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Title: Abritz
Description: Abritz exhibited "three frame lithographs" at the 1848 Franklin Institute Exhibition of American Manufacturers.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Aub, Jacob
Description: Jacob Aub, born about 1821 in Hesse Darmstadt, Germany, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia ca. 1847-1863. Aub arrived in the United States before 1846 and around 1847 served as the lithographer for the Wagner & McGuigan advertisement depicting the interior of their establishment at 320 Chestnut Street. In 1851, he gained citizenship and partnered with Norman Friend (his citizenship sponsor) in the lithographic firm of Friend & Aub. Aub remained in the partnership (the final year with A.J. Dumont) until 1863, when he joined the silk manufacturing firm of Aub, Hackenburg & Company. Aub was married to Caroline (b. ca. 1826) with whom he had four children, Emeline, (b. ca. 1848), Edwin (b. 1851), Rose (b. 1855), and Benjamin (b. 1861). He died on May 7, 1885 of chronic pneumonia with the listed residency of 978 North Seventh Street and was buried in Mt. Sinai Cemetery, Philadelphia.
Date: ca. 1821 - May 7, 1885
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Palmatary, James T.
Description: James T. Palmatary was a mid-19th century lithographer of bird's eye views for whom Herline & Hensel printed his multi-sheet 1857 view of Chicago., Palmatary may be the James T. Palmatary listed in the 1880 census who was born ca. 1800 in England, resided in Saint Joseph, Buchanan, Missouri, and worked as a clark in a registrar office.
Date: b. ca. 1800?
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Kaefring, John Henry
Description: John Henry Kaefring, born in Germany in 1838, was a lithographer in Philadelphia 1860-1910. He lived with his parents Henry (b. ca. 1828) and Catharine (1815-1900), and his sister Mary (b. ca. 1843) in South Philadelphia (Ward 2) until the end of the 1860s. By 1870, he continued to reside in South Philadelphia with his wife, Mary L. Sherman (ca. 1847-1895) frequently referred to as "D" in census documents, and infant daughter, Katie (b. 1870). Kaefring moved to 1208 Wallace Street by the mid-1870s, where he and "D" raised three children. By the mid-1880s, he worked as one of a number of lithographers and printers, including lithographic artist Max Rosenthal at 831 Arch Street, possibly at the "Focus" newspaper. By the mid 1890s, Kaefring worked with several artists, printers, and engravers as a lithographer at 1025 Arch Street, possibly for the "Heidelberg Press." He passed away on July 13, 1911.
Date: 1838-July 13, 1911
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Hensel, Daniel
Description: Daniel Hensel, a Philadelphia lithographer, framer, and looking-glass store proprietor, was born in Philadelphia on December 19, 1830. Son of German immigrants John G. Hensel (1789-1866), a baker, and Mary D. Vogt (1799-1883), Hensel was the second oldest of six children. Married before 1860, he had two children John C. (1859-1954) and Edward S. (b. 1861) with his first wife Sarah Summers (1833-1861). With his second wife, Susan Summers (1845-1912), his first wife's sister, he had Albert H. (1868-1869), Frederick W. (1871-1877), and Florence N. (1880-1955)., For most of his lithographic career, Hensel lived in North Philadelphia, starting with a residence at 309 Crown Street and by 1861 at 1731 Wylie Street. Around 1880, he relocated to Camden where he spent the rest of his life, active as a "mirror finisher" as of 1900., Although a lithographer by 1850, and partner in Hensel & Urwiler (ca. 1855-1856), most of Hensel's known work dates to his 1857-1866 partnership with Edward Herline. Operating from 630 Chestnut Street, the partnership produced lithographs in all branches of the field, including illustrations, maps, sheet music, and portraits with their chromolithography, bird's eye views, and panoramic maps garnering most note. The work proved profitable, and in 1865 Hensel was taxed on income equivalent to over $40,000 dollars in today's figures., Despite this success, the partnership ended in 1866. Following the dissolution, Hensel retained the Chestnut Street studio and worked as an engraver, publisher, lithographer, and partner in the looking glass business L. B. Loux & Co. before entering into his long term career as a looking-glass, picture, and frame manufacturer in 1876. He remained in business in Philadelphia until ca. 1896., Retired as of the 1910 census, Hensel passed away almost a decade later on November 5, 1919.
Date: December 19, 1830-November 5, 1919
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Keller & Bright
Description: Keller & Bright, was a partnership between John B. Keller (b. ca. 1818) and William S. Bright, M.D. (b. ca. 1816), stationers and lithographers active from 1856 to about 1858 at 38 South Fourth Street. Residents together with their families in Spring Garden Ward 3 by 1850, their business partnership began ca. 1852 at the book selling and publishing establishment of William L. Keller (S.E. corner of 8th and Race streets). In 1853, Keller & Bright began to be listed as druggists in the city directory, and by 1856, the partnership relocated to the southwest corner of Fourth and Chestnut Streets (38 South Fourth Street) as "stationers, lithographers, &c.", Keller & Bright dissolved before 1859, when a city directory lists Keller as a looking glass manufacturer at 38 South Fourth Street. By 1864, Keller worked as a gilt frame maker and gilder at 31 South Fourth Street and in 1869 as a grocer at 501 South Third Street. Keller presumably died around 1869; the last year he was listed in city directories. His wife Fanny D. was listed as a widow in the 1871 city directory.
Date: fl. 1856-ca. 1858
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Keller, Francis
Description: Francis Keller worked in Philadelphia as a lithographer 1858-1860 and a photographer for P. S. Duval's lithographic establishment in 1861. He resided at 1105 Wood Street, rear of 331 Green, and 624 Market Street during this period.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Turner & Fisher
Description: Turner & Fisher, i.e., Frederick Turner and Abraham Fisher (b. ca. 1822), were 19th-century booksellers and publishers of prints, songster, almanacs, and illustrated children's books active in New York, Philadelphia and Boston from the 1830s to 1840s. The firm, which operated from 11, later 15 North Sixth Street, sold political cartoons printed by Philadelphia lithographers Abel & Durang during the late 1840s., During the same period and until ca. 1862, Fisher also worked in a similar partnership with his brother James at 15, later 8 North Sixth Street. In 1850, the firm published the Alfred Hoffy lithograph "Funeral Car, erected by Wm. H. Moore & Son (Undertakers, No. 181 Arch St. Pha.) Especially for the occasion of the Funeral Obsequies of the Late President of the United States, General Zachary Taylor, Philadelphia, July 30th, 1850" printed by P. S. Duval., The publishing trade proved profitable for Fisher and he was listed with a personal estate valued at $30,000 (i.e., ca. $801,000 in 2008) and two servants in the 1860 census.
Date: fl. 1830s-1860s
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Urwiler, Reuben J.
Description: Reuben J. Urwiler, born ca. 1834 in Philadelphia, worked as a lithographer in 1862, possibly with his brother, Benjamin F. Urwiler (1830-1913), and cousin, John J. Urwiler (1829-1904), lithographers who worked with W. H. Rease and William Hart mid-1850s-mid-1860s. Urwiler also worked in the trades of surgical instrument maker, engineer, machinist, caulker, and cigar store owner. Between 1862 and 1865, Urwiler served as a Private in the Sixty-Seventh Regiment, Company K of the Union army. Urwiler married Mary A. (b. 1842), with whom he had three children, including Fanny, Carrie and John, and resided in North Philadelphia (Ward 19) by 1870. By 1910, he resided with his wife and his granddaughter Mary (b. 1893) on Hull Street in Northeast Philadelphia (Ward 25), but by the time of his death on January 31, 1919, they lived at 6161 Catherine Street in West Philadelphia.
Date: ca. 1834-January 31, 1919
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Restein, Louis
Description: See Restein, E. P. & L.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Shubert, George D.
Description: George D. Shubert, born of Irish descent in Philadelphia on May 5, 1842 and active in the local lithographic trade ca. 1860-ca. 1920, produced one of the only two known extant diaries of 19th-century Philadelphia lithographers. Son of wheelwright Benjamin (b. ca. 1820) and Wilamina (b. ca. 1825 of German descent), Shubert was active in the lithographic trade by 1860 while he resided with his parents and several siblings at 312 North Twentieth Street (Ward 15). In 1862 he appears to have briefly enlisted in Company C, Pennsylvania National Guard Infantry Regiment, and at the end of 1865 worked at the establishment of Jacob Haehnlen., In early 1866, he transferred to the employ of George Breuker (i.e., Breuker & Kessler) and began his nine-month diary held at the Special Collections of Temple University Library. During the year, he was elected secretary of the Lithographic Printers Union and was a member of the Catholic reading society, Philopatrian Institute, the A. B. Kendrick Society, and the Washington Hose Company. He also often visited the Diligent Hose Company Library, the Academy of Music, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts as well as was learning the violin. Shubert's work day usually began between 7 and 9 AM and could last until 7 PM, with occasional time away from the shop for personal and business errands, including having his photograph taken and work for the union. He also wrote in one entry that he left the shop at 11 AM one June day as it was "being too warm to work." As of 1920, Shubert remained in the trade as a lithographer in a department store and by 1926 was no longer listed in city directories., Between 1870 and 1880, Shubert continued to live in North Philadelphia with his family, including his brothers Robert (b. ca. 1845), a printer and Charles G. (b. ca. 1848), agent of prints, at 230 North Juniper Street and later 1323 Race Street. By 1886, Shubert relocated back to the 200 block of Juniper Street where he remained until at least 1890. In 1900, he married Emilie (b. ca. 1850) and resided at the household, including a servant, of his sister-in-law, Mary Lehr at 1812 North Eighteenth Street. Within the decade, he appears to have married Emilie's sister Mary (b. ca. 1845) as a woman with this name is listed as his wife in the 1910 census. The couple resided in West Philadelphia at 1501 Belmont Avenue (Ward 24) with a lodger. According to the 1920 census, Shubert and his wife continued to live in West Philadelphia. The household at 1501 North Forty Fourth Street included his widowed "daughter" (likely stepdaughter) Mable Mish (b. ca. 1875) and "single" boarder George Mish.
Date: b. May 5, 1842
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: O'Brien, William
Description: William O'Brien worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia at the establishment of P. S. Duval & Co. (8 South Fifth Street) in 1857. He resided with printer Rinnard Stimmell at 206 Christian Street in South Philadelphia.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Rider, Alexander
Description: Alexander Rider, was a German or Swiss-born artist, colorist, and engraver, who worked in the lithography trade in Philadelphia in the early 1830s. Rider probably arrived in the United States before 1808 as the assistant to A. Enslen, botanical collector for the Austrian emperor. In the 1810s and 1820s, Rider drew book illustrations, including for Wilson's "American Ornithology" (1825-1833), as well as worked as a miniature and portrait and historical painter. By 1830, he entered the lithographic trade and delineated genre prints for Kennedy & Lucas and later Childs & Lehman, including the noted "Camp-Meeting" (ca. 1830) showing a revivalist meeting. Rider continued as an artist in the printing trades into the 1840s and produced plates for Godman's "American Natural History" (1846).
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Herlin, August
Description: August Herlin, born ca. 1838 in Württemberg, Germany, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia and resided in Center City (Ward 5) in 1860. Possibly the same August Herlin that worked as a tailor and resided in Brooklyn, New York from about 1880. Born in Sweden ca. 1836, this Herlin appears on lists for ships destined for New York City as early as 1869, before his family joined him in the states.
Date: b. ca. 1838
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: O'Donnell, Daniel
Description: Daniel O'Donnell, born ca. 1835 in Ireland, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia ca. 1859-ca. 1881. O'Donnell worked for Thomas Sinclair (311 Chestnut Street) in the late 1850s and early 1860s and at 148 1/2 South Fourth Street with Jacob M. Conklin and Samuel Linton by 1867. In 1869 O'Donnell was partnered with Nicholas Mitton at 18 South Third Street where he remained as the sole proprietor of the lithographic establishment between 1870 and 1875. In 1876 O'Donnell relocated to 710 Sansom Street and worked in the trade until about 1881., O'Donnell resided in South Philadelphia during the 1860s. In 1860 he lived with his surveyor father Daniel, Sr. at 831 Fitzwater Street and 1116 Pierce Street by the end of the decade. During the 1870s he resided in Center City, including 528 South Fourth Street. By 1881 he had relocated his residence to North Philadelphia at 1414 Randolph Street. O'Donnell was married to Mary (b. ca. 1835) with whom he had four children ten years old and younger in 1870, when they lived at 931 Washington Avenue.
Date: b. ca. 1835
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Rease & Scattergood
Description: See Rease, William H.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Hoover, Joseph
Description: Joseph Hoover, born of Swiss-German heritage in Baltimore on December 29, 1830 was the most prolific Philadelphia chromolithographer of parlor prints during the late 19th century. Educated through the public school system of Baltimore and trained as an architectural wood turner, Hoover settled in Philadelphia in 1856. He opened a wood turning and framing establishment on the 1400 block of Hamilton Street, and about 1858, married his first wife Roseanna (b. ca. 1833)., Hoover continued in his wood turning business, including a partnership with R. B. Antrim at 1204 Noble Street (1861-1863), until 1865 when his business evolved into a picture framing factory and wholesale print depot at 108 South Eighth Street. From the mid 1860s, Hoover began to issue parlor prints, including presidential family portraits "dedicated to the people of the United States" for Lincoln (ca. 1865) and Grant (ca. 1866)., In the spring of 1868 the "chromo and print publisher" advertised his removal to 804 Market Street, from where he oversaw the work of Duval & Hunter and James Queen and issued his well-advertised and acclaimed "The Changed Cross" in 1870. Also around this time, Hoover relocated residences twice following his departure from his long-term address of 630 North Tenth Street before settling at 619 North Tenth Street, where he resided until 1903., During the 1870s and 1880s, Hoover's business continued to grow (estimated worth of $30,000-$40,000) and he established printing plants at 450-452 North Thirteenth Street and 1302-1308 Buttonwood Street (ca. 1876) and operated depots at 804 Market Street (1869-1871); 1117 Chestnut Street (1872-1873); 1129 Chestnut Street (1873-1878) and 628 Arch Street (1880-1882). With this financial success also came professional acknowledgment and Hoover was one of only three chromolithographers to be honored at the Centennial Exhibition of 1876. In 1882, Hoover gave up his retail business following a large auction of his stock and focused on the wholesale branch of his business at his plant on Buttonwood Street., Firmly established as a respected chromo printer, and often soliciting for agents, Hoover printed a variety of chromolithographs. Influenced by the "tastes of the masses," genre and landscape views and commemorative prints, including "Heroes of the Colored Race" (1881) predominated, in addition to advertisements such as for "The Celebrated Blasius Pianos" (ca. 1885). By 1893, Hoover was noted as "probably the largest publisher of pictures" distributing internationally 600,000 to 700,000 prints a year with his son, trained lithographer Henry L. (b. ca. 1866) overseeing the practical operations., Within two years of this acknowledgment, Joseph relocated his home to Elkins Park, Pa. after one year residency in Ashbourne and partnered with son Henry L. In 1904 son Joseph W. entered the business, which was reestablished as Jos. Hoover & Sons., Hoover died of heart disease at his summer home in Atlantic City on August 7, 1913 with funeral services held at the city's Holy Spirit Catholic Church. At his death, he was survived by his second wife Evelina (married by 1880) and six children; four daughters and business associates Henry L. and Joseph W., The firm Jos. Hoover & Sons remained in operation until around 1985, producing racy pin-up calendars from the 1930s to 1950s.
Date: December 29, 1830 - August 7, 1913
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Potsdamer & Co.
Description: Potsdamer & Co., a Jewish Philadelphia lithographic firm active 1875-1885, was established by Theodore Potsdamer and Alfred Jones as Jones & Potsdamer (321 Chestnut Street) ca. 1872. Jones left the partnership in 1875 and Potsdamer continued operations as Potsdamer & Co. until 1885 (after having relocated to 243 South Third Street in 1882) when the firm was taken over by the Ketterlinus Company due to Potsdamer's declining health. In 1874, Potsdamer & Co. received a silver medal for "engraving sharp, shield panel work, and Spencerian script," but was reported as losing considerable money for work for the Centennial Exhibition of 1876. Potsdamer & Co. predominately produced chromolithographic trade cards and other advertising ephemera in addition to letterpress work, mostly for benevolent organizations of the local Jewish community. Organizations included the Society of the United Hebrew Charities of Philadelphia, Jewish Hospital Association of Philadelphia, and Jewish Foster Home and Orphan Asylum of Philadelphia.
Date: fl. 1875-1885
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Traubel, Maurice H.
Description: Maurice H. Traubel, a Philadelphia lithographer of all branches of the trade, was born in Germany in 1822, and immigrated to the United States before 1847. Employed as a lithographer in Philadelphia by the late 1840s, including drawing a plate for American Sunday School Union's "Picture Lessons..." (ca. 1849), he lived at a boarding house in the South Ward by 1850. In 1853 following work with Wagner & McGuigan and Frederick Kuhl, Traubel established M. H. Traubel & Co. with fellow German-born lithographers Edward Schnabel, John F. Finkeldey, and Theodore Leonhardt, when they purchased the "Lithographic Institute" of Kuhl (46 1/2 Walnut Street, i.e., 218 Walnut Street)., Following the dissolution of M. H. Traubel & Co. ca. 1857, Traubel managed a lithographic firm, first at 22 South Fifth Street (1857) and later 409 Chestnut Street (1858-1872). His early and latter shop produced advertisements, maps, sheet music covers, portraits, political cartoons, trade cards, and stationery, including noted works "Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Saloon..." (1862) and the large format allegorical print "The Triumph" (1861). In 1860 he expanded his print services to include tobacco labels and solicited for new clients. A year later, he applied for naturalization and was a U.S. citizen by the 1870 census. Traubel, during the 1860s and 1870s, also owned a stationery, book and music store in Camden, near his residence since 1859. In 1881 after a ten year hiatus from Philadelphia city directories following his imprisonment at Eastern State Penitentiary for his counterfeiting of government stamps, he was listed with a new establishment in the city that he operated with his two lithographer sons Emile G. and Lothario Traubel at 140 South Eighth Street., Maurice married his wife Kate S. (1831-1895), not long after he arrived in Philadelphia and moved his family to Camden. They had seven children: Alfred (b. ca. 1850), Agnes (b. ca. 1852), Emile G. (1855-1921), Augusta (b. ca. 1857), Horace L. (1858-1919), Matilda (b. ca. 1860), and Lothario (b. ca. 1862). All of their sons dabbled in the lithographic trade at one point in their lives, but while Emile and Lothario made a profession of it (New York and D.C. respectively, following Philadelphia), son Horace gained the most notoriety as the biographer of Walt Whitman, a mentor from childhood. Appointed the secretary-treasurer of the Walt Whitman Fellowship 1894-1918, he spent his life writing volumes of the poet's biography., By the 1890s Traubel and his wife lived with their son-in-law Thomas B. Harned in Germantown, and spent much of their time transcribing German newspapers. Traubel, a widower, committed suicide by gas inhalation on May 15, 1898. He was cremated at Chelten Hills Cemetery and his ashes interred at Evergreen Cemetery in Camden, New Jersey.
Date: ca. 1822-1898
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Herline & Hensel
Description: Herline & Hensel, Philadelphia lithographers and partners Edward Herline (1825-1902) and Daniel Hensel (1830-1919), were practical lithographers in all branches of the field. Established in 1857, the business operated from 630 Chestnut Street until ca. 1866 when the partnership was dissolved., Known for their chromolithographs and bird's eye view prints, Herline & Hensel also produced advertisements, sheet music covers, maps, portraiture, political cartoons, certificates, and illustrations, including all the plates for Abraham Ritter's "History of the Moravian Church in Philadelphia" (1857) and Henry E. Colton's "Mountain Scenery: The Scenery of the Mountains of Western North Carolina and Northwestern South Carolina" (1859), both published by the Philadelphia firm Hayes & Zell., Herline & Hensel also issued lithographs for the German American community, and produced prints for government reports, including near $100 worth of work for "Governor Stevens's" report in 1860. The firm may also have printed the maps for the Hexamer & Locher series of ward atlases in the late 1850s and early 1860s.
Date: fl. 1857-1866
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Potsdamer, Theodore
Description: Theodore Potsdamer, proprietor of the Philadelphia lithographic firm Potsdamer & Co., was born May 1842 in Wansteck, Hamburg, Germany. Son of Bethel/Berthold (b. ca. 1819), a capmaker, and Rebecca (b. ca. 1824), Potsdamer arrived in Philadelphia with his family before 1850. By 1861, Potsdamer worked as a clerk and then salesman for the cap manufactory co-owned by his father, Potsdamer & Bro. As a salesman, he earned a decent living, and his income and a gold watch, were taxed in 1864., In the retail cap business until ca. 1871, Potsdamer entered the lithographic trade when he partnered with Alfred T. Jones in Jones & Potsdamer (321 Chestnut Street) ca. 1872. In 1875 Jones left the partnership and Potsdamer continued the business as Potsdamer & Co., which specialized in advertising ephemera and job printing for Jewish organizations. In 1885 Potsdamer, his health in decline, disposed his firm to the Ketterlinus Company where he took over as manager of their Commercial Lithography department. Potsdamer continued in the lithographic trade with Ketterlinus until shortly before his death in 1919., Before 1870, Potsdamer married Hannah Shonenman (ca. 1846-1904) with whom he had two children Clara (b. ca. 1869) and Joseph (b. 1870), also a lithographer. During the time with his father's business, Potsdamer mainly resided with his family at 628 Marshall Street, before relocating ca. 1873 to 1644 North Eighth Street with his own family and a servant, where he remained until 1910. He also had a summer home at Wyncote, where his wife died in 1904. As of 1910, he and his son lived with his daughter and her husband, merchant Alfred Klein at 1921 Girard Avenue., A member of the Rodeph Shalom congregation and the charitable Excelsior Lodge No. 21 of Improved Order of the Free Sons of Israel, Potsdamer died at his Girard Avenue residence on November 5, 1919 following weeks of illness after years of declining health. He was buried at Mt. Sinai Cemetery.
Date: May 1842-November 5, 1919
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Speakman, Annie
Description: Annie Speakman born of German descent in Philadelphia ca. 1866 worked as a lithographer in the city in 1880 while a resident at 251 McCallum Street. She is one of the few listed female lithographers of the 19th century., Speakman lived in a household with her brother Charles Speakman (b. ca. 1855), a printer.
Date: b. 1866
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Long, Ellwood D.
Description: Ellwood D. Long was the lithographer of the Philadelphia advertisement "J. C. Jenkins & Co. Grocery and Tea Store, S.W. Corner of Chestnut and 12th Streets, Philadelphia" printed in 1847 by William Stott., Long is probably the Ellwood Long listed in the 1850 census as a school teacher, born ca. 1828 in Pennsylvania, who resided in the Locust Ward in the household of presumably his father William Long (b. ca. 1782). An Ellwood D. Long died on January 15, 1852.
Date: ca. 1825-January 15, 1852
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Lehman, George
Description: George Lehman, partner in Childs & Lehman, born ca. 1803 in Switzerland, was a lithographer, engraver, "ornamental painter," and aquatintist in Philadelphia ca. 1825-ca. 1870. Lehman immigrated to the United States as a "printer," arriving aboard the ship "Howard" at the port of New York with his parents and siblings, including a number in the stonecutting trade, on June 11, 1824. Not only a printer, but also a talented landscapist, he exhibited views of Pennsylvania and Switzerland at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts by 1825 and served as John James Audubon's assistant on a trip to Florida 1831-1832. Between 1833 and 1834 Lehman partnered in Childs & Lehman, and subsequently with French lithographer P. S. Duval to operate Lehman & Duval from 7 Bank Alley 1835-1837., Although a partner in Childs & Lehman 1833-1834, Lehman's professional affiliation with Childs preceded this affiliation, and he delineated works printed by Childs as early as 1827. As Childs & Lehman (43-45 Walnut Street), the firm predominately created lithographs of public landmarks in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, including views of "Eastern Penitentiary," "Fairmount Waterworks," "Philadelphia Arcade," and "Coal Mine at Maunch Chunk.", At the end of 1834, Lehman & Duval was established when P. S. Duval purchased Childs' share of the business for $750. Relocated to 7 Bank Alley, the establishment printed portraits, maps, sheet music illustrations, advertisements, certificates, views of public buildings and book illustrations. The firm also retained the noted lithographic artists Albert Newsam and James Queen, the latter serving a four-and-a-half year apprenticeship with the firm. In 1837, Lehman left the partnership, but continued to delineate work for his former partner, such as "Wyoming Monument" announced in a "North American" advertisement in 1842. He was also most likely the George W. Lehman listed in the 1855 city directory as a burnisher at Duval's establishment at 5 Ranstead Place., Lehman remained as a lithographer in Philadelphia until at least the mid-1840s, working from several locations, including 186 North Sixth Street (1841), 137 North Sixth Street (1843), and the rear of 40 St. John Street (1844). He purportedly died in Philadelphia in 1870.
Date: ca. 1803-1870
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Fenderich & Wild
Description: Charles Fenderich and John Caspar Wild, Swiss lithographers who practiced in Paris before they emigrated to the states, partnered in Philadelphia between 1832 and 1834. The partnership created portraits, city views, and genre scenes with the imprint "Fenderich & Wild's Lithographic Press" from their establishment at 215 Callowhill Street. The partnership dissolved when Wild relocated to Cincinnati, Ohio in 1834. Fenderich continued to operate the press until about 1837.
Date: fl. ca. 1832-1834
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Matlack, Albert
Description: Albert Matlack, a lithographer and gilder, born ca. 1821 in Pennsylvania, worked in Philadelphia between the 1850s and 1880s. By 1860, Matlack resided in Spring Garden at 1216 Ridge Avenue (Ward 14) with his wife Eliza Fudge (b. ca. 1821) and her mother Hannah Fudge (b. ca. 1788). Matlack and Eliza owned and operated a millinery and a manufactory. By 1880 Matlack was widowed, worked as a lithographic printer, and boarded with fellow lithographic printer James Hennesey (b. ca. 1862), and James's mother Mary Hennesey (b. ca. 1840) at 906 Aurora (i.e.. Latimer) Street in Ward 8. In the early 1880s, city directories listed Matlack as a porter at this address, and by 1884 as a gilder living in South Philadelphia.
Date: b. ca. 1821
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

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

Title: Pillner, George
Description: George Pillner was a Philadelphia lithographer listed in the 1860 city directory with an establishment at 336 Spruce Street., He was probably also the administrator of the estate of engraver and lithographer Frederick J. Pilliner, possibly his son, in 1861 as well as the George Pillner listed in the 1870 census without an occupation.
Date: b. ca. 1793
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Graf, Louis (Lewis)
Description: See Graf Brothers.
Date: b. ca. 1812
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Collins, Alfred M.
Description: Alfred M. Collins, card and cardboard manufacturer for printers and lithographers, was born in New York in 1819. Residing in Philadelphia by the early 1840s, Collins pursued the mercantile trade before he established the paper manufacturing business A. M. Collins & Co. at 506-508 Minor Street in the early 1850s. By the 1860s, the business expanded to include card manufactory and by the end of the decade Collins's son Harry H. as well as Edward Cope, Jr. became partners in Alfred M. Collins, Son & Co. Around this time (ca. 1867), Collins also expanded to an additional location at North Third Street and Canal Street and introduced the "Chrystal Card" to the local market., A prolific advertiser in the "Printers Circular" journal, Collins gained a reputation as the "best and most appointed cardboard manufactory" in the country by the 1870s, and in 1876 he relocated his manufactory and warehouse to 9 Decatur Street (destroyed by fire December 1, 1879), and 18 South Sixth Street., Collins was married in 1843 to Hannah (b. ca. 1820), with whom he had three surviving children and was a contributor to and a secretary for the House of Refuge. Collins died on May 26, 1895 with funeral services held at his late residence of 1518 Locust Street.
Date: 1819-1895
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Bergman, George
Description: George Bergman, born about 1824 in Bavaria, Germany, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia 1855-ca. 1857. He worked initially in Robert Pearsall Smith's establishment at 17, i.e., 517 Minor Street in 1855-1856 and transferred to Wagner & McGuigan at 34 Franklin Place ca. 1857. He resided in Camden as a lithographer in 1860 and in New York City as an engraver in 1870.
Date: b. ca. 1824
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Beitler, Harvey G.
Description: Harvey G. Beitler was a Philadelphia lithographer listed in the 1870 city directory who resided in the Ellerton Hotel.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Bretschneider, Edward
Description: Edward/Edmund Bretschneider worked as a lithographer at Robert Pearsall Smith's publishing house at 19, i.e., 519 Minor Street between 1856 and 1859. In 1859, he resided at 128 Holmes Alley, behind 300 Market Street.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Brett, Alphonse
Description: Alphonse Brett, born in 1823 in France, was a noted chromolithographer of plates and cards, flower prints, building views, book illustrations, sheet music covers, and advertising prints in Philadelphia ca. 1846-1859. Brett printed lithographs delineated by local lithographers W. H. Rease, Christian Schussele, Friend & Aub, Alphonse Bigot, and Louis Haugg. In the early 1850s, he was listed in the Dun credit reports as reliable for credit and a "first-class workman, the best in this country," but as the decade passed, he experienced difficulty with partnerships and finances and ended his near-fifteen year career in Philadelphia in 1859., Brett partnered with John C. Keffer at 12 Bank (i.e., South Bank) Street by 1846, and produced Christmas and Valentine's Day cards delineated by engraver Nicholson Devereaux. He also created illuminated plates in T. W. Gwilt Mapleson's "Pearls of American Poetry" (one imprinted with the address "12 Bank St.") in 1847. Although their partnership dissolved by mutual consent on February 24, 1847, Brett continued the business from the same location until ca. 1850., Advertisements for his new shop at 169 Chestnut Street above Fifth Street appeared repeatedly in the "North American" and "Philadelphia Inquirer" between 1850 and 1852 and listed the variety of work he was capable of completing, "such as the drawing and printing of landscapes, views of buildings, architectural and ornamental design, portraits, music titles, maps and labels, executed either plain, or in the colored style of printing denominated Chromo-Lithograph, to perfect which he has procured himself all the latest improvements." These same advertisements also indicated that "he has lately returned from Europe," and an extant New York Passenger list, dated September 13, 1852, places him on the Humboldt ship arriving from Le Havre, France., Brett subsequently partnered about 1852 until February 1853 with Scotsman David Chillas in A. Brett & Co. at Goldsmiths' Hall on Library Street near Fifth Street. Their short-lived partnership devolved into a court battle for a $1000 debt that reached the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and culminated in an auction of lithographic stones and other stock of A. Brett & Co. Despite this professional misfortune, Brett continued in business from 4 and 6 South Seventh Street between 1854 and 1856 from where he produced exquisite chromolithographic advertisements for perfumer Apollos Harrison. At the end of 1856, Brett faced misfortune again when his third-story establishment was destroyed by fire with a loss of over $7,000. It was reported that “a number of his customers, who had engraving and finished work in the establishment, are severe losers.” Conflicting reports indicated he had either $5000 in insurance or none. Brett did reestablish his business and between 1857 and 1859 operated from 13 South Sixth Street (i.e., N.E. cor. 6th and Minor). Subsequently, he relocated his lithographic business permanently to New York., Brett encountered more professional setbacks in New York, including an 1868 incident where he was arrested and accused of assisting the firm Fisk & Hatch in forging checks against the Central Bank of Brooklyn. The following year he was again charged, with his business partner William Jones and other printers in New York, of printing counterfeit notes for the "Haytian Government." These incidents necessarily affected Brett's business, and on March 16, 1870, he filed for bankruptcy., Nonetheless, the lithographic firm created by Brett in New York, renamed Brett Lithographing Co. in 1872, survived until 1958, when the United States Printing & Lithographing Company acquired it. Brett continued at his firm until his death on August 18, 1889., During his career in Philadelphia, Brett married the French-born Maria (b. ca. 1826) and resided for several years at 533 Powell (i.e., Delancey Street) in Center City. They had two children, Charles (b. 1854) and Alphonsine (b. 1857), before relocating to New York in the late 1850s. Two more children, Mary E. (b. 1862) and Henry (b. 1864), were born after they relocated. By the time Brett passed away, he resided at 99 Keap Street in Brooklyn, New York.
Date: 1823-August 18, 1889
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Bucher, Theodore
Description: Theodore Bucher, born ca. 1844 to German immigrants in Pennsylvania, worked as a lithographer and printer in Philadelphia 1858-1880. P. S. Duval employed Bucher at 22 South Fifth Street in 1858 and 1859. By 1880, Bucher resided at 1748 North Third Street with his wife, Mary (b. ca. 1843) and their two daughters, Clara (b. 1873) and Natte (b. 1875).
Date: b. ca. 1844
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Boell, William
Description: William Boell, born ca. 1832 in France, worked as a lithographer in New York and Philadelphia 1850s-1870s. A practical lithographer, Boell worked in New York between 1854 and ca. 1859 before establishing his own firm in Philadelphia, where he worked until ca. 1882. Boell's work in Philadelphia included book illustrations, advertisements, church views, bird's eye views, and political cartoons. He also issued several Civil War prints, including the noted "Volunteer Refreshment Saloon, Supported Gratuitously by the Citizens of Philadelphia, Pa." (1861) depicting an exterior and series of interior views of the Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon and Hospital., Boell began his lithographic career in New York in 1854, and produced view prints, including one for "Illustrations of the Japan Expedition" (1855). During this time he also partnered in the firms Boell & Lewis (ca. 1855) and Boell & Michelin (1855-1858). By 1859, Boell relocated to Philadelphia and established a firm at 407 Walnut. The firm relocated a number of times, including 311 Walnut Street (1860-1866), 314/314 1/2 Walnut Street (1866-1875); 327 Walnut Street (1876-1877, with August Steng); and 505 Market Street as William Boell & Co. (1878-ca. 1880)., From 1859 Boell promoted his "machinery in perspective" views and such prints formed a core specialty of his advertisements. During the 1860s Boell advertised he had "been employed in executing the finest Work in the Art, for the principal houses in France, Spain, Germany & the United States," received large orders as evident from billheads in the Warshaw Collection of Business Ephemera and earned enough income to be taxed by the IRS. He also received a good credit rating during the 1870s. Boell remained in the trade until apparently ca. 1880 (43 South Fourth Street) when a number of judgments of notes owed to John Thompson of New York went against his favor., Following his arrival to Philadelphia, Boell resided in South Philadelphia at 929 Tasker where he lived with his English-born wife Julie (b. ca. 1838), two children, and boarders. By 1870, Boell had relocated to North Philadelphia at 1701 North Ninth Street with his wife and four children and remained at that address as of 1880.
Date: b. ca. 1832
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Arms, Hiram P(helps)
Description: Hiram Phelps Arms, a lithographer active in Philadelphia 1877-1889, worked from 426 Walnut Street. He lived at 305 Chestnut Street.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Alexander, Peter
Description: Peter Alexander was a lithographer working in Philadelphia ca.1856-ca.1868, who early in his career worked for the prominent Philadelphia lithographer, Maurice H. Traubel. He was also a member of the Lithographic Printers Union and served on their ball committee in 1863.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Beaugureau, Philibert
Description: Philibert Beaugureau, a French-born artist and administrator of a bilingual school for boys, was probably the Beaugureau who drew portraits for P. S. Duval in 1845. His paintings were also displayed at an exhibition at the Maryland Historical Society in 1848 and auctioned by the Philadelphia auction firm M. Thomas & Sons in 1858., Emigrating from Passy, France, Beaugureau arrived with his family in Philadelphia in 1843. By 1847, he lived at 193 South Ninth Street with wife Solange (b. ca. 1804) and children Philip (b. ca. 1830), the Cincinnati portrait artist and drawing master; Cornelia (b. ca. 1824); and Adrian (1828-1908), an artist and teacher at Oxford Female College., He and his son Philip, i.e., Philibert Jr., are often confused.
Date: b. ca. 1803-1852
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Beener, James
Description: James Beener, born ca. 1834 in Pennsylvania, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia in 1860., Beener lived in North Philadelphia, Ward 16 East Division with his wife Catherine (b. ca. 1838), two children, and a resident couple, of whom the man, Charles Amos, was an umbrella maker. In 1880, he may be the James Beener, carpenter living in Lancaster with his wife Catherine and five children
Date: b. ca. 1834
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Barker, John Jesse
Description: John Jesse Barker, an English artist, lithographer, and drawing teacher born ca. 1785, was active ca. 1815-1860 in Philadelphia and New Brunswick, N.J. He delineated the drawing for the novel lithograph "Horizontarium" published by R. H. Hobson (147 Chestnut) in 1832 that depicts the Bank of Philadelphia.
Date: b. ca. 1785
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Croome, W. (William)
Description: W. Croome worked as a lithographic artist in Philadelphia for P. S. Duval between ca. 1847 and 1851. He designed portraits, and architectural and engineering views., Croome was probably engraver and artist William Croome (1790-1860) known for his work as a book and periodical illustrator. Trained in Boston under Abel Brown, he was also a member of the Boston Bewick Co. of engravers who published "American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge" (1830-1834). During his residency in Philadelphia ca. 1843-ca. 1850 (following his marriage to a Philadelphian), he predominately was employed as an engraver. He worked solely at Sixth and Walnut streets and later as a partner in the engraving firms of Croome, Meignelle & Minot and Croome & Minot (1841-1842) and Croome & Brightly (ca. 1850)., Croome was married to Rosalie Cress (ca. 1816-1903) on October 3, 1842 in West Chester, Pa. They appeared to have one daughter, Rosalie (b. ca, 1848) who lived with her maternal grandparents in 1860. During his career in Philadelphia he resided on the 1000 block of Spring Garden Street (1845) and at 59 Buttonwood Street (1847-1850).
Date: 1790-1860
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Friend & Aub
Description: Friend and Aub, a partnership established ca. 1852 between Norman Friend and Jacob Aub, specialized in map engraving and lithography. The firm, located at 332 Walnut Street remained in operation until dissolved by "mutual consent" on July 19, 1860. Much of their map work was done in collaboration with Wagner & McGuigan and L. N. Rosenthal.
Date: fl. 1852-1860
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Cantwell, Edward C.
Description: Edward C. Cantwell, born in Ireland circa 1837, worked as a lithographic printer in Philadelphia between 1858 and 1880. Early in his career Cantwell was employed at the L. N. Rosenthal establishment at the northwest corner of Fifth and Chestnut Streets., Cantwell remained in Ward 3 of the city for at least twenty years with his Pennsylvania-born wife, Margaret (b. ca. 1842). By 1880, they lived at 503 Christian Street and their household included ten children ranging in age from one month to twenty-three years of age. By 1880, Edward was unemployed due to "piles" with his wife suffering from heart disease.
Date: b. ca. 1837
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Fuchs, F.
Description: F. Fuchs, a lithographer who specialized in maps, worked at 17 Minor Street as part of Robert Pearsall Smith's publishing house. He contributed over twenty illustrations of various houses and properties for at least six maps published by Smith in 1855 and 1856, including "Map of Greene County, Ohio" (Philadelphia: Anthony D. Byles, 1855) and "Map of New Haven County, Connecticut" (Philadelphia: H. & C.T. Smith, 1856). In addition, he is credited with six frontispieces in "The Horticulturist and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste" (Philadelphia: Robert Pearsall Smith, 1856).
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Greenough, F. W.
Description: F. W. Greenough served as publisher of the McKenny and Hall "History of the Indian Tribes of North America" with lithographs by John T. Bowen beginning ca. 1838. Greenough replaced E. C. Biddle and pledged on the reissue of Part 8 of the series "the daily increase of the subscription list enables him to say that, instead of allowing the work to decline in merit, as is frequently the case with similar undertakings, additional efforts will be made, without regard to expense, to render it yet more worthy of favor." Under Greenough, Bowen produced new, redrawn stones for most of the prints already published, as well as thirty-six new images until 1841 when Greenough declared bankruptcy and was forced to withdraw as publisher., Greenough was possibly the F. W. Greenough listed as a merchant at 8 South Front Street in the 1837 Philadelphia City Directory.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Ferguson, James
Description: James Ferguson, born. ca. 1833 in Pennsylvania, was a Philadelphia lithographer active ca. 1856-ca. 1870s. Ferguson worked for Wagner & McGuigan ca. 1856-1857, served as a steward for the Lithographic Printers Union in 1862, and worked at the establishment of Craig, Finley, & Rowley in 1870., Ferguson was first listed as a lithographer with a residence at Front Street above Jefferson Street in the 1856 Philadelphia city directory. He continued to live in North Philadelphia as of the 1860 census, in which he was listed as a lithographer, with a personal estate valued at $800 who resided in Ward 16. He was married to Mary (b. ca. 1840) with whom he had three children. By the time of his employment with Craig, Finley & Rowley he resided at 122 Thompson Street and in 1873 at 1772 Frankford Avenue.
Date: b. ca. 1833
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Feusier, Augustus
Description: Augustus Feusier worked as an artist and lithographer in Philadelphia during the early 1860s. His known work includes Civil War-themed lithographs "Camp Du Pont. 4th Regt. Delaware Infantry" after C. Baum (ca. 1862);" "Philadelphia Zouave Corps" printed by P. S. Duval (ca. 1861); and "Camp Brandywine, Third Regt R. Brigade" (ca. 1862). In addition, he served as the artist for the Improved Order of Red Men certificate "Freiheit Edelmuth & Bruderliebe, Unabhangiger Orden der Rothmaenner" (ca. 1863)printed by Schnable and Finkeldey., Feusier was listed in the Philadelphia city directory in 1861 as an artist and as a lithographer 1862-1863, and in the latter year resided at Pierce Street below Seventh Street . He was also active in the New Orleans partnerships of Feusier & Turberg and Feusier & Hoyle in 1867 and 1886, respectively. The firms lithographed sheet music covers.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Florence, A.T.
Description: A. T. Florence was noted by Peters as an artist for a Wagner & Mcguigan lithograph.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Smith, William L.
Description: William L. Smith, born ca. 1822 in Scotland, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia ca. 1860-ca. 1880. First listed as a lithographic printer in Philadelphia city directories in 1860, Smith operated from 3 Drinkers Alley and lived in south Philadelphia at 1126 Leon Street (Ward 2) with his wife Emma (b. ca. 1815) and son. In 1863, he served as the floor manager of the second Grand Ball of the Lithographic Printers Union. By 1867, he relocated his residence to 1322 South Thirteenth Street and in 1870 lived in a household absent his wife and that included most likely his parents. In 1880, he remained in the trade according to the census and lived at 2005 Wharton Street with his two daughters.
Date: b. ca. 1822
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

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