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Elliot's Cloth Finish (illustration with bird and bamboo)
Elverson Building, New home of the Philadelphia Inquirer
Embury, Emma C. (Emma Catherine), 1806-1863
Emma Ingle Camden (woman and girl standing on a wooden bridge)
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Engineering annex and Morgan Laboratory of Physics, University of Pennsylvania
Entrance to Dining Room, New Hotel Hanover
Entrance to Pennsylvania Museum, Memorial Hall
Erin Linen Writing Tablet (illustrated cover)
On December 2, 1804, Napoleon Bonaparte became Emperor of France. This ormolu escutcheon, bearing Napoleon's coat of arms with the Imperial eagle, decorated the carriage which conveyed him to Notre Dame. Surrounding the eagle shield is the collar and badge of the Legion of Honor, an order founded by Napoleon in 1802 which is still the most highly prized decoration in France.
Estelle Anna Lewis to Sarah Josepha Hale
Joseph Bennett Eves was one of the founders and first president of the Ludwick Institute. Incorporated in 1801 as the Philadelphia Society for the Establishment of Charity Schools, it took the name of its original benefactor, German-born Christopher Ludwick (d.1801), in 1872. Director of Baking in the Army of the United States under Washington, and a Philadelphia civic leader, Ludwick left an $8,000 estate "for the schooling and educating gratis, of poor children of all denominations, in the city and liberties of Philadelphia."
The University of Pennsylvania, originally founded as a charity school, had also been anxious to receive this bequest, but Governor Thomas McKean maintained that it would go to the first organization to submit documents of incorporation in the Rolls Office at Lancaster. Thus, a messenger from the University, on horseback, and Joseph Bennett Eves, in a sulky, set out from Philadelphia in a "hot race...but Eves soon distanced his competitor and arrived in Lancaster, sixty-six miles distant, in seven hours," establishing legal claim to the Ludwick legacy.
The Ludwick Institute remains in existence today. Its assets have grown considerably, and it supports a wide range of programs to benefit poor children. The Institute has, for many years, held its meetings at the Athenaeum.
Exterior Doorway, Institute for the Instruction of the Blind
Extract of the Register of the Judgements and Proceedings of the Town of the City of Nevers. Marriage of Napoleon and Marie-Louise of Austria.
Eye Strain, Alexander Martin B.O.A., Eyesight Specialist
Eye Strain, Alexander Martin, B.O.A., Eyesight Specialist, Buffalo, N.Y.
Eye Strain: Cause, Effect, Correction. A. Martin
Fairmount Dam, Schuylkill River from the waterworks
Fairmount Dam, Schuylkill River, from the Water Works
Postcard to Mrs. Charles Kennesow from () Hogarth
This view of the Fairmount Waterworks from the west bank of the Schuylkill River is a close copy of an engraving by English landscape artist William Henry Bartlett (1809-1854), which was published in his American Scenery (London, 1840).
The waterworks facility was designed by Frederick Graff (1774-1847) and began operation in 1815. The covered Upper Ferry Bridge, depicted in the distance, was built in 1812 and destroyed by fire in 1838. The locks of the Schuylkill Navigation Company are seen at the right. The "fair mount" above the waterworks complex is the present site of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Fairy Linen Writing Tablet (illustrated cover)
This fall front secretary desk is attributed to the French-born and trained cabinetmaker Michel Bouvier (1792-1874) who emigrated to Philadelphia after the collapse of the Empire in 1815. By 1819 he had established himself as a cabinetmaker, and in 1825 he was operating a "cabinet & sofa warehouse" on South Second Street, where he remained for more than thirty years. According to family tradition, Bouvier supplied this desk for Joseph Bonaparte (1768-1844) while superintending the building and furnishing of Bonaparte's home, "Point Breeze" near Bordentown, NJ on the Delaware River. It is believed that the desk later passed to Garret Dorset Wall (1783-1850), a New Jersey lawyer who handled Bonaparte's legal affairs. The desk descended to Wall's daughter, Maria Matilda (b. 1815), the wife of New Jersey Governor Peter Dumont Vroom (1791-1874), and it remained in the Vroom family until presented to the Athenaeum in 1961.
Feeding the Dromedary, Zoological Gardens
Feeding the pigeons on the pavement at City Hall
Figure with outstretched arms, holding a spear
Firing Cannon from Battleship around Haiyang Island
First Public School in Frankford, Founded in 1683