Details
Creator Rease, W. H., artist.
Contributor Wagner & M'Guigan, printer.
Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector.
Title [T. Wattson & Sons, biscuit bakery, 129 North Front Street, Philadelphia] [graphic] / Drawn on stone by W. H. Rease, 17 So. 5th. St.
Publisher Philadelphia: Lith. of Wagner & McGuigan
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1846
Date [August 1846]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 20 x 29 cm. (7.75 x 11.25 in.)
Description Advertisement showing the busy four-story factory for the bakery at 129 North Front Street, between Chestnut and Walnut Streets. A gentleman, possibly the proprietor Thomas Wattson, stands in one of the open doorways to the bakery as laborers work around him. Near the doorways, workers load kegs onto a horse-drawn "T. Wattson & Sons Biscuit Bakery" wagon and dray. Other men, hoist kegs to upper receiving windows from a group of several lined in front of the factory. In a few of the windows, men at work and stacks of barrels are visible. Laborers hammer shut and move kegs. Also shows "X"-shaped joint bolts on a section of the building under near which a pedestrian walks past. Business established at address in 1846. Thomas Wattson sold the business to his son-in-law in 1852 and it was renamed Wattson & Co.
Is referenced by Wainwright 359
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Date from Poulson inscription on recto: North Front Street-Phila. Aug. 1846.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 737
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Trimmed.
Subject T. Wattson & Sons.
Factories -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Bakeries -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Laborers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carts & wagons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Barrels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Lithographs -- 1840-1850.
Advertisements -- 1840-1850.
Provenance Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus) 1789-1866, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *W359 [P.2199]
Accession number P.2199