| Title |
Lineaweaver & Wallace |
| Date |
fl. 1866-ca. 1910 |
| Description |
Lineaweaver & Wallace, the steam-power printing firm in Philadelphia operated by Samuel T. Lineaweaver (1837-ca. 1911) and
John W. Wallace (b. ca. 1837) between 1866 and ca. 1910, published the tinted lithograph, "View of the grounds and buildings
International Exhibition," delineated by lithographer A. L. Weise in 1876. Although the copyright holders and publishers of
this lithograph, Lineaweaver & Wallace were primarily steam-powered book and job printers. They helped to organize the Typothetae
of Philadelphia in April of 1888, along with Burk & McFetridge and other large Philadelphia printing businesses.
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Lineaweaver, born in Pennsylvania, began his printing career around 1860 as the foreman of a printing establishment in Madison,
Kentucky. He returned to Philadelphia by 1865, where he began his printing business at 31 South Third Street with J. J. Sullivan.
Pennsylvania-born John W. Wallace became partner in the firm by 1866. They moved their operations to 32 South Fourth Street
ca. 1870, and by 1893, moved to 321 Chestnut Street, the former lithographic establishment of Stein & Jones (1863-1873) and
Potsdamer & Co. (1873-1880). Their business survived until around the time of the death of Lineaweaver, who passed away ca.
1911, when his wife, Emma J., began to be listed as a widow in city directories.
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| Is part of |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
| References |
See Burk & McFetridge; Postdamer & Co.; Stein & Jones; and Weise, A.L. |
| Has format |
FLP-LineaweaverWallace-FrankTaylor.jpg |
| Call number |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
| Bibliographic citation |
Census 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910 |
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Philadelphia Business & City Directories, 1865-1911 (intermittently) |
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Coronet, "Correspondence, Philadelphia," The American Bookmaker Vol. VI, No. 5 (May 1888): 124. |
| Image file |
FLP-LineaweaverWallace-FrankTaylor |
