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McNeely & Co. manufacturers of morocco, buckskin & chamois, white leather, bark tanned, sheep, calf & deer skins, parchment, vellum &c. 64 N[or]th 4th. St. below Arch St. near the Merchants Hotel, Philadelphia. Manufactory 4th & Franklin Aven[ue] [graphic].
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Creator
Rease, W.H., lithographer.
Contributor
Rease, W.H., printer.
Title
McNeely & Co. manufacturers of morocco, buckskin & chamois, white leather, bark tanned, sheep, calf & deer skins, parchment, vellum &c. 64 N[or]th 4th. St. below Arch St. near the Merchants Hotel, Philadelphia. Manufactory 4th & Franklin Aven[ue] [graphic].
Publisher
Philadelphia: Lith. & Printed by W.H. Rease N.E. Cor. 4th & Chestnut St.,
Date
[ca. 1860]
Extent
1 print: chromolithograph; 49 x 57 cm. (19 x 22.25 in.)
Description
Advertisement depicting the large factory's several industrial buildings, sheds, and fenced yard near a busy street and sidewalk. Workers attend to a maze of drying lines with hanging leather pieces; delivery carts traverse the yard and depart through the gate under the sign "McNeely & Co."; and a laborer uses a horse-drawn cart to collect coal from a mound beside the main building. Pedestrians, including a woman and boy, stroll and converse on the sidewalk. In the street, an African American couple push a filled handcart and a crowded horse-drawn omnibus from the "Frankford Road - Fourth Street" line passes by. The McNeely family operated a leather manufactory in Philadelphia from 1830 until the early 20th century.
Notes
Date of publication supplied by Wainwright.
Genre
Chromolithographs 1850-1860.
Advertisements 1850-1860.
Subject
McNeely & Co. (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Leather industry--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Factories--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Laborers--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Carts & wagons--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Horse-drawn omnibuses--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
African Americans--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Spatial coverage
Fourth Street (Philadelphia, Pa.)--corner of Franklin Avenue.
Is part of
Wainwright Philadelphia Lithographs
Is referenced by
Wainwright 230.
Has format
TMP.objres.4501.jpg
Related resource
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W230.htm
Call number
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W230 [P.2129]
Accession number
P.2129
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Wainwright Lithograph Collection
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