Details
Creator Rease, W. H., lithographer.
Contributor Kuhl, Frederick, printer.
Title John Hibler, importer & wholesale dealer in foreign & American wines & liquors. No. 56, North Third Street, (second door above Arch,) Philadelphia. [graphic] / On stone by W.H. Rease, 17 So. 5th St., Phila.
Publisher Philadelphia : Printed by F. Kuhl
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1844
Date [1844]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph ; sheet 41 x 21 cm (12.25 x 13.75 in.)
Description Advertisement depicting the four-story shop containing signage advertising wines & liquors. The doors, windows, and cellar are open for business. Inside the shop, wine casks, crates, jugs, and bottles line the floors and a laborer raises a cask with a pulley. Outside, a white man laborer loads casks onto a horse-drawn cart. In the right, an African American man peddler with a basket and ringing a bell passes by. Partial views of the adjacent stores, possibly an apothecary and bolting cloth business, are visible. Hibler, operated the wine business at the location from 1840 until 1844, where afterward he operated a grocery.
Is referenced by Wainwright, 203
Notes Title from item.
Date of publication supplied by Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 410
Accessioned 1982.
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Biographical / historical note Rease, a prominent mid-19th century Philadelphia trade card lithographer known to highlight details of human interest in his advertisements, partnered with Francis H. Schell in the 1850s and eventually operated his own press until 1872.
Subject Hibler, John.
African American men -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Barrels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carts & wagons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Laborers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Liquor stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Peddlers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Stores & shops -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Vintners -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Third Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- North -- 56.
Genre Advertisements -- 1840-1850.
Lithographs -- 1840-1850.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *W203 [P.2116]
Accession number P.2116