Details
Contributor Reen, Charles printer.
Title W.W. Knight Son & Co. 509, Commerce St. between 5th. & 6th & Market and Arch Sts. Formerly 619, Market St. Philadelphia. [graphic] : Skates of all kinds for sale here. Also in cases of 50 & 100 pairs, assd. from 25 c. to 1.50 & 50 c. to $2.50. Skate straps of all kinds constantly on hand. Fine cast steel skates. Maleable iron do. American skates, German & English skates. Also a full assortment of American, English & German hardware.
Publisher Philadelphia: Printed by Chas. Reen, lith., 42 Sth 3rd St
Date c1860
Physical Description 1 print: chromolithograph. 33 x 41 cm. (13 x 16 in.)
Description Display card containing a skating scene, possibly on the Schuylkill River. Shows dozens of persons in winter attire skating, as well as men pushing women in chairs with blades, and a man pulling a boy on a sled. Also shows a female peddler with her basket, a man fallen on the ice, and another adjusting his skates in the foreground across from a skating boy. In the background, a single span bridge spans the river near hill sides from which the top of an observation tower rises.
Is referenced by Not in Wainwright.
Notes Copyrighted by W.W. Knight & Son, & Co.
Philadelphia on Stone
Library of Congress: DLC/PP-1997:105 Queen - 9 prints/10 drawings/1 photo (A size) W.W. Knight
Subject W.W Knight Son & Co.
Skate industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Winter -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Ice skating -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Sleds & sleighs -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Peddlers & peddling -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1850-1860.
Advertisements -- 1850-1860.
Display cards -- 1850-1860.
Location Library of Congress| Prints and Photographs Division | LOC DLC/PP-1997:105 Queen - 9 prints/10 drawings/1 photo (A size) W.W. Knight