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- Title
- Charles Oakford & Sons model hat store nos 826 & 828, Chestnut Street, Continental Hotel. Philadelphia. Hats, caps & furs, wholesale & retail. [graphic] / Lith by Ibbotson & Queen, 311 1/2 Walnut St.
- Description
- Illus: Wain p. 110., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Creator
- Ibbotson & Queen, lithographer., creator
- Date
- ca. 1860.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W055.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W55 [P.2029]
- Title
- Charles Oakford's model hat store, 158, Chestnut Street Philadelphia. Hats, caps and furs, wholesale and retail. [graphic].
- Description
- Location: [Chestnut Street], Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Date
- ca. 1854.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W058.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W58 [P.2030]
- Title
- Wm. B. Eltonhead, dealer in all kinds of watches, and manufacturer of all kinds of jewelry and silver ware, 184 South Second Street, (between Pine & Union Streets, west side,) Philadelphia. [graphic] / J. Magee, Del.
- Description
- Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Creator
- Magee, John L. artist., creator
- Date
- ca. 1855.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W461.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W461 [P.2245]
- Title
- [Burton & Laning paper hanging manufactory, 6th Street above Camac, Philadelphia] [graphic] / On stone by Rease & Schell No. 17 Sth. 5th St. Phila.
- Description
- Location: Sixth and Columbia Ave., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Creator
- Rease & Schell, lithographer., creator
- Date
- ca. 1855.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W037.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W37 [P.2018]
- Title
- Price & Harper's steam saw mill, fancy chair manufactory and lumber yard, Girard Avenue, between Seventh & Eighth, Philadelphia. [graphic] / Lithographed by W. H. Rease, No. 97 Chestnut St.
- Description
- Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
- Date
- [1855]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W299.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W299 [P.2089]
- Title
- View of the United States Hose house & apparatus, Philadelphia. [graphic] : To the Independent Fire Co. of Baltimore & the Franklin Fire Co. of Washington, this print is respectfully dedicated, (as a slight token of appreciation of their generous hospitality) by the United States Hose Co. of Philadelphia.
- Description
- Location: York Avenue, from Tammany Street., LCP exhibit catalogue: Made in America #75., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Date
- ca. 1855.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W436.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W436 [P.2237]
- Title
- East view of Philadelphia, Pennsylva[nia] and part of Camden, New Jersey. [graphic] / Drawn from nature by A. Kollner.
- Description
- Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc864 K81.
- Creator
- Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813., creator
- Date
- c1856.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W104.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W104 [P.2083]
- Title
- Keystone Marble Works. S. F. Jacoby & Co., Market St. betw. 20th & 21st Philadelphia. [graphic].
- Description
- Location: 2025 Market Street., Published in Colton's atlas of America, illustrating the physical and political geography of North and South America... Commercial edition with business cards of prominent houses in Philadelphia. (New York: J.H. Colton and Company, 1856), page 53 1/2. (HSP O 458)., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc38 K44.
- Date
- [1856]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W213.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W213 [P.8691]
- Title
- J. H. Michener & Cos. curing, packing & smoking establishment S.W. corner of Front and Willow Sts. Philadelphia. [graphic] / On stone by W. H. Rease, 17 So. 5th. St.
- Description
- Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
- Date
- ca. 1851.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W190.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W190 [P.2067]
- Title
- The Farm. A scene near Gray's Ferry, Philada. Co., Pa. [graphic] / Sam'l Sloan Archt.
- Description
- Published in Samuel Sloan's The Model Architect. (Philadelphia: Published by E.S. Jones & Co. S.W. corner of Fourth & Race Sts., c1852), vol. II, plate 1, design XXVII., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: in *Am 1852 Sloan (2)1382.F
- Creator
- Sloan, Samuel, 1815-1884 architect., creator
- Date
- [1852]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W376.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W376 [*Am 1852 Sloan (2)1382.F]
- Title
- Philadelphia Gas Works. From the south west. [graphic] / John C. Cresson, engineer.
- Description
- Location: Market St., northside. East side of the Schuylkill River., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc885 B786.
- Date
- ca. 1852.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W288.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W288 [P.2134]
- Title
- [Newsboy]
- Description
- Philadelphia on Stone, Cited by Wainwright as in the collection of Marian S. Carson; given to Library of Congress in 1996; copy unlocated at the Library of Congress., Library of Congress: copy unlocated
- Date
- c1853
- Location
- Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division W250 [LOC unlocated]
- Title
- Shad fishing (taking up the net.) On the Delaware opposite Philada. Glo'ster bleaching mills in the distance
- Description
- View of several fishermen, including African American men, most waist deep in the river and all but one in a semi-circle, gathering up their catch into a rowboat. A Philadelphia pier lined with residences, the mills of Gloucester, New Jersey, and sailboats on the river are visible in the foreground and background., Title from item., Date from manuscript note written on recto: April-May 1855., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 691, Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Queen was a premier Philadelphia genre, nature, and advertisement lithographer who with fellow lithographer P.S. Duval, was an early successful chromolithographer.
- Creator
- Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 1821-1886, artist
- Date
- [1855]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W335 [P.2189]
- Title
- 1710 The prison at 3rd & High (Market) sts
- Description
- Detail of a view looking east from above Third and High (Market) streets showing the High Street Prison built circa 1723 and the nearby old market stalls (built 1710) during the colonial era. Shows a couple in colonial attire walking on the sidewalk and two men in a stockade at the jail. The prison operated until the early 1770s when replaced by the Walnut Street Prison. The market shambles was replaced by the permanent Jersey Market circa 1765., Originally part of the lithograph titled "Philadelphia in the Olden Times," printed by F.J. Wade, Philadelphia, and copyrighted in 1875 by Smith & Cremens in Washington, D.C. [HSP Bc 864 W 121], Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 1, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Prints - small - Prisons, Box 39, Inscribed on verso: Mrs. Hampton L. Carson 5/21/[19]25.
- Date
- [1875]
- Location
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Prints - small - Prisons, Box 39
- Title
- [Dyottville Glass Works]
- Description
- View showing the Dyottville Glass Works, in Kensington along the bank of the Delaware River, purchased in the late 1810s by English-born boot black maker and patent medicine dealer Thomas Dyott. Shows several of the 50 buildings of the premier glass works, including the factory adorned with the sign "Dyottville Glass Works", farmhouses, and barns. Workers enter the factory and walk on the grounds. Also shows several skiffs docked in front of the complex. The works also had a butcher shop, bakery, and chapel. Originally established as the Kensington Glass Works in 1771 by Towars and Leacock, the Dyottville Glass Works manufactured vials, bottles, flask, demijohns, and "indispensable articles." The factory ceased operations following Dyott's conviction for fraud in 1837 but resumed glass manufacturing in 1842 under the new ownership of Henry Seybert and was active until the end of the century., Philadelphia on Stone, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Stauffer, vol. I, folder 56, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 14:84, Trimmed.
- Date
- [ca. 1858]
- Location
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Stauffer, vol. I, folder 56
- Title
- Conflagration of the steam boat New Jersey on the Delaware River opposite Philada March 15th 1856 in which 60 persons lost their lives
- Description
- Shows, in the distance, clouds of smoke rising from the Philadelphia and Camden Ferry Co. steamboat under the winter night sky as rowboats race to and from the wreck. In the foreground, two survivors sit and cling to cakes of ice near floating debris. In the right of the image, her sister ferry "Dido" travels to the rescue, the ship's reflection visible in the water. 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., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 154, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 83 N 548, See reduced variant "Conflagration of the steam boat New Jersey on the Delaware River opposite Philada. March 15th 1856 in which 50 persons lost their lives" [LCP Wainwirght 82, P.2026]
- Creator
- Heiss, George G.
- Date
- [1856]
- Location
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 83 N 548
- Title
- [M. L. Hallowell & Co. Importer and jobbers in silk goods, 147 Market Street, Philadelphia] Philadelphia Market Street
- Description
- Advertisement showing the 4-story ornamented sandstone storefronts completed in 1853 after the designs of Gustav Runge at 145, 147, 149 (i.e., 300 block) Market Street. Businesses include Maddock Raymond & Co., watches & jewelry, Spring Oaks & Co., dry goods (145); M. L. Hallowell & Co., importers & jobbers in silk goods, Guillou Walton & Co., hosiery & linen goods (147, later 333); and De Courcey Lafourcade & Co., importers of mens wear and cloth warehouse. Also shows street and pedestrian traffic. An older gentleman walks near two women peering into the windows of Lafourcade as a man stands at the entrance of Hallowell. In the street, a horse-drawn dray races past two laborers loading crates onto three drays parked in front of Hallowell & Co. Nearby, a man carrying a wood pole over his shoulder rushes behind two dogs chasing one another past a man carrying a satchel on his back. Also contains two female allegorical figures bordering the image in the upper corners. One figure holds the coat of arms of Pennsylvania and the other holds a horn of plenty., Title supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 445, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 38 H 193, Newspaper clipping dated June 23, 1853 describing the completion of the building in LCP Poulson Scrapook, vol. 7, p. 79.
- Creator
- Moras, Ferdinand, 1821-1908, artist
- Date
- [ca. 1854]
- Location
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 38 H 193
- Title
- [Ruins of Landsdowne, the estate of the late Wm. Bingham Esqr. Pennsylvania]
- Description
- View showing the ruins of the mansion on the estate west of the Schuylkill River (West Fairmount Park) purchased by legislator William Bingham in 1797. Debris rests on the steps of the shell of the residence. Trees surround the property. The mansion, originally built around 1773 for Pennsylvania governor John Penn, later served as the residence for Bingham's son-in-law Alexander Baring, i.e. Baron Lord Ashburton, in the early 19th century. The ruins were bought and ceded to the city in 1866 for inclusion in Fairmount Park., Not in Wainwright., Title from manuscript notes on recto: Ashburton Est. Old Landsdowne House destroyed by fire July 4, 1854 burned by fireworks., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 665, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 16 L 291, Inscribed on verso: Gift of Thomas Wynne 9/13/[19]68
- Date
- [ca. 1855]
- Location
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Ba 16 L 291
- Title
- [Scene in the woods at Landsdowne, the estate of the late Wm. Bingham Esqr. Pennsylvania]
- Description
- Shows four men chopping trees and logs on the estate west of the Schuylkill River (West Fairmount Park) purchased by legislator William Bingham in 1797. Tree stumps are visible in the foreground. The estate, originally owned by Pennsylvania governor John Penn, was bought and ceded to the city in 1866 for inclusion in Fairmount Park., Not in Wainwright., Title from manuscript note on recto: Lansdowne woods & field., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 679, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 16 L 291a, Inscribed on verso: Gift of Thomas Wynne 9/13/[19]68
- Date
- [ca. 1855]
- Location
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Ba 16 L 291a
- Title
- The Fourth Baptist Church, n.w. corner of Fifth & Buttonwood streets, Philadelphia Length of house 97 ft 8 inch, width of do 62 ft.; Highth of do. 41 ft.; Highth of spire 188 ft
- Description
- Exterior view of the Baptist church built 1853-1855 after the designs of Joseph C. Hoxie. Edifice includes a tapering spire. Also shows neighboring buildings; a small enclosed garden with a fountain in the street in front of the church; and pedestrian traffic. Traffic includes a couple admiring the fountain and two men admiring the church. Building was demolished circa 1970., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 271, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 13 F 781
- Creator
- Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
- Date
- [ca. 1853]
- Location
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 13 F 781
- Title
- Exterior view of the tabernacle of the Alexander Presbyterian Church, Rev. Alfred Nevin. D.D. Pastor. N. E. corner of Nineteenth and Green streets. Philadelphia
- Description
- View showing the one-story red brick temporary church building that housed the congregation, later the West Green Street Church, 1858-1859. Also shows street and pedestrian traffic, including a horse-drawn coach, promenading families and couples, and a boy waving an American flag. Congregation originally named for Rev. Archibald Alexander. The permanent church structure was built during the 1860s and complete by 1869., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 218, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 136 A 374
- Date
- [ca. 1858]
- Location
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 136 A 374
- Title
- Interior view of the tabernacle of the Alexander Presbyterian Church, Rev. Alfred Nevin. D.D. Pastor. N. E. corner of Nineteenth and Green streets. Philadelphia
- Description
- View looking toward the pulpit of the temporary church building that housed the congregation, later the West Green Street Church, 1858-1859. Includes the pulpit, organ, three rows of pew benches, a chandelier hanging between roof beams, and a wood stove at each end of the church. Permanent church building was built during the 1860s and completed by 1869., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 389, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 136 A 374a
- Date
- [ca. 1858]
- Location
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 136 A 374a
- Title
- Centre Mission School of Christ Church Germantown This engraving is respectfully presented to the friends of the mission
- Description
- View showing the double-entranced stone school house containing a small bellfry. Townscape is visible in the left of the image and a country house with farmland in the right., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 97, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 132 C 555
- Date
- [ca. 1858]
- Location
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Ba 132 C 555
- Title
- Raising the stand pipe for the Germantown Water Works. Birkinbine & Trotter, engineers
- Description
- View showing the engineering crew using a windlass to raise the standpipe in a large field at the corner of Tulpehocken Street and Wayne Avenue on August 13, 1851. Several men work large cranks, in the foreground and background, as others guide the lifting, including a man elevated on a section of the hoisting apparatus. In the right, the foreman talks to two men in white coats, probably the engineers, while another group of well-dressed men converse to the left near a small crowd of spectators. Two workers carry pulley ropes while they walk toward the lass. Another laborer grabs a bucket with one hand as he holds the unwinding rope of one of the cranks with the other. Pasture land is visible in the background. The Germantown Water Company delivered water from the location 1851-1872. The standpipe was sold in 1873 and demolished., Philadelphia on Stone, Atwater Kent Museum: 54.64.3, Trotter was a cousin of Edward H. Trotter, one of the partners of Birkinbine & Trotter.
- Creator
- Rease & Schell, lithographer
- Date
- ca. 1855
- Location
- Atwater Kent Museum | Print Department AKM AKM 54.64.3
- Title
- The belt of wampum delivered by the Indians to William Penn at the "Great Treaty" under the Elm Tree at Shackamoxon in 1682. "Not Sworn to and never Broken." Presented by Granville John Penn Esq of England
- Description
- Near life-size depiction of the belt made from oyster-shell beads and leather that purportedly the Delaware Indians gave to William Penn at the signing of the treaty. The belt was given by Penn's great-grandson to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in 1857., Not in Wainwright., Two of the prints are varnished., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 14, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 69 L 567
- Date
- [ca. 1857]
- Location
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 69 L 567
- Title
- Christ Church Germantown Phila
- Description
- Exterior view showing the Episcopal church later known as Christ Church & St. Michael's, originally built 1854-1856, at 29 West Tulpehocken Street. Also shows an adjacent white-stone residence with porch and street and pedestrian traffic. Traffic includes a horse-drawn cart, ladies on promenade, and a man strolling with a young girl who holds his hand. Building was destroyed by a hurricane in 1878 and rebuilt in 1880., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 118, Library of Congress: DLC/PP-1997:105 Queen prints and drawings (C size) - 55 prints Christ Church, Stephen C. Duval became a partner his father's lithograph firm in 1857.
- Creator
- Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
- Date
- [ca. 1857]
- Location
- Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC DLC/PP-1997:105 Queen prints and drawings (C size) - 55 prints Christ Church
- Title
- St. Clement's Church. Philadelphia
- Description
- Exterior view showing the Romanesque Revival style Episcopal church, including a never completed tower, built 1855-1859 after the designs of Philadelphia architect John Notman at 2000-2030 Cherry Street. A man climbs the steps to the entrance of the building, a couple walks nearby on the sidewalk, and a woman crosses the street near a handsome horse-drawn carriage transporting passengers. Trees and ironwork fencing surround the church., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 706, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 132 S 136
- Date
- [ca. 1858]
- Location
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 132 S 136
- Title
- Cathedral of St. Peter & St. Paul Philadelphia The above building is two hundred and sixteen feet in lenght [sic], and one hundred and thirty feet in width, the corner stone of which was laid in September 1846
- Description
- Exterior view showing the Roman-Corinthian-style Catholic cathedral built 1846-1864 after the designs of Napoleon Le Brun (interior) and John Notman (exterior) on Eighteenth Street, north of Race Street. Contains four columns at the entrance above which the quote "Ad Majorem Del Gloraim" is inscribed, four niches adorned with statuary on the front elevation, two small spires, and a large dome to the rear of the building. A small number of parishioners, predominately women with children, sit and stand at the base and top of the steps leading to the sanctuary. Another woman holds a parasol and ascends the steps., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 87, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 131 C 363a
- Creator
- Schnabel, Edward, artist
- Date
- [ca. 1854]
- Location
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 131 C 363a
- Title
- West view of Schuylkill Falls Laboratory. Powers & Weightman, manufacturing chemists, Philadelphia
- Description
- View showing the laboratory complex established in 1848 on Ridge Avenue near a covered bridge in Schuylkill Falls (i.e., East Falls). Within the complex, laborers haul goods by horse among the several stone buildings, smoke stacks, and trees. Near the Schuylkill River in the foreground, other laborers move crates by a pulley on a pier. Also shows a man on foot and a wagon entering the bridge, a steamboat traversing the water, and a train traveling past the complex and several adjacent lots of pasture land in the background. In 1847, Powers & Weightman succeeded Farr & Kunzi (established in 1818), and became internationally renown for their manufacture of medicinal and other fine chemicals. The company was the first to introduce quinine to the United States. A second factory complex operated between 9th, Parrish, Brown, and Darien Streets. The East Falls operation included housing for employees., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 828, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 38 Sch 89, Trimmed.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H.
- Date
- [ca. 1860]
- Location
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 38 Sch 89
- Title
- View from Dengman's Ferry, looking up the Delaware River
- Description
- Bird's eye landscape view showing the river bordered by pasture, trees, hillsides, and mountains at the Delaware Water Gap in Delaware County. Dingman's Ferry was established circa 1735 by Andrew Dingman., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 261, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 72 D 584
- Date
- [ca. 1855]
- Location
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Ba 72 D 584
- Title
- Hart, Montgomery & Co. Successors to Isaac Pugh & Co. Manufacturers and importers of paper hangings, No. 118 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Manufactory N.E. Cor. Schuyl[kill] Front & Wood Streets
- Description
- Exterior view of the manufactory operated from 1849 until 1860 by William Hart and A.J. Montgomery at Schuylkill Front (i.e., Twenty-second) and Wood Streets depicted within a lithographed tromp l'oeil wood frame. A horse-drawn cart stands idle by a side entrance of the multi-storied factory and four goats roam a nearby yard. Smaller factory buildings are visible to the right. Horse-drawn delivery carts, one steered by an African American man, travel pass each other on the adjacent street. Pedestrians and laborers walk the sidewalks and converse near a street lamp. Eastern State Penitentiary is visible in the background. During the mid-nineteenth century, Philadelphia was the premier American city of fine wallpaper production., Title from item., Date of publication supplied by Wainwright., Accessioned 1982., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 344, 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
- [ca. 1852]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W169 [P.2072]
- Title
- Powers & Weightman manufacturing chemists Philadelphia East view of Schuylkill Falls Laboratory. Office at City Laboratory Ninth & Parrish Sts. New York Office No. 6 Maiden Lane
- Description
- View showing the laboratory complex established in 1848 on Ridge Avenue near Schuylkill Falls (i.e., East Falls). In the foreground, the “No. 40” coal-tender locomotive approaches from one of the series of tracks surrounding and within the factory grounds. Nearby, a line of freight cars, some covered in tarp rest on a set of tracks. Within the factory grounds comprised of processing plants and storage sheds, a horse-drawn cart travels and stacks of wood slabs are piled on an elevated, centrally-located piece of land. Smokestacks adorn several of the buildings. Another stack of wood and hillside are visible in the right background. In 1847, Powers & Weightman succeeded Farr & Kunzi (established in 1818), and became internationally renown for their manufacture of medicinal and other fine chemicals. The company was the first to introduce quinine to the United States. A second factory complex operated between 9th, Parrish, Brown, and Darien Streets. The East Falls operation included housing for employees., pdcp00035, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Oversize Philadelphiana - Factories and Foundries (N-Z)
- Creator
- Rease, W.H
- Date
- [ca. 1860]
- Location
- Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Oversize Philadelphiana - Factories and Foundries (N-Z)
- Title
- Charles Oakford United States steam leuring model hat manufactory Hats, caps, & furs wholesale and retail. 104, Chestnut Street, Philadelphia
- Description
- Advertisement showing the interior of the wholesale and finishing department (est. 1850) of the manufactory for the hat business established in 1827. Oakford stands with a business client in the center of the room across from his steam powered leuring lathe and several male employees at work. The laborers stand and form hats at their stations, which line two-thirds of the room. The stations include a drawer as well as a cubby for pieces under construction. Toward the back of the room, another employee stacks hats on a table across from shelves lined with them. In the foreground, a boy packs the merchandise into a box marked "From C. Oakford 104 Chestnut St. Phila." View also includes a wall clock and a shovel lying near the oven of the steam lathe. Leuring lathes turn hats to impart a sheen to the fur fibers and create a polished look., Philadelphia on Stone, Atwater Kent Museum: 46.57.5.2
- Date
- [ca. 1850]
- Location
- Atwater Kent Museum | Print Department AKM AKM 46.57.5.2
- Title
- Pennsylvania Colonization Society. [membership certificate]
- Description
- Life membership certificate containing a "View of Monrovia," the original settlement of Liberia, the African American colony established by the American Colonization Society in 1822. Depicts a landing party with well-dressed African American emigrant men arriving to a crowd of male and female well-wishers and family at the palm-tree lined shore of the colony. New colonists depart the boat and run to relatives as Liberian men raise their hands in greeting. White sailors man the small boat. In the background, another landing party with new colonists sails from the transport ship. The settlement of Liberia is visible in the distance. The Pennsylvania Colonization Society, established in 1826, was a state chapter of the controversial American Colonization Society established in 1816 that promoted black American emigration to resolve the problem of race inequality and to end slavery., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 164, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Certificates - Pennsylvania Society, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Societies - Certificates, P. S. Duval & Co. operated as a firm 1851-1857.
- Creator
- Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
- Date
- [ca. 1855]
- Location
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania | Print Department | HSP at LCP HSP Certificates - Pennsylvania Society
- Title
- To captains and ship owners. Kensington Screw Dock, Penn Street above Maiden, Philadelphia The above establishment has been recently refitted and is now in perfect order for the raising of sailing vessels or propellers, having been in successful operation since 1830, without a single mishap, it is with renewed confidence that proprietors ask for a continuation of patronage heretofore enjoyed. Vessels sail or float into the dock and are raised without strain on any one part. Bilge blocks being worked in such a manner as to take the vessel in her natural shape. The dock is located in the most enterprising part of the town, in the immediate neighborhood of the largest ship yards, black smith shops, mast yards, riggers, block makers, plumbers, painters, &c. &c. with ample depth of water at the wharves for the largest vessels. Watchman always on the premises, also a fire plug on the premises with Schuylkill water with over 300 ft. hose, & can be reached by Glenat's Second Street Omnibusses [sic] at any time during the day. There is also an oil factory & alcohol distillery adjoining the premises, also sheds for the storage of goods. For terms apply on the premises to Alex. H. Campbell, proprietor
- Description
- Advertisement showing the dry dock along a tumultuous Delaware River. Shipwrights work on the hull of a ship raised in the dry dock in front of the firm's building adorned with signage "Kensington Screw Dock." At the wharf of the dry dock, horse-drawn drays travel past the neighboring oil manufactory and distillery and a captain, with a dog, leans on a hitching post to which a tugboat is tied. In the rough water of the river, skiffs, sailboats, and a rowboat navigate the choppy waves. Also shows surrounding boathouses, wharves, and buildings lining the riverfront., Philadelphia on Stone, Atwater Kent Museum: 54.78.1/2
- Creator
- Schell, Francis H., 1834-1909, artist
- Date
- [ca. 1855]
- Location
- Atwater Kent Museum | Print Department AKM AKM 54.78.1/2
- Title
- The directory and prefect of the Sodality of St. Joseph's Church, Philada. To all who shall see the present letters greeting in the Lord
- Description
- Confirmation certificate containing allegorical and religious scenes and vignettes set within a border designed as an arch adorned with ornamentations and vinery. Scenes show the confirmation ceremonies for a group of boys and a group of girls, and a view of heaven with the Holy Mother receiving those who have departed the earth. Includes angels, some holding the banner "I.H.S. Behold Thy mother" surrounding the Mother of God who receives men, a woman, and child attired in Reniassance garb. Additional imagery includes an altar boy holding a crucifix, a female harpist, and a framed, vignette depiction of the Holy Mother encircled by text reading "Soldality of B.V.M. St. Joseph's Church Phia.", Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 185, Library of Congress: DLC/PP-1997:105 Queen prints and drawings (C size) - 55 prints Sodality
- Creator
- Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
- Date
- 1860
- Location
- Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC DLC/PP-1997:105 Queen prints and drawings (C size) - 55 prints Sodality
- Title
- Testimonial awarded by the Philadelphia Relief Committee
- Description
- Certificate issued by the committee formed to provide relief for victims of the yellow fever epidemic in Portsmouth and Norfolk, Va. in 1855. Contains a central bird's eye view of the the two adjacent towns over which the figure of death flies. Vignettes and pictorial details depicting allegorical female figures, a barren tree, and a sepulchral monument surround the view. Also contains a religious scene representing Matthew 25, 36; "I was sick and ye visited me.", Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 248, Library of Congress: DLC/PP-1997:105 Queen prints and drawings (C size) - 55 prints Testimonial
- Creator
- Moras, Ferdinand, 1821-1908, artist
- Date
- [1855]
- Location
- Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC DLC/PP-1997:105 Queen prints and drawings (C size) - 55 prints Testimonial
- Title
- Francis Bacon & Co.'s coal yard. Spruce Street Wharf, Schuylkill Philadelphia Vessels loaded with dispatch, by steam power. Office no. 53 South Fourth Street
- Description
- Advertisement showing the busy coal yard along the Schuylkill River. Yard workers haul cauldrons of coal by pulley and load and transport trucks on a multi-level wharf elevated above and surrounded by piles of coal. A schooner docked near two long boats at the end of the wharf receives a haul of coal from two chutes. A skiff and rowboat flank the boats. Opposite the schooner, a man sails a skiff named "Go On" past a tugboat. Signage for the coal yard is visible behind the tug and several industrial buildings line the wharf in the background. Bacon & Co. operated from the wharf address 1853-1854., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 273, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 76 R 288
- Creator
- Rease, W. H., artist
- Date
- [ca. 1853]
- Location
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 76 R 288
- Title
- Murphy & Allison Car builders. 1908 Market Street, Philadelphia
- Description
- Advertisement showing the busy "Car Factory & Bolt Nut & Washer Works," of John Murphy and J. C. Allison, also proprietors of the Girard Tube Works, who established a partnership in 1851 at 1908 Market Street. A completed rail car and a horse-drawn double decker omnibus depart from the sign-covered factory and "Office of the Girard Tube Works." A worker labors on a rail car in an upper window, a man on horseback stops near the entrance to the "Blacksmith Shop," and clusters of pedestrians walk in front of the works. A small crowd flanks the omnibus that is adorned with illustrations of rail cars as it leaves the factory bay. In the foreground, men and boys, across from two men shaking hands, inspect an ornately painted "City Passenger R.R." car on display in the street in front of the factory. Nearby, a boy admires an elegantly dressed lady while a newsboy hawks a paper to a gentleman on promenade with two ladies who pass a woman, possibly attired in mourning garb. Murphy & Allison assumed proprietorship of Girard Tube Works, manufacturer of wrought iron gas tubes, in 1856 and began construction of cars for the City Passenger Railways circa 1857. The firm made several improvements to the cars including adding more head room and lamps to the center of car roofs and in front of the overshoots., Not in Wainwright., Annotated in stenciled letters below title: DESTROYED BY FIRE SATURDAY MAY 3. 1863 AT 3-AM., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 494, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 35 M 978, Label pasted on verso: Purchased at auction from Freemans May 20, 1959 Library Fund., Rease, a prolific lithographer of advertising prints, relocated his studio to 4th and Chestnut in 1857.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H.
- Date
- [ca. 1857]
- Location
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 35 M 978
- Title
- Diploma awarded by the Lebanon County Agricultural and Horticultural Society
- Description
- Fair certificate containing an ornate border with seven vignettes related to agriculture and horticulture. Vignettes show a small herd of sheep; a farmer at his plow; a group of cattle; a town hall; a pair of horses; an iron worker with his assistant at a forge (resembling John Neagle's "Pat Lyon at his Forge"); and a gathering of barn animals. Animals include a pig, chickens, ducks, geese, and a turkey. Border also includes farm produce such as squashes, cherries, grape vines, herbs, and plants in addition to agricultural and farm implements, including a butter churn, rake, hoe, basket, pitcher, pail, sickle, shovel, and an ax. Also contains a vignette showing the coat of arms of Pennsylvania including the banner "Virtue, Liberty and Independence.", Not in Wainwright., Issued October 8, 1858 to Mrs. S. B. Lehman for greatest variety verbena. Sawr. Rightmeyer, Secretary. Simeon Guilford, President., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 54, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 65 D 956
- Creator
- Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
- Date
- [ca. 1858]
- Location
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 65 D 956
- Title
- The most Rev Francis Patrick Kenrick D.D. Archbishop of Baltimore
- Description
- Half-length portrait showing the archbishop, former Bishop of Philadelphia, attired in his robes and vestments, and seated. Kenrick served as the third Archbishop of Baltimore 1851-1863., Inscribed lower left corner: 142., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- [ca. 1855]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.86]
- Title
- The most Rev Francis Patrick Kenrick D.D. Archbishop of Baltimore
- Description
- Half-length portrait showing the archbishop, former Bishop of Philadelphia, attired in his robes and vestments, and seated. Kenrick served as the third Archbishop of Baltimore 1851-1863., Inscribed lower left corner: 142., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- [ca. 1855]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.86]
- Title
- B. F. [Peirotts?]
- Description
- Bust-length portrait showing a bearded man, attired in jacket, vest, and collar, looking slightly right. Filigree border frames the portrait., Inscribed lower right corner: 143., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- [ca. 1860]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.87]
- Title
- To the depot
- Description
- Plate from a children's moral instruction book showing a drayman sitting on top of bundles of goods, driving a horse-drawn dray away from the river toward a building, probably a custom house. Includes a partial view of a vessel docked at the wharf, the front facades of buildings facing the water, and a church spire in the distance. The number "56" has been drawn onto one of the bundles on the dray., Not in Wainwright., Published in City Sights for Country Eyes ([Philadelphia]: American Sunday School Union, [1856])., Accompanied by text titled "To the depot" moralizing that everyone must work together to make business for others, and that each contribution is equally important. Uses the example of farmers, mechanics, manufacturers and merchants who work together to distribute goods., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 757, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bd 61 K 8343.4, Free Library of Philadelphia: \\RBD\\ASSU\\V\\C498S\\FACSIM.\\
- Creator
- Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813
- Date
- [1856]
- Location
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bd 61 K 8343.4
- Title
- Harrison & Newhall, corner of Race and Crown streets, Philadelphia. Commission merchants and importers Rio coffee, sugars, hides &c. Philadelphia
- Description
- Advertisement with heavy street activity showing the Harrison & Newhall Refinery, formerly the Penington Sugar Refinery. Refinery reestablished and expanded as the Harrison & Newhall Refinery circa 1855 at 409 Race Street. In front of the refinery, laborers load horse-drawn drays with barrels as another man in an apron leads another dray past the fenced northwest corner of Race and Crown streets (former residence of Edward Penington). At that corner, a man leans on a street lamp across from a man on horseback in the street and two street urchins on the sidewalk eyeing a well-dressed couple. At the other end of the street, a traffic jam occurs as the barrels on the dray of a rambunctious horse roll off the vehicle in front of a horse-drawn cart and omnibus. A horse-handler and displaced carriage driver discuss the accident in the street as a peddler, the possible cause of the commotion, nonchalantly carries a tray of wares on his head past the scene. Also shows barrels being hoisted outside of the refinery building. The refinery extends around the rear of a row of buildings in front of which the traffic incident occurs., Published in Colton’s atlas of America, illustrating the physical and political geography of North and South America... Commercial edition with business cards of prominent houses in Philadelphia. (New York: J.H. Colton and Company, 1856), page 80. (HSP O 458)., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 342, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 35 H 324, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 3, Free Library of Philadelphia: Oversize Philadelphiana - Factories and Foundries (A-M), Accompanied by scrap inscribed: River Bank. Great Flood in Susquehanna, June 5th 1889.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H., artist
- Date
- [1856]
- Location
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 35 H 324, Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 3
- 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
- South east view of West-town Boarding School. Chester Co. Penna. Instituted 1794, opened 1799, enlarged 1847
- Description
- Genre winter scene showing male students frolicking in the snow at the east end of the main building of the co-educational Quaker boarding school. Boys build snowmen, have snow ball fights, and sled on the snow-laden grounds covered with footsteps. 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., Mount contains printed border., Date inferred from companion prints (colored and uncolored) in the collection of Westtown School Archives, Westtown, Pa., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 221, Westtown School Archives holds multiple copies., Stamped on recto: Harold E. Gillingham Collection.
- Creator
- Collins, John, 1814-1902, artist
- Date
- [ca. 1858]
- Location
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 46 W 538
- Title
- City Museum, Callowhill St. below Fifth St. Philadelphia
- Description
- View showing the museum originally built as a church in 1823 at 415-417 Callowhill Street. A group of men and women enter one of the seventh entrances in the left of the image. A sign reading "Star Hall" hangs above the door and a flag marked "City Museum" adorns the roof of the building. Materials are displayed in several of the windows and two men stand at another entrance. Also includes pedestrians on the sidewalk walking near a street lamp. The museum opened in 1854 and housed natural history, science and portrait exhibits on the lower floor and a theatre on the upper floor. Museum burned in 1868., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 135, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 09 C 581
- Creator
- Rease, W. H., artist
- Date
- ca. 1858
- Location
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 09 C 581
- Title
- Adam & Co.'s express "polka" Composed expressly for Adams & Co., and respectfully dedicated to E. S. Sanford Esq. by Francis Weiland
- Description
- Sheet music cover containing an exterior view of the Philadelphia-branch office situated next to Carpenter's Hall court at 116, i.e., 320 Chestnut Street. Signage listing the name and services of the company, and manager Edward S. Sanford, adorns the five-story building. Shows laborers loading an "Adams & Co" horse-drawn express wagon as in the street a dog runs between it and a departing "California Express" wagon hauling crates. A man holding a valise sits on the crates. Two men, including possibly Sanford, watch the scene from the building doorway. Pedestrians bear witness from the sidewalk. Company clerks are visible in the second floor windows of the building. Also contains partial views of the neighboring storefronts, including shadowy display windows of merchandise. Shows perfumer Edward Roussel (114, i.e., 318) and Montgomery Hart & Co. paper hangings (118, i.e., 322). A bear adorns the building of Roussel. The express service company established by Alvin Adams of Boston in 1840, began a Philadelphia branch circa 1843, and was incorporated in 1854., Copyrighted by J. Paul Diver., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 10, Atwater Kent Museum: 53.32.2. Includes music., Francis Weiland was a Philadelphia music teacher.
- Date
- [c1852]
- Location
- Atwater Kent Museum | Print Department AKM AKM 53.32.2
- Title
- The Wagner Free Institute of Science of Philadelphia. [membership certificate] Incorporated March 9th 1855
- Description
- Life membership certificate containing a montage of plants, animals, minerals and fossils to represent different fields of the natural sciences, i.e., natural history, taught at the institute. Iconography encircles an oval containing the certificate text. Includes a bat for "Mammalia"; a human skull for "Anatomy"; an eagle for "Ornithology" perched on a slab with rocks and minerals for "Mineralogy"; a butterfly for "Entomology"; stems of flowers and plants for "Botany"; a thorny fish for "Ichtheology"; pre-historic crustaceans for "Palaeonotolgy"; the skeleton of an elephant for "Comparative Anatomy"; a shell for "Conchology"; a rattlesnake for "Herpetology"; a horseshoe crab for "Crustacea"; and Fossils - "Botany," Entomology," "Crustacea," and "Zoology" showing a fossilized plant, fish, dragon fly and lobster. Filigree adorns the corners. Wagner Free Institute was founded in 1855 by philanthropist and professor William Wagner to provide free public education in the sciences. Wagner donated his large collection of specimens and his science library in addition to monetary support to establish the institution., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 266, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Certificates - Wagner Free, P. S. Duval & Co. operated as a firm 1851-1857., Inscription lower left corner torn: Est. C. J. [ ?].
- Date
- [ca. 1855]
- Location
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania | Print Department | HSP at LCP HSP Certificates - Wagner Free