Bibliography of Selected Sources
This bibliography contains the most frequently cited sources used in the compilation of the dictionary entries. Each on-line record contains an abridged citation of the primary sources consulted by the author of the entry and may not be included in this list. The citations include the author, title, and date of the publication to facilitate identification of the original sources, if not listed below.
Philadelphia Business and City Directories
Boyd's Philadelphia City Business Directory. Philadelphia: William H. Boyd, 1858-1860, 1874, 1877-1878, 1880, 1907-1910.
Burley's Philadelphia City Business Directory, 1871. Philadelphia: S.W. Burley, 1871.
Bywater's Philadelphia Business Directory and City Guide. Philadelphia: Published by Maurice Bywater, 1849-1851.
Cohen's Philadelphia City Directory, City Guide & Business Register for 1860. Philadelphia: Hamelin & Co., 1860.
DeSilver’s Philadelphia Directory and Strangers Guide. Philadelphia: Robert DeSilver, 1828-1837.
E. M. Cross & Co.'s Philadelphia City Business Directory 1863-1864. Philadelphia:
E. M. Cross & Co., 1863.
Gopsill’s Philadelphia Directory. Philadelphia: James Gopsill,1868-1884; James
Gopsill’s Sons, 1885-1906.
Gopsill’s Philadelphia Business Directory. Philadelphia: James Gopsill, 1869-1905.
Ladies Philadelphia Shopping Guide & Housekeeper's Companion. For 1859. Philadelphia: Published by the author, 1859.
McElroy’s Philadelphia Directory. Philadelphia, 1837-1867.
The Mercantile Register, or Business Man’s Guide. Containing a List of the Principal Business Establishments, including Hotels, and Public Institutions in Philadelphia. Philadelphia: H. Orr, 1846.
O’Brien’s Wholesale Business Intelligencer and Southern and Western Merchants’ Pocket Directory to the Principal Mercantile Houses in the City of Philadelphia for the year 1839. Philadelphia, 1839.
O'Brien's City and Country Merchants' Pocket Directory, to the Principal Mercantile Houses, Extensive Manufacturing Establishments, and Most Eminent Artists in Various Branches of Business in the City of Philadelphia, for the year 1841. Philadelphia: King & Baird, 1841.
O'Brien's United States Advertising Circular, and City and Country Merchants' Pocket Directory, to the Principal Mercantile Houses, Extensive Manufacturing Establishments, Eminent Artists, and Various Miscellaneous Departments, which Contribute to the General Business of the City of Philadelphia for 1843. Philadelphia: King & Baird, 1843
O'Brien's Philadelphia Wholesale Business Directory and United States, South America, West India, London, Liverpool and Paris Circular Wherein are Classed the Principal Mercantile Houses, Extensive Manufacturing Establishments, Eminent Artists, and Various Miscellaneous Departments, which Contribute to the General Business of the City of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, 1844 and 1849.
O'Brien's Philadelphia Wholesale Business Directory and Circular, for the Year 1850. Wherein are Classed the Principal Mercantile Houses, Extensive Manufacturing Establishments, Eminent Artists, and Various Miscellaneous Departments, which Contribute to the General Business of the City of Philadelphia.1850. [Philadelphia]: King & Baird, [1850]
Philadelphia Almanac and General Business Directory for the Year 1848. Philadelphia: Published by Charles J. Gillis, [1847].
The Philadelphia Circulating Business Directory. For 1838. Philadelphia: Published at Morris’s Xylographic Press, 1838.
The Philadelphia Merchants' & Manufacturers' Business Directory for 1856-57. Being a Complete list of all the Mercantile & Manufacturing companies in the City, Arranged Alphabetically under their Respective Callings. [Philadelphia]: Prepared & published by Griswold & Co., [1856].
Philadelphia Southern Steamship Manufacturers and Mercantile Register. Philadelphia: M’Laughlin Brothers, 1866.
Philadelphia Wholesale Merchants' and Artisans' Business Directory, for 1853. Philadelphia: T. Ellwood Chapman & Co., [1853].
Watson's Philadelphia Business Directory: Containing a Full and Perfect Classified List of Merchants, Tradesmen, and Professions, Arranged in Systematic Alphabetical Order, Designed for the Use and Convenience of Business Men doing Business in and with Philadelphia. Philadelphia: Rushton & Co., 1869
Primary Sources: Newspapers & Journals
American Lithographer & Printer (New York, N.Y.) 1883-1890.
Daily Pennsylvanian (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1855-1858.
Lithographer’s Journal (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1891-1894.
National Lithographer (Jersey City, N.J.) 1893-1963.
The National Gazette (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1828-1841.
New York Times (New York, N.Y.) 1857-1880.
North American (Philadelphia, Pa.)1839-1879.
Public Ledger (Philadelphia, Pa.)1828-1880.
Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1834-1880.
The Press (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1857-1880.
Printers’ Circular (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1866-1880.
Saturday Courier (Philadelphia, Pa.) l831-1835.
Primary Web Resources
Ancestry.com; http://www.ancestry.com/
Footnote.com; http://www.footnote.com/
GeneaologyBank.com; http://www.genealogybank.com
The following are the most cited databases accessed through these on-line sites:
American Civil War Soldiers
IRS Tax Assessment Lists, 1862-1918
National Park Service, U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865
New York City Marriages, 1600s-1800s
New York, 1820-1850 Passenger and Immigration Lists
Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s
Philadelphia, 1789-1880 Naturalization Records
Selected U.S. Naturalization Records - Original Documents, 1790-1974 (World Archives Project)
Soundex Index to Petitions for Naturalizations Filed in Federal, State, and Local Courts in New York City, 1792-1906
U.S. Censuses 1840-1930
U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865
U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules Index
U.S. National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938
U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patents, 1790-1909
Primary Secondary Sources (including key to abbreviations in bold)
Falk, Peter Hastings, ed. The Annual Exhibition Record of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 1807-1870. Madison, Ct.: Sound View Press, 1988. Reprint with revisions.
———. Who Was Who in American Art.Madison, CT.: Soundview Press, 1985.
Fielding, Mantle. Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers. New York: J.F. Carr, 1965. (WWWAA)
Fielding, Mantle. Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers. New York: J.F. Carr, 1965. (WWWAA)
Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.). Report of the [ ] Annual Exhibition of the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania… (1831-1846)
Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.). Report of the [ ] Exhibition of American Manufactures, Held in the City of Philadelphia, … by the Franklin Institute, of the State of Pennsylvania, for the Promotion of the Mechanic Art… (1847-1874)
Freedley, Edwin. Philadelphia and Its Manufactures: A Hand-Book Exhibiting the Development, Variety, and Statistics of the Manufacturing Industry of Philadelphia in 1867. Philadelphia: Edward Young & Co., 1867.
———. Philadelphia and Its Industries. Philadelphia: Press of John D. Avil & Co.,1885.
———. Philadelphia and Its Manufactures: A Hand-Book Exhibiting the Development, Variety, and Statistics of the Manufacturing Industry of Philadelphia in 1857. Philadelphia: Edward Young, 333 Walnut Street, 1858.
———. Leading Pursuits and Leading Men: A Treatise on the Principal Trades and Manufactures of the United States. Showing the Progress, State and Prospects of Business: and Illustrated by Sketches of Distinguished Mercantile and Manufacturing firms. Philadelphia: Edward Young, 1856.
Groce, George C. and David H. Wallace. The New York Historical Society Dictionary of American Artists. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1957. (Groce & Wallace)
Hageman, Jane Sikes. Ohio Pioneer Artists: A Pictorial Review. Cincinnati: Ohio Furniture Makers, 1993
Haverstock, Mary Sayre, Jeannette Mahoney Vance, Brian L Meggitt, and Jeffrey Weidman, Artists in Ohio 1787-1900: A Biographical Dictionary. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2000.
The Industries of Philadelphia. Philadelphia: Richard Edwards, 1881.
Last, Jay T. The Color Explosion: Nineteenth-Century American lithography. Santa Ana, Ca.: Hillcrest Press, 2005. (Last)
Merrill, Peter C. German Immigrant Artists in America: A Biographical Dictionary. Lanham, Md; London: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.: 1997. (Merrill)
Pennsylvania Historical Review. City of Philadelphia Leading Merchants and Businesses. Philadelphia: Historical Publishing Company, 1886.
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1877- (PMHB)
Peters, Harry T. America on Stone: the other Printmakers to the American People: a Chronicle of American Lithography other than that of Currier & Ives, from its Beginning, Shortly before 1820, to the Years when the Commercial Single-stone Hand-colored Lithograph Disappeared from the American Scene. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1931. (Peters)
Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia: Three Centuries of American Art.
Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1976. (PMA - PTCAA)
Pierce, Sally and Catherine Slauterback. Boston Lithography, 1820-1885. Boston: Boston Athenaeum Library, 1991.
Reps, Views and Viewmakers of Urban America. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1984
Wainwright, Nicholas. Philadelphia in the Romantic Age of Lithography: an Illustrated History of Early Lithography in Philadelphia, with a Descriptive List of Philadelphia Scenes Made by Philadelphia Lithographers before 1866. Philadelphia: The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1958. (Wainwright)
Young, William. A Dictionary of American Artists, Sculptors and Engravers, from the Beginnings through the Turn of the Twentieth Century. Cambridge, Mass.:
William Young & Co., 1968. (Young)
Other Sources
Library Company of Philadelphia research files - in-house research files compiled from unpublished, published, and archival source materials.