Details
Creator Rease, W. H., lithographer.
Contributor Printer Kuhl, Frederick, printer.
Provenance: Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, collector.
Title Penn Hotel & Denny's harness shop. [graphic] / On stone by W.H. Rease 17 1/2 S. 5th St.
Publisher [Philadelphia]: F. Kuhl's lith. Press]
Date [[December 1848]
Extent 1 print: lithograph; 40 x 28 cm. (15.5 x 11 in.)
Description Advertisement depicting the three-and-a-half-story building containing the hotel and tavern operated by John Thompson at 329 Market Street and Robert Denny's saddles and harness store at 327 1/2 Market Street. Harnesses and other horse paraphernalia hang from the shop's display window and entranceways, including a stable entrance marked, "Entertainment for Horses." In front of the building, a man with his horse enters the marked entrance; a clerk from Denny's converses with a customer by a stack of trunks; and other horses rest nearby and in front of the adjacent hardware store, including one attached to a sulky attended by an African American man. Hotel guests stand near the second floor windows and enter the hotel entrance. The hotel, tavern, and harness and saddle store resided together at the site only for the year 1848 to 1849.
Notes Print trimmed and lacking caption.
Poulson inscription on recto: Dec. 1848 No. 327 1/2 Market Street.
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Genre Lithographs 1840-1850.
Advertisements 1840-1850.
Subject Penn Hotel (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Hotels--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Saddlery--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Horses--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia-Equipment and supplies.
Stores & shops--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Horses--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
African American men--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Spatial coverage Market Street (Philadelphia, Pa.)--300 block.
Is part of Wainwright Philadelphia Lithographs
Is referenced by Wainwright 270.
Has format TMP.objres.4547.jpg
Related resource http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W270.htm
Call number Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W 270 [P.2156]
Accession number P.2156