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Title Duval, Stephen C. (Stephen Charles)
Date January 1833-February 20, 1907
Description Stephen Charles Duval, the son of the leading Philadelphia lithographer Peter S. Duval, was born in Philadelphia in 1833. He received lithographic training from his father and may have also studied the trade in Paris. In 1854, he exhibited nine framed lithographs at the Exhibitions of American Manufactures at the Franklin Institute.
In 1857 he became a partner in his father's lithographic firm, which was then renamed P. S. Duval & Son. Three years later in 1860, Stephen Duval married Emma Hoffy, the daughter of artist and publisher Alfred Hoffy who had worked on a number of printing projects with his father. Upon his father's retirement in 1869, Stephen Duval took over the business, but soon formed a partnership with Thomas Hunter, creating the firm of Duval & Hunter at 223 South Fifth Street. Two years later Duval & Hunter moved to 716 Filbert Street. The firm emphasized its ability to produce high quality chromolithographic art reproductions.
By 1875 Stephen Duval left the firm and may have moved to Richmond, Virginia, but by 1877 he had returned to Philadelphia and began a short-lived lithographic firm at Fourth Street and Ranstead Place. By 1880 he apparently left Philadelphia, having lived with his father in 1850 and 1860 in Center City and in West Philadelphia in 1870. He and his wife lived in New York City in 1900 with their adult daughter and her family. Both Stephen Duval and his wife Emma died in 1907 (Stephen on February 20, 1907) in New Orleans.
Is part of Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
References See Duval, Peter S.; Duval & Hunter; Hoffy, Alfred; and Hunter, Thomas;
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Call number Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
Bibliographic citation Census 1840, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900
Franklin Institute, Catalogue of the Twenty-Fourth Exhibition of American Manufacturers (1854), 28
Groce & Wallace, 200
Last, 72-73
Library Company of Philadelphia research file
Peters, 163-168
Philadelphia Business and City Directories (1858-1886)
Wainwright, 70-73
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