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Title: [Residence of Joseph Harrison, Esqr., Rittenhouse Square, Phila.] Front Elevation. [graphic].
Description: Published in: Sloan, Samuel. City and Suburban Architecture (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1867), plate 108, design XXIV for a suburban mansion., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: *Am 1867 Sloan 7883.F.
Date: [1867]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W310.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W310 [*Am 1867 Sloan 7883.F]

Title: Exterior view [and] interior view of the temporary Hedding M. E. Church. Situated on the S.E. corner of Coates and Sixteenth Sts. Philadelphia. [graphic].
Description: Location: Sixteenth St.and Fairmount Avenue., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Date: 1854.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W116.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W116 [P.8538]

Title: Engel & Wolf's brewery & vaults at Fountain Green [graphic] : Including five large vaults containing 50,352 cubic feet cut out of the solid rock and about 45 feet below ground, where they keep their well known lager beer. Temperature of the vaults in midsummer 40 degrees of Fahrenheit. They are situated on the Columbia Rail Road, about one mile above the Fairmount Waterworks, Philadelphia Co. [graphic] / Drawn from nature on stone A. Kollner.
Description: Wainwright retrospective conversion project., LCP AR [Annual Report] 1980, pg. 54.
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813 lithographer., creator
Date: ca. 1855.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W112-2.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W112.2 [P.8434]

Title: Steam tugs, Columbus and Alert. Vessels of all classes towed to and from sea and about the harbor; towing to and from Schuylkill and all other descriptions promptly attended to. S. Flanagan No. 78 South Delaware Avenue. [graphic] / Lith. by Rease & Schell, 17 So. 5th. St.
Description: Location: Delaware River off Philadelphia., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator: Rease & Schell, lithographer., creator
Date: ca. 1855.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W353.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W353 [P.2258]

Title: [Brown, Frederick & Kunkel, clothing warerooms, 41 North Third Street, Philadelphia] [graphic].
Description: Location: 37-43 North Third St., Unlettered proof., Wainwright retrospective conversion project.
Creator: Rease, W. H., creator
Date: [1855]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W034.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W34 [P.2033]

Title: Rowley, Ashburner & Co.'s oil, alcohol, fluid & pine oil works. [graphic] : Rowley, Ashburner & Co., manufacturers, Kensington screw dock, Penn Street above Maiden, Philadelphia. Store, No. 14 North Wharves, Philadelphia. / On stone by W. H. Rease 17 So. 5th. St. ; F.H.S.
Description: Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator: Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
Date: ca. 1855.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W321.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W321 [P.2256]

Title: Bridesburg Machine Works. Alfred Jenks & Son, manufacturers of cotton and wool carding spinning and weaving machinery, shafting and millgearing, Bridesburg post office Philadelphia. [graphic] / From nature & on stone by E. Beaulieu, 99 Walnut St.
Description: 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 79. (HSP O 458)., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc35 B851.
Creator: Beaulieu, Emile F. lithographer., creator
Date: [1856]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W033-1.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W33.1 [P.2020]

Title: Conflagration of the steam boat New Jersey on the Delaware River opposite Philada. March 15 1856 in which 50 persons lost their lives. [graphic] / Lithographed from a drawing made on the wharf above Vine St. by Geo. G. Heiss.
Description: Location: Delaware above Vine Street., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator: Heiss, George G., creator
Date: 1856.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W082.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W82 [P.2026]

Title: Goodyears Rubber-Packing & Belting Company. Warehouse 104 Chestnut St. Philada. Factory Newtown, Connecticut. Belting, packing, hose, clothing, druggist-articles, etc. [graphic] / E. Luders lith.
Description: Location: 102-104, later 306-308 Chestnut Street., 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/W158.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W158 [P.2080]

Title: Scene at the U. S. Agricultural Society's Fair, Philada. 1856. [graphic] / Js. Queen, delt.
Description: Location: Powelton grounds in West Philadelphia., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb8 Q3.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886 artist., creator
Date: 1856.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W330.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W330 [P.2187]

Title: Souvenir of the coldest winter on record. Scene on the Delaware River at Philada. during the severe winter of 1856. [graphic] / From nature and on stone by J. Queen.
Description: Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb72 Q3.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886 artist., creator
Date: 1856.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W342.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W342 [P.2190]

Title: Cornelius, Baker & Co. manufacturers of lamps, chandeliers, gas fixtures etc. Manufactories: 181 Cherry Street and Columbia Avenue & 5th Street, Philadelphia. Store, No. 176 Chestnut Street. [graphic] / Lith. by W. H. Rease, 97 Chestnut St.
Description: Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator: Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
Date: [1856]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W086.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W86 [P.2028]

Title: Cornelius & Baker, manufacturers of lamps, chandeliers, gas fixtures, etc. Manufactories: No. 181 Cherry St & Columbia Avenue & 5th St, Philadelphia. Store, 176 Chestnut Street. [graphic] / Lith. by W. H. Rease, 97 Chestnut St.
Description: 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) (HSP O 458), Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 38 C814a.
Creator: Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
Date: [1856]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W087.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W87 [P.2036]

Title: Cornelius & Baker, 181 Cherry Street, Philadelphia. Manufacturers of lamps, gas fixtures etc. [graphic].
Description: 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) (HSP O 458), Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 38 C 814b.
Creator: Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
Date: [1856]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W088.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W88 [P.2038]

Title: Dale, Ross & Withers, importers & jobbers of silks & fancy goods, 219 Market St & 42 Commerce St, Philadelphia. [graphic] / S.D. Button, archt.
Description: Location: 521 Market Street., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator: Button, Stephen Decatur, 1813-1897, architect., creator
Date: ca. 1857.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W091.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W91 [P.2146]

Title: Rockhill & Wilson, tailors & clothiers of men & boys wear, Nos. 205 & 207 Chestnut St & 28 South 6th Street. [graphic] / Lith. by W. H. Rease, N.E. cor. 4th & Chestnut Sts.
Description: Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator: Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
Date: 1857.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W319.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W319 [P.2255]

Title: H. S. Tarr's marble yard, no. 274 Green St. above Seventh Philadelphia Pa. [graphic] / Lith. by W. H. Rease N. E. cor. 4th & Chesnut.
Description: LCP exhibit catalogue: Made in America #83., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator: Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
Date: [ca. 1858]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W166-1.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W166.1 [P.2073]

Title: Robert Wood's railing, architectural & ornamental iron works, Ridge Road below Spring Garden St., Philadelphia. [graphic] / R. F. Reynolds, del.
Description: Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator: Reynolds, Robert F., artist., creator
Date: ca. 1851.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W317.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W317 [P.2253]

Title: H. B. McCalla, successor to the late Andrew McCalla, No. 252 Market St. First hat & cap store below 8th St. south side, Philadelphia. [graphic] / On stone by R. F. Reynolds No. 30, So. 5th. St. below Walnut 4th. story.
Description: Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator: Reynolds, Robert F., lithographer., creator
Date: ca. 1852.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W164.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W164 [P.2076]

Title: Lippincott & Co. [clothing] south west corner of Fourth & Market St Philadelphia. [graphic] / On stone by R.F. Reynolds, No. 78 Dock St.
Description: Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator: Reynolds, Robert F., lithographer., creator
Date: 1853.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W219.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W219 [P.2136]

Title: Hoskins, Hieskell & Co. Importers & jobbers of fancy and staple dry goods. No. 213 Market & 34 Commerce St. Philada. [graphic] / On stone by Inger & Haugg.
Description: Location: [513 Market Street], Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator: Inger & Haugg, lithographer., creator
Date: ca. 1854.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W179.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W179 [P.2069]

Title: H. S. Tarr's Marble Yard No. 274 Green St. above Seventh Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Philadelphia on Stone, POS 340.2, Cited by Wainwright as in the collection of Marian S. Carson; given to Library of Congress in 1996; copy unlocated at the Library of Congress., Library of Congress: copy unlocated
Creator: Heiss, George G., artist
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division W166.2 [LOC unlocated]

Title: Jos. Lubbermann's Brewery. Corner of 36th & Transcript Streets, West Philadelphia
Description: Philadelphia on Stone, POS 415, Cited by Wainwright as in the collections of the Atwater Kent Museum. Copy unlocated., Atwater Kent Museum: copy unlocated
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Atwater Kent Museum | Print Department AKM W208 [AKM unlocated]

Title: West Philadelphia Manufacturing Cos. Starch & Farina Works. Chestnut & Bridgewater Streets, Philadelphia. Refined pearl starch & corn farina
Description: Shows the bustling industrial starch and farina works at the corner of Chestnut and Bridgewater Streets (ie. Chestnut and Thirtieth Streets) looking northeast toward the Schuylkill River. Laborers direct horse-drawn drays and wagons to and from factory buildings and railroad cars. Scene includes a man on horseback riding toward the factory buildings, a laborer standing in the foreground near the tracks, smoke rising from several chimneys in the complex, the Market Street Bridge crossing the Schuylkill River in the distance, and the outline of Philadelphia Gas Works gasholders immediately east of the bridge., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 826.1, Library of Congress: PGA - Queen (J.) -- West Philadelphia Manufactoring (B size)
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: ca. 1858
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PGA - Queen (J.) -- West Philadelphia Manufactoring (B size) [P&P]

Title: First Baptist Church [Figures are given for its frontage and depth, and the height of its steeple] N.W. cor. of Broad & Arch Sts
Description: Philadelphia on Stone, POS 255, Cited by Wainwright as in the collections of the Library of Congress. Copy unlocated., Library of Congress: copy unlocated
Creator: Watson, John Frampton, artist
Date: 1853
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division W473 [LOC unlocated]

Title: View of the Pennsylvania State Agricultural Fair, held at Powellton [sic], twenty-fourth ward, Philadelphia, late West Philadelphia, September 1854
Description: Shows the well-attended fair on grounds landscaped with dirt paths and a track, tenanted by tents and sheds adorned with American flags, and enclosed by a white fence. Visitors enter by foot, on horseback, and carriage through an arched opening near the "Ticket Office" as a lone carriage departs through the opposite exit way. Throngs of people spill out from the temporary shelters while individuals ride horseback, travel in carriages, and rest on a mound of dirt nearby. Also shows horses racing on the track and trees lining the back of the property in the background. The Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society was founded in 1851 by representatives from 50 counties with the object to "foster and improve agriculture, horticulture, and the domestic and household arts." Powelton was the estate of John Hare Powel, an experimental farmer and diplomat., Title supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, Atwater Kent Museum: 49.34.25
Date: [ca. 1854]
Location: Atwater Kent Museum | Print Department AKM AKM 49.34.25

Title: Lithographic Printers Union annual ball Ladies invitation. Jany. 25th, 1858
Description: Ladies' invitation to an annual ball for the Lithographic Printers Union illustrated by a fairy-like female figure with wings surrounded by flower bushes. Standing lightly on her toes, she holds fresh-picked roses in her right hand., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 135, The Lithographic Printers Union was instituted on February 28, 1854. Copy of their "Constitution and By-Laws for 1857" in the collections of the German Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. Fred C. Munson, "History of the Lithographers Union," p. 1, suggests that a lithographic trade union existed in Philadelphia as early as 1843., New York Public Library: MEZDP, Courtesy of Print Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, the New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.
Creator: Bigot, Alphonse, ca. 1828-1872 or 3, artist
Date: 1858
Location: New York Public Library NYPL MEZDP

Title: R. & G.A. Wright Manufacturers of the celebrated gold medal perfumery and importers of French, English & German druggist & fancy articles, no. 23 South 4th St. Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement containing a large central text panel with a background printed in color in a rainbow style and surrounded by an ornate decorative border. Border contains symbols, allegorical figures, and pictorial details representing the United States and patriotism (the American flag, Liberty, a shield adorned with the banner "E Pluribus Unum," and an eagle); Pennsylvania (a portrait of William Penn and the Pennsylvania state seal); and trade, commerce, and farming (barrels, crates, bundles of goods, a scythe, a hoe, sheaves of wheat, a mast of a sailing ship, and a land/marinescape view with a railroad and "John Fitch" steamboat). Some goods are marked "R & G.A.W." or "R." or "C.R." Border also includes a maternal female figure, attired in Roman garb, holding two children, and wrapped in a banner reading "Love One Another"; medals, some with classical figures and one with the text "Reward for 1849"; a book open to an illustration titled "Chemistry Analysis"; scroll-like ornaments; grape vinery; and floral and botanical details. R. & G. A. Wright, a partnership established about 1845 between Richard and George A. Wright, was a premier Philadelphia perfume manufacturer. The business was noted in the mid-19th century as the largest manufactory of its kind in the United States, England, and France. The Wright partnership relocated to 624 Chestnut Street about 1860. The business operated as R. & G. A. Wright until circa 1878., Title from item., 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 45 3/4. (HSP O 458), Not in Wainright., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., LCP AR [Annual Report] 1981, pg. 51-52., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 295
Creator: Reen, Charles
Date: [1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Advertisements - Wright [P.8692]

Title: [Bennet's Tower Hall Clothing Bazaar, 518]
Description: Quirky advertisement showing heavy street traffic in front of the clothing store, designed as a medieval tower, at 518 Market Street. Patrons and pedestrians gather near the entrance of the store across from a saddled horse and a dray loaded with crates parked in front of the building. Other street traffic includes a stopped "Hestonville, Market Street, Cambridge Ferry" omnibus from which a lady departs from the rear while a chariot-like horse-drawn vehicle advertising "Tower Hall Clothing Bazaar Market Street" passes her. The unique vehicle is followed by an ornately painted "West Philadelphia" street car crowded with passengers, including men seated on the roof beside the driver. Also shows neighboring buildings. Joseph M. Bennett opened his clothier establishment in 1849, which he named Tower Hall in 1853., Title supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, Atwater Kent Museum: 88.98.393/2, Trimmed. Varnished.
Date: [ca. 1859]
Location: Atwater Kent Museum | Print Department AKM AKM 88.98.393/2

Title: Five Points, 1827
Description: Chaotic street scene after the 1827 painting Five Points by George Catlin depicting the early 19th-century New York City lower income area east of City Hall. Shows several white and Black men and women, individually, as couples, and in groups at the crossroads of Orange, Anthony, and Cross Streets. The streets are lined with places of "entertainment," "lodgings," and grocery stores primarily selling liquor. Amongst the melee on the streets, a large brawl and several small fights occur, people are knocked over, "couples" of men and women stroll and engage in conversation, peddlers sell their goods, a white woman pumps water, and pigs roam free., Title from item., Inscribed lower right corner: For Valentine's Manual., Plate from D.T. Valentine. Manual of the corporation of the city of New York for 1855 (New York: New York Common Council, 1855) (LCP Am 1855 New Yor Com)., Original painting in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, bequest of Mrs. Screven Lorillard (Alice Whitney), from the collection of Mrs. J. Insley Blair, 2016., Gift of Mrs. S. Marguerite Brenner, 1984., 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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., McSpedon & Baker, the New York lithographic partnership of Thomas McSpedon and Charles W. Baker, primarily performed stationery work. Illustrative plates executed by the partnership are rare.
Date: [1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Views - New York - New York City [P.9057.8]

Title: Grand masonic march Chesnut [sic] St. Philadelphia
Description: Sheet music cover containing a street scene with the Gothic-style hall built 1853-1855 after the designs of Sloan & Stewart at 713-721 Chestnut Street. Also shows slight views of adjacent businesses, including Washington House hotel (709-711) and heavy pedestrian and street traffic. On the sidewalk, men and women stroll and convene in conversation. In the street, a horse-drawn omnibus filled with passengers and a carriage with passengers travel past two men on horseback and couples crossing the street near a dog. Building sold circa 1873 following the completion of the new Masonic Temple on North Broad Street., Dedication: Dedicated to the order in commemoration of the opening of the their New Hall in Chesnut [sic] St. Philada., Not in Wainwright., Price printed on recto: 5., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 870, Johns Hopkins University: Levy Collection Box 178, Item 133
Date: c1855
Location: Johns Hopkins University | Special Collections at the Sheridan Libraries. JHU Levy Collection Box 178, Item 133, http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/catalog/levy:178.032

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