Details
Contributor Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector.
Title [Lewis Fatman & Co., blacking manufactory, steam friction matches manufactory, back of No. 412 Coates Street, Philadelphia] [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1847
Date [ca. 1847]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 26 x 34 cm. (10.25 x 13.25 in.)
Description Advertisement showing the adjoined three-and two-story manufactory buildings covered in signage for the polish and match business located on the 1000 block of Coates Street, i.e. Fairmount Avenue. Laborers, including one carrying a stack on his shoulder, are visible at a few windows and at an entrance. In the foreground, a gentleman walks, and a boy plays with a hoop near some crates and barrels, on the sidewalk. In the street, a drayman transports planks of wood, a "Fatman and Co.'s Matches & Blacking" wagon is parked, and a laborer loads crates on to a dray. Fatman operated a factory from this location circa 1844-1848 in addition to a second factory on North Front Street.
Is referenced by Wainwright 218
Notes Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Dec. 1847. Back of No. 412 Coates Street.
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 436
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Trimmed and lacking title.
Subject Lewis Fatman & Co.
Polishes industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Match industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carts & wagons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Laborers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Fairmount Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 1000 block.
Genre Lithographs -- 1840-1850.
Advertisements -- 1840-1850.
Provenance Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *W218 [P.2109]
Accession number P.2109