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- Title
- St. Ann's Church Philadelphia, Pa
- Description
- View showing the Roman Catholic Church built 1866-1870 after the designs of Edwin F. Durang at 2328 E. Lehigh Street. Also shows the other properties of the church surrounding the building. Includes the rectory (built 1894, Durang), the church cemetery, the original church building partially visible behind the new structure, and the St. Ann School (built 1894-1895, Durang) at 2343 East Tucker Street. Street traffic includes a horse-drawn carriage, electric trolley, and man on horseback. Trees landscape the sidewalks and an iron fence lines the church and cemetery. Cemetery contains several headstones. Electric trolleys began operating in the city in 1892., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 229, PAHRC: Unitrd States, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. Ann's
- Date
- [ca. 1895]
- Location
- Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center. | Graphics Collection. PAHRC United States, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. Ann's
- Title
- Catalogue illustration - Exterior view of factory
- Description
- Specimen from the catalog of the lithographic establishment begun by Eugene Ketterlinus in 1842 and incorporated as Ketterlinus Lithographic Manufacturing company in 1896. Depicts the six-story manufactory and showrooms of Baumeister Pianos in New York City. Includes street and pedestrian traffic, including patrons approaching the entry of the building., Published in Ketterlinus Lithographic Mfg. Company. Makers of book and job printing novelties. Philadelphia. North west corner Arch and Fourth streets., Smithsonian Institution: NMAH Archives Center - Warshaw Collection – Lithography – Vertical Box 1 - Catalogue, Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 9
- Creator
- Ketterlinus Lithographic Manufacturing Company
- Date
- [ca. 1896]
- Location
- Smithsonian Institution | NMAH Archives Center Warshaw Collection SI NMAH Archives Center - Warshaw Collection – Lithography – Vertical Box 1 - Catalogue
- Title
- Hofstetter Bros. Lithographers, stationers, printers, and blank book manufacturers. 508 & 510 Cherry Street, Philadelphia Manufacturing labels & brands a specialty. Checks. Bonds. Certificates. Diplomas. Show cards. Bill heads. Letter heads. Note heads. Statements. Box labels. Dry good labels. Portraits. Book illustrations. Blank books of every description made to order. Flat opening blank books a specialty
- Description
- Advertisements for the late 19th-century Philadelphia lithographic firm, originally established as a blank book manufactory ca. 1874 by bookbinders and brothers John and August Hofstetter. Name of the establishment ornamented with pictorial details, including a landscape view, a book, and artist's brushes. Prints contain a sentimental and comic scene. Sentimental scene shows a peasant girl, accompanied by a dog, walking through the woods and knitting. Comic scene shows a gentleman, near a lake, inspecting his rear covered in paint in front of a bench adorned with the sign "Paint." Also includes the promotion "Color Work a Specialty." Hofstetter & Bros. relocated to 508 -510 Cherry Street ca. 1892., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 39, Smithsonian Institution: NMAH Archives Center - Warshaw Collection – Lithography – Vertical Box 1 - Hofstetter - Peasant Girl, Smithsonian Institution: NMAH Archives Center - Warshaw Collection – Lithography – Vertical Box 1 - Hofstetter - Gentleman
- Creator
- Hofstetter Bros.
- Date
- [ca. 1892]
- Location
- Smithsonian Institution | NMAH Archives Center Warshaw Collection SI NMAH Archives Center - Warshaw Collection – Lithography – Vertical Box 1 - Hofstetter - Peasant Girl, Smithsonian Institution | NMAH Archives Center Warshaw Collection SI NMAH Archives Center - Warshaw Collection – Lithography – Vertical Box 1 - Hofstetter - Gentleman