Details
Creator Heiss, George G., artist.
Title John Bancroft, Jr. soap and candle manufactory. No. 19, Wood St. betw. 2nd & 3rd Sts. & Vine and Callowhill Sts. Philadelphia. [graphic] : Palm, white, variegated, yellow and brown soaps, mould & dipped candles, with all the varieties of fancy soap. Drawn on stone by G. Heiss.
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1850
Date [June 1847]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 27 x 46 cm. (10.75 x 18.25 in.)
Description Advertisement showing the factory on the 200 block of Wood Street. Signs reading "Steam Soap & Candle Manufactory" and "John Bancroft Jr." adorn the manufactory (left) and smaller adjoining office building (right). A clerk, writing in an account book, stands at the doorway of the office in which another clerk is visible in a lower window. Near the adjacent arch to the alleyway to the rear courtyard, a boy carries a box on his shoulder and laborers hoist boxes from a receiving window to a long factory wagon parked on the cobblestone street. A sign reading "Jno Bancroft Jr. Soap and Candle Manufacturer 19 Wood St." adorns the wagon. A barrel and boxes are stored in the courtyard. Boxes and molds are piled in front of upper floor windows. Factory also contains a second archway, cellar doors, a fire insurance marker, and smokestacks spewing smoke.
Is referenced by Wainwright 200
Notes Philadelphia on Stone
POS 407
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Subject Bancroft, John Jr.
Soap factories -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Candle industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carts & wagons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Laborers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Wood Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 200 block.
Genre Lithographs -- 1840-1850.
Advertisements -- 1840-1850.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *W200 [P.2117]
Accession number P.2117