| Title |
Turner & Fisher |
| Alternate title |
Fisher & Brother |
| Date |
fl. 1830s-1860s |
| Description |
Turner & Fisher, i.e., Frederick Turner and Abraham Fisher (b. ca. 1822), were 19th-century booksellers and publishers of
prints, songster, almanacs, and illustrated children's books active in New York, Philadelphia and Boston from the 1830s to
1840s. The firm, which operated from 11, later 15 North Sixth Street, sold political cartoons printed by Philadelphia lithographers
Abel & Durang during the late 1840s.
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During the same period and until ca. 1862, Fisher also worked in a similar partnership with his brother James at 15, later
8 North Sixth Street. In 1850, the firm published the Alfred Hoffy lithograph "Funeral Car, erected by Wm. H. Moore & Son
(Undertakers, No. 181 Arch St. Pha.) Especially for the occasion of the Funeral Obsequies of the Late President of the United
States, General Zachary Taylor, Philadelphia, July 30th, 1850" printed by P. S. Duval.
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The publishing trade proved profitable for Fisher and he was listed with a personal estate valued at $30,000 (i.e., ca. $801,000
in 2008) and two servants in the 1860 census.
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| Is part of |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
| References |
See Abel & Durang; Hoffy, Alfred; and Duval, P. S. |
| Call number |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
| Bibliographic citation |
Census 1860 |
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Peters, 390 |
