Exterior view of the Gothic-style church at the southwest corner of Eighteenth and Christian Streets. Also shows pedestrian traffic in the foreground, including a couple, a woman and child, and a man strolling with two ladies. Church was organized in 1863 from members of the Missionary Association of the Calvary Presbyterian Church., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 740, Gift of David Doret., Sloan was a member of the Tabor Presbyterian church.
Creator
Watson, John Frampton, artist
Date
[ca. 1863]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W362 [P.2004.44.31]
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., Not in Wainwright., Title supplied by variant P.8970.23., Distributed by frame seller and agent Alex. M'Cune., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 502.1
Creator
Wynkoop, John J.
Date
[ca. 1873]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Associations [P.2008.34.26]
View of grounds, outbuildings, and residence of Thomas Drake. Drake moved into this Italianate house, designed by the well-known Philadelphia architect, Samuel Sloan, about 1863. The house reportedly cost $55,000. Thomas Drake earned his fortune through the manufacture of cotton and woolen goods, and investments in real estate and coal stocks., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 643, Gift of David Doret., Athenaeum of Philadelphia: General Prints Collection - PRM094
Creator
Cernea, Thomas Lester, 1834-1876, artist
Date
ca. 1865
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW-Residences [P.9594]
Scene depicting the procession of the catafalque transporting the flower covered casket with President Lincoln to Independence Hall. Funeral officials, attired in black suits and top hats, attend the open air funeral car with canopy, draped in black cloth, and drawn by eight horses. Mourners line the city street including an African American man and woman., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 289, Reproduced in Edwin Wolf's Philadelphia: Portrait of an American city (Philadelphia: The Library Company of Philadelphia in cooperation with Camino Books, 1990), p. 221., Lib. Company. Annual report, 1971, p. 43., Purchase 1970., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Charles Tholey, Augustus Tholey, and their father, probably named Michael, worked as lithographers, engravers, and pastel portraitists in Philadelphia in the mid 19th century.
Creator
Tholey (Firm), artist
Date
[1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W146 [7929.F]
Plate in architectural design book illustrating a perspective view of a symmetrical, Italian-style, suburban mansion on the edge of Rittenhouse Square built 1855-1857 for Joseph Harrison, Jr. after designs by Samuel Sloan. Pedestrian traffic, including two gentlemen on horseback, a man and woman walking, and a horse-drawn carriage, pass in front of the mansion near the square in the foreground., Published in Samuel Sloan's city and suburban architecture (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1867), plate 107, design XXIV for a suburban mansion., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 641, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: in *Am 1867 Sloan 7883.F.107, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb16 H32., Atwater Kent Museum: 440.14.103.1
Creator
Sloan, Samuel, 1815-1884, artist
Date
[1867]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare W309 [*Am 1867 Sloan 7883.F.107]
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