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In many cases, complete information about images was not available. Most of the information here has been taken from the vertical files at the American Philosophical Society. Other information has been gathered from the following sources:

Deak, Gloria G., Picturing America, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988
King, Moses, Philadelphia and Notable Philadelphians, New York: Moses King, 1901
Made in America: printmaking, 1760-1860, Philadelphia: The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1973
Richardson, Edgar, et. al., Charles Willson Peale and his World, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1982
Snyder, Martin, P., City of Independence: Views of Philadelphia Before 1800, New York: Praeger, 1975
Snyder, Martin, P., Mirror of America: The Developing Life of Philadelphia Seen in Engravings, Gladwyne, PA: Martin P. Snyder, 1996
Wainwright, Nicholas, Philadelphia in the Romantic Age of Lithography, Philadelphia: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1958
Wolf, Edwin, Philadelphia: Portrait of an American City, Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1975

#1: Bird's Eye View of Philadelphia
"View from the west of the Schuylkill River, the five green squares in the 'Garden City,' and, in the distance, the Delaware River and Camden, NJ"
Artist: J. Bachman
Date: 1857
Printer: Peter S. Duval and Son
Publisher: John Weik
Size: 17.25 x 25 in. (framed)
Medium: Color print
Notes: Republished by Weik, 1868; Rosengarten Collection #20; Wainwright, endpapers, #28

#3: Northern Liberties and Spring Garden
[Water Works]
Artist: Thomas M. Scott
Lithographer: Charles Conrad Kuchel
Printer: Peter S. Duval (active 1831-1886)
Date: 1852
Size: 18 x 25 in. (framed)
Medium: Colored lithograph
Notes: Imprint reads: "P.S. Duval [1852]"; Rosengarten Collection #191; Wainwright #254

#8: View of the Dam and Water Works, Fairmount
Artist: Thomas Birch (1779-1851)
Engraver: R. Campbell
Printer: Edward Parker
Date: 1824
Size: 8.5 x 15.5 in.
Medium: Colored engraving
Notes: Imprint reads: "Parker, 1824"; Rosengarten Collection #179, Snyder, 1996, # 288

#9: South Philadelphia Waterfront
"From the Southeast"
Artist: Augustus Köllner (1813-1906)
Date: 1848
Size: 8.5 x 12 in.
Notes: Published in Augustus Köllner, Views of American Cities, New York and Paris: Goupil, Vibert and Co., 1848-51; Rosengarten Collection #15; Deak, pg. 377-8

#11: Fairmount Water Works
"From the Dam"
Size: 9 x 14.25 in.
Notes: Rosengarten Collection #47

#12: Wissahickon Falls
Artist: Thomas Kelly
Date:1874
Size: 9.25 x 12.5 in.
Medium: Colored lithograph
Notes: Published: NY; APS Accession # 1768; Rosengarten Collection #154

#14: View near Falls of Schuylkill
Artist: Joshua Shaw
Engraver: John Hill
Date: 1819-21
Size: 13.75 x 10.5 in.
Notes: Published in Joshua Shaw, Picturesque Views of American Scenery, Philadelphia: M. Carey and Son,1819-21; APS Accession # 1771; Rosengarten Collection #73; Deak, pp. 213-214, entry #315, Snyder, 1996 #677

#15: Upper Ferry Bridge
"At Spring Garden Street"
Artist: George Lehman (d. 1870)
Date:1870
Size: 6.5 x 8.75 in.
Medium: Colored lithograph
Notes: APS Accession # 1754; Rosengarten Collection #51

#16: View on the Wissahiccon, Pennsylvania
Artist: Joshua Shaw
Engraver: John Hill
Date: 1819-21
Size: 10.75 x 14.25 in
Notes: Published in Joshua Shaw, Picturesque Views of American Scenery, Philadelphia: M. Carey and Son, 1819-21; APS Accession # 1771; Rosengarten Collection #73; Deak, pp. 213-214, entry #315, Snyder, 1996, #678

#19: The State House in Philadelphia
[As it appeared in 1776]
Engraver: John Serz
Print date: 1873
Size: 12 x 15 in.
Notes: Imprint reads: "Philadelphia, Janentzky & Co [1873]"; APS Accession # 1762; Rosengarten Collection #127, Deak, pg. 107, entry #159, Snyder, 1996, #426

#22: The Philadelphia Exchange
Artist: William Strickland (1788-1854)
Printer: D. Stevens
Building Architect: William Strickland
Building Sculptor: John Sartain
Date:1840's
Size: 11.25 x 13.75 in
Notes: APS Accession # 1796; Rosengarten Collection #104, Snyder, 1996 #523

#23: The Great Elm Tree of Shackamaxon (now Kensington)
"Under which William Penn concluded his treaty with the Indians in 1682 it fell during a storm in 1810"
Artist: George Lehman (d. 1870)
Engraver: George Lehman
Date:1827
Size: 15.25 x 19.25 in
Medium: Aquatint
Notes: Snyder, 1996, #589

#24: The Pennsylvania Hospital
"The Building by the Bounty of Government and many Private Persons was proudly founded for the Relief of the Sick and Miserable. Anno 1755."
Artist: William Strickland (1788-1854)
Engraver: Samuel Seymour (1796-1823)
Date: 1811
Size: 10.75 x 17.25 in.
Medium: Engraving
Notes: Rosengarten Collection #144, Snyder, #608 (This is not illustrated, but the evidence seems to point to this identification).

#25: An East Perspective View of the City of Philadelphia
Size: 10.625 x 16.375 in.
Notes: This image could not be found, but it may be related to the Heap/Scull perspective views of c. 1752, as is #92 below. For a discussion of the Heap/Scull views, see Snyder, 1975, pp. 42-7.

#26: Fairmount Waterworks
Artist: Julius Bienegrauer (1826-1909)
Engraver: J. Kiehn
Date:1867
Medium: Engraving
Notes: Imprint reads: "Philadelphia J. Kiehn 1867"; 13.25 x 16.25 in.; APS Accession # 1791; Rosengarten Collection #181

#27: NW View of Mr. Paul Beck's Shot Tower near the Schuylkill
Artist: Thomas Birch (1779-1851)
Engraver: Thomas Birch (1779-1851)
Date: c.1812
Size:5 x 7.375 in.
Medium: Engraving
Notes: APS Accession # 1778; Rosengarten Collection #37; Snyder, 1975, #674

#28: Philadelphia Waterfront
"View from the Delaware"
Artist: Ambrose Louis Garneray (1783-1857)
Engraving: Sigismond Himely
Date: c.1834
Size: 12.75 x 18.33 in.
Medium: Colored aquatint
Notes: APS Accession # 1792; Rosengarten Collection #16; Deak, pg. 291, entry #432, Snyder, 1975, #630

#29: Bridge over Schuylkill River near Philadelphia
[Original title: "Bro öfuer Schuylkill stromma nara Philadelphia."]
Artist: Axel Leonhard Klinckenström (1775-1837)
Engraver: Carl Frederick of Akrell (1779-1868)
Date: 1824
Size: 11.5 x 17.75 in.
Medium: Engraving
Notes: Imprint reads: "Stockholm"; Rosengarten Collection #45; Snyder, 1975, #761

#30: Philadelphia
"View from Peter's Farm"
Artist: Paul Weber (1823-1916)
Engraver: John Serz
Printer: William Smith
Date: 1850
Print date: 1863
Medium: Engraving
Size:14.25 x 23.8 in.
Notes: Imprint reads: "Philadelphia, William Smith, 1863"; Open letter proof; Rosengarten Collection #10; Snyder, 1975, #650

#31: Upper Ferry on Schuylkill
Artist: J. Hoffman
Size: 4.25 x 6.6 in.
Notes: APS Accession # 1752; Rosengarten Collection #50

#32: Grey's Ferry
Size: 4.75 x 7.4 in
Notes: APS Accession #1755; Rosengarten Collection #79

#33: The Pagoda and Labyrinth Gardens
"Near Fairmount Water Works"
Artist: Hugh Bridgport
Print: William B. Lucas
Building Architect: John Haviland
Date: 1828
Size: 14.75 x 18 in.
Notes: APS Accession #1797; Rosengarten Collection #141, Wainwright, #391, Wolf, pg. 175

#36: The Race Bridge
"Fairmount Water Works"
Size: 13.1 x 14.75 in.
Medium: Engraving, hand colored
Notes: APS Accession # 1640; Rosengarten Collection #43

#37: Fairmount Water Works
"From west bank of Schuylkill, with Dam in picture"
Date: After 1822
Medium: Engraving, hand colored
Size: 21.6 x 27.6 in.
Notes: APS Accession # 1785; Rosengarten Collection #180. Though minor differences certainly exist, a comparison to Deak entry #333 (Snyder, 1996, # 301) strongly suggests to me that this image may have been done after the painting by Thomas Doughty and engraving by Cephas G. Childs illustrated there.

#38: Fairmount Gardens, with the Schuylkill Bridge
Size: 13.25 x 14.8 in
Medium: Engraving, hand colored
Notes: APS Accession # 1767; Rosengarten Collection #75

#39: Street Scene
Artist: P. Fumagalli
Size: 10.625 x 13.375 in.
Medium: Engraving, hand colored
Notes: Rosengarten Collection #135

#40: Independence Hall
Artist: Charles W. Peale
Print: P. Fumagalli, after engraving by J. Trenchard, after the painting by Peale
Date: 1787 (Trenchard Engraving)
Medium: Engraving, hand colored
Size:10.625 x 13.375 in
Notes: Rosengarten Collection #135, Wolf, pg. 86, King, pg. 5

#41: New Lutheran Church
"4th Street"
Engraving: William Birch (1755-1835)
Date: 1800
Size: 13.125 x 15.25
Medium: Engraving, hand colored
Notes: Rosengarten Collection #63

#42: Vue de Philadelphie
"Philadelphia"
Artist: Balth Frederic Leizelt
Date: c.1776
Medium: Engraving
Notes: Text at extreme bottom reads: "Se vend a Augsborg au Negoce comun de l"Acedemie Imperiale d'Empire des Arts Libereaux avec Privelege de Sa Majesté et avec Defense ni d'en faire de vendres les Copies"; Rosengarten Collection #18; Snyder, 1975, color-plate 16, pp. 254-55

#43: First Plate for Four Subjects of Birch's Philadelphia
Artist: William Birch (1755-1834)
Size: 16 x 17.875 in.
Medium: Engraving, hand colored
Notes: APS Accession # 179

#45: View of the Water Works at Center City, Philadelphia
Artist: J.J. Barralet
Lithographer: C. Tiebout
Size: 16.5 x 23.5 in.
Medium: Lithograph, hand colored
Notes: APS Accession # 1763; Rosengarten Collection #170, Wolf, pg. 128

#47: The Fruits of Arbitrary Power, or, the Bloody Massacre
After line engraving by Henry Pelham, 1770
Size: 11 x 8.375

#54: Souvenir of the Coldest Winter on Record
("Scene on the Delaware River at Philadelphia During the Sever Winter of 1856")
Artist: James Queen
Print: Peter S. Duval (active 1831-1886)
Date: 1856
Size: 15.25 x 17.625 in.
Medium: Chromo Lithograph
Notes: Wainwright #342, Wolf, pg. 196

#69: Philadelphia from the Navy Yard
"Showing the ship 'Pennsylvania'"
Size: 17 x 22.25 in.
Medium: Color lithograph
Notes: Rosengarten Collection #19

#73: Bush Hill and Cholera Hospital
Artist: Augustus Köllner (1813-1906)
Size: 9.75 x 13.75 in.
Notes: Rosengarten Collection #202

#77: Tamany Fish House
"On the Pea Shore/R. Delaware"
Artist: Thomas M. Scott
Lithographer: Charles Conrad Kuchel (?)
Print: Peter S. Duval (active 1831-1886)
Date: 1852
Size: 16.875 x 24.75 in.
Medium: Lithograph, with water-color
Notes: Rosengarten Collection #121, Wainwright #363

#80: Fairmount Waterworks
Artist: A.G. Rosengarten
Size: 12.5 x 17.5 in.

#84: Peale's First Museum
Artist: Unidentified
Date: c. 1790
Size: 4.5 x 6.875 in.
Medium: Oil painting; Richardson, et. al., pg. 147

#91: The East Prospect of the City of Philadelphia in the Province of Pennsylvania
Artist: After a view made by George Heap, by direction of Nicholas Scull
Date: 1754
Size: 7.125 x 20.375 in.
Medium: Color engraving
Notes: Rosengarten Collection #11a; King, pg. 4; for related views see Snyder, 1975, pp. 42-7. King assumes this was done after one of the Heap/Scull views, an assumption that seems well-founded to me, based on the visual evidence.

#93: Philadelphia from Camden
Date: 1850
Size: 28.25 x 44.75 in.
Medium: Color lithograph
Notes: Imprint reads: "New York: Smith Brothers and Co."; Rosengarten Collection # 26

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