Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., View of railroad tracks and a small locomotive near the Pack Saddle, which is a deep gorge that runs through Chestnut Ridge Mountains alongside the Conemagh River.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts the elegant wire-suspension bridge spanning the Allegheny River in Pittsburgh, designed by John A. Roebling, constructed 1857-59, and replaced in 1892. Known as the Sixth Street Bridge and the St. Clair Bridge.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts construction activities on a section of a stone wall near the railroad tracks.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Landscape view near Walls Station, showing residences near a winding dirt path.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts a small tower near the railroad tracks at Walls Station. Includes a view of the Walls Hotel in the background (left).
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., View of large, numbered oil tanks that are sectioned off from a dirt path where the photographer stands by a small fence.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., View showing the Pennsylvania Canal, a cut-stone aqueduct, crossing the Conemaugh River near Lockport.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., View of a locomotive pulling a long line of railroad cars through the Pack Saddle, which is a deep gorge that runs through Chestnut Ridge Mountains alongside the Conemagh River. Includes a detailed view of the rock formations near the tracks.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts one of the many industries near the Scottsdale station on the South-West Pennsylvania Branch, leased by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1873. Probably one of the coke works in the area.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts a small locomotive, with a group of men sitting and standing on top, approaching the photographer on the railroad tracks in Lockport. Includes the Pennsylvania Canal, a cut-stone aqueduct, in the background.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts the railroad tracks merging from two tracks into one next to Big Sewickley Creek near Paintersville station, once a stop on the South-West Pennsylvania Railroad, which was leased by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1873.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Landscape view from the railroad tracks, looking down at the Conemaugh River.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., View of debris and overgrowth near a small, unidentified building in Bennington, Pa., an area rich in iron and once home to Bennington Furnace (a.k.a. Henrietta or Harriet Furnace).
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Landscape view near Bennington, Pa., an area rich in iron and once home to Bennington Furnace (a.k.a. Henrietta or Harriet Furnace).
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts railroad tracks running through the Lewistown Narrows, an area between the Juniata River and Black Log and Shade mountains.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., View of a stone, double arch bridge carrying railroad tracks over Turtle Creek near Stewart's Station. A house and a church are visible in the distance.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., View of Stewart's Station, with a man and two children sitting on the stairs leading down to the platform.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., View of railroad tracks and Walls Station sign board, with a two-and-a-half story residence in the background.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts a man sitting on a slope leading from the railroad tracks down to the Conemaugh River. The Pack Saddle is a deep gorge that runs through Chestnut Ridge Mountains alongside the Conemagh River.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts a man sitting on a tall boulder near the railroad tracks in the Pack Saddle, which is a deep gorge that runs through Chestnut Ridge Mountains alongside the Conemagh River.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., View of Weirs Run in Black Lick, Pa. A house sits at the water's edge in the distance.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Landscape view of the Kiskiminetas River near North-west station, a stop on the old Western Pennsylvania Railroad line, which was leased to the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1865.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts a single railroad track running next to the Youghiogheny River. Depicts people walking on the tracks in the distance.
Full-length, forward-facing portrait of Ulysses S. Grant and Li Hongzhang, also known as Li Hung Chang, in Tianjin, China in 1879. In the left, Grant, wearing a beard and attired in a white collared shirt, a white bowtie, a black waistcoat with a pocket watch chain, a black jacket, and pants, sits on a chair with his hands curled on his lap and his feet on a footrest. In the right, Li Hongzhang, wearing a beard and attired in a conical hat, a traditional Chinese robe with buttons down the front, and cloth slip-on shoes, sits with his left hand on his lap, his right arm resting on a side table, and his feet on a footrest. On the table between the two men is a vase filled with flowers and two teacups. Ulysses S. Grant and his wife Julia embarked on a diplomatic tour of 19 countries from May 1877 to September 1879. Grant visited China in April to May, 1879 and met with Governor General Li Hongzhang. They discussed China's dispute with Japan over the Ryukyu Islands., Title from item., Date from manuscript note written above the image: 2-10-90., Text printed beneath image: From the original photograph taken in Pekin (1879) and loaned to the Exhibition by Mr. Geo. W. Childs., The original photograph was taken by photographer Liang Shitai also known as See Tay., Part of a collection of disbound scrapbook pages re-housed in folders in three boxes., Brothers Louis Edward Levy (1846-1919) and Max Levy (1857-1926) founded a photoengraving business in Baltimore in 1875. In 1877, they moved to Philadelphia and reorganized the firm as the Levytype Company. In 1900, the firm was renamed the Graphic Arts Company.
Date
[ [ca. 1890]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | PRINT portrait prints - Civil War scrapbook of portraits [(1)5775.F.32]
Depicts ducks in a large pen, surrounded by a green field and trees. Dwellings are visible at the top of a hill in the distance in some of the images. Includes ducks wading in a pond., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1895
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.1-5]
Depicts various men, women and children swimming in the Chesapeake Bay. Includes bathers splashing, playing and posing for pictures in shallow water. One bather dives into the water from the shoulders of two men. Depicts sailboats in the far distance., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1898
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.117-122]
Contains scenic views of waterfalls, streams, large boulders and trails in the Pocono Mountains. Unidentified men, women and children lounge by the waterfalls and streams and climb rocks in some of the images., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1890
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.80-93]
Scrapbook containing portraiture of Civil War military and political figures, including cartes de visite, card portraits, portrait prints, group portraits, photo montages, caricatures and newspaper clippings. Group portraits include the cabinet of Abraham Lincoln; lithographs and cartes de viste titled "The Defenders of Our Union" portraying the generals of the Union Army; and cartes de visite views at Camp Winfield Scott, near Yorktown on May 1-2, 1862 showing Gen Van Vliet and friends, General Marcy and friends, and officers servants. Also contains several unidentified cartes de visite portraits of Union military personnel; a 1904 card from the Massachusetts Military Order of the Loyal Legion requesting war-time portraits; and advertisements for portrait engravers and publishers, J.C Buttre, Wm. S. & A. Martien, L. Prang & Co., and A. Winch. Buttre advertisement also contains a manuscript note by Buttre to J.A. McAllister dated January 31, 1862 requesting a likeness of Secretary Stanton., Sitters include Nathaniel Banks, Louis Blenker, Ambrose Burnside, John C. Fremont, George McClellan, Winfield Scott, John Sedgwick, William Henry Seward, Philip H. Sheridan, William T. Sherman, Franz Sigel, Edward Stanton, Edwin V. Sumner, George Sykes, George H. Thomas, James S. Wadsworth, Alexander Webb, Gideon Welles, Charles Wilkes, James H. Wilson, Isaac J. Wistar, and Fernando Wood., Various artists and photographers including Barnard & Gibson, James Black, Mathew Brady, John Chester Buttre, Washington Lafayette Germon, Frederick Gutekunst, James E. McClees, George E. Perine, A.H. Ritchie, and John Sartain, Various publishers including John Dainty, E. & H.T. Anthony, J.A. Lowell & Co., J.E. Tilton & Co., L. Prang & Co, McAllister & Brother, and Wm. S. & A. Martien., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date
ca. 1861-1904
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - McAllister Civil War scrapbook of portraits [(2)5775.F]
Shows the notorious Vice-president's headstone in the Presidents' lot of the Princeton Cemetery in Princeton, N.J. Also shows the photographer, Richards, seated on a tomb next to the headstone., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Accompanied by three newspaper clippings dated November 13, 1828, February 4, 1858, and February 8, 1858 noting anecdotes about Burr., Originally part of a series of five scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson entitled "American Biography," vol. 2, p. 32.
Creator
Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date
September 1854
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Monuments and statues - B [(2)2525.F.32]
Scrapbook of portraiture of Civil War military and political figures containing cartes de visite, card portraits, portrait prints, newspaper clippings, caricatures, book illustrations, trade cards, souvenir cards, funeralia, and scraps. Includes funeralia in memory of Elmer Ellsworth; several card portraits engraved by Stencrel/Stenzel? and published by L. Prang & Co. and Wm S. & A. Martien; portrait prints inscribed on the verso, "Dinner of the General Wm. B. Meade Post"; and a print and a photograph portrait with amateur ink and goauche hand-coloring. Carte de visite caricatures include Bombastes Furioso; The Copperhead; Crossing the Rocky Mountain; How to Make a Brigadier; The Napoleon of the 69th; and A Public Nuisance. Also contains a carte de visite portrait of the injured Col. Robert Nugent of the 69th N.Y. Infantry; a carte de visite portrait of flag-waving patriot Barbara Frietchie; several unidentified cartes de visite portraits of Union military personnel; and a Harper's Weekly clipping showing the execution of deserter William Johnson. Non-Civil War era material includes a circa 1890 photomechanical reproduction of General Grant and the Chinese Viceroy Li Hongzhang also known as Li Hung Chang., Sitters include G.T. Beauregard; Charles Boggs, Don Carlos Buell; Benjamin Butler, boy Sergeant John Clem; Michael Corcoran; Native American military officer, Rev. Lewis Downing, Lt. Col. 3rd Indian Home Guards; Elmer Ellsworth; John C. Fremont; Barbara Frietchie; Ulysses S. Grant; Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton Halleck; Henry Wager Halleck; Joseph Hooker; John William Hofmann; Thomas L. Kane; Benjamin Franklin Kelley; Nathaniel Lyon, Peter Lyle, Irvin McDowell; George Gordon Meade; General (James E.?) Montgomery; J.K. Murphy; Robert Nugent; and Andrew Porter., Various artists and photographers including Mathew Brady, John Chester Buttre, Earles' Galleries, Alexander Gardner, Frederick Gutekunst, James E. McClees, James Magee, George E. Perine, A.H. Ritchie, and A.B. Walker., Various publishers and distributors including Boell, John Dainty, J. Hall & Co., C.Y. Haynes, L.Prang & Co, McAllister & Brother, and Wm. S. & A. Martien., Disbound scrapbook pages re-housed in folders in three boxes., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date
ca. 1861-1890
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - Civil War scrapbook of portraits [(1)5775.F]
Genre print showing two men standing in a small boat navigating through the tall reeds and lily pads of a marshy section of the Delaware River. The gentleman in the front of the boat is poised to shoot a rail, a slow and steady game bird, while the man in the back poles slowly through the water., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, Smithsonian Institution, NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection: DL*60.2797
Date
c1866
Location
Smithsonian Institution | NMAH Home and Community Life Collection SI NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection [DL*60.2797]
Aerial views of the Alan Wood Iron and Steel Company in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania. Views from higher and lower altitudes show the factory complex from several angles as it sits on the bank of the Schuylkill River and straddles Conshohocken Road. The mainfacility was designed by the architecture firm of Savory, Scheetz, & Savory and built in 1910. Railroad tracks and bridges over the river are visible as are portions of the city of Conshohocken in the distance., Negative numbers: 1573, 1575, 2860, 2861., Record revised with information supplied by former Aero Service employee Carl H. Winnefeld, Jr.
Creator
Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date
ca. 1922
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.1573; P.8990.1575; P.8990.2860; P.8990.2861]
Aerial views of the Allied Chemical & Dye Corporation, General Chemical Division plant on the banks of the Cooper and Delaware Rivers in Camden, New Jersey. The corporation (later known as Allied Chemical Corporation and then as the Allied Corporation) was formed in 1921 as an amalgamation of five of the largest U.S. chemical companies established in the 1800s. These views show what was originally the General Chemical sulfuric acid plant. The facility is shown from several angles, including vertical views from high altitude. A variety of factory buildings are visible, as are ships on the river, railroad tracks servicing the area and row homes in adjacent residential areas., Negative numbers: AC440, AC441, AC442, AC444, AC445, AC446, AC447, AC448, AC449, AC450, AC451, AC452, AC453, AC455.
Creator
Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date
1925-1926
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.AC440-AC442; P.8900.AC444-AC453; P.8990.AC455]
Aerial views of the Armstrong Cork Company (later Armstrong World Industries) plant on the outskirts of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The company produced its first linoleum products at this plant beginning in 1908. Views include high-altitude vertical views showing the factory and environs as well as close-up views of the facility from a lower altitude. Surrounding farmlands are visible in the distance. Probably taken 1922 [1806, 1891] and 1925 [4785-4792]., Negative numbers: 1806, 1891, 4785, 4785a, 4786, 4786a, 4787, 4787a, 4788, 4789, 4790, 4792., Record revised with information supplied by former Aero Service employee Carl H. Winnefeld, Jr.
Creator
Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date
ca. 1922-1925
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.1806; P.8990.1891; P.8990.4785; P.8990.4785a; P.8990.4786; P.8990.4786a; P.8990.4787; P.8990.4787a; P.8990.4788; P.8990.4789; P.8990.4791; P.8990.4792]
Aerial views of the the American Steel and Wire Company plant. In 1848 John A. Roebling purchased a 25 acre site along the Delaware & Raritan Canal in Chambersburg (now a part of Trenton) for his wire rope business. Roebling designed the buildings and machinery and directed the company until his death in 1869, when his sons took over. The company manufactured wire rope and related products for suspension bridges, shipping, mining, construction (including the Panama Canal), electrical power transmission, cable cars, tramways, aircraft, submarine netting, musical instruments, elevators, logging and oil drilling. By World War I, the factory was the largest wire rope plant in the world and the company grew considerably in response to steadily increasing demands for its products. The company was a subsidiary of the U.S. Steel Corporation. The views show ortions of the plant from several angles with the city of Trenton visible in the distance., Negative numbers: 6031, 6434, 6435.
Creator
Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date
1926
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.6031; P.8990.6434; P.8990.6435]
Aerial views of the campus and environs of George School, established 1893 in Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Views depict campus buildings, including the Main Building constructed 1892 after designs by Addison Hutton., Negative numbers: 2739, 2740, 2741., Record revised with information supplied by former Aero Service employee Carl H. Winnefeld, Jr.
Creator
Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date
ca. 1922
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.2739; P.8990.2740; P.8990.2741]
Aerial views of the campus of Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey. Chartered 1746 as the College of New Jersey. Name changed to Princeton University in 1896. Depicts many campus buildings and two views (1228 and 1253) show nearby railroad station., Negative numbers: 1228-1230, 1253.
Creator
Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date
ca. 1915
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.1228-1230; P.8990.1253]
Aerial views of the campuses of Delaware College and Women's College, located in Newark, Delaware. Delaware College was originally chartered in 1769 as the Academy of Newark. In 1843 it was renamed Delaware College. The separate but coordinate Women's College opened in 1914. In 1921 the two coordinate colleges merged and were officially renamed University of Delaware., Negative numbers: 2882-2886.
Creator
Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date
ca. 1918
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.2882-2886]
Aerial views of the Church Farm School in Exton, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Depicts original school and residential buildings, mainly designed 1918 by Milton B. Medary, Jr. of the firm Zantzinger, Borie & Medary, as well as surrounding barns and farmlands. Founded 1918 by Rev. Charles W. Shreiner as a boarding school for boys, with the goal of combining religious education with agricultural and industrial work., Negative numbers: 4774, 4776-4778, 4781, 4783.
Creator
Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date
ca. 1924
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.4774; P.8990.4776-4778; P.8990.4781; P.8990.4783]
Aerial views of the Bryn Mawr College campus. Depicts stone buildings in the Collegiate Gothic style, many designed by the firm Cope & Stewardson and constructed circa 1890-1907. The women's college opened in 1885., Negative numbers: 12480, 12481, 12483., 12481 not digitized; negative is damaged and cannot be scanned.
Creator
Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date
May 12, 1930
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.12480; P.8990.12481; P.8990.12483]
Aerial views of the Swarthmore College campus. Buildings depicted include Parrish Hall, which was rebuilt in 1890 after a fire destroyed the original in 1881, and the Sproul Observatory. The co-educational college was founded in 1864 by the Society of Friends. Residences are visible in the distance., Negative numbers: 7102, 7103, 7104.
Creator
Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date
ca. 1927
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.7102; P.8990.7103; P.8990.7104]
Aerial views of the campus and environs of the Westtown School, located in Westtown, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Views depict campus buildings, including the Main Building designed by Addison Hutton and completed in 1888, from various altitudes and directions. The boarding school was established in 1794 by the Society of Friends and opened in 1799. Images probably taken 1921 [1354, 1384, 1448] and 1922 [1526, 1528, 1605, 1606]., Negative numbers: 1354, 1384, 1448, 1526, 1527, 1528, 1605, 1606., Record revised with information supplied by former Aero Service employee Carl H. Winnefeld, Jr.
Creator
Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date
ca. 1921-1922
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.1354; P.8990.1384; P.8990.1448; P.8990.1526; P.8990.1527; P.8990.1528; P.8990.1605; P.8990.1606]
Aerial views of the Adam Scheidt Brewing Company (now the Stony Creek Office Center) on the banks of Stony Creek in Norristown, Pennsylvania. The brewery operated from 1870-1975. The view from a vantage point south of the brewery shows the area of Norristown east of the brewery buildings at Elm and Markley Streets (U.S. Route 202)., Negative numbers: 7957, 7960, 8428.
Creator
Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date
1927-1928
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.7957; P.8990.7960; P.8990.8428]
