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Title: Improved Authors with Portraits & Autographs Card Game
Description: Incomplete card game containing 68 illustrated cards. Cards depict the bust-length portraits of Thomas Bailey Aldrich; William Cullen Bryant; Robert Burns; Samuel L. Clemens, "Mark Twain"; J. Fenimore Cooper; Ralph Waldo Emerson; James T. Fields; F. Bret Harte; Oliver Wendell Holmes; William Dean Howells; Henry W. Longfellow; James Russell Lowell; Samuel Rogers; Bayard Taylor; Alfred Tennyson; Charles Dudley Warner; Richard Grant White; and John G. Whittier. Some portraits are in profile. Versos of cards contain an allegorical image composed of a stack of books, scrolls and leaves of paper, a laurel wreath, and a quill pen. Includes small number of incomplete sets for J. Fenimore Cooper, Henry W. Longfellow; James Russell Lowell, and Richard Grant White. Lowell set includes a cut-out of the portrait from an original card.

Title: [Independence Hall]
Description: View looking east showing the State House at 520 Chestnut Street built 1732-1748 after the designs of Andrew Hamilton and Edmund Woolley. Includes the old City Hall built 1790-1791 after the designs of David Evans, Jr. (500 Chestnut) and Congress Hall built 1787-1789 (540-558 Chestnut). View also shows several large broadsides propped up against Congress Hall and pedestrian traffic., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 375, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places & Events., Created postfreeze.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Government Buildings - S [5779.F.111a]

Title: The old Phila. fire department. Period of 1850. The great engine contest on Sunday evening July 7th 1850 at 5th & Market sts
Description: Arousing scene after the memory of Spieler showing the city's volunteer fire companies battling the July 7, 1850 fire at Peter Wright & Sons glass store on the north side of the 500 block of Market Street. Shows firefighters, in full uniforms, congesting the street around the market houses and in front of the burning building. Members, including an African American firefighter, from the United States, Vigilant, Diligent, Southwark, Pennsylvania, Weccaco, Liberty, and several other companies battle the blaze using hand pump engines and hose carriages. The men run and connect hoses, transport the vehicles, and spray streams of water at the smoking building that also contains the businesses of Hieskell, Hoskins & Co., dry goods and James Smith & Co., booksellers and publishers. Other firefighters pump the engines, blow trumpets, and stand on the roof of the storefronts. Several lines of hoses, several weighed down and or leaking water, criss cross in the street in the foreground. Clusters of spectators, including men, women, and children gather near the firefighters and under the market sheds. Also shows the neighboring buildings on the block, including Pennington's Merchants Dining saloon, which sounded the first alarm bell., Not in Wainwright., Copyrighted by Chas. H. Spieler., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 250, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 814 S 753. HSP copy contains handbill describing the provenance of the scene. Transcription of handbill included with LCP copy of print., Free Library of Philadelphia: Oversize - Philadelphiana - Fire Companies
Creator: Sched, H., artist
Date: c1882
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Events [P.9504.5]

Title: Residence & property of James Holgate, n. w. cor. Lehigh Ave. & Eleventh St. Philadelphia, Pa
Description: View, probably from an atlas, showing the Victorian-style house and substantial property of the state legislator at 1109 Lehigh Avenue in North Philadelphia. The property, surrounded by a fence, contains a carriage house and large landscaped garden, including a wall of trellises, a green house, and a dog house. A gardener works near the trellises. Neighboring buildings, including row houses and W.C. Gill, apothecary, are visible in the background. Also shows street and pedestrian traffic, including horse-drawn carriages; a lamppost with mailbox at the corner; and the names of the streets inscribed on the sidewalks., Contains inset of a view showing three elegant row houses. Includes pedestrian traffic., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 194, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 16 H 716
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Residences [7810.F]

Title: Sacred Heart Convent, "Eden Hall." Torresdale, Pa
Description: View of the girls boarding school and convent administered by the Society of Sacred Heart Sisters that was built 1849-1850 after the designs of Frank Wills at 4800 Grant Avenue in Northeast Philadelphia. The stone building contains several wings and a chapel. Crosses adorn the roofs. Girls play on the grounds landscaped with trees. Also shows a woman and child walking up the path to the school entrance and a man with a horse-drawn wagon near the chapel. A border, arched at the top with simple art details, frames the image. The society purchased the Torresdale estate of F. Cowperthwait in 1847 and operated a school on the property until 1969., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 199, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Walker & Co., the Boston lithography firm established in 1879, sought the patronage of Roman Catholic clergy in the early 1880s.
Creator: Geo. H. Walker & Co.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Religion - Sacred Heart Convent [P.9372]

Title: The Guarantee Trust and Safe Deposit Co. 316-318 and 320 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Advertisement showing an exterior view of the building built 1873-5 after the designs of Furness & Hewitt. Several pedestrians stroll on the sidewalk, including a man with a cane, and patrons enter the safe deposit company. In the right of the image, shows the gates open to the alley leading to Carpenter's Hall, visible in the background. Also contains the names of six officers of the bank, including President Thomas Cochran, printed below the title. The Guarantee Trust and Safe Deposit Company, established in 1872, provided safe storage for securities, currency, jewelry, silver plate, and other valuables., Manuscript note on recto: Complt. of John C. Browne. Nov. 19, 1886., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 102, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 3 G 914, Burk & McFetridge operated from 304 and later 306-308 Chestnut Street.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 3 G 914

Title: Liverpool & London & Globe Ins Co. 331-333-335-337 Walnut St. Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement showing an exterior view of the building for the insurance company that established a branch in Philadelphia in 1851. Also shows patrons exiting and entering the building; walking on the sidewalk; and a horse-drawn carriage passing in the street. The insurance company, organized in Great Britain in 1836, established a branch in the United States in 1848., Manuscript note on recto: Complt. of John C. Browne. Nov. 19, 1886., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 137, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 3 L 785
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 3 L 785

Title: [Segment of circular advertising Chas. Blasius & Sons, piano manufacturer, Philadelphia]
Description: Includes a central view flanked by two vignettes. View shows "“1119 Chestnut St. Girard Row," one of the two Chestnut street storefronts of the manufacturer. Signage reading “Blasius & Sons. Steinway Pianos” adorns the multi-story building in which a piano is visible in the large display window. Two lady patrons enter the building across from horse-drawn wagons marked “Packard Organs Blasius & Sons” and “Steinway Pianos Blasius & Sons” parked in the street. “Pianos to Rent” printed above the image. Left vignette shows “2nd Floor Back Wareroom.” Includes pianos, piano legs, shelves of parts and clerks at work near the skylight railings. Right vignette shows “4th Floor Wareroom.” Includes a clerk with a gentleman near the skylight railings reviewing pianos in various stages of assembly. Shelves line the wall., Not in Wainwright., Title supplied by cataloguer., pdcp00004, Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 209, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana – Streets – Chestnut - 11th-12th, One of three prints mounted on one sheet.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - Streets - Chestnut - 11th-12th

Title: Church of Our Lady of Consolation. Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pa In charge of the Augustinian Fathers
Description: Certificate containing an exterior view of the Roman Catholic church, also known as St. Mary's Lady of Consolation Church, and later Our Mother of Consolation Church, built in 1855 at 7-25 East Chestnut Hill Avenue. Church contains the Gothic spire built in 1885. A Victorian-style residence stands adjacent to the church and an iron-work fence bordered by bushes line the properties. A man enters the church building while nearby a lady walks across the path in the sidewalk, which leads to the church yard. In the street, a horse-drawn buggy travels. On the opposite sidewalk, a gentleman on a stroll walks in the direction of two young men, one carrying a basket on his arm. Also shows a street lamp. The church, founded in 1855, was built with funding from founding parishioner Joseph Middleton., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 32, PAHRC: Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Our Lady of Consolation
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center. | Graphics Collection. PAHRC Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Our Lady of Consolation

Title: St. Alphonsu's[sic] Church. Philadelphia
Description: Certificate containing view showing St. Alphonsus, the Roman Catholic church completed circa 1865 after the designs of Napoleon Le Brun, at 4th and Reed streets (1400-1402 S. 4th) in South Philadelphia. A man passes the rectory located at the rear of the church. A parishioner descends the steps of the church. Also shows a neighboring townhouse and two other gentlemen walking on the sidewalk and in the street., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 228, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 131 Sa 22
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 131 Sa 22

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