Depicts Joseph M. Huston's plans showing the front of the completed Capitol building, with an elevated plaza crowded with people. Joseph M. Huston was commissioned to design the new structure, constructed between 1902 and 1906 to house the Pennsylvania General Assembly, the chambers of the Sumpreme Court of Pennsylvania, and the offices of the Governor., Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Maro S. Hunting. Mrs. Hunting was the granddaughter of Joseph M. Huston, the architect of the Capitol., LCP AR [Annual Report] 1979, pp. 42, 47-48., Forms part of the Pennsylvania Capitol Photograph Collection.
Date
ca. 1902
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **GC - Government buildings [P.8479.55a & b]
Depicts a horse attached to a carriage drinking from the Leonidas Spring in Fairmount Park, a public drinking fountain along Lincoln Drive., Also known as Springs Memorial Fountain., Sheet number: 86B10., Divided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Fairmount Park - Miscellaneous - 86]
Depicts a statue of Christopher Columbus standing on a large stone base with his hand resting on a globe. Attributed to sculptor Emanuele Caroni. Commissioned by Italian-Americans for the Centennial Exhibition in 1876. Moved to Marconi Plaza in South Philadelphia in 1982 from its original site in West Fairmount Park., Sheet number: 88B01., Undivided backs., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1905
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Fairmount Park - Monuments & Memorials - Miscellaneous - 88]
Contains various views of a canal boat on Belmont Canal., Sheet number: 86B03., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1905
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Fairmount Park - Miscellaneous - 86]
Exterior view of house built near Wissahickon Creek between 1746 and 1752 for Joseph Gorgas, a lumber merchant and third generation resident of Germantown. Constructed on the site of "the Kloster," the log cabin built in 1737 as a community house for the German Dunkards., Also known as the Joseph Gorgas House and the Children's Museum of Philadelphia (1973)., Sheet number: 81B01., Undivided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1905
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Fairmount Park - Mansions and Houses - Miscellaneous - 81]
Exterior view of front facade of library building constructed 1857-1888 as the residence of Joseph W. Ryerss. Altered to library 1908-1910., Also identified as Burholme, Joseph W. Ryerss House and Ryerss Mansion., Postcard issued by William H. Rau, Philadelphia, and the Albertype Co., Brooklyn, N.Y., Sheet number: 132B06., Divided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Libraries - 132]
Exterior view of front facade of library built in 1905 after designs by Field & Medary., Postcard issued by William H. Rau, Philadelphia, and the Albertype Co., Brooklyn, N.Y., Sheet number: 132B07., Divided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Libraries - 132]
Exterior view of front facade of library built 1904-1905 after designs by Zantzinger & Borie., Postcard issued by William H. Rau, Philadelphia, and the Albertype Co., Brooklyn, N.Y., Sheet number: 132B08., Divided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Libraries - 132]
Exterior view of front facade of the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art built 1824-1826 after designs by John Haviland., Numbered 3128 on recto., Also identified as Dorrance Hamilton Hall., Sheet number: 153B05., Undivided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1905
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Schools - Miscellaneous - 153]
Exterior view of front facade of the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art built 1824-1826 after designs by John Haviland., Numbered 3128 on recto., Also identified as Dorrance Hamilton Hall., Sheet number: 153B05, 153B06, Undivided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1905
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Schools - Miscellaneous - 153]
Exterior view of front facade of library built in 1907 after designs by Cope & Stewardson., Sheet number: 132B01., Divided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Libraries - 132]
Exterior view of the front facade of the Children's Department of The Free Library of Philadelphia at 1233 Locust Street. Built as the residence of Jules Junker., Sheet number: 132B01., Divided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Libraries - 132]
Depicts residences on the west side of Chew Avenue near Mount Airy Avenue., Sheet number: 156B09., Undivided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1905
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Streets - Miscellaneous - 156]
Exterior view of front facade of library built circa 1906 after designs by Stearns & Castor., Postcard issued by William H. Rau, Philadelphia, and the Albertype Co., Booklyn, N.Y., Sheet number: 132B03., Divided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1915
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Libraries - 132]
Exterior view of front facade of library built in 1910 after designs by Ballinger & Perrot., Sheet number: 132B04., Divided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Libraries - 132]
Exterior view of front facade., Sheet number: 132B04., Divided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Libraries - 132]
Exterior view of front facade of library built in 1906 after designs by Benjamin Rush Stevens., Sheet number: 132B04., Divided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Libraries - 132]
Exterior view of front facade of library built in 1910 after designs by Ralph E. White., Sheet number: 132B05., Divided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Libraries - 132]
Exterior view of front facade of library built in 1908 on land donated by Anne Weightman Penfield, the daughter of William Weightman., Postcard issued by William H. Rau, Philadelphia, and the Albertype Co., Brooklyn, N.Y., Sheet number: 132B06., Divided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1908
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Libraries - 132]
Contains images of Chestnut Hill Academy, originally built as the Wissahickon Inn in 1883-1884 after designs by G. W. & W. D. Hewitt. Includes a landscape view of the school and an interior view of the swimming pool., Opened as a summer resort by Henry H. Houston. Chestnut Hill Academy occupied the building in 1898., Sheet number: 153B01., Undivided backs., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1905
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Schools - Miscellaneous - 153]
Exterior view of school built 1909-1910 after designs by Henry Decourcey Richards. Replaced the Frankford School built in 1842, renamed The Marshall School in 1848 and demolished in 1909., Sheet number: 153B02., Undivided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Schools - Miscellaneous - 153]
Exterior view of original school building (George B. McClellan School Number 1) constructed in 1868 by James Charles Sidney. Additional school building (George B. McClellan School Number 2) constructed on same lot in 1884 after designs by Lewis H. Esler., Sheet number: 153B02., Undivided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1905
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Schools - Miscellaneous - 153]
Exterior view of 13th Street front and south flank of library., The Free Library system began in 1891. The first library occupied three rooms in City Hall in 1894. It moved to 1217-21 Chestnut Street in 1895, to the northeast corner of 13th and Locust Streets in 1910 and into its present site in 1927., Postcard issued by William H. Rau, Philadelphia and the Albertype Co., Brooklyn, N.Y., Divided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Libraries - [86754.D.2]
Depicts the front facade of the Rodin Museum built 1926-1928 after designs by Paul Philippe Cret. Includes the statue "The Thinker" by Rodin in the foreground., Undivided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
1900-1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Museums - [P.8712.5]
Exterior views of meeting house built in 1832 at Orthodox and Penn Streets., Accession numbers: P.9048.258 and P.9050.95., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1905
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Religion - Meeting houses - [various]
Depicts the exterior and interior, showing pews in the meeting house on Germantown Avenue., Divided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Religion - Meeting houses - [P.9048.257]
View of meeting house built in 1808. The original log meeting house was constructed circa 1684 on land donated by Henry English and later replaced by a stone building in 1714. The meeting house was rebuilt again in 1753, before the construction of the present building in the image., Divided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Religion - Meeting houses - [P.9050.14]
Exterior view of front facade of Evangelical Lutheran Church built 1928-1929 after designs by Charles Augustus Ziegler., Publisher's monogram on verso., Also identified as Old St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church., Divided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Religion - [P.9512.11]
Exterior view of front facade of Old St. Paul's Church on recto, with bulletin on verso, including an invitation to a noon-day service for business men. Church served as the central office of the Protestant Episcopal City Mission in Philadelphia circa 1950., Undivided back. Invitation on verso. Dated 1906 in manuscript note on verso., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1906
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Religion - [P.9050.93]
Interior view of sanctuary. Church built in 1858 after designs by Samuel Sloan., Undivided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1905
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Religion - [P.9050.40]
Interior view of the nave and sanctuary. Church built in 1894 after designs by Charles Patrick Keely at the corner of Rector and Cresson Streets in Manayunk., Also known as St. John the Baptist Church., Undivided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1905
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Religion - [P.9050.38]
Exterior view of meeting house looking west from 12th Street. Building was constructed in 1812 with reassembled parts from the 1755 Greater Meeting House. It was dismantled and re-erected at the George School in Newtown, PA in 1972. Also includes the Friends' Institute (left) built in 1892 after designs by Walter Smedley., Divided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Religion - Meeting houses - [P.9048.252]
View of old grist mill showing wheelhouse, built by Richard Townsend in 1683 on Mill Street (Church Lane) and Wingohocking Street. Considered the oldest mill in Pennsylvania. Later it was known as Lukens Mill and then Roberts Mill after its 19th century owner, Hugh Roberts. Demolished circa 1873., Photographed circa 1870 by Robert Newell., Undivided back. Dated 3/15/1910 in manuscript note on verso., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Industry - [P.9049.33]
Exterior view of front facade of Pilgrim Laundry Co. at Broad and Glenwood Avenues. Request form for laundry service delivery on verso., Divided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Industry - [P.9490.1]
Contains images of the John B. Stetson Hat Company manufactury near 5th and Montgomery Avenues. The company moved to this site in 1874 and constructed 20 buildings over a 55 year period. Operations ceased in this location in 1971. Images depict an aerial drawing of the 29 acre campus and interior photographs of the office corridor, reception room and salesroom. Also includes employees finishing soft hats, forming and sizing hat bodies, cutting fur and flanging soft hats, trimming stiff hats and weaving silk bands and bindings., Divided backs. Company biography on verso., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Industry - [P.9934.1-12]
Exterior view of church built in 1869., Undivided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1905
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Religion - [P.9050.55]
Exterior view of church built in 1881 at the corner of Dupont and St. David's Streets in Manayunk., Original church was built in 1835 and remodeled in 1857. On December 23, 1879 the original church was destroyed by a fire., Undivided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1905
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Religion - [P.9050.42]
Exterior view of front facade of church built 1763-1812 after designs by master builder Robert Smith. Includes an interior view of the nave and sanctuary. First conference of American Methodists held here in 1773., Undivided backs., Accession numbers: P.9048.245 and P.9050.4., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1905
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Religion - [various]
Contains views of the church at the northeast corner of 52nd and Kershaw Streets including an exterior view of the church looking northeast and an interior view of the sanctuary., Accession numbers: P.9050.29 and P.9050.39., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1905
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Religion - [various]
Exterior view of the Punch Bowl Inn, built circa 1840 and demolished in 1884. The Second Regiment Armory building was constructed on this site in 1890., Copy of Robert Newell's image of the Punch Bowl Inn, photographed circa 1870., Undivided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Hotels - [P.9490.15]
Depicts the Philadelphia Horse Show in an outdoor setting, with trees, several gazebos, and buildings in the background. Includes carriages lined up with several grooms standing in front, each with a be-bonnetted lady at the reins., Undivided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1905
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Events - [P.2002.67.24]
Depicts three men using water pressure from a large hose and a shovel to clean a Philadelphia street. Includes a sketch of a lady in period dress holding a parasol on verso., Undivided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1905
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Events - [P.2002.67.28]
Contains commemorative postcards for the Elks Convention, the 21st annual reunion of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks (B.P.O.E.) held in Philadelphia in 1907. Includes views of Strawbridge and Clothier decorated with pennants, the Court of Honor on Broad Street looking north toward City Hall tower and a procession of Atlantic City roller chairs., Majority of postcards issued by William H. Rau, Philadelphia., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
1907
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Events - [various]
Exterior view of Ottinger House, with a partial view of property to the north. Built circa 1781 by Christopher Ottinger, a Revolutionary soldier who became a master coach maker after the war., Undivided back. Dated 1907 in manuscript note on verso., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1907
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Residences - N - Z - [P.9049.84]
Depicts Pelham Road north of West Hortter Street, a residential area developed on the estate of George W. Carpenter by Philadelphia's mercanitile class in the 1890s., Numbered 503 on verso., Divided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1909
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Streets - [P.9048.274]
Exterior view of the Bustleton station of the Pennsylvania Railroad, used as a barn, an arsenal and a powder storage magazine during the Revolutionary War before the property was taken over by the railroad in 1870., Undivided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Transportation - [P.9933.1]
Exterior view of front facade, tower and cemetery attached to church built circa 1896 after designs by Thomas Francis Miller., First German Lutheran Congregation in Pennsylvania, organized in 1730. Church built in 1819 was used until the present church was constructed., Sheet number: 101B05., Divided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Germantown - Churches - 101]
Contains exterior views of the orphanage building constructed in 1879 for the elderly and the new annex built circa 1896 by Carl Berger. Also depicts boys gardening on the property., Sheet number: 100B07., Undivided backs., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1905
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Germantown - Buildings - 100]
Exterior view of front facade and side of Charles Willson Peale's house, also known as Belfield. House built circa 1750. Peale's museum and zoo was established on this site overlooking Wister Station., Numbered 579 on recto., Sheet number: 100B09., Undivided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1905
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Germantown - Buildings - 100]
