Details
Creator Hoffy, Alfred M., b. ca. 1790, artist.
Contributor Duval, Peter S., 1804 or 5-1886, printer.
Title [Wm. D. Rogers' coach manufactory, Sixth and Brown Streets, Philadelphia] [graphic] : Warranted twelve months / Lithography of A. Hoffy.
Publisher Philadelphia: Press of S. P. [sic] Duval
Date [1847]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph ; 22 x 40 cm. (8.5 x 16 in.)
Description Advertisement showing the two-story factory adorned with signage on the 800 block of North Sixth Street near Spring Garden. A boy pulls a carriage out of one of the two entries to the building (Sixth Street) as patrons inspect a different model of coach being pushed out by a factory worker at the other. A family walks between the coaches and other carriages are visible inside. Around the corner (Brown Street), on the sidewalk, two gentlemen converse and a couple peers into a factory window. Near the rear of the factory, a laborer transports a sack on his back near a strolling couple past a hackney displayed on a one-story addition. In the street, a driver tries to reign in his speeding carriage occupied by a couple that is being chased by a barking dog as a boy works on the wheel of a factory carriage nearby. A pedestrian watches the scene from the corner. Also show s hitching posts lining the sidewalks and a smaller factory with several smokestacks in the right background. Rogers operated from the site 1846-1854.
Is referenced by Wainwright 465
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Date from Poulson inscription on recto: 1847. Corner Sixth & Brown Sts.
Wainwright suggests date of circa 1850.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 856
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Trimmed.
Subject Rogers, William D.
Carriage manufacturers and dealers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Factories -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carriages & coaches -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Sixth Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- North -- 800 block.
Spring Garden (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Lithographs -- 1840-1850.
Advertisements -- 1840-1850.
Provenance: Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *W465 [P.2247]
Accession number P.2247