Title |
Quarre, Victoria |
Alternate title |
V. Quarre & Co. |
Date |
ca. 1800-August 17, 1873 |
Description |
Victoria Quarre, born ca. 1800 in France, operated a lithographic establishment in Philadelphia ca. 1862-1873. Originally
listed in the 1856 Philadelphia city directory in the lampshade trade with her French-born husband Ferdinand (b. ca. 1800)
at 256, i.e., 805 Race Street, Quarre was taxed solely by the I.R.S. between 1862-1866 for lampshade manufacturing and lithographic
printing at 832 Arch Street. Lithographers employed by the firm included Alphonse Bigot, Gustave Wedekind, and Edward P.
and Louis Restein. Following her death in 1873, Quarre's partner since ca. 1872, W.A. Duff, held an auction of the "stock,
tools, &c of a lithographic establishment" to close the partnership, but did continue the firm. V. Quarre & Co. remained in
operation as of 1890, and issued a lithograph of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America Centennial Fountain in 1875.
Under the proprietorship of Duff, the firm was also advertised in the 1879 edition of The Baxter Panoramic Business Directory
with an establishment date of 1837.
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Quarre probably arrived in Philadelphia in the 1840s with her husband who declared his intent for naturalization in March
1848. In the 1850 census, she resided with him in the Mulberry Ward. Following her husband's death, Quarre married Wedekind,
a lithographer at their establishment, in the late 1860s. He died in 1870.
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Quarre died on August 17, 1873 with a residence at 1534 Coates Street. She was buried at Laurel Hill Cemetery and gave bequests
of several thousand dollars to Catholic organizations, including the Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Family and St. John's
Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum of Philadelphia.
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Is part of |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
References |
See Bigot, Alphonse, Restein, E. P. & L., and Wedekind, Gustave. |
Call number |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
Bibliographic citation |
Baxter Panoramic Business Directory, No. 25, February 1880. |
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Census 1850 |
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Library Company of Philadelphia research file |
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Pennsylvania, Vol. 142, p. 18, R.G. Dun & Co. Collection, microfilm, Hagley Museum & Library |
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Philadelphia Business and City Directories, 1858-1890 (intermittently) |
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Philadelphia Inquirer, August 21, 28, September 11, and December 23, 1873 |