philadelphia

Star of advent; Christmas carol - American sheet music, 1870-1885

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Rockland, Mount Pleasant Drive, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Significance: Rockland, erected ca. 1810, is an excellent example of a Federal style house built by skilled, local carpenters and masons, and exhibiting many similarities to earlier country houses built along t... More

Rockland, Mount Pleasant Drive, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Significance: Rockland, erected ca. 1810, is an excellent example of a Federal style house built by skilled, local carpenters and masons, and exhibiting many similarities to earlier country houses built along t... More

Rockland, Mount Pleasant Drive, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Significance: Rockland, erected ca. 1810, is an excellent example of a Federal style house built by skilled, local carpenters and masons, and exhibiting many similarities to earlier country houses built along t... More

John Brock & Sons Warehouse, 242-244 North Delaware Avenue, Philadelph...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-234 Survey number: HABS PA-1395

Philadelphia & Reading Railroad, Bridge at West Falls, Spanning Schuyl...

See also HAER PA-39 for related documentation. Includes photographs & written data. Significance: The Philadelphia & Reading Railroad's second bridge at West Falls complements the adjacent Falls Bridge (1854) i... More

Do it the right way - Public domain American sheet music

Free Library of Philadelphia, Manayunk Branch, Fleming and Dupont Stre...

Significance: Completed in 1908, the Manayunk Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia was the tenth of twenty-five branch libraries built through an endowment from industrialist-turned-philanthropist Andrew ... More

Gladstone Hotel, 328-338 South Front Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphi...

Significance: Philadelphia's first large hotel-apartment building of luxury class, which lasted until the 1920s. In 1958 it became Greystone Apartments. It was demolished in March of 1971. Survey number: HABS PA-1511

Captain James Abercrombie House, 268-270 South Second Street, Philadel...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a church, crypt, chamber, underground vault architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Captain James Abercrombie House, 268-270 South Second Street, Philadel...

Public domain scan of an architecture diagram, architectural drawing, building plan, or design, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Stenton, Courtland & Eighteenth Streets, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co...

See also HALS PA-24 for additional documentation. Survey number: HABS PA-1714 Building/structure dates: ca. 1728 Initial Construction

Stenton, Courtland & Eighteenth Streets, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co...

See also HALS PA-24 for additional documentation. Survey number: HABS PA-1714 Building/structure dates: ca. 1728 Initial Construction

Frankford Arsenal, Building No. 312, Northeast corner of Walbach Stree...

Significance: Building 312 is associated with the extensive infrastructure of roads, utilities and services that supported the principal functions of Frankford Arsenal, the U.S. Army's principal manufacturer of... More

Farmers' & Mechanics' Bank, 427 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Philade...

Significance: The Farmers' & Merchants' Bank, at that time the largest in the city, erected the first of the bank row structures in 1854. The building has recently been the home of the Philadelphia Maritime Mus... More

[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.

1900 Block North Thirty-Second Street (Houses), East side, Philadelphi...

Significance: The 1900 block, N. Thirty-second Street stands among the most impressive in North Philadelphia. The buff-colored roman brick and spacious integral porches makes these twins stand out among the ot... More

St. James Roman Catholic Church, 3728 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, P...

Survey number: HABS PA-1641 Public domain photograph of the interior of a church, altar, choir, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Woodland Avenue Car Barn, Woodland Avenue & Fourty-ninth Street, Phila...

Significance: Erected in 1897, the Woodland Avenue Car Barn was built and continues to serve as a depot where streetcars are stored, washed, serviced and dispatched for service to southwest, west and center cit... More

Ormiston House, Reservoir Drive, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Significance: Erected by Edward Burd in 1798, Ormiston is a well-preserved part of the villa group that developed along Edgeley Point Lane in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Early documentation f... More

Germantown Academy, 110 Schoolhouse Lane, Philadelphia, Philadelphia C...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-5 Survey number: HABS PA-7-4 Building/structure dates: 1760 Initial Construction

Germantown Academy, 110 Schoolhouse Lane, Philadelphia, Philadelphia C...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-5 Survey number: HABS PA-7-4 Building/structure dates: 1760 Initial Construction

Germantown Academy, 110 Schoolhouse Lane, Philadelphia, Philadelphia C...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-5 Survey number: HABS PA-7-4 Building/structure dates: 1760 Initial Construction

Germantown Academy, 110 Schoolhouse Lane, Philadelphia, Philadelphia C...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-5 Survey number: HABS PA-7-4 Building/structure dates: 1760 Initial Construction

Naval Hospital Philadelphia, Convalescent Ward, South side of Jackman ...

Significance: Building 54 is one among a connected complex of 12 Convalescent Ward buildings (47-58) that were constructed in 1945 to house convalescent wards and specialized therapeutic facilities for injured ... More

Schottische; Expectation - Public domain American sheet music, 1885

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

[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

Hospital of Protestant Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, Front Street ...

Survey number: HABS PA-1764 Public domain photograph of hospital building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Market Street National Bank Building, 1-21 Juniper Street, Philadelphi...

Survey number: HABS PA-1517 Public domain photograph of bank building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph of shopping center, department store building... More

Christ Church, 22-26 North Second Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia C...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-294 Survey number: HABS PA-1071 Building/structure dates: 1744 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1834 Subsequent Work Building/stru... More

Christ Church, 22-26 North Second Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia C...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-294 Survey number: HABS PA-1071 Building/structure dates: 1744 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1834 Subsequent Work Building/stru... More

Christ Church, 22-26 North Second Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia C...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-294 Survey number: HABS PA-1071 Building/structure dates: 1744 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1834 Subsequent Work Building/stru... More

Christ Church, 22-26 North Second Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia C...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-294 Survey number: HABS PA-1071 Building/structure dates: 1744 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1834 Subsequent Work Building/stru... More

Christ Church, 22-26 North Second Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia C...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-294 Survey number: HABS PA-1071 Building/structure dates: 1744 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1834 Subsequent Work Building/stru... More

Christ Church, 22-26 North Second Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia C...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-294 Survey number: HABS PA-1071 Building/structure dates: 1744 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1834 Subsequent Work Building/stru... More

Christ Church, 22-26 North Second Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia C...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-294 Survey number: HABS PA-1071 Building/structure dates: 1744 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1834 Subsequent Work Building/stru... More

Christ Church, 22-26 North Second Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia C...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-294 Survey number: HABS PA-1071 Building/structure dates: 1744 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1834 Subsequent Work Building/stru... More

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.

Shoomac Park, Ridge Avenue & Wissahickon Drive, Philadelphia, Philadel...

Significance: This house is associated with one of the earliest grist mills in Pennsylvania. It was located on nearby Wissahickon Creek. The mill site also enters into General Washington's plan of attack on Ger... More

Shoomac Park, Ridge Avenue & Wissahickon Drive, Philadelphia, Philadel...

Significance: This house is associated with one of the earliest grist mills in Pennsylvania. It was located on nearby Wissahickon Creek. The mill site also enters into General Washington's plan of attack on Ger... More

Eastburn Mariners' Bethel Church (Presbyterian), Front & Delancey Stre...

Significance: The Eastburn Mariners' Bethel Church was one of the oldest seamen's merge with the Third Presbyterian Church. A fire several years later destroyed the interior. A heavy rainfall on August 14, 1977... More

Second Bank of the United States, 420 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, P...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a classical or neoclassical building, architecture design, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Second Bank of the United States, 420 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, P...

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

Second Bank of the United States, 420 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, P...

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

Second Bank of the United States, 420 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, P...

Public domain scan of an architecture diagram, architectural drawing, building plan, or design, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Second Bank of the United States, 420 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, P...

Public domain scan of an architecture diagram, architectural drawing, building plan, or design, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Second Bank of the United States, 420 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, P...

Public domain photograph of bank building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Second Bank of the United States, 420 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, P...

Public domain scan of an architecture diagram, plan, or drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Overbrook Railroad Station, City Avenue at Sixty-third Street, Philade...

Survey number: HABS PA-6143 Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Overbrook Railroad Station, City Avenue at Sixty-third Street, Philade...

Survey number: HABS PA-6143 Public domain photograph of train station platform, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[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.

Congress Hall and New Theatre, in Chestnut Street, Philadelphiadelphia

Street vendor; people crowded in front of New Theatre. Hand-colored engraving by Wm. Birch & Son. Illus. in: The City of Philadelphia...as It Appeared in the Year 1800..., 1800. Plate 20. Ref. copy may be in LO... More

[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.

Birth of our nation's flag - Drawing. Public domain image.

Print shows an interior scene with General George Washington seated on the left with Robert Morris, and standing, the Honorable George Ross, and with Betsy Ross seated on the right holding "our Nation's Flag." ... More

Potts House, 3905 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Significance: Important residential work of Joseph M. Wilson, an innovative 19th century architect of commercial and railroad structure. Survey number: HABS PA-1638

That little bit of green - Public domain American sheet music

Dorothy; Polka - Public domain American sheet music, 1885

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

[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.

Vernon, Germantown Avenue, Vernon Park, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Cou...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-2, FN-3 Survey number: HABS PA-7-2 Building/structure dates: 17h1 Initial Construction

Vernon, Germantown Avenue, Vernon Park, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Cou...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-2, FN-3 Survey number: HABS PA-7-2 Building/structure dates: 17h1 Initial Construction

Naval Base Philadelphia-Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Dry Dock No. 4, B...

Significance: This rectangular drydock has a vertical concrete wall and a flat concrete floor formed on steel pilings. It is an example of a large WWII era drydock built using the tremie method developed by F.R... More

Naval Base Philadelphia-Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Dry Dock No. 4, B...

Significance: This rectangular drydock has a vertical concrete wall and a flat concrete floor formed on steel pilings. It is an example of a large WWII era drydock built using the tremie method developed by F.R... More

[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.

University of Pennsylvania, Dental Hall, 3300 Smith Walk, Philadelphia...

Significance: The Dental Hall was the first purpose-built school of dentistry in the United States. When the Dental School moved to a new building in 1915, it was converted to house the School of Architecture, ... More

Philadelphia & Reading Railroad, Walnut Street Bridge, Spanning Readin...

Survey number: HAER PA-119 Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Stafford's Tavern, Spruce & Mattis Streets, Philadelphia, Philadelphia...

Significance: This 2 1/2 story half gambrel house, with plaster cove cornice, is of a type nearly vanished. It was built in 1759 and owned, among others, by Blaithwaite Jones, Mariner (1767), John Wood Jr., wel... More

Church of the Advocate, Northwest corner of Eighteenth & Diamond Stree...

Significance: It is the consummate example of French Gothic Revival architecture in America dating from late in the 19th century. While the sanctuary's unique form drawn from a variety of French sources is sign... More

Church of the Advocate, Northwest corner of Eighteenth & Diamond Stree...

Significance: It is the consummate example of French Gothic Revival architecture in America dating from late in the 19th century. While the sanctuary's unique form drawn from a variety of French sources is sign... More

[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.

Riegel, Scott & Co. importers and jobbers of dry goods... Philadelphia

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

Mount Pleasant, East Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County...

Survey number: HABS PA-1130 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000685

Mount Pleasant, East Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County...

Survey number: HABS PA-1130 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000685

Mount Pleasant, East Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County...

Survey number: HABS PA-1130 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000685

Mount Pleasant, East Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County...

Survey number: HABS PA-1130 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000685

Report of the Board on behalf of the United States executive departmen...

Public domain history book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Report of the Board on behalf of the United States executive departmen...

Public domain history book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Report of the Board on behalf of the United States executive departmen...

Public domain history book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Paschall House, Spruce & Mattis Streets, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co...

Significance: This row house-with Stafford's Tavern next door-was built about 1760 and transferred from Michael Sisk, plasterer, to Benjamin Paschall, cordwainer, when new the half gambrel roof, shed dormer and... More

Paschall House, Spruce & Mattis Streets, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co...

Significance: This row house-with Stafford's Tavern next door-was built about 1760 and transferred from Michael Sisk, plasterer, to Benjamin Paschall, cordwainer, when new the half gambrel roof, shed dormer and... More

Henry Avenue Bridge, Spanning Wissahickon Creek & Lincoln Drive at Hen...

Significance: This single-span, two-ribbed reinforced concrete arch bridge soars high over the Wissahickon Creek in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park. It is a late example of a masonry-clad reinforced concrete arch... More

St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal Church, Third & Pine Streets, Philade...

Significance: St. Peter's Church was built between 1758-1761 as a Chapel of Christ church and maintained until 1832 when a separation from the parent body was effected. Survey number: HABS PA-1118 Building/st... More

St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal Church, Third & Pine Streets, Philade...

Significance: St. Peter's Church was built between 1758-1761 as a Chapel of Christ church and maintained until 1832 when a separation from the parent body was effected. Survey number: HABS PA-1118 Building/st... More

St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal Church, Third & Pine Streets, Philade...

Significance: St. Peter's Church was built between 1758-1761 as a Chapel of Christ church and maintained until 1832 when a separation from the parent body was effected. Survey number: HABS PA-1118 Building/st... More

John & James Dobson Carpet Mill (West Parcel), 4041-4055 Ridge Avenue,...

Significance: The John & James Dobson Carpet Mill is one of the most important industrial complexes surviving from the mid-to-late-19th-century manufacturing boom in Philadelpha. Begun in the 1850s, the mill's ... More

John & James Dobson Carpet Mill (West Parcel), 4041-4055 Ridge Avenue,...

Significance: The John & James Dobson Carpet Mill is one of the most important industrial complexes surviving from the mid-to-late-19th-century manufacturing boom in Philadelpha. Begun in the 1850s, the mill's ... More

U. S. Naval Asylum, Laning Hall, Gray's Ferry Avenue, Philadelphia, Ph...

Significance: The large, handsome hospital building was designed by the architect of the Philadelphia City Hall, John McArthur, Jr. It exhibits a combination of Second Empire and Italianate styling. It replaced... More

Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad, Bridge No. 1, Spanning ...

Significance: Grays Ferry is the site of one of Philadelphia's oldest Schuylkill River bridges. The present swing span is typical of movable bridge construction at the turn of the 20th century. Survey number: ... More

Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad, Bridge No. 1, Spanning ...

Significance: Grays Ferry is the site of one of Philadelphia's oldest Schuylkill River bridges. The present swing span is typical of movable bridge construction at the turn of the 20th century. Survey number: ... More

Philadelphia Trust, Safe Deposit & Insurance Company, 415 Chestnut Str...

Survey number: HABS PA-1181 Public domain photograph - historic landmark, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

National Restaurant Supply, 115 Second Street, Philadelphia, Philadelp...

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

John B. Stetson Company, Germantown & Columbia Avenues, Philadelphia, ...

Significance: The significance of the Stetson site lies in its association with the manufacture of the Stetson hats and with the paternalistic humanitarianism of John B. Stetson, a progressive industrialist of ... More

John B. Stetson Company, Germantown & Columbia Avenues, Philadelphia, ...

Significance: The significance of the Stetson site lies in its association with the manufacture of the Stetson hats and with the paternalistic humanitarianism of John B. Stetson, a progressive industrialist of ... More

John B. Stetson Company, Germantown & Columbia Avenues, Philadelphia, ...

Significance: The significance of the Stetson site lies in its association with the manufacture of the Stetson hats and with the paternalistic humanitarianism of John B. Stetson, a progressive industrialist of ... More

John B. Stetson Company, Germantown & Columbia Avenues, Philadelphia, ...

Significance: The significance of the Stetson site lies in its association with the manufacture of the Stetson hats and with the paternalistic humanitarianism of John B. Stetson, a progressive industrialist of ... More

Naval Base Philadelphia-Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Pipe Coppersmith ...

Survey number: HAER PA-387-T Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

John Bartram House & Garden, Greenhouse, 54th Street & LIndbergh Boule...

Significance: The greenhouse at Bartram's Garden was constructed by John Bartram (1699-1777), the well-known early American botanist and explorer, in 1760-1761. Despite its later incorporation into a larger st... More

John Bartram House & Garden, Greenhouse, 54th Street & LIndbergh Boule...

Significance: The greenhouse at Bartram's Garden was constructed by John Bartram (1699-1777), the well-known early American botanist and explorer, in 1760-1761. Despite its later incorporation into a larger st... More

Williams-Mathurin House, 427 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia...

Significance: Notable Philadelphia Federal townhouse with some original interior trim. Survey number: HABS PA-1383

[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.