Details
Creator Rease, W. H. artist.
Contributor Wagner & M'Guigan, printer.
Title Cornelius, Baker & Co. manufacturers of lamps, chandeliers, gas fixtures etc. [graphic] : Manufactories: 181 Cherry Street and Columbia Avenue & 5th Street, Philadelphia. Store, No. 176 Chestnut Street / Lith. by W. H. Rease, 97 Chestnut St.
Publisher Philadelphia: Printed by Wagner & McGuigan
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1856
Date [1856]
Physical Description 2 prints (one sheet): lithograph, tinted with two stones; 85 x 63 cm. (34 x 25 in.)
Description Advertisement containing two views showing the manufactories at "Columbia Avenue and Fifth Street" and "No. 181 Cherry Street." "Columbia Avenue" view shows 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, in the street, and across from the factory, near a small pile of debris, passengers, including a woman and a family, wait at, and enter the rear of a stopped "Germantown Road North Fifth Street" horse-drawn omnibus. 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.
"Cherry Street" view shows the multi-story factory on the 800 block of Cherry Street. A tower and American flag adorn the building in which workers are visible at a number of the open windows. At the far left end of the building, a wagon travels near a man carrying a basket and through an archway to the courtyard. A horse-drawn wagon is parked near the main entrance of the factory. The entry contains the name of the firm and a small stoop adorned with iron work. At the corner, a boy with a light fixture walks past a lamppost, as in the street, a horse-drawn wagon travels behind a carriage occupied by three gentlemen. The vehicle is drawn by two agitated horses that the driver attempts to settle. At the east side of the building, two gentlemen converse and another horse-drawn wagon drives down the street. Also shows a woman strolling past a tree at the adjacent corner, and neighboring buildings. 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 86
Notes Philadelphia on Stone
POS 162
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Free Library of Philadelphia: Oversize Philadelphiana - Factories and Foundries (A-M). FLP copy divided into two sheets.
Images also issued as separate prints. See **W87 and **W88.
Subject Cornelius & Baker.
Gas light fixtures industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Horse-drawn vehicles -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Horseback riding -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Laborers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Columbia Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 500 block.
Cherry Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 800 block.
Genre Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1850-1860.
Advertisements -- 1850-1860.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| **W86 [P.2028]
Accession number P.2028