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[Hartley & Knight's bedding warehouse, 148 South Second Street, Philadelphia] [graphic].
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Contributor
Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector.
Title
[Hartley & Knight's bedding warehouse, 148 South Second Street, Philadelphia] [graphic].
Publisher
[Philadelphia]
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1846
Date
[August 1846]
Physical Description
1 print: lithograph; 39 x 31 cm. (15.25 x 12.25 in.)
Description
Advertisement showing the cluttered-looking three-story storefront of the bedding warehouse on the 200 block of South Second Street. A clerk, possibly one of the proprietors, stands at the main entrance to his store and points to a disheveled display of mattresses, one of many. Behind him, a couple enters the wareroom in which two women work in a backroom. The couple walks under a framed figure of a goose hanging above the doorway. Shelves of mattresses line the walls and rolled mattresses fill the large open display windows. In the upper floor windows, mattresses and bedding are propped out of windows and piles of feathers are visible. In front of the store, a mattress on a bed frame, a bed frame, and bedding on a cot is on display; a clerk loads bedding onto a horse-drawn cart; and a gentleman walks past a fire hydrant on the sidewalk. Also shows partial views of adjacent buildings. Partners Joseph Hartley and Reeve L. Knight relocated to this address circa 1842 and remained in a partnership until 1854.
Is referenced by
Wainwright 170
Notes
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Date from Poulson inscription on recto: South Second street. Augt. 1846
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 345
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
LCP copy trimmed and lacking imprint.
Subject
Hartley & Knight.
Upholstery trade -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Bedding industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Bedding -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Mattresses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carts & wagons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Merchandise displays -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Fire hydrants
Geographic subject
Second Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South -- 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| *W170 [P.2064]
Accession number
P.2064
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