Details
Creator Reynolds, R. F., artist.
Contributor Kuhl, Frederick, printer.
Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector.
Title H.S. Tarr monument, &c. marble mantle manufacturer. [graphic] / On stone by R.F. Reynolds, Gaskill St. 20, Phila.
Publisher Philadelphia: Printed by F. Kuhl
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1848
Date 1848
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 22 x 30 cm. (8.5 x 11.5 in.)
Description Advertisement containing an exterior view of the factory (adorned in signage) and fenced marble yard located at Green Street above 7th Street. In the yard, a couple reviews one of several cemetery monuments displayed in front of the factory in which marble workers are visible. The men toil near the open entry and windows. Several of the monuments, many obelisks, contain sculpted adornments. In the street, passengers arrive from an omnibus for the "Exchange & Norristown R.R. Depot. Peters Sixth Street Line" near laborers loading marble works onto a horse-drawn cart. Also shows a woman and boy peering into the yard from the fence and a slight view of the neighboring residential building marked "Green St." Tarr was one of the four major marble manufactories in the city during the mid nineteenth century.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Date from Poulson inscription on recto: 1848. Green Street above Seventh Street.
Philadelphia on Stone.
POS 339
Originally part of a Poulson scrapbook of illustrations of Philadelphia.
Subject Tarr, Henry S.
Monument builders -- Pennnsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Marble industry and trade -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Factories -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Tombs & sepulchral monuments -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Laborers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Merchandise displays -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Green Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 700 block.
Genre Lithographs -- 1840-1850.
Advertisements -- 1840-1850.
Provenance Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *BW - Industries [(7)2521.F.190(v)]
Accession number (7)2521.F.190(v)