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Title Hart, John H.
Date b. ca. 1818
Description John H. Hart, born ca. 1818 in England, was a lithographer active in Philadelphia between 1854 and ca. 1894. Hart immigrated to the United States and settled in New York in a boarding house in 1850. By 1854 Hart relocated to Philadelphia where he was listed in the city directory as a lithographer with a residence at Orchard above Culvert Street (Northern Liberties). In 1856 he established J. Hart & Co. "Lithographers and Embossers of every description of fancy labels, show cards, &c." at 60 Walnut Street and between 1863 and 1876, operated as sole proprietor of a lithographic establishment at 305 Walnut Street. According to his listings in city directories, Hart remained in printing until 1894, and his likely death.
By 1860, Hart owned personal property worth $300 and had married Theresa/Eliza (born ca. 1835-40) with whom, by 1880, he had six children, including cartoonist John F. Hart (1867-1950?). Between 1857 and 1866, Hart resided in South Philadelphia and Frankford and by 1868 relocated to 163 Queen Street in Germantown, where he remained until the 1890s, except for a brief period at 125 Linden Street 1873-1874. Although listed with a Philadelphia business address in the 1860s and 1870s directories, Hart may have also printed from his Germantown residence. Between 1868 and 1888, a series of lithographic views of Germantown after John Richards were issued with Hart's Queen Street address in the imprint. Several of the prints were later published as John Richards' "Quaint old Germantown in Pennsylvania. A Series of Sixty Former Landmarks of Germantown and Vicinity... Collated, Arranged and Annotated by Julius Friedrich Sachse" (Philadelphia, 1913).
Is part of Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
References See Richards, John
Call number Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
Bibliographic citation Census 12850, 1860, 1870, 1880
Groce & Wallace, 296
Peters 206,
Philadelphia Business and City Directories, 1854-1894
WWWAA, 1477