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Abbott & Lawrence. Liberty Stove Works, Brown Street above Fourth St. Philada. [graphic] :/ James J. Abbott. Archilus Lawrence. Drawn & lithd. by A. Kollner.
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Creator
Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813.
Title
Abbott & Lawrence. Liberty Stove Works, Brown Street above Fourth St. Philada. [graphic] :/ James J. Abbott. Archilus Lawrence. Drawn & lithd. by A. Kollner.
Publisher
Philadelphia: A. Kollner's Lithy
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1852
Date
[ca. 1852]
Physical Description
1 print: lithograph, tinted with one stone; 57 x 70 cm. (22.5 x 28 in.)
Description
Advertisement showing the stove works founded in 1851 on the 400 block of Brown Street in Northern Liberties. Works include a four-story building containing the "office" and adorned with a cupola, a large work yard, and a rear "Foundry." At the multi-story building, a laborer loads stoves that are lined on the sidewalk into a horse-drawn wagon under the eye of a man at the doorway. On the roof, two other men stand in the cupola that is adorned with a statue of Liberty. In the adjacent work yard, laborers shovel and pick at mounds of coal and bricks, and load and transport hand- and horse-drawn carts on the grounds and up a ramp leading to an opening in the foundry. Near the workers, a group of men, one leaning on a shovel convenes and two boys chase each other over a mound. On the sidewalk, men, women, and children pedestrians stroll past a street lamp, watch the workers, and converse near a dog sniffing a fire hydrant. In the street, drivers guide horse-drawn carts, a drayman travels, and a pedestrian crosses in the path of an "Abbott & Lawrence Liberty stove Works" wagon and speeding carriage occupied by a family of three. Street activity also includes a man on horse back, two dogs in a greeting stance, and two gentlemen engaged in conversation. The firm was reestablished as Abbott & Noble in 1858, and operated until 1915 under various proprietors.
Is referenced by
Wainwright 11
Notes
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 7
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Subject
Abbott & Lawrence.
Stove industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Laborers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carriages & coaches -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carts & wagons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Fire hydrants -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Brown Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 400 block.
Northern Liberties (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre
Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1850-1860.
Advertisements -- 1850-1860.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| **W11 [P.2002]
Accession number
P.2002
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