Details
Creator Ketterlinus, Eugene, d. 1886.
Title E. Ketterlinus steam power letter press and lithographic printer, Arch and Fourth street, Philadelphia. [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1870
Date [1870]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, gilted; 24 x 15 cm.(9.25 x 6 in.)
Description City directory advertisement containing gilt shading and a patriotic vignette for the studio established by Eugene Ketterlinus in 1842. Vignette depicts a female figure, Columbia, attired in a breast plate, crown, and cape leaning over a globe and standing on a block of stone. She holds a map which reads "North America," and an American flag, over the globe. In the background, locomotives travel over the landscape that also includes a railroad bridge spanning a river. Ketterlinus was one of the earliest Philadelphia lithographers to produce stock cards, and embossed and colored mercantile labels. The firm remained in business until the 1970s.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Published in Gopsill's Philadelphia city directory for 1870... (Philadelphia: Published by James Gopsill, 1870), opp. p. 854 (verso).
Philadelphia on Stone
POSA 23/24
Advertisement for "Wm. Wilson & Son Manufacturers of Solid Silverware and Importers of Plate Ware s.w. cor. 5th & Cherry Sts. Philadelphia" on verso.
Subject Ketterlinus, Eugene, d. 1886.
Lithographers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Columbia (Symbolic character)
Railroads -- United States.
Railroad bridges -- United States.
Globes.
Genre Lithographs -- Color -- 1860-1870.
Advertisements -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts| Rare| Dir Phila 1870 (75) 16994.0.854b
Accession number (75) 16994.0.854b