Details
Creator Reynolds, Robert F., artist.
Contributor Wagner & M'Guigan, printer.
Title Jones & Co. of the crescent one price clothing store, No. 200 Market Street, above 6th Phila. [graphic]: Has constantly on hand a large & fashionable stock of clothing made in the best manner, expressly for retail sales, with the very lowest selling price marked in plain figures on each article & never varied; so all must buy alike, and with the full assurance of getting a good article at the lowest rates. Remember the crescent above 6th in Market St. No. 200. / On stone by R. F. Reynolds No. 30 S 5th. St.
Publisher Philadelphia: Printed by Wagner & McGuigan
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1855
Date [ca. 1855]
Physical Description 1 print: chromolithograph; 57 x 42 cm. (22.75 x 16.5 in.)
Description Advertisement depicting the two-bay, five-story, green building occupied by Owen Jones's clothing store since 1846. White text advertising the business as a cheap, one price clothing store covers the facade. A columned arcade extends along the ground floor of the properties depicted, stopping at the States Union Hotel (right). A sales booth displaying wares is sandwiched between two columns at the street level. Men's vests, pants, and jackets hang under the arcade, as several men, and a couple stroll by on the wide, brick sidewalk.
Is referenced by Wainwright 206
Notes Philadelphia on Stone
POS 413
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Subject Jones & Co.
States Union Hotel.
Clothing stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Storefronts -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Hotels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1850-1860.
Advertisements -- 1850-1860.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| **W206 [P.2142]
Accession number P.2142