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Title: View of the Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon, Philadelphia, where over 300,000 Union soldiers have been fed. [graphic] / Schell del; Adrian - Probasco sc.
Description: Signature of Corresponding Secretary inscribed on recto: S.B. Fales., Inscribed on recto of 5778.F.8c: Organized May 27th 1861 - finally closed Dec. 1st 1865 - torn down Jany 3, 1866 - 1,025,000 meals furnished to soldiers, sailors, freedmen & c. SBF, Inscribed on recto of P.2006.1: John Mcallister Jr. with regards of Samuel B. Fales. Organized May 27th 1861 - finally closed Dec. 1st 1865 - torn down Jany 3, 1866 - 1,025,000 meals furnished to soldiers, sailors, freedmen & c. SBF, Created postfreeze., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to the Cooper Shop and Union Volunteer Saloons and Hospitals., Exterior view showing heavy street activity in front of the saloon and hospital of the volunteer relief agency located near the Navy Yard at Swanson and Washington Avenues. A Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad train arrives on the grounds, soldiers line up to enter the saloon, fire company wagons being used as ambulances pass in the streets; and a crowd of men and women stand near a policeman. Contains the names of committee officers and members below the image. Situated at the transportation hub between the North and the South on land leased en gratis from the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad, the agency provided meals, hospital care, washing, sleeping, and writing facilities to military personnel, refugees, and freedmen. It served over 800,000 men, 1,025,000 meals before closing.
Creator: Adrian & Probasco, engraver., creator, Schell, Francis H., 1834-1909, delineator., creator
Date: [ca. 1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. Ph Pr - 11x14 - Associations [5778.F.8c; 9a; 30b; P.2006.1.27]

Title: Scene of camp life. [graphic].
Description: Create postfreeze., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places & Events., Trimmed., Busy scene showing numerous activities occurring simultaneously at a military camp. At the center, generals make strategic plans under a canopy made from an American flag while soldiers drill on horseback, with cannons, and in lines around the officers near rows of tents. Also shows African American men and a child approaching a Zouave, soldiers rounding up horses, an infantryman leaning on a cannon, and soldiers standing on the grounds.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. GC - Civil War - Miltary Camps [5779.F.90f]

Title: Philadelphia. [View from Peter's Farm]
Description: Panoramic view looking east past the Schuylkill River from the estate of Judge Richard Peters (Belmont) in West Fairmount Park. In the foreground, a family, including a man with a telescope enjoys the vista, cows graze in the pasture, and a locomotive travels through the covered Columbia Railroad Bridge. In the background, cityscape, including Girard College, Fairmount Water Works, the Wire Suspension Bridge, and several church steeples are visible., Part of title and name of artist, engraver and publisher from duplicate in collection [**Ph Pr - Views, P.9431.1], Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Madelyn Wolke, Lucianne Reichert, and Clifford A. Mohwinkel Jr., Trimmed.
Creator: Serz, John, engraver
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Serz [P.9773.21]

Title: William D. Rogers & Co. Carriage Manufactory, Philadelphia
Description: View showing the manufactory and warerooms of the premier carriage business built in 1857 and 1860 at 1009 and 1011 Chestnut Street. Several smokestacks adorn the buildings, carriages on display line the street, and pedestrians walk on the sidewalk. Rogers established his manufactory in 1846 and in 1870 partnered with Joseph Moore, Jr. to form William D. Rogers & Co., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Madelyn Wolke, Lucianne Reichert, and Clifford A. Mohwinkel Jr., Variant published in Charles Robson, Manufactories & manufacturers of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: Galaxy Publishing Co., 1875).
Creator: H.B Hall & Sons, engraver
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Serz [P.9773.23a]

Title: Scene of camp life
Description: Busy scene showing numerous activities occurring simultaneously at a military camp. In the center, Union Generals look at a map while sitting and standing under a canopy made from an American flag. In the background, soldiers drill on horseback, with cannons, and in lines near rows of tents. In the left, two barefooted African American men and a child approach a Zouave. A white man soldier stands with a rifle and looks on while another white man soldier leans upon a cannon., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Create postfreeze., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places & Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Trimmed., 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. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Civil War - Military Camps [5779.F.90f]

Title: Old '76 and young '48 From the original picture in the possession of the American Art-Union
Description: Mexican War-era genre print evoking the memory of the American Revolution depicting a young, white man Mexican War soldier returned home to his family, including his grandfather, a Revolutionary War veteran. In a parlor, the young man, attired in his uniform, sits, turned away from his meal, surrounded by his mother, father, sister, grandfather, and family dog. He raises his hand in the air as he regales his family about his experiences. They all look at him intently, except the grandfather, seated in an arm chair, and leaning on a cane, who stares a little off to the side. In the background, three servants (two African American men and an African American woman) listen from the doorway. A portrait painting of the grandfather as a young man in his military uniform hangs on the wall. In the left, a fireplace with mantle is visible. Above the mantle, a framed print reproduced after Trumbull's painting "Declaration of Independence" is displayed near lamps, a clock, and a bust of Washington on a bookcase. Also shows the soldier's cap and sword lying on the floor in the foreground., Title from item., After an 1849 painting by Robert Caton Woodville in the collections of the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore., One of six prints issued in 1851 for the members of the American Art-Union in New York., Gift of David Doret, 2006., Description revised., Access points revised., Described in the Bulletin of the American Art-Union, June 1850, p. 46., 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: Pease, Joseph Ives, 1809-1883, engraver
Date: 1851
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Mexican War [P.2006.28.23]

Title: Leary & Co.'s cheap book store, no. 138 North Second Street, ten doors below New Street, Philadelphia Where are kept constantly on hand, and for sale, over 100,000 volumes of new, old, and scarce books in every department of literature, wholesale and retail. All the latest editions of school books. Latin, Greek, French, Hebrew, Spanish, Italian, and German books. N.B. Cash paid for rags
Description: Advertisement showing the exterior of the four-story bookstore of W.A. Leary & Co. on the 200 block of North Second Street. Signage, including a model of a book, adorns the facade. Patrons stand in the doorway and read books retrieved from the several shelves inside, and display tables and boxes on the sidewalk. Also shows laborers loading a wagon, an approaching couple, and a partial view of the neighboring "Camel Tavern." A sign post stands in front of the wooden building across from a man seated on a bench. Image also contains border details. Leary operated from the site ca. 1841-ca. 1857, including the publication of works as Leary & Getz., Forms part of Poulson scrapbooks, Illustrations of Philadelphia, volume 4., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Poulson scrapbooks - vol. 4 [(4)2526.F.92]

Title: [Chestnut Street Theatre]. North East corner of Sixth and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia
Description: View of the second building of the theater, built 1820-1822 after the designs of William Strickland, Pedestrians walk on the sidewalk and read playbills on display. Also shows partial views of neighboring buildings, including Hart’s Building owned by prominent Jewish publisher and philanthropist, Abraham Hart, erected 1848 (537-539 Chestnut). A gas light with a shade illustrated with a dancer adorns the Melodeon (611-613 Chestnut) and signage advertising D. C. Baxter, engraver on wood, is partially visible on Hart’s Building. Theater razed 1856., Forms part of Poulson scrapbooks, Illustrations of Philadelphia, volume 4., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Baxter, De Witt Clinton, ca. 1829-1881, engraver
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Poulson scrapbooks - vol. 4 [(4)2526.F.73a]

Title: Hope Hose & Steam Fire Engine Co. no. 2
Description: View of the fire engine built by Reaney, Neafie & Co. in 1858 for the hose and engine company founded on August 17, 1805 by male residents living near Second and Pine streets. Plates reading "Hope" and "Reaney, Neafie & Co. Builders" adorn the unhitched engine on which a volunteer firefighter attired in his uniform sits., Date from Poulson inscription., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Familton & Chemin, the partnership between Philadelphia printers J. B. Familton and Louis F. Chemin (b. 1840) was active from the 1850s until the start of the Civil War. Chemin was known as a pioneer in the use of color inks in printing.
Creator: Byram, Joseph H, engraver
Date: October 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Poulson scrapbooks - vol. 1 [(1)2526.F.70 1/2]

Title: Mount Sidney, the seat of Genl. John Barker, Pennsylva
Description: View showing the country seat of Philadelphia Mayor John Barker above Philadelphia (Fairmount Park). Depicts the mansion surrounded by trees and shrubbery. A small gatehouse stands in the background., Title altered in manuscript: Mount Sidney, the seat of Mrs. Lanerswyler Pennsylva., Gift of Mrs. S. Marguerite Brenner.
Creator: Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834
Date: [1809]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch Country Seats pl-11b [P.9057.55.11b]

Title: Fountain Green Pennsylva. the seat of Mr. S. Meeker
Description: View showing the mansion, built around 1781, on the estate near the Schuylkill River (East Fairmount Park) originally settled by John Mifflin around 1679. The estate, purchased by Samuel Meeker in 1802, became a tavern and picnic site for Engel and Wolf Brewery around 1849. The mansion was torn down in 1871. A statue adorns the lawn., Gift of Marguerite Brenner., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834
Date: [1809]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch Country Seats-pl 8a [P.9057.55.8a]

Title: Bank of Pennsylvania, South Second Street Philadelphia
Description: View showing the second edifice of the Bank of Pennsylvania (established 1780), built between 1798 and 1801, after the designs of architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe, on South Second Street above Walnut Street. Includes views of the mansion of Jewish merchant David Franks, and the City Tavern (opened in 1773) used as a tavern, banquet hall, and merchant's exchange by colonial Americans, including the Continental Congress. Depicts individuals walking the sidewalks, including a man with a handcart, and several patrons gathered outside the tavern. The first American building built in the Greek Revival style, the bank was razed in 1867. The tavern, razed in 1854, was reconstructed for the Bicentennial., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's Views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000), pl. 27.
Creator: W. Birch & Son
Date: [1800]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views[Sn 27a/P.2276.62]

Title: Preparation for war to defend commerce. The Swedish Church Southwark with the building of the Frigate Philadelphia
Description: Busy scene at Federal Street near the Delaware River showing several laborers constucting the U.S. Navy warship, "Philadelphia," one of a number of frigates built to defend the nation's merchant fleet from foreign enemies. Construction occured at Wharton-Humphreys shipyard from 1798 to 1799, under naval builder Joshua Humphreys. Depicts the workers sawing, axing, and carrying slats of wood up a long plank to the top of the hull of the unfinished ship. A man, possibly Humphreys or the ship designer, Josiah Fox, and a woman, watch the construction from the side. Several buildings stand in the background, including the city's oldest church, Gloria Dei (Old Swedes) Church, built in 1700., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with corrections., Illustrated in S. Robert Teitleman's Birch's Views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000), p. 29.
Creator: W. Birch & Son
Date: 1800
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 29/P.2276.67]

Title: Old State House, Congress Hall and Town Hall, Chesnut [sic] Street Philadelphia
Description: Street scene on Chestnut Street below Sixth Street with views of Independence Hall (completed in 1748), and the adjacent Congress Hall (Town Hall), completed in 1789 as a county courthouse, and used by Congress from 1790 to 1800. Depicts several men convened outside Congress Hall; couples strolling the sidewalk; and horse-drawn carriages, a man on horseback, and a boy with a dog traversing the street. Includes view of the building originally built as a city hall, and used as the seat of the Supreme Court from 1790 to 1800., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834
Date: [1804]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 33/P.2276.69]

Title: Bank of Pennsylvania, South Second Street Philadelphia
Description: View showing the second edifice of the Bank of Pennsylvania (established 1780), built between 1798 and 1801, after the designs of architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe, on South Second Street above Walnut Street. In the foreground, groups of men converse, a boy pets a dog, and men enter and leave the bank. The first American building built in the Greek Revival style, the bank building was razed in 1867., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 91., Arcadia caption text: The first of several major public edifices built in the Greek Revival style in the early 19th century, the Bank of Pennsylvania greatly influenced bank design in Philadelphia and other American cities and contributed to Philadelphia’s designation as the “Athens of America.” Designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe, the bank contained the first domed banking room in America. The dome motif was echoed in the small pavilions located at each of the four corners of the lot, three of which housed the bank’s guards while the fourth served as an outhouse.
Creator: Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834
Date: 1804
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 36a/P.2276.72]

Title: Schuylkill Bridge High Street Philadelphia
Description: Scenic view of the uncovered Market Street Permanent Bridge commissioned by the Schuylkill Bridge Company and completed in 1805 after the designs of engineer Timothy Palmer. Depicts horse-drawn carriages, wagons, and pedestrians traversing the bridge, and ships and barges sailing on the Schuylkill River. In the foreground, a man works on his loaded sailing vessel. Contains inset of "The Bridge as it appears now covered." The bridge, covered later in 1805 after the designs of Owen Biddle and redesigned in 1850 by the Pennsylvania Railroad, was destroyed by fire in 1875., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834
Date: [ca. 1820]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 43c/P.2276.75]

Title: Masonic Hall in Chesnut [sic] Street, Philadelphia 1810
Description: View, possibly from an architectural drawing, of the front facade of the hall, completed in 1811 purportedly after the designs of William Strickland, at Chestnut Street above Seventh Street. The hall, rebuilt in 1820 following a fire the previous year, was demolished in 1853., Possibly proof copy., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834
Date: [1809]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 44a/P.8726]

Title: The new theatre in Chesnut [sic] Street Philadelphia
Description: View of the third edifice of the Chestnut Street Theater, erected in 1822 after the designs of William Strickland at the location of the second building, razed by fire in 1820, on Chestnut Street above Sixth Street. Depicts couples strolling passed the theater, built with corinthian columns with niches containing the salvaged William Rush statues of Comedy and Tragedy. The theater, razed in 1855, was rebuilt on Chestnut Street above Twelfth Street in 1863., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834
Date: [1823, [1828]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 40a/P.8705.9]

Title: The new theatre in Chesnut [sic] Street Philadelphia Built 1822. Taken down 1856
Description: View of the third edifice of the Chestnut Street Theater, erected in 1822, after the designs of William Strickland at the location of the second building, razed by fire in 1820, on Chestnut Street above Sixth Street. Depicts couples strolling passed the theater, built with corinthian columns with niches containing the salvaged William Rush statues of Comedy and Tragedy. The theater, razed in 1855, was rebuilt on Chestnut Street above Twelfth Street in 1863., Inscribed upper right corner: 3., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a scrapbook of McAllister restrikes.
Creator: Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834, engraver
Date: [1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 40c/2569.Q.3]

Title: First plate of four subjects for Birch's Philadelphia
Description: Montage of four titled vignette views showing the Philadelphia landmarks: "Franklin Library in 1800" (Library Hall) at Fifth and Library streets; "Pennsylvania Hospital in 1800" on Pine Street between Eighth and Ninth streets; "Swedes Church Southwark" (Gloria Dei); and "High St. Market House in 1800" above Second Street. Depicts the exterior of the library, hospital, and church, and the interior of the busy market shed., Proof copy., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834
Date: [1828]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 41a/P.2276.76]

Title: An unfinished house, in Chesnut [sic] Street Philadelphia
Description: View showing "Morris' Folly", the unfinished brick and marble mansion on Chestnut Street above Seventh Street, designed by Pierre Charles L'Enfant for Philadelphia merchant and financier Robert Morris. Individuals stroll the grounds, and a laborer carries a ladder passed a guardhouse. Morris' mansion, begun about 1796 and unfinished as a result of his bankruptcy, was demolished in 1800, the building materials sold to finance creditors., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's Views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000), pl. 14., Reproduced with article in Poulson's Scrapbook of Philadelphia History, vol. VII, p. 54-55. (LCP reference copy Uy 8, 2526.F)
Creator: W. Birch & Son
Date: 1800
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 14a/P.2276.27]

Title: [An unfinished house, in Chestnut Street Philadelphia]
Description: View showing "Morris' Folly," the unfinished brick and marble mansion on Chestnut Street above Seventh Street designed by Pierre Charles L'Enfant for Philadelphia merchant and financier Robert Morris. Individuals stroll the grounds, and a laborer carries a ladder passed a guardhouse. Morris' mansion, begun in 1796 and unfinished as a result of his bankruptcy, was demolished in 1800, the building materials sold to finance creditors., Title from duplicate print., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's Views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000), pl. 14., Reproduced with article in Poulson's Scrapbook of Philadelphia History, vol. VII, p. 54-55. (LCP reference copy Uy 8, 2526.F).
Creator: W. Birch & Son
Date: [180[0]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 14a/P.2276.28]

Title: New Lutheran Church, in Fourth Street Philadelphia
Description: Street scene based on a watercolor study by William Birch. Depicts Speaker of the House of Representatives, Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg, on tour with a delegation of Native American men across from the second edifice of the New Zion Lutheran Church, built on Fourth Street below Cherry Street 1795-1796. The first church building, erected 1766-1769 to accommodate the overflow of the growing German congregation of St. Michael's Lutheran Church, was rebuilt in its original form following a fire in 1794. Scene also includes street and pedestrian traffic of a loaded horse-drawn dray and cart; and a laborer hauling a barrel upon his back. Native American delegations visited the city to pay respect and to negotiate land treaties when Philadelphia served as the nation's capitol. Muhlenberg lead a tour of several tribal groups in 1793., Illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's Views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000), pl. 6., LCP holds related watercolor study. (LCP P.9666)., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834, engraver
Date: [1804]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch, William-Views of Philadelphia [Sn 6b/P.2276.12]

Title: [Arch Street ferry, Philadelphia]
Description: View of the Arch Street ferry terminal on the Delaware River. Depicts Philadelphia's busy waterfront and includes sailing ships, warehouses, bartering merchants, and dock workers weighing, as well as loading, barrels and bundles of produce onto carts. Others, including white women, are fishing and enjoying the view. To the far left of an unoccupied dock, dock workers, including an African American man, move large bundles. At the turn of the nineteenth century ferries were the main source of transportation to Southern New Jersey. New Jersey provided much of the fresh produce sold at Philadelphia markets., Title from duplicate print., Illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000), pl. 4., Accessioned 1979., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: W. Birch & Son
Date: 1800
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 4a/P.2276.6]

Title: Old Lutheran Church, in Fifth Philadelphia
Description: Street scene showing Fifth Street with the Old Lutheran Church (i.e., St. Michael's Church). Depicts well-dressed white women in small groups, a woman and child, and men strolling passed the church, a horse-drawn carriage traveling down the street, and three white men conversing around a horse hitched to a post near two African American girls. One of the girls holds out her hand. Also shows dogs standing and running in the street. St Michael's Church, built 1743-1748 and demolished in 1872, was occupied in 1777 by British chaplains and used as the garrison church of the British troops during the American Revolution., Title from item., Illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000), pl. 7., Accessioned 1979., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: W. Birch & Son
Date: 1800
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 7/P.2276.13]

Title: South east corner of Third, and Market Street. Philadelphia
Description: Street scene depicting the bustling southeast corner of Third and Market Streets. Several vendors, mostly women, sell meat and produce from their basic stands and baskets to the numerous patrons, including two Black women in kerchiefs and shawls, milling on Market Street. View includes the commercial business block erected in 1792 by prosperous jeweler and developer Joseph Cooke, known as "Cooke's Folly." The lavish building, containing residences and stores to have been won as lottery prizes, was demolished in 1838 after several years of decay from lack of investment., Title from item., Illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982), pl. 8., Accessioned 1979., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: W. Birch & Son
Date: 1799
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 8/P.2276.15]

Title: High Street, from Ninth Street. Philadelphia
Description: View of High (Market) Street from Ninth depicting a detachment of the First City Troop of Philadelphia drilling on horseback. The troop promenades up the busy street where several horse-drawn carts and a dray travel and several pedestrians, including an African American man and boy (in the right), watch the guard and/or stroll the tree-lined sidewalks. A market shed is seen in the distance. The First City Troop, one of the oldest continually mounted U.S. military units, was organized in 1774 to defend against British invasion. The troop used a variety of arenas to perform drills including circuses, riding schools, and various public grounds., Title from item., Illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982), pl. 12., Accessioned 1979., 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: W. Birch & Son
Date: 1799
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 12/P.2276.24]

Title: High Street Market, Philadelphia
Description: View of the interior of a High Street Market shed near Second Street. Depicts mainly female peddlers selling their meats and produce from several stalls. Shoppers, including an African American man and a boy with a basket, inspect and purchase the market goods which are displayed on wooden counters, in baskets, and on meat hooks. The High Street Market, established in the late 17th century, became housed in a permanent structure around 1709 when a market shed was built from the Town Hall to Third Street.
Creator: Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834
Date: [1804]

Title: [Glorification of the American Union]
Description: Allegorical print glorifying life and liberty in post-Civil War America depicting the figure Columbia, depicted as a white woman, atop a tall pyramid-shaped pedestal. Flanked by George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, the latter holding the "Proclamation of Emancipation," she raises her hand toward emancipated enslaved men and women to her right who acknowledge her with raised shackled hands, a knelt position, and a tipped hat. Newly arrived European immigrants are gathered to her left. Abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher stands among the enslaved men, women, and children who have been emancipated, and revolutionary and diplomat Carl Schurz stands before the immigrants. The freed persons embrace each other, break free from shackles, and brandish instruments of free labor as behind them the Capitol, a large American flag, and apparitions of colonial soldiers stand vigil. The immigrants, depicted in their native attire, look to Schurz as they carry their belongings ashore. More ships continue to arrive in the background., Title from copy print at the Calvert Gallery, Washington, D.C., Printer's proof., Manuscript note on recto: Aun myn goeden arrend J. Bollens; J. B. Michiels., After a painting by Belgian historical painter Ferdinand Willem Pauwels, exhibited in 1867 at the Kunstschule in Weimar and possibly at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia under the title, "The New Republic.", See Hugh Honour's The Image of the Black in western art (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989) Part 2, Vol. IV, p.248-249., Purchase 1999., RVCDC, 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.
Creator: Michiels, Jean-Baptiste P., 1821-1890, engraver
Date: [ca. 1873]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **GC-Emancipation [P.9672]

Title: On the march to the sea
Description: Civil War scene from Union General William Tecumseh Sherman's notorious campaign across Georgia in 1864 and 1865 depicting the depredation and destruction of countryside near the Atlantic coast. Amidst smoke, Sherman sits on his horse, looks through a scope, and scouts the horizon. Around him, white men Union soldiers and an African American man dismantle railroad tracks, and further down the line a railroad car has been set on fire. Newly free African Americans leave on foot and by raft. In the right, an African American family of a mother, father, son, and grandfather, attired in worn and torn cloths, carry bundles as they travel over the dismantled railroad tracks. The mother holds her son’s one hand while he uses the other to rub his eyes. The father rests his hand on the back of the grandfather. Behind them, two Union soldiers cut down a telegraph pole. In the background, Union soldiers round up cattle, burn homesteads and a bridge, and fire upon retreating Confederate soldiers. In the lower margin is a portrait of Sherman., Title from item., Plate signed by Darley lower right corner., Manuscript note on verso: Acc. No. 0479; Gift Minnie Owen., See Nancy Finlay's Inventing the American past: the art of F.O.C. Darley (New York: New York Public Library, 1999), p. 28 and opp. p. 32., Accessioned 2000., 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., Ritchie, a New York painter and prolific engraver of portraits and genre scenes, produced many engravings after the works of the premier illustrator of the 19th century and native Philadelphian, F.O.C. Darley.
Creator: Ritchie, Alexander Hay, 1822-1895, engraver
Date: c1868
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **GC-Civil War [P.9854]

Title: Great Central Depot, southwest corner of 7th and Market Streets
Description: Men looking in windows of shop with comments in speech balloons. William Brown, prop., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with corrections.
Date: ca. 1850
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Ph Pr - Business - Grand Central Depot [P.9178.16]

Title: Etching of the large engraving of Mexican news one of the six plates for the members of 1851
Description: Genre print emphasizing the influence of the press on national sentiment and consumer culture during the Mexican War. The "penny presses" drummed up public interest and support for the war by espousing the doctrine of Manifest Destiny as the justification for Westward expansion. Depicts a crowd of white men on the porch of the "American Hotel" eagerly listening to an astonished-looking man reading the news of the progress to annex Texas. An African American man and child, attired in tattered clothing, listen from the steps of the porch. In the right, a white woman leans out of the window of the hotel and strains to hear the news., Title from item., After an 1848 painting "War News from Mexico" by Robert Caton Woodville exhibited at the free gallery of the American Art-Union in 1849. In the collections of the National Gallery of Art on long-term loan., One of six etchings printed in 1851 for the members of the American Art-Union in New York., Published in Vincent Virga et al.'s Eyes of the nation: A visual history of the United States. (NY: Knopf, 1997), p.115., Gift of Clarence Wolf, 1984., 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., Alfred Jones was born in Liverpool in 1819 and traveled to America with his family. He attended the National Academy of Design in New York, and in 1839 took an apprenticeship with a banknote engraver. He returned to Europe in 1840, where he studied under London’s master engravers. After returning to America, he became one of the premier engravers in the country, eventually establishing a career in postage stamp engraving. He also engraved a number of images for the American Art-Union, including this one, which was originally engraved and sold by subscription to the union’s members in 1851.
Creator: Jones, Alfred, 1819-1900, engraver
Date: [1851]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Mexican War [P.9046.18]

Title: Etching of the large engraving of Mexican news one of the six plates for the members of 1851
Description: Genre print emphasizing the influence of the press on national sentiment and consumer culture during the Mexican War. The "penny presses" drummed up public interest and support for the war by espousing the doctrine of Manifest Destiny as the justification for Westward expansion. Depicts a crowd of white men on the porch of the "American Hotel" eagerly listening to an astonished-looking man reading the news of the progress to annex Texas. An African American man and child, attired in tattered clothing, listen from the steps of the porch. In the right, a white woman leans out of the window of the hotel and strains to hear the news., Title from item., After an 1848 painting "War News from Mexico" by Robert Caton Woodville exhibited at the free gallery of the American Art-Union in 1849. In the collections of the National Gallery of Art on long-term loan., One of six etchings printed in 1851 for the members of the American Art-Union in New York., Published in Vincent Virga et al.'s Eyes of the nation: A visual history of the United States. (NY: Knopf, 1997), p.115., Gift of Clarence Wolf, 1984., 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., Alfred Jones was born in Liverpool in 1819 and traveled to America with his family. He attended the National Academy of Design in New York, and in 1839 took an apprenticeship with a banknote engraver. He returned to Europe in 1840, where he studied under London’s master engravers. After returning to America, he became one of the premier engravers in the country, eventually establishing a career in postage stamp engraving. He also engraved a number of images for the American Art-Union, including this one, which was originally engraved and sold by subscription to the union’s members in 1851.
Creator: Jones, Alfred, 1819-1900, engraver
Date: [1851]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Mexican War [P.9046.18]

Title: [Entry of Washington into New York, after the city was evacuated by the British in 1783, Nov. 20th]
Description: Print after the painting displayed at the National Academy of Design in New York by native Philadelphian and prolific 19th-century book illustrator, Felix Octavius Carr Daley. Depicts the historic scene at the close of the American Revolution showing General Washington, his hand on his hip and his face turned to the left, on horseback and triumphantly parading his troops through a crowded New York City street on November 25, 1783. Exuberant spectators, some running and some held back by uniformed guards, line both sides of the thoroughfare and cheer from balconies, roofs, and windows. Spectators include many parents with children. In the left foreground, an African American man servant or waiter, attired in hoop earrings, a white collared shirt, a bow tie, a jacket, breeches with white stockings, and buckled shoes, carries a serving tray under his arm and stands and peers into the street to watch Washington. Three dogs run in the foreground., Title from: Illustrated by Darley: an exhibition of original drawings..., May 4- June 18, 1978 (Delaware Art Museum. Wilmington: The Museum, 1978). (LCP Print Room Yb A2696.O)., Alternate title from 1863 artist's proof at the Museum of the City of New York., Manuscript signature of engraver in lower right corner., Gift of Dr. Anthony N.B. Garvan, 1981., 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., Ritchie, a New York painter and prolific engraver of portraits and genre scenes, produced at least three engravings after the works of F.O.C. Darley.
Creator: Ritchie, Alexander Hay, 1822-1895, engraver
Date: c1858
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **GC - American Revolution [P.8646.3]

Title: A Chinese laundry in Philadelphia
Description: Interior view of a Chinese owned and operated laundry in Philadelphia. In the center, shows the owner of the business attired in a top hat, white collared shirt, bowtie, suit jacket, waistcoat, and pants. He sits in a wooden chair with his legs crossed and smoking a cigarette as he supervises the workers. The four Chinese men laundry workers wear queue hairstyles and are attired in tunics, pants, and slip-on, cloth shoes. In the left, two men stand behind the counter and iron, one of whom spits water from his mouth onto the laundry. In the right, the man stands facing the viewer with his hand on top of his head while a man irons from another countertop. Steam rises up from the irons. There is a storage closet with the door partially open revealing shelves with folded laundry. More stacks of folded laundry sit on the countertops. In the right foreground, there are five irons warming on a heater and two baskets of laundry. A clock hangs on the wall., Title from item., Date and publication information from original source., Published in the June 3, 1876 issue of the Graphic, a British weekly illustrated newspaper., Text description of the engraving from the Graphic, p. 542: A Chinese Laundry in Philadelphia. Though not nearly so numerous as in California, where their presence has recently excited extreme hostility among the white working classes, the Chinese are to be found, though few and far between, in the Eastern States. There are several Chinese laundries in Philadelphia, and as they have only been recently introduced from California, they are almost as much objects of interest to Philadelphians as to foreigners. Our artist came across the laundry shown in our engraving unexpectedly. As soon as the Chinamen perceived him sketching it through the window, they rushed out and shouted after him, whereupon he made off, thinking it prudent to avoid a scene. The Celestial in European dress is the "boss," or master, who owns several laundries, and who attends to the customers and business arrangements. The manner of damping the clothes preparatory to ironing is peculiar, the operator fills his mouth with water, and squirts it over the linen., Gift of Linda Kimiko August., RVCDC
Date: June 3, 1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Ph Pr - 8x10 - Businesses - Chinese Laundry [P.2023.27.1]

Title: To the people of America, this engraving of "First in Peace," from the original painting, is respectfully dedicated, representing the arrival of General George Washington at the Battery, New York, April 23rd, 1789, previous to his inauguration as the first president of the United States of America, April 30, 1789
Description: Print after the design of painter Henry Brueckner of Washington's arrival by barge to New York (the nation's capital) for his inauguration depicting a large crowd welcoming the newly-elected president. Shows Washington, at the head of the barge, raising his hat to New York Governor George Clinton standing within a heavily decorated "Welcome" canopy on the wharf. Clinton stands next to his wife, daughters, and white men envoys, all finely attired. On the heavily-decorated barge, containing a red canopy, Washington is surrounded by white men envoys and oarsmen. The envoys are finely attired and the oarsmen wear matching tan suits and black caps adorned with ribbons. The ribbons contain the names of the U.S. states. Throngs of men, women, and child spectators stand along the wharf and upon sailing vessels on the river. Spectators include an African American man cheering with his hat in the air (right); white women in gowns; a white sailor hanging from a rope ladder attached to a ship (right); and an Indigenous man, woman, and baby seated in a canoe by the barge (center right). The man claps and the woman holds the baby in a cradleboard to her chest., Title from item., Place of publication and date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress A.D. 1867 by John C. McRae, in the Clerk's Office of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York., Name of artist and engraver from earlier state in collections of the Library of Congress., See also Scottish American Journal, April 21, 1866, p. 5 and Vermont Chronicle, May 19, 1866, p. 3 for articles that describe the engraving as representing "Washington after the proclamation of peace with Great Britain." Articles also note that McRae was occupied on the work for nine years., Gift of David Doret, 1994., In poor condition. Stained and tears., Cataloged 2021.
Creator: McRae, John C., engraver
Date: 1867
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ***GC - Washington [P.9472]

Title: Reading the Emancipation Proclamation
Description: Print depicting a white Union soldier reading the Emancipation Proclamation to families of enslaved African Americans in a cabin. The families are depicted with anxious and solemn mannerisms. Family members surround the officer near a dining table and hearth. An older boy holds a torch providing the officer with light. The father watches over the soldier's shoulder. Other figures, including a "young woman with two children, the house servant of her [enslaver], not belonging to the cabin but happened to be in on the occasion" pray, cheer, and cling to their mothers. Interior also includes a side of bacon hanging next to a ladder, a drying line with cotton balls handing from it above the hearth, and a cradle. Contains portrait of Abraham Lincoln below the image. The Emancipation Proclamation, effective January 1, 1863, granted African Americans not only their right to freedom but the right to join the Union Army., Title from item., Date from copyright statement., After painting by Henry Walker Herrick exhibited at the National Academy of Design in New York in 1865. Exhibited by "possessor" Lucius Stebbins., Publisher and copyright holder Stebbins published complementary pamphlet "Emancipation Proclamation of January 1st, 1864 [sic]" that included "Description of the Engraving." Description: Old man at the right with folded hands, Grand-father; Old lady at the left with cane in hand, Grand-mother; man leaning on ladder, the father; woman with child in her arms, the mother; lad swinging his hat, oldest son; one holding torch, second son; little girl, oldest daughter; infant in the arms of its mother. Young woman with two children, the house servant of her master, not belonging to the cabin but happened to be in on the occasion. Party reading, Union Soldier. The internal view of the Cabin is true to nature. The stone chimney, garret, ladder, side of bacon, rough cradle, piece of sugar cane and cotton balls, &c, all combine to give a correct idea of the slaves' home. Lincoln Financial Foundation copy of pamphlet accessible at Internet Archive., Lib. Company. Annual report, 1993, p. 44., LCP exhibition catalogue: An African American Miscellany p. 22., Purchase 1993., 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., Lucius Stebbins (1810-1901), born in Massachussets, worked in Hartford, Connecticut, in the businesses of map coloring and subscription book publishing (American Publishing Company).
Creator: Watts, James W., -1895, engraver
Date: 1864
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **GC-Emancipation [P.9429]

Title: Marion crossing the Pedee Engraved from the original picture in the possession of the American Art-Union
Description: Historical print showing Brig. Gen. Francis Marion, known as the Swamp Fox, during the American Revolution and commanding a raft down the river in between one of his guerilla attacks in South Carolina. Marion, wrapped in a cloak, on horseback is surrounded by his band of volunteer soldiers, horses carrying light equipment, and a few dogs on the raft. The men include Marion's enslaved man Oscar Marion holding the reigns of his horse and another African American man rowing the raft with an oar. A few of the soldiers hold the reigns of horses swimming through the river. A second raft is visible in the background., Title from item., After an 1850 painting by William Tylee Ranney in the collections of the Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX., One of six prints issued in 1851 for the members of the American Art-Union in New York., Trimmed., Gift of David Doret, 2006., 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: Burt, Charles Kennedy, 1823-1892, engraver
Date: [1851]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - American Revolution [P.2006.28.22]

Title: Sparks’ Philadelphia Shot Tower
Description: Exterior view depicting the 142-feet-high Sparks’ Shot Tower built by Thomas Sparks and John Bishop in 1808 at 129-131 Carpenter Street, Philadelphia. Includes partial views of adjacent two-story buildings. Pedestrians walk along the sidewalks. A man drives a two-horse cart down the street. Four generations of Sparks operated the Tower until 1903 when it was sold to the United Lead Company. The City of Philadelphia bought the site in 1913., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: John A. Lowell & Co.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Prints [P.2019.64.35]

Title: Office of the Penn Life Insurance Company
Description: View depicting the four-and-one-half story building of the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company built 1850-1851 after the designs of Gordon Parker Cummings at 129 South Third Street. A statue of William Penn adorns the alcove above the doorway. A man enters the building near a man at the foot of the entryway. On the sidewalk, in the right, two men and a boy converse. The men wear top hats and overcoats. The boy wears a suit and a cap. Building was demolished in 1956. Penn Mutual Life Insurance was founded, chartered, and opened in 1847., Title from item., Date from manuscript note on recto., Gift of David Doret., Fernando E. Woods was an antebellum Boston wood engraver.
Creator: Worcester, Fernando Edwards, 1818-, engraver
Date: [1851]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection - Prints [P.2018.63.18]

Title: [View of the Centennial Machinery Hall with people from all nations]
Description: Block-printed wallpaper depicting an exterior view of Machinery Hall designed by Henry Pettit and Joseph M. Wilson for the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, which celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art in West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. Horse-drawn carriages bring visitors to and from the Hall. A large crowd of spectators walk on the grounds. In the foreground, people from various nationalities and ethnicities are represented including Native Americans attired in feather headdresses; two men, including a Black man, attired in fez hats; two Chinese men, one carrying a fan, attired in conical hats and robes; two Arab men in white headdresses and robes; and a Scottish man attired in a kilt. Other spectators include a man attired in a sailor’s uniform, men and women couples, and young boys., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Gift of David Doret., RVCDC
Date: [ca. 1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ***Doret and Mitchell Collection – Prints [P.2022.62.3.49]

Title: Girard College for orphans at Philadelphia, Penn
Description: Exterior view of Girard College constructed 1833 to 1847 after the designs of Thomas Ustrick Walter at 1201-1211 West College Avenue, Philadelphia. In the center, shows Founders Hall designed in the Greek-Revival style with columns and a pediment. Two outbuildings flank either side of the Hall. A number of boys walk on the school grounds. Outside the walled campus, pedestrians walk along the sidewalk. Horse-drawn carriages travel down the street. Girard College was established through a bequest from Stephen Girard, a Philadelphia financier and philanthropist, for the creation of a school for poor, white, orphaned boys. The outbuildings, originally named Building 1 through 4, were used as student dormitories and residences for the president and teacher. In 1927, the buildings were renamed, Allen Hall, Bordeaux Hall, Mariner Hall, and Merchant Hall., Title and date from duplicate copies in Library Company collection., Trimmed and lacking title and imprint., Gift of David Doret., See related copies: **Ph Pr - Education - Girard [5225.F.7; 5225.F.11].
Creator: Graham, A. W., engraver
Date: [ca. 1840 or 1847]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Prints [P.2019.64.39]

Title: New Excursion House, Atlantic City
Description: Advertisement showing an exterior view of the New Excursion House, opened in 1869, and beachfront in Atlantic City, N.J. Shows guests, sitting, standing, and looking out from the three-story resort hotel with a watch tower and covered porches. In front and near the hotel, men and women walk on the grounds, a man rides on a horse, and several horse-drawn carriages travel. In the left, a Camden and Atlantic Railroad Co. train stops at the hotel. In the foreground, waves crash on the shore as bathers wade into the water using two safety lines mounted between masts on the beach and in the ocean. Captain William Tell Street patented his Life Line for Sea Bathing safety device in 1868., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Text printed on recto below image: This house is situated within forty feet of the surf, constructed expressly for the accommodation of excursionists, and containing everything necessary for their comfort and amusement. Carncross & Dixey’s Brass Band and Orchestra has been engaged for the season, free of charge to excursion parties. Although the bathing is perfectly safe at this point, yet, to insure confidence, Street’s Safety Apparatus has been erected on the grounds. Excursion trains run directly to the house as represented.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **Doret and Mitchell Collection – Prints [P.2019.64.46]

Title: Nursing in union hospitals U.S. Sanitary Commission. U.S. Christian Commission
Description: Interior of a Union hospital depicting women nurses attending to wounded soldiers. In the center, a white man soldier lies in bed while three white women nurses, attired in head kerchieves, long-sleeved dresses, and sashes that reads, "Union," help adjust his pillow, kneel and pour a glass of water from a pitcher, and carry a tray. In the right background is a row of beds with two wounded soldiers. In the left, a white man soldier, attired in a uniform with a sash that reads, "Union," walks into the hospital carrying his coat. In the left and right, wooden chairs hold back curtains decorated with stars from the American flag. A framed portrait of a white man and a coat hangs on the wall. Also shows, in the center foreground, a basket of flasks laying on the floor., Title from item., Publication information and date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress A.D. 1865 by W.S. Williams & Co. in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the District of Connecticut., Gift of David Doret.
Date: 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Prints [P.2019.64.43]

Title: Grand Centennial depot, at the main entrance to the exhibition grounds
Description: View of the Pennsylvania Railroad Depot located opposite of the Centennial Exhibition grounds in Philadelphia in 1876. Shows trains arriving on the railroad tracks in front of the depot. In the right, depicts the Globe Hotel and the Trans-Continental Hotel, which were built to accommodate visitors to the Centennial Exhibition. Large crowds of pedestrians walk, and horse-drawn carriages and omnibuses travel down the street. The Globe Hotel was operated by John A. Rice and contained 1,000 rooms to house 3,000 to 5,000 guests for $5 a day., Title from item., Date from content., Gift of David Doret, 2011.
Date: 1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ** Phila Prints - Events - Centennial [P.2011.45.1]

Title: Libby Prison in war times
Description: View of Libby Prison, a Confederate prison in Richmond, Va. and showing Union prisoners in front of tents and a large building. In the foreground are six tents, one labeled "C.S.A." Men, including one with his arm in a sling, stand and walk between the tents. In the background is the brick, three-story prison building, converted from a grocery warehouse and with a sign that reads, "Libby & Sons Ship Chandlers & Grocers." A group of men stand in front of the building. In the left, men in uniform stand in formation. Libby Prison held Union officers and operated from March 1862 until April 1865. The overcrowded prison had harsh conditions and a high mortality rate., Title from the item., Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1889 by Charles Pollock., Gift of David Doret, 2011.
Date: 1889
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Civil War - Prisons [P.2011.45.6]

Title: Northumberland am Susquehannah (verein staaten v. nordamerica
Description: View of the Susquehanna River near Northumberland, Pa. Shows the Susquehanna River flowing with several bridges crossing over it. Buildings and houses of Northumberland are visible along the shoreline. Mountains rise in the background., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Text printed beneath image: Aus. d. Kunstanst, d. Bibli. Instit. in Hildbh.; Eigenthum d. Verleger., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Rottmann, A, engraver
Date: [ca. 1835.]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Views - U.S. - Pennsylvania - Northumberland [P.2010.6.31]

Title: One flag, one country. [graphic] : Constitution & laws.
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Trimmed., Patriotic print, possibly a poster illustration, containing a central allegorical scene flanked by views of Civil War battlefields. Central scene shows men of all eras and trades, including a sailor with an American flag, raising their arms in salute to the Temple of Liberty elevated upon a rock in the background. Other figures include a farmer with a sickle, a veteran of the American Revolution, and a wagon driver. Also shows boughs of wheat and artisans tools. Battle views show soldiers, including Zouaves, charging, traveling on horseback, and firing a cannon. Variant of print often used as a Civil War envelope design.
Date: [ca. 1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War [5786.F.137a]

Title: "The boys in blue," returning the state flags to the governor of Pennsylvania, Independence Square, Philadelphia July 4th, 1866. [graphic] / Rea & Sharp, engravers.
Description: Copyright secured., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War views., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited, Shows a large crowd of spectators surrounding a platform of dignitaries in Independence Square for the July 4th celebration commemorating the return of colors to the state by the Pennsylvania regiments. American flags and banners adorn the rear of Independence Hall. Several military personnel, flags, and a banner advertising King & Baird, book & job printers, are visible in the foreground. Veterans from over one-hundred regiments and the orphan children of soldiers and sailors killed during the Civil War attended the ceremony officiated by Mayor General George G. Meade and Governor Andrew G. Curtin.
Creator: Rea & Sharp engraver., creator
Date: [1866]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *Ph Pr - Gov't Buildings - I [5779.7]

Title: Home squad. Company A. Supplies Each member is required to equip himself with the articles enumerated, as follows: and to be ready in marching order when Jeff Davis crosses the Wire Bridge. ... N.B.--Each private that cannot pack the above things in his knapsack, will be obliged to furnish himself with a coal heaver's wheelbarrow, and to gather huckleberries on the road. Each article must be examined by the Pennsylvania State and Philadelphia City, Mouldy Provision, Hidey Coffee, Gill Net Blanket, and Pine Shaving Soled Shoe Committee. Headquarters, at the Feather Foundry, 4th of July and Plum Streets. By order of [blank]
Description: Facetious list of equipment and supplies required by Pennsylvania recruits., The illustration shows four comic figures., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1861?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Home 5786.F.65a (McAllister)

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