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SI NMAH Archives Center - Warshaw Collection - Lithography - Vertical Box 1 - Hofstetter - Gentleman
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Creator
Hofstetter Bros.
Title
Hofstetter Bros. Lithographers, stationers, printers, and blank book manufacturers. 508 & 510 Cherry Street, Philadelphia. [graphic] : Manufacturing labels & brands a specialty. Checks. Bonds. Certificates. Diplomas. Show cards. Bill heads. Letter heads. Note heads. Statements. Box labels. Dry good labels. Portraits. Book illustrations. Blank books of every description made to order. Flat opening blank books a specialty.
Publisher
[Philadelphia: Hofstetter Bros]
Date
[ca. 1892]
Physical Description
2 prints: lithograph.
Description
Advertisements for the late 19th-century Philadelphia lithographic firm, originally established as a blank book manufactory ca. 1874 by bookbinders and brothers John and August Hofstetter. Name of the establishment ornamented with pictorial details, including a landscape view, a book, and artist's brushes. Prints contain a sentimental and comic scene. Sentimental scene shows a peasant girl, accompanied by a dog, walking through the woods and knitting. Comic scene shows a gentleman, near a lake, inspecting his rear covered in paint in front of a bench adorned with the sign "Paint." Also includes the promotion "Color Work a Specialty." Hofstetter & Bros. relocated to 508 -510 Cherry Street ca. 1892.
Notes
Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
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Smithsonian Institution: NMAH Archives Center - Warshaw Collection – Lithography – Vertical Box 1 - Hofstetter - Peasant Girl
Smithsonian Institution: NMAH Archives Center - Warshaw Collection – Lithography – Vertical Box 1 - Hofstetter - Gentleman
Subject
Hofstetter Bros.
Lithographers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Printing industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Knitting.
Paint.
Genre
Lithographs -- 1890-1900.
Advertisements -- 1890-1900.
Genre prints -- 1890-1900.
Satires (Visual works) -- 1890-1900.
Location
Smithsonian Institution| NMAH Archives Center Warshaw Collection| SI NMAH Archives Center - Warshaw Collection – Lithography – Vertical Box 1 - Hofstetter - Peasant Girl
Smithsonian Institution| NMAH Archives Center Warshaw Collection| SI NMAH Archives Center - Warshaw Collection – Lithography – Vertical Box 1 - Hofstetter - Gentleman
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