| Title |
Gimber, Stephen Henry |
| Date |
ca. 1806-1862 |
| Description |
Stephen Henry Gimber, a British engraver born about 1806, worked as an artist and lithographer in Philadelphia during the
1850s. In 1828 Gimber immigrated to New York City with his wife Louisa (b. ca. 1810) and in the early 1830s engraved book
plates and frontispiece illustrations, and also designed sheet music covers and other lithographs published by the Pendleton
firm in the early 1830s. By the 1840 census, he resided in New York's Fifteenth Ward with Louisa and five New-York born children.
Three years later, on November 7, 1843, printer Edward B. Kraft witnessed Gimber's naturalization in the New York County Superior
Court.
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Gimber relocated to Philadelphia shortly after his naturalization, where in the 1850 census he is listed as "Stephen Kimber"
living in Spring Garden Ward 3. (Gimber should not be confused with the twenty-five year old Stephen Gimber, engraver, boarding
in Albany, New York in 1850). According to Peters. Gimber was active in the Philadelphia lithographic trade and designed portraiture
for P. S. Duval in the late 1850s. During his residency in Philadelphia, Gimber lived at 311 Shippen Street, and then 1336
North Thirteenth Street until his death in 1862.
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| Is part of |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
| References |
See Duval, P. S. |
| Call number |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
| Bibliographic citation |
Census 1840, 1850, 1860 |
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Groce & Wallace, 260 |
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Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s |
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Peters, 196 |
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Petitions for Naturalizations in New York City, 1792-1906 |
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Philadelphia Business and City Directories, 1855-1860 (intermittently) |
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WWWAA, 1293 |
