Details
Contributor Bowen & Co., printer.
Title The offering of the carriers of the press to their patrons. [graphic] : January 1st, 1863.
Alternate Title Press (Philadelphia, Pa. : 1857 : Daily)
Publisher Philadelphia: Bowen & Co. lith
Date [1862]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, tinted with one stone; 35 x 48 cm. (14 x 19 in.)
Description Carriers' address containing a montage of seven, titled vignette views of historic sites, predominately Independence Hall, used by the Continental Congresses in 1774 and 1776. Includes "Hall of Independence - Front" and "Hall of Independence - Rear" showing the Chestnut Street elevation and rear elevation with Independence Square; "Carpenters' Hall" exterior view; "Signing of the Declaration of Independence" based after the John Trumbull painting; "House in which the Declaration was written, S.W. corner Market and Seventh Sts."; "Carpenters' Hall - Interior"; and "Hall of Independence - Interior" showing the Assembly Room utilized as an exhibit gallery. Most of the views include pedestrian or visitor traffic. "House" view shows the Jacob Graff house used as a storefront and adorned in signage reading "W. Brown & Co.," "Book & Job Printing Office," and "Birth Place of Liberty." Vignettes surrounded by a border of vinery containing an American eagle and shield.
Is referenced by Wainwright 387
Notes Philadelphia on Stone
POS 519
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Athenaeum of Philadelphia: General Prints Collection - PRM23
Subject Graff, Jacob -- Hom es and haunts.
United States. Continental Congress.
Independence Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Carpenters' Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.)
United States. Declaration of Independence.
Genre Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1860-1870.
Carriers' greetings -- 1862.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *W387 [P.2213]
Accession number P.2213