Details
Contributor Kuhl, Frederick, printer.
Title Dunlaps'[sic] Phoenix Coach Works, corner of Fifth & Buttonwood Streets, Philadelphia. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia: F. Kuhl's lith. press
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1856
Date [ca. 1856]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, tinted with one stone; 52 x 87 cm. (20.75 x 34.5 in.)
Description Advertisement showing the industrial complex for the "Phoenix Coach Works" on the 400 block of Buttonwood Street. Complex includes a four-story main building, adorned with street signs, connected to additions and the "General Coach Furnishing Store." Several smokestacks and a tower decorated with the model of a carriage adorn the roof. Signage reading "Phoenix Coach Works" adorns one of the additions, which contains a rooftop crossover to the main building in addition to an entry, adorned with the figures of lions, to a courtyard. A man drives a horse-drawn carriage through the entryway, as above, carriages are displayed on the crossover. Four unhitched carriages, including an ornately decorated one, line the street in front of the main building as a single-seat carriage and a fancy coach with driver and passenger travel in the street. On the sidewalk, a woman, holding a parasol, promenades with a child; a man accompanied by a dog strolls; and two boys pull and push a wheelbarrow. Neighboring buildings (adjacent and rear), including a drugstore, are visible in the left of the image. The shop is adorned with signage "Drugs [sic] & Medecines Wholesale & Retail," an American flag, and a display window lined with jars, bottles, and canisters. Also shows a woman exiting one of the rear neighboring buildings. Circa 1845, Dunlap began operating from the factory which was later used as a hospital, prison, and barracks during the Civil War.
Is referenced by Wainwright 100
Notes Inscribed on recto: Wood Oct 10 56.
Wainwright suggests date of circa 1850.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 192
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Subject Dunlap, William.
Carriage manufacturers and dealers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Factories -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carriages & coaches -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Drugstores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Fifth Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 400 block.
Genre Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1840-1850.
Advertisements -- Tinted -- 1840-1850.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| **W100 [P.2084]
Accession number P.2084