Details
Creator Rease, W. H., artist.
Contributor Kuhl, Frederick, printer.
Title Hart, Montgomery & Co. Successors to Isaac Pugh & Co. Manufacturers and importers of paper hangings, No. 118 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Manufactory N.E. Cor. Schuyl[kill] Front & Wood Streets [graphic] / On Stone by W.H. Rease, 17 So. 5th St.
Publisher Philadelphia : Printed by F. Kuhl
Date [ca. 1852]
Physical Description 1 print : tinted lithograph ; sheet 49 x 67 cm (19.25 x 26.25 in.)
Description Exterior view of the manufactory operated from 1849 until 1860 by William Hart and A.J. Montgomery at Schuylkill Front (i.e., Twenty-second) and Wood Streets depicted within a lithographed tromp l'oeil wood frame. A horse-drawn cart stands idle by a side entrance of the multi-storied factory and four goats roam a nearby yard. Smaller factory buildings are visible to the right. Horse-drawn delivery carts, one steered by an African American man, travel pass each other on the adjacent street. Pedestrians and laborers walk the sidewalks and converse near a street lamp. Eastern State Penitentiary is visible in the background. During the mid-nineteenth century, Philadelphia was the premier American city of fine wallpaper production.
Is referenced by Wainwright 169
Notes Title from item.
Date of publication supplied by Wainwright.
Accessioned 1982.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 344
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Biographical / historical note Rease, a prominent mid-19th century Philadelphia trade card lithographer known to highlight details of human interest in his advertisements, partnered with Francis H. Schell in the 1850s and eventually operated his own press until around 1872.
Subject Hart, Montgomery & Co.
Eastern State Penitentiary of Pennsylvania.
African American men -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carts & wagons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Industrial facilities -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Laborers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Pedestrians -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Wallpaper industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Twenty-second Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- North -- 300 block.
Genre Advertisements -- 1850-1860.
Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1850-1860.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| **W169 [P.2072]
Accession number P.2072