grounds of the college in 1839 after designs by Thomas Ustick Walter. Labels for instruments are included in the floor plan and include a transit; clock; dew point instrument; telescope declinometer; anemometer and rain gauge; barometer; telescope & horizontal force magnetometer; telescope & vertical force megnetometer; and thermometers. The brainchild of Alexander D. Bache, the observatory was moved by master carpenter James O. Sawyer sometime after 1845 to the western ends of the college grounds and later used as a carpentry shop., Title page to Plates to magnetic and meteorological observations. Companion volume to three volume set Observations at the magnetic and meteorological observatory at the Girard College, Philadelphia (Washington: Gales and Seaton, printers, 1847)., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 448, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: in *Am 1847 Obser 12240.Q., Girard College:
Creator: Mason, S. Rufus, artist
Date: [1847]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare W383 [*Am 1847 Obser 12240.Q.titlepage], http://www.librarycompany.org/wainwright/W383.htm

Title: [Bird’s eye view looking west on Chestnut from above Sixth Street, Philadelphia]
Description: View predominately shows the businesses (with pre-consolidation addresses) on the 600 block of Chestnut Street. Includes a three-quarter view of William S. Mariten, publisher & bookseller (144, i.e., 608) in addition to full views of the American Sunday School Union tenanted by Howell, Finn & Co. Paper Hangings (146, i.e., 610); the Jones Hotel (148-152, i.e., 616-620); and the William Waln residence, partially obscured by trees, at the corner of 7th and Chestnut streets. A man stands in the doorway of the wallpaper store as nearby a man reads the posted, encased bulletins of the American Sunday School Union. A woman enters the ASSU building that also bears a “Penna. Bible Society” sign. Pedestrians walk on the sidewalk and a man greets a woman in front of one of the entrances of the hotel at which carriages and a wagon are parked. On the block and at the distant intersection a man rides horseback and a horse-drawn carriage, wagon, and omnibus travel. Also shows blocks of buildings above Seventh Street as part of the vista. William S. Martien printed as an individual in Philadelphia between 1835 and 1854. American Sunday School Union tenanted 146 Chestnut Street 1827-1853. Jones Hotel was originally built circa 1800 by Jacob Vogdes as the residence of Benjamin Say., Not in Wainwright., Title supplied by cataloguer., Manuscript note on recto: SS Chestnut 6-7 . 144. 146., pdcp00008, Philadelphia on Stone, POS 46, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana – Streets – Chestnut - 6th-7th
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - Streets - Chestnut - 6th-7th

Title: President and faculty of the Female Medical College of Penna To the students of the Female Medical College of Penna, this print is most respectfully dedicated by their most obt. svt. M. P. Simons
Description: Commemorative print containing bust-length portraits, within a decorative border, of the original faculty of the first degree granting U.S. medical college for women that opened in 1850. Faculty includes William S. Mullen, President; N. R. Moseley, Prof. of Anatomy General, Special and Surgical; Jas. F. X. McCloskey, Prof. of the Institutes and Practice of Medicine; Jos. Longshore, Prof. of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children; C. W. Gleason, Prof. of Physiology and Surgery; M. W. Dickeson, Prof. of Materia Medica and Therapeutics; and A. D. Chaloner, Prof. of Chemistry. Border designed as Gothic-style columns and arches decorated with female figures, including Wisdom and Peace. Also contains a vignette below the portraits depicting a classical style building with columns, possibly the building rented by the college at 229 Arch Street or an unexecuted rendering of the future permanent medical college building. Female Medical college was renamed Womens Medical College in 1867., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 625, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 904 S 57, Simons, a prominent Philadelphia daguerrean, photographed over twenty daguerreotype portraits of members of Philadelphia medical faculties that were published as engravings by Virgil F. Harrison in 1846., Address label pasted on verso for Mrs. Aldona L. Dickeson.
Creator: Newsam, Albert, 1809-1864, artist
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 904 S 57

Title: Arre st of the slave George Kirk
Description: Cartoon portraying the arrest during the New York case of the freedom seeker George Kirk. Kirk, enslaved by Georgia enslaver Charles Chapman had concealed himself on a Savannah brig traveling to New York City. While docked in New York, Kirk was discovered and beaten before being sheltered at the American Anti-Slavery Society office on Nassau Street. He had taken refuge at the office following his being ordered to be returned to Georgia on a legal technicality after having been previously freed by the court. In response, abolitionists including, lawyers Lois Napoleon and John Jay, editor of the "National Anti-Slavery Standard" Sydney Howard Gay, and sugar refinery proprietor Dennis Harris conceived a plan to secure Kirk's freedom through his concealment and transport from the Nassau Street office in a box addressed to abolitionist Rev. Ira Manley in Essex, New York. Kirk was discovered and arrested during the transport. Kirk was later freed through a legal argument presented by Jay. Depicts a horse-drawn dray labeled "D. Harris" on which Kirk, portrayed in racist caricature, is within a crate. Kirk is being pulled by police from the crate. "Tracts" fly out from the wooden box and its cover marked "Rev. Ira Manley, Essex, New York. This side up with Care" has fallen to the side of the dray. Kirk exclaims "Gorra mighty massa you take away my bref! dis child didn't come into de box hisself! de bobalitionists put him in it!!" White police men reach for him and make comments and threats, including smelling "a rat"; shaking "the life out of (Kirk)"; and the "Carman" having a "rather black job." The white carman, his hands on the reins of the horse and looking back, responds "It ain't anything else." Scene also includes a middle-class Black woman holding a parasol and middle-class Black man, who with a monocle to his eye, exclaims "Ponhona. Here's a game!! while standing near a group of white men abolitionists also witnessing the moment. The frowning abolitionists, including possibly Elias Smith, make comments and observations, including about Kirk being again "in the hands of Philistines"; having to take out "another habeus corpus ... at any expense"; and Manley being disappointed in "not receiving his consignment." Elias Smith procured a writ of habeus corpus for Kirk before his first court appearance., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entd according to Act of Congress in the year 1846 by H.R. Robinson, in the Clerk's office of the Distt Court of the U. States, for the southn District of New York., RVCDC, Clay, born in Philadelphia, was a prominent caricaturist, lithographer, and engraver who created the "Life in Philadelphia" series which racistly satirized middle-class African American Philadelphians in the late 1820s and early 1830s.
Creator: Clay, Edward Williams, 1799-1857, artist
Date: 1846
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons - 1846-7W [P.2024.43.1]

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