Spania Linen Writing Tablet (illustrated cover)
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Specification of New Hall of Athenaeum, Philadelphia
Specifications for the Athenaeum building, with edits, signed by Architect John Notman
Specter and Gola. For District Attorney and City Controller
Spelling Tabletlanks (illustrated cover)
Sphinx of Rameses II, University of Pennsylvania
Spring Garden entrance to Fairmount Park
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St Stephen's Evangelical Lutheran Church
Round portrait panel painting of St. Catherine of Alexandria. Her right hand rests on a wheel, referring to her death. She holds the palm of martyrdom in her left hand. According to Hopkinson family tradition, this unsigned, late Renaissance painting of St. Catherine of Alexandria was given to Mrs. Joseph Hopkinson by Joseph Bonaparte prior to his departure from "Point Breeze." It descended to Miss Emily G. Hopkinson from whom the donor acquired it for presentation to the Athenæum. During the early 19th century such "primitive" works were popular with collectors such as Joseph Bonaparte's uncle, Cardinal Fesch, from whom Joseph acquired several of his paintings.
St. Martin's Chapel, St. Charles Seminary
Standing nurse and seated woman/Woman and man standing, each holding a small box
Standing woman looking upward/Sailor ringing a bell
State St, Media Borough Hall and Red Arrow Trolley
Statue of religious liberty and cactus beds
Drawn on diamond-shaped card. Back is stamped N.W. Ayer & Son.
Stephen Girard Statue, Public Buildings Plaza
Stewart & Co's. Bldg. Howard & Lexington Sts., Baltimore, MD.
Joseph Biays Ord (1805-1865), son of the noted Philadelphia ornithologist and Athenaeum founder George Ord, was a portrait, still life and religious painter, as well as a picture restorer. Specializing in still life painting from 1838 to 1862, Ord became known for his fruit pictures.
In these dynamic compositions he uses a variety of sizes, colors and textures to express the passage of time. In this example, age spots appear on the apples, a partly peeled orange waits to be eaten, an empty almond shell lies on the table. The dishes which hold the fruit are typical examples of the fine ceramics which Ord uses in his pictures.
Charles Wharton Stork (1881-1971) was a Philadelphia born poet and dramatist educated at Haverford College (A.B., 1902), Harvard (M.A., 1903) and the University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D., 1905). From 1903-1916 he taught in the English department at the University of Pennsylvania. For the next twenty years Wharton, as he was called, devoted his time to private literary endeavors, translating and editing verse and writing poetry, plays, critical essays, book reviews and fiction, in addition to lecturing and poetry reading. From 1935-1951 he taught again, this time at Harcum Junior College in Bryn Mawr, and continued writing and publishing until the 1960's. He served on the Athenaeum Board of Directors from 1919-1968.
Strawbridge and Clothier's Department Store
Strawbridge and Clothiers decorated for Elks' Convention
William Strickland (1788-1854) was a noted architect and engineer who helped develop the Greek Revival style in the United States. His major commissions included the Second Bank of the United States and the Merchants' Exchange Building (both in Philadelphia), and the Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville. Artist Lois Harper Wyman, a descendant of William Strickland, painted this portrait of her ancestor in 1952, copying from an original portrait by an unknown artist.