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Title: Toudy, Henry J.
Description: Henry J[ulius] Toudy, born about 1837 in Pennsylvania, worked as a lithographer in Richmond, Virginia by 1860 before establishing the firm H. J. Toudy & Company in Philadelphia following the Civil War. After a devastating fire in 1878 causing the termination of his company, Toudy moved to Shamokin, Pennsylvania where he worked as a coal operator. He returned to Philadelphia about 1884, first working as a coal agent and then switching to publishing from 1886 until 1891. He retired that year when he obtained an invalid pension for his Civil War service in the Pennsylvania Calvary, including the rank of Lieutenant in Rush's Lancers (1864). Toudy died while a resident of 2149 Narona Street on October 23, 1899 in Philadelphia. He was buried at West Laurel Hill Cemetery. Toudy was married to Alida (b. ca. 1842) with whom he had two children Marian (b. ca. 1872) and Henry (b. ca. 1875).
Date: ca. 1837 - October 23, 1899
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Francis, John F.
Description: John F. Francis, premier portrait and still-life painter born August 13, 1808 in Philadelphia served as the artist for the noted portrait lithograph of Gov. Joseph Ritner lithographed by Albert Newsam and printed by P. S. Duval in 1838., Francis spent the early part of his career as an itinerant portrait painter in Schuylkill County, PA before settling as a portrait and still-life painter in Philadelphia ca. 1838. In 1840, he was listed as a portrait painter in the Northern Liberties Ward and by 1860 had relocated to Upper Providence, Pa. where he remained as of 1870. During this decade, he held $5,000-$7,000 worth of personal estate (i.e., over $100, 000 in 2008). From 1840 to after 1858, he exhibited his portraits and still lifes at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and at Artist's Fund Society exhibitions and sold his work through the American Art Union. He produced little art work during the 1870s and 1880s and died a recluse on November 15, 1886.
Date: August 13, 1808-November 15, 1886
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Blicker, George
Description: George Blicker, born about 1833 in Hanover, Germany worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia in 1860. He resided with his wife, Madeline (b. ca. 1834) and three children, Margaret (b. 1855), Sarah (b. 1857), and Caroline (b. 1859), in Ward 5.
Date: b. ca. 1833
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Smith. B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Jr.
Description: Benjamin Franklin Smith, Jr., born on August 5, 1830 in South Freedom, Maine, was a noted lithographic artist of bird's eye views, including Philadelphia, in the mid 19th century. Partner in the firm the Smith Brothers, with brothers Francis (1828-1903), George Warren (1825-1922), and David Clifford (1827-1911). Smith, like his brothers, first canvassed for subscriptions of views by New York lithographer Edwin Whitefield, before he and his siblings started their own New York firm in 1849. Between 1850 and 1855, the firm issued nearly 30 views, including two drawn on stone by Benjamin F. showing Philadelphia; "Philadelphia from Camden - 1850" and "Philadelphia from Girard College - 1850." The firm disbanded in 1856 although B. F. Smith issued a lithographic view of Elmira, N.Y. as B. F. Smith, Jr. & Co. (Albany, N.Y.) in 1862., Following his work in the lithographic trade, Smith and his brother Francis entered the Colorado mining business in the late 1850s and later invested in Omaha stockyards. Smith returned to Maine a wealthy man in the 1880s. At his return, he created the Rockport estate "Warrenton Park" and the B. F. Smith Trust, a precedent setting trust in its excellent management of the family funds. He was reputed the richest man in the state by the time of his death in 1927., Smith was married to Henrietta (b. 1840) in 1862 and the couple had two children (son Clifford and daughter Cordelia) living in 1900. The couple resided in "Warrenton Park" with several servants according to the census for that year. Smith's brother Francis also resided at the estate.
Date: August 5, 1830-1927
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Friend, Norman
Description: Norman Friend, a map lithographer and engraver, born in Denmark about 1814, worked in Philadelphia ca. 1840s-1888. Friend immigrated to the United States in the early 1840s. By 1844, he resided in Philadelphia and began the naturalization process. He was married to Mary (b. ca. 1830) by 1850 and resided most of his professional career on the 100 and 200 block of North Second Street. In 1849, he started his own firm at 141 (i.e. 400 block) Walnut Street, which he removed to 80 (i.e., 332) Walnut Street in 1851 preceding his partnership with Jacob Aub in the firm of Friend & Aub. After Aub's departure in 1860, Friend continued to operate at the address under his own name until his death., Throughout his career, he specialized in map work, beginning with "Sidney's Map of Twelve Miles around New York" (1849) from surveys by James C. Sidney, and the "Map of Philadelphia" published as part of the Philadelphia City Directories of 1849 and 1850. During the 1860s and 1870s, he worked on many of the Midwestern county maps and atlases published by Lewis H. Everts and his various associates (including Duval & Hunter, later Thomas Hunter) bringing standardization to the county atlas format., Friend died of heart disease on February 25, 1888 with the listed residency of 529 Vine Street. He was buried in Ocean Grove, N.J.
Date: 1814- February 25, 1888
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: McClay, Samuel
Description: Samuel McClay, born about 1840 in Pennsylvania to Irish-born parents, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia in the 1860s. Older brother Andrew J. Clay (b. ca. 1836) was also involved in the printing trade as a printer., Samuel resided in Ward 13 for most of the 1860s, including the rear of 467 Franklin Street in 1863 and 3 Franklin Street in 1867. By the 1880 census, he was listed as "married" and a boarder at 401 North Twelfth Street (Ward 14).
Date: b. ca. 1840
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Murphy, William F.
Description: William F. Murphy, born in New York in 1800, was the proprietor of William F. Murphy & Sons, the blank book manufactory, stationery, and lithographic printing establishment in operation in Philadelphia from 1820 until after 1945. Murphy, originally trained at a blank book manufactory in New York established his business in Philadelphia in 1820. By the late 1850s, the manufactory included printing services and Murphy's sons Henry F. (b. ca. 1836) and Charles S. (ca. 1829) were partners in the firm located on the 300 block of Chestnut Street (320, later 339 Chestnut Street). The elder Murphy died ca. 1863 and his sons assumed the business as William F. Murphy's Sons., In 1872, the firm relocated to 509 Chestnut Street, which was commemorated in a series of stereographs by James Cremer showing interior views of the firm's new site. The Murphy firm also often exhibited at local, state, and international exhibitions, including the Paris Exposition of 1867 and the Centennial Exhibition of 1876 as well as at the Franklin Institute. The firm withstood a fire in 1881 and remained in operation into the twentieth century (until at least 1945) with William H. Brooks serving as president by the 1920s., Murphy was married to Ann (b. ca. 1815) with whom he had five children as listed in the 1860 census. In 1860, Murphy also owned personal estate worth $10,000 and resided at 916 Morgan Street. At the time of his death ca. 1863, Murphy resided at 1103 Callowhill Street.
Date: 1800-ca. 1863
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Grantling, Charles P.
Description: Charles P. Grantling, born in Pennsylvania ca. 1833, began his lithographic printing career in Philadelphia at the establishment of William H. Rease (Fourth and Chestnut streets) in 1860. Soon thereafter, Grantling served in the 18th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Infantry for a few months in 1861, and then served again in 1863. After the war, Grantling returned to the trade and the Philadelphia city directory for 1865 lists him as a lithographer living at 537 Wharton Street, then with his wife's family at 138 Carpenter Street 1867-1868. In 1868, his son John was born, and shortly after Grantling moved his family to New York City. His wife, Catharine Virginia (b. 1838), died there on July 1, 1870. A decade later, Grantling had remarried an Irish-born woman Mary (b. September 1843) and resided in Manhattan. He lived in Jersey City, N.J. and worked as a printer in 1891. By the 1900 census, Mary Grantling was a widow living in New York.
Date: b. ca. 1833
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Johnson, James
Description: James Johnson, born in Ireland ca. 1834, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia in 1860. He resided in Center City (Ward 8) with his wife, Maria (b. ca. 1836), and their Pennsylvania-born daughter, Susan (b. ca. 1859).
Date: b. ca. 1834
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Kohl, August
Description: August Kohl, born ca. 1844 in Holland, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia in 1880. He resided at 335 East Little Crown (i.e., China) Street with Charles Burk and family in Ward 12. Kohl has previously been conflated with lithographer-turned druggist August Hohl, born in Germany in 1845, who in 1880 operated a drug store at the northeast corner of Fourth Street and Girard Avenue and resided with his wife in Ward 12.
Date: b. ca. 1844
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Allen, Christopher
Description: Christopher Allen, born about 1832 in Ireland, worked as a lithographer and printer in Philadelphia from 1857 to about 1881. He started his career in the late 1850s with P. S. Duval & Son at 8, later 22 South Fifth Street., Allen relocated to New York by the Civil War and enrolled in Company F of the 4th New York Calvary Regiment on September 9, 1861. He served as a full corporal and was discharged in 1864 at Harper's Ferry, West Virginia. Though he survived the war, Allen lost his right arm., Allen returned to Philadelphia after the war, and from about 1867 to the mid 1870s, Herline & Co. employed him at their 620 Chestnut Street establishment., Allen resided with his wife, Ellen, also a native of Ireland, and three children in Ward 2 of Philadelphia in 1860. Ten years later they lived in Ward 9, most likely at 9 South Seventeenth Street, with four additional children. By 1880, Allen was incarcerated in the House of Correction, Employment and Reformation, finishing a two-year sentence for being a "habitual drunkard." During that time, his family lived at 1134 Guirey (i.e. Wilder) Street (Ward 1)., In 1893, Allen signed over his pension and entered the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Togus, Maine. He died on June 28, 1911.
Date: b. ca. 1832-1911
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Stayman & Brother
Description: Stayman & Brother was a Philadelphia music importing and publishing firm that published the L. N. Rosenthal lithograph "Interior view of Independence Hall"(1856). Established by brothers John K. (b. 1823), Jacob A. (b. 1825), and Fletcher A. Stayman (b. January 26, 1831) in 1851, the firm initially operated from 160 Chestnut Street , i.e. 628-632 Chestnut Street, also known as Swaim's Building., Originally from Carlisle, Pa. the brothers relocated to Philadelphia 1850-1851, with eldest John having arrived first and working as a merchant while a resident of a hotel in the Chestnut Street Ward. In 1854, John K. departs the business (he later becomes a professor of languages at Dickinson College) and the younger brothers relocate the firm to the northwest corner of Fifth and Chestnut Streets., By September of 1855, they relocated to 210 Chestnut Street,. From this address, Stayman & Brother published "neighbor" L. N. Rosenthal's Independence Hall lithograph in addition to sheet music such as Francis Weiland's "Old Independence Hall" containing lithography advertised in the "Public Ledger" as "a perfect facsimile of the fifty-six signatures to the Declaration of Independence." The brothers remained in business at 210 Chestnut Street until 1858, after which Jacob possibly entered the field of medicine. The 1867 Philadelphia City Directory lists a Jacob A. Stayman as a physician.
Date: fl. 1851-1858
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Bigot, Alphonse
Description: Alphonse Bigot, born April 17, 1828 in France, was a noted lithographer active in Philadelphia ca. 1854-1872. Immigrating to Philadelphia before 1854 (possibly in 1849), Bigot lived in Center City and during the 1850s was employed at the lithographic establishments of Thomas Sinclair, Alphonse Brett, and L. N. Rosenthal, as well as worked as an engraver. Bigot, known for his chromolithographs, designed the finely-executed 1854 advertisements printed by Brett for perfumer Apollos W. Harrison and between 1857 and 1860, designed a number of noted color lithographs printed by Sinclair, including "Washington's Grand Entry into New York. Nov. 25th, 1783" (1860) and a ca. 1860 advertisement for "T. Sinclair & Co." Bigot also delineated book and periodical illustrations and well as executed paintings., In 1860, Bigot resided at 233 North Thirteenth Street (Ward 14) in a multifamily home, with his Pennsylvania-born wife Matilda (ca. 1826-1900), and their children as well as his siblings and lithographer father Francis (b. ca. 1805) and lithographer Francis Roux (b. ca. 1825) and his family. That year, he also painted a series of views of South America and held personal estate valued at $1000 and real estate at $3000. By 1861, he relocated his residence to 847 North Broad Street and started work at the lamp shade manufactory and lithographic establishment of Victoria Quarre, V. Quarre & Co., where he would be employed until 1872. During this period, he served as a witness for fellow lithographer (and later Quarre's husband) George Wedekind's patents for improved lamp shades in 1862 and 1863, designed the women's invitation for the Lithographic Printer's Union Second Ball (1863), and earned enough income to be taxed by the I.R.S. As of 1870, he remained at his North Broad Street address with his immediate family, including his father and sisters. Bigot died on January 25, 1872 in a horse riding accident, according to family folklore, and was buried at Laurel Hill Cemetery.
Date: April 17, 1828-January 25, 1872
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Conrad, Timothy A.
Description: Timothy Abbott Conrad, born June 21, 1803 in Burlington County, New Jersey to a family interested in natural history, was a naturalist, conchologist, paleontologist, author, and artist of lithographic book plates. Educated at Westtown, Conrad drew lithographic plates for natural history works that he authored and include "American Marine Conchology, or Descriptions and Colored Figures of the Shells of the Atlantic Coast" (1831); "Fossil Shells of the Tertiary Formations of North America" (1832); and "New Fresh-water Shells of the United States, with Lithographic Illustrations and a Monograph of the Genus Anculotus of Say" (1832)., Son of Solomon White Conrad (1779-1831), a publisher and printer and professor of botany at the University of Pennsylvania, Conrad worked as a clerk for his father in the 1820s, and upon the elder's death assumed management of the establishment. After a few years, he abandoned the printing business to pursue his natural history studies, and in 1837 he was appointed Geologist of the state of New York. A member of the Academy of the Natural Sciences beginning in 1831 and later the American Philosophical Society, he contributed approximately twenty-two illustrated articles in the 1830s, some to the Academy's journal, and helped to found the Association of American Geologists in 1840., By 1850, he lived with family in the High Street Ward in Center City. Working as a geologist according to the 1860 census, he lived in his brother-in-law's household in Trenton (Ward 3). He returned again to Center City Philadelphia (Ward 9) by 1870. He never married, and according to one biography, was often melancholy, especially in his later years. He passed away in Trenton on August 9, 1877.
Date: June 21, 1803-August 9, 1877
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Breuker, George W.
Description: George W. Breuker, lithographer, printer, and photographer, was born in Hannover, Germany on September 21, 1834 and emigrated to the United States on the ship Louise Marie from Bremen, Germany in October 1854. By 1855, he worked as a "photographist" and resided with his brother, Frederick, in South Philadelphia on Worth Street above Franklin (i.e., Cross Street above Tasker Street). By 1866, George was a lithographer living in Ward 12 who had worked at the Philadelphia lithographic establishments of Eugene Ketterlinus and Jacob Haehnlen until he formed his own shop, Breuker & Kessler with Harry C. Kessler at Seventh and Chestnut streets in 1866. Breuker remained with the company, which retained good credit throughout the 1870s and 1880s, until his death on June 19, 1896., George was married to Madeline (1834-1891) and had three sons, William G. (b. 1860), George W., Jr. (b. January 1863), and John C. (b. 1865). He resided with his family in Ward 12 of the city until his death. George Jr. was also a lithographer and joined Breuker & Kessler in 1886, eventually serving as Vice President of the firm in the 1910s. His brothers William and John were both photographers in the late 1880s and early 1890s. John C. became a lithographer in the mid-1890s and eventually served as President of Breuker & Kessler in the 1910s.
Date: September 21, 1834-June 19, 1896
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Grunewald, Gustavus
Description: Moravian Gustavus Grunewald, born in 1805 in Germany, was a respected Bethlehem, Pa. art instructor and landscape painter who also briefly practiced lithography. According to Peters, he lithographed an ornately-decorated portrait of Washington, probably issued during the 1830s., Grunewald immigrated to Philadelphia with his family in 1831 and then relocated to Bethlehem where he lived most of his life until returning to Europe in the later 1860s, where he died in 1878 at the Moravian colony of Gnadenberg (Poland). From the 1830s to 1860s, he also exhibited at the Franklin Institute and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts as well as designed works sold by the American Art Union.
Date: 1805-1878
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Weise, August L.
Description: August L. Weise, born in 1834 in Germany, worked as a lithographer and printer in Philadelphia from the mid-1860s to early 1900s. He began his career producing mostly labels, advertising posters and sheet music in Philadelphia ca. 1865 with William Boell at 311 Walnut Street. By 1867, he was one of the proprietors of A. L. Weise & Co., with Herman Pfeil and Louis Haugg, at 29 South Fourth Street. Weise and Haugg remained at this location until 1871 when they relocated to 45 South Fourth Street. In 1876, they relocated to Duval & Hunter's old shop at 401 Ranstead Place, where Stephen C. Duval (b. ca. 1832) remained and managed the newly named "Weise Lithographic Printing House" until 1879, when the business moved to 101 North Sixth Street. Weise's indebtedness to several creditors noted in an R.G. Dun & Co. credit report in October 1877 most likely caused the business to relocate rapidly and with varying partnerships and managers. By 1880, the printing house had moved again, this time to 101 North Sixth Street, where the business ended by July 1883. A member of the Lithographic Printers Union and its translating secretary in 1862, Weise also served as the president of the Philadelphia Turngemeinde by 1890 and was a member of the Humboldt Lodge No. 359 of the Free and Accepted Masons., Weise resided north of Center City (Ward 13) in 1859, the year his Pennsylvania-born daughter Lilly (b. 1859) was born. By 1870, Weise and his German wife Katharine (b. 1836), lived at 418 Vine Street and welcomed four more children into the family: Albert (b. 1861), Clara (b. 1863), Bertha (b. 1865) and Emma (b. 1868). Albert, Clara, and Bertha were all identified as printers in the 1880 census, by which time three more children were born: Ernst (b. 1873), Mary (b. 1875) and William (i.e., Willie, b. 1878). The family resided for many years at 526 Powell (i.e., Delancey) Street, until relocating to 547 North Sixth Street by 1900 when Weise's children Albert, Bertha, and Emma worked as clerks, and William as a lithographer. Weise died on June 25, 1914.
Date: 1834-June 25, 1914
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Shober, Charles
Description: Charles Shober, the premier Chicago lithographer born in Germany in February 1831, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia 1856-1857. Shober immigrated to the United States in 1854 and in 1855 delineated a lithographic plate for "The Horticulturist (N.Y.)." By 1856 Shober was listed in Philadelphia city directories as a lithographer at 17 Minor Street where by map lithographers, including George Worley and Benjamin Mathias also worked. In 1857 Shober partnered with Charles Reen in Reen & Shober at 5 South Sixth Street. By 1859 the partnership relocated to Chicago, where that year Shober established his own business and published the map "City of Ypsilanti" (1859). Shober operated his own firm and in partnerships (Charles Shober & Co.) until the great fire of 1871 when he took over the management of the Chicago Lithographing Company (Louis Kurtz and Edward Carqueville). In 1876 Kurtz left the firm that issued "The International Exposition 1876 at Philadelphia, PA. U.S.A. View from George's Hill" (1876) and Shober & Carqueville was established. The partners printed sheet music, posters, maps, and trade cards. Shober left the company in the early 1880s, possibly after a fire at the firm according to Groce & Wallace. He later became president of the Chicago Bank Note Company., Shober married Annie (b. 1844) in 1861 and with her had several children born in Chicago starting in 1865. Shober remained listed in censuses as of 1900.
Date: b. February 1831
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Doughty, J. & T.
Description: J. & T. Doughty was the partnership between brothers John and Thomas Doughty (1793-1856) who published the lithographically illustrated periodical "The Cabinet of Natural History and Book of American Rural Sports" (1830-1834). Thomas, a prominent landscape painter, served as the lithographer of the plates of the twelve parts of volume one and three parts of volume two printed by Childs & Inman before departing the partnership. Following Thomas's departure, John continued as sole publisher of the periodical that was printed until 1834, with the last edition issued as the third part of volume four., Thomas Doughty, born in Philadelphia on July 19, 1793, was a prominent landscape painter of the Hudson River School who worked in Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, New York, and Washington, D.C. In September 1830, he returned to Philadelphia from Boston and worked from a studio at the lithographic establishment of C. G. Childs, later Childs & Inman, at 80 Walnut Street. During the early 1830s, he drew a number of local and regional scenic views printed by the Childs firm. In 1832, Doughty relocated his residence to Boston and in the ensuing years lived and worked in Europe and New York. Doughty was also a member of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the National Academy of Design, where he exhibited frequently in addition to several other venues. Doughty died on July 22, 1856. He was married to Sarah (b. ca. 1800) with whom he had three children.
Date: fl. 1830-1834
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Clules, John
Description: John Clules worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia in 1854 according to Groce & Wallace.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Murchison, William W.
Description: William W. Murchison, born ca. 1838 in Pennsylvania, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia ca. 1866-ca. 1890. He practiced the trade at the firm of Breuker and Kessler (112 South Seventh Street) in the late 1860s and was a member of the Lithographic Printers Union. Between the late 1860s and 1880, he resided at 913 North Tenth Street, 206 Ristine Street (1866-1869), 519 South Fifth Street (1873), and 510 Federal Street (1880)., Murchison was married to Jane (b. ca. 1845), with whom he resided with his sister-in-laws by 1880. In 1890, he continued to work as a printer and lived at 924 Morgan Street., Possibly the William Murchison who worked for P. S. Duval.
Date: b. ca. 1838
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Keenan, William
Description: William Keenan, a native of South Carolina born ca. 1810, worked as an engraver and lithographer in Philadelphia 1830-1833. Listed in Philadelphia city directories at 45 Sansom Street, the address was also used in the mid-1820s by engraver and lithographer Cephas G. Childs and "Mr. Doughty," i.e., artist Thomas Doughty. The boarding house of Solomon Marache also operated at 45 Sansom Street 1815-1845. Keenan returned to South Carolina in the mid-1830s, where by 1850 he worked as an engraver and resided in Charleston with his wife Sarah (b. ca. 1822) and their son Sydney (b. ca. 1848)., Keenans' work in Philadelphia included illustrations for several gift books. He also produced landscapes, portraits, and medals and engraving on silver (by the late 1840s and 1850s).
Date: b. ca. 1810
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Mitton, Nicholas
Description: Nicholas Mitton, born ca. 1839 in Ireland, printed the 1869 lithograph "The Celebrated Trotting Mare Flora Temple and Colt, now owned by George Welch, Chestnut Hill, Pa." published by John Smith. Mitton partnered with lithographer Daniel O'Donnell in the partnership O'Donnell and Mitton, printers, at 18 South Third Street in 1869. He resided at 1509 Bartram Street., According to the 1870 census, Mitton owned personal estate valued at $2,000 and was married to Irish-born Mary (b. ca. 1835), the proprietor of a trimming store. They had a one-year old son born ca. 1869 in Pennsylvania. The Mitton household also included a domestic servant.
Date: b. ca. 1839
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Babb, Robert B.
Description: Robert B. Babb, born ca. 1839 in Pennsylvania, worked as a lithographer and printer in Philadelphia between 1860 and 1900. Attending Girard College in 1850, Babb was a lithographer living in Kensington with wife Jane Babb (b. ca. 1821) and two siblings, William (b. ca. 1841) and George (b. ca. 1844) in 1860. Babbed remained in the neighborhood throughout his career residing at 1167 Sophia Street (ca. 1865-ca. 1872), 322 East Cumberland Street (ca. 1875-ca. 1884), and the rear property of 226 West Thompson Street (ca. 1884-)., Although Babb predominately worked in the printing trade, the 1882 city directory lists him as partnered with Winfield S. Biddle in the flour industry at Dauphin and American Streets. By the 1910 census, Babb is listed as a widower.
Date: b. ca. 1839
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Anastatic Office
Description: Anastatic Office, a lithographic firm established in 1846 by Library Company of Philadelphia librarian John Jay Smith and two of his sons, Robert Pearsall and Lloyd Pearsall, operated until 1847. John Jay acquired the American rights to the anastatic process, a new method of transfer lithography in 1845; Robert P. managed the establishment; and Lloyd P. sold and advertised the material printed at his law bookstore at 19 St. James Street. The Anastatic Office first advertised an office at 317 (i.e., 800 block) Market Street in February 1846, which by June 1846 relocated to 144 (i.e., 600 block) Chestnut Street., The Office produced a number of works, many reproductions of historic maps and documents, and entered at least one piece in the Franklin Institute Exhibition in October 1846. Works of import include anastatic copies from facsimiles drawn by James C. Sidney of Thomas Holmes's 1687 "Map of the Improved Part of Pennsilvania" and John Reed's 1774 "Explanation and Map of the City and Liberties of Philadelphia," as well as a copy of the "Declaration of Independence," with signatures, procured by the City Councils in 1846 (copy in Independence National Historic Park collections). In addition, the Anastatic Office produced the plates for John Jay Smith's "Designs for Monuments and Mural Tablets and Guide to Workers in Metals and Stone" (co-authored by Thomas U. Walter)., By 1847, the office dissolved and Robert P. Smith operated a printing establishment under his own name at the Chestnut Street address.
Date: fl. 1846-1847
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Quarre, Victoria
Description: Victoria Quarre, born ca. 1800 in France, operated a lithographic establishment in Philadelphia ca. 1862-1873. Originally listed in the 1856 Philadelphia city directory in the lampshade trade with her French-born husband Ferdinand (b. ca. 1800) at 256, i.e., 805 Race Street, Quarre was taxed solely by the I.R.S. between 1862-1866 for lampshade manufacturing and lithographic printing at 832 Arch Street. Lithographers employed by the firm included Alphonse Bigot, Gustave Wedekind, and Edward P. and Louis Restein. Following her death in 1873, Quarre's partner since ca. 1872, W.A. Duff, held an auction of the "stock, tools, &c of a lithographic establishment" to close the partnership, but did continue the firm. V. Quarre & Co. remained in operation as of 1890, and issued a lithograph of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America Centennial Fountain in 1875. Under the proprietorship of Duff, the firm was also advertised in the 1879 edition of The Baxter Panoramic Business Directory with an establishment date of 1837., Quarre probably arrived in Philadelphia in the 1840s with her husband who declared his intent for naturalization in March 1848. In the 1850 census, she resided with him in the Mulberry Ward. Following her husband's death, Quarre married Wedekind, a lithographer at their establishment, in the late 1860s. He died in 1870., Quarre died on August 17, 1873 with a residence at 1534 Coates Street. She was buried at Laurel Hill Cemetery and gave bequests of several thousand dollars to Catholic organizations, including the Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Family and St. John's Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum of Philadelphia.
Date: ca. 1800-August 17, 1873
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Andrews, Charles Y.
Description: Charles Y. Andrews, a Philadelphia engraver, lithographer and printer was born in Pennsylvania ca. 1841 to German immigrants, piano maker Joel Andrews (b. ca. 1808), and Mary (b. ca. 1815). The eldest of three, his siblings were Emily (b. 1843) and Adolphus (b. 1846). Active in Philadelphia from about 1860 to 1900, Andrews worked for Breuker & Kessler, with fellow lithographers Otto Wynkoop, and William W. Murchison at 112 South Seventh Street in 1868. Other than this brief employment association, little is known about Andrews' printing career., In 1860, Charles lived with his mother and sister in Ward 12. By the middle of the 1860s, the family resided at 304 North Ninth Street, where Charles remained in residency until at least 1910. By 1915 he retired to 2740 North Eleventh Street where he died approximately ten years later.
Date: ca. 1841-ca. 1925
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Cridland, Leander Jr.
Description: Leander Cridland, Jr., born in December of 1842, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia in 1860. He resided in his father's household in Ward 15 with five siblings and extended family. His career in lithography was short-lived, and by 1867 he was working as a carpenter with his father and brother., By 1880, Cridland resided on the Reading Turnpike with his wife's family, the Pipers. In 1900, Cridland headed a household on East Mount Airy Avenue (Ward 22) that included his wife Lydia (b. ca. 1850) and seven children, including Carrie L. (b. 1869), Robert B. (b. 1872), Leanora (b. 1873), Percy (b. 1876), Stanley (b. 1879), Laman S. (1884-1918), and Mira R. (b. 1887). At the time of Leander's death on March 24, 1905, he resided at 140 East Washington Lane.
Date: 1842-1905
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Appleton, Samuel
Description: Samuel Appleton was a Philadelphia lithographer who worked at the Rosenthal firm at N.W. Fifth and Chestnut Streets in 1857. He resided in Center City at 488 Locust Street.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Butler, William H.
Description: William H. Butler, lithographer and partner in Packard & Butler, was born in New York ca. 1848. In 1880, he relocated to Philadelphia with his wife Lena (b. ca. 1854) and resided with his new partner Hebert S. Packard (1850-1912) at his residence at 1918 Mt. Vernon Street. By 1884, Butler settled at 1832 North Twenty-First Street (North Philadelphia); his residential address until the end of his listings in Philadelphia city directories ca. 1893., Butler remained with Packard & Butler, later Packard, Butler & Partridge, until May 1885 when he assumed management of the firm previously operated by Thomas Hunter (former partner of S. C. Duval). Despite Butler's departure from Packard, Bulter & Partridge, his name remained associated with the Packard partnership until January 1886 when fire claimed the building tenanted by the establishment at 715 Arch Street. According to newspaper reports, Butler was fully insured for $45,000. Only a month earlier, Butler was also in the news when he filed charges against the financially troubled "Godey's Lady Book" proprietor J. H. Haulenbeck for false pretenses regarding a credit of $1800 worth of goods. Butler continued as a Philadelphia lithographer until ca. 1893.
Date: b. ca. 1854
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Bosin, Theodore
Description: Theodore Bosin, born ca. 1840 in Germany, was an engraver and lithographer active in Philadelphia ca. 1869-ca. 1885 . He engaged in two short-term partnerships. In 1870, he partnered with Philadelphia lithographer Edward Busch at 320 Walnut Street, and in 1871, he partnered with Philadelphia lithographer Theodore Leonhardt at 324 Chestnut Street. By 1873, Bosin had left the Leonhardt partnership and by 1875 worked as a lithographer from 23 South Third Street., In the early 1870s, Bosin lived in West Philadelphia at 3720 Story Street before relocating to 514 Powell Street (Center City) in 1875. In 1880, he lived at that address with his German-born wife Lina and worked as an engraver. He continued to be listed in city directories until 1885. By 1887, his wife was listed in city directories as a widow at the Powell Street address.
Date: ca. 1840-ca. 1886
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Weiss, Jacob
Description: Jacob Weiss, a lithographer who specialized in maps, born ca. 1834 in Saxony, Germany, operated in Philadelphia from 1858 to 1866, working from 600 Chestnut Street (1858-1864) and 320 Walnut Street (1865-1866). Weiss immigrated to the United States by 1854 and resided and worked as a lithographer in Boston by January 9, 1854 when he agreed to provide Jonathan Frock with "good and proper lithographic stones, and will lithograph thereon separately, the map of each and every State of Mexico.", By 1858, Weiss resided in Camden, New Jersey. He soon thereafter relocated to Philadelphia, where he lived at various residences, including 430 Appletree Alley; the same address as lithographers George Eimerman 1865-1866 and brother Peter in 1867. Between 1858 and 1864, Weiss worked with lithographers Eimerman; Worley, Bracher & Matthias; Louis Haugg; and Frederick Bourquin at 600 Chestnut Street (later site of the new Public Ledger building) before he relocated his business to 320 Walnut Street. Weiss published Civil War maps, including "Map of Charleston Harbor" (1861) and the 1860 maps "Map of Hampton Roads and Norfolk Harbor Showing the Location of Fortress Monroe & Forts Calhoun & Norfolk and "A Correct Map of Pensacola Bay Showing Topography of the Coast, Fort Pickens, U.S. Navy Yard and all other fortifications." Weiss died most likely in 1866 as inferred by his wife, Henrietta Weiss (1838-1916), listed as a widow in the 1867 Philadelphia directory. He was survived by three sons, "engravers on stone" George (b. 1859) and Charles (b. 1861), and Albert (b. 1863).
Date: ca. 1834-1866
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Harris, George S.
Description: George S. Harris, born 1823 in Bridgeton, New Jersey, worked in Philadelphia as a lithographic and letterpress printer, producing lithographic trade cards, can and cigar box labels, circulars, calendars and stamped envelopes between 1847 and 1891. Although trained in law, Harris pursued printing and opened his own job and fancy card printing establishment ca. 1847 at 119 North Fourth Street. By 1848 Harris already owned and operated a Ruggles' small card press, which "attract[ed] the attention of visitors [sic] by its handiwork," and in 1854, he relocated his company to the southeast corner of Fourth and Vine Streets (a building he later replaced to accommodate growing operations). By 1867 his firm had an estimated worth of $25,000 according to his credit report where Harris was consistently cited as "prompt" and "reliable.", His eldest son, George T. Harris (b. January 1851), became a partner in 1872, followed by his younger sons William T. (b. ca. 1856) in 1880 and Frank S. (b. ca. 1861) in 1889. In 1882, Geo. S. Harris & Sons moved into a seven-story, "iron front" building erected for the company at 718-724 Arch Street, where by the end of the 1880s the company operated the largest lithographic firm in the city, with about 600 employees producing items for patrons worldwide. Geo. S. Harris & Sons also produced a plethora of trade cards in addition to chromolithographed advertising calendars with genre scenes for its own business, including an 1886 calendar containing a whimsical scene of a woman at a masquerade ball., In the late 1870s and early 1880s, Harris was also a director of the Mantua Land and Improvement Company. Geo. S. Harris & Sons remained on Arch Street until George S.'s death on July 7, 1891, at which time his estate was appraised at $439,624 with his firm at $400,000. His sons managed the company for approximately ten years, until partnering with Joseph Knapp to form the New-York based American Lithographic Company., Harris resided in the Northern Liberties Ward of Philadelphia early in his career in the 1850s, and remained north of Market Street after marrying Annie M. (b. ca. 1827) and starting a family. In 1860, they lived in Ward 12 and in 1870 Ward 13. By 1880 they lived at 650 North Fifteenth Street in Ward 15; the family's residence at the time of George S. Harris's death on July 8, 1891 in Atlantic City. A "cottager" in that city for many years, Harris died while driving in a carriage at Chelsea.
Date: 1823-July 7, 1891
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Antonio, Joseph
Description: Joseph Antonio, born in Portugal around 1812, was a Philadelphia purveyor of printers materials at 403 Library Street, near Lehman & Bolton (418 Library Street). He lived at 438 Federal Street during the 1870s and with his wife Mary, and children John and Elizabeth by 1880.
Date: b. ca. 1812
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Lawton, Francis
Description: Francis Lawton, born ca. 1835 in Pennsylvania, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia from the late 1850s to early 1870s, including under the employ of P. S. Duval 1857-1859 (during his insolvency)., According to censuses, in 1860 Lawton resided with his wife Margaret (b. ca. 1826) and two children as a lithographer in Ward 11 with personal estate valued at $500. Lawton departed the trade by the 1880 census when he was listed as a salesmen. In 1900 his listed occupation was "calksman's files.", Lawton resided in North Philadelphia during his lithographic career, including 203 Jefferson Street (1857), 1528 North Fourth Street (1859), 1126/1128 Ogden Street (1863-1870), and Vernon Street near North Tenth Street (1871).
Date: b. ca. 1835
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Schrank, Frederick
Description: Frederick Schrank, born May 1836 in Germany, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia ca. 1859-1900. Schrank immigrated to the United States in 1856 and by 1859 worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia and resided at 7 Central Place. He relocated residences to 335 Juliana Street by 1868. Schrank continued in the trade until his death and was listed in the 1900 city directory as a lithographer., Schrank was married to Sophia (b. ca. 1841) with whom he had four children and lived at 808 Nectarine Street in 1880. According to the 1900 census, Schrank was widowed and worked as a compositor with a residence at 815 Buttonwood Street. Schrank died on February 26, 1901 and was interred at Germantown Cemetery.
Date: May 1836-February 26, 1901
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: McGuigan, James
Description: James McGuigan, a Philadelphia lithographer of probable Scotch heritage, born in Pennsylvania ca. 1818-1819, was partner in the premier mid-19th-century lithographic firm Wagner & McGuigan., Beginning his lithographic career ca. 1842, he partnered with lithographers Edward Pinkerton and Thomas S. Wagner, both formerly of P. S. Duval, in Pinkerton, Wagner & McGuigan in 1844. Following the departure of Pinkerton in 1845, McGuigan and Wagner formed Wagner & McGuigan and remained in partnership until ca. 1859 at 4 Franklin Place. The prolific firm produced all genres of lithographs, particularly advertisements, and was an innovator in chromolithography and steamed powered lithographic printing., In 1857 a fire destroyed 4 Franklin Place (the second time in less than ten years) and the partnership of Wagner & McGuigan dissolved by 1859. Within the year, McGuigan established his own firm at South Third & Dock streets as well as relocated from his residence of 20 Swanwick Street (ca. 1851-1859) to 1205 South Fourth Street, his address for the rest of his life. As the sole proprietor of his lithographic establishment, McGuigan became known for his map works, but he also produced material in all the branches of the field. Religious-themed prints, church imagery, and scenic views after the designs of artist Thomas Moran comprised subject matter printed by the "long and favorably known excellent artist." During the Civil War, cards, labels, and circulars also provided a steady business for McGuigan and his business and personal income were taxed by the IRS 1864-1866., He provided "donations" of another sort as well during the war, when he gave near $40 worth of lithographs to the Great Central Sanitary Fair (June 1864). The 1860s also saw McGuigan pursue large projects. In 1867 he was one of three founding publishers of the Catholic children's periodical The Guardian Angel and in 1869 undertook the ill-fated deluxe portfolio series Studies and Pictures of Thomas Moran, in which only a few proof prints were ever produced. Despite such set backs, in 1870 McGuigan retained an estate worth near $10,000, i.e., $167,000 in modern value., Not much is known of McGuigan's personal life other than what can be gleamed from censuses. McGuigan appears to have married Margaret (b. ca. 1818 in France) before 1850. The couple had two children William (b. ca. 1848), a lithographer, and James (b. ca. 1849). By 1860 Margaret and son James appeared absent from McGuigan's life, possibly deceased, and an elder woman, Ann, possibly his mother resided with the "Master Lithographer" and his son William., McGuigan died November 10, 1874 with his funeral at his home in South Philadelphia. He was buried at Ronaldson Cemetery ("Sacred to the Memory of Scottish Strangers"), also known as Philadelphia Cemetery, at Ninth and Bainbridge Streets. The cemetery later removed to Forrest Hills at 101 Byberry Road.
Date: 1818/1819-November 10, 1874
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Schilcock, Charles
Description: Charles Schilcock, born ca. 1830 in Ohio, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia in 1860. He resided at 537 Spruce Street (Ward 5) in a boarding house operated by Elizabeth H. Remson with fellow lithographers Adolph Laborn and Nicholas Ships.
Date: b. ca. 1830
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Schnabel, Edward
Description: Edward Schnabel, a Philadelphia lithographic artist specializing in portraiture, born ca. 1820 in Saxon, Germany, was active in Philadelphia between 1850 and 1863. Schnabel immigrated to Philadelphia with fellow lithographer Carl Harnisch in 1849. Although erroneously cited by Groce & Wallace and Falk as a partner in Traubel, Schnabel and Finkeldey in 1850, Schnabel was listed as a lithographer in residence as a boarder in the South Ward with fellow lithographer Maurice Traubel in the 1850 census. According to the reminiscences of Moras, his colleague in the trade, he worked for P. S. Duval at the time., In 1853, a partnership was formed with Traubel called M. H. Traubel & Co. or the Lithographic Institute (formerly Frederick Kuhl's shop at 46 ½ Walnut Street). The firm comprised of Schnabel, John Frederick Finkeldey, Morris H. Traubel, and Theodore Leonhardt was active until 1857, when it was reestablished as Schnabel, Finkeldey & Demme. William Demme withdrew from the partnership the same year and Schnabel continued in partnership with Finkeldey as Schnabel & Finkeldey until 1863. That year, Finkeldey orchestrated a sheriff's sale of the establishment as a result of Schnabel's drinking and poor management. After 1863, Schnabel having apparently left the lithography trade, worked as an artist and painter as listed in the 1870 and 1880 censuses, although he was listed with the profession of "tavern" in the 1864 city directory, Schnabel married Emma (b. ca. 1825) by 1860 with whom he had two children, including son Otto, who entered the lithography and photography trade by 1880. During his lithographic career in Philadelphia, Schnabel lived in Center City in the South Ward, 246 South Eighth Street (1854-1856) and 739 Wood Street, above Vine Street (1857-ca. 1863). By 1870, he relocated the family residence to North Philadelphia where they lived at 1526 Lawrence Street with Schabel's personal estate valued at $700 (ca. $12,000, 2008 value). By 1880, the Schnable family resided at 1222 Stiles Street., Schnabel died in Philadelphia on August 4, 1883 and given his description in his obituary as "extremely elegant, truthful and proficient," he had possibly turned a new leaf following his partnership with Finkeldey.
Date: January 1, 1820-August 4, 1883
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Godber, John
Description: John Godber, lithographer and printer, born of French heritage ca. 1841 in New York, worked in the trade in Philadelphia ca. 1860-ca. 1890. Although a foreman for Herline & Co. and then Howard B. Hamilton (39 North Tenth Street) 1873-1874, Godber did engage in photography for a brief time as a partner in the photographic studio W. H. Keller & Co. (322 North Second Street) in 1872. After 1890, Godber was listed in city directories until 1894 as a grocer., Godber resided in the Seventh Ward of Philadelphia by 1860, with presumably his siblings, Mary (b. ca. 1830, France) and Constance (b. ca. 1840, France) Agnes (b. ca. 1844, N.Y.) and Titus (b. ca. 1848, N.J.). He remained in the Seventh Ward neighborhood on the 1200 block of Shippen (i.e., Bainbridge) Street until ca. 1870, when he relocated to 1033 Fernon Street in South Philadelphia (Ward 1) with his wife Annie (b. ca. 1840) and daughter Susan (b. 1862). By 1879, Godber resided on South Tenth Street, first at 2025 and after 1886 at 2039 South Tenth Street., Although listed as white in census records, Godber's entry in the 1863 edition of the Philadelphia city directory was annotated to indicate that he was "colored." If a correct annotation, Godber would be the only known named black lithographer in 19th-century Philadelphia directories 1828-1878.
Date: b. ca. 1841
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Schmitz, M. (Matthew)
Description: Matthew Schmitz, born in Prussia ca. 1805, worked as a lithographic artist, predominately of sheet music covers printed by Duval, in Philadelphia from the 1840s to 1860s. Schmitz immigrated to the United States before 1844; the year he declared his intent to naturalize in Philadelphia. By 1845, Schmitz began to be listed in local city directories as an "artist" at 142 (i.e., 400 block) Chestnut Street. In 1849, he delineated a lithographic portrait of Madame Anna Bishop published by Philadelphia music publisher A. Fiot. In the 1850s and 1860s, he designed a ca. 1850 "Humane Society of Philadelphia" certificate printed by Thomas Sinclair and a ca. 1865 sheet music cover titled "Glenwood Polka..." showing the Pennsylvania Female College. During the mid 19th-century, Schmitz was also a "teacher of drawing" and a "professor of music" according to city directory entries and the censuses (1860, 1870, 1880)., Schmitz was married to Henrietta (b. ca. 1827) with whom he had at least four children. In 1860, he resided in Center City (Ward 10) and owned personal estate worth $500. In 1870, he resided in West Philadelphia (Ward 24) and owned personal estate worth $600. In 1880, "music teacher" Schmitz continued to reside in West Philadelphia and at 3104 Baring Street with his wife and three children aged 18-25 years.
Date: b. ca. 1805
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Shoemaker, John G.
Description: John G. Shoemaker, born ca. 1820 in Wurttemberg, Germany, was a lithographer and engraver active in Philadelphia between 1845 and 1885. Referred to as Gottlieb/Gotlieb Shoemaker from 1845-1854, his name was anglicized to John G. in the mid-1850s, around the same time he was listed as a lithographer and stone cutter for P. S. Duval's 8 South Fifth Street establishment. After 1859, Shoemaker's work address was absent from city directories, but he was consistently identified as a lithographer until 1875, after which time his occupation changed to engraver., According to the 1850 census, Shoemaker resided in Northern Liberties (Ward 7) with his wife Wilhelmina (b. ca. 1821), her sister, and their three children photographer William C. (b. ca. 1844), Sophia (b. ca. 1845) and lithographer Edward A. (1848-1893). By 1860, they lived in Kensington (Ward 16) at 935 North Fourth Street, where Shoemaker remained, most likely until his death around 1886.
Date: b. ca. 1820-ca. 1886
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Rosenthal, Max
Description: Max Rosenthal, born on November 22, 1833 in Turck, Russian Poland, was a skilled lithographer, mezzotint engraver, and painter who delineated the majority of the chromolithographs for the firm he operated with his brothers Louis N., Morris (i.e., Maurice), and Simon Rosenthal in Philadelphia from 1851-ca. 1872. Trained as an engraver and lithographer in Paris by Martin Thurwanger since the age of thirteen, he arrived in Philadelphia with his master artisan ca. 1849 to work under contract for Duval & Company. After finishing his studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, he partnered with his brother Louis N. in the lithographic establishment L. N. Rosenthal also known as Rosenthals at the southeast corner of Third and Dock Streets in 1851. Within the year, the establishment received a "First Premium" award from the Franklin Institute for chromolithography., According to Peters and Marzio, Max operated primarily as the artist, and Louis as the printer, publisher and proprietor of the firm that produced illuminated book plates, sheet music covers, advertisements, labels, geological and anatomical drawings, portraits, maps, and views of buildings. During the Civil War, Rosenthal also issued a series of camp and battle scenes based on views created by Max when he traveled with the Grand Army of the Potomac between 1861 and 1863., In 1857 the Rosenthal firm relocated to a larger space with new equipment at the northwest corner of Fifth and Chestnut Streets. By 1863, the business relocated to 327 Walnut Street, where on September 15, 1872 fire struck and caused severe water damage. Soon thereafter, the Rosenthal firm dissolved after twenty-plus years in Philadelphia and Louis N. relocated to Chicago, while Max remained in Philadelphia., Rosenthal continued to work as an artist and lithographer until the 1910s, often with his son Albert (1863-1939) at 831 Arch Street. Together in 1893 they published etchings on copper of portraits of the Attorneys General of the United States. Later in life, Rosenthal, an instructor for the Art Students Union, experimented more with mezzotint engraving as well as produced oil paintings and watercolors. Outside of the art trade, he was a member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania., After arriving in Philadelphia ca. 1849, Max resided briefly with his brother Louis in the Penn Ward, and shortly after married Caroline (b. ca. 1841) and moved to Kensington. They had one daughter, Rebecca (b. ca. 1870) by 1860. By 1870, they had relocated to Center City (Ward 7) with six children. By 1880, their household at 537 Spruce Street in Center City included four more children. The 1900 census shows another child was born after 1880 and that Rosenthal was widowed. He resided at 150 North Twentieth Street (Ward 10) at the time of his death on August 8, 1918.
Date: November 22, 1833-August 8, 1918
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Mansure, Charles
Description: Charles Mansure, born ca. 1832 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, was a Philadelphia lithographer active between 1850 and 1860. He resided in his father Robert's household at 252 Queen Street in Southwark (Ward 4) before relocating to 1330 Juniata (i.e. South Lawrence) Street by 1859. In 1859 he worked with his brothers and lithographers John J. and Robert at 534 Queen Street; the same location as printer John Stimmell., In 1860, Mansure resided at 1330 Juniata Street in South Philadelphia (Ward 1) with his Delaware-born wife Margaret (b. ca. 1836), two Pennsylvania-born children, and his brother-in-law Antoin Lowry (b. ca. 1845). in 1864 Mansure enlisted in the Fifteenth Regiment of the United States Infantry, and upon his return to Philadelphia, worked as a dealer and huckster until he was admitted to the Roseburg Branch soldiers' home in Hampton, Virginia in 1896. He died four years later in Philadelphia on May 29, 1900 and was buried in the Philadelphia Cemetery.
Date: 1836-May 29, 1900
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Scott, Thomas M.
Description: Thomas M. Scott was a Philadelphia artist whose cityscape views were printed as lithographs by P.S. Duval in the early 1850s. Known works after Scott, often lithographed by Charles Conrad Kuchel, include "Northern Liberties and Spring Garden Works" (1852); "Tamany Fish House, on the Pea Shore, R. Delaware" (ca. 1852); and "Commissioners Hall, Northern Liberties, Phila." (1853) described in the July 1, 1853 edition of the "Public Ledger" as a "very fine and correct winter scene" by Capt. Thomas M. Scott., Scott may be the Thomas Scott listed in the 1860 Philadelphia city directory as an engraver at Allegheny House (814 Market Street).
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Victor, Michael
Description: Michael Victor, born ca. 1833 in France, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia in 1860. He resided in the boarding house of Abraham Koehler with several French-born artisans, including fellow lithographer Michael Rouget in Center City (Ward 5).
Date: b. ca. 1833
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Cassin, John
Description: John Cassin, preeminent U.S. ornithologist, and author of ornithological treatises, born September 6, 1813 near Media, Pennsylvania, was a partner in the Philadelphia lithographic firm Bowen & Co. 1859-1867. Descended from an Irish, Quaker family, Cassin pursued the study of natural science from the time of his primary education at the Westtown School, and in 1842, he was made honorary curator of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences., A resident of Philadelphia from 1834, Cassin worked as a provisions dealer and custom house officer before entering the lithographic trade ca. 1856 in association with John T. Bowen. Bowen, known for his hand-colored plate work for natural science texts issued Cassin's "Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, and British and Russian America" (1856). He also later paid Cassin $5,320 to draw, print and hand color 2,000 copies each of 38 plates of birds brought back from the Pacific Railroad Surveys (a total of 76,000 plates at a cost of 7 cents apiece). Following Bowen's death in 1856, Cassin served as one of the appraisers of his estate and later assumed the Bowen firm with his widow Lavinia as Bowen & Co. in 1858. During his time at Bowen & Co., Cassin produced lithographs for government reports and the firm printed the plates for his jointly-authored "Birds of North America" (1860). Cassin left the lithographic trade in 1867 and died two years later on January 10, 1869. He was buried at Laurel Hill Cemetery., Cassin was married to Hannah (b. ca. 1820) with whom he had two children. He also served on the City Council and was a member of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Zoological Society, the American Philosophical Society, and The Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Date: September 6, 1813-January 10, 1869
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Dunn, George J.
Description: George J. Dunn, born November 1841 in Pennsylvania of Irish descent, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia during the 1860s. In 1860, Dunn worked as a lithographer and lived with the Heckerd family in Ward 2. In 1870, Dunn worked as a printer and lived at 733 Federal Street (Ward 2) with his wife Mary (b. ca. 1845), children, and probably his father George (b. ca. 1800). By the end of the decade, Dunn worked as a collector who resided in South Philadelphia with a second wife Elizabeth (b. ca. 1843) and residences at 613 Dickinson Street (1879) and 1923 South Seventh Street (1881). By 1900, Dunn, a clerk, lived at the Bayonne, New Jersey home of his son-in-law with third wife Sarah (b. April 1843), a former confectioner.
Date: b. November 1841
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Murringer, A.
Description: A. Murringer worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia at the establishment of P. S. Duval & Co. (5 Ranstead Place, later 8 South Fifth Street) 1856-1857. He resided at Eighth and Vine Streets in Center City.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Lovitt, Abraham M.
Description: Abraham M. Lovitt, born February 1847 in England, worked as a lithographer for the Philadelphia firm Longacre & Co. about 1874 and Pfeil & Golz about 1883 and 1884. Lovitt arrived in the United States about 1869, lived in Pennsylvania by the early 1870s and relocated to New Jersey by the end of the decade. In 1874, he lived at 177 South Sixth Street (Philadelphia) and during the 1880s, he resided at 750 Mount Vernon Street in Camden, N.J. By the 1900 census, he resided in New Brunswick, but returned to Camden by the 1910 census. He worked as a lithographer until his death on August 17, 1919. He was buried at Arlington Cemetery., Lovitt married the English-born Mary (b. ca. 1844) in 1869 and with her had several children; the eldest born in Pennsylvania ca. 1872. Lovitt was also a member of the Lithographers' Union of America and traveled to Belgium in 1880 according to New York passenger lists.
Date: February 1847-August 17, 1919
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

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