| Title |
Dubois, George |
| Date |
1811-1888 |
| Description |
George Dubois, proprietor of The Fall River Lithographic Company, born in France in 1811, was a lithographer who worked in
Philadelphia ca. 1850-ca. 1852. An artist for the French army in the 1820s and 1830s, Dubois resettled in Germany after 1833
and pursued a career in lithography. Immigrating to the United States in 1848, Dubois settled in Philadelphia in 1850 and
worked with lithographers Frederick Kuhl and Frederick Bourquin on architectural and genre views. While in Philadelphia DuBois
lived in Northern Liberties (Ward 4), with his wife Charlotte (b. ca. 1811) and children, including his lithographer step
son Albert. They also resided briefly in Camden, New Jersey, before the family relocated to the Boston area by 1853.
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In 1859, the DuBois family resettled in Fall River, Massachusetts, where by 1866, George and his family were the sole owners
of The Fall River Lithographic Company, which created advertising posters, labels, trade cards, fruit boxes, and other ephemera
for local manufacturers. The original firm dissolved in 1869, at which time Hugo and Oscar, two of George's sons, established
the H. W. Dubois & Company. Their business specialized in chromolithography until the company ceased operations in 1880.
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| Is part of |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
| References |
See Bourquin, Frederick ; Dubois, Albert; and Kuhl, Frederick. |
| Call number |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
| Bibliographic citation |
Census 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880 |
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George Dubois Family Collection, American Antiquarian Society |
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Groce & Wallace, 190 |
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Lauren Hewes, Lithographs of the Dubois Family, 1850-1865 in Imprint (Spring 2008), 21 |
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Library Company of Philadelphia research file |
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Merrill, 47 |
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Peters, 161 |
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WWWAA, 969 |
