Details
Creator Blanc, Albert, artist.
Contributor Longacre & Co., printer.
Title Leedom, Shaw & Stewart. Philadelphia Carpet Mills. Office and Warehouse 635 Market St. [graphic] : Manufactures of extra superfines, superfines, fines, damasks, twilled & plain venetian carpetings / AB.
Publisher Philadelphia: Longacre & Co., lith. 30 & 32 S. 7 St
Date [ca. 1871]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, tinted with one stone; 33 x 38 cm.(13.25 x 15 in.)
Description Advertisement showing the four buildings of the wholesale department (organized 1866) of the business established by Thomas Leedom and Adam Shaw in 1865. Laborers load and hoist rolled carpets into company wagons and carts in the street and in a courtyard. Carpets dry on racks on the roof of a small building bordering the courtyard. Also shows street and pedestrian traffic, including horse-drawn wagons hauling crates, barrels, and wood slabs, and several pedestrians on promenade. Robert and Arthur Stewart joined the firm in 1869, which remained in business until 1885.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 433
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 35 L 484
Longacre & Co. operated at 30 & 32 S. 7th Street in 1871.
Subject Leedom, Shaw & Stewart.
Carpet industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Horse-drawn vehicles -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1870-1880.
Advertisements -- 1870-1880.
Location Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP Bc 35 L 484