Details
Creator Rease, W. H., artist.
Contributor Wagner & M'Guigan, printer.
Title Charles C. Oat's lamp store No. 32 North Second St. Philadelphia. [graphic] / On stone by W. H. Rease, No. 17 Sth. 5th St.
Publisher [Philadelphia: Wagner & McGuigan?]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1848
Date [ca. 1848]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 57 x 38 cm. (22.75 x 14.88 in.)
Description Advertisement showing the four-story storefront adorned with signage on North Second Street above Market Street. A female patron stands at the open entry and peers into the display window filled with lavishly-designed lamps, chandeliers, and light fixtures. Inside the store, a clerk assists a female patron reviewing a display table of lamps. On the sidewalk, a couple strolls past a pile of boxes near the store, a street urchin carries a bundle, and a boy peddler walks with his basket of wares. Also shows partial views of neighboring businesses with signage. Includes a hat store, probably Robert F. Maull's, adorned with a display of hats strung from ropes hanging from the roof and sidewalk awning (30) and a shoe store adorned with an awning (32). Partial signage reads "...Maull...Bonnets" and "34 W.H. E...shoe..." Oat tenanted the address 1848-1850.
Is referenced by Wainwright 53
Notes Publication information and date supplied by Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 104
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Subject Oats, John C.
Light fixture stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Merchandise displays -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Peddlers & peddling -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Boys -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Second Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- North -- 000 block.
Genre Lithographs -- 1840-1850.
Advertisements -- 1840-1850.
Accession number P.2027