| Creator |
Rease, W. H., artist. |
| Contributor |
Wagner & M'Guigan, printer. |
|
Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector. |
| Title |
[Robert Shoemaker's wholesale & retail drugstore, corner of Second and Green Streets, Philadelphia] [graphic] / Drawn on stone
by Wm. H. Rease, No. 17 1/2 So. 5th. St.
|
| Publisher |
Philadelphia: Printed by Wagner & McGuigan |
| Publisher |
PA. Philadelphia. 1846 |
| Date |
[December 1846] |
| Physical Description |
1 print: lithograph; 34 x 32 cm. (13.5 x 12.5 in.) |
| Description |
Advertisement for the three-and-a-half story storefront, covered in signage, on the 200 block of Green Street. Signs advertise
Wetherill's Whitelead, drugs, medicines, paints, oils, glass, dyestuffs, "window glass of all sizes," picture glass, "cheap
glass for hot beds," "white lead warranted pure by the ton or pound," ready mixed paints, linseed oil, plasters, pot ash,
and soda. A male patron enters one of the two open entryways that are lined with barrels and sacks, some open. Within the
store, two clerks, one assisting a customer, stand at the counter. Rows of shelves with pharmaceuticals line the wall behind
the men. Several canisters and decanters are displayed in the three showcase windows at the front and side of the building.
Within the second floor windows, stacks of boxes are visible. At the street corner, crates and boxes of pharmaceuticals, including
indigo and oil of vitrol, line the sidewalk and are loaded on a horse-drawn dray accompanied by the driver. Also shows the
open cellar, a model of a mortar and pestle adorning the store, and a partial view of the adjacent business with sign "..olds."
Shoemaker operated the drugstore under this name and at this location 1837-1856. Shoemaker apprenticed at the store in the
1830's when operated by William Scattergood. He developed an alternative to homemade plasters and was possibly the first U.S.
manufacturer of glycerin. He removed to Fourth and Race Streets in 1856 when he established Robert Shoemaker & Co.
|
| Is referenced by |
Wainwright 316 |
| Notes |
Title supplied by cataloger. |
|
Date from Poulson inscription on recto: S.W. cor. Second & Green. Green. Second Street. Dec. 1846. 1846. |
|
Philadelphia on Stone |
|
POS 654 |
|
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited. |
| Subject |
Shoemaker, Robert, 1817-1897. |
|
Drugstores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
|
Clerks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
|
Merchandise displays -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
|
Carts & wagons -- 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| *W316 [P.2180] |
| Accession number |
P.2180 |
