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Contributor Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector.
Title [Francis Field & Francis, importers & dealers in tin plate & tinsmans furniture, importers & manufacturers of saddlery hardware, tin ware, tin toys & japanned wares, no. 80 Nth 2nd St., Philadelphia] [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1846
Date [October 1846]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 37 x 27 cm. (14.75 x 10.5 in.)
Description Advertisement showing the four-story storefront between Arch and Race streets on North Second Street covered in signage. A male patron enters the building. He walks below the sign illustrated with a pig hanging above the doorway that reads "Lard Lamp Manufactory," and past a stack of crates marked "Tin Plate By The Box" laying on the stoop. Toys, tinware, saddleryware and japanned ware fill the large display windows. In the windows of the upper floors, a male and female laborer at work are visible in addition to more merchandise. Also shows a barrel on the sidewalk next to the cellar doors of the store and partial views of adjacent buildings. Francis, Field & Francis (Henry and Thomas Francis and Charles Field), also known as the Philadelphia Tin Toy Manufactory, was one of the oldest toy manufactories in American and began operating from the address in 1839.
Is referenced by Wainwright 138
Notes Title supplied by cataloguer.
Date from Poulson inscription on recto: North Second Street. Oct 1846.
Philadelphia on Stone
LCP copy lacking title and imprint.
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Subject Francis, Field & Francis.
Tin industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Saddlery -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Toy industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Merchandise displays -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Second Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- North -- 100 block.
Genre Lithographs -- 1840-1850.
Advertisements -- 1840-1850.
Provenance Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *W138 [P.2047]
Accession number P.2047