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[Conrad & Roberts hardware & cutlery, 123 N. Third Street, Philadelphia] [graphic] / Drawn on stone W. H. Rease, 17 So. 5th St. Phila.
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Creator
Rease, W. H., artist.
Contributor
Wagner & M'Guigan, printer.
Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector.
Title
[Conrad & Roberts hardware & cutlery, 123 N. Third Street, Philadelphia] [graphic] / Drawn on stone W. H. Rease, 17 So. 5th St. Phila.
Publisher
Philadelphia: Printed by Wagner & McGuigan
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1846
Date
[December 1846]
Physical Description
1 print: lithograph; 35 x 23 cm. (14 x 9 in.)
Description
Advertisement showing the four-story storefront adorned with signage on the 200 block of North Third Street. The store interior is visible through the two open entrances. A clerk retrieves merchandise from a shelf for a patron and another serves a gentleman at a counter. Laborers move barrels and boxes from the open cellar. Above the cellar, a "Hardware" sign is displayed in front of the store window. At the upper windows, employees work and boxes, crates, and barrels are stacked. Also shows crates and barrels (marked with illegible text) lining the sidewalk and partial views of adjacent buildings, including a part of the store sign on 125 N. Third Street. Conrad and Roberts began operating from the address in 1845.
Is referenced by
Wainwright 83
Notes
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Dec. 1846. N. Third Street.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 156
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Subject
Conrad & Roberts.
Hardware stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Laborers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Clerks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Third Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- North -- 200 block.
Genre
Lithographs -- 1840-1850.
Advertisements -- 1840-1850.
Provenance
Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, collector.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *W83 [P.2025]
Accession number
P.2025
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