Details
Creator Rease, W. H., artist.
Contributor Wagner & M'Guigan, printer.
Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector.
Title [N. Helverson undertaker, 93 Coates Street, Philadelphia] [graphic] / Drawn on stone by Wm. H. Rease, No. 17 1/2, S. 5th. St.
Publisher Philadelphia: Wagner & McGuigan's lith. press
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1846
Date [November 1846]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 39 x 33 cm. (15.25 x 13 in.)
Description Advertisement showing the office building and storefront for the undertaker and "Coffin Ware-House" at 93 Coates, i.e., 225-227 Fairmount Avenue. A male patron enters the doorway of the three-story office "N. Helverson Undertaker." A sign advertising "Coffins Ready Made" adorns the showcase window. A doormat covers the small step preceding the entrance and the cellar doors to the building are open. In the right, a woman appears interested in an out of view display at the barely visible adjacent storefront. At the warehouse, workers haul coffins near the open doorway of the four-story building. A sign illustrated with a coffin and the text "Coffin Ware-House" is displayed in the first-floor window and workers are visible in two of the upper ones. A tree stands in front of the building near a two-horse drawn hearse parked in the street. The hearse is adorned with bunting, drapery, and fringe.
Is referenced by Wainwright 244
Notes Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Coates Street. Nov. 1846.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 498
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Subject Helverson, Nicholas.
Undertaking -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Hearses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Laborers -- 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| *W244 [P.2107]
Accession number P.2107