Details
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