Details
Contributor P.S. Duval & Son, printer.
Title Fire, marine and inland insurance by the Great Western Insurance & Trust Company, office in company's building, 403, Walnut, corner of Fourth Street, Philadelphia. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia: Printed in oil colors by P.S. Duval & Son
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1858
Date [ca. 1858]
Physical Description 1 print: chromolithograph; 48 x 41 cm. (18.75 x 16 in.)
Description Advertisement depicting the exterior of the company's four-story building. Pedestrians, including a woman, a couple, a mother and child, walk on the sidewalks. A peddler, his baskets at his feet, is addressed by a man at the corner of the building at which two men converse at the entrance. Also shows a man standing by a street lamp at the opposite corner and three dogs playing in the street. Company was instituted in 1856, and was located at this address until 1860, after which the company ceases to appear in city directories.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 252
Trimmed.
Subject Great Western Insurance & Trust Company -- Buildings.
Insurance companies -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Walnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 403.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1850-1860.
Advertisements -- 1850-1860.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *BW - Businesses - Great [6483.F]
Accession number 6483.F