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Title Potsdamer & Co.
Date fl. 1875-1885
Description Potsdamer & Co., a Jewish Philadelphia lithographic firm active 1875-1885, was established by Theodore Potsdamer and Alfred Jones as Jones & Potsdamer (321 Chestnut Street) ca. 1872. Jones left the partnership in 1875 and Potsdamer continued operations as Potsdamer & Co. until 1885 (after having relocated to 243 South Third Street in 1882) when the firm was taken over by the Ketterlinus Company due to Potsdamer's declining health. In 1874, Potsdamer & Co. received a silver medal for "engraving sharp, shield panel work, and Spencerian script," but was reported as losing considerable money for work for the Centennial Exhibition of 1876. Potsdamer & Co. predominately produced chromolithographic trade cards and other advertising ephemera in addition to letterpress work, mostly for benevolent organizations of the local Jewish community. Organizations included the Society of the United Hebrew Charities of Philadelphia, Jewish Hospital Association of Philadelphia, and Jewish Foster Home and Orphan Asylum of Philadelphia.
Is part of Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
References See Ketterlinus, Eugene.
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Call number Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
Bibliographic citation Jewish Exponent, November 7, 1919
Last, 220
Morais, The Jews of Philadelphia, 331-333
Pennsylvania, Vol. 152, p. 333, R.G. Dun & Co. Collection, microfilm, Hagley Museum & Library
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