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[Ritter Cotterell & Ritter wholesale drug & chemical warehouse. Paints, oils, glass & dye stuffs. 132 North Third Street, corner of Branch Street, Philadelphia] [graphic] / M. S. Weaver, del.
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Creator
Weaver, Matthias S., 1815 or 16-1847, artist.
Contributor
Sinclair, Thomas S., ca. 1805-1881, printer.
Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector.
Title
[Ritter Cotterell & Ritter wholesale drug & chemical warehouse. Paints, oils, glass & dye stuffs. 132 North Third Street, corner of Branch Street, Philadelphia] [graphic] / M. S. Weaver, del.
Publisher
Philadelphia: T. Sinclair's Lith
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1845
Date
[December 1846]
Physical Description
1 print: lithograph; 38 x 32 cm. (15 x 12.5 in.)
Description
Advertisement showing the four-story storefront covered with lettering advertising products at the druggist on the 200 block of North Third Street. Products include "Wetherill & Co.'s Warranted Pure White Lead, Indigo, Madder, Logwood, Turpentine, Linseed Oil, &c, &c. Agency for Golsh's Patent Matches & American Brimstone." A male patron exits one of three open entryways to the store. Another patron is visible inside. Canisters and decanters fill the central display window and crates and barrels line the sidewalk in front of the building. At the side of the storefront, near the open cellar, a drayman stands by his horse that pulls a dray loaded with crates. A weather vane decorated with a fish adorns the roof of the building. The business operated as Ritter, Cotterell & Ritter from the address 1845-circa 1846.
Is referenced by
Wainwright 314
Notes
Date from Poulson inscription on recto: North Third, corner of Branch Street. Dec. 1846. 1846.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 651
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Trimmed.
Subject
Ritter, Cotterell & Ritter.
Pharmaceutical industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Chemical industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carts & wagons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Merchandise displays -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Third Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- North -- 200 block.
Genre
Lithographs -- 1840-1850.
Advertisements -- 1840-1850.
Provenance
Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, collector.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *W314 [P.2178]
Accession number
P.2178
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