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Title: Williams Ogle, coach & harness maker No. 280, Chesnut [sic] Street, above 10th south side, Philadelphia Premium coach
Description: Advertisement showing an elegant coach parked in front of the ground floor of "Ogle's. Coach Manufactory" on the 1000 block of Chestnut Street. An African-American coachman stands behind the lively two-horse team hitched to the coach that is adorned with fringe on the drivers' seat, a lamp, and window shades. Two gentlemen converse in the street at the rear wheels of the vehicle and a couple admires if from the sidewalk. The figure of an animated horse adorns the "280" sign displayed above the entrances to the building. Ogle, previously of Ogle & Watson, operated as a sole proprietor from the address 1847-1850., Date supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [ca. 1847]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W457 [P.2243]

Title: The Wesleyan Female Collegiate Institute, Wilmington, Del
Description: Exterior view showing the buildings and grounds. Two female students stand on the balcony, one reading a book. Two younger girls play in the yard below, one jumping rope and the other playing rings. Several white men and women pedestrians stroll before the front gate. In the street, an African American coachman stands beside a horse-drawn carriage., Title from item., Date inferred from content., See Weaver's diary for April 18, May 11, 12, 23 and 28, 1842 for references to his work on this print., Gwinczewski, a Wilmington artist and drawing instructor, served as teacher of perspective, drawing, painting, &c. at the Institute., Purchased 1972., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Weaver, Matthias S., 1815 or 16-1847, lithographer
Date: [1842]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **GC - Education [8035.F.3]

Title: Associate Presbyterian Mission, Trinidad
Description: View of the mission established by the Presbyterian Church in 1842. Shows a white man and woman couple with a dog greeting a Black man in front of two bungalows down the road from a Black man walking with a rifle over his shoulder. In the foreground, a fence surrounds the property from the road, and palm trees are visible. The Presbyterian Church relinquished the mission to the Free Church of Scotland circa 1852., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Illegible partial artist's imprint on recto., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of foreign countries. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1845]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Religion [5754.F.97b]

Title: Steamer Missouri
Description: View of the steamboat travelling down a river. Includes African Americans dancing on deck near a crewman carrying logs; passengers walking on the roof of the boat; and dwellings lining the riverbank. The steamer ran in the St. Louis - New Orleans trade; served in the Mexican American War; and was referenced in the Mark Twain novel "Tom Sawyer." Ship was destroyed by fire 1851., Title from item., Date from accompanying sellers label., Gift of David Doret, 2004., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Klauprecht & Menzel, a partnership between Emil Klauprecht and Adophus Menzel, operated 1839-1855.
Creator: Klauprecht & Menzel, lithographer
Date: [1841]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Transportation [P.2004.44.27]

Title: Rev. Christopher Rush
Description: Half-length portrait of the New York African Methodist Episcopal Reverend, Superintendent of the Zion Connexion of the New York and Philadelphia conferences, and the author of "A Short account of the rise and progress of the African M.E. Church in America,...(1843, republished 1866)." Rush, attired in white shirt, a black waistcoat, and a black jacket, faces the viewer., Title from item., Date inferred from presented age of sitter., Variant of (2)5750.F.26c. Facial expression and features, as well as attire have been altered, including additional buttons added to coat., Purchase 2001., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1845]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints - R [P.9975.1]

Title: Revd. Richard Allen Bishop of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church of the U.S
Description: Half-length portrait of abolitionist and first African American bishop, Richard Allen. Allen, born enslaved in Philadelphia, founded and was ordained the first bishop of the denomination, the African Methodist Episcopal Church, in 1816. Allen, attired in a white tie, a black waistcoat, and a black jacket, faces slightly right., Title from item., Probably drawn on stone by deaf and mute Philadelphia lithographer Albert Newsam., Purchase 2001., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - Allen [P.9968]

Title: William E. Channing, D.D
Description: Half-length portrait of the Massachusetts Unitarian clergyman, abolitionist, and author. Channing, attired in a white shirt, a black waistcoat, jacket, and robes, rests his right hand and points his finger on an open book, probably the Bible. Channing, who wrote several abolitionist pamphlets from 1835 until 1842, adamantly denounced war as the means to abolish slavery., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: January 1845
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait prints-C [P.8911.225]

Title: Revd. Charles W. Gardner Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of the people of colour in Philadelphia, Decr. 20th 1841
Description: Half-length portrait of the Philadelphia community reformer and abolitionist Presbyterian pastor. Gardner, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket, is seated and facing forward. Gardner, originally an itinerant Methodist preacher, aided freedom seekers and participated in the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society and the American Anti-Slavery Society, as well as worked with several African American intellectual, benevolent, and reform societies including the American Moral Reform Society., Title from item., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Newsam, a respected Philadelphia lithographer, was a deaf mute who received early art training at Philadelphia's Institute for the Deaf and Dumb.
Creator: Newsam, Albert, 1809-1864, lithographer
Date: [1841]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Portrait prints-G [(1)5750.F.178b]

Title: Robert Owen
Description: Bust-length portrait of the social reformer, Indiana Congressman, and Chair of the American Freedmen's Inquiry Commission, as a young man. Owen, attired in a white collared shirt with a cravat and a dark-colored jacket, is depicted facing right. Owen's work with the commission has been credited as the impetus for the establishment of the Freedmen's Bureau during reconstruction., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Dated based on the presented age of the sitter., Lambdin, a portrait and miniature painter, worked in Pittsburgh and Kentucky before establishing himself in Philadelphia in 1837., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits. McAllister collection, gift, 1886., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1840]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints -O [(2)5750.F.174]

Title: Rev. Christopher Rush
Description: Half-length portrait of the New York African Methodist Episcopal Reverend, Superintendent of the Zion Connexion of the New York and Philadelphia conferences, and the author of "A Short account of the rise and progress of the African M.E. Church in America,...(1843, republished 1866)." Rush, attired in white shirt, a black waistcoat, and a black jacket, faces the viewer., Title from item., Date inferred from presented age of sitter., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1845]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait prints-R [(2)5750.F.26c]

Title: Death of Washington. Dec. 14. A.D. 1799
Description: Deathbed scene depicting Washington lying peacefully on a four poster bed, the curtains drawn, his head propped up on pillows, surrounded by his wife, grandchildren, a Quaker friend, the family physician (Dr. Craik), and a man and woman African American domestic. In the bedroom, dimly lit by candlelight from a nearby table, a somber Martha Washington, her grandson and granddaughter by her side, sits by Washington's bedside and holds his hand. On the opposite side of the bed, the physician checks for the President's pulse. The saddened Quaker and servants watch from the foot of the bed; the woman domestic kneels and cries. In the upper left corner above Washington's head, a hat and sword hang on the wall. A key to the eight figures is listed below the image., Probably after an undated version of one of eight variant lithographs titled, "Death of Washington. Dec. 14. A.D. 1799," published by Nathaniel Currier beginning around 1840., See Currier & Ives: A Catalogue raisonne (Detroit: Gale Research, 1984), vol. 1, p. 172-173., Gift of Mrs. Francis P. Garvan, 1979., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Washington - Death [P.8474.30]

Title: Foering & Thudiums cheap stove ware-house
Description: Advertisement depicting the three-and-a-half story warehouse operated by Frederick Foering and C.A. Thudium at 87 North Second Street. In the open entranceways, a white man clerk assists a white woman shopper and an African American laborer lifts a stove. Displays of stoves line the sidewalk and the store walls. On the second floor near open windows, white laborers work. A horse-drawn cart departs an adjoining exitway. Foering and Thudium, one of the city's first domestic stove manufacturers, started in business in 1828, and operated on North Second Street from 1845 until 1847., Print trimmed and lacking caption., Title from item., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Dec. 1846. North Second Street., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 266, Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Rease, a prominent mid-19th century Philadelphia trade card lithographer known to highlight details of human interest in his advertisements, partnered with Francis H. Schell in the 1850s and eventually operated his own press until around 1872.
Creator: Rease, W. H., lithographer
Date: [December 1846]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W132 [P.2045]

Title: John Hibler, importer & wholesale dealer in foreign & American wines & liquors. No. 56, North Third Street, (second door above Arch,) Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement depicting the four-story shop containing signage advertising wines & liquors. The doors, windows, and cellar are open for business. Inside the shop, wine casks, crates, jugs, and bottles line the floors and a laborer raises a cask with a pulley. Outside, a white man laborer loads casks onto a horse-drawn cart. In the right, an African American man peddler with a basket and ringing a bell passes by. Partial views of the adjacent stores, possibly an apothecary and bolting cloth business, are visible. Hibler, operated the wine business at the location from 1840 until 1844, where afterward he operated a grocery., Title from item., Date of publication supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 410, Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Rease, a prominent mid-19th century Philadelphia trade card lithographer known to highlight details of human interest in his advertisements, partnered with Francis H. Schell in the 1850s and eventually operated his own press until 1872.
Creator: Rease, W. H., lithographer
Date: [1844]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W203 [P.2116]

Title: Lacey & Phillips
Description: Advertisement depicting William N. Lacey's and Samuel R. Phillips' busy four-story equestrian store at 12 South Fifth Street selling "ladies and gentlemen's saddles, single and double harnesses, and bridles and whips." Saddles, bridles, harnesses, and blankets are prominently displayed in the storefront window and on the building facade. On the upper floors, several white men employees work by open windows. Elegantly dressed, white men patrons converse near the entryway and four horses are lined up in the street awaiting and receiving service including a pair reined in by an African American man coach driver. Partial view of the adjacent building containing the carpenter, W.B. Morrell, is visible. Lacey and Phillips, established in 1845, remained at the site until 1854. The firm, known as the finest horse equipment makers in the world, won the first and only prize medal for harness at the World Fair in 1851 and a gold medal at the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in 1853. The South Fifth Street address was damaged by fire in 1854 and the firm relocated to larger facility at 14 and 16 South Seventh street in 1855. Lacey died in 1860 and the firm was renamed S.R. Phillips Company. Phillips Company remained in business until circa 1880., Title from item., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Aug. 1847., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 425, Print trimmed and lacking caption., Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Rease, a prominent mid-19th century Philadelphia trade card lithographer known to highlight details of human interest in his advertisements, partnered with Francis H. Schell in the 1850s and eventually operated his own press until around 1872.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [August 1847]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W215 [P.2108]

Title: Melloy & Ford, wholesale tin ware manufacturers
Description: Advertisement depicting the three-and-a-half-story manufactory operated by John M. Melloy and Robert Ford at 291 Market Street, later renumbered 723, promoting the "lowest rates," "quick sales & small profits," and "metallic roofing." The building heavily adorned with signage and product advertisements, including a large scale model of a coffee pot, contains prominent displays of tinware in the shop window, on the store shelves, and near the open cellar door. Near the front of the shop, a white man and woman couple strolls, two white laborers lift a crate onto a horse-drawn sulky, and a woman customer enters the store. An African American man peddler with tray and bell passes a line of crates on the sidewalk. Tinsmiths work near the third floor windows. Melloy & Ford, a partnership established in 1849, was in business until 1861 when Melloy entered partnership with Isaac Smith at the same address., Title from item., Date from Poulson's inscription on recto: Mar. 1849; Market Street., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 465, Print trimmed and lacking caption., Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Rease, a prominent mid-19th century Philadelphia trade card lithographer known to highlight details of human interest in his advertisements, partnered with Francis H. Schell in the 1850s and eventually operated his own press until around 1872.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [March 1849]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W231 [P.2105]

Title: Penn Hotel & Denny's harness shop
Description: Advertisement depicting the three-and-a-half-story building containing the hotel and tavern operated by John Thompson at 329 Market Street and Robert Denny's saddles and harness store at 327 1/2 Market Street. Harnesses and other horse paraphernalia hang from the shop's display window and entranceways, including a stable entrance marked, "Entertainment for Horses." In front of the building, a white man with his horse enters the marked entrance; a white man clerk from Denny's converses with a white man customer by a stack of trunks; and other horses rest nearby and in front of the adjacent hardware store, including one attached to a sulky attended by an African American man. Hotel guests stand near the second floor windows and enter the hotel entrance. The hotel, tavern, and harness and saddle store resided together at the site only for the year 1848 to 1849., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Dec. 1848 No. 327 1/2 Market Street., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 550, Print trimmed and lacking caption., Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Rease, a prominent mid-19th century Philadelphia trade card lithographer known to highlight details of human interest in his advertisements, partnered with Francis H. Schell in the 1850s and eventually operated his own press until around 1872.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [December 1848]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W270 [P.2156]

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