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Title Pinkerton, Wagner, & McGuigan
Date fl. 1844-1845
Description Pinkerton, Wagner & McGuigan was the short lived partnership between James McGuigan and former P.S. Duval lithographers Edward J. Pinkerton and Thomas Wagner at 100 (i.e., 300 block) Chestnut Street. The firm predominately produced book and periodical illustrations, including plates for "Godey's Magazine" and the "Guide to Laurel Hill Cemetery, near Philadelphia" (1844). Pinkerton, Wagner & McGuigan also experimented early in chromolithography, and in 1844 received a silver medal for their "polychromic lithography" at the Franklin Institute Exhibition of American Manufacturers.
During the partnership Pinkerton lived at 13 Morgan Street (below Vine Street), and Wagner at 18 Swanwick Street and McGuigan possibly at 20 Swanwick Street (his address in 1851) in Center City.
Is part of Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
References See Duval, P. S.; Pinkerton, Edward J.; McGuigan, James; Wagner, Thomas and Wagner & McGuigan.
Call number Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
Bibliographic citation Philadelphia Business and City Directories, 1845
Groce & Wallace, 507
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