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Race Street between 6th & 7th, Philadelphia. [graphic].
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Creator
Breton, William L., ca. 1773-1855, artist.
Contributor
Kennedy & Lucas's Lithography, printer.
Title
Race Street between 6th & 7th, Philadelphia. [graphic].
Publisher
[Philadelphia: Kennedy & Lucas]
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1831
Date
[1831]
Physical Description
2 prints: lithograph; 10 x 18 cm. (4 x 7 in.)
Description
Book illustration advertisement showing the Franklin Marble Mantel Manufactory operated by Peter Fritz. Includes the manufactory and adjacent marble yard. Signage advertising "Marble Mantels, Tombs, &c. Neatly Executed by Peter Fritz" adorns the building. A factory employee is visible in the doorway and others work with a marble piece lying near slabs resting on the side of the building. Several headstones, monuments, and tombs fill the yard. Also shows the neighboring buildings along the alley at which the manufactory is located. Fritz, a veteran of the War of 1812, was a prominent Philadelphia marble manufacturer and a founder of the Philadelphia Savings Institution in 1833.
Is referenced by
Wainwright 303
Notes
Artist and publication information supplied by Wainwright.
Published in James Mease and Thomas Porter's Picture of Philadelphia from 1811 to 1831: Giving an account of its origin, increase and improvements in arts, sciences, manufactures, commerce and revenue. (Philadelphia: Published by Robert DeSilver, No. 110 Walnut Street, 1831), vol. II, opposite page 118 and in Thomas Porter's Picture of Philadelphia 1811 to 1831: Giving an account of the improvements of the city, during that period (Philadelphia: Published by Robert DeSilver, No. 110 Walnut Street, 1831), vol. II, opposite page 118.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 630
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Library Company of Philadelphia: P.9830.5 a&b and in Am 1831 Mease 68582.D and in Am 1831 Mease Log 4072.D and in Am 1831 Mease 20876.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Subject
Fritz, Peter.
Marble industry and trade -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Monument builders -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Tomb & sepulchral monuments -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Race Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 600 block.
Genre
Lithographs -- 1830-1840.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| W303 [P.9830.5 a&b]
Accession number
P.9830.5a
P.9830.5b
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