View showing the buildings and grounds near Sydney Harbour of the exhibition to promote New South Wales technology, commerce, and industry. The exhibition, on display from September 17, 1879 to April 20, 1880, commemorated the centennial of the arrival of the First Fleet. Includes the Garden Palace designed by architect James Barnet, the Botanic Gardens, promenades, annexed exhibition halls, and pavilions. In the foreground, a man and woman couple stands at the harbor opposite the palace while a sailboat and rowboat glide on the water. Image surrounded by a border containing palm trees, lush vegetation, and the coat of arms for Sydney depicted with a white man sailor and aboriginal man, attired in a loincloth and holding a spear., Title from item., Printed above image: Supplement to the Illustrated Sydney News, July 1879., Accessioned 1883., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date
1879
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **GC - Exhibitions [5225.F.2]
Montage of five scenes from a "Hound and Hare Club of Germantown" meet at Wakefield Meadow, part of the estate of Thomas and Sarah Fisher near Germantown. Large central scene shows elegantly attired men, women, and children, a few astride horses, milling on the grounds near the old residence, pond and creek. Surrounding scenes show horsemen galloping on the grounds, over fences, and in front of distant crowds of on-lookers standing in front of the dwelling. Dwelling built circa 1795. The meet involved horsemen acting as "hounds" and "hares" through horns and pieces of paper. The riders were tracked by their fellow mounted clubmen. The club started meets at Wakefield circa 1871., Not in Wainwright., Printed above image: Germantown, December 1876. Vol. I, No. V. $1 Per Annum in Advance This December No., 5 CTS., Manuscript note on recto: Fishers Lane., pdcc00032, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 38:32
Creator
Cooper, Colin Campbell, Jr.
Date
December 1876
Location
Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Photograph Collection. FLP Castner 38:32
Landscape view looking from the west bank of the Schuylkill River showing the Fairmount Water Works. Shows the old engine house; old mill house; new mill house (completed 1862); and the observatory tower arch (built 1860), stand pipe (built 1852), and pavilion on Reservoir Hill. Also includes the Schuylkill Canal lock, the Wire Suspension Bridge at Fairmount, and the dome of the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul. The waterworks, originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Frederick Graff, were altered and expanded after the designs of Henry P.M. Birkinbine and Frederick Graff, Jr., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 228, Gift of David Doret.
Creator
Bovell, Thomas W.
Date
c1871
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Views - Philadelphia [P.2006.31.14]
Bust-length portrait of the abolition leader, Ohio Senator, statesman, Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Chase, wearing a beard and attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, and a black jacket, faces slightly right. Includes accompanying obituary., Title from item., Published in The Daily graphic, May 1873., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits. McAllister, gift, 1886., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date
[1873]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - Chase [(1)5750.F.79c]
