Details
Creator Rease, W. H., artist.
Contributor Wagner & M'Guigan, printer.
Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector.
Title [Wm. W. Clark, drug & chemical warehouse, 16 North Fifth Street, Philadelphia] [graphic] : Drugs, medicines, chemicals, glass &c.. / Drawn on Stone by W. H. Rease, 17 So. 5th St.
Publisher Philadelphia: Printed by Wagner & McGuigan
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1847
Date [June 1847]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 29 x 19 cm. (11.38 x 7.5 in.)
Description Advertisement showing the 4-story building covered in signage for the druggist at 16 North Fifth Street. Signs advertise "Drugs, Paint Oil & Glass. English. French. German & Mediterranean Drugs." Through the open entranceways of the business, shelves of bottles on cabinets are visible lining the walls. A clerk reaches for one of the notions as a patron enters the store. Another clerk descends into the cellar in front of the building. Crates and barrels of "elixir," "drugs," and "paint" marked with delivery addresses (e.g., J.H. B. & Co.) line the sidewalk across from a horse-drawn dray parked in the street. Also shows bottles, decanters, jugs, and boxes adorning the central display window and upper floor windows. An oversize model of a mortar and pestle is displayed above the entrances. Clark operated from the address 1839-1853.
Is referenced by Wainwright 467
Notes Date from Poulson inscription on recto: June 1847. North Fifth St.
Title partially supplied by cataloguer.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 862
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Trimmed and lacking title.
Subject Clark, William W.
Chemical industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Pharmaceutical industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Merchandise displays -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Fifth Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- North -- 000 block.
Genre Lithographs -- 1840-1850.
Provenance Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| W467 [P.2248]
Accession number P.2248