Antique Philadelphia Print - The Widows & Orphans Asylum - 1827 - Federal Period Philadelphia

Antique Philadelphia Print - The Widows & Orphans Asylum - 1827 - Federal Period PhiladelphiaTreasures from THE PHILADELPHIA DELAWARE VALLEY COLLECTION at The Willing Mind. By exclusive arrangement with The Grand Review. Print size 18 x 24, and consciously formatted to work with a standard size store bought frame, or custom framed as you see fit. The Widows and Orphans Asylum, 1827. Drawn by George Strickland, engraved by J. W. Steel for Cephas Childs. One of the most satisfying projects we ever leapt into was acquiring and restoring a series

from the very beginning

located on 9th Street between Chestnut and Market Streets

While each stands on its own

but there was a time in the 1950s when the BMW two cylinder flat twin engine was THE powerhouse in all the winning sidecar racers

on the road with her belongings balled up in her bindle

and the money to purchase them

One of the most amazing journeys I've ever taken in a long life hardly lacking in adventure was the discovery of a lost portfolio of work by the futurist illustrator

captured here as that ephemeral moment is frozen in time

at a time when we were renovating our permanent home in a delightful 1890s carriage house in the historic Overbrook Farms neighborhood of Philadelphia

What did they have for breakfast

has been surprisingly popular with diplomats and other retired career government folks who worked in some aspect of the Cold War

There are so many disparate sources of historic material we work from