In Philadelphia and its Manufactures . . . in 1857 (Philadelphia, 1859), 460., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Freedley.
Creator
Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886 lithographer., creator
Date
1859.
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W445-2.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W445.2
View looking east showing the State House at 520 Chestnut Street built 1732-1748 after the designs of Andrew Hamilton and Edmund Woolley. Includes the old City Hall built 1790-1791 after the designs of David Evans, Jr. (500 Chestnut) and Congress Hall built 1787-1789 (540-558 Chestnut). View also shows street and pedestrian traffic, including a conestoga wagon and the adjacent street corner., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 876, Gift of David Doret.
Date
[ca. 1855]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Government Buildings - S [P.2011.51.8]
Published in The Hibernia Fire Engine Company No.1 (Philadelphia: Printed by J. B. Chandler, 306 & 308 Chestnut St, 1859), page 109., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: in *Am 1859 Hibernia 11750.Q., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Creator
Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
Date
1859.
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W271.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W271 [*Am 1859 Hibernia 11750.Q]
Location: vicinity of Thirty-Fifth and Sycamore Streets., LCP exhibit catalogue: Made in America #77., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., See Poulson's scrapbook vol. VII, pg. 119 for clipping concerning the raising of the stand pipe dated December 15, 1853., Designed by the engineering firm of Birkinbine & Trotter.
Creator
Rease & Schell., creator
Date
ca. 1855.
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W351.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W351 [*P.2191]
Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Proprietors, Allmond & Stem. The hotel's address changed to 227 North Third Street in 1857.
Date
ca. 1855.
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W102.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W102 [P.2040]
Location: Old York Road, later 435-437 and Willow St., S.E. corner., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Date
[ca. 1855]
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W236.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W236 [P.2106]
Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Reproduced in Edwin Wolf's Philadelphia: Portrait of American City Philadelphia (Published by Camino Books in cooperation the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1990), page 199.
Date
[1848].
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W408.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W408 [P.2219]
Location: Twenty-first and Fairmount Avenue., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Date
1855.
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W401.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W401 [P.2216]
Location: 102-104, later 306-308 Chestnut Street., Imprint from duplicate printed in colors., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator
Luders, E., lithographer., creator
Date
ca. 1856.
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W159.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W159 [P.2079]
Published in Colton's atlas of America, illustrating the physical and political geography of North and South America... Commercial edition with business cards of prominent houses in Philadelphia. (New York: J.H. Colton and Company, 1856), page 77. (HSP O 458)., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc35 R588.
Creator
Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
Date
[1856]
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W211.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W211 [P.2139]
Published in Abraham Ritter's History of the Moravian Church in Philadelphia (Philadelphia: Published by Hayes & Zell,1857), opposite page 168., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.9830.8 and Am 1857 Rit 75004.0 and 14341.O., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Creator
Herline & Hensel., creator
Date
1857.
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W389.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W389 [P.9830.8]
Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 131 S149., Select link below for a digital image., Exterior view of the Roman-style German Catholic church, St. Peter the Apostle, built 1842-1847 at 1015 North Fifth Street after the designs of Napoleon Le Brun. Also shows pedestrian traffic, including two children holding hands.
Creator
Herline & Hensel., creator
Date
[ca. 1857]
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W096.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W96 [(5)1322.F.48a & 71a]
Illustration in Edwin T. Freedley's Philadelphia and its Manufactures (Philadelphia: Edward Young, 333 Walnut Street, 1858), opposite page 301., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Am 1858 Fre 67170.D., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Date
1857.
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W033-2.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W33.2 [Am 1858 Fre 67170.D]
Location: Twenty-first and Fairmount Avenue., Attributed to James Queen., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Membership certificate for the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons containing a view of Eastern State Penitentiary and a portrait of William White.
Creator
Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886 artist., creator
Date
ca. 1858.
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W396.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W396 [P.2214]
Frontispiece of the Thirtieth Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the House of Refuge (Philadelphia: Printed by Henry B. Ashmead, 1858) (LCP Am 1858 Phil Hou 14483.O.7), Originally part of Charles A. Poulson's scrapbook of illustrations of Philadelphia., Exterior view of department buildings including the girls' and boys' dormitories; girls' dining and sewing rooms; boys' school rooms; and the superintendent's rooms. The buildings, located between Parrish and Brown Streets between 22nd and 24th Streets, opened in 1850.
Date
[1858]
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W426.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W426 [(1)1525.F.41a]
Frontispiece to the Thirtieth Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the House of Refuge (Philadelphia: Printed by Henry B. Ashmead, 1858) (LCP Am 1858 Phil Hou 14483.O.7), Originally part of Charles A. Poulson's scrapbook of illustrations of Philadelphia., Poulson inscription on recto: Feby. 16_59_., Exterior view of department buildings including the girls'and boys' dormitories; girls' work and sitting room; boys' workshop; and the officers' rooms. The buildings, located between Parrish and Brown Streets between 22nd and 24th Streets, opened in 1850.
Date
[1858].
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W428.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W428 [(1)1525.F.41b]
Location: East bank Schuylkill, mile above Fairmount., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc88 N 874.
Creator
Scott, Thomas M., creator
Date
1852.
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W254.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W254 [P.2128]
Location: New Jersey Shore about two miles north of Camden., LCP exhibit catalogue: Made in America #72., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: Snider gift., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc03 Tl53., Gift of Jay Snider.
Creator
Scott, Thomas M., creator
Date
ca. 1852.
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W363.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W363 [Snider gift]
Copyrighted by Wm. Spink, Wm. Kneass & Philip R. Engarg., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc05 S917.
Creator
Chillas, David lithographer., creator
Date
c1853.
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W229.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W229 [P.2130]
Exterior view of department buildings, including the girls' and boys' dormitories; girls' dining and sewing rooms; boys' school rooms; and the superintendent's rooms. A tall brick wall surrounds the rear and sides of the complex of buildings. Two men and a boy convene on the grounds in the foreground. The buildings, located between Parrish and Brown Streets between 22nd and 24th Streets, opened in 1850. The House of Refuge opened in 1828 at 15th and Coates streets, i.e., the 1500 block of Fairmount Avenue. Boy and girl residents attended school and worked at a variety of employments, including book binding and shoe making (boys) and washing and cooking (girls)., Title from item., Frontispiece of the Thirtieth annual report of the Board of Managers of the House of Refuge (Philadelphia: Printed by Henry B. Ashmead, 1858) (LCP Am 1858 Phil Hou 14483.O.7), Philadelphia on Stone, POS 792, Originally part of Charles A. Poulson's scrapbook of illustrations of Philadelphia [(1)1525.F.41a]., Gift of Clarence Wolf, 2013 [P.2013.81.8]., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Date
[1858]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W426 [(1)1525.F.41a & P.2013.81.8]
Exterior view of department buildings including the girls'and boys' dormitories; girls' work and sitting room; boys' workshop; and the officers' rooms. The buildings, located between Parrish and Brown Streets between 22nd and 24th Streets, opened in 1850., Poulson inscription on recto: Feby. 16_59_., Frontispiece to the Thirtieth Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the House of Refuge (Philadelphia: Printed by Henry B. Ashmead, 1858) (LCP Am 1858 Phil Hou 14483.O.7), Philadelphia on Stone, POS 794, Originally part of Charles A. Poulson's scrapbook of illustrations of Philadelphia.
Date
[1858]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W428 [(1)1525.F.41b]
Exterior view of department buildings including the "Girls' Dormitories" (2nd and 1st class); "Girls' Work and Sitting room";"Officer's Rooms & Main Entrance"; and "Boys' Dormitories and "Workshop" (1st class). A few individuals utilize the grounds, including a man, seated and sketching in the presence of another man in the foreground. The buildings, located between Parrish and Brown Streets between 22nd and 24th Streets, opened in 1850., Printed on textile with "View of the Department for Coloured Children of the House of Refuge.", View also published as frontispiece to the Thirtieth annual report of the Board of Managers of the House of Refuge (Philadelphia: Printed by Henry B. Ashmead, 1858) (LCP Am 1858 Phil Hou 14483.O.7), Philadelphia on Stone, POS 794, LCP exhibit catalogue: Made in America #82.
Date
[1858]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W428 [7551.F]
Exterior view of department buildings, including the "Girls' Dormitories"; Girl's Dining and Sewing Rooms"; "Superts Rooms & Main Entrance"; "Boys' Dormitories"; and "Boy's School Rooms." A tall brick wall surrounds the rear and sides of the complex of buildings. Two men and a boy convene on the grounds in the foreground. The institution, located between Parrish and Brown Streets between 22nd and 24th Streets, opened in 1850. The House of Refuge opened in 1828 at 15th and Coates streets, i.e., the 1500 block of Fairmount Avenue. Boy and girl residents attended school and worked at a variety of employments, including book binding and shoe making (boys) and washing and cooking (girls)., Printed on textile with "View of the Department for White Children of the House of Refuge.", View also published as frontispiece of the Thirtieth annual report of the Board of Managers of the House of Refuge (Philadelphia: Printed by Henry B. Ashmead, 1858) (LCP Am 1858 Phil Hou 14483.O.7), Philadelphia on Stone, POS 792, Purchased 1966., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Date
[1858]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W426 [7551.F]
View of the main building and grounds showing female students reading, walking, and lounging on the grounds. Also shows a woman carrying a basket, accompanied by a young boy, strolling down a central path. Westtown was established in 1794 by the Society of Friends as a boarding school for boys and girls., Gift of Ken Leach., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 224, Westtown School Archives holds mutiple copies including variants with the imprint "Drawn on stone by John Collins," tinted and untinted.
Creator
Collins, John, 1814-1902, artist
Date
[ca. 1858]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Education [P.9428.5]
Exterior view of the Montgomery Female Seminary, established as a college exclusively for women in Freeland (now Collegeville) in Montgomery County in 1851. Incorporated as Pennsylvania Female College in 1853. Closed 1880. Sister school to Freeland Seminary for men, later Ursinus College., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 150, Friend & Aub was a partnership between Philadelphia lithographers Norman Friend and Jacob Aub formed ca. 1852.
Creator
Friend & Aub, lithographers
Date
ca. 1852
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Education [P.9192]
View of the "Pioneer" steam engine, the first steam engine commissioned by a Philadelphia fire company, completed in 1857 by Reaney, Neafie & Co. Engine is adorned with the makers plate dated 1856 and the name plate "Philadelphia No. 1". It is attached to a hose and a fire hydrant. Print also contains a simple border with geometric details. Philadelphia Hose Company was organized in 1803 and was also the first organization to utilize hoses of several hundred feet. By the mid-nineteenth century, the fire house was located at the southeast corner of Seventh and Filbert streets., Not in Wainwright., Date from Poulson inscription on recto., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 181, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 832 P 544
Creator
Heiss, George G.
Date
[April 1858]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Fires and Firefighting [P.8970.26]
View of the hand-powered Philadelphia-style fire engine of the United States Fire Company that operated from Wood Street above Fourth. A firefighter, in uniform, and holding a trumpet stands with his back to the viewer next to the engine. His cape is labeled "United States." Engine contains double decker end-stroke hand pumpers and is adorned with an eagle ornament and a decorated compressor. Compressor contains plate depicting an American eagle with shield and is marked John Agnew Philadelphia No. 372. Print also contains a border with geometric details., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 260
Creator
Heiss, George G.
Date
[ca. 1860]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Fires and Firefighting [P.8970.36]
View of the floating Episcopal church built 1849 after the designs of Dennington. Shows the church on pontoons in the Delaware harbor. A flag inscribed "Bethel" adorns the church steeple and parishioners, including a woman, stand on the deck and within the church entrance. A steamboat, rowboat, and docked ships are visible in the background. Also includes the names of the members of the building committee in the lower right corner. The church moored at the foot of Dock Street until reconsecrated to a New Jersey parish in 1853 and placed on a brick foundation. Building burned 1868., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 265, LCP exhibit catalogue: Made in America #73., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator
Wm. Endicott & Co.
Date
[ca. 1853]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Religion [P.9865]
Chaotic disaster scene showing the "Picnic Train Tragedy", the worst rail disaster at that time. Shows the burning wreck near Ambler, Pa. from the collision of North Pennsylvania excursion trains "Shakamoxon," departed from the Cohocksink depot, and "Aramingo" departed from the Wissahickon station. Burning tangled engines and train cars pile up on the single track line in the middle of farmland. People are propelled and jump from the burning railcars. In the foreground, bodies lay within the wreckage as rescuers rush in buckets of water. Others attempt to catch individuals jumping from a burning train car in the rear, carry children's bodies on a gurney, and comfort the grieving. In the lower left, a man wipes his face with a handkerchief as he stands over a legless body on a mattress. Nearby another man holds a body in his arms. Also contains the names of "The Killed" and "The Wounded" printed below the image as well as notice that "Many of the wounded are in a very precarious condition, and the death of several is hourly looked for." One train carried hundreds of children from St. Michael’s Roman Catholic Church Sunday School in Philadelphia. The crash occurred due to an attempt by the "Shakamoxon" engineer to make up time for its late departure. It collided with the regularly scheduled Aramingo, before arriving at a siding pass. The boilers of the trains collided and caused an explosion that decimated the front cars, but left the rear cars intact. Around 60 persons died and 100 were injured from the crash., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 191, Duplicate of 7663.Fa., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator
Magee, John L.
Date
c1856
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Disasters [P.8970.8]
View showing the new church building, built 1819 after the designs of master builder Joseph Worrel, near the original parsonnage on the 200 block of Race Street. Part of the front facade is visible behind a gate and courtyard extending between two dwellings situated in front of the church. Two men converse in front of one of the residences. Also shows Moravian Alley, i.e., N. Bread Street, and a partial view of a neighboring building in the right of the image. The building was sold in 1854 when the church relocated to a new building built 1855-1856 at Wood and Franklin Streets, Published in Abraham Ritter's History of the Moravian Church in Philadelphia (Philadelphia: Published by Hayes & Zell, 1857), opposite page 168., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 532, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.9830.8 and Am 1857 Rit 75004.0 and 14341.O., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Date
[1857]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W389 [P.9830.8]
View showing two outlandishly-attired members of the Philadelphia gang known as the "Killers" carousing on the street. One sits on a fire hydrant and the other leans against a lamp pole (posted with a "Sale" notice") at a street tenanted by a "Grocery" and adorned with broadsides. The men wear patterned pants, jackets with tails, oversized neck ties, and top hats. One also wears a pin adorned "K." They each have their hands in their pockets and smoke cigarettes. The grocery displays a barrel of brooms in addition to signs reading "Coffee Sugar Tea" and "Teas Coffee 5." The broadsides adorning the opposite building advertise "Auction this Evening" and "Circus The Old Man of the Mountain..... Dan Rice Clown." The playbill is illustrated with a scene of an equestrian trick. The "Killers," organized circa 1846, were a band of young men who menaced the Moyamensing neighborhood and were associated with the Moyamensing Hose Company and the Democratic Keystone Club., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: 1848., Wainwright suggests date of circa 1855., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 761, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Reproduced in Edwin Wolf's Philadelphia: Portrait of American city (Published by Camino Books in cooperation the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1990), page 199.
Date
[1848]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W408 [P.2219]
View showing the proposed design for a standpipe with an ornate spiral staircase and statute of George Washington to be erected at Thirty-Fifth and Sycamore streets as part of the Twenty Fourth Ward Water Works (i.e., West Philadelphia Water Works). Individuals gaze up at the stucture from its base as other men and women ascend the staircase and view the vista from the observation deck. Completed circa 1855, without the statue, after the designs of engineers Birkinbine & Trotter, the standpipe served as a reservoir for the waterworks located on the west bank of the Schuylkill River above the Fairmount Dam. The standpipe was removed in 1870., Manuscript note on recto: height 130 feet. diameter 5 ". Made of of B[?] iron., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 717, LCP exhibit catalogue: Made in America #77., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., See Poulson's scrapbook vol. VII, pg. 119 for clipping concerning the raising of the stand pipe dated December 15, 1853., Trimmed.
Creator
Rease & Schell, artist
Date
[ca. 1853]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W351 [P.2191]
Advertisement showing several marine vessels docked in front of the engine & boiler works complex at the busy river front. Teams of several horses haul materials on trucks past the boiler works. Laborers work on the docks, piers, and boats at the complex. Docked vessels include the tug boats, steamboats, paddleboats, and a sailboat. The firm established as Reaney, Neafie & Levy in 1844, specialized in iron boats and engines, and later steam fire engines. Reaney left the partnership to start his own shipyard in 1859. Neafie & Levy remained in operation until 1907., Published in The Hibernia Fire Engine Company No.1 (Philadelphia: Printed by J. B. Chandler, 306 & 308 Chestnut St, 1859), page 109., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 551, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: in *Am 1859 Hibernia 11750.Q., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Factories, etc.
Creator
Rease, W. H., lithographer
Date
1859
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W271 [*Am 1859 Hibernia 11750.Q]
Advertisement showing several marine vessels docked in front of the engine & boiler works complex at the busy river front. Complex contains several buildings, including a "boiler works," "iron foundry," "machine shop," and a "black smith shop." Teams of several horses haul materials on trucks past the boiler works. Laborers work on the docks, piers, and boats at the complex. Docked vessels include the tug boats, "Lion" and "Reliance," the steamboats "Carolina," "Edwin Forrest," and "Perseverance," along with paddleboats and a sailboat. Two men in a dory pull a spar marked F.H.S. The firm established as Reaney, Neafie & Levy in 1844, specialized in iron boats and engines, and later steam fire engines. Reaney left the partnership to start his own shipyard in 1859. Neafie & Levy remained in operation until 1907., Artist's initials printed on stone as part of the image., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 552, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc38 R288. HSP copy in color.
Creator
Rease, W. H., artist
Date
[ca. 1854]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W272 [P.2127]
Exterior view showing the Roman-Corinthian-style Catholic cathedral built 1846-1864 after the designs of Napoleon Le Brun (interior) and John Notman (exterior) on Eighteenth Street, north of Race Street. Contains four columns at the entrance, four niches adorned with statuary on the front elevation, two small spires, and a large dome to the rear of the building. A small number of people stand in front of the sanctuary - a woman with child, two boys, two men, and a couple. Bushes and trees flank the building., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 86, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Date
[ca. 1859]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W41 [P.9093]
![West Philadelphia Manufacturing Cos. starch & farina works. Chestnut & Bridgewater Streets, Philadelphia. Refined pearl starch & corn farina. [graphic] / James Queen.](https://digital.librarycompany.org/sites/default/files/islandora_default_thumbs/replace_icons/prints_icon.png){kind=icon}