Details
Contributor Hart, William, printer.
Title Chas. Blasius & Sons. The largest piano & organ house 1119 Chestnut St. Phila. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia, W. Hart
Date [ca. 1885]
Physical Description 1 print: chromolithograph mounted on paper; 13 x 9 cm. (5 x 3.25 in.)
Description Trade card containing an exterior view of one of the two Chestnut street storefronts of the manufacturer. Signage reading “Blasius & Sons. Steinway Pianos” adorns the multi-story building in which a piano is visible in the large display window. Two lady patrons enter the building across from horse-drawn wagons marked “Packard Organs Blasius & Sons” and “Steinway Pianos Blasius & Sons” parked in the street. Also contains a geometric border with floral cornices.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
pdcp00003
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 29
Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana – Streets – Chestnut - 11th-12th
One of three prints mounted on one sheet.
Subject Blasius & Sons.
Piano makers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Pianos.
Carts & wagons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1880-1890.
Trade cards -- 1880-1890.
Location Free Library of Philadelphia.| Print and Picture Collection. FLP| FLP Philadelphiana - Streets - Chestnut - 11th-12th