Philadelphia Gallery

Exterior - Automat Dining Room, Times Square, New York, USA

The exterior of the Automat Dining Room - Times Square branch, New York, USA. Horn & Hardart was a food services company of the USA noted for operating the first food service automats in Philadelphia and New York City. The coffee dispensers pictured served New Orleans-style French-drip coffee for one nickel. Date: 1936

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Views in the midwest and Kentucky

Settlers in a waggon traveling to the western states 79, settlers building a log cabin 80, and view of Mammoth Cave in Kentucky 81. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rev. Isaac Taylor's Scenes in America, for the Amusement and Instruction of Little Tarry-at-Home Travelers, John Harris, London, 1821

© Florilegius

Philadelphia fleabane, Erigeron philadelphicus

L'Erigeron de Philadelphie. Philadelphia fleabane, Erigeron philadelphicus. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz Collection precieuse et enluminee des fleurs les plus belles et les plus curieuses, qui se cultivent tant dans les jardins de la chine, que dans ceux de l'Europe, Paris, 1776. Date:

© Florilegius/Mary Evans