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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Customer orders being typed on company's o...

Public domain photograph of Pennsylvania in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Checking an order against the catalog at t...

Public domain photograph of Pennsylvania in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Letter slitter in operation at the W. Atle...

Public domain photograph of Pennsylvania in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A group of women in the shade at Fairmont ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Front face of a seed counter at the W. Atl...

Public domain photograph of Pennsylvania in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Assembling a bulb order at the W. Atlee Bu...

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Conservation. Glass gauges replacing steel. Markings are carried on a ...

Public domain photograph of Pennsylvania in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mr. George Daub, residence at 2123 Delancey Place, Philadelphia, Penns...

Public domain photograph of living room, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pennsylvania Station cocktail room, W. 30th St., Philadelphia. Detail ...

Public domain photograph of train station, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bonwit Teller, business at 17th and Chestnut, Philadelphia, Pennsylvan...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bonwit Teller, business at 17th and Chestnut, Philadelphia, Pennsylvan...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commercial building, downtown, shopping center, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

C.A. Rowell, business in Germantown, Pennsylvania. China and glass dep...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

C.A. Rowell, business in Germantown, Pennsylvania. Exterior of entranc...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commercial building, downtown, shopping center, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

C.A. Rowell, business in Germantown, Pennsylvania. Bathroom curtains

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

C.A. Rowell, business in Germantown, Pennsylvania. Rowellette

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commercial building, downtown, shopping center, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

C.A. Rowell, business in Germantown, Pennsylvania. General view to dre...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mrs. Eleanor Widener Dixon, residence at 9002 Crefeld St., Chestnut Hi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Philadelphia Country Club, Gladwyn, Pennsylvania. Card room II

Public domain photograph of hotel, living room, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Philadelphia Country Club, Gladwyn, Pennsylvania. Foyer

Public domain photograph of midcentury American office, workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Martin Van Buren, President of the United States / from life & on ston...

Print shows Martin Van Buren, half-length portrait, facing front; includes facsimile signature. Publication date based on copyright statement on item. Forms part of: Popular graphic art print filing series (Li... More

Nathaniel P. Tallmadge. Senator from New-York / from life & on stone b...

Print shows Nathaniel P. Tallmadge, half-length portrait, facing left; includes facsimile signature. 820 U.S. Copyright Office. No known restrictions on publication. Printed below title: "The Credit System is ... More

Philadelphia. 11, State-house / drawn from nature by Aug. Köllner ; li...

175 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 11. Inscribed in ink at bottom: 175. Deposited in the Clerks Office of the Southern District of New York May 24, 1849. Forms part of: Popular graphic art print filing series (Lib... More

Philip Hill, manufacturer of presidential campaign capes & caps...Phil...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Rogers.

The Tocsin of liberty: rung by the state house bell, (Independence Hal...

Print shows a man ringing the Liberty Bell while crowds in the background cheer. Reference print in LOT 4412 LF. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c... More

5-year-old Rosie Passeralla, 1116 Annan Street, Philadelphia. Been pic...

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[John Lobert/Chas. F. Dooin, Philadelphia Phillies, baseball card port...

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: American Tobacco Company. Center photo caption: "Lobert gets Tenney." Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

[Sherwood R. Magee, Philadelphia Phillies, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: American Tobacco Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

Centennial Fountain, Philadelphia Park, Pennsylvania 1876

Picryl description: Public domain image of a fountain, historic landmark, classical or neoclassical architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Green's Hotel]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commercial building, downtown, shopping center, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[University of Pennsylvania, Main Building and Library, Philadelphia, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Implements of torture, and their dangerous effects. Illustrated / By J...

An impassioned attack on cruelty in Pennsylvania's Eastern Penitentiary. Akin presents a life-size, detailed rendering of an iron gag, "Locked upon Mathias Maccumsey, a Convict from Lancaster County, sentenced... More

[George Graham, Philadelphia Phillies, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: American Tobacco Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

Frances Frigineto, 3 years old. Marie Frigineto, 5 years old, latter b...

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Frances Frigineto, 3 years old. Marie Frigineto, 5 years old, latter b...

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Birds eye view of the international exhibition buildings, Philadelphia...

Print showing a bird's-eye view of the grounds at the Centennial Exhibition with the Machinery Hall, Main Building, Memorial Hall, Horticultural Hall, and Agricultural Hall, with lake visible in the lower right corner.

The accident in Lombard Street Philada. 1787 / design'd and engraved b...

Print shows Chimney sweeps laughing at girl, who has dropped a pie on the street. The artist's residence and studio appear at left. Includes four line verse: The pye from Bake-house she had brought / But let it... More

"One strike!" / Hamilton ; Sackett & Wilhelms Litho. Co., New York.

Speaker Reed bowling over Martin of Texas, who was engaged in a filibuster, objectors Holman, Spinola, and Breckinridge, and obstructionists Crisp, R.Q. Mills, and Amos J. Cummings, while McKinley, Dana, and re... More

Centennial building. General view. Centennial building, Machinery Hall...

139038 and 139118 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Red Dooin, Philadelphia Phillies, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: American Tobacco Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

[Michael J. Doolan, Philadelphia Phillies, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: American Tobacco Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

[Harry Davis, Philadelphia Athletics, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: American Tobacco Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

[Design drawing for stained glass window showing Christ, symbols of Ne...

Public domain image of watercolor painting from British-related collections, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Philadelphia Harbor showing the islands now being removed by the Unite...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a boat in a harbor, water, fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Patrick J. Moran, Philadelphia Phillies, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: American Tobacco Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

[Patrick J. Livingston, Philadelphia Athletics, baseball card portrait...

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: American Tobacco Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

[Jimmy Dygert, Philadelphia Athletics, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: American Tobacco Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

[Sherry Magee, Philadelphia Phillies, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: American Tobacco Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

[Frank Baker, Philadelphia Athletics, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: American Tobacco Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

[Topsy Hartsel, Philadelphia Athletics, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: American Tobacco Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

[Philadelphia Phillies, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: Liggett & Myers Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

Passmore Williamson, in Moyamensing Prison for alledged contempt of co...

An unusual informal portrait of the secretary of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, seated in a prison cell. Williamson was sentenced on July 22, 1855, to imprisonment for his "false return" (i.e., evasive tes... More

[Ed Andrews, Philadelphia Quakers, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: Goodwin & Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

Henry Clay / Ino. Neagle, pinxit, 1843 ; engraved by John Sartain from...

A formal campaign portrait of Whig presidential candidate Henry Clay, after the painting by John Neagle done at Ashland, Clay's estate in Kentucky. As this print's legend states, the original was painted "by th... More

View of the ground and buildings, International Exhibition, 1876, Fair...

Bird's-eye view of buildings and grounds of the International Exhibition, Philadelphia, Pa. G4596 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyrighted by Lineaweaver & Wallace, 1876. Library has two impressions. Second impressi... More

[Deep Bottom, Virginia, vicinity. Transport Linda of Philadelphia and...

Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy -- the Federal Navy, 1861-1865.

[Chief Bender, Philadelphia Athletics, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: American Tobacco Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

[Nicholls, Philadelphia Athletics, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: American Tobacco Company. "Nichols"- -caption on card. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

[Boardwalk Brown, Philadelphia Athletics, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

Eight-year-old, Jennie Camillo, lives in West Maniyunk, Pennsylvania (...

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Teresa Lerre, 5 years old, cranberry picker. 1024 S. 9th St., Philadel...

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Review of the return'd veterans, Philadelphia, main stand, Broad & Mar...

Photograph shows crowd at reviewing stand. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites a... More

Harrison's flavoring extracts. Philadelphia.

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Bigot.

[Design drawing with The Star of Bethlehem; and The Wise Men for Episc...

Public domain reproduction of illuminated manuscript page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Power of music] / chromo. of Duval & Hunter, Philadelphia ; Jas. F. Q...

Print shows an African American man playing fiddle and family dancing. It resembles, but is an Americanized variation of, Auguste Dircks (1806-1881) "Dancing to the fiddle" now in the Josef Mensing Gallery, Ham... More

[Rube Oldring, Philadelphia Athletics, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: American Tobacco Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

[Jim Fogarty, Philadelphia Quakers, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: D. Buchner & Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

[Jim Fogarty, Philadelphia Quakers, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: D. Buchner & Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

[William E. Bransfield, Philadelphia Phillies, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: American Tobacco Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

Bird's eye view, Philadelphia / lith. by H.J. Toudy & Co., Philadelphi...

Bird's eye view of Philadelphia between the Schuykill River, in the foreground, and the Delaware River in the background; vignettes of prominent buildings along top and bottom borders.

[Earl Moore, Philadelphia Phillies, baseball card portrait]

Public domain reproduction of a relief art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

International Exhibition, Philadelphia., Pennsylvania: First Locomoti...

Stereo copyrighted by the Centennial Photographic Co. No. 2717. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Machinery; Firsts; Exhibitions 1876; Shelf.

[Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Harry Krause/Ira Thomas, Philadelphia Athletics, baseball card portra...

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: American Tobacco Company. Center photo caption: "The Athletic infield." Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

View of Philadelphia as seen from top of Great Ship House, Augt. 1829 ...

(DLC/PP-1996:023.12) Notations below, above and within image identify types of ships and places. Philadelphia Print Shop Inventory no. 152. Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection (Library of Congress).

French millinery, dress & flower making establishment / on stone by Ja...

Print shows a variety of bonnets on stands on a table. Includes text advertising Madame Petit's millinery store in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

[U.S. Customs House, Philadelphia]

Exterior view of the U.S. Customs House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Forms part of the Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress). Purchase; Marian S. Carson; 1999 (DLC/PP-1999:126.011) Published in: Gat... More

The grave of my mother Poetry and music composed and respectfully dedi...

Print showing title page illustration with girl looking sadly at "the grave of my mother." Drawn on stone by James Queen.

Harrison's flavoring extracts. Philadelphia

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Bigot.

Pennsylvania Hospital, Pine Street, Philadelphia, engraving, Library o...

Published in Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, July 1854, p. 24. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Pennsylvania Philadelphia; Hospitals Pennsylvania;... More

[Diploma of the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, awarde...

Print shows two young men leading an ox team pulling a wagon loaded with hay on which a woman and children are riding; also shows farm animals and two female figures possibly representing Demeter, the goddess o... More

The director and prefect of the Sodality of St. Joseph's Church, Phila...

Print shows the Blessed Virgin Mary and scenes showing church services where young men and young women are "received into the Sodality" of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Includes pencil inscriptions that point out d... More

Diploma of the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, awarded...

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform, unidentified woman, and uniden...

Case: Leather; floral design. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:180) Purchased from: Rick Brown, 2014. Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress). Forms... More

Cathedral of Saint Peter and Saint Paul

Exterior of Cathedral of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. No. 284.

John H. Rock, colored counselor / photographed by Richards, Philadelph...

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1865 Feb. 25, p. 124. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Handel and Hayden Hall occupied by the Union Business College of Phila...

Photograph shows students attending class at Union Business College, now named Peirce College, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Continuation of caption on verso: Thomas May Peirce, A.M., President. A popular and... More

Fitzgerald, Thomas Editor of the Philadelphia Item

A black and white photo of a man in a suit and tie. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Entrance to Lemon Hill - Lithograph, public domain, Library of Congres...

Print shows a view of walkways around a fountain leading to a stairway up a hill to the Lemon Hill mansion in the background, from a souvenir booklet of views of Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, part 1st, 1870.

Fairmount, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19th century stereoscope card.

Stereograph showing visitors on a terrace in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. From James Cremer's Stereoscopic Emporium, 18 South Eighth St., Philadelphia. Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress).

Colonel Thomas A. Scott / photographed by F. Gutekunst, Philadelphia. ...

Illustration showing two portraits: Colonel Thomas A. Scott, bust portrait, facing slightly right; and Horace F. Clark, bust portrait, facing left. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 17, no. 863 (1873 July 12), p. 596.

Horticultural Hall, International Exhibition, 1876--Fairmont Park, Phi...

Illus. in: Album of the International exhibition at Philadelphia to commemorate the centennial of the United States of America. New York : J. Bien, 1875, plate 11. Copyright by Schwarzmann & Pohl, architects.

Art Gallery, International Exhibition, 1876--Fairmont Park, Philadelph...

Illus. in: Album of the International exhibition at Philadelphia to commemorate the centennial of the United States of America. New York : J. Bien, 1875, plate 9. Copyright by Schwarzmann & Pohl, architects.

Machinery Hall - October 8. 19th century, Library of Congress collecti...

Machinery Hall at International Exhibition in Fairmont Park, Philadelphia. Copyright by the Centennial Photographic Company. No. 28.

International Exhibition, Philadelphia., Pennsylvania: Elevated railwa...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, train car, railway, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Wall Paper Printing Press, Machinery Hall at the centennial, 1876, Ph...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia. 1876]: Machinery Hall, Russian S...

Stereo copyrighted by Centennial Photo. Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Exhibitions; Sculpture; Shelf.

Our centennial--President Grant and Dom Pedro starting the Corliss eng...

Print show large crowd around Ulysses Grant, Pedro II (Emperor of Brazil), and large Corliss engine at Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, Pa. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1876 May 27, p. 421. Published in: T... More

English Commission Building / Inger., engraving, Library of Congress

8495G2 U.S. Copyright Office. Illus. in souvenir album: Memorial of the International Exhibition at Philadelphia, 1876. Philadelphia : Thos. Hunter, 1876.

Panorama of Philadelphia and Centennial Exhibition Grounds

G7373 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Weise.

[President Grant declaring the exhibition open at the centennial at Me...

Illus. in: Harper's Weekly (1876 May 27). Reference copy may be in LOT 4435-A. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: President; Shelf.

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