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Tabor Presbyterian Church. Southwest Corner of Christian and 18th Streets,...
This hand-colored lithograph from circa 1863 shows an exterior view of the Gothic-style Tabor Presbyterian Church, located at the southwest corner of 18th and Christian Streets in Philadelphia. This...
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Lippincott and Company. Southwest Corner of Fourth and Market Streets,...
This 1858 advertising print shows the red, two-bay, six-story building located at the southwest corner of Fourth and Market Streets; it is marked by a pre-consolidation address (i.e., from before the...
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Robert Wood's Railing, Architectural and Ornamental Iron Works. Ridge Road...
This circa 1851 advertising print shows a long three-story brick factory occupied by the iron works owned by Robert Wood and located at 1126 Ridge Avenue in Philadelphia. The central portion of the...
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Bennett's Tower Hall, Front Elevation. 518 Market Street, Philadelphia
This circa 1867 lithograph by architect Samuel Sloan (1815–84) was a plate in an architectural design book; it shows an exterior view of Bennett's Tower Hall, a five-and-one-half story, tower-shaped...
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Christ Church
This 1864 lithograph shows an exterior view looking northwest at Christ Church Episcopal church located at 22-34 North Second Street in Philadelphia. Christ Church was built between 1727 and 1744. The...
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Commissioners Hall, Northern Liberties, Philadelphia
This hand-colored lithograph from 1853 shows an exterior view of the hall containing the police station for the district and the office of the mayor, located on a busy snow-covered Third Street...
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The Farm. A Scene near Gray's Ferry, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
This 1852 lithograph by architect Samuel Sloan (1815–84) was a plate in an architectural design book; it illustrated an Italianate mansion located at the intersection of two roads in Gray's Ferry near...
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Tamany Fish House, on the Pea Shore, River Delaware
This hand-colored lithograph from circa 1852 shows visitors enjoying the public grounds of the Tamany Pea Shore Fishing Company, a social and sporting club founded by Philadelphia artisans in 1803 on...
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H. B. McCalla, Successor to the Late Andrew McCalla. Number 252 Market...
This circa 1852 chromolithograph is an advertising print showing the three-and-one-half story storefront located on the 700 block of Market Street in Philadelphia. The building is covered in...
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Northern Liberties and Spring Garden Water Works
This hand-colored lithograph from 1852 shows an oblique view of the front and north flank of the one-and-a-half story granite engine house at the Spring Garden and Northern Liberties Water Works...
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Abbott and Lawrence Liberty Stove Works. Brown Street above Fourth Street,...
This circa 1852 advertising print shows the Abbott & Lawrence Liberty Stove Works, founded in 1851 on the 400 block of Brown Street, west of Fourth Street, in the Northern Liberties neighborhood...
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Saint Paul's German Lutheran Church. Northeast Corner of Brown and Saint John...
This 1840 lithograph shows an exterior view of a church, identified as Saint Paul’s German Lutheran Church, which was built in 1840 after the designs of architect A.D. Caldwell. The church was located...
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The Emmanuel Episcopal Church. Marlboro Street, Kensington, Philadelphia
This hand-colored lithograph from circa 1840 shows an interior view of the Emmanuel Episcopal Church, located on Marlborough Street north of Girard Avenue in the Kensington neighborhood of...
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Emmanuel Episcopal Mission Church. Marlboro Street, Kensington
This circa 1840 lithograph shows an exterior view of the Emmanuel Episcopal Church, located on Marlborough Street north of Girard Avenue in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia. The church was...
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United States Hotel, Chestnut Street, Philadelphia
This circa 1840 advertising print shows a view looking east down Chestnut Street in Philadelphia. It features the large, prominent hotel that opened in 1826 following the conversion by John Rea of...
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Merchants' Exchange. Philadelphia
This lithograph from 1840 shows a view from the intersection of Third, Walnut and Dock Streets, and shows the Merchant’s Exchange that was constructed in 1832–33 for the Philadelphia Exchange Company...
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Interior View of the New Church of Saint Joseph, Philadelphia
This circa 1840 lithograph shows an interior view looking toward the altar (east end) of Saint Joseph’s Church, built 1838–39 after the designs of master designer and parishioner John Darragh, and...
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Chapel
This print from 1844 shows an exterior view of the flank of a Gothic-style funeral chapel built in 1836–39 for Laurel Hill Cemetery, near Philadelphia. In the 1830s, a group of influential...
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Church of the Nativity
This lithograph from circa 1844 shows an exterior view of the Gothic-style Episcopal Church of the Nativity, located in Philadelphia at the northwest corner of 11th and Mount Vernon Streets. The...
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Goodyears Rubber-Packing and Belting Company
This circa 1856 advertising print shows the five-story offices and storefront known as the Girard Building (102-104, i.e., 306-308 Chestnut Street), in Philadelphia. The building was tenanted by...
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