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Newmarket hardware, cutlery and nail store, 244 South Second Street, Philadelphia [graphic] / James Queen del.
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Creator
Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist.
Contributor
Pinkerton, Wagner & McGuigan, printer.
Title
Newmarket hardware, cutlery and nail store, 244 South Second Street, Philadelphia [graphic] / James Queen del.
Publisher
Philadelphia: Pinkerton, Wagner & McGuigan Lith
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1846
Date
[August 1846]
Physical Description
1 print: lithograph; 18 x 22 cm.(6.63 x 8.5 in.)
Description
Advertisement showing the storefront of Baxter & Brother hardware store at 244, later renumbered 522, South Second Street. Merchandise adorns the display windows of the shop and a clerk assisting a customer is visible through the doorway. A sign for "looking glasses," two teapots, and an anvil hang above the open entrance. In front of the store, crates, barrels marked "B&B," and unpackaged merchandise line the sidewalk and windowsills of the business. A shop employee rolls a barrel between the items that include shovels, rakes, and pots.
Is referenced by
Wainwright 249
Notes
Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Aug 1846. Aug 1846. So. Second St. Probably a reissue. Pinkerton, Wagner & McGuigan was active 1844-1845.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 506
LCP copy trimmed and lacking complete title.
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Subject
Baxter & Brother.
Hardware stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Hardware.
Geographic subject
Second Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South -- 522.
Genre
Lithographs -- 1840-1850.
Advertisements -- 1840-1850.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| W249 [P.2100]
Accession number
P.2100
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Philadelphia on Stone Digital Catalog
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