Details
Creator Rease, W.H., artist.
Contributor Rease, W.H., printer.
Title McNeely & Co. manufacturers of morocco, buckskin & chamois, white leather, bark tanned, sheep, calf & deer skins, parchment, vellum &c. 64 N[or]th 4th. St. below Arch St. near the Merchants Hotel, Philadelphia. Manufactory 4th & Franklin Aven[ue] [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia : Lith. & printed by W.H. Rease N.E. Cor. 4th & Chestnut St
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1860
Date [ca. 1860]
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; sheet 49 x 57 cm (19 x 22.25 in.)
Description Advertisement depicting the large factory's several industrial buildings, sheds, and fenced yard near a busy street and sidewalk. Workers attend to a maze of drying lines with hanging leather pieces; delivery carts traverse the yard and depart through the gate under the sign "McNeely & Co."; and a laborer uses a horse-drawn cart to collect coal from a mound beside the main building. Pedestrians, including a white woman and boy, stroll and converse on the sidewalk. In the street, an African American man and woman couple push a filled handcart and a crowded horse-drawn omnibus from the "Frankford Road - Fourth Street" line passes by. The McNeely family operated a leather manufactory in Philadelphia from 1830 until the early 20th century.
Is referenced by Wainwright, 230
Notes Title from item.
Date of publication supplied by Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 463
Accessioned 1982.
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Biographical / historical note Rease, a prominent mid-19th century Philadelphia trade card lithographer known to highlight details of human interest in his advertisements, partnered with Francis H. Schell in the 1850s and eventually operated his own press until around 1872.
Subject McNeely & Co. (Philadelphia, Pa.)
African American couples -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African American men -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African American women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Boys -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carts & wagons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Factories -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Horse-drawn omnibuses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Horses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Laborers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Leather industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Pedestrians -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Fourth Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- corner of Franklin Avenue.
Genre Advertisements -- 1850-1860.
Chromolithographs -- 1850-1860.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| **W230 [P.2129]
Accession number P.2129