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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]