Sheet music cover containing a view looking from Reservoir Hill toward Lemon Hill showing part of the Fairmount Water Works. Includes part of the mill race and the promenade on the old mill house, and visitors on the roof of the new mill house (completed 1862). Also shows a boat docked at the nearby boat landing and boat houses along the east bank of the Schuylkill River. The waterworks, originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff, were altered and expanded after the designs of Philadelphia engineers Henry P.M. Birkinbine and Frederick Graff, Jr., Not in Wainwright., pdcc00018, Philadelphia on Stone, POS 235, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 21:1 and 30:86
Date
c1871
Location
Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Photograph Collection. FLP Castner 21:1 and 30:86
View showing the residence and mill in Pemberton, N.J. purchased by Morris in 1864. A lady walks on a path leading to the elegant residence that is surrounded by trees and an iron wrought fence. In front of the house, men, one with a sack on his shoulder, walk on the sidewalk. To the left of the dwelling, two horse-drawn carts are parked in front of the two and one half story grist mill. Two men converse at the entrance. Other wagons approach and depart from a stone raceway over the creek next to the mill. Ducks glide on the pond visible in the foreground. Also shows a small fountain next between the residence and mill., Not in Wainwright., pdcp00013, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Mills
Date
[ca. 1875]
Location
Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - Mills
Tradecard showing the three buildings comprising the Philip J. Lauber liquor and restaurant business at 24-26 South Fifth Street. The buildings, adorned with signage, include left to right: "Ph. Lauber Beer & Ale"; "Ph. Lauber Importer of Wines"; and "Ph. Lauber Restaurant" (partial view). Image also shows heavy street and pedestrian traffic. Men congregate at the doorway of the wine shop at which a horse-drawn cart loaded with wine barrels departs. A carriage, horse-drawn dray, men on horseback, and pedestrians travel in the street. Lauber added a restaurant to his business on Fifth Street circa 1877., Not in Wainwright., Title contains pictorial details. Includes cherubs eating grapes and drinking bottles of wine on a mantelpiece surrounded by vinery and greenery., pdcc00008, Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 172, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 26:9
Date
[ca. 1880]
Location
Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Photograph Collection. FLP Castner 26:9
Vignette view of the Girard House hotel built 1851-1852 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr., at 823-835 Chestnut Street. Pedestrians walk at the street corner near the hotel while a horse-drawn carriage and omnibus travel near a coach parked in front of the building., Not in Wainwright., Date from manuscript note on recto: Philada. 1872., pdcp00006, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana – Streets – Chestnut - 8th-9th
Date
1872
Location
Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - Streets - Chestnut - 8th-9th
Atlas illustration containing a view of the residence with covered porch and fenced yard in Lancaster County, Pa. An evergreen tree is visible in the yard and a man stands in the doorway of an “office” attached to the dwelling. Also shows a man walking on sidewalk., Manuscript note on recto: K.S.P., Not in Wainwright., Published in New Historical Atlas of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: Everts & Stewart, 1875), pl. 26., pdcc00014, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 38:33
Date
[1875]
Location
Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Photograph Collection. FLP Castner 38:33
Circular containing an exterior view of the three-story storefront for the dry goods store at 1126-1128 Chestnut Street on the back cover. Horse-drawn carriages travel in the street, pedestrians walk on the sidewalk, and sections of adjacent buildings are partially visible. Also contains advertising text printed internally., Not in Wainwright., pdcp00052, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana, POSP 47
Date
[ca. 1879]
Location
Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana
Montage of five scenes from a "Hound and Hare Club of Germantown" meet at Wakefield Meadow, part of the estate of Thomas and Sarah Fisher near Germantown. Large central scene shows elegantly attired men, women, and children, a few astride horses, milling on the grounds near the old residence, pond and creek. Surrounding scenes show horsemen galloping on the grounds, over fences, and in front of distant crowds of on-lookers standing in front of the dwelling. Dwelling built circa 1795. The meet involved horsemen acting as "hounds" and "hares" through horns and pieces of paper. The riders were tracked by their fellow mounted clubmen. The club started meets at Wakefield circa 1871., Not in Wainwright., Printed above image: Germantown, December 1876. Vol. I, No. V. $1 Per Annum in Advance This December No., 5 CTS., Manuscript note on recto: Fishers Lane., pdcc00032, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 38:32
Creator
Cooper, Colin Campbell, Jr.
Date
December 1876
Location
Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Photograph Collection. FLP Castner 38:32
