Details
Creator Rease, W. H., artist.
Contributor Wagner & M'Guigan, printer.
Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector.
Title [John Horn, drugs and chemical store, N.E. corner of Third & Brown Streets, Philadelphia] [graphic] / Drawn on stone by W. H. Rease, 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; 30 x 37 cm.(11.75 x 14.75 in.)
Description Advertisement showing the bustling and sign covered four-story corner storefront of the druggist at 801 North Third Street. A large banner above the main entrances to the building reads "J. Horn Drugs & Chemical Store City & County Physicians Can Always Be Supplied With Medicines & Chemicals Of The Purest Kind Prepared With The Greatest Care From The Latest French English German & American Journals." A figure of an eagle adorns the doorways in which a man enters and through which a clerk assisting a lady at the counter is visible. Flasks, decanters and medical type instruments fill the three display windows. A woman peers at one of them. Barrels and crates, a few marked, line the building and sidewalk. Boxes are piled near most of the upper floor windows and a clerk works at a lower one near a side door in which a lady enters across from a tree in full bloom. In the street, a partially loaded horse-drawn dray rests as a laborer retrieves goods for it from the store cellar. On the roof, lined with balustrades, two couples and a trio of women look out at the vista. Marked goods include indigo, oil-vitrol, and soda ash. Horn operated from the location 1829-1871.
Is referenced by Wainwright 204
Notes Title supplied by cataloguer.
Date from Poulson inscription on recto: N.E. cor. Third & Brown St. Nov. 1846.
Wainwright suggests date of circa 1850.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 411
LCP copy trimmed and lacking title.
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Subject Horn, John.
Pharmaceutical industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Chemical industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Clerks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Laborers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carts & wagons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Merchandise displays -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Third Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- North -- 801.
Genre Lithographs -- 1840-1850.
Advertisements -- 1840-1850.
Provenance Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *W204 [P.2115]
Accession number P.2115