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Title Ledger Job Printing Office
Date fl. ca. 1863-1896
Description The Ledger Job Printing Office comprised the printing division, including lithography, of the "Philadelphia Public Ledger" owned by George W. Childs. By 1863, the division printed playbills before managed by Joseph E. Jackson from 1869 to 1876, when it became a major printer of stock theatrical posters with printer Robert C. Smith (d. 1887) serving as foreman for several years. The division also issued specimen books of their "theatrical cuts" and advertised their services through chromolithographed trade cards from the late 1860s through the 1870s. The Printing Office remained active until 1896 at an annex (605 Sansom Street) after being relocated from the main building at the S.W. cor. 6th and Chestnut streets.
Is part of Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
Call number Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
Bibliographic citation Last, 203
Philadelphia Business and City Directories 1880-1896
Philadelphia Inquirer, January 6, 1887
The Public Ledger Building, Philadelphia.:... (1868), 33-34