Details
Contributor Weik, John, publisher.
Title Police. = Polizeibeamter. ; Bill-Carrier. = Placat Träger. [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1850
Date [ca. 1850]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored ; 17 x 21 cm. (6.75 x 8.25 in.)
Description Depicts two men standing on the corner on the city street, a policeman in uniform dressed in a blue jacket and top hat (left), the other a bill carrier (right) who wears a sandwich-board for "Dr. Jayne's Sarsaparilla, Philadelphia". Out of sight of the policeman, a man climbs into the window of a property while a gentleman watches in the background. View also includes a horse-drawn carriage.
Notes Published in Pittoresque scenes of American life (Philadelphia: John Weik, publisher and importer, ca. 1850).
Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 612
Subject Jayne, David, 1799-1866.
Police -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1840-1850.
Genre prints -- 1840-1850.
Advertising -- 1840-1850.
Printer Weik, John, publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts| Rare| Am 1855 Pit [13493.Q.12]
Accession number 13493.Q.12