Details
Contributor Rease, W. H., artist.
Title [Brown, Frederick & Kunkel, clothing warerooms, 41 North Third Street, Philadelphia] [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1855
Date [1855]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, tinted with two stones; 53 x 60 cm. (21 x 24 in.)
Description Unlettered proof of advertisement showing a North Third Street block of businesses (37-43) above Market Street. Includes (left to right) Sieger, Lamb & Co., dry goods (43); Brown, Frederick & Kunkel, men's and boys' wear and Irwin, Shultz & Peiper, merchants (41); S. Brock Jr., fancy dry goods and Iungerich & Smith, grocers (39); and Lloyd & Walmsley, trimmings (37). Storefronts are four to five stories and are built of stone. Gentlemen patrons enter and exit, including one descending an interior flight of stairs, most of the establishments. A crate rests outside and boxes are piled near the second-floor windows of Brown, Frederick, & Kunkel. Barrels crowd the first floor of Iungerich & Smith into which a laborer rolls a barrel as two line the sidewalk behind him. Outside of Lloyd & Walmsley, a gentleman inspects a large box and men sit on or address crates in front of Sieger, Lamb & Co. Drays, a wagon, and handcart, attended by their drivers, and loaded with goods, many with faint writing, are parked in front of, or depart, from each building. One drayman attempts to settle his horse. Also shows the storefront (without signage) at 45 North Third Street and partial views, with signage, of neighboring businesses, including J.W. Swain, umbrellas and parasols (35). Names of businesses spelled variantly on 41 North Third Street storefront.
Is referenced by Wainwright 34
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Possibly by W.H. Rease.
Date supplied by Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 65
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Subject Brown, Frederick & Kunkel.
Clothing stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Dry goods stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Grocery stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Merchants -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carts & wagons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Laborers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Crates -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Barrels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Trimmings stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Third Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- North -- 37-43.
Genre Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1850-1860.
Advertisements -- 1850-1860.
Proofs -- 1850-1860.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| **W34 [P.2033]
Accession number P.2033