Details
Creator Rae, Julio H.
Contributor Fisher, Joseph, former owner.
Title [Unnumbered plate and advertisements from Rae's Philadelphia pictorial directory & panoramic advertiser. Chestnut Street, from Second to Tenth Streets] [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia: Julio Rae]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1851
Date [1851]
Physical Description 2 items: lithograph, letterpress, and wood engraving; 24 x 34 cm.(9.5 x 13.25 in.)
Description Unnumbered plates showing a section of the 900 block (256-305) of Chestnut Street. South side includes T. W. Dufrenes, Ornamental Stone Works (260-262); F. A. Hoyt, Boys’ Clothing (264); [E. N.] Scherrs’ Piano Forte Ware Rooms (266); E. Ferrett & Co., Pianos & Music (268); and John Bringhurst, Druggist (272). North side includes Simon Colton, [G]rocer (305) and B. E. Moore, Tailor (301). “Boy’s Clothing” signage (264) included on plate as pasted detail.
Accompanying advertisements promote six of the businesses depicted as well as businesses from complementary plate, including Moore, Markoe House, Colton, Scherr, Ferrett, and Bringhurst. Advertisements contain ornamented type and two (Markoe House and Colton) contain lines of promotional text.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
LCP also holds trimmed duplicate depicting North side [P.2008.34.16.14]. Inscribed in pencil 295, 297, 299.
Folder 17.
Subject Bringhurst, John.
Colton, Simon.
Dufrene, T.W.
Hoyt, F.A.
Moore, Benjamin E.
Rand, Charles S.
Scherr, E.N.
E. Ferrett & Co.
Commercial streets -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Clothing stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Grocery stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Music publishing industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Pharmaceutical industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Piano makers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Stone industry and trade -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Tailor shops -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 900 block.
Genre Advertisements -- 1850-1860.
Letterpress works -- 1850-1860.
Lithographs -- 1850-1860.
Wood engravings -- 1850-1860.
Panoramic views -- 1850-1860.
Provenance Fisher, Joseph, former owner.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| albums - Rae - Folder 17 [*Am 1851 Rae, 2975.Q]
Accession number 2975.Q
2975.Q folder 17-1