Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

The Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers contains the biographies of over 500 artists, lithographers, printers, and publishers who worked in commercial lithography in Philadelphia between 1828 and 1878.

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Title: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
Description: The Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers contains the biographies of over 500 artists, lithographers, printers, and publishers who worked in commercial lithography in Philadelphia between 1828 and 1878.
Identifier: Islandora:POSB2
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: Urwiler, Reuben J.; Reuben J. Urwiler, born ca. 1834 in Philadelphia, worked as a lithographer in 1862, possibly with his brother, Benjamin F. Urwiler (1830-1913), and cousin, John J. Urwiler (1829-1904), lithographers who worked with W. H. Rease and William Hart mid-1850s-mid-1860s. Urwiler also worked in the trades of surgical instrument maker, engineer, machinist, caulker, and cigar store owner. Between 1862 and 1865, Urwiler served as a Private in the Sixty-Seventh Regiment, Company K of the Union army. Urwiler married Mary A. (b. 1842), with whom he had three children, including Fanny, Carrie and John, and resided in North Philadelphia (Ward 19) by 1870. By 1910, he resided with his wife and his granddaughter Mary (b. 1893) on Hull Street in Northeast Philadelphia (Ward 25), but by the time of his death on January 31, 1919, they lived at 6161 Catherine Street in West Philadelphia.

: Victor, Michael; Michael Victor, born ca. 1833 in France, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia in 1860. He resided in the boarding house of Abraham Koehler with several French-born artisans, including fellow lithographer Michael Rouget in Center City (Ward 5).

: Wade, Frederick J.; Frederick J. Wade, born December 1841 in England, was a later 19th-century Philadelphia manufacturer of metallic signs and general lithographer. Wade immigrated to Philadelphia on May 26, 1854 from Liverpool, England on board the "Manchester." By 1863 Wade worked in the city as a lithographer and by ca. 1873 established his own firm at 230 South Fifth Street. Smith produced the 1875 historic prints "Philadelphia in 1702" and Philadelphia in the Olden Time," church, views, certificates and labels. His firm was active until 1886 and he worked as a lithographer until ca. 1900., Wade was married to Margaret (b. ca. 1840) with whom he had two daughters. From ca. 1860 to ca. 1900, Wade predominately lived in Center City on the 300 block of Cypress Street (Ward 4); first at his own residence at 306 Cypress with his family and in 1900 as a widowed boarder at 310 Cypress. In the late 1880s he resided at 310 Aberdeen Street (West Philadelphia.). By 1910 Wade returned to West Philadelphia and resided at the "Old Mans Home "at Saunders and Powelton streets. He was listed in city directories at that address until 1918.

: Waeschle, John; John Waeschle, born in 1819 in Germany, worked as a lithographer, engraver, and printer in Philadelphia ca. 1864-1894. Waeschle immigrated to Pennsylvania by 1856 (the year of birth of his Pennsylvania-born daughter listed in the 1870 census) and was first listed in Philadelphia city directories in 1864., During his thirty-year career, Waeschle operated from 142 North Third Street (1863-1868); 201 North Third Street with Meichel & Plumly (1868-1871); 326 Chestnut Street as Waeschle, Steng & Paxson (1872); 491 North Third Street (1876); 334 North Third Street with Frederick P. Kent & Co. (1878-1880); and 448 North Third Street (1883). Waeschle was also a member of the Hermann Beneficial Association No. 1 and Social Labor Beneficial Association No. 6., Waeschle resided at 613 Brook (i.e., Bodine) Street in Northern Liberties (Ward 10) by 1870 with his German-born wife Elizabeth Einhardt (1826-1910) and children including Caroline (b. 1856), Louis (b. 1859), William (b. 1865) and John (b. 1867). At the time of his death on May 26, 1899, his residence was at 433 Green Street, also in Northern Liberties.

: Wagner & McGuigan; Wagner & McGuigan, the partnership between Thomas S. Wagner and James McGuigan, active 1845- ca. 1858, was one of the premier lithographic establishments of the mid nineteenth century. The firm, an innovator in the industry in color printing and steam press technology, prolifically printed advertising prints in addition to lithographs in all branches of the trade., Originally established in 1845 as Pinkerton, Wagner & McGuigan, the firm, known for its experimentation with chromolithography, reconfigured into Wagner & McGuigan following the 1845 departure of Edward Pinkerton. Under this new configuration, the partnership flourished. By the end of the 1840s, the men operated about 40 presses and employed 30 men and remained active in the early promotion of chromolithography in the city. The firm utilized the block style of the color printing formulated by premier French lithographer Godefroy Engelmann (1788-1839) early on and became one of the main rivals to Wagner's former employer P. S. Duval in size, innovation, and production. Although most prolific in the printing of advertising prints and maps, all genres of lithographs, including postage stamps, sheet music, periodical and book illustrations, portraiture and view prints came forth from the presses of the firm that employed a number of respected artists and lithographers, including Alfred Hoffy, James Queen, William H. Rease, and Robert F. Reynolds., Between 1847 and 1850, the firm relocated to 4 Athenian Buildings (300 block Chestnut Street), exhibited examples of most likely anastatic printing at the 1848 Exhibition of American Manufacturers; and in February 1850 promoted their print "Lord's Supper" as executed by "the first lithographic steam power printing machine ever successfully invented." The year 1850 also brought the firm printed acclaim in the preface to George Spratt's "Obstetric Tables" as well as tragedy, when on December 17 the Athenian building was set on fire through arson. Despite water damage, the firm remained innovative and productive and in 1852 advertised "Having introduced steam power, which has proved an invaluable auxiliary, by our late improvements to the Lithographic Press, enables us to employ the heaviest and Largest size presses and largest size Stones of any establishment in the United States." In 1854, with their steam powered presses, Wagner & McGuigan fulfilled orders as large as 20,000 sets of 4 plates for U.S. government reports., At the forefront of the use of steam powered presses, Wagner & McGuigan also excelled in the advertisement of their firm and equipment and issued some of the only known antebellum era interior views of a Philadelphia lithographic establishment, including the ca. 1847 print "Wagner & McGuigan's Lithographic Establishment for Drawing Lettering & Printing No. 116 Chesnut [sic] St. Philadelphia" in the Harry T. Peters Collection at the Smithsonian. In addition the ca. 1855 print "Wagner & McGuigan's Lithographic & Steam Power Printing Establishment No. 4 Athenian Buildings, Franklin Place Philadelphia" in the collections of the Library of Congress depicted their steam powered press., By 1857, Wagner & McGuigan owned the Athenian building and "were chiefly engaged on the maps and views for the Report on the Pacific Railroad and plates intended for the Patent Office reports." Unfortunately the year also saw the building in which they had worked for a decade succumbed to fire yet again. On November 26, 1857, the destructive blaze destroyed the building, of which they occupied all but the first floor and a second floor room, along with their stock of lithographic stones, finished work, presses, and belongings worth $20,000. Proofs of the government prints remained and the firm continued in business for about another year at 34/38 Franklin Place. After 1858, both Wagner and McGuigan continued in the lithographic trade and established their own firms under sole proprietorships.

: Wagner & Stuart; Wagner & Stuart, the partnership between lithographers, engravers, and die sinkers William W. Wagner and Albert F. Stuart, was active in Philadelphia ca. 1846-ca. 1860s. The firm operated from 20, and later 11 South Sixth Street. Known work includes illustrations for sheet music. By the late 1850s the firm was only listed as "engravers" in city directories and by 1870 had evolved into a undertaker's trimmings establishment., William W. Wagner, born in Pennsylvania about 1817, resided with his wife Louisa (b. ca. 1828) and three children in Southwark (Ward 4) in 1850. He owned real estate worth $1600. In 1860 he resided in Germantown (Ward 21) with seven children and with real estate worth $5000 and a personal estate worth $1000. By 1880 Wagner had married presumably his second wife, Anna T. (b. ca. 1852). His children, their spouses, and grand children, including Sylvester Wunder, oil cloth printer, resided with the couple at North Eighteenth Street and Erie Avenue (North Philadelphia)., Albert F. Stuart, born ca. 1824 in Pennsylvania, resided in 4th Ward Spring Garden with his wife Rebecca (b. ca. 1824) in 1850. In 1870 Stuart lived in Center City (Ward 8) with his wife and two children.

: Wagner, Rudolph; Rudolph Wagner, born on September 26, 1836 to Joseph and Lena Wagner in Germany, immigrated to the United States in the 1850s, and worked as a lithographer and engraver in Philadelphia from 1860-ca. 1910. In 1860 he worked for W. H. Rease at his Fourth and Chestnut Street establishment. His subsequent business addresses are unknown., Wagner resided in the household of his father and hotel keeper Joseph Wagner (b. ca. 1807, Germany) at 937 North Marshall Street (Ward 20) with his younger brother and painter Adolph Wagner (b. ca. 1841, Germany) in 1860. Wagner married Pennsylvania-born Margaret ca. 1860 and relocated frequently within the Northern Liberties neighborhood in the 1860s. By 1870, they lived in Camden, New Jersey with three children. Wagner returned to Philadelphia, presumably after Margaret's death, and remarried Philadelphia-native Teresa P. (b. ca. 1842) ca. 1875. They resided at 1212 Cuthbert Street in northern Center City in the late 1870s and lived at 1131 Fairmount Avenue in the 1880s. They lived in South Philadelphia (Ward 39) by 1910. Wagner died on December 30, 1913 and his wife wife Teresa P. died three years later on September 1, 1916.

: Wagner, Thomas S.; Thomas S. Wagner, engraver and lithographer, born in Pennsylvania in 1813 or 1814, was a partner in Wagner & McGuigan, one of the premier and most prolific lithographic establishments of the mid 19th century., Active as a lithographer from 1840, Wagner pursued publishing early in his career. In 1841, while employed by premier lithographer P. S. Duval. he established the illustrated periodical "The U.S. Ecclesiastical Portrait Gallery." Printed from Duval's studio at 7 Bank Alley, the periodical illustrated with the work of acclaimed portraitist Albert Newsam, survived for only about a year., Wagner continued at the studio of Duval until 1844 when he partnered with Edward Pinkerton, and James McGuigan (1818/19-1874) in Pinkerton, Wagner & McGuigan. Following the departure of Pinkerton ca. 1845, Wagner partnered with McGuigan until ca. 1859 at 4 Franklin Place. The firm was prolific in the production of advertisements and an innovator in chromolithography and steamed powered lithographic printing., In 1857, a fire destroyed the building of the firm and the partnership of Wagner & McGuigan dissolved by 1859. Wagner then continued in the trade as sole proprietor of a firm executing "Lithography in all its branches," including printing in colors. He was also one of the few publishers of wooden lithographic puzzles and received a number of commissions from the federal government. Consequently in 1859, he acted as a prime witness in the congressional investigation of the Superintendent of Printing. He also manufactured lamp shades as noted in an 1864 city directory listing., Despite professional success, Wagner's personal life was purportedly marred by alcoholism. His 1847 endorsement as a member of "high standing in society" for the patent medicine "Dr.Cullen's Indian Vegetable Panacea" lends credence and the possible start of these troubles, which led to Wagner's death from diabetes on December 11, 1863 while a resident at 1239 North Second Street (Ward 17). At his death, his professional estate, as appraised by colleagues Louis N. Rosenthal and John Harvey, was valued at $3817.50 (about $67, 500 in 2008 dollars). It included 7 large presses, 15 small presses, 20 ink slabs, 12,500 lbs of stone above 26 inches in width ($1250), 8100 lbs of stone 16-26 inches, and 3800 lbs of stones less than 16 inches. His personal estate was valued at $4411., Married to Ellen by 1850, Wagner resided at multiple locations in Center City and Old City, before settling in Northern Liberties by the mid 1850s. By 1860, he had married second wife Annie and he had at least two children a daughter Ellen (b. ca. 1843), a stepson George Harold Theis, and possibly a son A.G., who may have been active in the trade with his father.

: Wagner, William W.; See Wagner & Stuart.

: LCP-Waller-DirPhila1856-10578-Q-6-backad.jpg; Edward L. Waller was active as an engraver and lithographer in Philadelphia 1852-1857. From ca. 1854 to ca. 1856, he worked in Robert Pearsall Smith's printing establishment at 15-19, i.e., 517 Minor Street. In 1857, he was employed by P. S. Duval & Son at 22 South Fifth Street. Edward Waller resided at 1339 South Tenth Street during his career.

: Ward, S. A. and A. F. (Samuel A. and Asahel F.); Samuel A. and Asahel F. Ward, tailors, designers and "publishers of fashion" issued lithographic fashion plates in Philadelphia from 1841 to 1857. Sons of Allen Ward, who claimed to be "the first inventor, patentee and teacher of systematical rules of garment cutting," the Wards produced The Philadelphia Fashions & Tailors' Archetypes, a subscription-based publication containing garment cutting instructions accompanied by lithographed plates of patterns similar to the protractor and proof system created by local designer Francis Mahan. In a newspaper war that endured many years, their father accused Mahan of copying designs from old drafts of his work, resulting in several design competitions; an injunction against Mahan by Ward in 1839; and a libel suit by Mahan against Ward in 1840. By the 1840s both Mahan and the Wards were publishing fashion prints (the Wards' lithographed by Thomas Sinclair) depicting figures attired in seasonal fashions., According to city directories, Samuel A. Ward (b. ca. 1812) began his tailoring business at 62 Walnut Street in 1841. He began publishing fashion plates as early as 1842 with Asahel F. Ward (1817-1895) from this location and in 1847, according to Peters, he exhibited at the Franklin Institute Exhibition of Manufacturers. In 1854 they removed to the second floor of 100 Chestnut Street, where they remained until Samuel moved to Chicago with his wife Jane A. (b. ca. 1810) in 1857 to pursue music printing. Asahel continued the business in Philadelphia at 335 Chestnut Street from 1857-1862, then tenanted 138 South Third Street until the end of the 1870s. He transitioned into a "reporter of fashions" in the 1880s., Asahel resided on South Ninth and Tenth Streets in South Philadelphia (Wards 2, 3 and 4) with his wife Anna M. (b. ca. 1820) and their five children until his death in 1895., Samuel A. remained in Chicago until at least 1877, after which time he is unlisted in the business and city directories.

: Wartz, Michael; Michael Wartz, born ca. 1860 in Darmstadt, Germany, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia in 1860. He resided in Center City (Ward 5) with his German-born wife Jane (b. ca. 1835), and their two children Mary (b. 1857) and Jane (b. 1859).

: Watson, C. A. (Charles Augustus); Charles Augustus Watson, born in Philadelphia to merchant Joseph Watson and Margaret Rodman, worked as a lithographer and printer with his brother John Frampton Watson in Philadelphia between 1833 and 1837. In 1835, an advertisement for the new lithographic establishment of J. F. & C.A. Watson at 62 Walnut Street appeared regularly in the "Philadelphia Inquirer" and emphasized "that cards &c. engraved on stone for all the practical purposes of business, are equal to those on copper, and at one third the cost." Their earliest known lithographic plates, "Grizzly Bears," "Ground Squirrel," and "Argali," were published in the third volume of "Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports"(1833). They also printed sheet music covers and maps, along with a lithograph of Chadds Ford delineated by Swiss artist and lithographer John Caspar Wild in 1834. By 1837, Watson withdrew from the business and began to be unlisted in business and city directories.

: LCP-Watson-DrawingsWatercolors-357M.jpg; John Frampton Watson, born ca. 1805 in Philadelphia to merchant Joseph Watson and Margaret Rodman, worked as a lithographer and printer in Philadelphia 1833-1866. He began his career in lithography with his brother Charles Augustus Watson in 1833. By 1835, an advertisement for the new lithographic establishment of J. F. & C. A. Watson at 62 Walnut Street appeared regularly in the "Philadelphia Inquirer" and emphasized "that cards &c. engraved on stone for all the practical purposes of business, are equal to those on copper, and at one third the cost." Early works by the firm included the plates "Grisly Bears [sic]," "Ground Squirrel," and "Argali" published in the third volume of the "Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports" (1833)., J. F. & C. A. Watson also printed sheet music covers and maps, along with an 1834 lithograph of Chadds Ford delineated by Swiss artist and lithographer John Caspar Wild in 1834. By 1837, C. A. Watson had withdrawn from the business. However, John Frampton continued to operate from 62 Walnut Street, where he published "Tippecanoe and the Thames" with Philip Banks as J.F. Watson & Co. in 1840. Between 1843 and 1847, Watson operated from 80 1/2 Walnut Street, near Fourth Street, and subsequently from the southeast corner of Fourth and Walnut Streets, where he remained until his death in 1866., Little is known about John Frampton Watson, except that he embarked on a government-funded expedition to the South Seas in 1830, possibly as a draughtsman, with Jeremiah N. Reynolds. In the late 1830s and early 1840s he resided on High (i.e., Market) Street, including 207 High Street, according to an 1837 city directory listing and his address on his 1842 proposed membership cited in the Franklin Institute Board Meeting Minutes. He married Susan Abbott Newbold Penny in 1846 and resided with her in a hotel in the Dock Ward of the city by 1850. They lived at 257 South Ninth Street in 1858, and by 1866, boarded at 739 Spruce Street, where Watson died ca. 1866. His widow provided the address in an "Illustrated New Age" (June 21, 1866) advertisement asking for all debts to be paid to the Watson estate.

: Weaver, M. S. (Matthias Shirk); Matthias Shirk Weaver, born on November 25, 1816 probably in New Holland, Pennsylvania, studied and worked as an artist and lithographer in Philadelphia 1838-1845. He made yearly trips back to visit family in Ohio and on September 15, 1842 during an Ohio visit married Eliza Burgert. Together they had one son, Henry Matthias, who lived to adulthood. Matthias Weaver died of consumption in Summit County, Ohio on October 20, 1847., Weaver came to Philadelphia to study art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1838. To support himself, he worked as a lithographic artist, predominately with printer Thomas Sinclair, drawing large Philadelphia business advertisements, portraits, membership certificates, book illustrations, sheet music covers, and maps. Some of Weaver's most noted work comprised plates for texts authored by the Philadelphia's scientific and medical community, including Dr. Samuel George Morton's Crania Americana (1839) and Crania Aegyptiaca (1844)., Weaver had an active social life while living in Philadelphia, playing in a musical society, joining the William Wirt Library and Literary Institute, and attending lectures and theater performances. Weaver recorded thoughts about his work and his personal life, including socializing with Philadelphia lithographer William Rease, in diaries he kept between 1840 and 1843, now in the possession of the Ohio Historical Society. In failing health and frustrated with lithography as a profession, Weaver, along with his young family, returned to Ohio in 1845. He died a month before his thirty-first birthday on October 20, 1847.

: Wedekind, Gustave; Gustave Wedekind, born ca. 1800 in Baden, Germany, was a lithographer, lamp shade manufacturer, and inventor active in Philadelphia ca. 1856-1870. First listed in Philadelphia city directories in 1856 as a lamp shade manufacturer at 327 Race Street, Wedekind worked at the lamp shade manufactory and lithographic establishment V. Quarre & Co. by the 1860s., Between 1860 and 1869, Wedekind declared his intent for naturalization (May 1860) and was issued a series of patents (1860, 1862-1863, 1869) for improving lamp shades through preparation of transparent pictures, improvement of shade holders, and incombustible paper shades. During this period, Wedekind had financial success; his ownership of a watch and carriage in addition to his income made him eligible to be taxed by the I.R.S., During most of his recorded career (1856-1869), Wedekind resided at Tioga and North Twenty-first Street. He relocated to 808 North Broad Street following his marriage to Victoria Quarre with whom he resided in 1870 as recorded in the census. At that time, he held a personal estate valued at $50,000 ($851,000 value 2008) and real estate valued at $25,000; further attesting to a very successful career. Wedekind died on July 17, 1870.

: Weeder, Louis; Louis Weeder, born in Germany ca. 1823, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia ca. 1855-1890s. Philadelphia city directories first list Weeder as a lithographer in 1855 with the residential address of Morris Street above Fourth Street. By the late 1850s, Weeder relocated his residence to the 1700 block of Cuba Street (South Philadelphia) where he also predominantly lived during the 1860s and early 1870s. In 1867 he worked as an artist at the establishment of Jacob Haehnlen (125 South Third Street). Weeder, or possibly his son Louis, Jr., was in the trade until at least 1896, with a residence in North Philadelphia at 2334 Montgomery Avenue. He may also have worked as an instrument maker in the early 1870s and have resided at the Hayes Mechanic's home in 1891., By 1860, Weeder was married to Anna (b. ca. 1820) and had three children, including Louis, Jr. (b. ca. 1848), who possibly was the instrument maker and the lithographer at 1531 South Eighth Street in 1891 and Montgomery Avenue in 1896. The family resided in South Philadelphia (Ward 1) at 1738 Cuba Street.

: Weik, John; John Weik, born ca. 1827 in Württemberg, Germany, worked as a book seller, stationer, and print publisher in Philadelphia ca. 1851-ca. 1872. Weik immigrated to Philadelphia in 1850 and soon after started the naturalization process and entered the city's publishing industry, including lithographs. In 1851, he operated a book and stationery store at 155 North Third Street. From 1857 to ca. 1860, he partnered with Hugo Liebing to form the book publishing and importing business John Weik & Co. at 533 Chestnut Street. During the 1850s and 1860s, Weik traveled between Germany and Philadelphia several times, presumably to enhance his shop's collection of German works. Weik also published lithographs, many of them bird's eye views, including Bachmann's "Bird's Eye View of Philadelphia" printed by P.S. Duval & Son (1857), Herline's "Microscopic View of New York" (1870), and a map of Boston, Massachusetts (1870) designed by F. Fuchs., Weik enlisted in the Civil War as a Quartermaster on September 11, 1861 and several months later joined Company S of the 75th Regiment of Pennsylvania. Mustered out on September 1, 1865 in Franklin, Tennessee, Weik did not reappear in Philadelphia city directories until 1870. He resumed publishing activities from 605 Sansom Street for a few years, and owned personal estate worth $30,000, but switched to real estate between 1873 and 1878. By 1879, he manufactured clay heaters from 605 Sansom Street., Although Weik first settled in Kensington when he arrived in Philadelphia, he resided at Forty-fourth and Eadline (i.e., Wallace) Streets in West Philadelphia (Ward 24, now Powelton Village) for the rest of his life. He married the Pennsylvania-born Maria L. (1817-1902) by 1850 and had an infant daughter, also Maria L (b. 1850). Two more children, Anna R. (b. 1852) and John A. (b. 1854), were born before Weik enlisted in the war. Weik presumably died ca. 1890, the same year that his wife filed as a widow to receive his pension. Mary Weik died in New York City in 1892.

: Weise, August L.; August L. Weise, born in 1834 in Germany, worked as a lithographer and printer in Philadelphia from the mid-1860s to early 1900s. He began his career producing mostly labels, advertising posters and sheet music in Philadelphia ca. 1865 with William Boell at 311 Walnut Street. By 1867, he was one of the proprietors of A. L. Weise & Co., with Herman Pfeil and Louis Haugg, at 29 South Fourth Street. Weise and Haugg remained at this location until 1871 when they relocated to 45 South Fourth Street. In 1876, they relocated to Duval & Hunter's old shop at 401 Ranstead Place, where Stephen C. Duval (b. ca. 1832) remained and managed the newly named "Weise Lithographic Printing House" until 1879, when the business moved to 101 North Sixth Street. Weise's indebtedness to several creditors noted in an R.G. Dun & Co. credit report in October 1877 most likely caused the business to relocate rapidly and with varying partnerships and managers. By 1880, the printing house had moved again, this time to 101 North Sixth Street, where the business ended by July 1883. A member of the Lithographic Printers Union and its translating secretary in 1862, Weise also served as the president of the Philadelphia Turngemeinde by 1890 and was a member of the Humboldt Lodge No. 359 of the Free and Accepted Masons., Weise resided north of Center City (Ward 13) in 1859, the year his Pennsylvania-born daughter Lilly (b. 1859) was born. By 1870, Weise and his German wife Katharine (b. 1836), lived at 418 Vine Street and welcomed four more children into the family: Albert (b. 1861), Clara (b. 1863), Bertha (b. 1865) and Emma (b. 1868). Albert, Clara, and Bertha were all identified as printers in the 1880 census, by which time three more children were born: Ernst (b. 1873), Mary (b. 1875) and William (i.e., Willie, b. 1878). The family resided for many years at 526 Powell (i.e., Delancey) Street, until relocating to 547 North Sixth Street by 1900 when Weise's children Albert, Bertha, and Emma worked as clerks, and William as a lithographer. Weise died on June 25, 1914.

: Weiss, Jacob; Jacob Weiss, a lithographer who specialized in maps, born ca. 1834 in Saxony, Germany, operated in Philadelphia from 1858 to 1866, working from 600 Chestnut Street (1858-1864) and 320 Walnut Street (1865-1866). Weiss immigrated to the United States by 1854 and resided and worked as a lithographer in Boston by January 9, 1854 when he agreed to provide Jonathan Frock with "good and proper lithographic stones, and will lithograph thereon separately, the map of each and every State of Mexico.", By 1858, Weiss resided in Camden, New Jersey. He soon thereafter relocated to Philadelphia, where he lived at various residences, including 430 Appletree Alley; the same address as lithographers George Eimerman 1865-1866 and brother Peter in 1867. Between 1858 and 1864, Weiss worked with lithographers Eimerman; Worley, Bracher & Matthias; Louis Haugg; and Frederick Bourquin at 600 Chestnut Street (later site of the new Public Ledger building) before he relocated his business to 320 Walnut Street. Weiss published Civil War maps, including "Map of Charleston Harbor" (1861) and the 1860 maps "Map of Hampton Roads and Norfolk Harbor Showing the Location of Fortress Monroe & Forts Calhoun & Norfolk and "A Correct Map of Pensacola Bay Showing Topography of the Coast, Fort Pickens, U.S. Navy Yard and all other fortifications." Weiss died most likely in 1866 as inferred by his wife, Henrietta Weiss (1838-1916), listed as a widow in the 1867 Philadelphia directory. He was survived by three sons, "engravers on stone" George (b. 1859) and Charles (b. 1861), and Albert (b. 1863).

: Weiss, Peter; Peter Weiss, younger brother of Philadelphia map lithographer Jacob Weiss, born ca. 1845 in Germany, was active as a lithographer and engraver in Philadelphia between 1863 and 1901. Weiss immigrated to Philadelphia in 1863 and probably worked at his brother's establishments at 600 Chestnut Street and 320 Walnut Street before Jacob's death in 1866. By 1867, he resided at 430 Appletree Alley, the former residence of lithographer George Eimerman (1865-1866) and his brother Jacob (1865-1866). From the mid to late 1870s, Weiss continued in the trade and resided with his widowed sister-in-law Henrietta at 511 Wood Street. By the 1880 census, Weiss identified himself as a widower and boarded with the Glissmer family at 1108 Callowhill Street (Ward 10). By the time of his death on April 21, 1901, Weiss lived with his older brother George W. at 1011 Tioga Street (Ward 33).

: Weith, Simon; Simon Weith, born ca. 1835 in France, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia in 1860. He resided in Center City (Ward 5) with his family, including his brother August (b. ca. 1834), a stone grinder, and brother, Stephen (b. ca. 1837) also a lithographer.

: Weith, Stephen; Stephen Weith, born ca. 1837 in France, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia in 1860. He resided in Center City (ward 5) with his family, including his brother August (b. ca. 1834), a stone grinder, and brother, Simon (b. ca. 1835) also a lithographer.

: Wells & Hope Co.; Wells & Hope Co., a partnership between John F. Hope (1845-1907) and Joseph Lewis Wells (b. 1836), was a later 19th-century lithographic firm that specialized in metallic signs and advertisements. The firm established ca. 1872 as one of the of the first U.S. manufacturers of decalcomania (i.e., decals) relocated from 115 North Sixth Street to 918 Vine Street in 1875. By the 1880s, the firm engaged in the photomechanical reproduction process of collotypy, was involved in a number of financial suits as claimants for unpaid services, and had been recognized for their photographic and lithographic work at exhibitions, such as the Franklin Institute Exhibition of American Manufacturers (1874) and Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association (1881). The firm was active until the early 1890s., Hope, a native of Scotland, born September 10, 1845, arrived in Philadelphia in 1852 and worked as a bookkeeper before entering the Wells & Hope partnership. He continued as a printer following its dissolution. He was married to Elizabeth R. (b. 1850) with whom he had daughters Lillie (b. ca. 1871) and Florence (b. 1881). The family resided at 1507 Allegheny Avenue by 1880 and 208 North Forty-Second Street in 1900. Hope was also a member of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick. He died on November 19, 1907, his late residence at 5155 Wayne Avenue, Germantown., Wells, was born May 4, 1836 in Mainsburgh, Pa. and described as an inventor in a 1903 family genealogy. By 1870, he and his first wife Caroline Bond (b. ca.. 1845-1871) and son Joseph Herman (b. ca. 1869) lived with his brother Charles family at 1027 Coates Street (20th Ward). He married his second wife, former sister-in-law Margaret Bond in 1875.

: Smithsonian-ArchivesCenter-Geddes.jpg; W. F. Geddes Sons, job and lithographic printers, established by William F. Geddes (ca. 1799-1888) as a book, job & fancy printing shop ca. 1837 at 9 Library Street, operated until ca. 1945. In 1868 the firm renamed W.F. Geddes Sons (724 Chestnut Street) added lithographic printing to their services, although in 1839 the firm published an M. E. D. Brown lithograph of Washington's Family. Specimens of the firm's lithographic work, predominately calendars and their specialty, fruit can labels, was highlighted often in the "Printers' Circular" during the mid to late 1870s. In 1874 the firm received an honorable mention for this latter work at the Franklin Institute Exhibition of Manufacturers. Geddes Sons remained active until at least the early 20th century, with Geddes's son William F. assuming all operations by 1880 following the retirement of his father. The firm was still in operation in 1945., William F. Geddes, born ca. 1799 in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, married Mary Butler, daughter of Robert Butler, Esq. in Philadelphia in July 1834. The couple had at least four children, including sons Robert C. (b. ca. 1845) and William F., Jr. (b. ca, 1848). During the 1850s and 1860s, the family resided in the Southwark Ward and by 1870 had relocated residences to 2001 Wallace Street in the Fairmount neighborhood. Geddes died on January 30, 1888. He was a past Grand Master of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Pennsylvania lodge and an honorary member of the typographical society.

: White, William C.; William C. White, born ca. 1843 in Pennsylvania to Irish-born bricklayer Morris (Maurice) White (b. ca. 1804), worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia 1860-1875. From ca. 1864, he resided at 1511 Sansom Street in Center City (Ward 8) in his parents' household, which included two older, Pennsylvania-born brothers employed as stonemasons. He formed a brief partnership with Eugene N. Inman (1845-1912) in 1872 to produce rags from 1229 Vine Street. Unlisted in Philadelphia city directories in 1873 and 1874, he reappears in an 1875 Philadelphia city directory as a lithographer residing at 1518 Cherry Street (Ward 10).

: Wiest; Daniel Wiest, born circa 1842 in Bayern, Germany, worked as a lithographic artist for the Philadelphia firm Bowen & Company in the mid 1860s. Wiest specialized in entomological drawings and was active until about 1870. He is probably the Daniel Wiest elected a member of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia in 1861. He was also the artist for "In Memory of Abraham Lincoln. The Reward of the Just" issued by Philadelphia publisher William Smith in 1865., In 1870, he lived in North Philadelphia (Ward 20), with his wife Lizzie (b. ca. 1844), daughter Bertha (b. ca. 1868 in Pennsylvania), and most likely his parents, Henry, a tailor (b. ca. 1806 in Bayern), and Anna (b. ca. 1810 in France).

: Wild & Chevalier; Wild & Chevalier, was the short-lived partnership between Swiss-born lithographer John C. Wild and French-born lithographer John B. Chevalier between ca. 1837-1838. The firm, most known for the publication of Wild's "Views of Philadelphia" in 1838, also issued song sheets, souvenir prints, and views of Cape May and the 1838 destruction of Pennsylvania Hall.

: Wild, John Caspar (or Canova); John Caspar (or Canova) Wild, a French-trained artist and lithographer, born ca. 1804 in Zurich, Switzerland and known primarily for his cityscapes and buildings, panoramas, landscapes, and "great proficiency in coloring" was active in Philadelphia between 1832 and ca. 1838. Wild trained as an artist and lithographer for approximately fifteen years in Paris before he arrived in New York City aboard the "Manchester" from Le Havre, France on August 22, 1832. Wild was in Philadelphia by the end of 1832, when he established Fenderich & Wild, a partnership with fellow Swiss lithographer, Charles Fenderich. The firm issued a portrait of the 103-year-old Sergeant Andrew Wallace that year and later printed lithographs with the imprint "Fenderich & Wild's Lithographic Press," at 215 Callowhill Street, including "Fairmount Water Works near Philadelphia," created after an 1834 gouache painting. Wild also delineated lithographs for other firms, including "The Bunch of Grapes" (1833) for Childs & Inman and "Chads Ford The Brandywine Battle Ground Where Gen. La Fayette Was Wounded Sept. 11, 1777" (1834) printed by J. F. & C. A. Watson. The latter print, promoted in an advertisement in the "Philadelphia Inquirer" on July 13, 1834, garnered him the praise, "one of the best artists in this country.", Despite these well-received lithographs, Wild relocated to Cincinnati, Ohio in the spring of 1835 with the intention of heading to Mexico. He, however, remained in Cincinnati and created city views and streetscapes before returning to Philadelphia in 1837. He probably returned to Philadelphia to work on "The Lions of Philadelphia," a project initially spearheaded by "Saturday Courier" proprietors Andrew M'Makin and Ezra Holden that would depict Philadelphia landmarks. Evolved into the seminal "Views of Philadelphia." the subscription series was issued by Wild and his partner J. B. Chevalier as opposed to the "Courier" in whose building at 72 Dock Street the partners operated. Issued in five series of four views, the first two sets, printed by John Collins, appeared in January 1838, the third set by March 1, 1838, and the fourth set, printed by Wild & Chevalier with their own press, in April 1838. The partners, although most identified with the "Views," also produced the same year: "Destruction by Fire of Pennsylvania Hall, on the Night of the 17th May, 1838"; "Girard College"; "Fairmount Waterworks"; and four panoramic views of Philadelphia from the steeple of Independence Hall to accompany the series., Wild left Philadelphia for St. Louis most likely in the fall of 1838. He married Sarah Ann Humphreys on September 1, 1841, but their marriage ended with her premature death four months later. Wild relocated to Davenport, Iowa by the summer of 1844, where he painted and lithographed nearby townscapes and portraits. He fell ill in the spring of 1846 and passed away on August 12, 1846 at the age of forty-two.

: Wilson, Joseph C.; Joseph C. Wilson, born ca. 1845 in Pennsylvania, worked as an artist and lithographer for Thomas Sinclair at his 311 Chestnut Street establishment in Philadelphia 1860-1861. He resided with his English-born parents William and Elizabeth and five siblings at 1610 South Fourth Street in South Philadelphia (Ward 1).

: Winch, Alden; Alden Winch, born in Holden, Massachusetts in 1816, was a Philadelphia bookseller, publisher and paper agent, who sold lithographed political cartoons during the mid 19th century. He relocated to Philadelphia in 1846 and started a wholesale house at 320 Chestnut Street in 1849, in which in 1860, lithograph firm Wm. F. Murphy & Sons also operated. In 1869, Winch, a member of the Union League, sold his business to the Central News Company and served as its manager until four years before his death on September 17, 1882. Winch was buried in New England.

: Wissler, Jacques (James); Jacques Wissler, "lithographer of the Confederacy," born in Strasbourg, France, in June 1806, was a talented portrait painter who began his career in lithography in Philadelphia working for P.S. Duval from 1849 to 1859. Formally educated until the death of his father in 1815, Wissler entered the employ of premier French lithographer Godefroy Engelmann in 1821 after working in a paper factory. Wissler relocated to Paris in 1825 and remained in the employ of Engelmann. By 1832 he accepted a job as an artist in Guebwiller, Haut Rhin, France. The details of his career and life in France after this point are unknown., Wissler immigrated to the United States in 1849, where he settled in the Southwark neighborhood of Philadelphia with his family, including his wife Anna Louise (1811-1874) and four children. By 1850 he worked as an artist and lithographer for P.S. Duval, a fellow Frenchman. Philadelphia city directories indicate that he moved several times, living at various Fifteenth Street locations. By July 1860 he had relocated to New York and partnered with lithographer William P. Dreser at 358 Pearl Street. A year later, Wissler traveled south to Richmond for business, where, at the outbreak of Fort Sumter, his lithographing and engraving services were commandeered by the Confederacy. He designed and produced paper money and bonds in the southern capital, despite his Union sympathies. His son, Jacques (b. ca. 1841), was drafted into the Confederate army, and his son Charles served as a commissioned officer in the Union army (b. ca. 1842)., After the war, Wissler purchased and relocated to a farm in Macon, Mississippi, where his son Charles was killed in a raid by the Klu Klux Klan. His family remained in Macon a few years, until settling at 245 Royden Street in Camden, New Jersey where he resided until his death on November 26, 1887.

: Wistar, Isaac Jones; Isaac Jones Wistar, born on November 14, 1827 in Philadelphia, was a lawyer who managed the establishment of Philadelphia map lithographer Robert Pearsall Smith between 1848 and 1849. Although a brief partnership, Smith & Wistar issued a small number of maps with this imprint, including the noted J. C. Sidney "Map of the City of Philadelphia" (1849)., Following his brief lithographic career, Wistar participated in the California Gold Rush, served as a Civil War Union General, was a Vice-President of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and founded the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology at the University of Pennsylvania. He was also an author of several works, including his autobiography. Wistar died September 18, 1905 and was buried at Laurel Hill Cemetery.

: Worley & Bracher; Worley & Bracher, the partnership between George Worley and William Bracher, that specialized in map engraving and lithography, operated in Philadelphia ca. 1858-1879. The firm, founded ca. 1858 with Worley, Bracher, and Benjamin Matthias as Worley, Bracher & Matthias, was active at 600-602 Chestnut Street, until 1860 and the departure of Matthias., The reestablished firm of Worley & Bracher operated from the same address until 1866, when the business relocated to 104 Hudson Street (rear 320 Chestnut Street) and remained until 1873. From 1873 to 1875, the firm tenanted a shop at 31 South Sixth Street and then 27 South Sixth Street until 1891. During the mid to late 1870s, the firm was described as doing a "fair" and later "small" business" with "fair credit." The firm's estimated worth ranged from $2,000-4,000 (1875) to $1,000 (1878)., The firm produced over 200 maps and atlases between 1858 and 1879, predominately in collaboration with Frederick Bourquin (with whom they often shared a facility), as well as lithographers William Hart, James McGuigan, F. C. Paxson, H. J. Toudy and Thomas S. Wagner.

: Worley, Bracher & Matthias; See Worley & Bracher.

: Worley, George; George Worley, born in England ca. 1819, possibly in Huntingdonshire, was a Philadelphia lithographer who specialized in maps. By 1843, Worley resided in Philadelphia as an artist, later working as a lithographer at the map publishing establishment of Robert Pearsall Smith ca. 1856-1859 before he became senior partner in the firm of Worley, Bracher & Matthias. He is credited with work on the "Map of Burlington County" (Philadelphia: Smith & Wistar, 1849) with Gustavus Kramm and "Map of Greene County, Ohio" (Philadelphia: Anthony D. Byles, 1855). Worley married Ann Thackeray in Huntingdonshire on March 14, 1841. He was naturalized on June 3, 1863 and listed in the tax assessment lists of 1865 for tax on his income and a piano while residing at 2128 Green Street. He died of liver disease on November 21, 1879 in Philadelphia.

: AAS-Wright.jpg; Ernest A. Wright, born in England in July 1851 was a late 19th-century Philadelphia engraver, printer, and lithographer who specialized in bank notes, and society and collegiate stationery. Immigrated to Canada in 1856 and apprenticed in steel and copper plate engraving in New York ca. 1866, Wright established his own engraving firm in Philadelphia at 1032 Chestnut Street in 1872., Following the Centennial of 1876, Wright's business entered a period of prosperity, including the addition of lithography to his printing services by 1891. By that year, Wright operated a five-story plant with 150 employees at 1108 Chestnut Street and executed bank note engraving, government contracts, and corporate printing jobs., Wright, also known as an expert counterfeit detector, was married in 1878 to Elizabeth (b. 1854) with whom he had three children, and was a member of the Canadian Club, Chamber of Commerce, Manufacturer's Club, and the Tioga Methodist Episcopal Church. Wright died on May 30, 1912 at his residence on Wissahickon and Park avenues. He was interred at Westminster Cemetery.

: Wynkoop, John Frank; John Frank Wynkoop, the son of lithographer John Johnson Wynkoop, born about 1852 in New York, worked in Philadelphia as an apprentice lithographer by 1870 and a lithographer by 1873. In 1876, he worked at the lithographic firm managed by Stephen C. Duval that included Louis Haugg and Augustus L. Weise, (401 Ranstead Place) when his lithographic career ended as a consequence of a severe injury to his right hand from a lithographic press. Following the accident, he began work in bookkeeping.

: Wynkoop, John Johnson; John Johnson Wynkoop, born on February 1, 1830 in Hurley, Ulster County, New York, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia 1857-ca. 1886. Wynkoop located to Philadelphia as a lithographer about 1857. He worked at the address of the map establishment of Robert Pearsall Smith until ca. 1863. Also an artist and painter, he operated his own business at 154 South Fourth Street from 1868 to 1877. He resided in West Philadelphia on North Thirty-Eighth Street and later on North Fortieth Street from 1865 to 1886. He was married to Caroline Mathilde Dubois (b. ca. 1830-1886), with whom he had three children, John (ca. 1852) who also entered the lithography trade, Caroline (b. ca. 1854) and Cornelius (ca. 1857). Wynkoop continued to work as a lithographer until ca. 1886.

: Wynkoop, Otto; Otto Wynkoop (Winkopp) born on October 7, 1844 in Baden, Germany worked in Philadelphia as a lithographer between 1866 and the early 1900s. Apprenticed in Baden, Wynkoop first worked for Breuker & Kessler from 1866 to 1874, before relocating to Potsdamer & Co. where he worked until 1885. In 1885, the Potsdamer firm merged with the Ketterlinus Company retaining Wynkoop and other of his older colleagues. At Ketterlinus, Wynkoop first served as a transferrer, then foreman, a position he continued in until his retirement for health reasons a few years before his death., He was married to Caroline with whom he had two children Otto, Jr. (b. 1872) and Bertha (b. 1876). He resided at 434 Garden (now Darien) Street during the 1870s and died of nephritis in Philadelphia on March 7, 1915. He was buried in Hillside Cemetery.

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