D.S. Quintin, United States Hotel Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, lithograph, Philadelphia: P. S. Duval, ca. 1842. Click here for larger view.

Philadelphia Architects & Buildings Project

The Philadelphia Architects and Buildings database provides authoritative information on three centuries of Philadelphia buildings and designers incorporating data and images from the collections of more than 25 Philadelphia-area repositories. The Library Company contributes records for and digital images of selected Library Company architectural and graphic materials. To view only the Library Company's collections select the Library Company in the "collections" section. For comprehensive information on a particular place search by the "project / building" or "location."

Robert Newell, Girard Avenue Farmers’ Market, albumen photograph, ca. 1886. Click here for larger view.

Places in Time: Historical Documentation of Place in Greater Philadelphia

This website was developed to disseminate information about historical and architectural resources available at local institutions relating to the five county Philadelphia region. Currently features several significant graphic collections from the Library Company’s collections documenting Philadelphia street scenes in the last half of the 19th century including watercolors by Benjamin Evans (fl. 1857-1891) and photographs by John Moran (1831-1903), Robert Newell (1822-1897) and Frederick de Bourg Richards (1822-1903). Inventories of the Library Company's commercial street panoramas, the Brightbill postcard collection and the Aero Service Corporation aerial photographs are also available on this site.