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Title: Athenaeum. [graphic] / John Notman, Archt.; On Stone by P.A. Nicholson.
Description: Location: Seventh Street, south of Walnut, opp. Washington Square., Frontispiece to the Thirty-Second Annual Report of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: Clark, 1847) and Address Delivered at the Opening of the New Hall of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia on Monday, October 18th, 1847, by Thomas I. Wharton, Esq. (Philadelphia: J.C. Clark, printer, 1847)., After a wash drawing by John Notman., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2014 and in Am 1847 Phi Ath 51463.0.2 (tinted) and in Am 1847 Wha 53378.O.16 (untinted). Both pamphlets are also included in Am 1845 Mick 71148.O (with variations in tinting).
Creator: Nicholson, Peter A. lithographer., creator
Date: 1847.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W021.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W21 [P.2014]

Title: Athenaeum
Description: View looking southwest showing the Italianate-style library building built 1845-1847 after the designs of John Notman at 219-221 South Sixth Street. Includes the adjoining building. Also shows trees behind a brick wall in the background. The Athenaeum was founded in 1814 to collect materials "connected with the history and antiquities of America, and the useful arts, and generally to disseminate useful knowledge" for the public benefit., Frontispiece to the Thirty-Second annual report of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: Clark, 1847) and Address delivered at the opening of the new hall of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia on Monday, October 18th, 1847, by Thomas I. Wharton, Esq. (Philadelphia: J.C. Clark, printer, 1847)., After an 1845 wash drawing by John Notman in the collections of the Athenaeum, Philadelphia, Pa., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 30, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2014 and in Am 1847 Phi Ath 51463.0.2 (tinted) and in Am 1847 Wha 53378.O.16 (untinted). Both pamphlets are also included in Am 1845 Mick 71148.O (with variations in tinting).
Creator: Nicholson, Peter A., artist
Date: 1847
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W21 [P.2014]

Title: General view of Laurel Hill Cemetery
Description: Bird's eye showing the grounds of the rural cemetery built 1836-1839 after the designs of John Notman at 3822 Ridge Avenue. Horse-drawn carriages and a hearse approach and horse-drawn wagons are parked in front of the main gate. Tombs, monuments, and a Gothic-style chapel line the landscaped grounds of the cemetery. Also shows residences on hillsides rising in the background., Frontispiece to Guide to Laurel Hill Cemetery, near Philadelphia (Philadelphia: For sale at the cemetery, and by the treasurer, etc.; C. Sherman, printer, 1844)., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 294.1, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.9830.6 and in *Am 1844 Phi Lau 11129.O., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Athenaeum of Philadelphia: General Prints Collection - PR318
Creator: Pinkerton, E. J., artist
Date: [1844]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W148.1 [P.9830.6]

Title: New Oddfellows Hall Philada. Dedicated 17 September 1846. Grand master of a grand lodge. Of I. O. of O. F. in full regalia
Description: View showing the four-story marble building built 1845-1846 after the designs of William L. Johnston at Sixth Street below Race Street. In the left foreground, an Odd Fellow grand master wearing a chin beard and attired in his apron and vest stands, resting his hat on his hip with one hand, and gesturing toward the building with his other. The Odd Fellows, a benevolent and charitable organization, was established in Philadelphia in 1821., Published as frontispiece in William Thompson's Odd Fellowship defended, containing the exposure of the false and malicious representations of an "expelled member" together with valuable statistics of the order. (Philadelphia: G. S. Harris, 1847), Philadelphia on Stone, POS 505.2, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Tt.* 649, vol. 1, Variant of Wainwright 248., October 18, 1957. Penrose fund.
Date: [1847]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania | Print Department | HSP at LCP HSP Tt.* 649, vol. 1

Title: Specimen of chromo-lith. from P.S. Duval & Co.'s lithographic establishment, drawing on stone plain & color printing, Ranstead Place, west from 26 South 4th Street, Phila
Description: Frontispiece advertising the Philadelphia lithographic studio of P.S. Duval, which received an 1849 Franklin Institute medal for advancement in chromolithography. Contains allegorical, patriotic, romantic, and art-themed iconography. Includes a female allegorical figure, wearing a liberty cap, who holds a cornucopia under one arm, and raises a laurel wreath with the other. She stands on an American shield covered by a sword, palette, book, architectural plan, globe, and mallet. Also shows the American eagle, floral details, and two cherubs entwined in a banner reading "E Pluribus Unum.", Published in Catalogue of the twenty-third exhibition of American manufactures... (Philadelphia: William S. Young, 1853), frontispiece., Printed lower right corner: (See Page 491)., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 84, Variant of illustration in Patent office report. Part 1. 1849. [P.2002.67.68]
Creator: Schussele, Christian, 1826?-1879, artist
Date: 1853, c1850
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1853 Exhib 14181.O .5.frontispiece

Title: Lucretia Mott
Description: Three-quarter length portrait of the Quaker abolitionist and reformer. Mott, attired in a white cap, a dark-colored, long-sleeved dress, and a white shawl, is seated on a wooden chair facing slightly left., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Published as frontispiece in The Liberty bell (Boston: Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Fair, 1844). (LCP Am 1844 Lib,68635.D)., Purchase 1976., 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., Sartain, the premier 19th-century Philadelphia portrait engraver, was also a member of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society.
Creator: Sartain, John, 1808-1897, engraver
Date: [1844]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait prints-M [8198.F.2]

Title: Lucretia Mott
Description: Three-quarter length portrait of the Quaker abolitionist and reformer. Mott, attired in a white cap, a dark-colored, long-sleeved dress, and a white shawl, is seated on a wooden chair facing slightly left., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Published as frontispiece in The Liberty bell (Boston: Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Fair, 1844). (LCP Am 1844 Lib 68635.D)., Accessioned after 1870 and before 1900., 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., Sartain, the premier 19th-century Philadelphia portrait engraver, was a member of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society.
Creator: Sartain, John, 1808-1897, engraver
Date: [1844]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait prints-M [1885.F.60]

Title: John G. Whittier
Description: Bust-length portrait of the poet, abolitionist, journalist, and editor of the abolitionist newspaper, the "Pennsylvania freeman." Whittier, attired in a white collared shirt, a white bowtie, and a black jacket, faces slightly right., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Printed below image: Truly thy friend, John G. Whittier., Published as frontispiece in John Greenleaf Whittier's Poems (Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey & Co., 1849). (LCP Am 1849 Whi, 12099.O)., 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: Warren, Asa Coolidge, 1819-1904, engraver
Date: [1849]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-W [P.8911.1051]

Title: Robt Adrain
Description: Half-length portrait of the mathematician, professor, and author. Adrain, attired in a white shirt and scholarly black robes, faces the viewer with his right hand on an open book. Adrain was born in Ireland and left due to his revolutionary beliefs. He taught at Queens College (later Rutgers), Columbia, and University of Pennsylvania where for a short while he was also Vice-Provost., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Appears in "The United States magazine and Democratic review" (June 1844), 24: frontis., Accessioned 1884., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Reason was an African American artist, engraver and lithographer working in New York City in the 1830s and 1840s.
Creator: Reason, Patrick Henry, 1816-1898, engraver
Date: [1844]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait prints - A [52551.O.13a]

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