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President McKinley passing through Fairmount Park
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President's Suite, The Bellevue-Stratford
William L. Price was one of an influential group of architects working during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Philadelphia. Aside from his importance in the area of design based on Arts and Crafts Movement ideals, Price was one of the founders of an arts and crafts community, Rose Valley, outside of Philadelphia. He attended the Westtown School, but left in 1877 to practice carpentry, abandoning that for architecture when he entered the office of Quaker architect Addison Hutton in 1878. According to the obituary published by the Philadelphia Real Estate Record and Builders Guide, Price also spent some time with Furness & Evans; however, that information has not been documented by other sources. By 1881 Price and his brother Frank L. Price had established a partnership which would last until 1895, with a practice chiefly based on residential design, including houses for Wendell & Smith, the developers of Wayne and St.Davids, PA, as well as the Pelham and Overbrook neighborhoods of Philadelphia. In 1895 Price began to practice independently, but in 1903 he established a partnership with M. Hawley McLanahan which would endure under the name of Price & McLanahan until his death, with McLanahan continuing to use the name for several years thereafter and eventually producing a successor firm, McLanahan & Bencker. Although well-known for residential design, Price's work also included the Traymore Hotel in Atlantic City, NJ, and Jacob Reed's Sons store in Philadelphia.
As interested in social reform movements as he was in architecture, Price helped Frank Stephens to found Arden, DE, a single-tax community outside of Wilmington. In 1901 he helped establish Rose Valley, an arts and crafts community in which many architects were involved, but none so vitally as Price. Although the earlier parts of the community were based on existing buildings, Price later designed a number of residences, among those several for the Rose Valley Improvement Company. Price was joined in the Rose Valley endeavor by his brother Walter Price and Walter Price's partner, William McKee Walton, as well as by younger architects like Carl deMoll and John M. Dickey.
Princess Exclusive Linen Writing Tablet (illustrated cover)
Princess Malta Bond Writing Paper Tablet (illustrated cover)
Profile of a man with beard, glasses and hat
This 19th century marble reproduction is based on a badly damaged sculpture found in the mid 1700s in the Roman amphitheater of Capua. That sculpture found in Capua is a 1st- century Roman copy of an earlier work in the style of Greek sculptor Scopas. The figure was originally thought to represent Psyche, goddess of the soul, but more likely represents Aphrodite, goddess of love and beauty. The Capua sculpture is now housed in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples, Italy.
Public Ledger, Philadelphia, March 25, 1836
Facsimile of first issue of the Public Ledger
Puppy Love (illustration of two puppies)
Putting the rough edge on coins, U.S. Mint
Plaster portrait bust of R. Swain Gifford. The subject gazes straight ahead toward the viewer. Surface patina accentuates the texture of the subject’s short cropped hair and full beard. “RS GIFFORD” is incised on the bottom front of the bust. Robert Swain Gifford (1840 – 1905) was an American painter and printmaker. He spent much of his youth in the coastal areas of Massachusetts and Connecticut, where he developed an affinity for New England land- and seascapes. In 1866, he settled in New York City, where he taught art for nearly thirty years at the Cooper Union School, and helped establish the New York Etching Club. He won medals at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition and numerous other venues. His work is represented in a number of institutions, including the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. William Rudolf O'Donovan (1844 – 1920) was a successful self-taught sculptor. Born in Virginia, he served in the Confederate Army. After the Civil War, he opened a studio in New York City and began his career as a well-regarded professional sculptor, producing many public monuments as well as portrait busts and bas reliefs of prominent persons, including Walt Whitman, Thomas Eakins, and George Washington.
Reading of the Declaration of Independence from the Old State House, July 18, 1776
Reading Room, Research Library, Presbyterian Historical Society, Witherspoon Building
Reading Room, St. Michael's Mission Center
Real Estate Trust Co. and North American Building
Purchased by William Tilghman, Esq. Received by Roberts Vaux, Treasurer
Receipt from Drs. H.A. and C.H. Arnold, Dr.
Record Linen Writing Tablet (illustrated cover)
Record Of Strangers, Volume 1, 1814-1819
Record Of Strangers, Volume 2, 1819-1827
Record Of Strangers, Volume 3, 1828-1835
Record Of Strangers, Volume 4, 1836-1847
Record Of Strangers, Volume 5, 1847-1956
Record of Strangers, Volume 6, 1957-2006
Red Fern Writing Tablet (illustrated cover)
Red floral border on green background (possibly a book cover design)
Red Fox Writing Tablet (illustrated cover)
Red Ribbon Writing Tablet (illustrated cover)
Red Rogue Linen Finish Writing Tablet (illustrated cover)
Red Rose Writing Tablet (illustrated cover)
Red Spark Writing Tablet (illustrated cover)
Refreshment Fountain, Acker Quality Shop
Rep. William Preston to Sarah Josepha Hale
Representative Augustus Drum to Sarah Josepha Hale
Representative Augustus E. Maxwell to Sarah Josepha Hale
Representative Benjamin Pringle to Sarah Josepha Hale
Representative Bernhart Henn to Sarah Josepha Hale
Representative C. W. Ufham to Sarah Josepha Hale
Representative Horace Mann to Sarah Josepha Hale
Representative Isaac N. Arnold to Sarah Josepha Hale
Representative John H. Hubbard to Sarah Josepha Hale
Representative M. C. Trout to Sarah Josepha Hale
Representative M. H. Smith to Sarah Josepha Hale Correction: could likely be from Mrs. Smith