Details
Creator Rease, W. H., lithographer.
Contributor Kuhl, Frederick, printer.
Title Hart, Montgomery & Co. Successors to Isaac Pugh & Co. Manufacturers and importers of paper hangings, No. 118 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Manufactory N.E. Cor. Schuyl[kill] Front & Wood Streets [graphic] / On Stone by W.H. Rease, 17 So. 5th St.
Publisher Philadelphia: Printed by F. Kuhl,
Date [ca. 1852]
Extent 1 print: lithograph, tinted; 49 x 67 cm. (19.25 x 26.25 in.)
Description Exterior view of the manufactory operated from 1849 until 1860 by William Hart and A.J. Montgomery at Schuylkill Front (i.e., Twenty-second) and Wood Streets depicted within a lithographed tromp l'oeil wood frame. A horse-drawn cart stands idle by a side entrance of the multi-storied factory and four goats roam a nearby yard. Smaller factory buildings are visible to the right. Horse-drawn delivery carts, one steered by an African American, travel pass each other on the adjacent street. Pedestrians and laborers walk the sidewalks and converse near a street lamp. Eastern State Penitentiary is visible in the background. During the mid-nineteenth century, Philadelphia was the premier American city of fine wallpaper production.
Notes Date of publication supplied by Wainwright.
Genre Lithographs Color 1850-1860.
Advertisements 1850-1860.
Subject Hart, Montgomery & Co.
Eastern State Penitentiary of Pennsylvania.
Industrial facilities--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Wallpaper industry--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Laborers--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Carts & wagons--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
African American men--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Spatial coverage Twenty-second Street (Philadelphia, Pa.)--North--300 block.
Is part of Wainwright Philadelphia Lithographs
Is referenced by Wainwright 169.
Has format TMP.objres.4439.jpg
Related resource http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W169.htm
Call number Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W169 [P.2702]
Accession number P.2072