Details
Creator Rease, W. H.
Contributor Kuhl, Frederick, printer.
Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector.
Title [T. E. Chapman, book store and book bindery, 74 North Fourth Street, Philadelphia] [graphic] / Drawn on stone by Wm. H. Rease, No. 17, So. 5th.
Publisher Philadelphia : F. Kuhl
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1847
Date [August 1847]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 29 x 17 cm. (11.5 x 6.75 in.)
Description Advertisement showing the three-and-a-half story building on the 100 block of North Fourth Street for the bookseller, binder, and publisher Thomas Ellwood Chapman. A male patron enters the doorway of the building past advertisements (e.g. Books Stationery) adorning a mantle and the entry. A small broadside hangs in the window of the door, bundles of fibrous material rest atop the mantle, and shelves of books are visible lining the wall of the interior of the store. To the right of the doorway, a woman hunches over, and stands to the side of the closed cellar doors as she looks at one of several books and printed matter displayed in the window. A sign reading "Rags Bought" hangs below. Building facade also contains a wood door, possibly to an alleyway. Chapman opened the bookstore at the address in 1840, and added the bindery in 1843. He relocated in 1849.
Is referenced by Wainwright 356
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Aug. 1847. North Fourth St.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 734
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Subject Chapman, T. Ellwood.
Booksellers and bookselling -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Bookstores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Merchandise displays -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Fourth 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| *W356 [P.2196]
Accession number P.2196