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Contributor Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector.
Title [Morocco leather manufactory, B. D. Stewart, S.E. corner of Willow Street and Old York Road, Philadelphia] [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1847
Date [August 1847]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 30 x 39 cm. (12 x 15.5 in.)
Description Advertisement showing the multi-storied manufactory of Benedict D. Stewart at Willow Street and Old York Road, i.e., 435-437 York Avenue. Signs with the name of the proprietor, the business, and street names adorn the building in which a man enters the doorway. Shutters adorn the lower and slats adorn the upper windows. In the right, broadsides adorn the small fence to the courtyard between the main and partially visible rear building of the factory. In the right foreground, laborers transport, pile, and load crates (some marked), and sacks onto a horse-drawn dray. Also shows a gentleman walking on the sidewalk. Stewart began his factory at the address in 1839.
Is referenced by Wainwright 236
Notes Title supplied by cataloguer.
Date from Poulson inscription on recto: S.E. cor. Willow & Old York Road Aug. 1847
Wainwright suggests date of circa 1855.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 485
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Subject Stewart, B.D. (Benedict D.).
Leather industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Factories -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Laborers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carts & wagons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject York Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 435-437.
Genre Lithographs -- 1840-1850.
Advertisements -- 1840-1850.
Provenance Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus) 1789-1866, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *W236 [P.2106]
Accession number P.2106