Details
Creator Reynolds, Robert F., artist.
Contributor Kuhl, Frederick, printer.
Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector.
Title [C. F. Mansfield. Paper hangings. Wholesale and retail, 275 South Second Street, Philadelphia] [graphic] / Drawn on stone by R. F. Reynolds, Philada.
Publisher Philadelphia: Printed by F. Kuhl, Philada
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1848
Date [December 1848]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 39 x 24 cm. (15.38 x 9.38 in.)
Description Advertisement showing the three-story storefront of the wallpaper store of Charles E. Manfield at 275, i.e., 621 South Second Street. A couple in winter clothing enters the store while a women wearing a shawl and bonnet views a large landscape print in the display window of the shop. Reams and samples of wallpaper are visible through the store entrance and behind the print. On the sidewalk in front of the store, a box wrapped in wallpaper and marked "Paper Hanging" and a wallpaper sample rest on and under an awning pole not in use. Also shows partial views, including a storefront with display window, of adjacent buildings. An alleyway separates the wallpaper store from the building in the right of the image.
Is referenced by Wainwright 38
Notes Title supplied by cataloguer.
Date from Poulson inscription on recto: South Second Street, Dec. 1848.
Wainwright suggests date of circa 1845.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 72
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Trimmed and lacking title.
Subject Mansfield, Charles F.
Wallpaper industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Merchandise displays -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Second Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South -- 621.
Genre Lithographs -- 1840-1850.
Advertisements -- 1840-1850.
Provenance Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *W38 [P.2019]
Accession number P.2019