Details
Creator Rease, W. H., artist.
Contributor Wagner & M'Guigan, printer.
Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector.
Title [Charles Gilbert's stove manufactory, 249 North Second Street, Philadelphia] [graphic] / Drawn by W. H. Rease, 17 So. 5th Str. Phila.
Publisher Philadelphia: Lith. of Wagner & McGuigan, Phila
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1846
Date [December 1846]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 39 x 31 cm. (15.25 x 12.25 in.)
Description Advertisement showing the stove manufactory covered in signage in German and English on the 400 block of North Second Street. Patrons enter the storefront and a clerk, possibly the proprietor, greets a patron at a second entrance. Stoves line the walls, and are displayed at the entrances and in the shop windows. The appliances, of variant styles, including a cooking stove with a tea kettle, also line the sidewalk. Laborers work at the upper floor windows. A man and woman figure adorn two of the stoves, which flank the entrances. Also shows partial views of the adjacent businesses, including P. McBride & Co., grocer (251) and Salon [sic] Walton (247), operated by Salem Walton. A sign post illustrated with a horse for the tavern stands in front of the building.
Is referenced by Wainwright 54
Notes Date from Poulson inscription Dec. 1846. N. Second Street.
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 105
LCP copy trimmed and lacking title.
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Subject Gilbert, Charles.
Walton, Salem.
P. McBride & Co.
Stove industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Grocery stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Taverns (Inns) -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Stoves -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Merchandise displays -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Second Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- North -- 400 block.
Genre Lithographs -- 1840-1850.
Advertisements -- 1840-1850.
Provenance Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *W54 [P.2021]
Accession number P.2021