Biography:

One of the most prolific viewmakers in the Philadelphia area over several decades before and after 1900 was Frank Hamilton Taylor, an artist and author who found a wide range of means to put his work before the public. He served as a "special artist" providing drawings and accompanying stories for many newspapers and serials, he acted as editor for a variety of illustrated books as likely to address the commercial present as the historical past, and most pertinently here, he issued a series of over 400 large photo-lithographed prints during the 1910s and 1920s under the title Old Philadelphia, Artistic Reproductions from Drawings by Frank H. Taylor, . . . Depicting Old Structures and Scenes of Historic Interest.