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Title: Chew's house, Germantown
Description: 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]

Title: Proposed stand pipe for Delware Water Works, Water Department, Philada
Description: 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]

Title: [Architectural drawing depicting a tower, possibly a standpipe for a Philadelphia water works]
Description: 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]

Title: Plan of Cresson's land in the 23d ward, Philadelphia
Description: Map showing the Cresson property and including Erie, Venango, Tioga, Ontario, F, G, H, and I Streets. Shows the border lines of the property in red ink. Several rectangles, probably symbolizing buildings, are depicted between G and H Streets and Venango Street. Beneath the map is an American flag on a pole., Title and date from item., Text written on recto: Established Curl heights at corners in red ink. Grade per 100 feet in blue. Surface heights in black., Stamped on the verso: Alfred Fitler, Conveyancer, Phila., Jan. 13, 1869., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2020.
Creator: Shallcross, Isaac, surveyor
Date: 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ***Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2022.62.3.20]

Title: Raising colored infant - ry
Description: Racist satiric print comprised of a watercolor drawing and a photograph showing a white man in civilian clothes feeding an African American doll. The man, attired in a white shirt, a black bowtie, a gray vest, gray pants, and black shoes, sits on a wooden chair and holds a spoon to the doll, costumed in a white layette gown. A bowl labeled "Bounty" is set upon a wooden chair in the left. A photograph cut-out of a head, presumably of a white commander of an African American regiment, rests on the drawn body of the man., Title from manuscript note written on the recto., Date inferred from content., Originally part of a McAllister Civil War scrapbook of humorous views and photographs. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Created postfreeze., 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.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Drawings & Watercolors - unidentified - R [5780.F.5c]

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