Details
Contributor Wagner & M'Guigan, printer.
Title Hood & Noblitt. No. 121 Nth. 10th St above Race, Philadelphia [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia: Lith. of Wagner & McGuigan no. 4 Franklin Place
Date [1852]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 33 x 22 cm.(13 x 18.5 in.)
Description Advertisement showing the three-story factory and showroom with large first floor entryway for the ornamental iron works business. Signage covers the building advertising “Cemetery Lots Enclosed. Hood & Noblitt City Iron Railing Manufactory & Ornamental Iron Works” and “Hood & Noblitt 121 Iron Railing Manufactory. Fire Proof Doors…in General." Railings and ornamental works, including chairs, tables, and benches, are visible outside and within the entrance that is flanked by matching dog sculptures on pedestals. Interior stairs are also visible. Employees work on iron pieces near the windows of the upper floor that are adorned with a decorative railing. Also shows employees, both in top hats, and one in shirt sleeves, loading railing unto a horse-drawn factory cart parked in the street. The cart is labeled “Iron Railing Manufactory 121 Nth. Tenth.” Hood & Noblitt worked in a partnership 1851-1852.
Is referenced by Wainwright 177
Notes Date supplied by Wainwright.
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Philadelphia on Stone
Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 26:13
Subject Hood & Noblitt.
Iron foundries -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Ironwork -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Cart & wagons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Laborers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Lithographs -- 1850-1860.
Advertisements -- 1850-1860.
Location Free Library of Philadelphia.| Print and Picture Collection. FLP| FLP Castner 26:13