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Title: King, Patrick
Description: Patrick King worked as a lithographer and printer in Philadelphia ca. 1857-1869. Employed by P. S. Duval at his 8 South Fifth Street establishment in 1857, by 1860 King relocated to 716 Chestnut Street, a location also tenanted by artist W. F. Jones, and later the daguerreotype studio of McClees and Germon. Although King remained in the trade, his subsequent business addresses are unknown., In 1857, King resided on Jefferson Street, west of Broad Street (Ward 29) and later relocated to 1612 Richard (i.e., Addison) Street in Center City where he lived 1864-1865. By the end of the decade he resided at 714 Holly (i.e. South Mole) Street in South Philadelphia.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Poleni, Theodore
Description: Theodore Poleni, a European-trained lithographer born in 1834 in Breslau, Germany, worked in the trade in Philadelphia ca. 1869-ca. 1880. Poleni (listed as a lithographer) traveled to the United States in October 1857 on board the ship "Luna" from Bremen to Baltimore and again (listed as a printer) in October 1863 on board the ship "Washington" from Bremen to New York. By 1868 he resided in Philadelphia and worked as an engraver with a residence north of Center City at 1204 Wood Street. In 1869 he relocated to 112 Cottage Street in South Philadelphia and began to be listed in city directories as a lithographer., During the 1870s, Poleni remained in South Philadelphia and delineated views commemorating the Centennial Exhibition of 1876 printed and copyrighted by Thomas Hunter in 1875 and 1876. He remained in the local trade and South Philadelphia until at least 1880 when he was listed in the census as a chromo artist with an address at 1805 South Sixth Street. He resided as a widower with his sister Ottilie (b. ca. 1848) and three children between thirteen and seven years of age. Poleni remained in Philadelphia until about 1883 when listed as an artist with a residence at 1616 South Seventh Street in the city directory. By 1888, he is listed in Rochester, N.Y. city directories as a lithographer. In the 1890 edition Poleni is noted as deceased., Poleni is possibly the brother of New York lithographer Oscar Poleni (b. ca. 1845) who resided in Buffalo, N.Y. at the time of the 1880 census.
Date: 1834-1889?
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Pilliner, Frederick J.
Description: Frederick J. Pilliner, born ca. 1827 in Cuba, was an engraver and lithographer active in Philadelphia ca. 1850-1861. First listed as a resident of Philadelphia at 38 Walnut Street (Lower Delaware Ward) in the 1850 census, Pilliner advertised his "Designing and Engraving on Wood" business the same year at 46 1/2 Walnut Street. As a wood engraver, he promoted his skills in the design of newspaper heads, views, and labels. In 1852 he exhibited his wood engravings at the Exhibition of American Manufacturers at the Franklin Institute. Thereafter, he relocated to Boston where he entered into the short-lived partnership Schenck & Pilliner with engraver John Schenck from 1853 to 1854., By 1855, Pilliner returned to Philadelphia and entered the lithographic trade with partner John Kusterer at his former Walnut Street address. The partnership was again short-lived, and by January 1856, Pilliner & Kusterer had been dissolved with each lithographer advertising not to to trust the other on their account. Pilliner continued in the printing trade following the split and from 1858 to 1861, he relocated his establishment every year between 37 1/2 South Third Street (1858); N.E. Seventh and Chestnut streets (1859); and 147 South Fourth Street (1860-1) producing advertisements, vignette illustrations, and frontispieces for 1859-1860 editions of "Godey's Lady's Book." Shortly before his death on August 8, 1861, Pilliner also designed plates for "Sloans Homestead Architecture" (1861)., Pilliner died "after a short illness" with his residence at 209 South Sixth Street and his engraving and lithographic establishment still at Fourth Street. A member of the Lafayette Lodge, Ancient York Masons, Pilliner was buried at Monument Cemetery. Within a few weeks on August 21, 1861, possibly his father, and lithographer George Pilliner (b. ca. 1793), the administrator of his estate auctioned all of his stock and fixtures through the auction house of James A. Freeman.
Date: 1828-July 8, 1861
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Waller, Edward L.
Description: Edward L. Waller was active as an engraver and lithographer in Philadelphia 1852-1857. From ca. 1854 to ca. 1856, he worked in Robert Pearsall Smith's printing establishment at 15-19, i.e., 517 Minor Street. In 1857, he was employed by P. S. Duval & Son at 22 South Fifth Street. Edward Waller resided at 1339 South Tenth Street during his career.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Weeder, Louis
Description: Louis Weeder, born in Germany ca. 1823, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia ca. 1855-1890s. Philadelphia city directories first list Weeder as a lithographer in 1855 with the residential address of Morris Street above Fourth Street. By the late 1850s, Weeder relocated his residence to the 1700 block of Cuba Street (South Philadelphia) where he also predominantly lived during the 1860s and early 1870s. In 1867 he worked as an artist at the establishment of Jacob Haehnlen (125 South Third Street). Weeder, or possibly his son Louis, Jr., was in the trade until at least 1896, with a residence in North Philadelphia at 2334 Montgomery Avenue. He may also have worked as an instrument maker in the early 1870s and have resided at the Hayes Mechanic's home in 1891., By 1860, Weeder was married to Anna (b. ca. 1820) and had three children, including Louis, Jr. (b. ca. 1848), who possibly was the instrument maker and the lithographer at 1531 South Eighth Street in 1891 and Montgomery Avenue in 1896. The family resided in South Philadelphia (Ward 1) at 1738 Cuba Street.
Date: b. ca. 1823
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Bolton, Mahlon, Jr.
Description: Mahlon Bolton, Jr., born January, 1848 in Norristown, Pennsylvania, was a partner in the Philadelphia lithographic establishment Lehman & Bolton. Originally a mechanical draughtsman near Front Street and Girard Avenue, he partnered with William H. Lehman in Lehman & Bolton in 1873. The firm operated until 1920., The son of Pennsylvania-born carpenter, Mahlon Bolton, Sr. (b. 1811), and Sarah Ann (b. 1811), Bolton had three siblings: Caroline (b. 1840), George M. Dallas (1846-1890), and Frank (b. 1850). By 1880, Bolton had moved to Philadelphia from Norristown, residing for many years at 1533 North Tenth Street with his wife Emma M. (b. 1846), sister-in-law Clara W. Sempers (b. 1855), niece Minnie F. Bolton (b. 1874), and his deceased business partner's daughter Clara B. Lehman (b. 1874). They resided on North Tenth Street until Bolton sold the property in 1906 and moved to 3217 Diamond Street, where the family remained until Bolton's death on February 4, 1914.
Date: January 1848-February 4, 1914
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Kearny, Francis
Description: Francis Kearny, born in 1785 in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, worked in Philadelphia primarily as a banknote, map, and book plate engraver 1810-1833, but also experimented in lithography as a member of the early lithograph firm Pendleton, Kearny & Childs (1829-1830)., After attending the Columbian Academy in New York City and serving an apprenticeship with engraver Peter R. Maverick (1755-1811), Kearny relocated to Philadelphia in 1810, possibly to work with his peer Benjamin Tanner (1775-1848). The following year he exhibited the prints "Rosetta" and "Birds" in the first annual exhibition of the Society of Artists of the United States held at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. In the exhibition catalog, his studio was listed at 75 Locust Street, but the city directory for 1811 listed him as an engraver at 24 Sassafras (i.e., Race) Street. By 1813, he operated from both 64 South Eighth Street and Seventh and Sansom Streets, presumably the location where he engraved several prints depicting the War of 1812, including those created with Thomas Sully (1783-1872) of Oliver Hazard Perry's victory in the battle on Lake Erie (1815). Kearny also created banknotes with the firm Tanner, Kearny & Tiebout until 1822. In 1817, he formed Tanner, Vallance, Kearny & Co. at 10 Library Street, which by the spring of 1818, placed an advertisement for subscriptions in the "Franklin Gazette" for their "New and Elegant American Atlas" to be published in five numbers. The partnership between Tanner, Vallance, Kearny & Co. dissolved around February 1820, although their maps were well-advertised in local newspapers. Kearny remained with the banknote engraving firm of Tanner, Kearny & Tiebout for another two-to-three years., In 1823, Kearny's shop relocated to 96 Chestnut Street (southwest corner of Third and Chestnut Streets), where he turned his attention to book plate engraving. In 1824, he created and advertised in local newspapers a portrait of John Quincy Adams from a painting by King and a portrait of General LaFayette at Yorktown. Between 1825 and 1829, he tenanted 16 Library Street and the southeast corner of Third and Walnut Streets and published "Select Views in Modern Greece" (1828), as well as book illustrations for the "Atlantic Souvenir" published by Carey, Lea & Carey in 1829. By October 10, 1829, Pendleton, Kearny & Childs had formed and printed the lithographic caricatures "The Shaking Quakers" and "The Long Story"., In 1830, Pendleton, Kearny & Childs dissolved after Pendleton relocated to New York City. Kearny retired to his home town of Perth Amboy, New Jersey ca. 1833. Little is known about his personal life, except that he died in 1837 in his hometown in New Jersey.
Date: July 23, 1785-September 1, 1837
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Winch, Alden
Description: Alden Winch, born in Holden, Massachusetts in 1816, was a Philadelphia bookseller, publisher and paper agent, who sold lithographed political cartoons during the mid 19th century. He relocated to Philadelphia in 1846 and started a wholesale house at 320 Chestnut Street in 1849, in which in 1860, lithograph firm Wm. F. Murphy & Sons also operated. In 1869, Winch, a member of the Union League, sold his business to the Central News Company and served as its manager until four years before his death on September 17, 1882. Winch was buried in New England.
Date: 1816-September 17, 1882
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Leonhardt, Joseph
Description: Joseph Leonhardt worked as a lithographer at the establishment of P.S. Duval (8 South Fifth Street) in Philadelphia in 1857. He resided at Courtland Place near New Market Street near Vine Street. He may be the Joseph Leonhardt listed in the 1864 Philadelphia city directory as a grocer at 339 New Market Street.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Citti, John
Description: John Citti, born about 1795 in Italy, worked as an image maker, "figurist", and artist in Philadelphia between ca. 1845 and 1857. He relocated with most of his family to New York City by 1860. Several of his sons and grandchildren, including Lewis F. (b. ca. 1827), Orelius (ca. 1831-ca. 1880), Theodore (b. ca. 1835) and John B. (b. ca. 1850) were employed in the lithographic trade in Philadelphia, New York City, and in Richmond, Virginia. Though some of his children returned to Philadelphia after several years, John and his Italian-born wife, Mary (b. ca. 1811), remained in New York City until his death about 1875.
Date: ca. 1795-ca. 1875
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Urwiler, Benjamin F.
Description: Benjamin F. Urwiler, born March 1830 in Pennsylvania, was a lithographer active in Philadelphia in the early to mid 1860s with his cousin John J. Urwiler. He later worked as a United States assistant assessor, collector, conveyancer, accountant, and clerk in the city until his retirement. As a lithographer, he operated from 97 Chestnut Street with William Hart, W. H. Rease, and John J. Urwiler between 1855 and 1858. In 1859 he relocated with Hart and Benjamin to 25 North Fourth Street. By 1866 a Philadelphia city directory lists his occupation as assistant assessor., Secretary of the Association for the Relief of Deceased and Disabled Soldiers, Urwiler was a politically active citizen involved in the "Friends of the Union of the Nineteenth Ward" in Philadelphia. He ran for the City Commissioner seat on the Republican ticket in 1867. Before entering the lithographic trade, Urwiler worked as a grocer employed by his father, Jones Urwiler, when he resided at his father's household in Kensington (Ward 3) in 1850. He married Elmira (b. ca. 1832) and had four children; Anna, Mary, Elizabeth and Mattie by 1861. He resided with his daughter Mattie in 1900 at 521 York Street (Ward 19) and with his daughter Elizabeth at 2604 North Hollywood Street (Ward 28) by 1910. Urwiler died on August 24, 1913.
Date: March 1830-August 24, 1913
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Mann, William
Description: William Mann, born June 14, 1814 in Philadelphia, proprietor of a Philadelphia blank book manufactory and stationery, printing and lithographic establishment (later William Mann Company), was active in the trade 1848-1881. Originally apprenticed in agriculture and carpentry, Mann entered the stationery and printing trade in Philadelphia in 1848 following his patenting of a binder for filing letters. He later patented copying paper (1852) and a paging and numbering machine (1874)., By 1850 Mann operated a binders and letterpresses manufactory at 74 (i.e., 000 block) North Fourth Street that evolved into a stationery by the mid 1850s at 34 South Third Street. By 1860 the business expanded into a blank-book manufactory, stationery, and letterpress and lithographic printing establishment at 43 South Fourth Street. Lithographic work included trade cards and job printing, and throughout the Civil War, Mann earned enough income to be taxed by the I.R.S. During the 1870s, Mann relocated to a larger location at 529 Market Street in 1872 and printed a visitor's guide as well as the "Centennial Calendar 1876" during the Centennial Exhibition. The firm remained active following Mann's death in 1881 and in the 1940s became a division of the Todd Company., Mann was married to Mary Ann (b. ca. 1815) with whom he had several children, including sons Charles (b. ca. 1850) and Joseph (b. ca, 1840) who assumed operations of their father's business following his death. In 1888 the business was incorporated as William Mann Company., During his career, Mann predominately lived north of Center City before relocating to Haddonfield, N.J. about 1870. According to the census for that year, Mann owned real estate worth $70,000 and personal estate worth $60,000. Between the 1850s and 1870, he resided in Philadelphia at 404 North Twelfth Street, 1711 Green Street, and 1736 Mt. Vernon Street, respectively. In the early 1880s, soon before his death, Philadelphia city directories also list a residence at 1813 North Broad Street. Mann died following a second stroke at his home in Haddonfield on September 7, 1881.
Date: June 14, 1814-September 7, 1881
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Fuchs, Theodore
Description: Theodore Fuchs, a lithographer and landscape painter, worked at Robert Pearsall Smith's publishing house 1857-1858.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Blucher, Xavier
Description: Xavier Blucher worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia between 1853 and 1855 on Marriott (i.e., Montrose) Street above Sixth Street.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Murchison, William
Description: William Murchison, born ca. 1824 in Pennsylvania, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia during the 1850s, including at the firm of P. S. Duval 1856-1859. Listed in the 1850 census as a lithographer, he resided with his parents, shoemaker John Murchison (ca, 1790) and Hannah (b. ca. 1799) in the Dock Ward. During his tenure at Duval, Murchison resided in Center City at 3 Southhampton Court (near Spruce Street), 166 North Tenth Street, and 1020 Morgan Street (below Vine Street)., Possibly the William W. Murchison who worked for Breuker & Kessler.
Date: b. ca. 1824
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Herr, George
Description: George Herr, born ca. 1843 in Germany, worked as a lithographer, printer, engraver, and painter in Philadelphia 1860-ca. 1910. His family immigrated to the United States by 1848; the year his younger brother Charles was born in Pennsylvania. By 1860 George was a lithographer's apprentice in Philadelphia living with his parents Jacob (b. ca. 1801) and Margaret (b. ca. 1812) and brother in Ward 20. George continued in the lithographic and printing trade and resided with his mother in Kensington at 1532 Thompson Street (Ward 29) after his father's death by 1880. George lived at 1001 Vine Street in Center City (Ward 10) in the 1890s, and boarded alone in many locations until his death on October 15, 1920, with his last address at 4325 Pine Street.
Date: ca. 1843-October 15, 1920
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Kurtz, Horatio J.
Description: Horatio J. Kurtz, born ca. 1844 in Pennsylvania, worked as an artist and lithographer in Philadelphia ca. 1859-ca. 1900. Kurtz entered the lithographic trade as an apprentice to William Rease with whom he lived ca. 1859-ca. 1860 at 1440 Marshall Street. During the Civil War, Kurtz served in the Pennsylvania infantry (1864-65), and in 1867 entered into a partnership with his former master artisan Rease. The known work of the business, which lasted about a year, includes the souvenir advertisement print "City of Philadelphia, 1867.", A year later, Kurtz worked as an artist at 413 Chestnut Street, one of the 1867 addresses for Duval, Swander & Co. Kurtz remained in the trade through the 1870s and 1880s, including the 1877 partnership Kurtz & Brother (Fifth and Chestnut Streets) and his own firm at 605 Sansom Street where he produced a ca. 1880 advertisement for Simes Storage. Despite some professional success - Kurtz owned $1000 worth of real estate in 1870 as a "sign painter"- the lithographer 's personal life was marred by the publicly reported abuse of his wife Lois (b. ca. 1848) who filed for divorce in 1881 after 14 years of marriage., According to city directories, Kurtz also worked as a clerk during the 1880s, as well as as a salesman in 1890. For the 1910 census, Kurtz listed his occupation as artist, although earlier in the decade he filed for his Civil War pension under the status "invalid." According to his pension records, Kurtz died on January 1, 1917 in New Brunswick, N.J.
Date: b. ca. 1844-January 1, 1917
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Rosenthals
Description: See Rosenthal, Louis N.
Date: fl. 1851-ca. 1872
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Moras, Ferdinand
Description: Ferdinand Moras, the noted Philadelphia chromolithographer, was born in 1821 near Aachen, Germany, and trained as a lithographer in Elberfeld (under Peter Wilhem Kreeft) and Dusseldorf, Germany. He practiced lithography in Belgium, France, and Scotland, and London (ca. 1840-1853) before he arrived in Philadelphia aboard the "City of Glasgow" ship with his family on January 31, 1854. Within the year, Scottish-born lithographer David Chillas engaged Moras as his leading artist and general manager. Moras's work for Chillas included an advertisement for Chillas's establishment and the advertisement "M. L. Hallowell & Co., Importer and Jobber in Silk Goods." He also created a map for the Pittston Coal Company with the imprint "F. Moras lith. 109 S 4th St. Phila." that was published in an 1854 pamphlet. Tax assessment records from 1864 list him as lithographer and creator of "labels, checks & cards." He was also responsible for "Gedichte und Randzeichnungen" (1882) a book of poetry noted as a fine example of pen-lithography., Although Moras first appeared in Philadelphia city directories in 1858 at 609 Chestnut Street (also tenanted by Theodore Leonhardt & Co.), his personal memorandum indicates he started his own firm in 1856. In 1859, he affiliated with J. H. Camp and the pair created the invitation "Charity Ball of the Sons of Malta at the American Academy of Music Philadelphia." Camp later operated with Moras from 609 Chestnut Street from 1872 to 1874. Subsequent locations of Moras's shop included 109 South Fourth Street (1860-1866); 610 Jayne Street (1867-1869) - damaged seriously by water as a result of a fire started in a neighboring property in January 1866; 609 Chestnut Street (1869-1890); and 437 North Eleventh Street (1891-1896). In 1874, Moras owned approximately $20,000 worth of lithographic stones and cash. During the 1870s, he also executed plates for Duhring's "Atlas of Skin Diseases" (1878) and "The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion" (1879). By 1888 he was described by creditors as "careful in his management" and his estimated worth had increased to about $30,000., In the later 19th century as Moras continued in the trade, he was also very active in German and artists' societies and lectured and wrote on the subjects, including a presentation about Carl Henirich Schmolze at the German Artist's Association in 1883 (published in 1885). In addition, he exhibited and was awarded for his watercolors at the American Art Association in 1903., Moras immigrated to the United States with his wife, Catherine (ca. 1822-1911), and two children: Ferdinand (1848 [Edinburgh]-1887), later a lithographer, and Mary (born 1851 in England). From 1861, the family resided at 472 North Sixth Street (Ward 13) for several decades and expanded to include three more living children: Bertha (b. ca. 1855), Louisa (b. ca. 1857), and Jennie (b. ca. 1860). Willie (b. ca. 1854) and Charles (b. ca. 1856) Moras, possibly nephews, also resided with the family. By 1900, Moras was retired and he and his wife lived with his daughter and her family at 6129 McCallum Street in Germantown. He passed away a year after a severe fall down the stairs at his son-in-law's residence on July 10, 1908.
Date: 1821-July 10, 1908
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Heiss, George G.
Description: George H. Heiss, born in 1823 in Philadelphia, was a mid-nineteenth century Philadelphia lithographer who worked with Wagner & McGuigan and specialized in views of fire fighting equipment., The Heiss attribution first appeared on Wagner & McGuigan advertisements in 1847 and by 1855, Heiss operated his own establishment at 213 North Second Street. At this address, until the early 1860s, he mainly lithographed and published views of fire fighting engines for local volunteer companies, including the United States Fire Company and West Philadelphia Hose Company. Heiss remained in the trade as of 1865 when he published "The Illustrated National Alphabet" illustrated with lithographs. In 1868, Heiss left lithography and established an artist's materials emporium at 25 North Eleventh Street, which he operated until ca. 1885., Heiss also exhibited at the Artist's Fund Society 1840-1843, worked as a portrait painter, and lived in Ward 11 in 1860.
Date: b. 1823
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Huddy & Duval
Description: Huddy and Duval, the partnership between Philadelphia lithographers William M. Huddy and Peter S. Duval was active 1839-1843. The lithographers partnered in 1839 to publish the "U. S. Military Magazine," a monthly magazine devoted to the activities of Philadelphia's volunteer militia groups. Each issue included an illustration of a member wearing a militia uniform, most of which were drawn by Huddy, lithographed by Alfred Hoffy, and printed by Duval. Huddy & Duval was located at 7 Bank Alley, the location of Duval's establishment from 1840-1843.
Date: fl. 1839-1843
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Hennesey, James
Description: James Hennesey, born ca. 1862, worked as a lithographic printer in Philadelphia in 1880. He lived with his Irish-born mother Mary (b. ca. 1840) and a fellow lithographic printer Albert Matlack (b. ca. 1830) in Center City (Ward 8).
Date: b. ca. 1862
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Fitzgerald, William
Description: William Fitzgerald, born ca. 1836 in Ireland, worked as a lithographic printer for P. S Duval & Co., F. Bourquin & Co., and Breuker & Kessler between ca. 1857 and ca. 1871., Fitzgerald was listed in the 1860 and 1870 censuses as a printer who resided in Ward 4. By the 1870 census, his household relocated to 11 Mead Street from 748 Sansom Street and included his wife Mary (b. ca. 1840) and two children.
Date: b. ca. 1836
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: O'Leary David
Description: David O'Leary, born ca. 1845, was a Philadelphia lithographic printer stabbed while at the Southwark Hose House in November 1867. Although reported in a "dangerous condition," he may be the David O'Leary listed in the 1870 census who resided in a boarding house in Quarry Street in Ward 6.
Date: b. ca. 1845
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Urwiler, George C.
Description: George C. Urwiler, born on April 5, 1827 in Pennsylvania, worked briefly as a lithographer in 1862, possibly with family members John J. Urwiler and Benjamin F. Urwiler, lithographers who worked with W.H. Rease and William Hart from the mid-1850s until the mid-1860s., By 1850, when in his early twenties, Urwiler worked as an engineer soldier and resided in Cornwall, New York, near the United States Military Academy at West Point. He returned to Pennsylvania by 1856, the year he married his wife, Caroline Lindnner (1836-1920), at the First Presbyterian Church of Kensington, where he later served as an elder and superintendent of the Sabbath School. First listed in Philadelphia city directories as a conductor living at Twenty-fourth and Coates Streets in 1860, he was listed as a lithographer living at 2334 Wallace Street in 1862. Their first-born child, George Herman (1857-1910), was born before Urwiler enlisted as a captain in the Pennsylvania Infantry of the Sixty-Seventh Regiment in 1861. After he was mustered out in 1865, the family lived at 2037 Frankford Avenue and Urwiler worked as a conveyancer and his wife worked in "trimmings." Urwiler's daughters, Kate R. (b. 1869), and Lillian G. (b. 1872), were born around the same time the family moved to 104 East Sharpnack Street in Germantown. By this time, Urwiler worked steadily as a conductor, until the 1890s when he, along with his son, worked as a clerk. He died in 1898 as recorded in his wife's application for his Civil War pension as a widow on July 25th.
Date: April 5, 1827-1898
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Citti, Louis F.
Description: Louis F. Citti, born of Italian descent in Philadelphia about 1827, worked as a lithographer and printer in Philadelphia, Richmond, Virginia, and Jersey City, New Jersey between 1850 and 1893. Reared in Philadelphia by a family of artists, including his lithographer brothers Orelius and Theodore, Citti began his lithographic career in 1850 with partner Franklin B. Hallman with whom he worked until 1853., By 1860, Louis relocated to Richmond, Virginia and worked as a lithographer for Charles L. Ludwig. Seven years later he returned to the print trade in Philadelphia while residing with his wife, Charlotte (a.k.a. Charlotta, b. ca. 1833), and son, John B. (b. 1852), at 335 Marriott (i.e. Montrose) Street, their residence until 1874. In 1875, Louis and son John, partnered with Herman F. Bitterlich, and set up the operations of L. F. Citti & Co. at the corner of Seventh and Market Streets. According to credit reports, the firm did a "fair trade" and had "fair credit" with an estimated worth of $3000. In the same year, the family moved their residence to 3412 North Eleventh Street. Citti lived and worked in Philadelphia until about 1888, when he established a residence in Jersey City, New Jersey and worked for Williams Citti & Co. in New York City. He died about 1893 (his last listing in the Jersey City directory with a concurrent Philadelphia directory listing for his wife as a widow).
Date: ca. 1827-ca. 1893
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Mansure, John J.
Description: John J. Mansure, born ca. 1834 in Pennsylvania, was a Philadelphia lithographer active 1850-ca. 1865. In 1862, he became the Vice President of the Lithographic Printers Union. Both his brothers, Charles and Robert, were lithographers as well., In 1850, Mansure lived in Southwark (Ward 4). Between 1860 and 1870, he lived in South Philadelphia with his wife Mary (b. ca. 1836) and daughter Mary (b. ca. 1858) at 934 South Fifth Street, until he moved to 503 Native Street in 1864.
Date: b. ca. 1834
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Hall, Henry
Description: Henry Hall worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia in 1866. He resided at 733 Moss Street. He was possibly the partner in Kunzman & Hall active in 1866.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Outerbridge, Daniel
Description: Daniel Outerbridge, born ca. 1833 in New York, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia ca. 1850-ca. 1863, including employment at the establishment of Thomas Sinclair (311 Chestnut) in 1859., Outerbridge lived with his parents, seaman William (b. ca. 1803, Connecticut) and Ann (b. ca. 1809, New York) in Southwark Ward 3 during his career as a lithographer. The family resided at 188, later 408 Queen Street. By 1869, Outerbridge left the lithography trade and partnered with his brother James (b. ca. 1846) in the produce firm Daniel A. Outerbridge & Bro. (10 Delaware Avenue) and resided at 826 South Fourth Street. In 1900 Outerbridge resided with his brother James and family at 1326 South Fourth Street as a widow employed as a commissions merchant., Outerbridge may have also briefly served as a private (enlisted and mustered out September 1862) during the Civil War.
Date: b. July 1833
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Haddock & Son
Description: Haddock & Son, job printers, produced pamphlets, catalogs, and lithographic trade cards in Philadelphia 1867-mid-1880s. Originally an editor from Watertown, New York, John A. Haddock (1823-1898) and his son, Orison Lull Haddock (1845-1879), started the printing firm in Philadelphia at 108 South Third Street in 1867. In the fall of 1872, the Philadelphia Inquirer announced the consolidation of Haddock & Son with Dunk, Longacre & Co. and the relocation of the new firm Haddocks, Dunk & Longacre to 104-106 South Eighth Street. With this merge, Orison Haddock left the trade for the Methodist Episcopal ministry and his younger brother, Edwin C. (b. ca. 1850), assumed his share of the business., By the end of the 1870s, John and Edwin continued to be listed as printers in the city directories, but not associated with any firms. Edwin worked from 21 North Sixth Street between 1878 and the early 1890s and John A. copyrighted trade cards in 1879, including a Wanamaker & Brown Christmas eve advertisement held in the collections of the Library Company. By 1890, John A. switched to the production of glass signs., John A. Haddock was married to Mary (nee Lull, b. ca. 1823) and had four children, including Orison and Edwin C. In 1870, Haddock headed a household that included his sons in North Philadelphia (Ward 20). By 1880, Edwin headed his own household, including his wife Sallie (b. ca. 1852), daughter, and a servant at 1405 Bouvier Street in North Philadelphia (Ward 29). Following his turn to the ministry Orison relocated to Carlisle, Pa., married Catherine Newsham, and had two children before his death in 1879.
Date: fl. 1867-1880s
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Thurwanger, Charles
Description: Charles Thurwanger, born ca. 1841 in New York to German parents Francis Thurwanger and Verena Kohler, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia ca. 1860-1866. The Thurwangers moved from New York to Pottsville, Pennsylvania, where Francis operated an eating house by 1850. The Thurwangers relocated to Philadelphia by 1855, when city directories list Francis as a trimmer working from 92 South Twelfth Street. He also operated a picture shop in 1857. After his father's death, Thurwanger's mother, a portrait, genre and religious painter, continued the business as a picture seller from 1711 Sansom Street in 1859. By 1860, the family resided, without Francis, in Center City (Ward 8). Thurwanger served as a Private in Company H of the 196th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Infantry during the Civil War. Thurwanger's brothers Joseph and John were also lithographers.
Date: b. ca. 1841
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: National Bureau of Engraving and Manufacturing Company
Description: National Bureau of Engraving and Manufacturing Company, the commercially-oriented lithographic and printing firm established in 1876 by partners Joseph Carpenter, R. Evans Peterson, Charles E. Mass, and Henry Pennington (also of The Philadelphia Bank Note Company), operated in Philadelphia until 1909. The firm, created for the purpose of "designing and printing labels, show cards, bonds, checks, drafts, and other work and engraving when that process was required," originally operated from Second and Gold Streets, then 435 Chestnut Street, and from 510-512 Pine Street by 1878. Work produced by National Bureau includes an interesting ca. 1880 advertisement using allegorical imagery for A. Marschall & Co. champagne titled "American Triumph" and a chromolithographic advertisement showing the manufacturing of coke at the works of H. C. Frick Company (ca. 1885)., By 1880, the company maintained a branch in Burlington, N. J. and by the late 1880s was reported to have branches in "leading cities of the United States." The firm remained in business until 1909 with Henry Pennington as manager at 652 Philadelphia Bourse despite the company being sold at sheriff's sale in 1889 to businessman Enoch Pratt of Baltimore., Company manager Henry Pennington was born in Maryland in May 1841, and married to Sarah (b. ca. 1841) with whom he had two daughters, including Mary Engle (1872-1852), the noted bacteriological chemist. According to the censuses, Pennington resided in North Philadelphia, West Philadelphia, and Radnor in households with servants between 1880 and 1910. Pennington died on December 24, 1912. His funeral services were held at the Church of the Savior in West Philadelphia.
Date: fl. 1876-1892
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Thurwanger, John
Description: John Thurwanger, born ca. 1834 in New York to German parents Francis Thurwanger and Verena Kohler, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia in 1860. The Thurwangers moved from New York to Pottsville, Pennsylvania, where Francis operated an eating house by 1850. The Thurwangers relocated to Philadelphia by 1855, when city directories list Francis as a trimmer working from 92 South Twelfth Street. He also operated a picture shop in 1857. After his father's death, Thurwanger's mother, a portrait, genre and religious painter, continued the business as a picture seller from 1711 Sansom Street in 1859. By 1860, the family resided, without Francis, in Center City (Ward 8). Thurwanger's brothers Joseph and Charles were also lithographers.
Date: b. ca. 1834
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Huddy, William M.
Description: William Massey Huddy, born on May 5, 1807 in Philadelphia, was the city's premier military artist, lithographer, publisher and editor in the late 1830s and early 1840s. Known primarily as the senior partner of Huddy & Duval, the firm which published and illustrated "The United States Military Magazine" (1839-1842), Huddy also created miniatures, engravings, and paintings for fraternal clubs, jewelers, and fire and military organizations from ca. 1825 until his death in 1846., Born to merchant Hunlock Huddy (1776-1825) and Eliza Massey (b. 1867), Huddy was educated at Mrs. Carson's Seminary and later in 1820 at Thomas D. Watson's Dietical Seminary (73 Pine Street), where he strengthened his drawing skills. During the 1820s, he joined the United States Fire Company and in 1827 began his lifelong involvement with volunteer military organizations when he joined the Philadelphia Grays. After the Grays' dissolution in 1829, he served with the National Greys. During this time, he resided with his mother and brothers at 269 South Front Street until he married Mary Ann Hickey (1811-1887) in 1833 and moved to a shop with residence at 85 Bilwyn (i.e., Dillwyn or Kunkle) Street in Northern Liberties. Following a fire at the shop in 1837, Huddy and his wife resided briefly with his mother at 60 Old York Road. They subsequently moved to 84 Noble Street, where 1835 city directories listed him as a "gold chaser." Four years later the Noble Street address appeared on the title page of the first issue of the "Military Magazine" published by Huddy & Duval., From Huddy & Duval's offices at 7 Bank Alley (Duval's business address since 1835), Huddy was engaged primarily with the business and editorial responsibilities of the subscription magazine while P. S. Duval created the lithographic illustrations depicting officers in detailed and accurate representations of militia uniforms and scenes of camp life. The magazine and partnership ceased operations in 1842, according to the Garrett biography, for a variety of reasons, including financial issues from unpaid subscriptions and the destruction of many of the magazine's plates in a fire that originated over the offices of Huddy & Duval in 1842., After the partnership with Duval, Huddy served as Aide-de-Camp of the City of Philadelphia and continued to experiment with lithography. His lithographic work included a sylvan landscape view signed "1st attempt at lithography"; "Camp De Kalb, Pottsville, Pa." (1843); a proof sheet of four Biblical scenes (1844); a lithographic proof for the Boon Light Infantry of St. Louis, Missouri; and a lithograph depicting a "volunteer fireman carrying an unconscious maiden from a conflagration.", In 1844, Huddy moved to Ninth and Wallace Streets from Noble Street and suffered his first heart attack the following fall. He passed away, childless, after a second heart attack on November 2, 1846. His widow Mary Ann resided with his brother Benjamin Huddy's family until her death in 1887.
Date: May 5, 1807-November 2, 1846
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Conklin, Jacob M.
Description: Jacob M. Conklin, born ca. 1840 in Vermont, worked as a lithographer and shirt manufacturer in Philadelphia. A member of the Lithographic Printers Union, serving as secretary in 1862, Conklin was employed by P. S. Duval & Co. at 22 South Fifth Street in 1858. By 1866, he partnered in Conklin & Gibbons at the southeast corner of Dock & Walnut Streets. Two years later he tenanted 148 1/2 Walnut Street, the same address as fellow lithographers Samuel B. Linton and Daniel O'Donnell. Conklin switched trades in 1872 and opened a varieties and furnishing store at 1221 Girard Avenue, where the business remained until the late 1880s. By the early 1890s the business had relocated at 1132 Arch Street., During the 1860s, Conklin resided at 906 Ontario Street (Ward 25). In the 1870s he lived near his "gentleman's furnishing" business at 1238 Girard Avenue (Ward 14), and in the 1880s he resided at 538 North Eleventh Street (Ward 10). In the 1890s he lived with his wife Margaret W. (b. ca. 1840) and her sister Nancy M. Platt (b. ca. 1837) at 330 Arch Street in Camden, N.J.
Date: b. ca. 1840
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Hobson, R. H. (Richard H.)
Description: Richard H. Hobson, born in England in the ca. 1780s, was an antebellum-era Philadelphia fancy, stationery, and print store proprietor who published in 1832 the unique, morphed lithographic view of the Philadelphia Bank. The print titled "Horizantorium" was lithographed by J. J. Barker after the drawing of William Mason. Hobson worked as a merchant in Philadelphia by 1823 and operated a fancy and print store from 147 (i.e., 400 block) Chestnut Street from the late 1820s to ca. 1835. He also published engravings, sheet music, books, and portraiture, often with engraver and lithographer Cephas G. Childs in the 1830s., Hobson was naturalized in October 1828, and resided in the Chestnut Ward in 1830. His widow E. Hobson operated the fancy store beginning in 1835.
Date: b. ca. 1780s-ca. 1835
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Urwiler, John J.
Description: John J. Urwiler, born October 1829 in Pennsylvania, was a lithographer and printer active in Philadelphia from ca. 1855 to 1904. He operated from 97 Chestnut Street with William Hart (1815-1888), W. H. Rease (ca. 1818-1893), and his cousin Benjamin F. Urwiler (1830-1913) between 1855 and 1858. In 1859, he relocated with Hart and his cousin to 25 North Fourth Street and remained listed as a lithographer/printer absent a business address in city directories until 1904., A member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Sons of Temperance, and Knights of Pythias, Urwiler resided in the Kensington section of the city (Ward 19) for most of his life. He married Susan B. Smith (b. 1829) on July 20, 1851 in the First Presbyterian Church of Kensington, where both were members of the Sabbath School and where they baptized their son, William Overington (b. 1862), on April 22, 1868. They also had a daughter, Kate (b. 1856), who became a school teacher. The family originally resided on York Street near Frankford Avenue, then 429 Dreer (i.e., Green) Street, and finally on Adams Street, where John passed away on March 1, 1904.
Date: October 1829-March 1, 1904
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Magee, Richard
Description: Richard Magee, born ca. 1818 in Ireland, established Magee Printing House, the blank book manufactory, lithographic and steam printing establishment in operation in Philadelphia ca. 1846-ca. 1920s. Magee published almanacs, pamphlets, and lithographs, often political and news event prints. Known lithographs include views of the Mexican American War (ca. 1847-1848) and the embellished portrait 'Gen. W. Scott" (ca. 1848)., Magee's firm established at 201-203 Chestnut, operated from Chestnut Street until the late 19th century, including 316, 808, and 722 Chestnut Street. During the Civil War Magee earned enough business income to be taxed by the I.R.S. and in 1876, as R. Magee & Son, published an illustrated guide to the Centennial Exhibition. By 1893, the business known since the 1880s as Magee Printing House had relocated to 826 Walnut Street. The firm continued into the 20th century as Magee Printing Co. at 130 South Ninth Street., Magee was married to Mary A. (b. ca. 1820) and resided in New Market Ward with three children and possibly a servant in 1850. Mary was listed in Philadelphia city directories as a widow at 718 Moore Street in 1881 and at 1118 South Eight Street in 1884.
Date: b. ca. 1818
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Clement, A.
Description: A. Clement, probably real estate agent Aaron Clement, was the Philadelphia publisher of the version of John Lewis Krimmel's "White's Great Cattle Show..." printed ca. 1861 by Frederick Bourquin., Aaron Clement worked from 5 Pennsylvania Railroad Building and resided at 1534 South Street in 1861.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Davis, J. D. & Sons
Description: J. D. Davis & Sons, a cigar establishment, issued the explanatory key to the noted lithograph "Washington's Triumphal Entry into New York, Nov. 25th, 1783," printed by P. S. Duval and published by William Smith in 1861., Davis & Sons was listed at 807 Walnut Street in the 1860 city directory.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Hamilton, Howard B.
Description: Howard B. Hamilton, b. ca. 1845 in Pennsylvania, was active as a lithographer in Philadelphia ca. 1869-1873. Previously a practical engraver, he partnered ca. 1869-1872 with Edward Herline in Herline & Co. at 630 Chestnut Street, then 39 South Tenth Street (1870-1872). Known work by the firm, in which Hamilton allocated $12-13,000 of capital, includes panoramic views and certificates., Following the dissolution of the partnership, Hamilton continued operation of the business on Tenth Street until 1874 when he entered the profession of clerk. He worked as a clerk the rest of his life., Between 1870 and 1872, he resided in the Fairmount area of the city at 1600 Arch Street (1870) and then 1606 Mt. Vernon Street. With his change in profession, he relocated his residence to Center City at 1104 Spruce Street before moving to Overbrook ca. 1876. In Overbrook, he lived with his in-laws, the Harberts, and wife Ella M. (b. ca. 1846) at 4806 Fairmount Avenue, Hamilton died on July 2, 1887 at the reported age of forty years. Funeral services were held at his home on Fairmount Avenue and he was interred at Woodlands Cemetery.
Date: b. ca. 1845-1887
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Ralston, John
Description: John Ralston, born ca. 1828 in Ireland worked as a compositor and lithographic printer in Philadelphia ca. 1850-ca. 1857, including at the establishment of P. S. Duval (8 South Fifth Street) in 1857. During the mid 1850s, he resided in Center City and at 29 Quince Street (above Eleventh Street and below Locust Street) in 1855 and at 76 South Fifteenth Street in 1857., According to the censuses, Ralston lived in a boarding house in the Middle Ward (Center City) in 1850. By 1860 he worked as a printer in Cincinnati, Oh. and resided with his wife Kate (b. ca. 1829, Ireland) who he presumably married by ca. 1854 since had three children born in Pennsylvania under the age of six.
Date: b. ca. 1828
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Roche, David
Description: David Roche, born ca. 1835 in Pennsylvania, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia in 1860., In 1860, Roche lived in the household of his Irish-born father, laborer Thomas (b. ca. 1810) with over 15 persons at 4 Hickey Street in Center City (Ward 9). Roche continued to live in his father's household in Center City in 1870 and worked as a "painter" according to the census for that year.
Date: b. ca. 1835
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Percell, John
Description: John Percell worked as a lithographer at the establishment of P. S. Duval (5 Ranstead Place) in 1855.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Keffer & Brett
Description: Keffer & Brett, operated by John C. Keffer and French lithographer Alphonse Brett at 12 Bank (i.e., South Bank) Street from 1846-1847, produced Christmas and Valentine's Day cards delineated by engraver Nicholson Devereaux. Their partnership dissolved by mutual consent on February 24, 1847, and Brett continued the business from the same location until ca. 1850., John C. Keffer is probably John L. Keffer.
Date: fl. 1846- February 24, 1847
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Brewster, Edmund
Description: Edmund Brewster, born ca. 1794 in New Jersey, was an artist and lithographer who worked in Philadelphia from the late 1820s to 1850. Before entering the lithographic trade, Brewster worked as a respected portrait painter in New Orleans from 1819 to the early 1820s. From 1828 to 1833, Brewster worked as a portrait painter in Philadelphia while he also operated a lithographic establishment at 82 South Third Street. He produced predominately portrait lithographs and later entered into daguerreotypy. Brewster also exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1818., By 1840, Brewster lived in Southwark Ward 5, where he continued to live with his wife Lydia (b. ca. 1802) and several children aged 20 to 26, including son and doctor Thomas Brewster, who in April 1850 advertised his assumption of his father's daguerreotype studio (Rye and Wharton streets) as well as the sale of a lithographic press.
Date: ca. 1794-ca. 1850
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Worley, Bracher & Matthias
Description: See Worley & Bracher.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Queen, James F.
Description: James Queen, the premier Philadelphia artist, lithographer, and chromolithographer, known for his attention to detail and composition, was born in Philadelphia 1820 or 1821. Son of William Queen, a cordwainer, he began his career in lithography at around 14 years of age with an apprenticeship to George Lehman and P. S. Duval (whom he would associate his entire career) on November 24, 1835. Apprenticed for five years, Queen began to design lithographs of all genres for Duval, including illustrations for his "U.S. Military Magazine" (1840-1841), advertisements, sheet music, and city views, in the early 1840s. During this period, he also married Sarah (Sally) Harvey (b. ca. 1826) in 1843 with whom he had three daughters Emma (b. ca. 1845), Mary (b. 1850), and Elizabeth (b. ca. 1858) and resided in his home neighborhood of Southwark., By the middle of the 1840s, Queen began to work with Duval's main business rival Wagner & McGuigan as well, including drawing a ca. 1847 advertisement showing the interior of their firm. Nonetheless, the majority of his work continued to be printed by Duval. Working from his own sketches, other artists' works, and drawing directly on the stone, Queen produced with Duval certificates (particularly agricultural fairs), fashion prints, church views, and the noted genre views "Shad Fishing" (1855) and "Souvenir of the Coldest Winter on Record" (1856). As a result of these diverse skills, in 1861, Duval made Queen the superintendent of his drawing department. By this time, the artist owned personal property worth $400 and his own home worth $1800 at 812 Wharton Street., Queen continued his success in the trade in the 1860s. Despite enlistment in the Pennsylvania Militia during the summers of 1862 and 1863, he designed firefighting scenes for certificates and several Civil War related views. Queen's Civil War work showcased his skills for details and he served as the prime artist for most of the fundraising chromolithographs of the era, including views of Cooper Shop and Union volunteer refreshment saloons (many printed by Thomas Sinclair), hospitals, soldiers, and armories. He also delineated a series of patriotic, sentimental and comic collecting cards after the designs of Henry L. Stephens during this period. By 1864, Queen earned enough income to be taxed by the I. R. S. and Duval enlisted his "best artist" to draw the highly-regarded chromolithograph "Buildings of the Great Central Fair, in Aid of the U. S. Sanitary Commission Logan Square, Philadelphia, June 1864," printed on the grounds of the fair as a fund raiser and to promote the still novel color print process in the city., Queen did not only delineate separately-issued prints and views of Philadelphia between the 1840s and 1860s, but also views of Pennsylvania, Niagara Falls, and Virginia in addition to portraits and illustrations for congressional documents and books. He also maintained a study collection of prints, including British and French lithographs and specimens of photolithographs., Despite his prolific output in the trade, Queen also found time for benevolent work. Queen was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows as well as the Weccacoe Engine Company, which he depicted in ca. 1851 and 1860 certificates. This benevolence also extended to his personal life and he shared his Southwark residence with his sister-in-law and nephew by 1860., Queen resided in Southwark most of his life, first with his parents at 489 South Second Street (i.e., below Catherine Street), then Third Street above Federal Street by 1847; and 409 South Second Street and 533 Queen Street during the 1850s before relocating to Wharton Street in 1860., By 1870, Queen continued to live at 812 Wharton Street, and owned real estate worth $7000 and personal property worth $1000. He also predominately worked as a chromolithographer, including designing an advertisement for fellow lithographer Ferdinand Moras's establishment. Soon thereafter, his chromolithographic work would focus on genre, sentimental and art reproductions for parlor prints, initially with Duval & Hunter (successors to Duval) and later with prolific chromo publisher Joseph Hoover. As of the 1880 census, Queen listed his occupation as "chromo-artist," he was a widower, and he headed a household with a servant at 724 Pine Street (his residence since 1874)., Queen died on January 15, 1886 from multiple sclerosis, four years after receiving a $60,000 bequest from his successful, publisher brother Francis. At the time of his death, Queen bequeathed $500 worth of railroad stock to a family friend, voided promissory notes owed by his former employers P. S. and Stephen Duval, and owned real estate worth $20,000 and personal property worth $12,500.
Date: 1820 or 1821-January 15, 1886
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Harnisch, Carl
Description: Carl Harnisch, born in Altenburg, Germany on January 1, 1800, worked as an artist and created designs for lithographs in Philadelphia during the mid-19th century. Originally apprenticed in carpentry and engraving in Germany, Harnisch immigrated to Philadelphia with Edward Schnabel in 1849. He gave drawing lessons, worked in the lithographic trade, and painted ceiling and wall murals, including that of the home of W. C. Swann (1512 Walnut Street). Known lithographs include Reminiscences of a Fancy Dress Ball, in Philadelphia, February 1850 printed ca. 1850 by P. S. Duval. He also exhibited his work at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and was a founder of the German Artists' Association., He resided at 815 South Eighth Street in Ward 3 in his brother's household from 1860 until his death in 1882. His brothers Julius and Ernest Harnisch were cabinet makers, and then operated a saw mill in the city, and another relative, probably his son, Albert (1843-after 1913), was a sculptor. Harnisch died on August 9, 1882 at his residence with his brother and was buried in Mount Peace Cemetery. According to his obituary, he lived abroad for several years.
Date: January 1, 1800-August 9, 1882
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Robertson, Lizzie
Description: Lizzie Robertson born in Philadelphia ca. 1861 worked as a lithographer in the city in 1880 while a resident at 1307 North Tenth Street. She is one of the few listed female lithographers of the 19th century.
Date: b. ca. 1861
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

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