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Title: Price list of Wright's pure carmine ink.
Description: Provenance: Gift of David Doret, 2007., Provenance: Advertisements in the collection were sent by various manufacturers to John C. Clark & Sons, a Philadelphia stationery firm.
Creator: Farr, Morris B., agent., creator
Date: 1866.
Location: Doret Ephemera

Title: John Garrett & Co., 229 Broadway, N. Y. up stairs, sole proprietors and manufacturers of Smith's patent ribbon hand stamp.
Description: Provenance: Gift of David Doret, 2007., Provenance: Advertisements in the collection were sent by various manufacturers to John C. Clark & Sons, a Philadelphia stationery firm.
Creator: John Garrett & Co., creator
Date: [1866?].
Location: Doret Ephemera

Title: Charles Hamilton & Co., 64 John Street, New York, sole agents for Bloede's mucilage and universal letter scales, and jobbers of stationers' sundries.
Description: Provenance: Gift of David Doret, 2007., Provenance: Advertisements in the collection were sent by various manufacturers to John C. Clark & Sons, a Philadelphia stationery firm.
Creator: Charles Hamilton & Co., creator
Date: [1866?].
Location: Doret Ephemera

Title: Elm flax mills, yarns, twines, shoe threads, flax, hemp, &c.
Description: Provenance: Gift of David Doret, 2007., Provenance: Advertisements in the collection were sent by various manufacturers to John C. Clark & Sons, a Philadelphia stationery firm.
Creator: A. H. Hart & Co., creator
Date: [1867?].
Location: Doret Ephemera

Title: Hutchinson & Honeywell, manufacturers of sealing wax and carmine inks, and wholesale dealers in foreign and domestic stationery, 104 William Street, New York.
Description: Provenance: Gift of David Doret, 2007., Provenance: Advertisements in the collection were sent by various manufacturers to John C. Clark & Sons, a Philadelphia stationery firm.
Creator: Hutchinson & Honeywell., creator
Date: 1868.
Location: Doret Ephemera

Title: Myer's patent novelty pencil holder.
Description: Provenance: Gift of David Doret, 2007., Provenance: Advertisements in the collection were sent by various manufacturers to John C. Clark & Sons, a Philadelphia stationery firm.
Creator: Joyce, D. B., agent., creator
Date: [1867?].
Location: Doret Ephemera

Title: Union Paste & Sizing Co. offer to all consumers of paste an article of superior merit, and cheaper than paste can be made by ordinary methods.
Description: Provenance: Gift of David Doret, 2007., Provenance: Advertisements in the collection were sent by various manufacturers to John C. Clark & Sons, a Philadelphia stationery firm.
Creator: Union Paste & Sizing Co., creator
Date: [1867?].
Location: Doret Ephemera

Title: Holt's patent marking wheel.
Description: Small advertising circular., Provenance: Gift of David Doret, 2007., Provenance: Advertisements in the collection were sent by various manufacturers to John C. Clark & Sons, a Philadelphia stationery firm.
Creator: Secombe Manufacturing Co., creator
Date: [1867?]
Location: Doret Ephemera

Title: Trade price-List of the American Lead Pencil Co., New York.
Description: Provenance: Gift of David Doret, 2007., Provenance: Advertisements in the collection were sent by various manufacturers to John C. Clark & Sons, a Philadelphia stationery firm.
Creator: American Lead Pencil Co., creator
Date: 1867.
Location: Doret Ephemera

Title: J. J. Butler's record, mercantile, and copying excelsior writing fluid..
Description: Provenance: Gift of David Doret, 2007., Provenance: Advertisements in the collection were sent by various manufacturers to John C. Clark & Sons, a Philadelphia stationery firm.
Creator: Butler, James J., creator
Date: 1866.
Location: Doret Ephemera

Title: Book-holder, writing desk, invalid's tea table and ladies' work-stand combined, with lamp supporter and ink stand attached.
Description: Provenance: Gift of David Doret, 2007., Provenance: Advertisements in the collection were sent by various manufacturers to John C. Clark & Sons, a Philadelphia stationery firm.
Creator: John Connacher & Co., creator
Date: [1867].
Location: Doret Ephemera

Title: Price list of George Lane's patent capillary grooved rulers, with paper cutter and scale attachment..
Description: Provenance: Gift of David Doret, 2007., Provenance: Advertisements in the collection were sent by various manufacturers to John C. Clark & Sons, a Philadelphia stationery firm.
Creator: Lane, George., creator
Date: 1866.
Location: Doret Ephemera

Title: E. D. Chamberlain & Co.'s new patent self-dating and indicating cancelling stamp.
Description: Provenance: Gift of David Doret, 2007., Provenance: Advertisements in the collection were sent by various manufacturers to John C. Clark & Sons, a Philadelphia stationery firm.
Creator: E. D. Chamberlain & Co., creator
Date: [1869?].
Location: Doret Ephemera

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: E. White's res. at Bustleton 23d ward Phila. Dealer in coal, lumber, &c
Description: Atlas illustration showing the three-story house with roofed porch in Northeast Philadelphia of the businessman. A fence surrounds the property that neighbors a residence with attached barn. A woman stands on the porch and a man walks on the lawn. A couple in a horse-drawn carriage passes in the street., Published in the Combination atlas map of Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Compiled, drawn and published from personal examinations and surveys (Philadelphia: J. D. Scott, 1876), p. 59., Not in Wainwright., Label pasted on verso: (Bucks county [sic], Pa.) Published by James D. Scott Philadelphia, Pa., 1876, Philadelphia on Stone, POS 195
Creator: Scott, J.D
Date: [1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Residences [P.9207]

Title: Monument to Oscar Douglass ; Mausoleum E.W. Robinson Esq
Description: View of two monuments in Laurel Hill Cemetery including a square pillar monument designed by J.M. Hamilton for Oscar Douglass, a Philadelphia fireman. The mausoleum on the right, adorned by Doric columns, pilasters, and a memorial wreath in the entablature, is for Edward William Robinson. The rural cemetery was built 1836-1839 after the designs of John Notman at 3822 Ridge Avenue., Plate opposite p. 27 in Guide to Laurel Hill Cemetery, near Philadelphia: with numerous illustrations (Philadelphia: For sale at the Cemetery, and by the Treasurer; C. Sherman, printer, 1844)., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 484
Creator: Notman, John, 1810-1865, artist
Date: 1844
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *Am 1844 Phi Lau Hill Cem [(1)11129.O.27a], Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *Am 1844 Phi Lau Hill Cem [(2)11129.O.27a]

Title: J. W. Williams Arts Emporium Ivorytype Establishment
Description: Philadelphia on Stone, POS 400, Cited by Wainwright as in the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Copy unlocated., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: copy unlocated
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [ca. 1858]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania W194 [HSP unlocated]

Title: Sketches of Character. Plate 3. At Home. Abroad
Description: Philadelphia on Stone, POS 697, Cited by Wainwright as in the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Copy unlocated., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: copy unlocated
Creator: Clay, Edward Williams, 1799-1857, artist
Date: 1830
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania W337 [HSP unlocated]

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: Front elevation Scale 16 feet to one inch ; Design XXIV. plate 108
Description: Plate in architectural design book illustrating the front facade of a symmetrical, Italian-style, suburban mansion on the edge of Rittenhouse Square built 1855-1857 for Joseph Harrison, Jr. after designs by Samuel Sloan., Published in Samuel Sloan's City and suburban architecture (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1867), plate 108, design XXIV for a suburban mansion., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 642, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: *Am 1867 Sloan 7883.F., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb16 H32., Free Library of Philadelphia: 724.3 SL52C, Atwater Kent Museum: 40.14.103.2/16 and 45.23.17
Creator: Sloan, Samuel, 1815-1884, artist
Date: [1867]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare W310 [*Am 1867 Sloan 7883.F.108]

Title: Louis Phillipe's second place of residence in Phila After residing at the house of one of the partners of the firm of Cunningham & Nesbitt, in Front bel. Walnut St., two or three weeks he boarded in the above pictured house; on the arrival of his brothers from France, he with them commenced housekeeping in the building, still standing, at the N.W. corner of Fourth and Prune Street. The western portion of Rev. Mr. Marshall's Presbyterian church (old, but renovated, enlarged, &c lately) is on the left of the picture and a faint view (in the sky) of the spire of St. Peter's church on Pine and Third St
Description: Shows the former residence of Reverend William Marshall who hosted the exiled King of France at 322 Spruce Street. Philippe lived at the residence 1796-1797., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount of (3)2526.F.95., Date inscribed on (3)2526.F.95., Manuscript notes by Poulson on mount: (See page 11); (See opposite page)., One of the images originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia. Contains marked out manuscript note on recto: House 322 Spruce Street Philadelphia. And west side of Scots Presbyterian Church Philadelphia., One of the images originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 3, page 95. The scrapbooks contained approximately 120 photographs by Philadelphia painter and pioneer photographer Richards of 18th-century public, commercial, and residential buildings in the city of Philadelphia commissioned by Poulson to document the vanishing architectural landscape., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's and Susan Oyama's Philadelphia then and now (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1988), p. 8.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: March 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Residences - L [(3)2526.F.95 (Poulson); (6)1322.F.35c]

Title: The Penington mansion. On the northwest corner of Race and Crown Street
Description: Shows the former residence of sugar refiner Edward Penington, built circa 1760, on the 400 block of Race Street. Residence includes ironwork fencing. Ivy adorns the side of the building., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Date inscribed on photograph., Originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 3, page 99. The scrapbooks contained approximately 120 photographs by Philadelphia painter and pioneer photographer Richards of 18th-century public, commercial, and residential buildings in the city of Philadelphia commissioned by Poulson to document the vanishing architectural landscape., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: March 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Residences - P [(3)2526.F.99 (Poulson)]

Title: Louis Phillipe's second place of residence in Phila After residing at the house of one of the partners of the firm of Cunningham & Nesbitt, in Front bel. Walnut St., two or three weeks he boarded in the above pictured house; on the arrival of his brothers from France, he with them commenced housekeeping in the building, still standing, at the N.W. corner of Fourth and Prune Street. The western portion of Rev. Mr. Marshall's Presbyterian church (old, but renovated, enlarged, &c lately) is on the left of the picture and a faint view (in the sky) of the spire of St. Peter's church on Pine and Third St
Description: Shows the former residence of Reverend William Marshall who hosted the exiled King of France at 322 Spruce Street. Philippe lived at the residence 1796-1797., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount of (3)2526.F.95., Date inscribed on (3)2526.F.95., Manuscript notes by Poulson on mount: (See page 11); (See opposite page)., One of the images originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia. Contains marked out manuscript note on recto: House 322 Spruce Street Philadelphia. And west side of Scots Presbyterian Church Philadelphia., One of the images originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 3, page 95. The scrapbooks contained approximately 120 photographs by Philadelphia painter and pioneer photographer Richards of 18th-century public, commercial, and residential buildings in the city of Philadelphia commissioned by Poulson to document the vanishing architectural landscape., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's and Susan Oyama's Philadelphia then and now (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1988), p. 8.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: March 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Residences - L [(3)2526.F.95 (Poulson); (6)1322.F.35c]

Title: Rittenhouse Mansion. Northwest corner of Arch and Seventh Street. Sometimes called "fort Rittenhouse"
Description: Shows the former residence of astronomer David Rittenhouse built 1786-1787 by master builder Joseph Ogilby at 701 Arch Street. Also shows nearby buildings., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Date inscribed on photograph., Originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 11, page 75. The scrapbooks contained approximately 120 photographs by Philadelphia painter and pioneer photographer Richards of 18th-century public, commercial, and residential buildings in the city of Philadelphia commissioned by Poulson to document the vanishing architectural landscape., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Select link below for a digital image.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: March 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Residences - R [(11)2526.F.75 (Poulson)], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/2526f75.jpg

Title: The Wissahickon
Description: Landscape view showing the Wissahickon Creek. Trees and rocks line the creek banks., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 849, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Moran, Thomas, 1837-1926, artist
Date: 1869
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Parks & Squares [8065.F.2]

Title: Greenway Family Papers, 1772-1802 (inclusive)
Description: The Greenway Family Papers hold letters and documents relating to the family's personal and business lives in Philadelphia and New Jersey. Letters discussing the yellow fever epidemics in Philadelphia are included., On deposit at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107. For service, please contact the Historical Society at 215-732-6200 or http://www.hsp.org., Joseph Greenway (d. 1803) and his wife Hannah (d. 1810) lived in Philadelphia, and had close ties to Cape May, NJ. Greenway was a tradesman and a merchant.
Date: 1772
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | MSS McA MSS 027, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A64372#page/1/mode/1up

Title: The Poulson mansion. Lately no. 106 Chestnut Street, now No. 310
Description: View looking east showing the 300 block of Chestnut Street, including the former residence of Zachariah Poulson, editor, publisher, and Library Company of Philadelphia librarian, at 310 Chestnut. Building tenanted by A. Bachmann & Co.'s confectionery, the United States Journal office, and Meadows & Co., manufacturers of silverware. Also shows the office of Peterson's Ladies National Magazine (306 Chestnut); James B. Chandler's Steam Power Printing Office, John W. Harper, watch importer, Carrow, Thibault & Co., jewelry manufacturer, and Goodyear's rubber warehouse (308 Chestnut); and F.W. Melizet & Co., commission merchants (312 Chestnut). Signage and merchandise displays adorn the storefronts and store front windows. View also includes a horse-drawn wagon and carriage., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Date inscribed on photograph., Originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 3, page 72. The scrapbooks contained approximately 120 photographs by Philadelphia painter and pioneer photographer Richards of 18th-century public, commercial, and residential buildings in the city of Philadelphia commissioned by Poulson to document the vanishing architectural landscape., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Select link below for a digital image.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: May 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Residences - P [(3)2526.F.72 (Poulson)], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/2526f72.jpg

Title: Masonic Hall, Chestnut Street below Eighth
Description: Views looking east from below Eighth Street showing the Masonic Hall at 713-721 Chestnut. The hall, built 1853-1855 after the designs of Sloan & Stewart, was razed by fire in 1886. Shows adjacent and tenant businesses, including Marxsen & Witte, china and glass (713 Chestnut); Marvin & Co., safes (721 Chestnut); E.H. Godshalk, carpets (723 Chestnut); and Wood & Cary, straw goods (725 Chestnut). Also includes views of signs on the south side of the block including the sign for Willis P. Hazard, bookseller and publisher (724 Chestnut)., Attributed to Bartlett & French., Title from labels pasted on mount and verso., Yellow mounts with rounded corners., One image originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Bartlett & French was a partnership between Philadelphia photographers George O. Bartlett and William French circa 1867-1868.
Creator: Bartlett & French, photographer
Date: ca. 1868
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - Associations [(8)1322.F.27a; P.9260.8]

Title: [Panorama from State House steeple, north]
Description: Panoramic view showing several city blocks above Chestnut Street. Businesses include: Hildeborn & Brother, watches and jewelery (533 Market Street); Truitt, Brother, & Co. (529 Market Street); Brown, Kunkel & Co., clothing (525 Market); Chaffees, Stout, & Co., wholesale dry goods (523 Market); Coleman & Smith, cutlery and fancy goods (521 Market); Robert Pearsall Smith, publisher (517-521 Minor); and Jessup & Moore, commercial paper warehouse (27 North 6th)., Attributed to Henry B. Odiorne., Manuscript note on verso: Looking north over Chestnut and Market St. between Fifth and Sixth., Grey mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860
Date: [1859]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Odiorne - Views [(8)1322.F.1c-2]

Title: [Panorama from State House steeple, north]
Description: Panoramic view showing several city blocks above Chestnut Street. Businesses include: Hildeborn & Brother, watches and jewelery (533 Market Street); Truitt, Brother, & Co. (529 Market Street); Brown, Kunkel & Co., clothing (525 Market); Chaffees, Stout, & Co., wholesale dry goods (523 Market); Coleman & Smith, cutlery and fancy goods (521 Market); Robert Pearsall Smith, publisher (517-521 Minor); and Jessup & Moore, commercial paper warehouse (27 North 6th)., Attributed to Henry B. Odiorne., Manuscript note on verso: Looking north over Chestnut and Market St. between Fifth and Sixth., Grey mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860
Date: [1859]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Odiorne - Views [(8)1322.F.1c-2]

Title: [Seventh & Chestnut streets, looking west]
Description: View looking west from Seventh Street showing the south side of the 700 block of Chestnut Street. Businesses include: J. Restein & Sons, enamelers, George W. Crosscup, engraver on wood, P. Garrett & Co., publishers, Dr. L. Lindoman, podiatrist, and E. Christmann, perfumery (702 Chestnut); the Parham Sewing Machine Co. (704 Chestnut); Thomas & Co., men's furnishing goods and Burton Mansfield, clothiers & tailors (706 Chestnut); Warne, Brothers & Co., importer of watches and jewelery and the One Dollar Store, fancy goods (712 Chestnut). A group of men read broadsides pasted on the side of the building at the corner. Many of the buildings are heavily adorned with signage. Also includes lamppost on the corner with an advertisement promoting Forney's Press. The Parham Sewing Machine Company operated at 704 Chestnut Street in 1870., Title supplied by cataloguer., Manuscript note on mount: 7th & Chestnut stts[sic], looking west., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Publisher' s imprint printed on verso., Printed on mount: No. 7., Inscribed on negative: 207., Pink mount with rounded corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Gift of Jane Carson James., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., R. Newell & Son, a partnership between Robert and his son Henry, was active from around 1870 until 1897 and the death of the elder Newell.
Creator: R. Newell & Son, photographer
Date: [ca. 1870], c1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Streets [P.9299.129]

Title: [Chestnut Street looking east from Thirteenth Street]
Description: View showing the south side of the 1200 block of Chestnut Street. Businesses include: Lacey & Phillips, saddlery and harnessmaker (1220 Chestnut); Reeve L. Knight & Son, carpets (1222 Chestnut); T.L. Jacobs & Co., shirt manufacturer (1226 Chestnut); Peck & Co., druggists (1228 Chestnut); Edward Borhek & Son, opticians (1230 Chestnut); and Carrington, DeZouche & Co., window shades and paper hangings (Chestnut and Thirteenth). Lacey & Phillip's building is adorned with signage advertising the business's awards for excellence. A woman stands in front of Carrington, DeZouche & Co. A boy leans on a lamppost and letterbox at the street corner., Title supplied by cataloguer., Manuscript note on mount: Thirteenth & Chestnut St., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Publisher's imprint printed on verso., Pink mount with rounded corners., Printed on mount: No. 4., Inscribed on negative: 308., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Newell & Son, a partnership between Robert and his son, Henry, was active from around 1870 until 1897 and the death of the elder Newell.
Creator: R. Newell & Son, photographer
Date: c1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Streets [P.9299.131]

Title: Press Building, Seventh and Chesnut [sic] Sts
Description: View of the south side of the 700 block of Chestnut Street looking west toward Eighth Street, with the multi-storied office building of the the Philadelphia Press newspaper established in 1857 by John W. Forney in the foreground. Signs on the Seventh Street side of the building include "J. Restein & Sons plain & fancy paper coloring & card printing establishment," "Engraver on wood," and "Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company." A sign for Wheeler & Wilson's sewing machines at 704 Chestnut is also visible, but signage beyond this shop is illegible. One man stands at the southwest corner in front of the Press building reading a broadside, while another crosses the street at the northeast corner. Gas street lamps are spaced at intervals along the block, with the largest situated in front of the Press Building. Two horse-drawn carriages travel in the street in the distance. Newspaper merged with the Public Ledger in 1920., Title from photographer's label pasted on verso., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Bartlett & French was a partnership between Philadelphia photographers George O. Bartlett and William French circa 1867-1868.
Creator: Bartlett & French
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - Business [P.9260.10]

Title: [Fifth and Market streets looking west.]
Description: View showing the south side of the 500 block of Market Street. Businesses include: A. Hirsch & Brothers, umbrellas and parasols (500 Market); Charles Hirsch & Brothers , clothiers, and Samuel Vendig, shirt manufacturer (502 Market); F. Paxson & Co., fancy and white goods (504 Market); C.D. McClees & Co., auctioneers (506 Market); Jacob Goldsmith, Jr., clothing (508 Market); Capitol Clothing House (510 Market); Graff Watkins & Co., boots and shoes (512 Market); Bennett's Tower Hall, clothier (518 Market); and Wanamaker and Brown's Oak Hall, clothiers (534 Market). Businesses are heavily adorned with signage. Also includes horse-drawn wagons lining the street, crates lining the sidewalk, individuals standing in front of the shops, and a telegraph pole on the corner., Title supplied by cataloguer., Manuscript note on verso: 5th & Market looking west., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Publisher's imprint printed on verso., Inscribed on negative: 218., Pink mount with rounded corners., Printed on mount: No. 4., Reproduced in Joseph Jackson's America's most historic highway Market Street, Philadelphia, New ed. (Philadelphia: John Wanamaker, 1926), p. 153., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Gift of Jane Carson James., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Newell & Son, a partnership between Robert and his son, Henry, was active from around 1870 until 1897 and the death of the elder Newell.
Creator: R. Newell & Son, photographer
Date: ca. 1871, c1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Streets [P.9299.130]

Title: Chestnut Street, east of Third
Description: Reproduction of lithographic view showing the 200 block of Chestnut Street with pre-consolidation addressed buildings. Businesses include Lewis Brothers & Co., importers of silk goods, Senat, Perot & Co., importers, Cottringer, Boyd & Gibbons, importers, and Lawrence Stone & Co. (80-82, i.e., 238-240); the Jayne Building (built 1849-1850) tenanted by Wesendock & Co. importers of silks & cloths, Dr. D. Jayne & Son, patent medicine, and Ellwood Shannon, tea dealer (84-86, i.e., 242-244); Oberteuffer & Freytag, importers, and Samuel Robinson, importers of Irish linens (88, i.e., 246); N. Thouron & Sons, importers of French goods, and Harden’s [sic] Express, probably A. Howard & Co. express (92, i.e., 248); and the U.S. Life Insurance Annuity & Trust Saving Fund building tenanted by Draper, Welsh & Co. Bank Note Engraving (94, i.e., 250). Includes heavy street and pedestrian traffic. Horse-drawn carriages, wagons, an omnibus, and drays travel in the street in addition to a dray situated to be loaded in front of the Jayne Building. Clusters of pedestrians walk near the Jayne and the Saving Fund buildings. In the foreground, on the opposite side of the street, families stroll, converse, and are greeted by other individuals near men, including laborers, talking near a pile of crates and a loaded dray. Also shows lettering reading "Howard" above the doorway of 92 Chestnut Street and a partial view of adjacent buildings., Not in Wainwright., pdcp00010, Philadelphia on Stone, POS 113, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Streets - Chestnut Street 2nd-3rd
Creator: Collins & Autenrieth, artist
Date: c1857
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - Streets - Chestnut Street - 2nd-3rd

Title: [Double image of the Magee Family posed in front of and in back of Magee Farm in Marcus Hook.]
Description: Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Mat: Oval, Case: Leather. In a scalloped oval, within a larger oval, are several bunches of grapes. Scrolled border. Same design on back., Accompanied by manuscript note: Ambrotype of the farm at Marcus Hook known as the 'Magee Farm' taken by James F. Magee [on] Saturday, August 13th 1859., See Magee research file for biographical information about James F. Magee. Also see Board report dated April 29, 2002 regarding the aquisition of these ambrotypes.
Creator: Magee, James Francis, 1834-1903, photographer
Date: August 13, 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.2002.22a&b]

Title: Grandma Toppan
Description: Portrait of elderly woman looking slightly to her right. She is wearing a white lace cap tied under her chin., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Purple silk - design obliterated., Mat: Oval. Photographer's imprint stamped on mat: R. Cornelius, Philada., Case: Leather Cornelius case. Overall pattern of tiny flowers. Same design on verso.
Creator: Cornelius, Robert, 1809-1893, photographer
Date: ca. 1841
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9137.5]

Title: [Mary Elizabeth Garesche and child]
Description: Lovely portrait of Garesche turned slightly to her left with a white lace bonnet tied under her chin. She is cradling her daughter in her arms. Hand colored pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Deep purple velvet. Floral design in center, fanciful scrolls all around., Mat: Oval. Photographer's imprint stamped on mat: S. Broadbent., Case: Leather. Floral spray within a curved octagon. Ornate scrolls work all around. Same design on verso., Gift of Mrs. Custus B. Swope, December 31, 1979., Reproduced in Samuel Broadbent, Daguerreian Artist in The Daguerreian Annual, 2001, page 145.
Creator: Broadbent, Samuel, 1810-1880, photographer
Date: 1863
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8510 ]

Title: [Elizabeth Lea Jaudon Bakewell, aged 42.]
Description: Hand colored pale pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Ivory silk. Stamped on pad: Suddards & Fennemore 820 Arch St. Philada., Mat: Oval., Case: Oval dark purple velvet., See also 8326.F.21. See Lea Family research file., Gift of Mrs. A. Douglas Oliver, August 22, 1977.
Creator: Suddards & Fennemore, photographer
Date: 1870
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [8326.F.22]

Title: Sally Shober Lewis and Mrs. Francis Gray of Boston
Description: Copy photograph of sentimental painted portrait of the two sisters by Alexander Gottfried, a Philadelphia portrait painter, dated 1855., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Deep purple velvet. No design., Mat: Oval., Case: Leather. No design., Sitters were the great aunts of the donor, Mr. Pemberton H. Shober. Accession book entry reads: Daguerreotype of painting signed and dated 'Alexander Gottfried 1855.' See also portrait of Mrs. Wm. Geo. Spencer., Gift of Mr. Pemberton H. Shober, May 23, 1980.
Date: after 1855
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8515]

Title: [Julianna Randolph Wood holding her baby son Stuart.]
Description: Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Deep purple velvet. No design., Mat: Double elliptical., Case: Leather. No design., Manuscript note in case reads "As you think about making this a little larger Mother & baby." Proably taken at the same time as P.8926.11., See Anne Ayer Verplanck, Facing Philadelphia: Social Functions of Silhouettes, Miniatures, and Daguerreotypes, 1760-1860, (Ph.D. diss., College of William and Mary, 1996), section of Chapter IV, Wood Family Daguerreotypes, pp. 221-233. See research folder for biographical information about the Wood Family.
Date: 1853
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8926.6]

Title: [Sallie Sherrel Bonnell Houston, 1829-1913]
Description: Portrait of Bonnell wearing a plaid dress with a white lace collar. Her hair is parted in the middle and pulled back widely from her face. Hand colored pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Faded gold colored velvet., Mat: Ornamented oval., Case: Leather, in the shape of a book. No design. See Fig. 42 in American Miniature Case Art by Floyd and Marion Rinhart (Cranbury, New Jersey: A. S. Barnes and Co., Inc., 1969.) Stamped at bottom of inside front cover H. A. Eichmeyer. Patent Feb. 27, 1855. Henry Adolph Eichmeyer, of Philadelphia, was a case manufacturer., Filed under Eichmeyer. The portrait was taken at the time of her April 8, 1856 marriage to Henry Howard Houston (See P.8896 for a daguerreotype of Houston.) See Research File., Gift of Charlotte Dallett, great granddaughter of Sallie Bonnell, 2003.
Date: 1856
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.2003.11.1]

Title: [Portrait of an unidentified, pleasant looking young man.]
Description: Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Mat: Ornamented oval. Photographer's imprint stamped on mat: W. L. Germon. 168 Chest St Phila., Case: Leather. Lacking cover. No design.
Creator: Germon, W. L. (Washington Lafayette), 1822-1877, photographer
Date: 1857
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9561.4]

Title: [Portrait of an unidentified young woman, hair parted in the middle, wearing a big lace collar with a cameo pin at her neck.]
Description: Hand colored pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Red velvet. Swirls in the center, and all around., Mat: Ornamented oval. Photographer's imprint stamped on mat: W. L. Germon. 168 Chest St Phila., Case: Leather. Spray of flowers within an oval surrounded by a wreath. Nonpareil-like border. Geometric design on verso with a circle within an oval.
Creator: Germon, W. L. (Washington Lafayette), 1822-1877, photographer
Date: 1857
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9577.1]

Title: Sister Emma
Description: Portrait of a serene woman, hair parted severely in the middle. Hand colored pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Red velvet., Mat: Oval. Photographer's imprint stamped on mat: S. Broadbent., Case: Leather. No design.
Creator: Broadbent, Samuel, 1810-1880, photographer
Date: 1857
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9561.18]

Title: [George Thompson, 1794-1876]
Description: Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Red velvet with a small spray of flowers in the center and swirls all around. Note on pad reads George Thompson, brother of my grandfather, James B. Thompson - John T. Morris., Mat: Ornamented oval., Case: Leather. A bouquet of mixed flowers in a modified octagonal border, with scroll work all around. Same design on verso., See the article The Ties That Bind: Daguerreotypes and the Roberts and Thompson Families by Sarah Weatherwax in The Daguerreian Annual 1999 (Pittsburgh, Pa.: The Daguerreian Society, 1999) pgs. 210-221 for information about the Roberts and Thompson Families. See also the Board Report for January 20, 1998.
Date: ca. 1845
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9562.2]

Title: [Portrait of an unidentified elderly man, looking slightly to his left.]
Description: Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Burgundy velvet. No design., Mat: Octagonal., Case: Leather. Large spray of mixed flowers and leaves. Butterflies at each corner. No design on verso., Originally part of the Powel Family Papers., Sitter might be Col. John Hare Powel (1786-1856).
Date: ca. 1845
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [8421.F.1]

Title: [Julianna Randolph Wood in a dark dress, holding a daguerreotype portrait of a Richard D. Wood in her right hand.]
Description: Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Dark purple velvet. No design., Mat: Octagonal., Case: Leather. (Design is horizontal) A wavy spray of mixed flowers and leaves is in an oval. No design on verso., See P.8926.4 for the daguerreotype portrait of Richard D. Wood that Julianna holds in this image. See Anne Ayer Verplanck, Facing Philadelphia: Social Functions of Silhouettes, Miniatures, and Daguerreotypes, 1760-1860, (Ph.D. diss., College of William and Mary, 1996), section of Chapter IV, Wood Family Daguerreotypes, pp. 221-233. See research folder for biographical information about the Wood Family.
Date: ca. 1845
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8926.10]

Title: [Julianna Randolph Wood, 1810-1885.]
Description: Wood wears a black lace shawl over a ruffled dress, is seen in profile. She is seated, resting her left arm on an open book. Pale hand painted pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Faded dark red silk. No design., Mat: Oval. Stamped on mat: M. P. Simons, Philada., Case: Leather. (Design seems upside down.) A spray of roses and leaves. The design is similar, but not identical to, A Spray Of Roses, Variant plate 125 in American Miniature Case Art by Floyd and Marion Rinhart (Cranbury, New Jersey: A. S. Barnes and Co., Inc., 1969.) This design, with many variants, was produced in large quantity. Same design on verso., See Anne Ayer Verplanck, Facing Philadelphia: Social Functions of Silhouettes, Miniatures, and Daguerreotypes, 1760-1860, (Ph.D. diss., College of William and Mary, 1996), section of Chapter IV, Wood Family Daguerreotypes, pp. 221-233. See research folder for biographical information about the Wood Family.
Creator: Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.), photographer
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8928.2]

Title: Mrs. Isaac Lea
Description: Hand colored portrait of Frances Carey Lea, wife of Isaac Lea. She wears grey dress with lace and velvet trim and a close fitting bonnet decorated with lace and blue ribbons. She wears a brooch at her neck., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Case: Uncased., Manuscript note on verso: Mrs. Isaac Lea., See Lea Family research file., Gift of Mrs. A. Douglas Oliver, May 1996.
Date: ca. 1870
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9514.1]

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