Details
Creator Rease, W. H. artist.
Contributor Wagner & M'Guigan, printer.
Title Cornelius & Baker, manufacturers of lamps, chandeliers, gas fixtures, etc. Manufactories: No. 181 Cherry St & Columbia Avenue & 5th St, Philadelphia. Store, 176 Chestnut Street. [graphic] : Columbia Avenue and 5th Street. / Lith. by W. H. Rease, 97 Chestnut St.
Publisher Philadelphia: Printed by Wagner & McGuigan
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1856
Date [1856]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, tinted with two stones; 30 x 58 cm. (12 x 23 in.)
Description Advertisement showing the multiple-level industrial building with two-story addition comprising most of the 500 block of Columbia Avenue. A cupola containing a weather vane and an American flag adorn the roof of the main building. Near one of the factory entries, probably the office, a man holds the reigns of a horse hitched to a one-seat carriage as a horse-drawn omnibus passes from around the corner at the end of the block. In the foreground, passengers, including a woman and a family, wait at, and enter the rear of a "Germantown Road North Fifth Street" horse-drawn omnibus stopped, in the street, and across from the factory, near a small pile of debris. A man on horseback approaches the omnibus. A drayman leads his horse-drawn vehicle loaded with a crate past the opposite street corner on which a couple promenades. Also shows, neighboring buildings, in the left of the image. Cornelius & Baker was founded in 1835 and operated 2 factories and a storefront by the 1850s. The firm was succeeded by Cornelius & Sons in 1869.
Is referenced by Wainwright 87
Notes Published in Colton's atlas of America, illustrating the physical and political geography of North and South America... Commercial edition with business cards of prominent houses in Philadelphia. (New York: J.H. Colton and Company, 1856) (HSP O 458)
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 163
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 38 C814a.
Free Library of Philadelphia: Oversize Philadelphiana - Factories and Foundries (A-M).
Also included as one of two images of separately issued print. See **W86.
Subject Cornelius & Baker.
Gas light fixtures industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Horse-drawn vehicles -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Horseback riding -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Columbia Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 500 block.
Genre Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1850-1860.
Advertisements -- Tinted -- 1850-1860.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| **W87 [P.2036]
Accession number P.2036