Details
Creator Rease, W. H., artist.
Contributor Wagner & M'Guigan, printer.
Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector.
Title S. Tobias, importer & general dealer in wines, liquors, cordials and syrups, No. 68, North 3d. Street, above Arch, Philadelphia. [graphic] / Drawn on stone by Wm. H. Rease, No. 17 1/2 S. 5th. St.
Publisher Philadelphia: Wagner & McGuigan's lith. Press
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1845
Date [December 1845]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 47 x 32 cm. (18.5 x 12.5 in.)
Description Advertisement showing the four-story storefront adorned with signage on the 100 block of North Third Street. A patron enters one of the two open entryways at which a straw basket and wine cask are displayed across from a large-cask shaped sign. Sign reads "S. Tobias No. 68 Importer & Dealer in Wines Liquors Cordials and Syrups." At the other entryway, a laborer rolls a cask out the door near a worker entering the cellar. Within the store, the backs of a patron and a clerk are visible in the rear of the store in which shelves of liquor bottles, straw baskets, wine casks, and barrels are displayed on shelves, the floor, and the open display window. Other boxes, bottles, casks, and barrels are visible at the upper floor windows. Barrels and boxes, one marked "S. Tobias" line the sidewalk, near a street lamp in front of the store. Also shows partial views of the adjacent businesses and the signage adorning the storefronts of Charles M. Schott, dry goods (66 N. 3rd St.) and Scattergood & Whitall, druggists' glassware (70 N. 3rd St.). A clerk is visible working at a table through the doorway of Schott, and a pulley and boxes are visible within the open doorway of Scattergood & Whitall. Tobias tenanted the site starting in 1845 and renamed his business Soloman Tobias & Son in 1847.
Is referenced by Wainwright 325
Notes Date from Poulson inscription on earlier mount: Imperfect dup. impression. Dec. 1845.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 671
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Subject Schott, Charles.
Tobias, Solomon.
Scattergood & Whitall.
Liquor stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Barrels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Clerks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Laborers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Third Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- North -- 100 block.
Genre Lithographs -- 1840-1850.
Advertisements -- 1840-1850.
Provenance Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *W325 [P.2183]
Accession number P.2183