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Title: Phila. from Girard College
Description: Rooftop view looking south showing the cityscape of Philadelphia from the upper floors or roof of Girard College's Founder's Hall. View includes the front entrance gate and landscaped school grounds in the foreground, row houses, the Corinthian Avenue Reservoir, and the outline of Eastern State Penitentiary in the distance background., Title from manuscript note on verso., Attributed to John Moran., Pale yellow mount with square corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Moran, John, 1831-1903, photographer
Date: [ca. 1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Moran - Views [P.8464.15]

Title: Bird's eye view Philadelphia, from LaPierre House
Description: Rooftop view looking northeast from LaPierre House on Broad Street, showing the front elevation of St. John the Evangelist Church (23-25 South Thirteenth, built 1830, William Rodrigue, architect), the top of the Pennsylvania Railroad freight depot (Thirteenth and Market), a mostly obscured view of the United States Mint (1331-1337 Chestnut, built 1883, William Strickland, architect), and rooftops of adjacent buildings., Title and photographer from series list printed on blue paper and pasted on verso with thirty-one other titles (No. 1-31)., Yellow mount with square corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Hurn, J. W. (John White), d. 1887, photographer
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Hurn - Views [P.9107.11]

Title: Beaver Hollow
Description: Bird's eye view of the tree-lined creek near Beaver Hollow. Includes farmland and buildings in the background., Publisher's name supplied by cataloger., Publisher's address and series title printed in red on mount., Title from photographer's printed label pasted on verso., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Bartlett & French was a partnership between Philadelphia photographers George O. Bartlett and William French circa 1867-1869.
Creator: Bartlett & French
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - Views [P.8484.7]

Title: Mower U. S. A. General Hospital, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia
Description: Bird's eye view showing the Civil War hospital, which contains a central complex of administrative and utility buildings, and radiating hospital wards, all within a circumference of one mile. These buildings are numbered 1 through 40 in the image, with the key on the bottom of the print near the title. Buildings 1 through 21 are listed on the left side of the title and 22 through 40 are listed on the right. Outside of the hospital complex people wait at the station for an incoming train. Horses pull drays to and from the blacksmith shop, stables and freight shop, which are all adjacent to the train station. Trees surround the complex., Copyrighted by W. Kipling., Frontispiece to Rules and special orders of the Mower United States Army General Hospital at Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1865). [Am 1865 Phi Mow, 15730.D], Philadelphia on Stone, POS 490, Removed from pamphlet and housed in Print Department., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc15 M936a., Atwater Kent Museum: 54.76.94/2, Library of Congress: PGA-Duval--Mower (B size), Mower General Hospital, built in 1862 after the designs of Philadelphia architect John McArthur, Jr. between Stenton, Germantown, Springfield and Abington avenues opposite the Chestnut Hill track of the Reading Railroad (7900-8000 blocks Stenton Avenue) received injured soldiers transported directly from the battlefield between January 1863 and May 1865. The hospital, designed as a pavilion to control the spread of infection, consisted of several hospital wards radiating from a central enclosed complex of administrative and utility buildings. Complex included the administration building, a chapel, post office, band-stand, food preparation shops and storage houses, a barber shop, dining room, and guard house. Hospital utilized fresh water from the Chestnut Hill water works, gas lighting, and indoor plumbing. Building was razed following the war.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: c1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W239 [15730.D.frontispiece]

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