Details
Creator Rease, W. H., lithographer.
Contributor Provenance: Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, collector.
Title Foering & Thudiums cheap stove ware-house. [graphic] / W.H. Rease, No. 17 S[out]h 5[t]h St.
Publisher [Philadelphia: s.n.]
Date [December 1846]
Extent 1 print: lithograph; 41 x 21 cm. (12.5 x 9.25 in.)
Description Advertisement depicting the three-and-a-half story warehouse operated by Frederick Foering and C.A. Thudium at 87 North Second Street. In the open entranceways, a clerk assists a female shopper and an African American laborer lifts a stove. Displays of stoves line the sidewalk and the store walls. On the second floor near open windows, white laborers work. A horse-drawn cart departs an adjoining exitway. Foering and Thudium, one of the city's first domestic stove manufacturers, started in business in 1828, and operated on North Second Street from 1845 until 1847.
Notes Print trimmed and lacking caption.
Poulson inscription on recto: Dec. 1846. North Second Street.
Genre Lithographs 1840-1850.
Advertisements 1840-1850.
Subject Foering & Thudium (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Stoves.
Stores & shops--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Clerks (Retail trade)--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
African American laborers--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Spatial coverage Second Street (Philadelphia, Pa.)--North 87.
Is part of Wainwright Philadelphia Lithographs
Is referenced by Wainwright 132.
Has format TMP.objres.4409.jpg
Related resource http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W132.htm
Call number Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W132 [P.2045]
Accession number P.2045