Drawing depicting the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad bridge, also known as the Wissahickon Creek Viaduct or High Stone Bridge, which began construction in 1874 and was completed in 1882. The Wissahickon Creek flows in the foreground. There are several buildings and trees along the bank. The stone arched bridge spans across the water, and more buildings are visible in the background., Title from item., Date inferred from content and active dates of the artist., Signed by the artist in lower right., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019.
Creator
Graeff, Henry F., artist
Date
[ca. 1930]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.66.6]
Drawing depicting the shore landing of American troops during World War II. In the foreground, an American soldier looks at the viewer as he holds up a rifle. In the background, an amphibious landing vehicle opens and a large number of soldiers march out in a line through the water. One soldier runs while waving his arm, beckoning the soldiers behind him forward., Title and date from item., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019.
Creator
Graeff, Henry F., artist
Date
Mar. 24, 1944
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.66.4]
Drawing depicting a bridge, probably the Henry Avenue Bridge (also known as the Wissahickon Memorial Bridge,) which spans the Wissahickon Creek at Lincoln Drive and Henry Avenue and was built from 1930-1932 after designs by Ralph Modjeski and Paul Cret. The Wissahickon Creek flows in the foreground. The stone arched bridge spans across the water. Tree-lined paths flank the shores of the creek., Title from item., Date inferred from content and active dates of the artist., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019.
Creator
Graeff, Henry F., artist
Date
[ca. 1935]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.66.18]
Colorful, but unfinished, design drawing of the bronze, south wing doors to the new Capitol building, designed by Joseph M. Huston, and constructed between 1902 and 1906. Shows two Pennsylvania Coat of Arms medallions in the panels and a stained glass lunette window with a keystone above the door., Title supplied by cataloguer., Architect's signature on recto: J.M. Huston, The Pennsylvania State Capitol building was constructed from 1902 to 1906 after designs by Joseph M. Huston., Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Maro S. Hunting. Mrs. Hunting was the granddaughter of Joseph M. Huston, the architect of the Capitol., LCP AR [Annual Report] 1979, pp. 42, 47-48., Forms part of the Pennsylvania Capitol Photograph Collection.
Creator
Huston, Joseph M., 1866-1940, architect
Date
ca. 1903
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **Architectural Drawings - Huston [P.8479.65]
Colorful architectural rendering of the North Corridor in the new Capitol building, designed by Joseph M. Huston, and constructed between 1902 and 1906. Shows rib vaulting in the ceiling, bays divided by pilasters with gilded capitals and portrait heads representing the various nationalities that make up the Commonwealth., Title supplied by cataloguer., Architect's signature on recto: J.M. Huston, The Pennsylvania State Capitol building was constructed from 1902 to 1906 after designs by Joseph M. Huston., Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Maro S. Hunting. Mrs. Hunting was the granddaughter of Joseph M. Huston, the architect of the Capitol., LCP AR [Annual Report] 1979, pp. 42, 47-48., Reproduced in The Pennsylvania Capitol Preservation Committee's Literature in Stone: The Hundred Year History of Pennsylvania's State Capitol (Harrisburg, Pa.: Integra Graphics, 2006), pp. vi, 101., Forms part of the Pennsylvania Capitol Photograph Collection.
Creator
Huston, Joseph M., 1866-1940, architect
Date
1902
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **Architectural Drawings - Huston [P.8479.66]
Colorful architetural rendering of entrance hall, showing details of sculptures over doorway, arches, and floor design with horses and state seal., Title supplied by cataloguer., Signature and seal of Joseph M. Huston, architect, on recto., Huston was commissioned to design the Capitol, constructed between 1902 and 1906 to house the Pennsylvania General Assembly, the chambers of the Sumpreme Court of Pennsylvania, and the offices of the Governor., Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Maro S. Hunting. Mrs. Hunting was the granddaughter of Joseph M. Huston, the architect of the Capitol., LCP AR [Annual Report] 1979, pp. 42, 47-48., See P.8479.106 for photographic reproduction of drawing., Reproduced in The Pennsylvania Capitol Preservation Committee's Literature in Stone: The Hundred Year History of Pennsylvania's State Capitol (Harrisburg, Pa.: Integra Graphics, 2006), p. 100., Forms part of the Pennsylvania Capitol Photograph Collection.
Creator
Huston, Joseph M., 1866-1940, architect
Date
ca. 1901
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **Architectural Drawings - Huston [P.8479.67]
Colorful architectural rendering of the interior of the House of Representatives chamber in the Capitol building, constructed by Joseph M. Huston between 1902 to 1906. View looking northwest toward the front podium, showing auditorium seating, a dome, and a mural under the cove ceiling above the central podium. Ocular stained glass windows line the walls., Title supplied by cataloguer., The Pennsylvania State Capitol building was constructed from 1902 to 1906 after designs by Joseph M. Huston., Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Maro S. Hunting. Mrs. Hunting was the granddaughter of Joseph M. Huston, the architect of the Capitol., LCP AR [Annual Report] 1979, pp. 42, 47-48., Reproduced in The Pennsylvania Capitol Preservation Committee's Literature in Stone: The Hundred Year History of Pennsylvania's State Capitol (Harrisburg, Pa.: Integra Graphics, 2006), p. 91., Forms part of the Pennsylvania Capitol Photograph Collection.
Creator
Huston, Joseph M., 1866-1940, architect
Date
ca. 1903
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **Architectural Drawings - Huston [P.8479.63]
Album page with pre-printed lithographic border containing a drawing and unattributed poem about the first steamboat on the Missouri from the 1838 edition of "The Token and Atlantic Souvenir." Drawing is after Joseph Andrew's engraving of the work by painter John Gadsby Chapman. Depicts two Native American men on a rock, one seated, and portrayed with a forlorn expression, and the other standing with their arms raised in an anguished pose, watching a steamboat in the distance. Poem, "The Indian's Farewell to the Missouri, on seeing the First Steamboat on its Waters," addresses the power of the white man and the steamboat as a harbinger of his usurpation of Native American territories., Title from album page., Date from album page., LCP exhibit catalogue: African American Miscellany p. 45., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Douglass, an African American artist and early photographer, was an active member of the Philadelphia anti-slavery and civil rights movement.
Creator
Douglass, Robert M. J., 1809-1887, artist
Date
September 25, 1841
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Martina Dickerson album [13859.Q.70]
Album page with embossed border and containing a drawing of a vase of flowers. Shows an arrangement of flowers including roses, camellias, pansies and forget-me-nots, in an urn-shaped vase. Border is composed of a leaf design., Title supplied by cataloguer., Date from album page., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Douglass, was an artist, prominent Quaker member of the Philadelphia African American elite community, educator, and anti-slavery activist.
Creator
Douglass, S. M. (Sarah Mapps), 1806-1882, artist
Date
1843
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Martina Dickerson album [13859.Q.78]
Album page containing a pencil drawing of an arrangement of assorted flowers of different varieties drawn when the album was in a horizontal position. Arrangment also includes leaves and flower buds., Title supplied by cataloguer., Date from item., Probably by Lydia A. Bustill., Lydia A. Bustill, was an anti-slavery activist and cousin of educator, artist, and anti-slavery activist Sarah Mapps Douglass., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Date
[October, 1841]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Amy Matilda Cassey album [P.9764.52]
Watercolor view of the colonial residence built 1763-1767 by master carpenter Jacob Knor for Philadelphia attorney Benjamin Chew at 6401 Germantown Avenue. Shows the exterior of the mansion surrounded by trees and shrubbery. In front of the residence is a circular dirt pathway. Two busts on pedestals are visible on the left and right sides of the house. Chew House, also known as Cliveden, was the site of the turning point in the Battle of Germantown in 1777. The Chew family enslaved people of African descent in the city of Philadelphia and in Germantown during the 18th and 19th centuries. The estate was the Chew family residence until 1972 when it was acquired by the National Trust for Historic Preservation., Title from item., Date from manuscript note on mount: Nov. 1856., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with corrections., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Inscribed in lower right corner of drawing: vol. 5, 2526.F.6., Originally part of a Poulson scrapbook of illustrations of Philadelphia.
Creator
Wells, C. H. (Charles H.), approximately 1832-1884, artist
Date
[November 1856]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Drawings and Watercolors - W [2526.F.c]
Wash study for engraving by Mumford's brother, Thomas Mumford, appearing in several editions of John F. Watson's "Annals of Philadelphia,...with engravings by T.H. Mumford" published by various publishers between 1844 to 1870. Depicts an exterior view of the coffee house and merchants' exchange at the southwest corner of Front and Market streets in colonial Philadelphia. An auction of enslaved people occurs outside the coffee house and pedestrians traverse the sidewalks. Partial view of the adjacent printing house of "Pennsylvania Journal" publisher, William Bradford, is visible. Erected in 1702 and established as a coffee house in 1754 by Bradford, the site was a public center for social and economic activities during the late 18th century, including auctions of enslaved people. The building was razed in 1883., Title from manuscript note on recto., Manuscript note on recto: Original., Accessioned 1982., 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
Mumford, Edward William, 1812-1858, artist
Date
[ca. 1844]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Drawings & Watercolors-Mumford [P.8757.18]
Pencil drawing showing two men, in a cinder-block cell, seated on the floor and with a ball and chain around one of each of their wrists. The man in the left, wears a mustache, and sits with his left knee bent and his right leg outstretched. He leans on his right hand to which the ball and chain are attached to that wrist. He wears a jacket, vest, cravat, pants, and shoes. The man in the right has very wavy hair, sits with his knees bent and his arms wrapped around them. His ball and chain is attached to his left wrist. He wears a flouncy-sleeved shirt, vest, breeches, and boots. In the left of the cell is a window with bars. A man, attired in a hat and coat, points and shouts through the bars., Title inscribed in ink below drawing., Date from manuscript note below image: received Septem 3/63., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell.
Date
[1863]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection - Drawings and Watercolors - A-Z - Preston [P.2017.8.25]
Ink-drawn portrait showing a right-profile, bust-portrait of the major Italian poet who wrote the long narrative poem "The Divine Comedy." Depicts the poet wearing a tunic, and on his head, a coife under a hood with a tippet that is also adorned with a laurel wreath. His eye is rendered statuary-like and without a pupil. The background is comprised of overlapping hatch marks. The portrait is possibly after the frontispiece portrait by Gustave Doré in his illustrated folio of the poet's work "Inferno" (1861)., Title from manuscript note below image and partially supplied by cataloger., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell., Augustus Kollner (1813-1906) a German-born and trained Philadelphia lithographer began to focus his career more on drawing and painting in the 1860s. In 1861 Kollner enrolled in the Pennsylvania Academy of the fine arts life class and continued to take the class until at least 1867. Kollner also exhibited genre, historical, and landscape drawings at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1865 and 1868.
Creator
Kollner, Augustus, 1813-1906, artist
Date
[ca. 1861]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection - Drawings and Watercolors - Kollner [P.2017.8.23]
Calligraphic label reading: A Number of Vehicles, in use about Fifty years ago; sketched at the places and in the years, as indicated on the drawings, now enlarged executed in 1865 and 1888, by Augs. Kollner, Phila. (Formerly Calligrapher in Lithography.) Most of the calligraphy is in cursive. Kollner's signature is in Gothic letters., Item mounted on front cover of empty cardboard folder., Memorandum in type to Mr. Wainwright from Henry Shaw Newman, The Old Print Shop, Inc. dated November 26, 1962 pasted on inside back cover: Dear Mr. Wainwright: Perhaps you can find a a place for the label on this old folder, now empty, alas. When it came to us some years ago it had some Kollner water colors in it, but not vehicles, as I recall. I find it interesting because of his own "ex post facto" statement. hsn/ea. Dictated but not signed by Mr. Newman., Label pasted inside front cover: Patented Jan. 21, 1901., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell., Augustus Kollner (1813-1906) a German-born and trained Philadelphia lithographer began to focus his career more on drawing and painting in the 1860s. During the 1880s, he executed watercolors based on earlier sketches and often mounted them and placed them in albums for sale.
Creator
Kollner, Augustus, 1813-1906, artist
Date
[ca. 1888-ca. 1901]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection - Drawings and Watercolors - Kollner [P.2017.8.34]
Impressionistic drawing from a raised vantage point showing the 400 block of Chestnut Street. Includes the Provident Life and Trust Company Bank and Office Building at 401-411 Chestnut (built 1876-1879, altered 1888-1902, demolished 1959-60); the Philadelphia Trust Company at 413-417 Chestnut (built 1873-1874, demolished 1959); Philadelphia National Bank at 419-423 Chestnut (built 1857-1859, altered between 1892-1908); Farmers and Mechanics Bank at 425-429 Chestnut (built 1884-1885, altered 1917); and the Pennsylvania Company for Insurances on Lives and Granting Annuities at 431 Chestnut (built 1871-1873). Also shows street and pedestrian traffic, including automobiles., Title inscribed in pencil on mount., Signature of artist in lower right corner., Date inferred from drawing style and depiction of automobiles., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell., Philip Kassel, born in Germany, was a commercial artist and illustrator in Philadelphia by 1910. Between the 1910s and 1950, he was listed in city directories with offices on the 300 and 400 blocks of Walnut Street.
Creator
Kassel Philip, 1876-1959, artist
Date
[ca. 1930]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection - Drawings & Watercolors [P.2018.61.18]
Drawing depicting the house originally built by John Wister as a farm house in 1743 on Main Street (ie. Germantown Avenue) and Fisher's Lane, Germantown, Pa. Shows the front facade of the two-story house with dormers. A wooden fence surrounds the property. Trees grow along the sidewalk, which extends in front of the house. An adjacent house is visible in the right. Charles J. Wister, the grandson of John Wister, called the house the "Castle of Rosenheim.", Title and date from item., Signed by the artist in lower left., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019.
Creator
Graeff, Henry F., artist
Date
1936
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.66.9]
Drawing depicting an exterior view of an unidentified residence. Shows the front facade of the two-story, brick house. A long series of stairs leads from the yard to the front door. The house has chimneys, shuttered windows, and an additional wing in the right. Trees and shrubs grow on the grounds. A stone plaque with writing is in front of the brick wall, which surrounds the property., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content and active dates of the artist., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019.
Creator
Graeff, Henry F., artist
Date
[ca. 1930]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.66.13]
Drawing depicting an exterior view of the house originally built by John Dedier in 1773 on Fisher's Lane, Germantown, Pa. Shows an oblique view of the entrance with two steps leading to the front door. The hip-roofed house has two dormers, a chimney, and shuttered windows. In the left is a wooden fence. Several trees are visible in the background., Title from item., Date inferred from content and active dates of the artist., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019.
Creator
Graeff, Henry F., artist
Date
[ca. 1935]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.66.11]
Drawing depicting the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad bridge, also known as the Wissahickon Creek Viaduct or High Stone Bridge, which began construction in 1874 and was completed in 1882. Shows the waterfall of the Wissahickon Creek flowing in the foreground. The stone arched bridge spans across the water. Trees are visible in the background., Title from item., Date inferred from content and active dates of the artist., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019.
Creator
Graeff, Henry F., artist
Date
[ca. 1930]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.66.7]
View of the neoclassical-style, marble pump house completed in 1800 after the designs of architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe, in the tree and fence-lined public square at High (Market) and Broad Streets. In front of the pump house stands enclosed within a circular fence, the ornamental fountain ("Allegory of the Schuylkill River" or "Water Nymph & Bittern") depicting a female water nymph holding a bittern, designed by sculptor William Rush and installed in 1809. A man and woman admire the fountain from outside the fence. In the foreground, on the outer grounds, a man and woman ride in a sulky past two imposing trees and behind a man mounted on the horse of a team pulling a conestoga wagon. Two dogs chase each other nearby. Opposite the sulky, a boy plays with a dog as a man passes by with a bundle over his shoulder. Also shows a man and woman approaching the gate to the outer fence of the pump house. The city’s first waterworks delivered water from the Schuylkill River to subscribers and city hydrants until 1815, when superseded by the Fairmount Waterworks. The pump house was razed in 1827., Title supplied by the cataloger., Date inferred by content., Manuscript note written on mount below image: Drawn and presented by Geo. Lewis to George Schaeffer, Esq., Copied after a Cornelius Tiebout engraving made after a John James Barralet drawing. See related: Freedman Collection - Oversize - View [P.2013.87.9]; ***Ph Pr - Parks & Squares - Centre Square [P.9379]., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2022.
Creator
Lewis, George, artist
Date
[ca. 1850]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2022.62.3.14]
Drawing depicting a young white girl, in front of a small garden of flower bushes, and holding up a flower to her mother who stands in the doorway of a residence. In the left, the girl holds a flower up with her right hand near a basket of picked flowers and several flowers lying on the ground. In the right, in the doorway the mother, portrayed with an expression of dismay on her face, raises both her hands up. Image also includes a residence in the left background., Title and date from item., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2020., Abigail "Abbie" A. Peacock (1864-1927) was an artist who trained at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women 1880-1884. A resident of Friends Insane Asylum, Philadelphia by 1900, Peacock later was a resident of the Camden County Hospital for the Insane beginning in 1905.
Creator
Peacock, Abigail A., 1864-1927, artist
Date
April 13, 1883
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2020.40.14]
Floor plan of a sitting room or parlor. Shows an interior view depicting the room's architectural features, including beams on the ceiling, arches, and chair rails. Also shows two wooden chairs, a bench chair with back, and a table., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from active dates of the artist., Signed by the artist in lower right corner., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2022., Harry Leith-Ross (1886–1973) was a British-American landscape painter and draftsman. He taught at the art colonies in Woodstock, New York and Rockport, Maine, and later was part of the art colony in New Hope, Pennsylvania.
Creator
Leith-Ross, Harry, 1886-1973, artist
Date
[ca. 1940]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2022.62.3.13]
View looking south showing the 1200 block of Market Street Philadelphia in 1841. Shows, at the corner of the block, the one and one-half story building adorned with signs for the grocery store of H. & W. Patterson and the shop of Robert Ligget, cabinetmaker. Also shows adjacent buildings and pedestrian and street traffic, including a young boy playing with a hoop; horse-drawn carriages; and a man overseeing a team of six mules pulling a large, wooden freight car. Depicts adjacent buildings in the left and right., Title from item., Date inferred from content and active dates of the artist., Signed by the artist in the lower right., Gift of David Doret, 2019., Henry B. McIntire (1872-1963) was an architectural illustrator active in Philadelphia from the 1930s to 1950s. His 1936 book, Philadelphia Then and Now, contained drawings of no longer extant buildings and contemporary images of those locations. He often used an offset lithographic printing process called aquatone in his work.
Creator
McIntire, Henry B., 1872-1963, artist
Date
[ca. 1935]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Prints [P.2019.62.12]
Drawing depicting the Joseph Gilpin House, occupied by the Marquis de Lafayette during the Battle of Brandywine in 1777. Shows a pathway leading up to front facade of the two-story house with a front porch. In the right is an adjacent wing with a stone wall around it. Also visible are an out building and a wooden fence. The original portion of the house was constructed circa 1695. Wings were added to the north of the original frame house in 1745 and to the west in 1782. Quaker farmer Gideon Gilpin occupied the house when it was used by Lafayette. The house was reconstructed by George Edwin Brumbaugh and purchased by the State of Pennsylvania in 1949., Title from item., Date inferred from content and active dates of the artist., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019.
Creator
Graeff, Henry F., artist
Date
[ca. 1930]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.66.5]
Sketch depicting an exterior view of an unidentified residence and a garden. Shows a gabled roof and the wall of a building, probably a house. In the foreground is a garden with a square pathway bordering a circle. Trees and shrubs grow on the other side of a wall or fence., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content and active dates of artist., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019.
Creator
Graeff, Henry F., artist
Date
[ca. 1930]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.66.15]
Eleven of twelve drawings inscribed on verso: Book 57 B.598., 5791.F.5 inscribed October 3, 1863., Described in Rules and special orders of the Mower United States Army and General Hospital (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1865). (Am 1865 Phi Mow,15730.D)., Series of architectural drawings including a site plan and section plans of the hospital facility. Site plan includes an inset of the "Plan of iron trucks for conveying food to wards made of iron wire gage" and depictions of the surrounding roads, Chestnut Hill Railroad, store depot, and depot for patients. Also contains annotations about the locations of drain pipes, sewage pipes, and gas, fire, and water mains. Section plans depict the first and second stories of the central building, operating rooms, first and second stories of the medical department; stewards apartment, kitchen, prison ward, ward for 60 beds, section of ventilators, and a corridor. Plans include sky lights, bathrooms, sleeping rooms, dining rooms, waiting rooms, barracks, wash rooms, scullery, cauldrons, stoves, sinks, pantries, knapsack room, offices, apothecary shop, and post mortem room. Plan of operating rooms also contains a key to symbols representing gas burners. Plan of first story of the medical department also contains a design for the shelving of the apothecary shop. Section plans include scale 4 ft to 1 inch.
Creator
McArthur, John, 1823-1890, architect., creator
Date
1861-1863.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **architectural drawings - McArthur [5791.F.1-3; 5-13]
Bust-length portrait of the respected Philadelphia African American caterer, proprietor of the Blue Bell Tavern, and member of Frank Johnson's band. One of several variant reproductions of the only known portrait of Bogle, possibly a study sketch for a print to accompany Philadelphia antiquarian Dreer's private printing in 1865 of Nicholas Biddle's 1830 poem, "Ode To Bogle," originally written in 1830. Bogle, attired in a white collared shirt, a white bowtie, and a brown jacket with a black collar, faces slightly left., Title from item., Date inferred from content., See LCP exhibition catalogue: The Larder Invaded, p. 65., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., 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. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-B [(1)5750.F.55b]
Album page containing a rustic view. Shows a white man on horseback conversing with a white man standing near a stone house. The house is comprise of mutiple sections, each at different heights. View also includes trees, including one with several missing branches, a fence, and shrubery., Title supplied by cataloguer., Date from item., Possibly by Amy Matilda Cassey., Former supplied title: Residential New York Street., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Date
November, 1838
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Amy Matilda Cassey album [P.9764.49]
Drawing, possibly an artist's study, by James Queen, a Weccacoe volunteer. Nightime view showing Weccacoe volunteers pull the engine from their Southwark station at 119 Queen Street, put on gear, and gather equipment from storage closets within the garage., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 78, Library of Congress: DRWG/US - Queen (J.F.), no. 3 (C size) [P&P] Firehouse
Creator
Queen, James, 1824-ca. 1877, artist
Date
[ca. 1857]
Location
Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC DRWG/US - Queen (J.F.), no. 3 (C size) [P&P] Firehouse
Collection of nude figure studies by lithographer Augustus Kollner. Most, if not all, of the studies were likely executed for the life class at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine arts. Includes two female studies and two male studies. The first female study [P.2017.8.18] shows a nude woman seated on her side, her legs outstretched, and leaning on her left hand. Her right hand stretched down to her calf. Her light-shaded hair is pulled back Grecian-style and she lies in front of a draped stand. The second female study [P.2017.8.19] shows a woman lying on her back, her head resting on her right hand that is bent at the elbow, and with her eyes closed. Her dark-shaded hair is worn in a low bun, her legs are crossed at the ankles, and her left hand rests on her left thigh. A less-detailed, ink-drawn, vignette-size, bust-length study of the woman is visible in the lower left corner. The first male study [P.2017.8.20] shows a nearly nude man, a loin cloth at his waist, sitting with his legs open on a draped seat. He is slightly hunched over and rests the left side of his face on his left hand curled into a fist with his left elbow resting on his knee. His right arm is bent at the elbow with his right hand resting on his right knee. His dark-shaded hair is parted to the right. The second male study [P.2017.8.21], a profile, shows a nude man, semi-seated on a platform, with his upper body leaning to his left and with his left leg extended behind him. He rests his arms on the edge and side of the platform. He has short, dark-shaded hair and a mustache. The genitalia of the three figures without a loin cloth is shaded in shadow., Dates of two of the drawings [P.2017.8.18-19] inferred from the accompanying dated drawings., P.2017.8.21 inscribed in lower right: Jany 1867., P.2017.8.22 inscribed in lower left: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; Kollner Feby 4, 1867 Phila., Drawings are trimmed., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell., Augustus Kollner (1813-1906) a German-born and trained Philadelphia lithographer began to focus his career more on drawing and painting in the 1860s. In 1861 Kollner enrolled in the Pennsylvania Academy of the fine arts life class and continued to take the class until at least 1867. Kollner also exhibited genre, historical, and landscape drawings at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1865 and 1868.
Creator
Kollner, Augustus, 1813-1906, artist
Date
[1867]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection - Drawings and Watercolors - Kollner [P.2017.8.19-22]
Impressionistic drawing showing the exterior and cemetery of the oldest church in Pennsylvania at 929 South Water Street. Includes headstones and foliage. The church, also known as Gloria Dei, was built 1698-1700 after designs by John I. Harrison and Reverend Andrew Rudman. Betsy Ross married her second husband Joseph Ashburn at Gloria Dei in 1777., Title inscribed on drawing., Signature of artist in lower left corner., Accompanied by label: The oldest church in Philadelphia is "Olde Swedes", [sic] on Swanson Street below Christian Street. It was built in 1700 and has been in continuous use ever since. It was in this church that Betsy Ross was married. An original drawing by Donald C. Taber, 1934., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell., Donald C. Taber, born in New York, was a commercial artist in Philadelphia by 1930.
Creator
Taber, Donald C., 1895-1981, artist
Date
1934
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection - Drawings and Watercolors - A-Z - Taber [P.2017.8.28]
Impressionistic drawing looking north from Independence Square showing the rear elevation of Independence Hall built 1732-1748 after the designs of Andrew Hamilton and Edmund Woolley at 520 Chestnut Street. View also includes a barren tall tree in the left, a sole pedestrian, and a tree with foliage in the right., Title inscribed on drawing., Signature of artist in lower left corner., Date from accompanying label: Built in 1731, - Independence Hall, originally called The State House, took its name from the signing of the Declaration of Independence within its walls in 1776. It contains the Liberty Bell, cracked while tolling the death of Chief Justice Marshall, and other precious relics of history. It is located on Chestnut Street, between 5th and 6th Streets, Philadelphia. An original drawing by Donald C. Taber, 1934., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell., Donald C. Taber, born in New York, was a commercial artist in Philadelphia by 1930.
Creator
Taber, Donald C., 1895-1981, artist
Date
[1934]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection - Drawings and Watercolors - A-Z - Taber [P.2017.8.29]
Architectural drawing showing the front elevation of a stone building with a stand pipe adorning a pyramid hip roof proposed for the Delaware Water Works, formerly the Kensington Water Works. Building includes brick details around the doorway and the five windows. Ornamental details adorn the standpipe. The waterworks, completed in 1852, at the foot of Wood Street (i.e., Susquehanna Avenue) near the Delaware River provided water for the district of Kensington. Also includes an inset depicting an interior section of pipe. Chief Engineer of the Water Department H.P.M. Birkinbine recorded the need for a stand pipe at the Delaware Water Works in his 1858 Annual Report of the Chief Engineer of the Water Works of the City of Philadelphia (published 1859). He publically announced proposals for enlarging the Delaware Water Works, including a stand pipe in 1864. A new standpipe was completed in 1865., Title and date from item., Manuscript note below title on recto: Scale 1/8 in. to a foot., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell., See Annual report of the chief engineer of the Water Works of the city of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, 1859), p. 10. [Am 1859 Phil Pa Water 52642.O .9 (Hare)]., See also Philadelphia Inquirer, June 4, 1864, p.6 and Public Ledger, January 13, 1865, p. 1.
Creator
Birkinbine, Henry P. M., artist
Date
[March 4th, 1859]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection - Drawings & Watercolors [P.2018.62.1]
Architectural drawings showing the first floor plan and exterior of the Strawbridge estate in Willistown, PA. Plan includes terraces, library, reception room, dining room, gallery, hall, lavatory, closet, living room, garden court, and box garden. Also includes details for a "beam over"; cedar dipping well; measurements for the reception room, hall, gallery, living room, and garden court; and a compass., Title from drawings., Signature of architect in lower right corner. P.2018.62.3 also contains initials of architect in lower right of image., Date inferred from architect's active dates in Philadelphia, his membership in American Institute of Architects (AIA), and the aesthetic of the drawing., Caption on P.2018.62.2: Plan of First Floor., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell., G. Edwin Brumbaugh was a Philadelphia architect and architectural historian who specialized in restoration. A member and fellow of the AIA, he worked for the firms Mellor & Meigs and Charles Barton Keen 1912-1920s, as well as started his own practice in 1916.
Creator
Brumbaugh, G. Edwin, 1890-1983, architect
Date
[ca. 1940]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection - Drawings and Watercolors [P.2018.62.2&3]
Architectural drawing showing a tower with arch details at the base and a spire adorned with a flag., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from possible Philadelphia water works context., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell.
Date
[ca. 1855]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection - Drawings & Watercolors [P.2018.62.4]
Sketch depicting a bird’s eye view probably of the Lehigh Canal in Mauch Chunk, Pa. Depicts two boats, each with one man, being pulled with ropes by mules along the canal that runs through a valley. The boats also hold material that is probably coal. View also shows trees growing on the hillside bordering the canal, and in the left background, rail cars moving on the tracks towards wooden buildings along the waterway. Mauch Chunk was founded in 1818 and changed its name to Jim Thorpe in 1955. The Lehigh Canal opened in 1829 and ran until the 1930s., Title and date from manuscript note written on verso: Mauch Chunk, PA Canal, Augt 15th, 1859., Artist’s initials written on verso: E.S.H., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019.
Date
Aug. 15, 1859
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.62.2]
Drawing of an early 1800s street view showing storefronts on the former site of the mansion of colonial lawyer William Clarke (built circa 1699, razed 1800) on Third and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia. A man patron exits the two-and-half-story building near two women who peer into one of the multi-paned windows of the storefront. View also shows neighboring residential buildings as well as pedestrian and street traffic, including a woman resident being greeted by a man at her front door and a horse-drawn carriage traveling down the street., Title from item., Date inferred from active dates of the artist., Signed by the artist in the lower right., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019., See related: Taylor – Case 12-15 [2717.F].
Creator
Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, artist
Date
[ca. 1920]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.62.20]
Drawing reproduced in Frank Taylor’s Old Philadelphia series showing an exterior view of the Hamilton-Hoffman house built 1791-1800 for merchant Gavin Hamilton. Shows an oblique view of the residence with a covered porch, shuttered windows, dormers, and multiple additions. A woman stands before the front door. In the foreground, shrubs and a tree grow around a picket fence. After Gavin Hamilton’s death, the estate was sold to Samuel Woodward in 1831, then to Jacob Hoffman in 1832. The residence remained in the possession of the Hoffman family until demolished in 1960., Title and date from item., Signed by the artist in the lower right., Manuscript note written on recto: Make corrections., Contains series number written in ink and on sticker label in upper left corner: 245. Number corresponds to the series, Old Philadelphia: Artistic reproductions from drawings by Frank H. Taylor depicting old structures and scenes of historic interest., See HABS Report No. PA-1053, https://memory.loc.gov/master/pnp/habshaer/pa/pa0700/pa0766/data/pa0766data.pdf., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019.
Creator
Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, artist
Date
1921
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.62.21]
Street view of the market sheds at 15th and Market Streets, Philadelphia. Depicts men vendors selling their goods, including meats and produce, under covered stalls and from a wagon as customers, primarily women, walk and shop along the market. Also shows a Conestoga wagon parked by the market in the right, barrels and baskets of goods displayed near some of the stalls, and a fire hydrant at the corner. In the left foreground, a horse-drawn omnibus travels down tracks in the street. In the background, a row of building, including the Western Exchange Hotel is visible. The market sheds were removed April 1859 following the completion of the Western Market House at Sixteenth and Market Streets. The Western Exchange Hotel, a resting spot for many of the farmers who rented at the market, was demolished circa 1860., Title from print in the series., Date inferred from content and active dates of the artist., Signed by the artist in the lower right., Manuscript note written on recto: Masonic. Show to Masonic Hall get label., Inscribed in lower right corner: 5.00, Manuscript written on verso: The market sheds, extending two squares West of fifteenth street, were removed in 1862. The old Western Exchange building and the row of dwellings west from it were removed in 1880 to make room for the Pennsylvania R.R. first terminal. The arched front of the Western Market house is shown in the back ground., Contains series number written on sticker label in upper left corner: 336. Written in manuscript on the bottom left corner: 336. Number corresponds to the series, Old Philadelphia: Artistic reproductions from drawings by Frank H. Taylor depicting old structures and scenes of historic interest., See also: photo - McClees - Hotels, Inns, and Taverns [(9)1322.F.49b], Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019.
Creator
Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, artist
Date
[ca. 1920]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.62.22]
Exterior view showing the Protestant Episcopal church built 1727-1744, including the steeple completed 1754 after the designs of John Harrison and Robert Smith, at 22-34 North 2nd Street. Shows the front facade with a sign that reads, "Christ Church" on the pediment. The steeple rises at the rear of the church. The sidewalk extends in front of the building, and a fence surrounds the property. In the left, trees grow in a line in front of a row of buildings., Title from item., Date inferred from content and active dates of the artist., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019.
Creator
Graeff, Henry F., artist
Date
[ca. 1930]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.66.10]
Drawing depicting the traffic traveling down a road in Morocco to Casablanca. In the left, an open-top automobile with a driver and a passenger in the backseat drives towards the viewer. In the right, several Moroccan men travel on donkeys with more donkeys carrying cargo. Mountains are visible in the distance., Title and date from item., Signed by artist in lower right., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019.
Creator
Graeff, Henry F., artist
Date
Jan. 18, 1944
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.66.12]
Drawing depicting the River House Bar by the Delaware River canal in New Hope, Pa. Shows the two-and-a-half-story bar with a sign that reads, "River House, Dining Room, Guest Rooms, Bar." In the left, is a three-and-a-half-story building with an outbuilding behind it. The canal is visible in the foreground. Snow covers the ground., Title supplied by the cataloger., Date inferred from content and active dates of the artist., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019.
Creator
Graeff, Henry F., artist
Date
[ca. 1920]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.66.8]
View depicting a team of six mules pulling a Pennsylvania Railroad car past the south west corner of Broad Street and South Penn Square, Philadelphia in 1860. The team led by a man travels past a row of three-story residences with shuttered windows and dormers across from the square in which trees grow behind a wrought iron fence. Pedestrians walk in front of the houses., Title and date from item., Signed by the artist in the lower right., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019., Henry B. McIntire (1872-1963) was an architectural illustrator active in Philadelphia from the 1930s to 1950s. His 1936 book, Philadelphia Then and Now, contained drawings of no longer extant buildings and contemporary images of those locations. He often used an offset lithographic printing process called aquatone in his work.
Creator
McIntire, Henry B., 1872-1963, artist
Date
1939
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.62.13]
View looking north from below Walnut Street showing the 100 block of Broad Street, Philadelphia, including the Dundas-Lippincott Mansion built in 1839 for banker James Dundas after the designs of Thomas Ustick Walter at 1335 Walnut Street. Shows, in the right, the front façade of the mansion with a portico and surrounded by a wall and a wrought iron fence. Also shows several trees lining the sidewalks and growing on the enclosed property of the mansion. Pedestrians walk in front of and around the residence, and horse-drawn carriages travel down the streets. The mansion, also called the “Yellow Mansion,” passed to Dundas' niece, Agnes Dundas-Lippincott, upon his death in 1865, and stayed in the family until razed around 1905., Title and date from item., Signed by the artist in the lower right., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019., Henry B. McIntire (1872-1963) was an architectural illustrator active in Philadelphia from the 1930s to 1950s. His 1936 book, Philadelphia Then and Now, contained drawings of no longer extant buildings and contemporary images of those locations. He often used an offset lithographic printing process called aquatone in his work.
Creator
McIntire, Henry B., 1872-1963, artist
Date
1939
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.62.10]
View looking North depicting the west side of the 100 block of South Broad Street, Philadelphia in 1865. Shows the buildings along Broad Street, including the Union League (140 South Broad) constructed 1864-1865 after designs by architect John Fraser and the Academy of Natural Sciences (Broad and George, i.e., Sansom) built from 1839 to 1840 after designs by Philadelphia architect, John Notman. Pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages travel along the street., Title and date from item., Signed by the artist in the lower right., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019., Henry B. McIntire (1872-1963) was an architectural illustrator active in Philadelphia from the 1930s to 1950s. His 1936 book, Philadelphia Then and Now, contained drawings of no longer extant buildings and contemporary images of those locations. He often used an offset lithographic printing process called aquatone in his work.
Creator
McIntire, Henry B., 1872-1963, artist
Date
1939
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.62.14]
Drawing depicting the Delaware River canal in New Hope, Pa. Shows a canal boat with an American flag traveling down the Delaware River canal. Buildings flank the canal, including the two-and-a-half-story River House Bar. Snow covers the ground., Title from item., Date inferred from content and active dates of the artist., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019.
Creator
Graeff, Henry F., artist
Date
[ca. 1920]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.66.3]
Drawing depicting two men bargaining in ancient Babylon. In the left, shows the man wearing long hair and a beard and attired in a cap and robe, standing with his right hand up negiotating. In the right, the man, wearing a beard and attired in a headdress and robe, leans foward with his right hand towards the man. He rests his left hand on a woman kneeling with a young child. In the background, a man stands with three camels in front of buildings., Title from item., Date inferred from content and active dates of the artist., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019.
Creator
Graeff, Henry F., artist
Date
[ca. 1920]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.66.1]
Drawing depicting the Delaware River canal in New Hope, Pa. Shows a canal boat with an American flag traveling down the Delaware River canal. Buildings flank the canal including the two-and-a-half-story bar with a sign that reads, "River House Bar." Snow covers the ground., Title from item., Date inferred from content and active dates of the artist., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019.
Creator
Graeff, Henry F., artist
Date
[ca. 1920]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.66.2]
Drawing depicting a view of Singapore. Shows several streets with multi-storied buildings, including a domed-building and a church with a steeple. Numerous trees grow along the fence-lined streets and properties. In the background, the water is visible, probably the Singapore Strait. The British occupied Singapore from 1819 to 1942., Title from item., Date inferred from content and active dates of the artist., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019.
Creator
Graeff, Henry F., artist
Date
[ca. 1940]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.66.16]
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