Exterior view of front and flank of hotel looking southwest., Divided back. Post marked 1945. Hotel amenities listed on verso., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1945
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Hotels - [P.9048.35.1]
Depicts copies of the painting created by John Trumbull circa 1819, showing members of the Second Continental Congress gathered in the East Room of Independence Hall signing the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. John Adams, Robert Sherman, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin stand before John Hancock, the President of the Continental Congress., Divided backs., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
1941-1943
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Historic events - [P.9049.18 - 19]
Illustrated envelope containing a reproduction of the view of the world's fair building delineated by Jocelyn and published by New York printer Charles Magnus. View also shows street traffic, including individuals greeting each other, a boy running, and a horse-drawn carriage. The building located between Fifth and Sixth avenues on 42nd Street was designed by Johan Bernhard Georg Carstensen and Charles Gildemeister., Return address printed in upper right corner: Raymond Marsh, 210 Sedgwick Drive, Syracuse, N.Y. Marsh was a scholar of Charles Magnus who wrote "Some Characteristics of Charles Magnus and his Products (1826-1900)," The American Philatelist (September 1949)., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Michael Zinman.
Date
[ca. 1949]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection - Trade cards [P.2008.36.109]
