Details
Creator Reynolds, Robert F., artist.
Contributor Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector.
Wagner & M'Guigan, printer.
Title Wright, Hunter & Co. S.W. cor. Ninth & Walnut Sts. Philadelphia. [graphic] / On stone by R. F. Reynolds, No. 30, S. 5th St.
Publisher Philadelphia : Printed by Wagner & McGuigan
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1858
Date [December 11, 1858]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph ; 52 x 42 cm. (20.5 x 16.63 in.)
Description Advertisement showing the five-story corner property tenanted by the plumbing and gas fitting establishment of William Wright, John C. Hunter, J.H. McFetrich, and Thomas Brown at 900 Walnut Street. Seventeen bays of windows extend the length of the property on Ninth Street. Two women and a young girl stand in front of an unidentified property adorned by a metal skeleton for an awning (left). One man drives a horse-drawn cart north on Ninth Street, while another unloads goods from a dray. Two gentlemen wearing long coats and top hats stand at the Walnut Street entrance to the plumbing store. One of them grasps the handle of a pump in the doorway. Chandeliers and other wares are visible through the large shop windows. Two white horses are hitched to a closed cab stopped in front of the entrance, and a horse-drawn omnibus is partially visible in the background. The name of the business appears prominently on the cornice, and on signboards facing both Walnut and Ninth Streets. Managed at this site beginning in 1855, the store name changed to John C. Hunter & Co. in 1864.
Is referenced by Wainwright 471
Notes Date from Poulson inscription on recto: December 11, 1858.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 868
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Subject Wright, Hunter & Co.
Plumbing stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carts & wagons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carriages & coaches -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Walnut Street (Philadelphia, PA) -- 900.
Genre Lithographs -- 1850-1860.
Advertisements -- 1850-1860.
Associated name Wagner & M'Guigan, printer.
Provenance Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| **W471 [P.2270]
Accession number P.2270