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Emil Ackerman, born ca. 1840 in Dresden, Germany, moved to the United States with his father in 1848 and began a lithographic
apprenticeship ca. 1856 with Max Rosenthal in Philadelphia. He resided at the northeast corner of Fifth and Wood Streets and
worked as a "lithographist" in 1861, operating from the upper floors of 311 Chestnut Street. Soon thereafter, Ackerman moved
to Boston and worked from 134 Washington Street by 1863. He was later affiliated with the New England Lithographic Co. (1869-71),
J.H. Bufford's Sons (1875 and 1878), and Ackermann & Prand, Roxbury, Mass. (1880). By 1900, Ackerman returned to the Philadelphia
area with his wife, Henrietta (b. ca. 1848), and two sons, Henry (b. ca. 1870, also a lithographer) and George (b. ca. 1880),
and made his home in Jersey City, NJ.
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