Details
Creator Magee, John L. artist.
Contributor Sinclair, Thomas S., ca. 1805-1881, printer.
Title Wm. B. Eltonhead, dealer in all kinds of watches, and manufacturer of all kinds of jewelry and silver ware, 184 South Second Street, (between Pine & Union Streets, west side,) Philadelphia. [graphic] : Also, a large assortment of fine French jewelry, & a great variety of fancy articles. Please call & examine my large & good stock of goods. Watches, jewelry, & silver ware repaired and warranted. / J. Magee, del.
Publisher Philadelphia: T. Sinclair's lith
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1855
Date [ca. 1855]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, tinted with one stone; 23 x 15 cm. (9 x 5.88 in.)
Description Advertisement showing the three-and-one-half story storefront with an open entrance and two large display windows on the 200 block of South Second Street. A clerk attends to a male patron within the store as a man and woman mill around them. A number of men, women, and children walk in front of, proceed into, and admire the merchandise displayed in the windows of the store. Displays include framed portraits, platters, watches, and other sliver plated pieces and fancy goods. Also shows a large model pocket watch adorning the building. Eltonhead tenanted the address beginning in 1850 until the mid 1860s before relocating to Chestnut Street. He received patents for gold washing and a match machine in 1869.
Is referenced by Wainwright 461
Notes Date supplied by Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 852
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
De-accessioned duplicate dated "Nov. 1854" by Charles A. Poulson.
Subject Eltonhead, William B.
Clock & watch industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Jewelry stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Merchandise displays -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Second Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South -- 200 block.
Genre Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1850-1860.
Advertisements -- 1850-1860.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *W461 [P.2245]
Accession number P.2245