Details
Creator Weaver, Matthias S., 1815 or 16-1847, artist.
Contributor Sinclair, Thomas S., ca. 1805-1881, printer.
Title [J. & J. Reakirt, wholesale druggists and importers of drugs, chemicals, paints, dye-stuffs, &c. &c. S.E. cor. of Third & Callowhill Sts., Philada.] [graphic] / M. S. Weaver, del.
Publisher Philadelphia: Sinclair's Lith
Date [November 1846]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 40 x 33 cm. (16 x 13 in.)
Description Advertisement showing the three-and-one-half story building with several windows that is adorned with signage and advertising text for the druggists on the 200 block of Callowhill Street. Signs and text advertise "Drugs, Chemicals, Paints, Oil Glass, and Dye Stuff"; "White-Lead & Window-Glass at Manufacturers Lowest Prices"; and "Alum, Madder, Logwood, Camwood, Indigo, Copperas, Fustic and Turpentine." Patrons, visible through the open doorways, stand at counters within the storefront; jars, and decanters line the display windows; and crates and barrels, some marked, line the sidewalk. At the side of the store, a clerk checks a list as a drayman unloads his horse-drawn vehicle. Also shows the doors open to the cellar of the store that also contains a large-scale model of an apothecary's mortar and pestle and a fire insurance marker. Joseph Reakirt operated the business solely until 1838 when he partnered with John Reakirt who assumed sole proprietorship in 1859.
Is referenced by Wainwright 192
Notes Title supplied by Wainwright.
Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Nov. 1846. S.E. cor. Third and Callowhill sts.
Wainwright suggests date of circa 1844.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 397
LCP copy trimmed and lacking title.
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb38 R288.
Subject J. & J. Reakirt.
Pharmaceutical industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Chemical industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Dye industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carts & wagons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Laborers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Clerks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Merchandise displays -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Callowhill Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 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| *W192 [P.2056]
Accession number P.2056