Details
Creator Wagner, T. S. (Thomas S.).
Contributor Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector.
Title Thos. S. Wagner, formerly Wagner & McGuigan lithographers, Franklin Place, no. 38. Lithography in all its branches. [graphic]
Publisher [Philadelphia: Thomas S. Wagner]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1859
Date [1859]
Physical Description 1 print: chromolithograph mounted on yellow paper; image 23 x 14 cm. (9 x 5.5 in.)
Description Advertisement containing a central view of the allegorical figure of Columbia driving her chariot. Image framed within a gold border with ornamental lettering and embellished with flowers at the bottom. Verso contains engraved view of Wagner's building at 38 Frankln Place and text describing types of printing undertaken by the firm. Wagner's partnership with James McGuigan dissolved in 1858.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Poulson inscription on recto: Jany. 1859. Specimen of printing in colors.
Published in McElroy's Philadelphia City Directory for 1859 (Philadelphia: E.C. and J. Biddle & Co., 1859) and McElroy's Philadelphia City Directory for 1860 (Philadelphia: E.C. and J. Biddle & Co., 1860).
Philadelphia on Stone
POSA 103
Print Department copy verso obscured by mount.
Subject Wagner, T. S. (Thomas S.)
Printers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Lithographers -- 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| BW - Advertisements [P.8729.13]
Accession number P.8729.13