Details
Creator Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist.
Contributor P.S. Duval & Co., printer.
Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector.
Title [James S. Mason & Co., 108 North Front Street, challenge blacking, ink &c. manufactory] [graphic] / J. Queen, del.
Publisher Philadelphia : Lith of P. S. Duval & Co
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1856
Date [October 1856]
Physical Description 1 print: chromolithograph; 35 x 26 cm. (14 x 10.25 in.)
Description Advertisement showing the five-story brick and granite building adorned with a sign reading "Blacking" on its roof at 108, i.e., 138-140 North Front Street. A patron opens the entrance door of the storefront as he peers at a large illustrated print on display in an adjacent window. Above the window adorned with the print (illustrated with a man, boy, and dog), a couple is visible in an open double-sided glass door on the second floor. In front of the building, a laborer unloads a horse-drawn dray as a family in winter attire approaches from a nearby corner. Also shows a hoist on the side of the storefront and partial views of neighboring buildings. Mason & Co. occupied the building following its completion in 1851 and tenanted the site until 1919. The building, built 1850-1851, was demolished in 1973.
Is referenced by Wainwright 198
Notes Title from accompanying manuscript note.
Date from Poulson inscription: Oct. 1856.
Wainwright suggests date of circa 1852.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 404
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Subject James S. Mason & Co.
Ink industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carts & wagons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Laborers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1850-1860.
Advertisements -- 1850-1860.
Provenance Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *W198 [P.2075]
Accession number P.2075