Details
Contributor Lehman & Bolton, printer.
Title Ph. J. Lauber importer of wines. Wholesale retail. Nos. 24 & 26 South Fifth St. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia: Lehman & Bolton, Phila
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 9 x 14 cm. (3.25 x 5.75 in.)
Description Tradecard showing the three buildings comprising the Philip J. Lauber liquor and restaurant business at 24-26 South Fifth Street. The buildings, adorned with signage, include left to right: "Ph. Lauber Beer & Ale"; "Ph. Lauber Importer of Wines"; and "Ph. Lauber Restaurant" (partial view). Image also shows heavy street and pedestrian traffic. Men congregate at the doorway of the wine shop at which a horse-drawn cart loaded with wine barrels departs. A carriage, horse-drawn dray, men on horseback, and pedestrians travel in the street. Lauber added a restaurant to his business on Fifth Street circa 1877.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Title contains pictorial details. Includes cherubs eating grapes and drinking bottles of wine on a mantelpiece surrounded by vinery and greenery.
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Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 172
Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 26:9
Subject Lauber, Philip J.
Wine industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Brewing industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Restaurants -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Horse-drawn vehicles -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Angels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Lithographs -- 1870-1880.
Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Location Free Library of Philadelphia.| Print and Photograph Collection. | FLP Castner 26:9