Details
Creator Reynolds, Robert F., artist.
Contributor Wagner & M'Guigan, printer.
Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector.
Title [T. Sharpless & Sons, wholesale ware room, clothes, cassimeres, merinoes, silks and vestings and Pekin Tea Company, South Second Street and Trotter's Alley, Philadelphia] [graphic] / Drawn on stone by R. E. [sic] Reynolds.
Publisher Philadelphia : Printed by Wagner & McGuigan
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1846
Date [September 1846]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 37 x 33 cm. (14.5 x 13 in.)
Description Advertisement showing the four-story double storefronts adorned with signage at 30-32 South Second Street, below Market Street. Massive merchandise displays adorn the windows and front facades of the businesses. At the wareroom, reams of different cloths hang within open windows from rods behind tables covered in swatches and bolts of cloth. A number of patrons, including women and a couple, admire the displays, and enter the open entry through which shadowy figures of female clerks are visible. More merchandise, including bolts of cloth and cloth-covered hat boxes, are visible in showcase spaces on the second floor. At the tea store, couples exit and enter the business in which several boxes of tea are piled between Chinese figurines displayed in the window. A clerk stands within the store. Potted plants adorn the third floor windows between which a large model of a box of tea hangs. In front of the store, boxes of tea are piled under a frame for an awning that displays a sign advertising "Fresh Teas." Manhole covers and a fire hydrant adorn the sidewalk as well. Around the corner of the building, a woman and girl walk past a horse-drawn dray travelling down a side alley to Strawberry Street partially visible in the background. Also shows partial views of adjacent buildings. Pekin Tea Company relocated to Sixth and Callowhill streets in 1847. The textile firm established by Townsend Sharpless in 1815 located to the address in 1841 under the name T. Sharpless & Son. Firm was renamed T. Sharpless & Sons in 1842.
Is referenced by Wainwright 358
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Date from Poulson inscriptions on recto: Strawberry. So. Second St. & Trotter's Alley. Sept. 1846. "Strawberry" written in image to identify street.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 736
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
See related advertisement print, *W278 [P.2168]
Subject T. Sharpless & Sons.
Pekin Tea Company.
Clothing stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Tea trade -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Merchandise displays -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Clerks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Manhole covers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Fire hydrants -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Textiles -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Tea -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Second Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South -- 000 block.
Genre Lithographs -- 1840-1850.
Advertisements -- 1840-1850.
Provenance Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus) 1789-1866, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *W358 [P.2198]
Accession number P.2198