Details
Contributor Stein & Jones, printer.
Title Lafourcade, Bros. & Irwin [banknote vignette]. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia: Stein & Jones, 321 Chestnut St
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1866
Date [ca. 1866]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph printed in purple ink mounted on album page; 8 x 21 cm.(3 x 8 in.)
Description Vignette illustrating a banknote for the Philadelphia National Bank. Shows the fabric store in Jayne’s Hall (constructed 1856) at 631 Chestnut Street. Members of the Lafourcade family worked as Philadelphia merchants from around 1840, with the partnership between the brothers and Irwin established around 1866. Pedestrians walk on the sidewalk past a horse-drawn dray parked in the street to be loaded. A horse-drawn surrey travels nearby.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 427
Stein & Jones established in 1859 was active under that name until the death of Stein in 1871.
Subject Jayne's Hall.
Lafourcades Bros. & Irwin.
Philadelphia National Bank.
Fabric stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Horse-drawn vehicles -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 631.
Genre Lithographs -- Color -- 1860-1870.
Banknotes -- 1860-1870.
Vignettes -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.126o]
Accession number P.9349.126o