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- Collection: From Your Town to Ours: Pennsylvania Prints from the O'Connor-Yeager Collection Revisited
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Bird’s Eye View, Centennial Buildings, 1876
The Centennial Exposition was held in Philadelphia from May 10 to November 10, 1876. Organized to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the event featured more than 200 buildings spread over 450 acres in…
Le Cougar de Pensilvanie
Plate 41 from George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon, Histoire naturelle, générale et párticulière, supplément, tome III
The mountain lion of Pennsylvania, mascot of Penn State since 1908, has many names: puma, deer tiger, panther, cougar, and…
Procession of Victuallers
Not much can be added to the description of this event, which is provided in detail within the text below the image. What the historical archives have yet to reveal, though, is precisely why William White and his fellow “victuallers”—livestock…
View of Reading, Pa.
The plan for Reading was laid out in 1743 by Richard and Thomas Penn, the sons of William Penn and proprietors of the colony of Pennsylvania since the elder Penn's death in 1718. The town, soon to be the county seat of Berks County (chartered in…
Felis Concolor
Plate 96 from The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America
Not long after publishing the final volume of his monumental The Birds of America in 1838, John James Audubon began the production of The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America in collaboration…
View on the Wisahiccon, Pennsylvania
From Picturesque Views of American Scenery.
This aquatint is one of twenty hand-colored prints that were engraved by John Hill after drawings by Joshua Shaw. They appeared in groups, or numbers, that were published in sequence under the title…
This aquatint is one of twenty hand-colored prints that were engraved by John Hill after drawings by Joshua Shaw. They appeared in groups, or numbers, that were published in sequence under the title…
Twilight, Passage of the Juniata through the Warrior Mountain
From Lucas’ Progressive Drawing Book.
Fielding Lucas, Jr., was primarily a cartographer who not only drew but also surveyed a number of the towns he was responsible for mapping. Early in his career he worked with publishers in Philadelphia;…
Fielding Lucas, Jr., was primarily a cartographer who not only drew but also surveyed a number of the towns he was responsible for mapping. Early in his career he worked with publishers in Philadelphia;…
Sky in Stormy Weather, Falls of the Susquehanna above Columbia
From Lucas’ Progressive Drawing Book.
Fielding Lucas, Jr., was primarily a cartographer who not only drew but also surveyed a number of the towns he was responsible for mapping. Early in his career he worked with publishers in Philadelphia;…
Fielding Lucas, Jr., was primarily a cartographer who not only drew but also surveyed a number of the towns he was responsible for mapping. Early in his career he worked with publishers in Philadelphia;…
William Penn’s Treaty with the Indians
In 1771, Thomas Penn commissioned Benjamin West to memorialize the legendary treaty his father, William Penn, made in the early 1680s with the Lenape people indigenous to the region surrounding the Delaware River. The gesture was more than simply…
William Penn’s Treaty with the Indians
In 1771, Thomas Penn commissioned Benjamin West to memorialize the legendary treaty his father, William Penn, made in the early 1680s with the Lenape people indigenous to the region surrounding the Delaware River. The gesture was more than simply…