The Brightbill Postcard Collection at the Library Company of Philadelphia
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Sample Images from the Brightbill Collection

11A02 - Philadelphia Approach, Delaware River Bridge 19A01 - Academy of Music, Philadelphia, Pa. 27B01A - Academy of Natural Sciences
27B01B - First Regiment Armory 35B05 - Chestnut and Twelfth Sts. [Exterior] 35B04 - North View, Acker Quality Shop [Interior]
Elks Convention 1907 Wissahickon Bridges Callowhill Street entrance to Fairmount Park
59B01 - Court of Honor Elks' Convention, 1907 61B01 - Bridges over Wissahickon Creek 69A01 - Callowhill St. Entrance to Fairmount Park
Japanese Pagoda, Fairmount Park Lemon Hill, Fairmount Park Children's Playhouse, Fairmount Park
75A01 - Japanese Building, Fairmount Park 79A02 - Lemon Hill, Country Home of Robert Morris, Fairmount Park 81A03 - Children's Play House, Fairmount Park
Entrance to Strawberry Mansion Wissahickon Inn Monkey House, Philadelphia Zoological Gardens
91B01 - Entrance to Strawberry Mansion, Fairmount Park 93A05B - Wissahickon Inn, Fairmount Park 94A05A - Monkey House & Lake, Zoo, Fairmount Park
Founders Week Parade, October 9th, 1908, Continental Soldiers Germantown Hospital Little Sisters of the Poor, Germantown
96A14 - Founders Week Parade - Oct. 9th 1908 - Continental soldiers scene 42 100A02 - Germantown Hospital 100A03 - Little Sisters of the Poor, Germantown
Staton Brothers, Stationery and Art Shop, Germantown Ave.and Coulter St. Engine House 09, Germantown Stapeley, northwest corner of Greene Street and Washington Lane, Germantown.
100A07 - Staton Brothers, Stationery and Art Shop, Germantown Ave.and Coulter St. 100B03 - Engine Co. #9, Germantown 100B03 - Stapeley, northwest corner of Greene Street and Washington Lane, Germantown.
Germantown High School St. Joseph's Hospital Presbyterian Hospital
106A03 - Germantown High School 108A08 - St. Joseph's Hospital 108B06 - Presbyterian Hospital, 39th St. Entrance
Horn & Hardart Automat Jolly Post Hotel, Frankford Spring Garden Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia
114A01 - Horn & Hardart, How an Automat Works 115A02 - Old "Jolly Post" Hotel, Frankford 132B07 - The Free Library of Philadelphia, Spring Garden Branch, Seventeenth and Spring Garden Streets
Betz Building Lulu Temple Jewish Synagogue
22B01 - Betz Building 25A01 - Lulu Temple 50B06 - Keneseth Israel Temple
The Gladstone Philadelphia After Midnight - party at the Bellevue Stratford Hotel Children's Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia
112B04 - The Gladstone, 11th & Pine Sts. 121A03 - Philadelphia after midnight Bellevue Stratford Hotel 132B01 - The Free Library of Philadelphia, Children's Department, 1233 Locust Street

 


The Library Company of Philadephia - 1314 Locust Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 19107 - 215-546-3181
For more information regarding this collection, please contact
Sarah Weatherwax, Curator of Prints and Photographs at printroom@librarycompany.org