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Grand Lodge room of the new Masonic Hall, Chestnut Street Philadelphia

"Copyright Deposit, Eastern District of Pen..: 1855." This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Rosenthal, Max.

Life preserver. John Weik's (Philadelphia) Kochbuecher [cookbooks] ......

Advertisement for cookbooks published by John Weik, showing people cooking and eating. Copyright by J. Weik.

New battleship Maine, building at Cramp Works, Philadelphia / Fred Pan...

Supplement to the Marine Review, Cleveland, vol. XXI, no. 6, Feb. 8, 1900. Copyright by the Marine Review Pub. Co. Reproduction of painting by Fred Pansing.

[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

[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.

[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.

Birds eye view of Philadelphia & centennial grounds

F12466 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Bachmann.

[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.

High Street, with the First Presbyterian Church - Philadelphiadelphia

Pedestrians; carriage and cart in street. Hand-colored engraving by Wm. Birch & Son. Illus. in: The City of Philadelphia...as It Appeared in the Year 1800..., 1800 Plate 9. Ref. copies may be in LOT 4384 D and ... More

[Briscoe Lord, 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.

Panoramic view of Philadelphiadelphia, Pennsylvania, from west side of...

1902C1 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; R. Newell & Son; 1872. Letter mounted at left of photo reads: "R. Newell & Son, General Business and Landscape Photographers, No. 626 Arch Street, Philadelphia, F... More

Sir, Please to deliver for the [blank] armed vessel under my command, ...

Public domain scan of 18th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Emancipation / Th. Nast ; King & Baird, printers, 607 Sansom Street, P...

Thomas Nast's celebration of the emancipation of Southern slaves with the end of the Civil War. Nast envisions a somewhat optimistic picture of the future of free blacks in the United States. The central scene ... More

Emancipation / Th. Nast ; King & Baird, printers, 607 Sansom Street, P...

[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.

The old Philadelphia. fire department. Period of 1850

N19176 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Leonhardt, Theo.

[Ira Thomas/John W. Coombs, Philadelphia Athletics, baseball card port...

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

[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.

[Dan Casey, Philadelphia Quakers, baseball card portrait]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a baseball paly, player, baseball field, athlete, 1920s, 20th century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Kitty 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.

[Kitty 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.

[Pat Moran, Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies, baseball card portrai...

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

The resurrection of Henry Box Brown at Philadelphia, who escaped from ...

A somewhat comic yet sympathetic portrayal of the culminating episode in the flight of slave Henry Brown "who escaped from Richmond Va. in a Box 3 feet long, 2-1/2 ft. deep and 2 ft. wide." In the office of the... More

The resurrection of Henry Box Brown at Philadelphia, who escaped from ...

[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

The last of the scaffolding drawn during removal / / Pennell.

Signed in pencil. Wuerth, no. 89. Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Ed Andrews, Philadelphia Quakers, baseball card portrait]

Public domain photograph related to baseball, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Mike Powers, Philadelphia Athletics, baseball card portrait]

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

Citizens Volunteer Hospital Philadelphia / des. & lith. by J. Queen ; ...

Print shows an exterior view of the Citizens Volunteer Hospital, corner of Broad St. & Washington Avenue, Philadelphia, with an interior view of a large hospital ward and vignette views of other hospital rooms,... More

Agricultural Hall. Grand United States Centennial Exhibition, 1876. Fa...

Caption continues: Length 820 ft. width 540 ft area 10.15 acres. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0075

[Harry Wright, 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.

Sybilline leaves by Florence & Fanny, Philadelphiadelphia / T. Sinclai...

Patent medicine label showing a woman in exotic dress waving a wand as a figure emerges from a smoking cauldron.

Arch Street, with the Second Presbyterian Church. Philadelphia

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

The Principal breeds of horses in use in North America / drawn from li...

Print showing six horse breeds: on the left, top to bottom are an "American Trotter", a "Heavy English Draught Horse", and a "Morgan Horse"; on the right, top to bottom are an "Arabian Horse", a "Horse of Norma... More

[John Titus, 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.

Bird's eye view of Philadelphia / J. Bachman [sic], del & lith. ; P.S....

Print shows Philadelphia from the Schuylkill River in the foreground to the Delaware River in the background.

[Hartsel, Philadelphia Athletics, baseball card portrait]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a baseball paly, player, baseball field, athlete, 1920s, 20th century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Salon jury, Philadelphia - Public domain portrait print

Group portrait of photographic salon jury members in profile facing left, including, left to right, Clarence H. White, Gertrude Käsebier, Henry Troth, F. Holland Day, and Frances Benjamin Johnston.

Salon jury, Philadelphia - Public domain portrait print

Group portrait of photographic salon jury members in profile facing left, including, left to right, Clarence H. White, Gertrude Käsebier, Henry Troth, F. Holland Day, and Frances Benjamin Johnston.

Bird's eye view of Philadelphia / J. Bachman, del. & lith.

Bird's-eye view of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with the Schuykill River in the foreground.

[Camp William Penn, Pennsylvania] / photographed by B.F. Reimer, 615 &...

Photograph shows the Union training camp for African American troops in the distance. Title devised by Library staff from Gladstone's notes. Gladstone's inventory number and notes: CDV34;Camp William Penn. "No.... More

[Kitty 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.

[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.

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.

Giussepe Ceracchi, sculptor. Nat. 1760-Ob. 1801 / Albert Rosenthal, Ph...

From the original painting in the Trumbull Collection Yale School of Art. Gift; L.M. Rabinowitz; 1948.

"The sleeping party" / Gillam. - Political cartoon, public domain imag...

Illustration shows a woman labeled "Republican Party" asleep in the background, with members of her court, some dressed as women, also asleep, in the foreground; depicted are Whitlaw Reid, Murat Halstead, Russe... More

[Pop Schriver, 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.

[Deacon McGuire, 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.

[City Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] - Public domain image. Dry pla...

Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Lemon Hill, country house of Robert Morris [sic], Fairmount Park, Phil...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a small palace, chateau, villa, residential historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

U.S.S. Philadelphia. Warship photograph collection

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship, navy, harbor, maritime photograph, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

U.S.S. Philadelphia. Warship photograph collection

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship, navy, harbor, maritime photograph, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

U.S.S. Philadelphia. Warship photograph collection

Picryl description: Public domain image of naval activity, ship, sea, 19th-20th century navy, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

U.S.S. Philadelphia. Warship photograph collection

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship, navy, harbor, maritime photograph, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Aerial view of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]

33289 or 33292 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship hull, port, harbor, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship, navy, harbor, maritime photograph, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship hull, port, harbor, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship, navy, harbor, maritime photograph, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship hull, port, harbor, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship, navy, harbor, maritime photograph, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Leading the parade - Philadelphia. Peace Jubilee

Stereo copyright by R.Y. Young. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship hull, port, harbor, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship, navy, harbor, maritime photograph, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[The Girard Trust Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[The Elevated station at Thirty-sixth Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvan...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a train station, railroad tracks, railway depot, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Broad Street station, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]

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

[Entrance to Keith's Theatre, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]

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

Old Liberty Bell, [Independence Hall, Philadelphia]

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bridge on Wissahickon Creek, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia

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

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship hull, port, harbor, ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a dock, harbor, boats, water, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship hull, port, harbor, ...

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

The Library, University of Pennsylvania

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Liberty Bell, Independence Hall, [Philadelphia]

Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Independence Hall, [Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]

Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

[Bedroom in Hotel Bellevue-Stratford, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] / Wi...

H63318 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 1713-A. Public domain photograph of hotel lobby, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Paint shop showing dome casings and sand boxes, Baldwin Locomotive Wor...

H70655 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 7084. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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