Details
Creator Stein & Jones.
Title Stein & Jones, steam power printers & lithographers, no. 321 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]: Stein & Jones]
Date [ca. 1864]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, tinted with three stones; 43 x 31 cm. (17 x 12 in.)
Description Advertisement calendar for 1865 containing patriotic and seasonal vignettes, scenes, and allegorical figures framing a calendar. Upper corners contain an autumnal and winter scene. Autumnal scene shows a farmer at his plow with farmhands reaping wheat in the background and a yard of farm animals in the foreground. Winter scene shows individuals skating on a pond as a sled passes by, near a couple talking to a soldier under the gaze of two dogs. Dwellings and a train also comprise the landscape of the scenes. Lower corners contain the the breast-bearing female allegorical figures of Spring and Summer. Spring holds a sprig of flowers and Summer holds a basket of fruit. Patriotic imagery includes a battle scene, and the figure of Columbia surrounded by flags and soldiers, including an injured private, and another passing a laurel wreath to a fellow compatriot. Other vignettes show an artist working at a drawing table, and a lithographic printer rolling ink on a stone. The firm, established in 1859, was active under the name Stein & Jones, until the death of Stein in 1871 and its reestablishment as Jones & Potsdamer.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSA 91
Se e also variant uncolored proof with registration marks pasted on page 92. [P.9349.92]. Includes patriotic instead of seasonal female allegorical figures and a vignette showing Abraham Lincoln and General Grant.
Subject Stein & Jones.
Lithographers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Printers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Farms.
Ice skating.
Winter.
Spring.
Summer.
Autumn.
Geographic subject United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Military personnel.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Battlefields.
Genre Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1860-1870.
Advertisements -- 1860-1870.
Calendars -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| albums - Specimen Album [P.9349.274]
Accession number P.9349.274