Details
Creator Haehnlen, Jacob, b. 1824.
Title Jacob Haehnlen's steam power lithographic & letter press printing rooms [graphic] : Goldsmith's Hall, opposite rear of Post Office, Library St. Philadelphia.
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Date [1866]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 23 x 14 cm.(9 x 5.5 in.)
Description Advertisement showing the exterior of the six-story brownstone and print shop owned by lithographer Haehnlen at 420 Library Street. Signage advertising the "lithographic establishment" adorns the doorway, front, and side of "Goldsmith's Hall." Building also adorned with large display windows and an eagle above the entranceway. View includes street and pedestrian traffic. Pedestrians walk on the sidewalk, stand in doorways, and enter the shop. In the street, horse-drawn wagons and drays, including one hauling crates marked "J.H.," pass in the street near a man pushing a hand-cart loaded with crates. Shop included salesrooms and offices, a machine shop, a drying room, lithographic presses, and card, handbill, and pamphlet printing presses. Haehnlen established his own studio at Goldsmith's Hall in 1866 and operated his business from all but the first floor. He sold his shop to the firm Lehman & Bolton in 1870. Building destroyed by fire on December 20, 1882.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Published in Philadelphia southern steamship manufacturers and mercantile register (Philadelphia: M'Laughlin Brothers, 1866) [LCP Am 1866 Phi Sou Mai, 62062.O]. Accompanying page of text references the relocation of the shop and advertises "Orders received for Furniture Labels for Druggists, on Glass; also, Show Cards of all descriptions, on Glass executed to order.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSA 48
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Prints - Stores & Factories - Box 57, Folder 2
Accompanying page of text
Subject Jacob Haehnlen, b. 1824.
Lithographers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Horse-drawn vehicles -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Lithographs -- 1860-1870.
Advertisements -- 1860-1870.
Location Historical Society of Pennsylvania| Print Department| HSP at LCP| HSP Prints - Stores & Factories - Box 57, Folder 2