It's not a display. It's in the out of sight areas of the library. It had a purpose at one point, but nobody who works there knows what it's for. I thought perhaps it was used to move coal to the boiler decades ago.
Haha! Haven't had a chance to watermark any of the photos I've taken, as I'm working through this collection. I'm trying to catalog all of these originals, and intend to protect the ones that appear to be unknown.
Based on Frank Taylor's annotations on other pieces, we know he completed some of his work based on photographs or drawings, which he credits the original. I assume this is from a drawing, which unfortunately, he did not credit the original.
Yes! I will be moving all of them! The only one that will not be available, is of course, this Tun Tavern. My client is keeping this one, as he is a Marine. I would like it also, as the Battalion I belonged to, also traces some lineage to the Tun.
In the reading of Frank Hamilton Taylor's will, in June of 1927, it was directed that his series of Philadelphia negatives, drawings and prints were to be sold at auction if not bought by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. The Society chose not to buy them, so they went to auction, sold in lots, disappearing into the private collections, turning up sporadically over the decades.
Being a native Philadelphian, I am extremely excited to handle this collection, which consists of original pieces depicting what Philadelphia looked like century ago!
From the "lost" collection of Frank H. Taylor, Philadelphia originals, is this one, numbered 418, with no title. It isn't cataloged on the Library Company of Philadelphia website either. Do you know what this building is?
Lost since being auctioned off in the late 1920s..... I have been commissioned to handle this ORIGINAL Frank Hamilton Taylor, watercolor of Tun Tavern, along with more than 70 other lost Taylor originals!
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Reply to comment by Brraaap in A friend told me there is a rail car on tracks on the second floor of the Philadelphia Library near the boiler room. What would that be for? by [deleted]
I do not. If told him to try and get pics.