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Title: Outline of the monument to liberty to be erected in Independence Square, Philadelphia
Description: View showing an unexecuted monument commissioned by the citizen's group National Commemoration Monument Association and designed by sculptor William Wetmore Story for the re-landscaping of the square for the Centennial celebration of 1876. Shows the figure of Liberty standing upon a column adorned with female allegorical figures; an eagle encircled by stars; fearsome animal heads; and floral ornaments. The monument was to be placed in the center of the square at the intersection of the main paths. In 1876, the committee asked to and was allowed to be released from a city ordinance, passed in March 1875, that required them to raise $50,000 for the erection of the monument and the project effort apparently dissolved., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 534
Creator: Hunter, Thomas, lithographer
Date: 1875
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Monuments and statues - L [(3)1322.F.27c]

Title: St. Francis Xavier's Church. Philadelphia, Penna Rev. James Maginn, Pastor
Description: View showing the Roman Catholic church at Twenty-fifth and Biddle Streets (i.e., Buttonwood Street) below the Fairmount Waterworks Basin in Fairmount. Church contains a dome and bell tower. Also shows an adjacent four-story rectory building, convent, or school. Building contains an attached covered shed. Trees line the church properties. Street and pedestrian traffic includes individuals crossing the street, strolling on the sidewalk, and a horse-drawn carriage with passengers. Rev. Maginn was appointed pastor in 1863. The church relocated to a new building at 24th and Green streets in 1898 with the Philadelphia Museum of Art erected at the prior location., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 232, PAHRC: Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. Francis Xavier's Church
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center. | Graphics Collection. PAHRC Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. Francis Xavier's Church

Title: St. James Church. West Philada Rev. F. P. O'Neill, Pastor
Description: View showing the stone edifice of St. James Church, the church's first building, constructed in 1851 after the designs of John T. Mahoney at the southeast corner of Thirty-eighth and Chestnut Streets and two adjacent structures, possibly the church rectory and orphans' home. Shows pedestrians promenading on the sidewalks, including two women walking arm-in-arm along Thirty-eighth Street in the foreground. Also depicts a horse-drawn Chestnut-Walnut Street car travelling west along Chestnut Street. Reverend Francis P. O'Neill served as pastor of the church from 1875 until his death in 1882. Structure demolished in the summer of 1881 for the erection of the Gothic Revival church designed by Edwin F. Durang., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 233, PAHRC: Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. James Church
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center. | Graphics Collection. PAHRC Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. James Church

Title: Church of St. Philip Neri. Philadelphia, Penna Rev. N. Cantwell, Pastor
Description: View showing the Roman Catholic church built in 1840 after designs by architect Eugene Napoleon Le Brun. View includes two horse-drawn coaches travelling Queen Street, pedestrians promenading, and a church rectory or convent building immediately west of the church building. Damaged during the Nativist Riots in the spring of 1844, the church maintained most of its original appearance. Reverend Nicholas Cantwell served as pastor of the church from 1845 until his death in 1899., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 37, PAHRC: Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. Philip Neri
Creator: Packard, Herbert S., 1850-1912, artist
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center. | Graphics Collection. PAHRC Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. Philip Neri

Title: Pratts house now Fairmount Park
Description: View looking from the bank of the Schuylkill River showing the mansion built circa 1799 for Henry Pratt known as Lemon Hill in the distance. Also shows men fishing from the riverbank and a rowboat sailing across the Schuylkill., Title from manuscript note on recto., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 624, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Philadelphia on Stone
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Parks and Squares - F [(3)1322.F.130b]

Title: Res. and grist mill of Anthony S. Morris
Description: View showing the residence and mill in Pemberton, N.J. purchased by Morris in 1864. A lady walks on a path leading to the elegant residence that is surrounded by trees and an iron wrought fence. In front of the house, men, one with a sack on his shoulder, walk on the sidewalk. To the left of the dwelling, two horse-drawn carts are parked in front of the two and one half story grist mill. Two men converse at the entrance. Other wagons approach and depart from a stone raceway over the creek next to the mill. Ducks glide on the pond visible in the foreground. Also shows a small fountain next between the residence and mill., Not in Wainwright., pdcp00013, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Mills
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - Mills

Title: Girard House
Description: Vignette view of the Girard House hotel built 1851-1852 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr., at 823-835 Chestnut Street. Pedestrians walk at the street corner near the hotel while a horse-drawn carriage and omnibus travel near a coach parked in front of the building., Not in Wainwright., Date from manuscript note on recto: Philada. 1872., pdcp00006, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana – Streets – Chestnut - 8th-9th
Date: 1872
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - Streets - Chestnut - 8th-9th

Title: Res. of Dr. C.J. Snavely, South Prussian St. Manheim. Birth Place of General John Heintzleman
Description: Atlas illustration containing a view of the residence with covered porch and fenced yard in Lancaster County, Pa. An evergreen tree is visible in the yard and a man stands in the doorway of an “office” attached to the dwelling. Also shows a man walking on sidewalk., Manuscript note on recto: K.S.P., Not in Wainwright., Published in New Historical Atlas of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: Everts & Stewart, 1875), pl. 26., pdcc00014, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 38:33
Date: [1875]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Photograph Collection. FLP Castner 38:33

Title: In park at Philadelphia
Description: Print containing 4 titled views of landscapes in Fairmount Park. Includes "Near Fountain Green"; "Near Columbia Bridge" (2 views); and "On Wissahickon." All the images include trees and rock formations. Three include one or more park visitors. Fountain Green, built around 1781, was the estate near the Schuylkill River (East Fairmount Park) originally settled by John Mifflin around 1679. It became a tavern and picnic site for Engel and Wolf Brewery around 1849. The mansion was torn down in 1871. "Near Columbia Bridge" views do not contain the Columbia Railroad Bridge, one of the oldest railroad bridges in the United States, completed in 1834., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 373, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 18 K 81, Includes registration mark., Kollner advertised in 1878 four volumes of small folio pictures, including "Bits of Nature and Some Art Products, in Fairmount Park ..." Several of the lithographs from this volume were based on sketches he executed in the 1840s.
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813, artist
Date: [ca. 1878]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 18 K 81

Title: Stewart's fat steer The largest steer in Pennsylvania is a Roan Durham, 6 years old, weighs 4000 lbs. and is owned by T. Seitz of Cumberland Co. Length. 10ft 11 in. Height 6 ft. 3 in. Round the girth. 9 ft. 11 1/2 in. Round the kidneys, 9 ft. 10 in. round the breast, 9 ft. 9 in. Across the rump, 3 ft
Description: Animal portrait showing the flank side of the humongous steer. The beast stands in a fenced pasture in front of a man, possibly his owner. The steer's head and neck obstruct the view of the man's mid-section., Not in Wainwright., Copyrighted by Wm. Leeds., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 244, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 65 C 368, Duval and Hunter was a partnership between Stephen Orr Duval (P.S. Duval’s son) and Thomas Hunter that lasted from P.S. Duval’s retirement in 1869 until 1874., Varnished.
Date: c1874
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 65 C 368

Title: Bits of nature and some art products
Description: Landscape views showing "At South Laurel Hill"; "East of Columbia Bridge"; and "West of Wire Bridge (1842)" in Fairmount Park. Includes a mule driver in front of a hotel, possibly the Upper Ferry Tavern, near the bridge; park visitors; vessels on the Schuylkill River; rock formations; trees; and a cascading brook. The Wire Bridge at Fairmount, the first suspension bridge in the United States, was built from 1841-1842 after the designs of engineer Charles Ellet, Jr. It was removed in 1874., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 56a, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 61 K 8346.85, Kollner advertised in 1878 four volumes of small folio pictures, including "Bits of Nature and Some Art Products, in Fairmount Park ..." Several of the lithographs from this volume were based on sketches he executed in the 1840s.
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813, artist
Date: [1878]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 61 K 8346.85

Title: In Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Landscape views showing "Belmont Prospect (1848)"; "Above Girard Bridge East"; and "Above Columbia Bridge." Includes a man on horseback approaching the residence, on the plateau, at Belmont, the former estate of Judge Richard Peters; a distant view of the Columbia Bridge (completed 1834) across the Schuylkill River; park visitors; cliffs; rock formations; and trees. Belmont was the country seat of Peters until his death in 1828., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 372a, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 61 K 8346.86, Kollner advertised in 1878 four volumes of small folio pictures, including "Bits of Nature and Some Art Products, in Fairmount Park ..." Several of the lithographs from this volume were based on sketches he executed in the 1840s.
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813, artist
Date: [ca. 1878]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 61 K 8346.86

Title: [In Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: Landscape views showing "Below Girard Bridge, East"; "East of Girard Bridge (1857)"; and "Ravine near Reservoir East." Views contain a horse-drawn wagon and man on horseback crossing the Old Girard Avenue Bridge; park visitors, including children; vessels on the Schuylkill River; rock formations; and trees. The old Girard Avenue Bridge was built in 1855 and razed in 1871., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 372, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 61 K 8346.87, Kollner advertised in 1878 four volumes of small folio pictures, including "Bits of Nature and Some Art Products, in Fairmount Park ..." Several of the lithographs from this volume were based on sketches he executed in the 1840s.
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813, artist
Date: [ca. 1878]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 61 K 8346.87

Title: St. Augustine's Church. Philadelphia, Penna
Description: View showing the second edifice of the Roman Catholic church built 1848-1849 after the designs of Napoleon Le Brun at 260-262 North Fourth Street. Building contains the steeple added in 1867 after the designs of Edwin F. Durang. Neighboring residences, a business adorned with an awning, and the church cemetery are visible adjacent to St. Augustine's. In front of the church, pedestrians, including a mother and child, stroll; a newsboy runs toward a parked carriage; and a man crosses the street. Also shows a fire hydrant, street lamps, and the church property protected by an ironwork fence and stone wall with doorway., Not in Wainwright., Contains inset titled "St. Augustine's School and Parochial Residence, E.F. Durang, Arch't." Shows the three-story school rebuilt in 1870 and the adjoining parochial residence on the north side of the church. Includes light pedestrian traffic., Reproduction of print published as frontispiece to Rev. Francis X. McGowan, ed., Historical Sketch of St. Augustine's Church, Philadelphia, Pa. 1796-1896 (Philadelphia: Published by the Augustinian Fathers, 1896), Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 230, PAHRC: Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. Augustine's
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center. | Graphics Collection. PAHRC Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. Augustine's

Title: St. Bonifacius Church. Norris Square Philadelphia, Penna
Description: View showing the Roman Catholic church, also known as St. Boniface, built 1868-1872 at Diamond and North Hancock streets in Kensington. St. Boniface School stands adjacent to the church. An American flag adorns the roof. Pedestrians walk and greet one another on the sidewalk in front of the church and on the opposite side of the street in front of Norris Square. Two gentlemen cross the street near a parked carriage and another transporting two ladies. Iron work fences line the church and square in which trees are visible., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 231, PAHRC: Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. Bonifacius
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center. | Graphics Collection. PAHRC Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. Bonifacius

Title: Church of St. Edward the Confessor Philadelphia, Penna Rev. P. F. Sullivan pastor
Description: View showing the Roman Catholic Church at 2401-2427 North 8th Street built as an Episcopal church and bought by the Archdiocese for the parish established in 1865. Also shows the adjacent church school. The church, which does not contain a tower, and school are surrounded by a yard with trees that is protected by a picket fence. A few pedestrians, including a woman and child, walk on the sidewalk in front of the property. Rev. P. F. Sullivan assumed the pastorship of the church in 1873. A cornerstone for a new church was laid in 1883., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 36, PAHRC: Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Church of St. Edward the Confessor
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center. | Graphics Collection. PAHRC Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Church of St. Edward the Confessor

Title: This is to certify that [blank] has attended [blank] course[s] on practical anatomy in the University of Pennsylvania during the winter[s] of [blank]. [Blank], Professor of Anatomy. [Blank], Demonstrator
Description: Course certificate from the University of Pennsylvania containing a portrait of the physician and founder of modern human anatomy, Andreas Vesalius, above the text. Vesalius stands and places his left hand on the arm of the corpse of a man laid on the table in the right. His right hand moves to grasp a scalpel on the table in the left. Books and papers, surgical instruments, and a human skull are visible around the room. A crucifix hangs on the wall., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Completed in manuscript to J.B. McAlister for two courses during the winters of “84-85=85-86” and signed by Joseph Leidy, M.D., Professor of Anatomy and John B. Deaver, M.D., Demonstrator., Image caption: Vesalius., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Bigot, Alphonse, approximately 1828-1872 or 1873, artist
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Prints [P.2019.64.37]

Title: State Asylum for the Insane, Morristown, New Jersey
Description: Print depicting an exterior view of the State Asylum for the Insane built in 1876 after the designs of architect Samuel Sloan in Morristown, New Jersey. Shows the sprawling 673,700 square foot building with three water fountains in the front. People walk around the grounds, which has walkways and trees. In the right background, a train travels down the railroad tracks. The institution's name has changed over the years: State Asylum for the Insane at Morristown (1876-1893); New Jersey State Hospital at Morris Plains (1894 - 1924); and New Jersey State Hospital at Greystone Park (1925 - 2008). It was also known as Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Copyright, 1875, by Samuel Sloan., Gift of David Doret, 2011.
Creator: Hunter, Thomas, approximately 1828-approximately 1894, lithographer
Date: 1875
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ** GC - Hospitals [P.2011.45.2]

Title: Sharples homestead
Description: Historical view showing the over 200-acre West Chester homestead, including a residence, barn, and outbuilding at 22 Dean Street. In the foreground, cows graze near a boy whittling while seated on a log. Lombardy poplars surround the residence in the background. The original log residence built before 1750 was removed and replaced about 1802, and the depicted barn was destroyed by lightning before the Civil War., Title from manuscript written on recto., Date inferred from content., Possibly printed by West Chester printer and younger brother to Martha Sharples Robert P. Sharples., Gift of David Doret., Library Company of Philadelphia Annual Report 2010, p. 73-74., Martha Sharples (b. 1852), daughter of coal and lumber dealer S. Emlen Sharples, worked as a teacher in 1870 and studied at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women 1877-1878. She also was a member of the Chester County Historical Society.
Creator: Sharples, Martha, b. 1852, artist
Date: [1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Residences - Sharples [P.2010.21.1]

Title: Independence Hall in 1876
Description: Busy street view showing Independence Hall built 1732-1748 after the designs of Andrew Hamilton and Edmund Woolley at 520 Chestnut Street. Also shows the old City Hall built 1790-1791 after the designs of David Evans (500 Chestnut) and Congress Hall built 1787-1789 (540-558 Chestnut). Pedestrians and horse-drawn vehicles, including a woman pushing a baby carriage, wagons, carriages, and street cars, congest the sidewalks and roadway. Trees line the sidewalk and a large American flag adorns Independence Hall., Title from item., Date inferred from title., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 880, Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Government Buildings [P.2010.6.30]

Title: Cunningham & Hill, 204 Church Street, Philadelphia. Flags and shields of all nations and sizes, gas jets of any device or design, banners and silk flags for inside decoration
Description: Advertisement issued during the Centennial Exhibition 1876 for the upholstery manufacturers and dealers containing illustrations of 5 different styles of patriotic bunting and an exterior view of a residence adorned with bunting and commemorative window shades. Illustrations depict bunting designs composed of shields, flags (including America, France, Great Britain), swaths of fabric, panels, and fringes. One design includes shield with portrait of George Washington. Section of advertisement also includes a design for lettering reading "1776 Union 1876" complemented by the figure of an eagle. View of residence shows a three-story mansard-roofed building with a portico entrance. The name and address of Cunningham & Hill are printed over and within the illustrations. Cunningham & Hill, the partnership between William B. Cunningham & Philip Hill, operated between circa 1871 and 1876 when the partnership dissolved., Advertising text printed below image: We would respectfully call your attention to the above illustration of store and house decoration, and advise those who attend decorating to do so at their earliest convenience to avoid a rush, which will be inevitable. Our shields are made of papier-mache, and can be exposed to all weathers, and can easily be attached to any window with out patent group-socket for five flags, making a beautiful group. Manufactured wholesale and retail., POSP 285
Date: [1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Centennial [P.2011.53]

Title: Fairmount Machine Works, office, 2106 Wood Street, Philadelphia, Penna Thomas Wood, manufactures as specialties, power looms, with improved box and pattern machines. Bobbin winding, spooling, beaming, dye & sizing machines. Self-acting wool scouring machines (Yewdall's patent.) Improved power hoisting machines, lard and paraffine [sic] oil presses. Wall paper machinery, such as grounding, clay and color mixing machines, paper rolling and bundling machines
Description: Advertisement for the machine manufacturer containing a series of vignettes and descriptions of company products. Shows power looms; a "dye frame for dying six warps"; a "30 spindle bobbin winding machine"; "vertical cone & cradle indigo mills, for crushing indigo, etc."; "new style' beaming machines"; and couplings, post hangers, pulleys, and a pillow block. Also contains a chart of "Change Pinions for Regulating the number of Picks on Goods, with Positive Take-up Motion" and advertising text about shafting, gearing, and pulleys. Fairmount Machine Works was established in 1839 by John and Thomas Wood as a manufactory of power looms and other textile machinery., Various artists including Rea & Sharp, Klein, and Longacre Co., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 233
Creator: Longacre & Co.
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Industries - F [P.2004.43]

Title: London Mfg. Co. essences of meats, 77 & 79 Varick Street, New York
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a girl wearing a bonnet embellished with flowers and wrapped in large bow under her chin., Advertising text promoting essences of meat (beef, mutton, and chicken) for invalids, dyspeptics, infants, in cases of sea sickness and after child-birth printed on verso with the London Manufacturing Company's trademark symbol., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - London [1975.F.500]

Title: Pancoast & Maule, 243 & 245 South Third St., Philadelphia
Description: Trade card die cut and shaped into a pipe thread. Pancoast & Maule was formed by Henry B. Pancoast and Francis I. Maule in Philadelphia., List of available tubes, pipes, radiators, gauges, tools and supplies printed in two columns on verso., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Pancoast [P.9788]

Title: Henry Tolman, dealier in railway, machinists', engineers' and general supplies, also machinery and tools, No. [228] Arch Street, Philadelphia
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting metal hardware flanking the title., Title annotated to No. 228 Arch Street from No. 116 Arch Street., Manuscript note on verso: Office hours 12 to 26c., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Tolman [P.2006.20.63]

Title: Thos. Thompson, Sons & Co., manufacturers and importers of upholstery materials, curtains, decorations and novelties. Retail department, Nos. 1430 and 1432 Chestnut Street, (Young Men's Christian Association building.), Philadelphia Thos. M. Thompson. Lewis A. Thompson. Wholesale department, 242 South Second Street. Presented by R.M. Morrell
Description: Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Thompson [P.2006.20.45]

Title: Bought of William A. Whittem, apothecary, dealer in segars, stationery &c. Opposite rail road depot Established 1875
Description: Billhead of the Philadelphia druggist containing block lettering and pictorial details including ribbons, filigree, and flourishes., Completed in manuscript to A. W. Kelsey on October 1, 1893 for several items, including "Apollinaire's Pt," eye shade, Pears soap, camphor, rubber bands, tooth brushes, and dental floss, for $24.07., Stamped on recto: Paid Oct 3 1893 Wm. A. Whittem, per F.R., Printed above image: No toilet is complete without a bottle of Whittem's Rosemary and Catharidine Hair Tonic. It is Refreshing, Cleaning, and Invigorating., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - Billheads 1880- (S-Z) - W [P.2011.46.426]

Title: [Ruins]
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting ruins and overgrown grass., Title supplied by cataloger., List of artists printed on verso in three columns., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Misc [1975.F.407b]

Title: Vell here is to mine healt, long may I live and prosper! L. H. Rogers, booksellers & stationer and picture frame manufacturer, No. 317 DeKalb Street, Norristown, Pa
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting an older man raising a full mug of beer and toasting to his health., Advertising text printed on verso: Headquarters for holiday goods will be at L.H. Rogers, no. 17 DeKalb St., 3 doors ab. Main St., Norristown, Pa., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of John H. Serembus., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Rogers [P.2005.30.2]

Title: Cedar Hollow Lime Company. Depot 900 Jefferson Street
Description: Billhead containing a view of the lime-kilns captioned "Cedar Hollow. Chester County." Shows workers busy at work around the smoking kilns and flats of lime. Men labor in the quarry across from the kilns and haul lime by horse-drawn cart. The company established in 1855 was purchased by the Charles Warner Company in 1899., Completed in manuscript to Mr. Adam Waldner Bros. on June 29, 1885 for "1 Whole lime 19 1/2 Bus. Whole $1.00" -26 [cents]: $60., Manuscript note on recto: Augt 7/85 Received Payment, check by mail. Cedar Hollow Lime Co. Fm W.H. Laurie. Please accept our thanks!, Contains punched whole in center., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Receipts [P.2011.10.128]

Title: Robert Reid, machinist, 42, 44 & 46 E. Canal Street, below Front, Philadelphia, Pa Maker of steam engines, shafting, pulleys, hangers, boxes, punching presses, dies, punches, shears & cutters. Gear cutting up to six feet diameter. Also, maker of F. & R. Reid's celebrated patent corn crusher. Jobbing promptly attended to
Description: Robert Reid relocated his machinist shop to 71 East Laurel Street in 1886., Manuscript note written diagonally across recto: Removed to 71 East Laurel St., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized., Craig, Finley & Co., the partnership between William Craig, James G. Finley and James Ferguson, Jr., relocated to 1018/1020 Arch Street in 1875.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Reid [P.2006.20.36]

Title: Edward Waldmayer, show card, sign, and ornamental painter, [No. 8 So. 5th St., below Mkt], Philadelphia Lettering in all its branches, oil cloth signs, transparencies, banners, etc
Description: Title in brackets annotated. Address printed as: 28 South Fourth St., below Market., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Waldmayer [P.2006.20.11]

Title: Dr. Leidy's san-guin'e-ous sarsparilla panacea vegetable compound Prepared only by Dr. Leidy National dispensary, No. 217 N. 6th Street, Philadelphia, Penna
Description: Label for druggist and patent medicine dealer Dr. N. B. Leidy. Comprised of three sections within ornamented borders. Front section includes a vignette portrait of Leidy and directions for use. Side sections include promotional text and names of professional endorsers. Leidy operated a drug dispensary from the 1840s to late 19th century. Leidy operated from North Sixth Street by 1880., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Ephemera Collection - Misc. [P.2010.37.90]

Title: Henry Hill, Philadelphia agent, William Penn Hotel, 38th and Market Sts The Lewis hand fire extinguisher endorsed by the most eminent fire authorities. Extensively introduced in New York, Chicago, and throughout the eastern states
Description: Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Lewis [P.2006.20.33]

Title: Ph. J. Lauber's restaurant, Centennial grounds, near Horticultural Hall
Description: Illustration on recto depicts a bird's eye view of Lauber's restaurant on the Centennial grounds in West Fairmount Park in Philadelphia. Includes pedestrians and horse-drawn coaches in the foreground. The Cenntenial, held in 1876, celebrated America’s one-hundredth anniversary of independence and showcased the strengths of the country’s industry, manufactures, agriculture, and art., Left vignette on verso shows three buildings comprising the Philip J. Lauber liquor and restaurant business at 24-26 South Fifth Street. The buildings, adorned with signage, include left to right: "Ph. Lauber Beer & Ale"; "Ph. Lauber Importer of Wines"; and "Ph. Lauber Restaurant" (partial view). Image also shows heavy street and pedestrian traffic. Men congregate at the doorway of the wine shop at which a horse-drawn cart loaded with wine barrels departs. A carriage, horse-drawn dray, men on horseback, and pedestrians travel in the street. Lauber added a restaurant to his business on Fifth Street circa 1877. Right vignette on verso depicts cherubs eating grapes and drinking bottles of wine on a mantelpiece surrounded by vinery and greenery., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Lauber [5758.F.11c]

Title: Dealers in Toffler's patented round, square & flat rolling wood matting adapted and in use for railroad and street cars, hotels, saloons, stores, markets, bath rooms, water closets, &c. &c. [over]
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting rolling wood matting on the floor bordering an ornate bar., Advertising text printed on verso: J. Kile & Co. 450 N. Twelfth St., Philadelphia. Wood turning, sawing, planing and cabinet mill, hotel, saloon, store & office fixtures, bars, bar rails, foot rests, counters, tables, beer backs, shelving, &c. Tile floors, plumbing, mirror plates, &c., furnished. Newel posts, balusters, hand rails, mouldings, &c. J. Cross, manager., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Kile [P.2006.20.32]

Title: King Iron Bridge & Manufacturing Co., Cleveland, Ohio
Description: View of "Bridge at Centennial grounds, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia" depicting pedestrians promenading and horse-drawn carriages and coaches traveling along the 210-foot iron bridge in the foreground and Horticultural Hall, designed by Hermann J. Schwarzmann, in the background. The Cenntenial, held in 1876, celebrated America’s one-hundredth anniversary of independence and showcased the strengths of the country’s industry, manufactures, agriculture, and art., View of "Bridge at Fremont, Ohio, built for Ohio State Board of Public Works" depicting pedestrians walking and horse-drawn carriages and drays traveling the State Street Bridge (built in 1878) crossing the Sandusky River in Fremont, Ohio. Includes buildings on the banks of the river flanking the bridge in the background., Advertising text printed on recto: Manufacturers of Z. Kings, patent tubular arch bridge and all kinds of wrought iron bridges., Advertising text printed on verso: Manufacturers of arch bridges, truss bridges, swing bridges, turntables, jail cells and all kinds of wrought iron bridges., Distributor's name and address annotated on recto and verso from "Chas. E. King, agent, 79 Water Street, Boston, Mass." to "Chas. E. King, ag't, Wakefield, Mass.", Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1878]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - King [P.2002.9.1]

Title: No rewashing - always uniform. Kirk's blue India soap. No blueing required when this soap is used
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting an elephant on recto and verso. James S. Kirk & Co., the manufacturers of Kirk's blue India soap, relocated to Chicago, Illinois from Utica, New York in 1859., Trimmed down to shape of elephant and grass., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Kirk's [P.9993.1]

Title: Geo. W. Nock, locksmith, bell hanger and silver plater, 142 N. Fourth Street, Philadelphia All kinds of Brass and Light Iron Work done to order
Description: Trade card containing a comic view titled "We've Had a D__L Of A Time." Shows a well-dressed woman entering a disheveled room containing a parrot and monkey. The parrot greets the woman next to his overturned cage and in front of a rumpled bed on which a monkey sits. Debris covers the floor near an overturned chair and a broken mirror barely hangs from the wall. Also contains a "Business Directory" of twenty-one "Names and Address of Reliable Business men of Philadelphia, Pa." on verso. Businesses include Nock, as well as Columbia Laundry; J. D. Madden, Plumber & Gas Fitter; and C. F. Zimmerman, Musical Instruments., Printed on recto: Over., Copyrighted by H. Mellins in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D.C., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: c1874
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.41]

Title: Philadelphia Machinery Company, 1819 to 1827 Montgomery Ave., Philadelphia, Penna Exclusively manufacture of patented specialties. Dan'l Mills, president. Jas. M. Dalton, sec'y & treas
Description: Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Philadelphia [P.2006.20.39]

Title: Joel S. Perkins, No. 120 Market Street, Philadelphia Manufacturers' and machinists' supplies. Oak leather belting, rubber belting, hose, &c., packing, all kinds, lace, picker, and roller leather, card clothing
Description: Price list for leather belting printed in two columns on verso., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Perkins [P.2006.20.35]

Title: James P. Wood & Co., manufacturers of improved apparatus for steam heating, (high and low pressure,) ranges, cooking apparatus, &c. Gas lighting, for public buildings, dwellings and towns. Ventilating, by automatic action, steam or power fans. 39 South Fourth Street, Philadelphia T. Van Kannel, Manager Gas Department
Description: Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade cards - Wood [P.2006.20.49]

Title: Zindgraf & Hohenadel, 215 Race Street, Philadelphia, Pa Machinists, millwrights, steam engine builders and mill stone manufacturers, contractors for the building of paper, flour, malt and saw mills, breweries, paint, drug and chemical works, portable mills & hoisting machines, also patent paint mills, smut machines, mill bushes, conveyors, elevators and belting. Machinery of every description on hand and made to order. Also agents for the celebrated Niagara steam pump. All orders for jobbing, forging, &c., will be promptly attended to at reasonable rates. George P. Zindgraf, John Hohenadel, Jr
Description: Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Zindgraf [P.9798.6]

Title: The Weston and Wells Manufacturing Company. Office 123 South Second Street, Philadelphia, Pa Platted and braided cylindrical wire goods
Description: Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Weston [P.2006.20.48]

Title: Machinery Hall. Centennial International Exhibition
Description: Trade card issued preceding the Centennial Exhibition of 1876 advertising New York publishers Nelson & Phillips. Depicts the hall to be built after designs by Henry Pettit and Joseph M. Wilson. Several individuals promenade on the grounds. The centennial of the United States was celebrated through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art in West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, May 10-November 10, 1876., Advertising text printed on verso: 1875. Holidays! 1876. We would respectfully call your attention to our complete assortment of Holiday Goods suitable for Presents, consisting of Books, Photograph Albums, Authograph Albums, Bible, Pocket-Books. Stationery, Scrap-books, Book-Marks, Christmas Cards, Mottoes, Christmas Boxes, And a complete outfit for Christmas Trees of our own importations. We would call your attention to our Fancy Boxes, of which we have the most complete assortment in the city, at prices to suit all, ranging from $6 to $25 per 100. Please call and examine our samples. Nelson & Phillips. 805 Broadway, New York., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Michael Zinman.
Date: [1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection - Trade cards [P.2008.36.101]

Title: [Collecting cards depicting Centennial Exhibition buildings]
Description: Series of cards depicting Centennial Exhibition buildings. Includes U.S Government Building, Machinery Hall, Ladies Pavilion, Centennial Art Gallery, Agricultural Hall, and Main Exhibition Building. Also contains views of "Original Independence Hall, 1776" and "New Masonic Temple, Philadelphia, 1876." Images of exhibition buildings include length and width measurements. Majority of the buildings were built after the designs of Herman Schwartzmann, Henry Pettit and Joseph M. Wilson. The centennial of the United States was celebrated through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art in West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia., Title supplied by cataloger., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Michael Zinman.
Date: [1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection - Trade cards [P.2008.36.90-97]

Title: Memorial Hall. International Exhibition. Length 365 ft. Width 210 ft
Description: Trade card issued during the Centennial Exhibition advertising Philadelphia glass manufacturer and dealer Benjamin H. Shoemaker. Depicts the Art Gallery or Memorial Hall designed by Herman Schwartzmann. Pedestrians and a couple on horseback travel the grounds. The centennial of the United States was celebrated through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art in West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. Shoemaker established his glass manufactory in 1855 following his partnering with his brother Robert in a drug concern., Advertising text printed on verso: Compagnies Des Manufactures des Glaces. De St. Gobain, Chauny & Cirey. France. Manufacturers of plate glass and looking glass plates. General Depot of French & Belgian Plate Glass, Nos. 22, 24, & 26 Howard St., New York. Benjamin H. Shoemaker, Nos. 205 & 207 North Fourth St., Philadelphia., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Michael Zinman.
Date: [1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection - Trade cards [P.2008.36.99]

Title: Harrisburg Nail Works, Henry McCormick, treasurer Direct connections with W.U. telegraph lines. P.O. address, Harrisburg, Pa. Works at Fairview N.C.R.W
Description: Trade card containing a view of the works erected in 1810 along the Conodoguinet Creek. A boat travels on the creek. The mill was dismantled in the 1910s., "Regular Card of Extras on Nails, as adopted by Atlantic States Association of Nail Manufacturers, August 6th, 1874" and "Standard Lengths of Nails as fixed by National Association" printed on verso. Includes prices for common cut nails; cut spikes; fencing and sheathing; slating and barrel; flooring, casing, and box; finishing; and clinch or wrought., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1874]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.28]

Title: R. Newell & Son, 633 Arch St., Phila. Equipped for outside and indoor photography
Description: Illustrated trade card die cut and shaped into an eye depicts a traveling R. Newell & Son horse-drawn photographic wagon. The scene is bordered by a sun, filigree, and a camera on a tripod. R. Newell & Son, a partnership between Robert Newell and his son Henry, was active from around 1870 until 1897 and the death of the elder Newell., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Newell [P.9803.1]

Title: George B. Newton & Co., agents for the sale of Lehigh Valley Coal Co.'s coal. 329 Walnut Street, Philadelphia Shipping pier, Camden, N.J. yards: 30th and Chestnut Streets, Frankford Road and Vienna St. ; Geo. B Newton. William Hill. Frank T. Patterson
Description: Names of coal mines are underlined in red ink and flank the central word "Coal": Jeddo, Highland, Spring Mount'n, Spring Brook, Packer, Continental, Logan, Centralia, Council Ridge, Middle Lehigh, Hazle Brook, and Wyoming Collieries., Stamped in purple ink on recto: F. Jay St. John., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Newton [P.2006.20.30]

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