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Title: Scrapbook of Prints
Description: Scrapbook containing primarily engraved periodical illustrations issued between circa 1820 and 1852 from American publications, including "Wellman's Literary Miscellany" and "Sartain's Magazine." Illustrations predominantly depict sentimental, religious, and genre views, many after European paintings, and often including children and animals, predominantly dogs.

Title: [Scrapbook of prints]
Description: Scrapbook containing primarily engraved periodical illustrations issued between circa 1820 and 1852 from American publications, including "Wellman's Literary Miscellany" and "Sartain's Magazine." Illustrations predominantly depict sentimental, religious, and genre views, many after European paintings, and often including children and animals, predominantly dogs. Titles include The Village School; Sunday Morning; Samuel & Eli; The Invasion; Early Piety; Sunday Morning; Calumet, or the Christian Indian; Christ Healing the Sick; The Child and the Mastiff; The Reaper's Friend; Hawk and Dove; The Young Tutors; The Farmer's Daughter; Rural Life (Wellman's Literary Miscellany); Innocence and Roguery; The Magic Lake, a scene from The Pilgrim of Love, The Valley of Repose, and The Exiles at Babylon from Sartain's Magazine; The First Friend; and The Sermon on the Mount. Other illustrations, some vignette on mauve-colored paper, depict Philadelphia and regional landmarks, including Schuylkill Near Flat Rock; Gilpin Mills on the Brandywine; Andalusia, the seat of Nicholas Biddle, Esq.; The Residence of the Count de Survilliers (i.e., Joseph Bonaparte) Bordentown; Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia; and Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane. Also includes a tipped in miniature, embossed die cut of a vase of flowers., Patterned red paper binding., Artists and engravers include William Redmore Bigg; Thomas Birch; Hugh Bridport; J. G. Chapman; Thomas Doughty; George B. Ellis; Jean Augustin Franquelin; Hendemann; Illman & Sons; David G. Johnson; T. Kelley; J. B. Longacre; John B. Neagle; J. Holmes; F. Humphrys; W. Mason; John McArthur; Frederick Richard Pickersgill; J. W. Steel; Stuart & Fowler; W. E. Tucker; Henry Warren; Welch & Walter; Benjamin West; and Franz Winterhalter., Printers and publishers include Benjamin Rogers and Key & Biddle., Contains hand-colored title page printed "On stone by P.S. Duval's Lithy. Phila." and titled "Manchester Print Works. I. P. Wendell & Co. Philadelphia.", Some prints identified with title written in manuscript below image., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Housed in phase box., Contains several blank pages, many with glue marks.
Date: [ca. 1820-ca. 1852]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Scrapbook [P.9844.54]

Title: Second Reformed Dutch Church [commemorative print]
Description: Commemorative print containing a pasted lithograph of an exterior view of the Presbyterian church with colonnade portico (811 N. 7th Street). Lithograph partially printed over and surrounded by an ornate chromolithgraphed decorative border and pasted letterpress cutouts. Shows pedestrian traffic in front of the church built 1853-1854 under the supervision of the building committee of Rev. Dr. J. F. Berg, George Hawes, D. W. C. Moore, and Charles Collins Jr. Pedestrians include a man carrying a bundle on his shoulder and a boy playing with a hoop. Congregation organized in 1852 from members withdrawn from the First German Reformed Church. Chromolithographed border comprised of a wreath of different flowers and cutouts with gold printed letterpress text describing, and listing prominent figures in, the history of the church., Text cut-outs surrounded by chromolithographed bead-like strands. Information includes the date of the organization (March 29, 1852), laying of the corner stone April 21, 1853), opening of basement, lecture, and Sabbath School rooms (October 25, 1852), and dedication of the church (March 5, 1864); names of the first pastor (Joseph F. Berg, D.D.), organist (Charles Collins Jr.), board president (Albert Rorer), secretary (D. W. C. Moore), sexton (J. Collom), superintendent of Sabbath Schools (Charles Santee), and treasurer (John Ross); the list of officers (i.e., elders, deacons, trustees) in 1853 and 1857; "Contents of the Corner Stone, Deposited April 21, 1853, including a constitution of the church and newspaper accounts of the laying of the cornerstone; "Ceremonies at Laying the Corner Stone April 21, 1853"; the names of the builders, carpenters J. & G. A. Binder, and bricklayers William Chapman & Son; the names of the building committee; and the price of the lot purchased from Joseph J. Sharpless, the cost of the building, and the acknowledgement that the "Church made free of debt by subscription, January, 1857.", Philadelphia on Stone, POS 688, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 138 R 332
Creator: Sherwin, John H., b. 1834, artist
Date: March 1857
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 138 R 332

Title: Microscopic view of Philadelphia
Description: Bird's eye view predominately showing the built city from the Schuylkill to the Delaware rivers and Port Richmond to South Philadelphia. Market Street runs down the center of the view. Shows the residential, commercial, industrial, religious, educational, and cultural buildings lining the streets and outer lying areas of Center City. Also shows parts of West Philadelphia, Windmill Island, and Camden, NJ. and public utilities, bridges, railroad depots, and reservoirs. Includes from west to east, the Woodlands, Blockley Almshouse, the Upper Ferry Bridge, Market Street Bridge, the two Gas Works, Fairmount Water Works, Girard College, Eastern State Penitentiary, the Naval Asylum, Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, St. Mark's Church, Christ Church, Independence Hall, Pennsylvania Hospital, St. Peter's Church, and Spark's Shot Tower. Also shows the five major squares (as well as Independence Square) and adjacent landmarks, including the P.R.R. Freight Depot, U.S. Mint, First Independent Church, Pennsylvania Asylum for the Blind, and Will's Eye Hospital. Masts of docked ships line the piers along the Delaware and vessels sail on the waters of both rivers. Foundries with smokestacks and undeveloped land border the built city to the North and South., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 478, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Views
Date: c1869
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Views [P.9087]

Title: Pupil's polka composed and dedicated to the pupils of Hlasko's Dancing Academy by A. Tatzel, senr
Description: Sheet music cover containing an interior view showing children at dance class at the physical institute operated by Miecislaw Hlasko. A mother introduces her son to the instructor as boy-girl and girl-girl couples perform different dance steps. Parents watch the children from the dance floor and other chaperones and children sit on a long cushioned bench lining a side of the hall. Two musicians play from a raised platform adorned with a balustrade in the background. Space also includes chandeliers and a skylight., Prices printed on recto: Colored 4 1/2; Plain 3., Includes the sheet music., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 629, Gift of David Doret.
Date: [c[1857]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Sheet Music Germ 11309.F (Doret)

Title: Near a fire. Say! Just hold this while I fetch another section, will you. (Likely?)
Description: One of a series of satires mocking the ineptitude of Philadelphia volunteer firefighters. Shows a volunteer, in full uniform, offering a flowing fire hose to an unsuspecting gentleman on a street corner. The gentleman whose hands are occupied with a cigar and a cane looks aghast at the firefighter. A woman watches the scene from the window of her dwelling. Additional streetscape, including a storefront, is visible in the background, Philadelphia on Stone., POS 253b, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Harrison & Weightman was a partnership between Henry G. Harrison and William N. Weightman., Variant of P.8970.12., Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - The Fireman (Cartoons)
Date: c1858
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Fires and Firefighting [P.8970.13]

Title: At a fire. What boys may expect when they get in firemen's way
Description: One of a series of satires mocking the ineptitude of Philadelphia volunteer firefighters. Shows a volunteer, in full uniform, spraying a boy bystander in the face, instead of a crumbling, burning building, with a fire hose. Fire house is attached to a hand-pumper visible in the background. Also shows fire debris, a hose attached to a hydrant, other fire fighters attending the fire engine, and the storefront of "F. Adams.", Philadelphia on Stone, POS 253d, Harrison & Weightman was a partnership between Henry G. Harrison and William N. Weightman., Variant of P.8970.11., Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - The Fireman (Cartoons)
Date: c1858
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Fires and Firefighting [P.8970.14]

Title: 3' o'clock in the morning 3 uhr morgens
Description: Amusing genre scene depicting three drunk men stumbling arm-in-arm down a city block in front of fenced, wooden scaffolding. The man on the left skips, raises his hat and supports the unconscious man in the middle, who wears a lady's bonnet on his head. The man on the right also supports the bonnet-wearing man while he clings his arm around a lamp post as he holds a long pipe. Playbills and advertisements adorn the wooden fence in front of the scaffolding. The postings promote the National Police Gazette, Wheatley's Arch Street Theatre, Walnut Street Theatre, John Drew's National Theatre, the Academy of Music, and steam boat Edwin Forrest of Trenton Capt. McMakin. An African American coach driver, with a whip in hand, watches the frivolity in the background., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 4, Atwater Kent Museum: 54.8.1, Copy with variant title and imprint ["Three in the Morning," Childs, 63 North 2nd St.] held in the collections of the American Antiquarian Society. AAS copy dated ca. 1863, probably 1860.
Date: c1857
Location: Atwater Kent Museum AKM 54.8.1

Title: Fashions. Fall & winter. 1852-3, S.A. & A.F. Ward no. 62 Walnut St. Phila
Description: Fashion advertisement containing two panelled scenes of 21 elegantly attired men, women, and children in two outdoor settings. Scenes surrounded by a border designed as tree branches, filigree and scissors. Cherubic figures sewing and ironing flank the title at the bottom of the print. Upper panel shows 5 men, 1 woman, 4 boys and 2 girls socializing on a dirt pathway overlooking the city. At the center of the panel, the oldest boy sits on a bench telling the younger children a story. Three men converse on the left side, one with his back to the viewer, and on the right side, two men and a woman stand looking in the direction of the others. All of the men wear or hold hats and are attired in suits, including two in striped pants. The woman wears a full brown dress decorated with floral designs and alternating bands of different fabric. The boys are attired in jackets and ties, and two wear hats. The girls wear dresses, tights, boots and hats. Lower panel shows 7 men, a woman and a boy adorned in winter capes and jackets. The men and the boy wear striped or checkered pants, overcoats or capes, and sport top hats or caps. The woman wears a shirt waist and skirt with the ruching of her undershirt tied at her neck and a plumed hat secured by a strap under her chin. Behind her a man tries to reign in a horse. The boy holds a book opened to a sketch or an illustration. Many of the depicted men have mustaches and or sideburns. A steamboat is visible on the body of water in the background, not far from a factory building on the mountainous shoreline., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 73, Smithsonian Institution NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection [DL *60.3072]
Date: [1852]
Location: Smithsonian Institution | NMAH Home and Community Life Collection SI NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection [DL *60.3072]

Title: Three in the morning
Description: Amusing genre scene depicting three drunk men stumbling arm-in-arm down a city block in front of fenced, wooden scaffolding. The man on the left skips, raises his hat and supports the unconscious man in the middle, who wears a lady's bonnet on his head. The man on the right also supports the bonnet-wearing man while he clings his arm around a lamp post as he holds a long pipe. Playbills and advertisements adorn the wooden fence in front of the scaffolding. The postings promote "Dan Rice's Great Show. National Theatre Walnut Street above Eighth March 13, 60 ... English Steeple Chase"; "Wheatley's Arch Street Theatre"; "Academy of Music"; and "Steam Boat Edwin Forrest of Trenton Capt. McMakin." A coach driver, with a whip in hand, watches the frivolity in the background., Date supplied by playbill depicted in image., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 4.2, American Antiquarian Society: Lithf ChilJ Thre, Copy with variant title and imprint ["3 O'clock in the Morning: 3 uhr Morgens," Childs, 152, late 84 Sth 3rd St.] held in the collections of the Atwater Kent Museum. AKM copy copyrighted 1857., See Public Ledger, March 1860 for advertisements for "Dan Rice's Great Show" at the National Theatre.
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: American Antiquarian Society|a American Antiquarian Society AAS Graphic Arts Lithf ChilJ Thre

Title: The new Moravian church of 1856, S.W. corner of Wood & Franklin Sts
Description: Exterior view of the third church building, with side courtyard, completed in 1856 after the designs of J. A. C. Trautwine for the Moravian congregation, established in 1742. Trees and an iron-work fence surround the Norman-style building. Neighboring buildings are also visible., Published in Abraham Ritter's History of the Moravian Church in Philadelphia (Philadelphia: Published by Hayes & Zell,1857), opposite page 176., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 504, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: hand-colored in Am 1857 Rit 14341.0 (Rush) and 75004.O., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 138 M 7972e, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 23:7, hand-colored.
Date: 1857
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W386 [Am 1857 Rit 14341.O.opp176 (Rush)], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W386 [Am 1857 Rit 75004.O.opp176]

Title: Front elevation Scale 16 feet to one inch ; Design XXIV. plate 108
Description: Plate in architectural design book illustrating the front facade 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., Published in Samuel Sloan's City and suburban architecture (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1867), plate 108, design XXIV for a suburban mansion., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 642, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: *Am 1867 Sloan 7883.F., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb16 H32., Free Library of Philadelphia: 724.3 SL52C, Atwater Kent Museum: 40.14.103.2/16 and 45.23.17
Creator: Sloan, Samuel, 1815-1884, artist
Date: [1867]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare W310 [*Am 1867 Sloan 7883.F.108]

Title: Runn ing to a fire. A colision [sic]
Description: One of a series of satires mocking the ineptitude of Philadelphia volunteer firefighters. Shows the rushing volunteer jostling the stand of a female fruit peddler at a street corner. She looks in annoyance over her tipped fruit baskets and spilt bottle of refreshment as the firefighter rushes past, blowing the rallying trumpet call. Storefronts, including a drugstore, and a street lamp are visible in the background., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 253a, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Harrison & Weightman was a partnership between Henry G. Harrison and William N. Weightman., Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - The Fireman (Cartoons)
Date: c1858
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Fires and Fire Fighting [P.8970.10]

Title: Near a fire. Say! Just hold this while I fetch another section, will you. (Likely?)
Description: One of a series of satires mocking the ineptitude of Philadelphia volunteer firefighters. Shows a volunteer, in full uniform, offering a flowing fire hose to an unsuspecting gentleman on a street corner. The gentleman whose hands are occupied with a cigar and a cane looks aghast at the firefighter. A woman watches the scene from the window of her dwelling. Additional streetscape, including a storefront, is visible in the background., Philadelphia on Stone., POS 253c, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Harrison & Weightman was a partnership between Henry G. Harrison and William N. Weightman., Variant of P.8970.13., Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - The Fireman (Cartoons)
Date: c1858
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Fires and Firefighting [P.8970.12]

Title: At a fire. What boys may expect when they get in firemen's way
Description: One of a series of satires mocking the ineptitude of Philadelphia volunteer firefighters. Shows a volunteer, in full uniform, spraying a boy bystander in the face, instead of a crumbling, burning building, with a fire hose. The fire hose is attached to a hand-pumper visible in the background. Also shows fire debris, a hose attached to a hydrant, other fire fighters attending the fire engine, and the storefront of "F. Adams.", Philadelphia on Stone, POS 253d, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Harrison & Weightman was a partnership between Henry G. Harrison and William N. Weightman., Variant of P.8970.14., Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - The Fireman (Cartoons)
Date: c1858
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Fires and Firefighting [P.8970.11]

Title: Near a fire. An awkward attachment
Description: One of a series of satires mocking the ineptitude of Philadelphia volunteer firefighters. Shows the volunteer in full uniform catching a male pedestrian in the hook of his ladder as he rushes past the gentleman on the sidewalk. The man shirks backward, his hat falling off, as the hook tugs at his coat collar. Streetscape, including the storefront of a stove business, is visible in the background. Also shows a fire hose sprung with leaks laying in the street., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 253b, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Harrison & Weightman was a partnership between Henry G. Harrison and William N. Weightman., Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - The Fireman (Cartoons)
Date: c1858
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Fires and Firefighting [P.8970.9]

Title: To Mrs. Amelia Bloomer The new costume polka composed for the piano by Mathias Keller
Description: Sheet music cover containing a portrait of a woman attired in a bloomer costume, standing in front of the storefront of music publishers Lee & Walker on the 600 block of Chestnut Street. The lady holds a blue parasol, and wears a corseted pink-colored coat and pale yellow skirt over her white bloomers. A model harp adorns the door of the music store in which a female patron wearing a bloomer costume enters. Also shows the neighboring J. A. Robinson bookstore (162, i.e., 632 Chestnut). Pedestrians, including another woman in bloomers, walk on the sidewalk, past the store, and look in its window. The bloomer costume gained notoriety from an 1851 depiction of women's rights advocate Amelia Bloomer in this style of reform dress comprised of Turkish pantaloons and a skirt., Additional distributors printed on recto: New York, Wm. Hall & Son; Memphis, Ten. P. Flavio; and New Orleans, Wm. T. Mayo., Printed on recto: Plain 25 cts net. Colored 38., Accompanied by the sheet music., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 756, Library Company of Philadelphia: Sheet Music 11855.F (Doret). Copy gift of David Doret., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 38 L 477, Free Library of Philadelphia Music Department holds copy., Inscribed on verso of HSP copy: April 2, 1958. Mifflin Fund.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: c1851
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 38 L 477

Title: Grand reception ball in full regalia in honor of the Grand Lodge of the United States. I. O. of O. F. [invitation]
Description: Invitation containing a scene of a mother with her children and a border containing Independent Order of Odd Fellows iconography. Scene shows the mother holding a baby in her lap and pointing to a temple in the background. Two sons read books, one on the ground, and the other near her lap. A daughter kneels in front of her and hands her a flower. Border contains vinery, a bee hive, the all-seeing eye, American eagle, a hand with a heart in the palm (charity) above a three-link chain (friendship, love, and truth) in which an ax rests in one of the rings. Text of invitation reads: M.__________ compliments to M.___________ and requests the pleasure of her Company at the Chinese Museum on Thursday Evening September 6th, 1859., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 95, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 61 D 956c
Date: [1859]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Ba 61 D 956c

Title: [Shankland's American fashions]
Description: Fashion advertisement containing two panelled scenes of 27 elegantly attired men, women, and children in a parlor and outdoor setting. Upper panel shows the outdoor scene. Eight men, four boys, and a woman socialize. Most of the men wear suits with plain pants, long coats, bow ties or a cravat and wear top hats and hold canes. One man wears a hunting ouffit and holds a rifle. The boys wear pants and jackets, one in a smock-like style. Most also wear or hold caps. The woman wears a riding outfit. Many of the figures are shown from the back. Lower panel shows an indoor scene. Eight men, four boys, one woman and one girl socialize. Most of the men wear suits with plain pants, long coat or a cape, bow ties or a cravat, top hats and hold canes. One man wears a bed robe and the boys wear suits. The woman wears a bonnet, a cape-like coat with trim, and a full skirt. The girl wears a cape and pantaloons. Two of the men are seated on chairs. All the men wear muttonchops and/or mustaches. Key numbered 1-13 and 14-27 printed below the panels., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 210, Library of Congress: PAGA 7, no. 1498e (E size) Fashions 1849
Date: [c1849]
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PAGA 7, no. 1498e (E size) Fashions 1849

Title: Shankland's American fashions for fall & winter. 1851-2. 100 Chestnut St. Philadelphia
Description: Fashion advertisement containing a bi-level scene of 24 elegantly attired men, women, and children socializing near a stone embankment with stairs by the sea. At the lower level of the embankment nine men, three boys, and a woman stand, converse, and approach the stairs. Most of the men wear bow ties, winter coats, top hats, tapered pants, and hold canes. The boys wear caps, long pants, and jackets. The woman wears a feathered, rimmed hat, shirtwaist, and skirt. At the upper level, a couple, six men, and three boys stand as pairs, converse, and acknowledge each other. The woman, in bloomers, and a boy wear attire with an East Asian influence, including turbans. Most of the men wear winter coats (two with tails), tapered pants, and hold canes. One man wears a cape and all hold or wear a top hat. The boys wear long pants and jackets, including one with a cap. Sailing vessels are visible in the background. Figures numbered 1-13, lower level and 14-24, upper level. Also contains border with filigree cornices., Not in Wainwright., Artist's signature center left., Copyrighted by John R. Shankland., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 212, Library of Congress: PGA - Duval--Shankland's American fashions...1851 & 2 (D size) [P&P]
Creator: Hoffy, Alfred M., b. ca. 1790, artist
Date: c1851
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PGA - Duval--Shankland's American fashions...1851 & 2 (D size) [P&P]

Title: Shankland's American fashions for the spring & summer of 1851, 100 Chestnut St. Philadelphia
Description: Fashion advertisement containing a bi-level scene of 24 elegantly attired men, women, and children socializing on and below a veranda near a lake. Below the veranda, near a lawn, nine men, three boys and a woman stand, converse, and sit on a bench. The seated woman wears a riding outfit and holds a crop. The men, most attired in overcoats, vests, and bow ties, hold or wear top hats. Many also hold canes and one leans on a stone pediment. Another wears a hunting outfit and holds a rifle. The boys, one looking onto the lawn, wear jackets and long pants. On the veranda, seven men and four boys converse and stand. The men attired in overcoats, vests, and bow ties, hold or wear top hats and a number hold canes. The boys wear long pants, and jackets, with one accessorized with a cap and the other with a top hat. Trees and mountains are visible in the background. Figures numbered 1-13, lower level and 14-24, upper level. Also contains trompe l'oeil frame., Not in Wainwright., Artist's signature center left., Copyrighted by John R. Shankland., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 213, Library of Congress: PGA - Duval--Shankland's American fashions...1851 (D size) [P&P]
Creator: Hoffy, Alfred M., b. ca. 1790, artist
Date: c1851
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PGA - Duval--Shankland's American fashions...1851 (D size) [P&P]

Title: Shankland's American fashions for the fall & winter of 1854 & 5, 100 Chestnut St. Philadelphia
Description: Fashion advertisement containing two panels of 24 elegantly attired men, women, and children in outdoor settings. Lower panel captioned "Baltimore" includes nine men, two boys, and a woman socializing by the riverside. Upper panel captioned "Philadelphia" includes eight men and four boys. The men wear winter coats, capes, jackets, vests, bow ties, and tapered pants. Many of the pants are adorned with rows of buttons, embroidery or stripes. The woman, her hair in pin curls, wears a shirtwaist, skirt, and feathered cap, and the boys wear jackets, coats, long pants, and caps, including one lad with a fez. All of the men's attire is accessorized with tops hats and/or canes and they wear facial hair, beards, mustaches, or mutton chops. Cityscape is visible in the background of both panels. Figures numbered 1-12, lower panel and 12-24, upper panel. Also contains border with geometrical design with the bottom edge appearing as a rolled-up scroll., Not in Wainwright., Artist's initials lower and center left., Copyrighted by John R. Shankland., Philadelphia on Stone, Library of Congress: PGA - Duval--Shankland's American fashions...1854 & 5 (D size) [P&P]
Creator: Clay, Edward Williams, 1799-1857, artist
Date: c1854
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PGA - Duval--Shankland's American fashions...1854 & 5 (D size) [P&P]

Title: South east view of West-town Boarding School. Chester Co. Penna. Instituted 1794, opened 1799, enlarged 1847
Description: Genre scene showing female students gathered on the main path and grounds at the west end of the main building of the co-educational Quaker boarding school. Girls stroll, converse, read under a tree, and hold hands in a game. Also shows a man with a young boy, and another man carrying two baskets, walking on the grounds landscaped with several trees. Westtown was established in 1794 by the Society of Friends as a boarding school for boys and girls. The campus was separated into the girls' and boys' bounds, i.e., yards for recreation. Sledding, or coasting, was a favorite winter activity., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone., POSP 222, Westtown School Archives
Creator: Collins, John, 1814-1902, artist
Date: 1858
Location: Westtown School Archives WSA Collins color, Westtown School Archives WSA Collins bw

Title: Fairmount
Description: Puzzle showing a Reading Railroad Co. train with passengers in the foreground and the Fairmount Waterworks and Wire Suspension Bridge from the west bank of the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia in the background. Includes spectators surrounding a hot air balloon behind the train and rowers and a steamboat on the Schuylkill River. The waterworks, originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff, were altered and expanded after the designs of Philadelphia engineers Henry P.M. Birkinbine and Frederick Graff, Jr. The Wire Bridge of Fairmount, the first suspension bridge in the United States, was built over the Schuylkill River from 1841-1842 after the designs of engineer Charles Ellet, Jr. and was removed in 1874., One of four puzzles housed in clamshell box., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1858]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *albums (flat) - Four Lithographic Puzzles [8418.F.1]

Title: Grandfather's visit
Description: Puzzle showing a family, including a mother, father, grandfather and two daughters, working and playing outside on their homestead. The mother and father work in the garden, as the daughters play with various toys, including dolls, a drum, horn, and sword. Also shows a mill building with a waterwheel in the background., One of four puzzles housed in clamshell box., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1858]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *albums (flat) - Four Lithographic Puzzles [8418.F.3]

Title: My country residence
Description: Puzzle showing farm life, including livestock grazing and sitting in an enclosed pasture, a horse-drawn cart hauling hay toward the barn, and a horse-drawn coach traveling toward the main house. A man and woman work in the enclosure as children play nearby., One of four puzzles housed in clamshell box., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1858]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *albums (flat) - Four Lithographic Puzzles [8418.F.4]

Title: Harrisburg, Pa. (Bridgeport)
Description: Pictorial lettersheet containing a bird's eye view showing Bridgeport (later Lemoyne) across the Susquehanna River from Harrisburg. Townscape lines the riverbanks and a train travels across a bridge parallel to a covered one. In the background, mountains are visible, and in the foreground, rail cars rest on tracks near the bottom of a hillside. Bridgeport was renamed Lemoyne in 1905., Printed below image: No. 1., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Creator: Magnus, Charles
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Receipts [P.2011.10.135]

Title: Philadelphia
Description: Shows the area bounded by McKeon Street, Thirty-Sixth Street, Somerset Street, and the Delaware River. Includes ward numbers, street names, railroads, bridges, cemeteries, waterworks, and names of wharves. Also shows Smith and Windmill islands and part of Camden, N.J. including Kaighn's Point. Laurel Hill and South Laurel Hill Cemetery and Reading Railroad Company coal wharves depicted outside the neat line. Boundaries of wards marked with watercolor., Relief shown pictorially., Printed in upper right corner: No. 23., Published in George W. Colton's General atlas (New York: J. H. Colton & Co., 1858), plate no. 23., Gift of Seymour Toll.
Creator: Colton, G. Woolworth (George Woolworth), 1827-1901
Date: c1855
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *maps - Philadelphia - 1855 [P.2005.16.1]

Title: The White Turtle & the Red Crab of Philadelphia
Description: Showing the Northern Liberties Hose Company (White Turtle) and the Lafayette Hose Company (Red Crab) racing to a bonfire near Eastern State Penitentiary on July 25, 1852 during a weekend of fires throughout the city. Men from each company run side-by-side and pull the ropes hooked to their companies' hose carriages. One man from each company stands at the front of their crew and plays a bugle or yells at the team to push forward. Dogs and pigs run beside the companies, flee the scene, and get caught under the wheel of the hose carriage. Includes a view of the buildings along the street, showing people running in the distance and a sign reading "coal." The "winning" Northern Liberties Hose Company (White Turtle) had a fire house at New Market Street above Coates Street, just a few blocks from the "losing" Lafayette Hose Company (Red Crab) at Fourth Street above Brown Street. The hose companies often fought each other including at this "race" where a Northern Liberties member was stabbed., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Not in Wainwright., "Jonas" and "Priff" are pseudonyms., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 836
Date: [ca. 1852]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW – Fires & Firefighting [P.2008.34.17]

Title: Engel & Wolf's brewery & vaults at Fountain Green. Office No. 26 & 28 Dillwyn St. between Vine & Callowhill & Third & Fourth Sts. Philadelphia Including five large vaults containing 50,352 cubic feet cut out of the solid rock and about 45 feet below ground, where they keep their well known lager beer. Temperature of the vaults in midsummer 40 degrees of Fahrenheit. They are situated on the Columbia Rail Road, about one mile above the Fairmount Waterworks, Philadelphia Co
Description: Advertisement showing the facility at Fountain Green (Fairmount Park) for the brewery established in 1844 by Charles Engel & Charles Wolf. Includes the wash house and entrance to the vault on the lowest level of the hill, the office (middle level), fermenting and brewing building, and storage house with fermenting cellar (upper level). Horse-drawn wagons loaded with barrels exit from different level entries to the buildings and a laborer working on a barrel toils within the brewery. Two gentlemen stand on the porch to the office and a woman with children uses the property for recreation. In the foreground, a Columbia and Philadelphia Railroad locomotive pulls a train car full of passengers, a double-decker horse-drawn omnibus travels, men ride on horseback, and individuals (woman with child and two men) stroll and descend the river embankment to greet a man arriving by rowboat. A weather vane designed as a beer barrel adorns the storage house. Engel & Wolf purchased Fountain Green in 1849 to dig lager beer vaults to ferment and age the beer brewed at Dillwyn Street. A third-story was added to the storage house after 1855 and the plant was remodeled in 1859. The brewery ceased operations in 1870 when Fountain Green, the former estate of Samuel Meeker, was seized by the city for the park., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 209, Atwater Kent Musuem: 54.3.6/3. Copy unlocated. Description based on Wainwright and second state of print held in the collections of the Library Company. See POS 210 for digital image of second state.
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Atwater Kent Museum | Print Department AKM AKM 54.3.6/3

Title: Section of the fire plug used in Philadelphia
Description: Three sectional views of the fire plug showing an external view and views in the open and shut position at the "Ordinary Level of Pavement." Below is an explanation of the diagram signed Frederic Graff, Superintendent of Fairmount Waterworks, dated January 15, 1854. Explanation contains instructions on how to close and open the plug and mentions handling procedures for firemen. Procedures include "The Firemen are respectfully requested to screw the plug hard shut when they have finished using it that there may be no leakage through the valve D" and if frozen, "For the purpose of freeing this the firemen are recommended to carry in their lockers during winter a strong wench with a handle two and one half feet long.", Not in Wainwright., Key to parts of the plug printed below the image: A. is the Screw handle. B." " Frost rod. C. " " Frost pipe or waste. D. " " Plug valve. E. " " Valve rod. F. " " Plug case outside. G. " " Plug nut., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 207
Creator: Rease & Schell, artist
Date: [1854]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Machinery [P.8970.19]

Title: Ethnographic tableau Specimens of various races of mankind
Description: Chart showing racist depictions of fifty-four, bust-length, portraits of men and one woman of different "races" from eight geographic regions to emphasize contrived differences in cranial characteristics. The “Geographical Distribution” includes I. Arctic, II. Asiatic, III. European, IV. African, V. American, VI. Polynesian, VII. Malayan, and VIII. Australian. With each region, six depictions of individuals of that race are shown, some facing forward and some in profile. Many of the individuals are depicted as racist stereotypes. Many are attired in hats, turbans, or headdresses custom to their country of origin. In the left, under the caption “Cranioscopic Examples,” nine different skulls in right profile are depicted. In the right, chart sections include “Mankind, Grouped Physiologically” and “Linguistic Distinctions.”, Title from item., Folded plate removed from Josiah C. Nott and George R. Gliddon's Indigenous races of the earth (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co.; London: Trubner & Co., 1857) (LCP *Am 1857 Nott (1)2733.Q (Rush)). See "Explanations of the tableau" pages 618-638., Captions below images on recto: Artic: Eskimo, Tchucktchi, Koriak, Aleoutian, Aino, Samoyede. Asiatic: Kamtschadale, St. Laurent Islander, Tartar, Chinese, Kalmuck, Tuda. Euro[pean]: Finn, Icelander: Cuvier, Bulgarian, Greek, Caucasian. [Euro]Pean: Syrian, Arab, Fellah, Berber, Uzbek Tatar, Affghan (sic). African: Ababdee, Sahara Negro, Yeboo Negro, Mozambique Negro, Caffr, Hottentot. American: Kutchin Indian, Stone Indian, Ottoe Indian, Yucatan Indian, Boroa Indian, Fuegian. Polynesian: New Zealander, Samoa Islander, Tikopia Islander, Vanikoro Islander, Tana Islander, Viti Islander. Malayan: Malay, Javanese, Marianne Islander, Hindoo, Mintira, Negritto. Australian: North Australian, West, Australian, South Australian, Tasmanian, Tasmanians (Men, Women)., Bequest of Dr. James Rush, 1869., RVCDC, 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: Kramer, Peter, 1823-1907, artist
Date: 1857
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ***BW-Natural history [(1)2733.Q.1]

Title: Engel & Wolf's brewery & vaults at Fountain Green. Office No. 26 & 28 Dillwyn St. between Vine & Callowhill & Third & Fourth Sts. Philadelphia Including five large vaults containing 50,352 cubic feet cut out of the solid rock and about 45 feet below ground, where they keep their well known lager beer. Temperature of the vaults in midsummer 40 degrees of Fahrenheit. They are situated on the Columbia Rail Road, about one mile above the Fairmount Waterworks, Philadelphia Co
Description: Advertisement showing the facility at Fountain Green (Fairmount Park) for the brewery established in 1844 by Charles Engel & Charles Wolf. Includes the wash house and entrance to the vault on the lowest level of the hill, the office (middle level), fermenting and brewing building, and storage house with fermenting cellar (upper level). Horse-drawn wagons loaded with barrels exit from different level entries to the buildings and a laborer working on a barrel toils within the brewery. Two gentlemen stand on the porch to the office and a woman with children uses the property for recreation. In the foreground, a Columbia and Philadelphia Railroad locomotive pulls a train car full of passengers, a double-decker horse-drawn omnibus travels, men ride on horseback, and individuals (woman with child and two men) stroll and descend the river embankment to greet a man arriving by rowboat. A weather vane designed as a beer barrel adorns the storage house. Engel & Wolf purchased Fountain Green in 1849 to dig lager beer vaults to ferment and age the beer brewed at Dillwyn Street. A third-story was added to the storage house after 1855 and the plant was remodeled in 1859. The brewery ceased operations in 1870 when Fountain Green, the former estate of Samuel Meeker, was seized by the city for the park., Title annotated in hand-written script: Die erste Lagerbier-Brauerei in Amerika., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 210, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., LCP AR [Annual Report] 1980, pg. 54.
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W112.2 [P.8434]

Title: [The tavern]
Description: Plate probably from a children's moral instruction picture book showing two white boys walking past a town saloon. One boy, attired in a wide-brimmed yellow hat, blue jacket, and tan britches, holds something in his left hand and uses his right hand to pat the back of the other boy beside him. The other boy, attired in a blue cap, red jacket, and yellow britches holds a thin rod and looks toward his companion. Behind the boys stands the saloon with a porch and open entryway and window. Six men, including an African America man, attired in top hats, vests, and jackets relax on the porch. The men smoke, read, lean back in their chairs, and watch the passing boys. A tan dog sleeps under the porch and near the dangling foot of the African American man who sits on the edge of the porch. Men drinking at the bar are seen through the open entryway and a man reading a newspaper is seen through the open window. In the center foreground, a tree and square-shaped rock are visible., Title from Christopher Lane & Donald Cresswell, Prints of Philadelphia at The Philadelphia Print Shop, featuring the Wohl Collection (Philadelphia, 1990)., Date inferred from Kollner's period of work with the American Sunday-School Union as A. Kollner's Lithy., Gift of David Maxey, 2015., Lane & Creswell suggest the plate is related to the American Sunday-School Union picture book "Common Sights in Town & Country" (Philadelphia, 1850)., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, 1813-1906, artist
Date: [ca. 1852]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Genre [P.2015.52.5]

Title: [Country place of worship]
Description: Genre scene from a children's moral instruction book showing a man, children, and horses at leisure outside of a small church building within a grove of trees. In the right foreground, an African American man lies against a log, arms crossed, head down, and dozes near three, saddled horses bridled to a tree. Behind him, two white boys sit in the grass beside a dog and look over a book. In the right background, two, saddled horses are bridled to a tree near two white boys and a girl in conversation. In the left background, three, saddled horses are bridled within a cluster of trees. Scene also includes a small turtle passing the horses in the foreground. One appears to watch it. A white man stands near the church in the center background. Pastureland is visible in the distant, right background. All the male figures are attired in hats, jackets, and pants. The girl wears a bonnet and dress., Title from manuscript note on recto., Date from date of publication in which print is included., Published in Common sights on land and water (Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1852)., Gift of David Doret., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, 1813-1906
Date: [1852]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection - Prints [P.2018.63.4]

Title: First meeting of Uncle Tom and Eva
Description: Print of a scene from Stowe's popular, anti-slavery novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin," originally published in 1851. Depicts "Uncle Tom," an enslaved African American man, and Evangeline St. Claire, the white daughter of a Louisiana enslaver, meeting on the steamship that is taking him to auction. On the deck, Tom, barefoot and attired in a red shirt, blue pants, and with shackles on his wrists, sits on a crate with a Bible in his lap. He talks to an attentive Eva, with her brown hair in ringlets and attired in a pink dress and black shoes, who is seated on a bundle of goods. Three bare-chested, enslaved African American men stand in the background behind a bundle and look on., Title from item., Purchase 1970., RVCDC, 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: Strong, Thomas W., lithographer
Date: [ca. 1853]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Fictional characters [7869.F]

Title: Perilous escape of Eliza and child
Description: Print of a scene from Stowe's popular, anti-slavery novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin," originally published in 1851. Depicts the character Eliza, an African American woman freedom seeker, escaping from Kentucky to Ohio across the icy Ohio River. Eliza, depicted barefoot and with a light skin tone, clutches her son Harry to her breast and straddles two blocks of ice as she looks behind her at the irate white man enslaver on the shore near the tavern from which she has fled., Title from item., Purchase 1997., 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., Stong was a prolific New York mid 19th-century lithographer, wood engraver, and publisher who mainly published stock prints.
Creator: Strong, Thomas W., lithographer
Date: [ca. 1853]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Fictional Characters [P.9524.2]

Title: Uncle Tom and Little Eva
Description: Print of a scene from Stowe's popular, anti-slavery novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin," originally published in 1851. Depicts Little Eva, the "angelic" young, white daughter of a Louisiana enslaver informing "Uncle Tom," the African American man enslaved by her father, of her impending death. Eva, with her blonde hair in ringlets and attired in a white dress, white stockings, and black shoes, points to heaven with her right hand and to the Bible in her lap with her left. She sits next to a barefooted, slightly hunched over Tom, attired in a red shirt with an open neck and blue pants, on a grassy mound in the woods. Also includes a cabin visible in the left background., Title from item., The Kellogg's firm, brothers Edmund Burke and Elijah Chapman, was a prolific New England lithographic firm that nearly rivaled Currier & Ives in the production of popular prints., Reaccessioned as P.9179.10., Purchase 1969., RVCDC, 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. 1853]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC-Fictional Characters [7807.F]

Title: First Baptist Church of West Phila. Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view of the Gothic-style church built 1860-1863 after the designs of Samuel Sloan at Thirty-sixth and Chestnut streets. Also shows an adjacent gothic-style building and well-dressed pedestrian traffic. Traffic includes a couple crossing the street, two men conversing at the street corner; and children with chaperones, and striding hand in hand., Manuscript note on recto: With kind regards of William W. Keene., Manuscript notes on recto: Dimensions Main Building 60 ft x 102 (exclusive of tower and buttresses); Chapel 42 x 81.6; Height of wall at the flank 27 ft; [Height of wall at the] apex 75 ft; [Height of tower] 85 ft; [Height of tower] and spire 172 ft., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 257, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 13 W 519, Lower right corner missing.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 13 W 519

Title: Mount Vernon--Washington's Residence
Description: Puzzle showing the eastern facade of the mansion and grounds overlooking the Potomac River in Fairfax County, Virginia owned by George Washington. White men and women promenade, white children play with a dog, cattle graze, and a white man handler walks a horse on the landscaped grounds in the foreground. George Washington, Martha Washington, and a white woman sit on the porch. An enslaved African American man servant, attired in a white collared shirt, a black jacket with tails, and black pants, stands to the left of them. The estate, originally granted to Washington's great-grandfather John Washington in 1674, was inherited by George in 1761 and purchased by the Mount Vernon Ladies Association in 1858., One of four puzzles, stored in two pieces, housed in clamshell box., Purchase 1978., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1858]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *albums (flat) - Four Lithographic Puzzles [8418.F.2]

Title: Mount Vernon--Washington's Residence
Description: Puzzle showing the eastern facade of the mansion and grounds overlooking the Potomac River in Fairfax County, Virginia owned by George Washington. White men and women promenade, white children play with a dog, cattle graze, and a white man handler walks a horse on the landscaped grounds in the foreground. George Washington, Martha Washington, and a white woman sit on the porch. An enslaved African American man servant, attired in a white collared shirt, a black jacket with tails, and black pants, stands to the left of them. The estate, originally granted to Washington's great-grandfather John Washington in 1674, was inherited by George in 1761 and purchased by the Mount Vernon Ladies Association in 1858., One of four puzzles, stored in two pieces, housed in clamshell box., Purchase 1978., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1858]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *albums (flat) - Four Lithographic Puzzles [8418.F.2]

Title: Mount Vernon--Washington's Residence
Description: Puzzle showing the eastern facade of the mansion and grounds overlooking the Potomac River in Fairfax County, Virginia owned by George Washington. White men and women promenade, white children play with a dog, cattle graze, and a white man handler walks a horse on the landscaped grounds in the foreground. George Washington, Martha Washington, and a white woman sit on the porch. An enslaved African American man servant, attired in a white collared shirt, a black jacket with tails, and black pants, stands to the left of them. The estate, originally granted to Washington's great-grandfather John Washington in 1674, was inherited by George in 1761 and purchased by the Mount Vernon Ladies Association in 1858., One of four puzzles, stored in two pieces, housed in clamshell box., Purchase 1978., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1858]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *albums (flat) - Four Lithographic Puzzles [8418.F.2]

Title: Philadelphie
Description: Bird's eye view after the John Bachmann print published by J. Weik in 1857. Predominately shows the built city from the Schuylkill to the Delaware rivers and Port Richmond to South Philadelphia. Market Street runs down the center of the view. Shows the residential, commercial, industrial, religious, educational, and cultural buildings lining the streets and outer lying areas of Center City. Also shows parts of West Philadelphia, Windmill Island, and Camden, NJ. and public utilities, bridges, railroad depots, and reservoirs. Includes from west to east, grounds for the Agricultural Society Fair of 1856, the Woodlands, Blockley Almshouse, the Upper Ferry Bridge, Market Street Bridge, the two Gas Works, Fairmount Water Works, Girard College, Eastern State Penitentiary, the Naval Asylum, Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, St. Mark's Church, Christ Church, Independence Hall, Pennsylvania Hospital, St. Peter's Church, and Spark's Shot Tower. Also shows the five major squares (as well as Independence Square) and adjacent landmarks, including the P.R.R. Freight Depot, U.S. Mint, First Independent Church, Pennsylvania Asylum for the Blind, and Will's Eye Hospital. Masts of docked ships line the piers along the Delaware and vessels sail on the waters of both rivers. Pedestrian and street traffic is also visible on the city road ways. Foundries with smokestacks and undeveloped land border the built city to the North and South., Printed upper right corner: 90., Philadelphia on Stone, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 865 A 844
Creator: Asselineau, Léon-Auguste, 1808-1889, artist
Date: [ca. 1857]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania | Print Department | HSP at LCP HSP Bc 865 A 844

Title: The Clay compromise - a settler
Description: Racist cartoon satirizing the Clay Compromise of 1850 concerning the extension of slavery to the territories. Depicts a prostrate enslaved African American man, portrayed in racist caricature, who is being pulled by ropes from each end by a Northerner and Southerner. The Northerner states, "We are content with the Compromise," and the Southerner states, "An equal division is fair." Standing over the enslaved man is Henry Clay, who is poised with a sword to cut him in two. William Lloyd Garrison rushes to stop Clay, stating "let the Union go; but spare the man!" A Quaker man confers with a minister about the compromise, saying "Well I'm very glad that Friend Clay has interfered." The minister responds that he hopes the question is settled because his parishioners have been quarreling so long that they almost forgot to pay him. A white man overseer about to whip a group of enslaved men, attired in yellow sarongs, exclaims, "Damn the niggers! Their hides are so used to the whip that they mind it no more than a horse.", Title from item., Date inferred from content., RVCDC, Purchase 1991., 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: [1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons - 1850 - Cla [P.9314.3]

Title: West Chester Public School. Sanford Culver, principal
Description: Winter view showing heavy street and pedestrian traffic in front of the school house. On the sidewalk, men shovel snow, boys play, a man tethers his horse, and a cluster of girls walks to school. In the street, two boys with a sled try to hitch a ride at the rear of a moving horse-drawn sleigh and a man on horseback and another in a sleigh stop to talk to a boy and man interrupted from shoveling and sweeping snow. Sheds and smaller buildings, including one with a marker dated "1848" surround the main school building., Not in Wainwright, Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 273, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 46 W 522
Creator: Taylor, Charles C., artist
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 46 W 522

Title: Terrible conflagration and destruction of the steam-boat "New Jersey," [graphic] : On the River Delaware, opposite Philadelphia, on the night of Saturday, March 15th, 1856, between 8 and 9 o'clock, by which dreadful calamity sixty-one lives were lost. Names of all on board.
Description: Copyrighted by A. Pharazin., Date of publication supplied by Wainwright., Dramatic view of the steamboat engulfed in flames and smoke, the captain still at the helm as the passengers, including African Americans, escape for their lives into the icy river. Panicked passengers jump into the water already teeming with disaster victims who thrash, swim, and attempt to stay upon and assist others onto cakes of ice, debris, and a single rowboat. Rescuers from the nearby wharf, including firemen, work frantically and desperately throw a rope to a woman standing afloat a cake of ice. Contains the names of the 107 white and "colored" dead, missing, and saved passengers in three columns below the image. Captained by Ebenezer Corson, the "New Jersey," on mid-voyage to Camden from Philadelphia via an alternate elongated route due to heavy ice, caught fire as the result of defective boilers. With the fire spreading rapidly, Corson retreated to Arch Street Wharf in Philadelphia, and came within thirty feet of the pier when the pilot house collapsed leaving the boat unmanned and out of control. Corson survived by leaping ashore before the uncontrolled ship drifted back out on the river.
Date: [[1856]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W478.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W478 [P.2252]

Title: The new Moravian church of 1856, S.W. Corner of Wood & Franklin Sts. [graphic] / Herline & Hensel Lith.
Description: Published in Abraham Ritter's History of the Moravian Church in Philadelphia (Philadelphia: Published by Hayes & Zell,1857), opposite page 176., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Am 1857 Rit 14341.0 (Rush) and 75004.O hand colored., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Creator: Herline & Hensel lithographer., creator
Date: 1857.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W386.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W386 [Am 1857 Rit]

Title: St. Paul's M. E. Church Catherine St. above 6th. Philada Erected A.D. 1838
Description: Exterior view showing the Methodist Episcopal Church at 615-623 Catharine Street, set back from the street by a front lawn. A path cuts through the center of the lawn. Trees line the path, the street, and corners of the lawn. The trees obscure the view of the front facade, which includes the name of the church on the frieze above the doorway. Several well-dressed parishioners of all ages approach the church from the sidewalk and walk down the path to the entrance. Also shows a man at the doorway of the neighboring residence with rear buildings that border the fenced church lawn. An elderly man crossing the street. Congregation organized in 1833., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 715, Atwater Kent Museum: 88.98.473/20. Digital image shows AKM copy.
Creator: Magee, John L., artist
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W350 [P.2008.34.14]

Title: Panorama of Philadelphia The Merchant's Exchange
Description: Derived from a print created by J.C. Wild in 1832, this view looks west from the intersection of Third, Walnut and Dock Streets and depicts the Merchant's Exchange constructed 1832-33 after the designs of Philadelphia architect William Strickland for the Philadelphia Exchange Company. Includes street and pedestrian traffic concentrated near the business center and the City Railroad tracks. Many horse-drawn omnibuses, including the Spruce Street, Navy Yard, West Philadelphia and Fifth Street lines, arrive and depart. Men and women stand and converse in the streets or on the steps of the exchange. Also shows buildings on the south side of Walnut Street and Gold Street., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1856, by Schnabel, Finkeldey & Demme, in the Clerk’s office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Penna., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 543
Creator: Collins & Autenrieth, artist
Date: 1856
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW – Banks – Merchant’s Exchange [P.2008.34.19]

Title: Hope Hose & Steam Fire Engine Co. no. 2
Description: View of the fire engine built by Reaney, Neafie & Co. in 1858 for the hose and engine company founded on August 17, 1805 by male residents living near Second and Pine streets. Plates reading "Adopted Jan. 2nd, 1858, completed June 24th, 1858," and "Reaney, Neaey [sic] & Co.," and "Hope" adorn the unhitched engine., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 113, Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Heiss, George G., artist
Date: [ca. 1858]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Fires and firefighting [P.2008.35.5]

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