Details
Contributor P.S. Duval & Son, printer.
Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector.
Title Columbia Avenue & 5th St. Factory [graphic]
Publisher [Philadelphia: P.S. Duval & Son's Lith]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1859
Date [1859]
Physical Description 1 print: chromolithograph; 13 x 20 cm. (5 x 7.5 in.)
Description View showing one of the two factories operated by the lamp, chandelier, and gas fixture factory. The multi-storied factory, marked "Cornelius & Baker," extends down most of a city block and contains a cupola adorned with a weather vane and a smaller adjoining building. Also shows street traffic, including a horse-drawn carriage and omnibus. A couple also strolls on the sidewalk. 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.
Notes Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Sept. 59.
One of two views of Cornelius & Baker's factories published as plates in Description of the establishment of Cornelius & Baker, manufacturers of lamps, chandeliers & gas fixtures, Philadelphia (Philadelphia: J.B. Chandler, Printer, 306 Chestnut Street, 1856?) (LCP Am 1856 Corne (17160.O.15)). Both views issued as a separate print on a single sheet by P.S. Duval & Son's lithographers (LCP P.2023 *BW-Industry).
Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 145
Subject Cornelius & Baker.
Gas light fixtures industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Factories -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Horse-drawn vehicles -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Columbia Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- West -- at Fifth Street.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1850-1860.
Provenance Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| BW - Industry [P.2024b]
Accession number P.2024b