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Winter scene in Philadelphia. [graphic].
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Creator
Blanc, Albert, artist.
Contributor
Longacre & Co., printer.
H.H. & Geo. B. Mershon, copyright holder.
Title
Winter scene in Philadelphia. [graphic].
Publisher
Philadelphia: Longacre & Co. lith. 30 & 32 S. 7th St
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1871
Date
[ca. 1871], 1870
Physical Description
1 print: chromolithograph; 62 x 47 cm (24.25 x 18.25 in.)
Description
Advertisement for Daniel Mershon's Sons heating and ventilating warehouse at 1203 Filbert Street. Shows busy street and pedestrian traffic in front of the four-story red brick warehouse heavily adorned with signage and a "Russian Heater Works" flag at the northwest corner of Twelfth and Filbert streets. Signs advertising patent airtight heaters, grates, registers, ventilators, fireplace heaters, ranges, slate mantels, and house warming and cooking ranges are visible near the doorway and in the show windows of the storefront. Stoves, ranges, and fireplaces are displayed in the windows and on the sidewalk. Laborers load heating equipment into a store delivery wagon marked "Prepare for Winter" as a patron leaves the store near a policeman standing at the corner of the building. Several pedestrians wearing heavy coats, hats, and muffs walk in the street and on the sidewalks near several horse-drawn vehicles, including sleighs and a "Twelfth Street Passenger Railway" streetcar. Also shows partial views of horse-drawn wagons and of neighboring buildings in addition to a man on horseback. The business, established as Fink, Potts & Savoy in 1838, was known for the "Mershon" Patent Shaking Grate" and was renamed Daniel Mershon's Sons following the death of the original successor, Daniel Mershon, in 1865.
Notes
Not in Wainwright.
Filbert St. and Twelfth St. printed below the image as key.
Title from item.
Date inferred from original letter of copyright issued to H.H. & Geo. Mershon held in the Print and Picture Collection of the Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa. Copyright letter No. 2333A. [Oversize Philadelphiana - Factories & Foundries (A-M)].
Gift of David Doret.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 846 variant
Variant copy at Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 38 M 574
Longacre & Co. operated at 30 & 32 S. 7th Street in 1871.
Subject
D. Mershon's Sons.
Heating & ventilation industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Horse-drawn vehicles -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre
Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Advertisements -- 1870-1880.
Printer
H.H. & Geo. B. Mershon, copyright holder.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *Doret and Mitchell Collection - Prints [P.2022.62.3.38]
Accession number
P.2022.62.3.38
In Collections
Philadelphia on Stone Digital Catalog
Philadelphia on Stone: Library Company of Philadelphia
David Doret Collection of Prints, Photographs, and Ephemera
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