Wagner & M'Guigan, call the attention of the public to the superior facilities at their extensive lithographic establishment, no. 4 Athenian Buildings, Franklin Place, (north of no, 111 Chestnut Street.)
Where the most efficient artistical skill is employed in the various branches of the art, enabling them to produce the most elaborate drawings on stone, anatomy, geology, botany, portraits, landscapes, title pages, book illustrations, machinery, show cards, maps, plans &c. . Transferring from steel and copper plates, wood cuts &c. This branch of the business is under their own immediate supervision, and having the assistance of the ablest work men enables them to produce work equal if not superior to any other establishment in the country, in color printing, they produce the most chaste, unique and magnificent illustrations for books, title pages, certificates, music titles, show cards &c. Also, a beautiful style in colors of stores, hotels, manufactories, and landscape views. Businessmen can be supplied with thousands of circulars, in their own hand-writing after a few hours notice
Scattergood, David
engraver
still image
Graphic
Wood engravings -- 1850-1860
Advertisements -- 1850-1860
pau
Philadelphia
PA. Philadelphia
[1856]
1856
monographic
eng
1 print: wood engraving; 26 x 20 cm.(10 x 7.5 in.)
Directory advertisement containing an "Interior view of Printing Room containing upwards of forty presses." Shows a couple attired in elegant winter clothing strolling down the aisle between the several presses. Men perform various duties at the machines, including rolling ink and pressing paper on the printing stones. Behind the couple, boy apprentices carry stones by hand and pull them by dolly near a man in a cape. Thomas Wagner and James M'Guigan operated a lithographic studio as partners 1846-1858.
Published in McElroy's Philadelphia directory, for 1856 (Philadelphia: Edward C. & John Biddle, 1856), p. 10, front ad section.
Not in Wainwright.
Wagner & M'Guigan
Lithographers
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Lithographic workshops
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Printing presses
(58) 10840.O.10 (front ad section)
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