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Title: America Fire Engine Co. of the city of Philadelphia
Description: Fire company membership certificate containing two side panel views, vignettes, and firefighting iconography. The left panel shows firefighters running from the fire house on Buttonwood Street, below Third Street. Two men stand lookout on the tower above the house, as others pull the fire engine from the garage. The right panel shows the fire company attempting to extinguish the January 14, 1869 fire caused by an explosion of a steam boiler at the southeast corner of Ninth and Chestnut Streets. Flames shoot from the top of three adjacent businesses on land formerly occupied by the Burd Mansion including, Howell & Brothers, paper hanging (900 Chestnut Street); J.M. Hafleigh, dry goods (902 Chestnut Street); and J.F. & E.B. Orne, carpets & oil cloths (904 Chestnut Street). The center vignette, below the membership text, depicts a man standing in front of the two horses that are hitched to a carriage pulling the fire company's engine. At the top of the certificate, American and Pennsylvania flags flank the image of lady liberty sitting on the wing of an eagle. With a lightning bolt in her left hand, she floats above a banner that reads "Allways [sic] ready and willing to assist". Fire fighting equipment, including a helmet, engine, and bugles, are drawn as decorative elements interspersed with the side panel views. Also contains the company's number "No. 9" and institution date, April 10th 1790. Incorporated on April 13, 1844., Not in Wainwright., Signed by Thomas F. Moore, president, and Frank Jacoby, secretary., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 16, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Certificates - Fire Companies - American Fire Engine
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Certificates - Fire Companies - American Fire Engine

Title: Breuker & Kessler lithographers, engravers & printers. S. W. corner 7th & Chestnut sts. Philadelphia. Particular attention paid to all kinds of commercial engraving
Description: Book advertisement containing landscape views, allegorical figures, and artist and printer's tools. Shows the allegorical figure Art as she leans on a pedestal that is covered in vines and displays a vase of flowers. She stands on a moss covered rock marked "Labels" that is surrounded by a stone tablet, possibly a lithographer's stone, inscribed "Manufacturers of Transferable Pictures"; a press machine; and a paint palette resting on a book. In the background, trees, hills, and a bridge spanning a river near townscape are visible. Breuker & Kessler, a partnership between George W. Breuker & Harry C. Kessler, operated circa 1867-1880., Not in Wainwright., Published in Edwin Freedley's Philadelphia and its manufactures: a hand-Book of the great manufactories and representative mercantile houses of Philadelphia, in 1867(Philadelphia: Edward Young & Co., 1867), opp. p. 134., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 7, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 39 B 750
Creator: Breuker & Kessler Co.
Date: [1867]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1867 Free 55213.O.134a

Title: Breuker & Kessler, lithographers, South West Corner Seventh & Chestnut Sts "Know all men by these presents: that Breuker & Kessler of Philadelphia, possessing ample facilities are prepared to execute in the finest style of the art, all orders for lithographing, including bonds, certificates of stock and deposit, checks, drafts, notes, letter note and bill headings, bills of exchange, cards, insurance policies, blanks etc. also show cards and labels in colors. Having given special attention to the engraving and printing of bonds and by using a combination of geometrical lathe and rosette designs we are able to produce a class of work so intricate as to prevent counterfeiting, it being impossible to imitate the same with any degree of accuracy. In witness whereof we have caused to be printed this sample in the form of a bond and have hereto attached our signatures, this first day of January, A.D. one thousand eight hundred and seventy four
Description: Advertisement for the lithographic establishment in the form of a $500 bond, with several small illustrations within the security designs. At top, within a scroll flanked by flags and military gear and overtopped by an eagle, a miner with pick and shovel and a farmer with pitchfork illustrate the motto "oro y plata." At left, a figure of liberty personified stands on a globe girdled by the motto "[e plu]ribus unum." At lower right, a reclining figure uses a pair of compasses. Bond Certificate" placed above 16 numbered rectangular "cards" marked "Breuker & Kessler, lithographers, Philadelphia." Verso covered with printed floral decoration. Numbers on bottom section correspond with numbers on recto., Not in Wainwright., Signed: Harry G. Kessler, J. Millard Kessler, Geo. W. Breuker., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 8, American Antiquarian Society: Graphic Arts Lithf Breu Breu, George W. Breuker, Sr. and Harry C. Kessler, Sr. formed their practical and commercial lithography business in January 1866. The firm produced drug, perfume, wine and liquor labels, trade cards, show cards and all forms of commercial engravings and was in operation until the 1930s.
Creator: Breuker & Kessler Co.
Date: [1874]
Location: American Antiquarian Society AAS Graphic Arts Lithf Breu Breu

Title: Bridesburg Manufacturing Company
Description: Frontispiece illustration depicting the square, industrial complex of the textile machinery manufacturing company on Richmond Street between Walnut and Locust Streets from the Delaware River. View includes a steamboat traveling north on the Delaware River, a docked sailboat, and laborers and horse-drawn carts and drays near the entrance of the complex. Company originally established circa 1819 by Alfred Jenks as Bridesburg Macine Works. Facility was enlarged in 1853, manufactured arms during the Civil War, and returned to manufacturing textile machinery after the Civil War., Not in Wainwright., Published in Bridesburg Manufacturing Company's Descriptive catalogue of machines built by the Bridesburg Manufacturing Company (Bridesburg, Pa., 1867), frontispiece., Catalogue includes fifty-eight lithographs by W. Boell depicting machinery manufactured by the company "to convey to them [patrons] an idea of the innumerable improvements we have made within a few years past, upon the machinery used for carding, spinning, and weaving Cotton and Wool.", Philadelphia on Stone, POS 62
Creator: Boell, William
Date: 1867
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1867 Brides 106980.D.frontispiece

Title: Camp Meigs
Description: View showing the Civil War camp under the command of Col. R.H. Rush at Old Second Street and Nicetown Lane on the estate of James Logan. In the foreground, soldiers drill on horseback in front of drill sergeants, officers-in-charge, and camp visitors, including men, women, and children. Also shows rows of tents for companies A-K, Conestoga wagons, hitched horses, a flagpole, and a locomotive traveling past the camp in the right background. Also includes the names and ranks of the field and staff officers, and a key to the camps depicted, including the names of the ranking officers, below the image. Officers include Lieut. Col. J.H. McArthur; 1st Major C. Ross Smith; Chaplain Rev. Erben, Surgeon Willliam Moss, and Quartermaster Sergeant Richard M. Sheppard. Company captains include George E. Clymer (G), Joseph Wright (D), and Howard Ellis (K)., Copyrighted by Charles Baum., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 79, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 54 M 512
Date: c1861
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 54 M 512

Title: Camp of 104th Penna. Vol.'s Morris Island, S.C. [graphic] / Hoffman delt.
Description: Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War views, places & events., View of the camp housing the Pennsylvania infantry during the campaign against Charleston in the spring of 1863. Shows soldiers carrying water, cooking over campfires, and resting near tents on the grounds. Also shows "Secessionville," i.e. Charleston, Black Island, and James Island in the distance. Contains the names of the sites included in the view printed below the image.
Creator: Hoffman, Abram J., lithographer., creator
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Military Camps- M [5779.F.24]

Title: [Certificate of membership on the committee of ships and ship builders in behalf of the Great Central Fair of the States of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware] Great Central Fair, for the United States Sanitary Commission. Philadelphia June 1864
Description: Committee membership certificate containing six vignettes and two scenes related to ship building and the Sanitary Fair. Scenes at the top and bottom edges show ships under construction at dry dock and visitors entering the Union Avenue entrance of the fair. Ship building scene shows several ship builders at work in front of and on the hull of a ship at dry dock at the river. A completed ship on a floating dry dock and ships in the water complete the view. Scene also includes a large America Flag incorporated as a pictorial element from the bottom scene and the motto "The Wealth and the Strength of the Nation." The fair scene shows throngs of people entering the arch-shaped entrance to the central passage of the fair site at Logan Square. A large flag pole ascends from the building. Vignettes create a side border and depict workshop scenes of the different professions within ship building. Laborers form the hull of a rowboat, sand and shave wood planks and huge spars (i.e. masts), sew sails, blacksmith using an anvil and hot coal from a furnace, and craft parts of the rigging. Many of the scenes include the tools of the trade, raw materials, and views out of the open entryways of the workshops toward vessels on the river. Vignettes surrounded by scroll flourishes. Also includes the names of committee members by their profession - Ship Builders, Boat Builders, Ship Joiners, Ship Smiths, Spar Makers, Riggers, Block Makers, and Sail Makers. Members include Henry Hoover, William Cramp, Joseph Albertson, Jonathan Jenks, Henry Delaney, Thomas Humphreys, William Hugg, and George Brazier. The Great Central or Sanitary Fair of June 1864, displayed art, craft, and historical exhibits to benefit the soldier relief organization, the U.S. Sanitary Commission., Title supplied by Wainwright., Issued to Henry Delaney. Signed by Charles H. Cramp, Chairman; Preston Brearly, Secy.; and John W. Lynn, Treasr., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 99, Hagley Museum and Library: BSIDE
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: 1864
Location: Hagley Museum and Library | Imprints HML BSIDE

Title: Charles Oakford & Sons, No. 834 & 836 Chestnut St., Philadelphia. 1866. Wholesale and retail dealers and manufacturers of hats, caps & furs Our stock of hats is complete in every department including a large assortment of wool hats at all prices. We invite attention to style no. 1, a sundown for ladies and children, made of mackinaw straw celebrated for its durability. This popular sun hat supercedes the old style shaker hood and bids fair to be fashionable for seasons to come thereby avoiding an accumulation of old stock. The prices per dozen for trimmed and untrimmed range from $6 to $60. We are ready to receive and fill orders for all kinds of hats which we guarantee to sell at lower prices for cash than any other house in the country. We are constantly receiving the newest styles and our manufactory facilities are such as enable us to compete with any other establishment. March 1866. Please put this up in a conspicuous place
Description: Advertisement with ornamental lettering depicting a display of 12 numbered men's and women's hats. The women's hats (1-4, 7, 10) are adorned with feathers, ribbons, and other embellishments, except for the "sundown." Hats are displayed on a hat rack and three stands at its base. Oakford established his business in 1827 and located to 104 Chestnut in 1843 where he began his wholesale trade in 1850. He operated from the address until 1852 when he relocated to 624 Chestnut Street. In 1860 he moved his business to the Continental Hotel., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 25
Date: March 1866
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Advertisements [P.9465]

Title: Christ Church
Description: Exterior view looking northwest at the Protestant Episcopal church built 1727-1744, including the steeple completed 1754 after the designs of John Harrison and Robert Smith, at 22-34 North 2nd Street. Scene includes pedestrian traffic walking along both Second and Church Streets, a flock of birds near the weathervane and steeple, and trolley tracks running the length of Second Street in the foreground., Frontispiece to Edward W. Clark's A Record of the Inscriptions of the Tablets and Grave-Stones in the Burial-Grounds of Christ Church, Philadelphia (Philadelphia: Collins, printer, 705 Jayne Street, 1864)., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 117, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Uy8 96795.D., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Creator: Tholey, Charles P., d. 1898, artist
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W61 [Uy8 96795.D.frontispiece]

Title: Christ Church [graphic] / C. Th.
Description: Location: Second Street above Market St., Frontispiece to Edward W. Clark's A Record of the Inscriptions of the Tablets and Grave-Stones in the Burial-Grounds of Christ Church, Philadelphia (Philadelphia: Collins, printer, 705 Jayne Street, 1864)., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Uy8 96795.D., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Creator: Tholey, Charles P., d. 1898., creator
Date: [1864]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W061.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W61 [Uy8 96795.D]

Title: Christ Church Hospital
Description: Exterior view of front facade of hospital building constructed 1856-1861 after designs by John M. Gries at 2100 North Forty-ninth Street. Building adorned with Gothic details, including narrow pointed arched windows, gable roofs, pinnacles and spires. A carriage drives away from the front entrance of the home along the same path where pedestrians stroll the grounds. Founded in 1772 by Dr. John Kearsley to support poor and widowed women of the Church of England., Published in Edward W. Clark's A Record of the Inscriptions of the Tablets and Grave-Stones in the Burial-Grounds of Christ Church, Philadelphia (Philadelphia: Collins, printer, 705 Jayne Street, 1864), opposite page 85., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 119, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Uy8 96795.D., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Creator: Tholey, Charles P., d. 1898, artist
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W63 [Uy8 96795.D.85a]

Title: Citizens Volunteer Hospital Association of Philadelphia. Instituted, September 5th 1862 Erected September 5th 1862 for temporary relief of sick and wounded soldiers, arriving in and passing through Philadelphia. Closed August 9th 1865
Description: Certificate containing a view showing a bustling street scene around the hospital situated opposite the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad depot at the corner of Broad Street and Washington Avenue. On the sidewalk, soldiers converse, men and women pedestrians stroll, and a female peddler and vendor sell their goods and wares, the latter patronized by Zouaves. In the street, medical personnel and doctors accompany injured soldiers, by stretcher, foot, and on crutches toward the hospital. Men, women, and children walk, converse, and greet each other, and horse-drawn carriages, including possibly an ambulance, travel past and stop near the hospital. Children include a boy carrying a basket and two attempting to help a man with his valise. Also shows surrounding buildings in the background. The hospital provided care to the most seriously injured before their reassignment to other hospitals. The hospital closed on August 11, 1865., Signed Thomas T. Tasker Junr President and F. Bayle Secretary pro tem., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 129, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Variant of image used as central scene in Wainwright 69.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W67 [P.8650]

Title: Citizens Volunteer Hospital Association of Philadelphia. Instituted, September 5th 1862. [graphic] / From nature by Jas. Queen.
Description: Location: Broad St. and Washington Ave., northeast corner., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886 lithographer., creator
Date: ca. 1865.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W067.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W67 [P.8650]

Title: Citizens Volunteer Hospital Association of Philadelphia. Instituted, September 5th 1862. [graphic] / From nature by Jas. Queen.
Description: Location: Broad St. and Washington Ave., northeast corner., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886 lithographer., creator
Date: ca. 1865.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W067.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W67 [P.8650]

Title: City of Philadelphia, 1867 Presented by Gould & Co
Description: Advertisement souvenir print distributed by the Philadelphia furniture dealers containing a montage of 3 panoramas, 3 views, and 2 allegorical vignettes. Panoramas show schematic views of Philadelphia, and the views show Independence Hall, 1867 and Gould & Company's Union Depots located at N.E. cor. 9th & Market Sts. and at 37 & 39 N. Second Street. Panoramic views predominately show the Eastern, Western, and Central portions of the city from across the Schuylkill and Delaware rivers. Major landmarks are visually highlighted and identified by text below the images. Includes (lower view) the U.S. Mint, Market St. Bridge, Academy of Music, St. Mark's Church, Academy of Natural Science, Pennsylvania College, New Chestnut St. Bridge, Deaf & Dumb Asylum, Naval Asylum, Alms House, County Prison, Insane Asylum, Nth. Pennsylvania Bridge, Woodland Cemetery, U.S. Arsenal, Gray's Ferry Bridge, Navy Yard, Pennsylvania Hospital, and League Island; (center view) Laurel Hill Cemetery, Fairmount Park, Girard College, Fairmount & Water Works, Wire Bridge, Eastern Penitentiary, House of Refuge, Blind Asylum, [Central] High School, Cathedral (Sts. Peter & Paul), 7th Presbyterian Church, Gas Works, and Philadelphia Library (Library Company); (upper view) Merchant's Exchange, Girard Bank, Custom House, Smith's Island, Post Office, State House, Continental Hotel, Penn Cottage, Girard Hotel, Christ Church, Masonic Hall, Penn Treaty Monument, Petty's Island, Reading Coal Depot, and Port Richmond. Panoramas also contain maritime traffic., Vignettes show an allegorical view of "Peace" represented by a social gathering with food, drink, and music in a parlor and one of "War" represented by a marine battle. "Union Depot" vignettes show the busy storefronts. Merchandise lines the sidewalks of the businesses in which patrons enter, and in front of which heavy street and pedestrian traffic passes. Traffic includes horse and hand-drawn carts loaded with crates and furniture. Also shows the Market Street depot covered in advertising text. Independence Hall view contains heavy street traffic. Horse-drawn carts, carriages, delivery wagons, and omnibuses congest the street aside laborers pushing hand-carts, people on horseback, and pedestrians crossing the street. Pedestrians also walk in front of Independence Hall. American flags adorn the storefronts and Independence Hall. Other pictorial elements include the allegorical figure of peace, a cannon surrounded by other instruments of war, and borders comprised of vinery and filigree., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 138, Free Library of Philadelphia: Oversize Philadelphiana - Views
Creator: Rease & Kurtz
Date: [1867]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Views [P.8970.28]

Title: Civil War military campaign and battle maps
Description: Maps show troop movements; fortifications and battlegrounds; routes to and from sites of military engagements; headquarters and camps; local architecture; topography, including railroads, rivers, and roadways; state and county lines; towns, cities, and capitals; and vegetation. Two of the maps also include remarks by military surveyor T. Ditterline describing troop movements during the Battle of Gettysburg. Two maps contain portraits of prominent political and Union military figures including President Lincoln, William H. Seward, General George McClellan, General Winfield Scott, and General Robert Anderson., Includes Maps of the District of Columbia, Baltimore with Ft. McHenry, Ft. Monroe and the Atlantic States, with their Rail Road Connections, Coast Lines, &.; A Correct Map of Pensacola Bay Showing Topography of the Coast, Fort Pickens, U. S. Navy Yard and all other Fortifications from the latest Government Surveys; Sketch of Vicinity of Fort Fisher; Plan and Sections of Fort Fisher carried by assault by the U. S. Forces, Maj. Gen. A. H. Terry, Commanding, Jan. 15th, 1865; Colton’s United States Shewing(sic) the Military Stations, Forts &.; Map of the Seat of War, Supplement to P. S. Duval & Son’s Military Map showing the location of the present Military Operations (1861); Map of the Battlefield of Antietam; Battlefield of Chattanooga with the operations of the National Forces under the command of Maj. Gen. U. S. Grant during the battles of Nov. 23, 24 & 25, 1863; Field of Gettysburg, July 1st, 2nd & 3rd, 1863; Map of the Battle Ground of Manassas [i.e., Bull Run] from Actual Surveys by an Officer of Genl. Beauregard’s Staff Shewing [sic] the exact position occupied by Federal & Rebel forces in the battle of 21st July 1861; Battle of Gettysburg Showing the Position of the Two Contending Armies During the First, Second & Third of July 1863; Map of the Southern States including rail roads, county towns, state capitals, county roads, the southern coast from Delaware to Texas, showing the harbors, inlets, forts and position of blockading ships; and Part of Charleston Harbor: embracing Forts Moultrie, Sumter, Johnson, and Castle Pinckney, also Sullivan, James and Morris Islands and showing the position of the Star of the West when fired into from Morris Island. A Civil War era political map of Pennsylvania for the 1863 Governor's race and a Map of The Grounds and Design for the Improvement of The Soldiers’ National Cemetery, Gettysburg, Pa. 1863 also included as part of the collection., Various publishers and lithographers including W. Boell; J.H. Colton; P.S. Duval & Son; Engineer Bureau, War Dept.; Charles G. Kreb; Lithographers' Association of New York; E. Molitor ; L. Prang & Co.; George T. Perry; T.B. Pugh; J.G. Shoemaker; Jacob Weiss; and Benjamin Wrigley., Various surveyors and engineers including Brvt. Brig. Gen. C. B. Comstock; T. Ditterline; William Saunders; Private Otto Julian Schultze; Lt. Wm. H. Willcox; and members of the U.S. Coast Survey, including Captains F. W. Dorr and J. W. Donn, Maj. Morhardt, Capts. Ligowsky, McDowell, Jenney and Lts. Boeckh and Dahl, and U. S. Vol’s. Capt. Preston and C. F. West., Relief shown pictorially and by hachures., Majority of maps include a scale and a compass., Several maps include key to Union and Confederate troop positions., Two maps [5779.F.79a & 80a] contain insets. Insets show Washington, D.C.; Baltimore south to Annapolis, Maryland; Cairo, Illinois to Memphis, Tennessee; Pensacola Bay and the Gulf of Mexico; and the area from Winchester, Virginia to Morgantown, Maryland., Manuscript note on map 5779.F.107a: John A. McAllister from [D. McCoughy?], Originally part of McAllister scrapbooks containing Civil War views and Robert Anderson material., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: 1861-1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **maps - Civil War military campaign and battle [5779.F.76b; 79a; 80a; 81b; 82a; 83a; 84a; 85b; 86a; 97a; 99a; 107a; 108a; 121a; 5794.F; P.2006.1.28]

Title: Continental Hotel, corner of Chestnut & Ninth St. Philadelphia J. B. Kingsley & Co., proprietor
Description: Advertisement showing heavy pedestrian and street activity in front of the large, prominent hotel built 1860 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr. at 824-838 Chestnut Street. A group of men gathers at the entrance of the hotel. Several pedestrians walk and peruse shop windows on the block in front of the building. Street traffic includes promenading couples, a woman walking a dog, a delivery boy, a First City Troop officer, carriages, an omnibus, and men on horseback. Also shows adjacent buildings and the brick wall across the street adorned with an arched window below a sign indicating "Chestnut St." (site of the Shippen-Burd residence, demolished circa 1862). Trees stand in front of and behind the wall., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 157, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 32 C 762
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania | Print Department HSP Bc 32 C 762

Title: Decatur Fire Company of Frankford
Description: Fire company certificate containing vignettes depicting fire fighters rushing a steam engine marked with the company motto down a city street past the Odd Fellows Hall, Frankford; a steam engine parked at the company fire station on Church Street; and fire fighters surrounded by spectators battling a fire of the Frogmore Mills cotton factory, Frankford. Fire fighting equipment including a fire hose, a ladder, an axe, a trumpet and other tools are drawn bundled together to form decorative elements on both sides. A small oval portrait of Commodore Stephen Decatur in a laurel wreath frame above intertwined American flags and the company motto "Ever Prompt to a Call" adorns the top. Also contains eagles, the company number "21," and the institution and incorporation dates (1803 and 1842, respectively). Company named after the Naval hero Decatur whose father purportedly resided in Frankford., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 177, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Certificates - Fire Companies - Decatur, Duval and Hunter was a partnership between Stephen Orr Duval (P.S. Duval’s son) and Thomas Hunter that lasted from P.S. Duval’s retirement in 1869 until 1874.
Creator: Bosch, A. H., artist
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Certificates - Fire Companies - Decatur

Title: Diagrams [ ] illustrating lectures on ventilation [deliv]ered before the Franklin Institute by L. W. Leeds 1866-67
Description: Sheet containing 9 captioned diagrams explicating the correct and incorrect modes of proper ventilation for a heated room as lectured by Leeds, Civil War health inspector and consulting engineer of ventilation and heating for the U.S. Treasury Department. Captions read Erroneous; The Popular Mistake; The General Remedy - Very Bad; Partial Improvement; Correct. When Heating and Ventilating by Warmed Air; Change of Circumstances, Consequently, Incorrect; Incorrect; Correct; Direction Radiation - Exclusively. Diagrams include red and grey shading to represent heat and "foul air"; representations of flues and windows; and human figures. Figures include men, women, and a baby. The figures sit at a table, read in chairs, sleep in bed, sitin a toddler chair on the floor, and iron in the kitchen. Other room furnishings include a nightstand, stove, and fireplace. Also contains two proverbs "Man's own Breath is his greatest enemy" and "Always sleep with Open windows" and a warning about direct radiation from steam pipes as done in most printing offices and editorial rooms as the most "killing arrangement ever made.", Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 50, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Society Print Collection - Posters & Broadsides - Advertisements - Miscellaneous Folder 1, Variants of six of the diagrams published as two lithographs in Lewis W. Leeds Lectures on ventilation: being a course delivered in the Franklin Institute,.... (NY: John Wiley & Sons, 1868). [LCP Am 1868 Leeds, 17720.O]., Separated into 3 pieces and upper corners missing.
Date: [ca. 1867]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania | Print Department | HSP at LCP HSP Society Print Collection - Posters & Broadsides - Advertisements - Miscellaneous Folder 1

Title: E. Ketterlinus' lithographic and letter press printing house cor. of Arch & Fourth Sts. Philadelphia Bill heads, cards, circulars, &c. lithographed at nearly the same cost as letter press in a superior style. Illuminated show cards in great variety
Description: Tradecard, probably issued during the Civil War, containing an exterior view of the lithographic establishment of Ketterlinus at the northwest corner of Fourth and Arch streets. Other pictorial details include an American flag flying from a flag pole beside the building, a banner, and scrolls., Not in Wainwright., Variant reproduced in Jay Last's The color explosion: Nineteenth century American lithography (Santa Ana, Ca.: Hillcrest Press, 2005), p. 108., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 21, Ketterlinus established his own firm in 1842 and relocated to Fourth and Arch streets in 1856.
Creator: Ketterlinus, Eugene, d. 1886
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.142f]

Title: E. Ketterlinus' lithographic and letter press printing house cor. of Arch & Fourth Sts. Philadelphia Bill heads, cards, circulars, &c. lithographed at nearly the same cost as letter press in a superior style. Illuminated show cards in great variety
Description: Letterhead, probably issued during the Civil War, containing an exterior view of the lithographic establishment of Ketterlinus at the northwest corner of Fourth and Arch streets. Other pictorial details include an American flag flying from a flag pole beside the building, a banner, filigree, and scrolls., Not in Wainwright., Addressed to Messrs. Riehl on March 9, 1871., Smithsonian Institution: NMAH Archives Center - Warshaw Collection – Lithography – Vertical Box 1 - Letterhead, Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 22, See LCP albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.142f], Ketterlinus established his own firm in 1842 and relocated to Fourth and Arch streets in 1856.
Creator: Ketterlinus, Eugene, d. 1886
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Smithsonian Institution | NMAH Archives Center Warshaw Collection SI NMAH Archives Center - Warshaw Collection – Lithography – Vertical Box 1 - Letterhead

Title: E. Ketterlinus' steam power lithographic and letter press printing house cor. of Arch & Fourth Sts. Philadelphia
Description: Tradecard, probably issued during the Civil War, containing an exterior view of the lithographic establishment of Ketterlinus at the northwest corner of Fourth and Arch streets. Other pictorial details include an eagle holding the American flag in its claws., Not in Wainwright., Smithsonian Institution: NMAH Archives Center - Warshaw Collection – Lithography – Vertical Box 1 - Ketterlinus, Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 24, Ketterlinus established his own firm in 1842 and relocated to Fourth and Arch streets in 1856.
Creator: Ketterlinus, Eugene, d. 1886
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Smithsonian Institution | NMAH Archives Center Warshaw Collection SI NMAH Archives Center - Warshaw Collection – Lithography – Vertical Box 1 - Ketterlinus

Title: Fire Association of Philadelphia Insure from loss by fire buildings. Furniture and merchandise generally
Description: Tradecard containing a view of the Fairmount Waterworks. View looking from the west bank of the Schuylkill River showing the waterworks originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Frederick Graff. Shows the engine house, mill house, mound dam, and Reservoir Hill. Also shows individuals fishing from and on a boat near the Schuylkill Canal lock in the foreground. Also contains the pictorial detail of a running hose entwined around a fire hydrant., Names of Trenton and Plainfield, N.J. agents stamped in blue ink on recto., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 251, Smithsonian Institution: NMAH Archives Center - Warshaw Collection - Fires & Firefighting - Box 2 Folder 23 - Fire Association
Creator: Major & Knapp Engraving, Manufacturing & Lithographic Co.
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Smithsonian Institution | NMAH Archives Center Warshaw Collection SI NMAH Archives Center - Warshaw Collection - Fires & Firefighting - Box 2 Folder 23 - Fire Association

Title: Franklin Fire Co. of the city of Philadelphia [membership certificate]
Description: Fire company certificate containing vignettes depicting fire fighters racing down a street on a horse-drawn steam fire engine during the day; firefighters, two with trumpets, drawing a hand-pump fire engine out of the station during the night; and an exterior view of the Franklin Fire station. Fire fighting equipment including a trumpet, ax, and belt are drawn bundled together to form a decorative element below the vignettes. Images are bordered by hoses, including two squirting water into the air, and two entwined around the company number "12." Also contains a vignette showing a firefighter shielding a family from flames as a fellow volunteer is at the ready with an ax. Vignette captioned with the company motto "Assist the Needy.", Name of artist supplied by Wainwright., Signed by Thomas H. Clarke, president., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 275, Atwater Kent Museum: 44.91.2
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Atwater Kent Museum | Print Department AKM AKM 44.91.2

Title: Front elevation Design XII. Plate 56
Description: Exterior view of Bennett's Tower Hall, the four-story, tower-shaped clothing store at 518 Market Street altered by architect Samuel Sloan circa 1867. Includes partial, faded view of adjacent properties. Col. Joseph M. Bennett (1816-1898) established his business, which he named Tower Hall in 1853, at the address in 1849. He was a successful businessman who used his wealth for philanthropic pursuits including the establishment of a Methodist orphanage and the bequest of West Philadelphia properties to the University of Pennsylvania in support of women's education., Date assigned by cataloger., Published in Samuel Sloan's City and Suburban Architecture (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1867), plate 56, design XII for a mercantile building in the Norman style., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 288, Free Library of Philadelphia: 724.3 SL52C, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Sloan, Samuel, 1815-1884, artist
Date: [ca. 1867]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W25 [*Am 1867 Sloan 7883.F.56]

Title: Good Will Hose and Steam Fire Engine Company of Philadelphia [membership certificate]
Description: Fire company certificate containing five vignettes bordered by patriotic and firefighting iconography. Vignettes depict the Fairmount Waterworks, including boys fishing on the canal lock; a circular industrial building, possibly the Spring Garden Water Works; company volunteers rushing hand pumps through Fairmount past Reservoir Hill; the station dog sleeping near the company steam engine in front of the firehouse on the 2200 block of Wood Street; and volunteers, surrounded by a crowd of spectators, fighting the fire at a large city building. Iconography includes helmets with the company number "25," fire hoses, trumpets, and belts as well as the American eagle holding the U.S. shield and flanked by flags over the company motto "Our Motto is Our Name, Always Ready for Public Good." Also contains the company institution and incorporation dates (1834 and 1851, respectively)., Signed Quintin Todd, Secy., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 320, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Certificates - Fire Companies - Good Will Hose and Steam, P.S. Duval & Son was a core partnership between Peter S. Duval and his son Stephen that operated under various names and incarnations between 1857-1869. The firm name P.S. Duval, Son & Co. was cited in city directories 1868-1869.
Creator: Bosch, A. H., artist
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Certificates - Fire Companies - Good Will Hose and Steam

Title: The great fertilizer. Whann's raw bone super phosphate. Walton, Whann & Co.'s Works, Wilmington, Del The unexampled results of this great fertilizer on cotton, corn, wheat, tobacco, and all other crops prove it to be the best and cheapest manure in the market. Made if pure raw bone, dissolved in sulphuric acid, guano, and salts of potash and soda, it contains every element needed by growing plants. No fertilizer has been more uniformly successful in all sections of the country
Description: Advertisement containing a view of the busy fertilizer factory complex on the riverfront in Wilmington, Delaware. Complex includes three smock stacks. Several workers move, inspect, and use handcarts near rows of crates piled on the dock and in front of the manufactory. Horse-drawn wagons arrive and depart from the site. Ships and barges deliver and receive supplies from the Christina River. Also contains notice about "Descriptive Pamphlets mailed free on application" and the three locations of the manufacturers, including 203 West Front Street, Wilmington, Del.; 57 South Calvert Street, Baltimore, Md.; 28 South Wharves, Philadelphia. Manufactory established in 1861., Printed above title: [Trade Mark Patented, November 22d, 1870]., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 100, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 38 W 173, Manuscript note on verso: Library Fund Oct. 28, 1960.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 38 W 173

Title: The grounds and buildings of the United States Centennial International Exhibition, May 10th to November 10th 1876
Description: Bird’s eye view looking toward East Fairmount Park showing the entire expanse of the exhibition grounds in West Fairmount Park. The Centennial Exhibition celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art. Shows the English Commissioners Building, U.S. Government Building, Agricultural Hall, Machinery Hall, Ladies’ Pavilion, Judge’s Hall, Horticultural Hall, offices, Photographic Hall, Art Gallery, and the Main Building. Also shows fountains, hotels, and the Columbia, Girard and New York-Connecting Railroad bridges spanning the Schuylkill River. Cityscape is visible in the background. Many of the buildings were designed by Herman Schwartzmann, Henry Pettit, and Joseph M. Wilson., Not in Wainwright., Printed with red tint stone: The Only Complete View of the Centennial Exhibition officially recognized., Signatures of the Director General, Architects, and Engineers printed below the image., Philadelphia on Stone, American Antiquarian Society: Graphic Arts Lithff Pran Smir Grou Copy 3, AAS Graphic Arts Lithff Pran Smir Grou Copy 2, untinted.
Creator: Smirke, Sydney, 1798-1877, artist
Date: c1876
Location: American Antiquarian Society AAS Graphic Arts Lithff Pran Smir Grou Copy 3

Title: The grounds and buildings of the United States Centennial International Exhibition, May 10th to November 10th 1876
Description: Bird’s eye view looking toward East Fairmount Park showing the entire expanse of the exhibition grounds in West Fairmount Park. The Centennial Exhibition celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art. Shows the English Commissioners Building, U.S. Government Building, Agricultural Hall, Machinery Hall, Ladies’ Pavilion, Judge’s Hall, Horticultural Hall, offices, Photographic Hall, Art Gallery, and the Main Building. Also shows fountains, hotels, and the Columbia, Girard and New York-Connecting Railroad bridges spanning the Schuylkill River. Cityscape is visible in the background. Many of the buildings were designed by Herman Schwartzmann, Henry Pettit, and Joseph M. Wilson., Not in Wainwright., Signatures of the Director General, Architects, and Engineers printed below the image.., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 334, American Antiquarian Society: Graphic Arts Lithff Pran Smir Grou Copy 1, AAS Graphic Arts Lithff Pran Smir Grou Copy 2, untinted.
Creator: Smirke, Sydney, 1798-1877, artist
Date: c1876
Location: American Antiquarian Society AAS Graphic Arts Lithff Pran Smir Grou Copy 1

Title: Hotel Aubry, Walnut Street from 33rd to 34th Sts. Philadelphia Jas. T. Stover manager. Geo. A. Kelly, president. Jas. W. Packer, treasurer. Reuben C. Kelly, secretary. Directors: Geo. A. Kelly, Wm. T.B. Roberts, Jno. C. Allen, Jr., Jas. W. Packer, David C. Moore, Frederick Shinn, Wm. S. Kimball, Andrew M. Jones
Description: View showing the "dwelling house" hotel built on Walnut Street between 33rd and 34th streets for the Centennial Exhibition in 1876. Guests stand on the porch of the twenty-six house hotel and elegantly dressed men, women and children stroll the grounds in front of the hotel. The house number of each of the twenty-six properties, from 3300-3350, is labeled above the roof line. A Chestnut and Walnut Street streetcar filled with passengers travels east as horse-drawn carriages and coaches travel in both directions on Walnut Street. The hotel, built on inexpensive land considered undesirable for a permanent hotel, was composed of rows of several houses that were to be later sold or leased as individual dwellings. During the Centennial Exhibition, Hotel Aubry accommodated about 50,000 people between April and November of 1876., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 364
Date: ca. 1870
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW-Hotels [P.2008.34.25]

Title: In commemoration of the great parade of the Philadelphia Fire Department October 16th 1865 Dedicated to the Philadelphia firemen and their visiting brethren
Description: Commemorative print containing a portrait of Chief Engineer David M. Lyle in uniform and three vignettes. Vignettes show an injured soldier being transported from an ambulance at the Citizens Volunteer Hospital; a horse drawn steam engine; and fire fighters battling a blaze with a steam engine. Also contains a list of over 100 regional fire companies who participated in the parade surrounded by a border designed as fire hoses extending from a fire hydrant. The 1865 parade was the greatest one in the history of the fire companies with near twenty thousand fireman processing nearly 20 miles from Broad Street. The men marched with decorated steam engines, hand pumpers, and ambulances., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 369, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Firemen's Parades. FLP holds 2 copies, one is half-sheet., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Reaccesioned P.2272., Advertisement soliciting "Agents for Every Fire Co." to sell the print published in The Philadelphia Inquirer (October 13, 1865), p. 8.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: c1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W181 [P.2272]

Title: In commemoration of the great parade of the Philadelphia Fire Department October 16th 1865 [graphic] : Dedicated to the Philadelphia firemen and their visiting brethren / on stone by Jas. Queen; designd. by Schell; P.S. Duval & Son lith. Philada.
Description: Copyrighted by Barclay & Co., Commemorative print containing a portrait of Chief Engineer David M. Lyle; three vignettes including a view of the Citizens Volunteer Hospital, a horse drawn steam engine, and fire fighters battling a blaze; and a list of fire companies who participated in the parade.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist. P.S. Duval & Son, lithographer., creator
Date: c1865.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W181.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W181 [P.2272]

Title: Jacob Haehnlen's lithographic & steam powered letter press printing rooms Nos. 125 & 127 Sth. Third Street, opposite Girard Bank, Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement calendar for 1865 containing an ornamental border and promotional text, including types of prints issued by the press. Prints includes show cards; wine, liquor, perfumers, and manufacturers labels; checks; notes; drafts; cards; circular receipts; and bonds. Promotional text advertises samples of work "always on hand" and "every kind & style of lithographic letter press printing executed promptly at fair prices." In 1866, Haehnlen established his own studio at Goldsmith's Hall., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 43, Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Haehnlen, Jacob, b. 1824
Date: 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Advertisements - H [P.2003.41.4]

Title: Jacob Haehnlen's steam power lithographic & letterpress printing rooms Jacob Hahenlen's lithographic & steam power letter press printing rooms, Goldsmith's Hall, opposite Post Office, Library Street, Philadelphia
Description: Book advertisement containing an ornate border surrounding vignette views of the exterior of "Jacob Haehnlen's Lithographic Establishment" and a trompe l'oeil display of overlapping cards with advertising text and types of prints available from the firm. View shows the six-story brownstone and print shop, "Goldmsith Hall," owned by lithographer Haehnlen at 420 Library Street. Signage advertising "J. Haehnlen's Steam Power Printing Rooms" and "J. Haehnlen's Lithographic Rooms" adorn the side of the building in addition to large display windows and an eagle above the entranceway. Also shows street and pedestrian traffic, including a horse-drawn carriage, dray, and cart traveling in the street. Printing sample vignette includes the lithographer's tradecard atop cards advertising tickets; bills of lading; wine, liquor, perfumers, physician's and druggist's labels; "Borders & Titles for Photographic Albums"; diplomas, "Certificates Stock and Deposit;" letter heads; bonds; blanks; show cards; plans; circular cards; checks, notes, and drafts. Haehnlen established his own studio at Goldsmith's Hall in 1866 and operated his business from all but the first floor. The shop included salesrooms and offices, a machine shop, a drying room, lithographic presses, and card, handbill, and pamphlet printing presses. He sold his shop to the firm Lehman & Bolton in 1870. Building destroyed by fire on December 20, 1882., Not in Wainwright., Advertising text for printing rooms printed on verso including promotion "Manufacturer & Importer of Transfer Pictures for Coach and Car Builders.", Published in Edwin Freedley's Philadelphia and its manufactures: a hand-Book of the great manufactories and representative mercantile houses of Philadelphia, in 1867(Philadelphia: Edward Young & Co., 1867), opp. p. 546., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 47
Creator: Haehnlen, Jacob, b. 1824
Date: [1867]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1867 Free 55213.O.546a

Title: Marion Hose Company of Philadelphia
Description: Fire company certificate containing a central view, vignettes, and firefighting iconography. Central view shows the company's fire station at Queen Street below Sixth Street. Two men and a dog sit in front of a fenced lot adjacent to the station. Vignettes show volunteers drawing a hand pump past the station in "1857" and a church in "1864"; firefighters battling the "Burning of the Ironsides" at League Island on December 16, 1866; and fighting the blaze from a boiler explosion at "Merrick's Foundry" on April 7, 1864. Fire fighting equipment including a fire hose, helmets, and axes are drawn layered together to form decorative elements in the upper corners. A small oval framed scene of "Marion and the British," semi-draped with an American flag, adorns an arch at the top. The scene shows Continental Army Lieut. Col. Francis Marion's slave Oscar Marion preparing a meal that the officer invited the British to share. Also contains the company institution date, 1833, and incorporation date, 1834., Not in Wainwright., Company seal pasted on recto., Issued to Geo. Jeffries on May 9, 1871. Signed by William Byrnes, Pres. and Alfred A. Mullen, Sec., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 456, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Certificates - Marion Hose, Duval and Hunter was a partnership between Stephen Orr Duval (P.S. Duval’s son) and Thomas Hunter that lasted from P.S. Duval’s retirement in 1869 until 1874.
Creator: Bosch, A. H., artist
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Certificates - Marion Hose

Title: Merrick & Sons iron founders, boiler makers & machinists. Washington Ave. & Fifth Street, Philadelphia Established 1836. Manufacturers of marine steam engines, light houses, sugar machinery & gas works, nasmyth & condie steam hammers. Machinery of all kinds. Aspinwall & Woolseys sugar draining centrifugals. See Agents for Rillieux Sugar Boiling Apparatus
Description: Civil war-era advertisement containing seven titled views promoting the manufactory (orginally established in 1836 as a foundry for castings) on the 400 block of Washington Avenue. Central view shows the "Front View" of the foundry. Soldiers march in front of the "Southwark Foundry" building that is adorned with signage advertising "Merrick & Sons Engineers & Machinests." An omnibus stops near the foundry to allow the passing of troops who are greeted by a small group of women. In the foreground, a six-horse team truck transports a large pipe, as behind it, a truck without a load follows. A family waits to cross the street because of the trucks. Also shows a rail truck loaded with barrels and large cylinders parked in front of the loading bay of the factory. Across the street men inspect large pipes on blocks in the left of the image. Scenes above the central view show "Steamer Keystone State at Reed St. Wharf"; a rowboat of men in the waters in front of the "U.S. Steamers Ironsides (Armored) Mississippi & Tuscaroroa off Fortress Monroe"; a man leading an 8-horse team pulling a "Bedplate for Monongahela" past a workshop., Views at the bottom of the print show the "Interior of the Boiler Shop" with laborers working around a large crane and elevated walkways as they hammer large metal forms; the "Steamer Quaker City off 'Sombrero Key.' Light House" tilting in rough waters; and the "Interior of the 'Old Foundry' " with workers at their tasks around a large crane and surrounded by machine parts. Merrick & Sons, a premier iron foundry, constructed almost all the machinery for U.S. Navy steamers during the war, as well as the New Ironsides, the first U.S. armor-clad war vessel. The firm was also the exclusive maker of the N. Rillieux patent sugar boiler apparatus and Nasmyth steam hammers., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 477, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 35 M 551, Lower right corner missing.
Creator: Rease, W. H.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 35 M 551

Title: Mrs. S. A. Allen's improved hair restorer. Favorite hair dressing. New style in one bottle. Price, one dollar
Description: Envelope illustrated with a central image showing a fashionable woman, her long hair loose, and over her shoulder. Also contains a border comprised of floral imagery. Susan Allen, wife of a New York dentist, marketed her restorer starting in the 1840s. She sold her business to Selah R. Van Duzer circa 1862., Text printed on verso: A Real Hair Restorer and Dressing in One Bottle. Mrs. S. A. Allen's Improved New Style Hair Restorer. Price one dollar. Buy a Bottle of Mrs. Allen's Hair Restorer and receive a Perfumed Sachet free. Perfumed Sachet. Place this unopened in Drawer or Trunk, the Odor is delicious. Its remarkable success is due to the superiority and freshness of its ingredients, and the scrupulous care bestowed in its manufacture; also for its prompt, quick action, great growth, life, and vigor that it is sure to give to the hair-never failing by a few applications, to restore Gray or White Hair to its Natural Color. Ladies will find it a standard toilet luxury to dress their hair. Sold by all druggists. Principal Sales Offices, 198 and 200 Greenwich Street, New York, and 266 High Holborn, London, England., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Ephemera Collection - Bags and envelopes [P.2010.37.94]

Title: National Farm School for children of colored soldiers and colored orphans - Eastern Branch, Washington, D.C Established March 1866, by H. de Mareil, editor & proprietor of the Messenger Franco American. Incorporated by act of Congress 25th July 1866
Description: Landscape view depicting the National Farm School founded in 1866 by Henrie De Mareil of New York and situated on a hilly plot of land with trees, bushes, meadows, and cleared fields. Shows, in the center foreground, three African American children harvesting wheat under the guidance of a white, bearded man. Behind them, two men plow a field with horse-drawn tractors across from individuals binding sheaths of wheat in an open field near a dirt path. In the foreground, cows stand and/or drink in a pond. In the left background, two individuals plow a field with horse-drawn tractors. In the distance center and left background, people mill in front of dwelling, farm, and school-like buildings standing in front of grassy hillsides. The school-like building (center background) is adorned with two flags, a French and an American one. Incorporated by Congress in July 1866, the mission of the school was to provide "normal and school education, as well as a practical knowledge of farming in all its branches" to "orphan and dependent children of colored soldiers, and of other colored orphans." By November 1866, the school was under construction and had fifty pupils. That month, the French Opera Comique Troupe held a benefit concert for the school in Philadelphia that was reported to "not have been as well attended as it should have." By May 1867, the school was reported to still be under construction in order to accommodate two hundred pupils who after "two or three years course [are] to take any position, from a valuable field hand, to a market-man and overseer upon the plantations of the South or the great farms of the West.", RVCDC, LCP copy contains repaired tears around the edges,, See "Amusements," Philadelphia Inquirer, November 16, 1866, p. 3., See "Academy of Music," Press, November 20, 1866, p. 8., See "Freedmen's National Farm School," Helena Weekly Herald, May 2, 1867, p. [2]., See 39th Congress, 1st Session, H. R. 802.
Date: [1866]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Education [P.2023.4]

Title: The new Masonic Temple, Philadelphia The Keystone's new year's greeting
Description: Carrier's greeting containing a view looking northeast from the intersection of Broad and Filbert streets showing the temple built 1868-1873 after the designs of Freemason and Philadelphia architect James H. Windrim at 1-33 North Broad Street. The new hall was erected to accommodate the local lodges increasing membership. Also shows street and pedestrian traffic, including a horse-drawn carriage, a man on horseback, and strolling couples., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 502.2
Creator: Wynkoop, John J.
Date: [ca. 1873]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Associations [P.8970.23]

Title: The offering of the carriers of the press to their patrons January 1st, 1863
Description: Carriers' address containing a montage of seven, titled vignette views of historic sites, predominately Independence Hall, used by the Continental Congresses in 1774 and 1776. Includes "Hall of Independence - Front" and "Hall of Independence - Rear" showing the Chestnut Street elevation and rear elevation with Independence Square; "Carpenters' Hall" exterior view; "Signing of the Declaration of Independence" based after the John Trumbull painting; "House in which the Declaration was written, S.W. corner Market and Seventh Sts."; "Carpenters' Hall - Interior"; and "Hall of Independence - Interior" showing the Assembly Room utilized as an exhibit gallery. Most of the views include pedestrian or visitor traffic. "House" view shows the Jacob Graff house used as a storefront and adorned in signage reading "W. Brown & Co.," "Book & Job Printing Office," and "Birth Place of Liberty." Vignettes surrounded by a border of vinery containing an American eagle and shield., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 519, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Athenaeum of Philadelphia: General Prints Collection - PRM23
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W387 [P.2213]

Title: The offering of the carriers of the press to their patrons. January 1st, 1863. [graphic].
Description: Contains seven vignettes: Signing of the Declaration of Independence; Hall of Independence - Front; Hall of Independence - Rear; Carpenters' Hall; Carpenters' Hall - Interior; House in which the Declaration was written, and Hall of Independence - Interior., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Date: 1862.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W387.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W387 [P.2213]

Title: Penn Steam Engine & Boiler Works foot of Palmer Street Kensington Philadelphia Neafie & Levy, engineers, machinists, boiler makers, black smiths & founders. Manufacturers of high & low pressure marine & stationery engines, boilers of all descriptions, propellers, iron boats, water tanks, heavy & light forgings, iron & brass castings, coppersmithing, pattern making, & an extensive assortment of all patterns of all kinds on hand. Having extensive wharf & dockroom are always prepared to build and repair engines & steamers at the shortest notice. Every facility offered for lifting heavy & light weights. Jacob G. Neafie. John P. Levy
Description: Advertisement showing several marine vessels docked in front of the engine & boiler works complex at the busy river front. Complex contains several buildings, including a "boiler works," "steam works," an "office," "ship house," and "smith shop." One of the buildings contains a weather vane adorned by the figure of William Penn. Teams of several horses haul materials on trucks past the boiler and steam works. Laborers, including men attending to a massive pipe in a yard lined with steam engines and other machinery, work on the docks, piers, and boats at the complex. Docked vessels include the tug boat "Columbia," paddleboats, barges, a sailboat, and other tugs. Also contains a vignette of a paddleboat and a sailing ship on each side of the title. The firm established as Reaney, Neafie & Levy in 1844, specialized in iron boats and engines, and later steam fire engines. Reaney left the partnership to start his own shipyard in 1859. Neafie & Levy remained in operation until 1907., Philadelphia on Stone, Atwater Kent Museum: 41.31.1/2
Creator: Rease, W.H
Date: [ca. 1861]
Location: Atwater Kent Museum | Print Department AKM AKM 41.31.1/2

Title: Pennsylvania Industrial Home for Blind Women. [membership certificate]
Description: Membership certificate containing a biblical scene in an oval frame embellished with filigree. Depicts the New Testament passage John 9:6 under the verse "For the Lord God Giveth them light. Rev. XXII. 5.V." Shows Jesus laying his hands upon a blind man in a lush setting. A village is visible in the distant background. The Pennsylvania Industrial Home for Blind Women, established 1868, provided housing and paid work for blind women, who performed handicrafts including basket weaving, chair caning, and lacemaking., Not in Wainwright., Issued to Mr. & Mrs. John F. Smith on April 1, 1881. Signed Fannie K. Atwood, Secretary and Susan P. Lloyd, President., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 559, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Certificates - Pennsylvania Industrial, Inscribed on verso: Smith 1250 N. Broad., Inscribed on verso: Presented by Mrs. John F. Combs Feb. 12, 1912.
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania | Print Department | HSP at LCP HSP Certificates - Pennsylvania Industrial

Title: Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of the Cruelty to Animals. [membership certificate]
Description: Membership certificate containing four vignettes depicting people interacting with animals. Shows a deer carcuss dropped in the street from the back of a speeding game wagon; a dog lying, on guard, next to a baby sleeping in a cradle; a soldier's horse nuzzling its fallen rider; and a woman feeding seed to fowls in a pasture. Scroll, floral, and horticultural elements border the text and vignettes. Also contains the seal of the society, the Pennsylvania coat of arms, and the motto "The Merciful Man Regardeth the Life of his Beast." Society seal shows an angel raising her hand in protest of a wagon driver beating his work house. The PSPCA was organized by Philadelphia businessman Colonel M. Richards Mucklé in 1867 and incorporated in 1868. It was the second humane society in the country with horse abuse as the organization's initial primary concern., Not in Wainwright., Issued to John T. Morris, ca. 1873. Signed Pliny E. Chase, Secretary and Al[fred] Elwyn, President., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 563, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Certificates - Pennsylvania Society Cruelty, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Societies - Certificates, P. S. Duval, Son & Co. operated as a firm 1867-1869., Elwyn, a trained physican and philanthropist, served as president of the PSPCA 1871-circa 1875.
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Certificates - Pennsylvania Society Cruelty

Title: Prince & Co's world renowned authentic organs. Melodeons and harmoniums James Bellak, 279 & 281 South 5th Street, ab. Spruce, Philadelphia. Sole agent. Over 33,000 in use. Methode for the melodeon by James Bellak. Op. 1753. $1.50 net
Description: Advertisement containing a vignette of a Prince & Co. organ. The company founded by George A. Prince in 1846, was the leading manufacturer of reed organs in the United States from the 1850s until the 1870s., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, Stein & Jones established in 1859 was active under that name until the death of Stein in 1871., Bellak, a prominent member of the Philadelphia Jewish community, was a composer and music store proprietor known as a dealer of quality pianos.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.76]

Title: Reliance Steam Fire Engine Company of Philadelphia
Description: Fire company certificate containing five vignettes showing the company firehouse and engines, and firefighting scenes bordering text framed as a badge. Vignettes depict firefighters gathered around a hand-pump, and a steam engine, at their stations near New and Second streets; firefighters racing an engine past the Public Ledger Building (built 1866-1867) and Independence Hall en route to a fire; and firefighters using a steam engine to battle a fire aboard a sailing vessel, and a hand pump to battle a fire at buildings opposite piers at the Delaware River. Also contains above the vignettes two American flags draped over a pole; a panoramic view of cityscape; an empty framed oval, probably to be used for a photographic portrait of the fire fighter member; two oval frames surrounding the company's institution and incorporation date, 1786 and 1848 respectively; and the company motto "We Persevere to Conquer." Company originally established by Quakers., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 636, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 834 R 279, Duval and Hunter was a partnership between Stephen Orr Duval (P.S. Duval’s son) and Thomas Hunter that lasted from P.S. Duval’s retirement in 1869 until 1874., Mifflin fund, November 12, 1959.
Creator: Bosch, A. H., artist
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 834 R 279

Title: Reliques of William Penn in Philadelphia in 1864 The carriers of The Press to their patrons. January 1st. 1864
Description: Carriers' address containing six titled vignettes showing residences, scenes, and objects associated with William Penn. Vignettes surrounded by a decorative border. Border includes a male and female Native American, smoking and holding a peace pipe, respectively, and the seal of Philadelphia designed by Penn. Central vignette shows William Penn's Treaty with the Indians, 1682. Other vignettes show contemporary depictions of "William Penn's House in Letitia St."; William Penn House in Second St.; the dilapidated "Brew House at Penn's Manor [i.e., Pennsbury Manor] Built by William Penn"; "Monument at Treaty Ground"; and "Penn's Manor with Cherry Tree Planted by William Penn." Many of the views include pedestrian traffic and site visitors. Treaty Ground view includes a shed adorned with signage marked "Painter.", Philadelphia on Stone, POS 637, Library Company of Philadelphia: *W307 [1883.F.183], Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 18 R 815, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 18 B 786
Creator: Rosenthal, Max, 1833-1918, artist
Date: [1864]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 18 R 815

Title: Satterlee Heights. Satterlee Hospital Grounds, 27th Ward. West Philadelphia
Description: Aerial view showing the area between 46th, 42nd, Walnut streets and Baltimore Avenue. Includes lots for purchase at Satterlee Heights, residences, Mill Creek Culvert (built 1855), ponds, groves of trees and landscaped blocks. Key to 52 property holders printed above and below the image. Properties include Twadell Estate (1), Woodland Presbyterian Church (18), G. C. Fell's Buildings (20), Morton McMichael (25); Clarence H. Clark (i.e., Chestnutwold, later Clark's Park) (29), John McArthur, Jr. (33), William Blasius (38), and Mrs. Josephine Simpson (52). Also shows minimal street and pedestrian traffic, including horse-drawn carriages. The residential development of Satterlee Heights proceeded on land previously occupied by the Civil War hospital Satterlee U.S. General Hospital that operated 1862-1865., Contains pencil annotations of lot numbers on recto., Includes compass pointed to right., Printed on recto: These Lots for Sale by, Philadelphia on Stone, POS 674, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Lower left edge mended.
Creator: Herline & Co.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Hospitals [6537.F]

Title: Satterlee Polka for the piano. Composed and respectfully dedicated to Surgeon I.I. Hayes U.S.V. Comg. Satterlee U.S.A. Genl. Hospital W. Phila
Description: Sheet music cover containing a view looking down at the Satterlee U.S.A. General Hospital grounds from a hill in West Philadelphia. In the foreground, soldiers, women, and children, on foot and horseback, descend a path on the elevation en route to the Civil War Union hospital. Recuperating soldiers and visitors recline on a large rock on the hillside and in the adjoining valley. A foot bridge lined by trees leads from the valley to Satterlee. Several figures are visible walking, and arriving by foot and omnibus at the hospital grounds that are also lined by tents. In the left, a horse-drawn omnibus crosses a bridge, overshadowed by trees, spanning Mill Creek., Manuscript note on recto: NW fr. Balto Ave. N of 43rd St., Price printed on recto: 4., pdcc00023, Philadelphia on Stone, Library Company copy acquired after POS 2010: P.2011.63.5., Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 9:71, Hayes served as the ship's surgeon during Elisha Kent Kane's Artic explorations (1853-1855) and organized his own Arctic exploration in 1860 before serving at Satterlee General Hospital.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Photograph Collection. FLP Castner 9:71

Title: Seminary of St. Charles Borromeo, Philadelphia
Description: Shows the seminary building built 1864-1871 at 100 East Wynnewood Road. View includes gentlemen in coats and top hats, and boys, walking the grounds as a horse-drawn carriage approaches the building. St. Charles Borromeo, founded in 1832 by Rt. Rev. F. P. Kenrick, tenanted several locations in Philadelphia before relocating to Overbrook in 1871., Not in Wainwright., Date from manuscript note on recto., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 690, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 46 S 136, P. S. Duval, Son & Co. operated as a firm 1867-1869.
Date: [ca. 1869]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Ba 46 S 136

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