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Creator Ketterlinus, Eugene, d. 1886.
Title E. Ketterlinus' lithographic and letter press printing house cor. of Arch & Fourth Sts. Philadelphia. [graphic] : Bill heads, cards, circulars, &c. lithographed at nearly the same cost as letter press in a superior style. Illuminated show cards in great variety.
Publisher [Philadelphia: E. Ketterlinus]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1865
Date [ca. 1865]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, tinted with three stones mounted on album page; 9 x 13 cm. (3.5 x 4.75 in.)
Description Tradecard, probably issued during the Civil War, containing an exterior view of the lithographic establishment of Ketterlinus at the northwest corner of Fourth and Arch streets. Other pictorial details include an American flag flying from a flag pole beside the building, a banner, and scrolls.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Variant reproduced in Jay Last's The color explosion: Nineteenth century American lithography (Santa Ana, Ca.: Hillcrest Press, 2005), p. 108.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSA 21
Biographical / historical note Ketterlinus established his own firm in 1842 and relocated to Fourth and Arch streets in 1856.
Subject Ketterlinus, Eugene, d. 1886.
Lithographers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Printers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Flags -- American.
Geographic subject Fourth Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 400 block -- north side.
Genre Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1860-1870.
Trade cards -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.142f]
Accession number P.9349.142f