Details
Creator Heiss, George G., artist.
Contributor Wagner & M'Guigan, printer.
Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector.
Title [A. H. Eckhardt. Soap & candle manufactory, No. 326 N. Second Street, Philadelphia] [graphic] / On stone by G. Heiss.
Publisher Philadelphia: Lith of Wagner & McGuigan
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1847
Date [August 1847]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 47 x 27 cm. (18.63 x 10.5 in.)
Description Advertisement showing the three-and-a-half story storefront for the manufacturer on North Second Street between Noble and Green streets (i.e., 500 block). A store clerk, possibly the proprietor stands at the open doorway, a quill in one hand and the other resting on a stack of boxes. He watches a laborer load boxes onto the "A.H. Eckhardt Soap & Candle Manufacturer No. 326 N. 2nd Street" horse-drawn wagon parked in the street. Boxes, jars, crates, and other small containers adorn the large display window and a crate resting on a table is visible through the doorway. The store is also adorned with poles for an awning; a section of side awning reading "A.H. Eckhardt Soap & Candle Manufacturer"; advertising signs at the doorway; and a fire insurance marker. Augustus H. Eckhardt ran the chandler business from the address 1848-1856.
Is referenced by Wainwright 3
Notes Wainwright dates image as circa 1854.
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Aug. 1847. North Second Street.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 6
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Subject Eckhardt, Augustus H.
Candlemaking -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Soap factories -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Clerks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Laborers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carts & wagons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Merchandise displays -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Second Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- North -- 500 block.
Genre Lithographs -- 1840-1850.
Advertisements -- 1840-1850.
Provenance Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *W3 [P.2001]
Accession number P.2001