Details
Creator Wagner & M'Guigan, lithographer.
Title Louis L. Peck manufacturer & dealer in burning fluid varnishes, pine oil, virgin & sp[iri]ts of turpentine absolute, apothecaries, deodorized and fluid alcohol, of a superior quality linseed oil, white lead, lamps of every description, German & English bronzes, Dutch metal, sand paper, &c. [graphic] : Hecker's farina, family flour, & Hope Mills pure ground spices. Flour & farina store, 101 S. Front St. Varnish Store, 15 Dock Street. Lamp, pine oil & fluid store, 3 & 5 N. Eighth St. Philadelphia.
Publisher Philadelphia: Printed in colors by Wagner & McGuigan, No. 4 Franklin Place,
Date [ca. 1855]
Extent 1 print: chromolithograph; 56 x 70 cm.(22 x 27.25 in.)
Description Advertisement showing the busy street corner at Front and Walnut streets near the Delaware River with a view of the building containing the oil manufactory, and the flour and farina store. The scene is depicted within a lithographed tromp l'oeil wood frame containing an inset of an exterior view of Peck's Works at Dock Street. Delivery wagons and drays traverse the business-lined streets, including one for Peck's driven by an African American man. Pedestrians walk the sidewalks and cross the intersection, and a boy rolls a hoop passed a female peddler sewing by her foodstand. Visible in the background are the busy Walnut Street Ferry wharf and Smith and Windmill Islands in the Delaware River. Louis L. Peck's varnish business operated from around 1848 until 1855.
Notes Date supplied by Wainwright.
Contains statement on product and shipping costs.
Reproduced in Edwin Wolf's Quarter of a Millennium (Philadelphia: The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1981, rev. 1990), p. 177.
LCP exhibit catalogue: Made in America #79.
Genre Chromolithographs 1850-1860.
Advertisements 1850-1860.
Subject Peck, Louis L.
Varnishing industry--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Alcohol fuel industry--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Flour & meal industry--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Industrial facilities--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Carts & wagons--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Peddlers and peddling--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Women--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
African American men--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Spatial coverage Front Street (Philadelphia, Pa.)--South--101
Dock Street (Philadelphia, Pa.)--15.
Smith Island (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Windmill Island (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Is part of Wainwright Philadelphia Lithographs
Is referenced by Wainwright 222.
Has format TMP.objres.4506.jpg
Related resource http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W222.htm
Call number Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W222 [P.2134]
Accession number P.2134