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[William Newell. Store. No. 3 So. Water Street, Philadelphia] [graphic] / On stone by A. Hoffy.
Persistent link:
https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/digitool%3A65150
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Creator
Hoffy, Alfred M., b. ca. 1790, artist.
Contributor
Duval, Peter S., 1804 or 5-1886, printer.
Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector.
Title
[William Newell. Store. No. 3 So. Water Street, Philadelphia] [graphic] / On stone by A. Hoffy.
Publisher
Philadelphia: P. S. Duval's lithy
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1845
Date
[December 1846]
Physical Description
1 print: lithograph on blue paper; 20 x 18 cm. (7.75 x 7 in.)
Description
Advertisement showing the 4-story grocery adorned with the sign "William Newell. Store. 1793." Through the four open entrances gentleman are visible conversing and checking a list among piles of sacks and near a rope hoist. In the street, laborers load and unload a conestoga wagon and horse-drawn dray parked in front of the building. Labeled crates and barrels line the sidewalk. Goods include indigo, starch, tea, sugar, honey, molasses, madeira, madder and tobacco. Newell operated from the address 1828-1848.
Is referenced by
Wainwright 454
Notes
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Date from Poulson inscription on recto: So. Water Street. Dec. 1846
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 839
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Subject
Newell, William.
Grocery stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Laborers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carts & wagons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Water Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South -- 3.
Genre
Lithographs -- 1840-1850.
Advertisements -- 1840-1850.
Provenance
Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, collector.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| W454 [P.2241]
Accession number
P.2241
In Collections
Philadelphia on Stone Digital Catalog
Philadelphia on Stone: Library Company of Philadelphia
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