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Title: Biegeman, Adolph
Description: Adolph Biegeman, son of German-born piano maker Wilhelm (1801-1885) and midwife Augusta (b. 1811), born in Germany ca. 1829, was a mid 19th-century colorist of lithographs, artist, and photographer. Biegeman and his family arrived in Philadelphia probably in the late 1840s and in November 1848 he declared his intent for citizenship., By 1852, Biegeman began to be listed in Philadelphia city directories as a colorist residing at 53, i.e., 203 New Street, and from ca. 1854 to ca. 1867 he served as colorist on a number of F. Mahan fashion advertisements. In 1875, Bigeman changed careers and entered the photography profession before turning to the cigar trade in which he was employed until his death ca. 1880., Biegeman was married to Emma (b. 1836), a midwife, with whom he had three children: William who died as a baby; Henry (b. ca. 1857), a printer; and Mary (1867-1940). He and his family lived with his parents first on New Street, and by the early 1870s at 332 North Sixth Street. Biegeman died ca. 1880; his wife Emma listed as a widow in the 1882 city directory.
Date: b. ca. 1829-ca. 1880
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Kunzman, George
Description: George Kunzman, born of German descent ca. 1840 in Philadelphia, worked as a lithographer from ca. 1861 to the early 20th century. Philadelphia city directories first list Kunzman as a lithographer in 1861 at the establishment of Frederick Kuhl at 57 South Fourth Street. Soon thereafter, he was most likely the George Kunzman who enlisted in Company K, 20th Infantry Regiment and served in the military for a year. After the war, Kunzman partnered in Kunzman & Hall with Henry or James Hall at 216 1/2 Walnut Street by 1866. The "general lithographers" advertised their lithographic work of maps, show cards, bill heads, and drafts. Kunzman continued in the trade until at least 1910 following his relocation to Camden, N.J. where he served as the treasurer for the Gloucester Democratic Club in 1913., Kunzman resided in Center City until the later 19th century. He lived with his parents Francis (b. ca. 1800), a clerk, and Elizabeth (b. ca. 1810) between 1860 and 1880, including 421 and 606 Spruce Street (the latter until at least 1885 when he married). By 1910 Kunzman had relocated to Camden, N.J. and resided on 439 Market Street with his New Jersey-born wife Ellen (b. ca. 1872), sister-in-law, and niece.
Date: b. ca. 1840
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Brandt, Herman
Description: Herman Brandt was a Philadelphia colorist at the lithographic establishment of William Rease (South Fourth and Chestnut Streets) 1867-1870. During these years he resided at 4 Berlin Street, 620 Brook Street, and 232 New Street, respectively.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: H. J. Toudy & Co.
Description: H. J. Toudy & Co., established by partners Henry J. Toudy and William Toudy at 503-505 Chestnut Street, specialized in maps, atlases, and city view prints, and operated 1865-1878. Relocating to 525 Chestnut Street in 1872, the studio merged with the printing firm of George W. Ward & Company (formerly at 52 North Sixth Street). The new company of Henry J. Toudy, George W. Ward and William C. Merillat lasted less than two years with Ward leaving in 1872 and Merillat in 1873. Despite William Toudy's continual affiliation with the firm during this time, Henry J. Toudy became the sole proprietor, and as of 1875, his firm had a reported worth of $10,000., Although the firm executed "very fine specimens of work in all departments of the art," atlases, maps, and city views preponderate the noted works of the company. Toudy & Co. worked on several Stone & Stewart county atlases in 1866, numerous county atlases published between 1873 and 1877, and many of the "General Surveys" of industrial plants throughout the Mid-Atlantic region produced by Ernest Hexamer during the 1870s. The firm also produced a number of respected views of cities, including one of the earliest depictions of Salt Lake City (1867), 13 full-color city view prints for "The Centennial Book of the Signers" (1872), and one of the first bird's-eye views produced by T. M. Fowler - Trenton, N.J. (1874)., During the 1870s, the firm relocated first to 623 Commerce Street in 1875 and later into the Ziegler & Smith building at Fourth and Cherry Streets in 1877. The decade also saw the firm triumph over Breuker & Kessler in a copyright infringement case over a print based on a drawing by Hermann J. Schwarzmann, architect of the Centennial Exhibition of 1876 grounds. Titled "Bird's Eye View of Centennial Buildings, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa. 1876," the view copyrighted by Houdy & Co. in March 1875 was one of a number of the Centennial produced by the company for which they are favorably known., In spite of this legal success, a blow of another sort struck the company in a few years. On March 25, 1878, a devastating fire destroyed the six-story Ziegler & Smith building as well as several adjacent blocks of structures. H. J. Toudy & Company suffered a complete loss, and as a consequence, went out of business, only having a reported $21,000 worth of insurance.
Date: fl. 1865-1878
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Morris, Henry
Description: Henry Morris, born ca. 1829 in Pennsylvania, worked as a lithographer and printer in Philadelphia from 1850-1875. He first worked with Cuban-born lithographer F. J. Pilliner at 37 1/2 South Third Street in 1856 and then for P. S. Duval in the late 1850s (at the time of Duval's insolvency). Although Morris's later employers and business locations are unknown, he continued in the trade and served as the master of ceremonies for the second grand ball of the Lithographic Printers Union in 1863., Morris resided with his father, shoemaker and shoe manufactory owner Jehu Morris (ca. 1796-ca. 1868), and family at 161 Poplar Street in Northern Liberties from 1850 to 1875. By 1858, his younger brother William P. Morris (b. ca. 1839) was also a lithographer in the employ of P. S. Duval.
Date: b. ca. 1829
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Luders, Emil
Description: Emil Luders, born ca. 1831 in Braunschweig, Germany, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia ca. 1861-ca. 1871. Luders arrived in the United States in New York on May 25, 1854 aboard the ship "Catherine" and by about 1855 worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia. He delineated the noted portrait "Passmore Williamson in Moyamensing Prison" (1855) and advertisements printed by Augustus Kollner, including "Goodyears Rubber-Packing & Belting Company. Warehouse 104 Chestnut St. Philada." (ca. 1856). During the 1860s, Luders earned enough income from his work in the trade to be taxed by the I.R.S. and he may be the Emil Lueders of West Hoboken, N.J. who patented an improvement in coin-testers in 1878., By 1860, Luder was married to the Swiss-born Mary (b. ca. 1826) and resided in North Philadelphia (Ward 13). Luders's residences in Philadelphia between 1861 and 1871 included 8 Pleasant Retreat (1861), 714 Wallace Street (mid 1860s) and 543 North Twelfth Street (1869-1871).
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Wells & Hope Co.
Description: Wells & Hope Co., a partnership between John F. Hope (1845-1907) and Joseph Lewis Wells (b. 1836), was a later 19th-century lithographic firm that specialized in metallic signs and advertisements. The firm established ca. 1872 as one of the of the first U.S. manufacturers of decalcomania (i.e., decals) relocated from 115 North Sixth Street to 918 Vine Street in 1875. By the 1880s, the firm engaged in the photomechanical reproduction process of collotypy, was involved in a number of financial suits as claimants for unpaid services, and had been recognized for their photographic and lithographic work at exhibitions, such as the Franklin Institute Exhibition of American Manufacturers (1874) and Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association (1881). The firm was active until the early 1890s., Hope, a native of Scotland, born September 10, 1845, arrived in Philadelphia in 1852 and worked as a bookkeeper before entering the Wells & Hope partnership. He continued as a printer following its dissolution. He was married to Elizabeth R. (b. 1850) with whom he had daughters Lillie (b. ca. 1871) and Florence (b. 1881). The family resided at 1507 Allegheny Avenue by 1880 and 208 North Forty-Second Street in 1900. Hope was also a member of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick. He died on November 19, 1907, his late residence at 5155 Wayne Avenue, Germantown., Wells, was born May 4, 1836 in Mainsburgh, Pa. and described as an inventor in a 1903 family genealogy. By 1870, he and his first wife Caroline Bond (b. ca.. 1845-1871) and son Joseph Herman (b. ca. 1869) lived with his brother Charles family at 1027 Coates Street (20th Ward). He married his second wife, former sister-in-law Margaret Bond in 1875.
Date: fl. 1870s-1890s
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Bostick, E. P. (Emanuel P.)
Description: Emanuel P. Bostick, born 1835 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, worked as a printer and lithographer in Philadelphia from the 1860s through 1870s. Originally a newspaper foreman and printer for the "Columbia Spy" in Lancaster in the 1850s, he relocated to Philadelphia by 1867 and operated a "Steam Power Job Printing and Lithographing Establishment at 23 (33?) South 7th St., Philadelphia." By the 1886 city directory, Bostick worked in "real estate"., In 1850, Bostick resided in Columbia Borough, Lancaster County, PA as a printer and by 1860 with his wife, Sarah J. (1840-1900). Following his relocation to Philadelphia, Bostick resided in West Philadelphia (Ward 24) at 4022 Ludlow Street (late 1860s), then 3740 Market Street (early 1870s), and finally 3634 Market Street (ca. 1877-). In 1870, he and his wife resided with their three children William Ellwood (b. ca. 1857), Jacob J. (b. ca. 1860), and B. Frank (b. ca. 1864). In 1892, Bostick sold his Market Street properties (where he also resided) to C. W. Rowan and the Guarantee Trust and Safe Deposit Co. He passed away before 1895, when his wife Sarah J. is listed as a widow in city directories.
Date: 1835-ca. 1895
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Ibbotson, James
Description: James Ibbotson, born ca. 1828 in England, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia in 1849. Probably a relative of lithographer Havey J. Ibbotson, James relocated to Boston by 1850, where he worked for B. W. Thayer & Co. He was also an oil painter., By 1850, Ibbotson was married to New Jersey-born Cornelia (b. ca. 1831 ) with whom he had one son, Wilfred (b. ca. 1821), born in Pennsylvania.
Date: b. ca. 1828
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Fischer, John G.
Description: John G. Fischer, born ca. 1831 in Baden, Germany, was a Philadelphia lithographer listed in the 1860 census., In 1860, Fisher held personal estate valued at $300 and resided in Southwest Philadelphia (18th Ward) with his Pennsylvania-born wife Maria (b. ca. 1833) and two sons under three years of age.
Date: b. ca. 1831
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Cichowski, Severin
Description: Severin Cichowski, active in the lithographic trade in the 1840s, delineated two book illustrations published in Philadelphia. Plates include "To the Macon Volunteers of Macon, Geo.," published in William M. Huddy's "Military Magazine and Record of the Volunteers of the City and County," and a medical illustration printed by P. S. Duval showing "trepanning" in Robert Pancoast's A Treatise on Operative Surgery, 1844.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Hart, S[arah] & Son
Description: S. Hart & Son, the partnership established in 1823 between widowed mother Sarah Stock Hart (1789-1863) and her son Abraham Hart (1810-1885), the noted mid-19th century publisher, operated a stationery and fancy goods store that also sold and published lithographs. The firm sold lithographic cartoons by 1829 and published satiric prints, including the "Life in Philadelphia" series of engravings (1829-1830), and per Peters, a ca. 1830s lithographic caricature of a woman titled "Much Ado About Nothing." The firm operated until 1843, originally from 65 South Third Street and after 1838 at 120, i.e., 324 Chestnut Street - the future location of Theodore Leonhardt & Son., Sarah Hart, widow of the dry goods proprietor Abraham Hart (d. 1823), immigrated to the United States from Holland in 1807. A prominent member of the Philadelphia Jewish community, she was active in the Female Hebrew Benevolent Society. She died August 20, 1863 with her residence at 325 Spruce Street., Abraham Hart , in addition to partnering with his mother, also partnered in the publishing firms of E. L Carey & A. Hart (1829-1839) and Carey & Hart (1839-1849) before operating his own firm 1849-1854.
Date: fl. 1823-1843
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Barker & Dresser
Description: Barker & Dresser, a short-lived Philadelphia lithographic firm, was a partnership between, most likely, map lithographer William J. Barker and German-born lithographer William Dreser. The firm was active 1859., In 1859, Barker was listed as a lithographer and map publisher at 23 North Sixth. He resided at 1516 North Eleventh.
Date: fl. 1859
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Benade, James Arthur
Description: James Arthur Benade, son of Moravian bishop Andrew Benade, was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in 1823 and worked as an artist for the lithographic establishments of P. S. Duval and Thomas Sinclair ca. 1842-1850. His lithographs include a "South West View of Lancaster, Pa." He studied art in Philadelphia and with Gustavus Grunewald (1805-1878) as well as taught F. D. Devlan (1835-1870). He also exhibited works at the Artist's Fund Society in Philadelphia in 1838 and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1848. He died February 2, 1853 in Reading, Pennsylvania, his town of residence in the 1850 census. According to that census, he was married to Sarah (b. ca. 1823) with whom he had three children and held $6000 (i.e., about $171, 000 in 2008) worth of real estate.
Date: 1823-February 2, 1853
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Smith, John
Description: John Smith, publisher, gilder, painter, and looking glass and frame manufacturer in Philadelphia ca. 1860-1870, primarily published parlor lithographs, including Augustus Tholey's "American Country Scene in Summer" (1865). He also published historical prints by Anton Hohenstein, including "Baptism of Pocahontas 1613" (1868) and "Franklin's Reception at the Court of France" (1869). Smith's earliest known business address was on the second floor of 804 Market Street, which was also tenanted by Biester & Brothers, frames and looking glass depot, and chromolithographer Joseph Hoover. In 1868 Smith relocated to 710 Sansom Street. He also operated from 756 South Fourth Street in the mid-1860s., In 1860 and 1861, Smith resided in Northern Liberties (Ward 6) at 851 North Third Street, but by the end of the decade he had removed to 240 South Eighth Street, closer to his looking glass establishments.
Date: fl. 1860-1870
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Wissler, Jacques (James)
Description: Jacques Wissler, "lithographer of the Confederacy," born in Strasbourg, France, in June 1806, was a talented portrait painter who began his career in lithography in Philadelphia working for P.S. Duval from 1849 to 1859. Formally educated until the death of his father in 1815, Wissler entered the employ of premier French lithographer Godefroy Engelmann in 1821 after working in a paper factory. Wissler relocated to Paris in 1825 and remained in the employ of Engelmann. By 1832 he accepted a job as an artist in Guebwiller, Haut Rhin, France. The details of his career and life in France after this point are unknown., Wissler immigrated to the United States in 1849, where he settled in the Southwark neighborhood of Philadelphia with his family, including his wife Anna Louise (1811-1874) and four children. By 1850 he worked as an artist and lithographer for P.S. Duval, a fellow Frenchman. Philadelphia city directories indicate that he moved several times, living at various Fifteenth Street locations. By July 1860 he had relocated to New York and partnered with lithographer William P. Dreser at 358 Pearl Street. A year later, Wissler traveled south to Richmond for business, where, at the outbreak of Fort Sumter, his lithographing and engraving services were commandeered by the Confederacy. He designed and produced paper money and bonds in the southern capital, despite his Union sympathies. His son, Jacques (b. ca. 1841), was drafted into the Confederate army, and his son Charles served as a commissioned officer in the Union army (b. ca. 1842)., After the war, Wissler purchased and relocated to a farm in Macon, Mississippi, where his son Charles was killed in a raid by the Klu Klux Klan. His family remained in Macon a few years, until settling at 245 Royden Street in Camden, New Jersey where he resided until his death on November 26, 1887.
Date: 1806-November 26, 1887
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Probst, John
Description: John Probst, born ca. 1805 in Germany, was a lithographer active in Philadelphia and New York ca. 1838-1850. Most often described as a New York lithographer, Probst designed ca. 1838-1839 one of the earliest billheads of P. S. Duval. The print depicting a view of the Merchant's Exchange is held in the collections of the American Antiquarian Society., Probst was listed in New York City Directories 1844-1850.
Date: b. ca. 1805
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Lehman & Duval
Description: Lehman & Duval, the partnership between Philadelphia lithographers George Lehman and P. S. Duval, was active 1834-1837. The lithographers partnered in late 1834 when Cephas G. Childs (Childs & Lehman) sold his half of the business to Duval to repay a $750 debt. The firm, located at 7 Bank Alley, produced portraits, advertisements, certificates, maps, views, and book illustrations. Artists at Lehman & Duval included James Queen who served a four-and-a-half year apprenticeship and artist Albert Newsam. In 1837 Lehman left the partnership and Duval took over as sole proprietor.
Date: fl. 1834-1837
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Wagner & McGuigan
Description: Wagner & McGuigan, the partnership between Thomas S. Wagner and James McGuigan, active 1845- ca. 1858, was one of the premier lithographic establishments of the mid nineteenth century. The firm, an innovator in the industry in color printing and steam press technology, prolifically printed advertising prints in addition to lithographs in all branches of the trade., Originally established in 1845 as Pinkerton, Wagner & McGuigan, the firm, known for its experimentation with chromolithography, reconfigured into Wagner & McGuigan following the 1845 departure of Edward Pinkerton. Under this new configuration, the partnership flourished. By the end of the 1840s, the men operated about 40 presses and employed 30 men and remained active in the early promotion of chromolithography in the city. The firm utilized the block style of the color printing formulated by premier French lithographer Godefroy Engelmann (1788-1839) early on and became one of the main rivals to Wagner's former employer P. S. Duval in size, innovation, and production. Although most prolific in the printing of advertising prints and maps, all genres of lithographs, including postage stamps, sheet music, periodical and book illustrations, portraiture and view prints came forth from the presses of the firm that employed a number of respected artists and lithographers, including Alfred Hoffy, James Queen, William H. Rease, and Robert F. Reynolds., Between 1847 and 1850, the firm relocated to 4 Athenian Buildings (300 block Chestnut Street), exhibited examples of most likely anastatic printing at the 1848 Exhibition of American Manufacturers; and in February 1850 promoted their print "Lord's Supper" as executed by "the first lithographic steam power printing machine ever successfully invented." The year 1850 also brought the firm printed acclaim in the preface to George Spratt's "Obstetric Tables" as well as tragedy, when on December 17 the Athenian building was set on fire through arson. Despite water damage, the firm remained innovative and productive and in 1852 advertised "Having introduced steam power, which has proved an invaluable auxiliary, by our late improvements to the Lithographic Press, enables us to employ the heaviest and Largest size presses and largest size Stones of any establishment in the United States." In 1854, with their steam powered presses, Wagner & McGuigan fulfilled orders as large as 20,000 sets of 4 plates for U.S. government reports., At the forefront of the use of steam powered presses, Wagner & McGuigan also excelled in the advertisement of their firm and equipment and issued some of the only known antebellum era interior views of a Philadelphia lithographic establishment, including the ca. 1847 print "Wagner & McGuigan's Lithographic Establishment for Drawing Lettering & Printing No. 116 Chesnut [sic] St. Philadelphia" in the Harry T. Peters Collection at the Smithsonian. In addition the ca. 1855 print "Wagner & McGuigan's Lithographic & Steam Power Printing Establishment No. 4 Athenian Buildings, Franklin Place Philadelphia" in the collections of the Library of Congress depicted their steam powered press., By 1857, Wagner & McGuigan owned the Athenian building and "were chiefly engaged on the maps and views for the Report on the Pacific Railroad and plates intended for the Patent Office reports." Unfortunately the year also saw the building in which they had worked for a decade succumbed to fire yet again. On November 26, 1857, the destructive blaze destroyed the building, of which they occupied all but the first floor and a second floor room, along with their stock of lithographic stones, finished work, presses, and belongings worth $20,000. Proofs of the government prints remained and the firm continued in business for about another year at 34/38 Franklin Place. After 1858, both Wagner and McGuigan continued in the lithographic trade and established their own firms under sole proprietorships.
Date: fl. 1845-ca. 1858
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Butler, J. B.
Description: J. B. Butler, was a Philadelphia lithographer during the mid 1850s. His known work includes a ca. 1856 portrait print of General Scott published by stationer, bookseller, and lithographer Richard Magee.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Lesueur, Charles Alexandre
Description: Charles Alexandre Lesueur, born January 1, 1778 in Le-Havre, France, was an artist, naturalist, and early member of the Academy of Natural Sciences (Philadelphia), who experimented with lithography in Philadelphia in the late 1810s and early 1820s. An experienced specimens illustrator from a previous travel expedition with French commander Nicholas Baudin, Lesueur arrived in America in 1816 at the bequest of Scottish-American geologist William Maclure to explore the Northeastern United States., In 1817, he learned copperplate engraving and in 1819 began to experiment with lithography in Philadelphia as a means to illustrate his own articles in scientific periodicals. Lesueur resided in Philadelphia between 1818 and 1825 and worked as an art teacher, illustrator, and naturalist. He received diplomas from the Academy of Natural Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the Societas Medica Philadelphiensis. In 1821, lithographs that he drew and printed after sketches of specimens he made while on his surveys with Maclure illustrated a small number of the October 1821 issue of "The Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia" before being replaced by engravings., Lesueur continued to experiment with lithography in the city until about 1823. In 1825 he relocated to the commune New Harmony, Indiana where he remained, except for travels, until 1837. That year he returned to France via New Orleans. In 1846 he was appointed Curator of the Museum of Natural History at LeHavre, France. Lesueur died in France on December 12, 1846
Date: January 1, 1778-December 12, 1846
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Pike, Joseph
Description: Joseph Pike, born ca. 1837 in Pennsylvania, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia in 1860. He resided with his Irish-born father, merchant David Pike, and family northwest of Center City (Ward 15).
Date: b. ca. 1837
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Linton, Samuel B. (Samuel Benton
Description: Samuel B. Linton, born June 1838 in Gwynedd Township, Pennsylvania, worked in Philadelphia during the 1860s and 1870s as a lithographer who specialized in maps. As a child, Linton relocated to Washington D.C. with his family when his father was appointed a clerk in the Treasury Department. Before entering the lithography trade, Linton, at age sixteen, began work as a draughtsman for the U. S. Coast Survey. He continued as a draughtsman through much of the Civil War, relocating to Philadelphia soon after his marriage in 1864. About this time he began work as a map draughtsman with G. M. Hopkins. City directories first listed Linton as a lithographer in 1867 at 517 Prune Street. By the following year, Linton had relocated his establishment to 148 - 148 1/2 South Fourth Street (same address as lithographers Jacob M. Conklin and Daniel O'Donnell). During the 1860s and 1870s Linton surveyed and lithographed maps of Civil War sites, the states, and Philadelphia, including the 1872 "Map of the Wissahickon Creek from its Mouth to Paul's Mill Road" and the 1876 "Outline Map of the County and City of Philadelphia." During his career, Linton also worked for the Union Railway and map publisher O. N. Gray, the latter on his 1878 “National Atlas.” He was also a church leader and missionary who helped to organize the Mantawna and Woodland Baptist churches in Philadelphia., Linton worked from the Fourth Street location until circa 1883 when he left the trade to pursue farming in Chester, Pa. (his residence since 1879). By 1889, he returned to Pennsylvania (Ridley Park) and in 1890 to survey work and soon thereafter lithography at 410 Walnut Street. As of 1918, Linton continued to be listed in city directories at 410 Walnut Street with a residence at 513 Woodland Terrace in West Philadelphia. By 1920, Linton returned to Chester in Devon with his wife Mary (1842-1940) and daughter Catherine Linton Cornelius (1876-1976) whose family lived with him and his wife in 1910., Linton married Mary Salome Latch in 1864 and had eight children with seven living to adulthood. During the late 1860s and the 1870s, the family resided in Roxborough before their relocation to Chester in 1879. Linton passed away in Devon on August 28, 1897.
Date: June 3, 1838-August 28, 1927
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Flick, Louis J.
Description: Louis J. Flick, born in Pennsylvania in 1833, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia between ca. 1849 and ca. 1910. From 1855 to at least 1859, Flick worked at the P. S. Duval establishment at Ranstead Place as listed in Philadelphia city directories. Louis was an active member of many organizations, including the Lithographic Printers Union, serving as the union's president in 1862; the Philadelphia Lodge, No. 72 Free and Accepted Masons; Girard Mark Lodge, No. 214; Covenant Lodge, No. 114 Independent Order of Odd Fellows (I.O.O.F.); Philadelphia Encampment, No. 1 I.O.O.F.; St. John Castle, No. 19, Knights of the Golden Eagle; and St. Judes' and Nativity Church., Louis boarded with book binder William Luntz in the Penn Ward in 1850, and by 1860, resided with shoemaker Isaac Stettler and his family in Ward 13. Flick married Stettler's daughter, Catharine (1840-January 2, 1898) by 1870, and had one son, Louis (b. 1859). By 1875, 941 Kurtz (i.e., Jessup) Street became their permanent residence until Catharine's death in 1898. Louis, Sr. relocated to 1233 Stiles Street in Ward 20 by 1900. Flick's son Louis, Jr., a plumber by trade, and his young family lived with him. Flick remained on Stiles Street until his death on January 31, 1914.
Date: 1833-January 31, 1914
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Stein, Rudolph
Description: Rudolph Stein, a prominent member of the Philadelphia Jewish community, born in Prussia ca. 1823, was a partner in the lithographic establishment Stein & Jones. Stein arrived in the city ca. 1850 and began work as a printer. About 1859 Stein established a lithographic and printing office with partner Alfred T. Jones, a prominent Jewish merchant, at 321 Chestnut Street. The partnership, Stein & Jones, which specialized in trade cards, proved profitable and Stein paid tax on his income and assets of a piano and gold watch during the Civil War. In addition, he employed a domestic servant by 1870. Stein was married to Fannie (b. ca. 1833) with whom he had several children, including a son, Jacob (b. ca. 1853), who became a bookkeeper. Stein assumed sole operation of Stein & Jones in 1869 and operated the business until his sudden death from apoplexy at his residence on Marshall Street on January 11, 1871.
Date: ca. 1823-1871
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Goodman, Christian
Description: Christian Goodman, born about 1825 in Wurttemberg, Germany, immigrated to Philadelphia in 1854 and was listed as a lithographer in Philadelphia city directories 1860-1861. In Philadelphia, he boarded with shoemaker Augustus Tedich in Ward 13. By 1883, he resided in Providence, Rhode Island, as a fresco painter according to the city directory. About 1887, he relocated to New York.
Date: b. ca. 1825
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Mansure, Robert
Description: Robert Mansure worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia with family members Charles and John J. from 1857 to 1859 in Southwark. They operated from 534 Queen Street; the same location as printer John Stimmell., Mansure is most likely Robert Mansure, Sr., born ca. 1804 in Delaware, who worked in Philadelphia primarily as a carpenter. However, two Robert Mansures are listed in an 1859 Philadelphia city directory, one as a carpenter residing at 940 South Fourth Street and the other listed as a lithographer living at 1332 Juniata Street. Robert Jr., born ca. 1848 in Pennsylvania, was too young to have been active as early as 1857 in the lithographic trade.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Collins, John
Description: John Collins was a Philadelphia lithographic printer accused of burglary in a December 1873 newspaper report.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Sched, H.
Description: H. Sched was the draftsman of the lithograph "The Old Phila. Fire Department. Period of 1850. The Great Engine contest on Sunday Evening July 7th 1850 at 5th & Market Sts." printed by T. Leonhardt & Son after the work of Charles Spieler in 1882., Sched is also probably the H. Scheda who delineated the membership certificate "Second Regiment Infantry Corps National Guards First Brigade Headquarters N.G. of PA. Company" printed by T. Leonhardt & Son in 1881.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Engleken, Jacob
Description: Jacob Engleken, born ca. 1804 in Germany, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia in 1850. He resided in a boarding house neighboring Frederick Bourquin's residence on the 600 block of Pine Street in the New Market Ward. Possibly the same Jacob Enkelken that came to New York aboard the Silvie de Grasse from Havre in August of 1841.
Date: b. ca. 1804
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Schnabel & Finkeldey
Description: Schnabel & Finkeldey, the partnership between German-born Philadelphia lithographers Edward Schnabel and John F. Finkeldey was active 1857-1863. Originally established as Schnabel, Finkeldey & Demme, the firm formed from the remaining members of M. H. Traubel & Co. and William Demme in 1857 at 218, formerly 46 1/2, Walnut Street. Although the firm lasted only about a year, it issued a noted small series of commercial views of Chestnut Street titled "Panorama of Philadelphia" as well as sheet music covers., Following the departure of Demme, Schnabel and Finkeldey remained as partners and issued portraits, advertisements, certificates, and commemorative and view prints, occasionally with German text. Interesting works include the allegorical commemorative lithograph "Speech of Robert Emmet, Esq." and a certificate in German "Freiheit Edelmuth & Bruderliebe, Unabhangiger Orden der Rothmaenner" (ca. 1863) for the Improved Order of Redmen in the Harry T. Peters Collection, Smithsonian Institution., Unfortunately, the Schnable and Finkeldey partnership proved burdensome for Finkeldey and at the end of February 1863, he organized the firm's creditors to sue the business after near five years of poor management as a result of his alcoholic partner spending his days at the tavern of Bergner & Engel, who commissioned an advertisement from the firm, possibly for debt owed, in 1859. On March 8, 1863, paper dealer Margarge & Co. bought the establishment at a sheriff's sale and Finkeldey continued the business as a sole proprietor.
Date: fl. 1857-1863
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Ruen, Charles
Description: Charles Ruen, born ca. 1823 in Switzerland, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia in 1860. He resided in the household of French-born lampmaker Alfred Bourlier in Ward 6.
Date: b. ca. 1823
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Bence, John H.
Description: John H. Bence (Benee?) worked at the establishment of P.S Duval (8 South Fifth Street) in 1857.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Carlin, Daniel
Description: Daniel Carlin, born circa 1826 in Pennsylvania, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia between 1852 and 1866. In 1855 Carlin was employed by P. S. Duval & Co. at their 5 Ranstead Place establishment. By the late 1850s, the United States Custom House employed Carlin, as a "day inspector," and it is unclear if he performed any lithographic work for them., Carlin and his wife, Sarah (b. ca. 1827), had five children by 1860. They lived in Wards 2 and 4 of the city, first at 607 Marriott (i.e. Montrose) Street, then settled at 903 Tasker Street in the 1860s. By 1870, Sarah E. Carlin was the head of the household, with two sons, Charles (b. 1850) and George W. (b. 1853), both employed in the printing trade.
Date: b. ca. 1826
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Meyer, Gottlieb
Description: Gottlieb Meyer, born ca. 1836 in Württemberg, Germany, worked as a lithographer and map colorist in Philadelphia 1860-1870. In Philadelphia by 1859, the year his first child Otto was born, Meyer resided with his wife Mary (b. ca. 1836), Otto (b. ca. 1859) and Swiss artist Celestine Graeff (b. ca. 1830) north of Arch Street in Ward 10. Meyer died before 1880, when Mary was listed as a widow living with Otto and Lillie at 1128 Wistar Street north of Center City in Ward 14.
Date: b. ca. 1836
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Abel & Durang
Description: Abel & Durang, the partnership between artist Edwin F. Durang and bookseller Peter E. Abel, was active 1848 and specialized in the publication of political cartoons.
Date: fl. 1848
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Baum, Charles
Description: Charles Baum, born in Germany ca. 1824, was a Philadelphia artist and publisher of lithographs during the Civil War. Between 1861-1863, Baum published "Camp Meigs" (1861) and the fundraising print "View of the Reception of the 29th Regiment, P. V., at Philadelphia" (1863), and was the artist for "Camp Brandywine, Third Regt. R. Brigade" (ca. 1862) and "Camp Du Pont. 4th Regt. Delaware Infantry". He may also be the Charles Baum who petitioned for naturalization in the Western District of Pennsylvania in October 1863. Baum has also been credited as the artist of two complementary paintings of the Bergner & Engel Brewery, ca. 1865. An artist named C. Baum residing in Egg Harbor exhibited a painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1864 and this may also be Charles Baum., Baum, a resident of Philadelphia from the 1840s, lived with his German-born wife Elizabeth (b. ca. 1832) and his daughter Eliza (b. ca. 1849) at Second Street above Ontario Street (Ward 23) in 1860.
Date: b. ca. 1824
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Dreser, William
Description: William Dreser, born May 31, 1818 in Hessen-Homburg, Germany, was a lithographer active in Philadelphia ca. 1847-ca. 1860 and ca. 1870-1872. Naturalized in New York in November 1844, Dreser worked as a lithographer with Edward Robyn (S.E. cor. Third and Pear streets) in Philadelphia by 1847 and lived in Moyamensing with his Dutch-born wife Elizabeth (b. ca. 1826) by 1850. The men formally partnered as Dreser & Robyn, ca. 1849-ca. 1851 before Dreser worked solely from their second location at 93 South Third Street (Chestnut near Third) ca. 1851-ca. 1855. By 1859, he formed another short term partnership with map lithographer William J. Barker, which again lasted only about a year, at 333 Chestnut Street., Although his partnerships were brief, Dreser maintained a working relationship with Thomas Sinclair from the 1850s to 1860s. He delineated lithographs for Sinclair beginning ca. 1850, including advertisements and ornithological book illustrations and in 1865 served as the lithographer of his noted color print "American Autumn, Starucca Valley, Erie R. Road.", Although still working with Sinclair in the mid 1860s, Dreser had relocated to New York by 1860. At that time, he owned $2,000 (i.e., about $53,000 in 2008) worth of personal estate, resided with his wife, and worked in the partnership of Dreser & Wissler. In 1870 Dreser returned briefly to Philadelphia as a lithographer before relocating to Cleveland, Ohio in 1872 where he worked as an artist at the lithographic firm of W. J. Morgan & Co. According to a notice in the "Plain Dealer," Dreser arrived in Cleveland alone. In October 1876, he filed for divorce from his wife due to "willful absence" of over three years. Less than a year later in August 1877 he was issued a passport in Cuyahoga County, Ohio.
Date: b. May 31, 1818
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Yearsley, Joseph
Description: Joseph Yearsley, born ca. 1834 in Delaware, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia ca. 1855 until his death in 1868. He was a member of Minerva Lodge, No. 224, I. O. of O. F. and the Lithographers Printers Union of Philadelphia. Yearsley originally resided with Delaware-born Maria Dowden (b. ca. 1795) in Moyamensing (Ward 2) as a teen in 1850, and in Ward 20 by 1860 with his Pennsylvania-born wife Catherine (b. ca. 1839) and two children, Emma (b. 1858) and Warren (b. 1859), a Girard College alum and "dye works" chemist. When Yearsley died of consumption in 1868, he lived with his family at 702 Stewart Street (Ward 4). After his death, his daughter Emma resided with an Anna Stern on Good Street in Germantown.
Date: b. ca. 1834-1868
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Bowen, Lavinia
Description: Lavinia Bowen, born ca. 1820 in Maine and wife of preeminent Philadelphia lithographer John T. Bowen, operated the lithograph firm Bowen & Company with ornithologist John Cassin after her husband's death in 1856. The newly-styled firm, left with an estate worth about $5,500 from John T. Bowen, continued to operate from the southwest corner of Eleventh and Chestnut Streets until 1866, when it relocated to 713 Jayne Street until 1872. John Cassin left the firm in 1867, and R. B. Jones appears as a co-proprietor of Bowen & Co. in the 1868 Philadelphia directory., Lavinia was an artist, lithographer and plate colorist in her own right, presumably working on her husband's hand-colored book plate projects, and later, natural history commissions including three folio bird books for Daniel Elliot and Henry Schoolcraft's "Indian Tribes of North American." John Cassin praised her skills as an artist in ornithology in the "Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences" (1858), and named a bird, the Calliste Lavinia, in her honor.Lavinia married John T. Bowen before 1838, the year their son, John T., was born in New York. From 1839 through the 1840s, they lived in Center City at 61 South Fifth Street and later 96 Walnut Street and by 1855, resided at 674 Green Street above Spring Garden Street. After John's death in 1856, Lavinia resided at 1020 Cherry Street until 1872.
Date: b. ca. 1820
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Kennedy & Lucas
Description: Kennedy & Lucas, the first commercial lithographic establishment in Philadelphia, established by looking glass and print store proprietors David Kennedy and William B. Lucas at 90 South Third Street, was active 1828-1833. Started as "Lucas's Lithography" by Lucas in the spring of 1828, early prints of the firm included "Cowell as Crack in the Turnpike Gate" and "The Pagoda and Labyrinth Garden" printed after the designs of British artist and lithographer Hugh Bridport. Officially established as a commercial firm in December 1828, Kennedy & Lucas announced "their Press at No. 90 South Third, where specimens can be seen" in the "National Gazette" on December 9 and 10, 1828., The firm printed book illustrations, city views, genre prints, sheet music covers, and advertisements, often delineated by artist W. L. Breton. The pairing issued a noted series of church views, including "Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church"; the cityscape illustrations for Watson's Annals of Philadelphia, and the advertisement "Philadelphia Baths, Corner of George and Seventh Sts., near Chestnut Street" as well as plates for Earle's Treatise on Railroads (1830) and The Floral Magazine and Botanical Repository (1832-1834). Following the death of Lucas in 1833, the firm ceased operations and on March 1, 1834, "The United States Gazette" advertised the executor's sale of the lithographic establishment. Equipment and tools sold included "3 presses of different sizes, one standing do., rollers and ink stones, with every requisite for the above business. Also, 8000 lbs. of first quality lithographic stones, assorted sizes, from 34 inches by 23 inches, down to 8 by 10 inches,...", Kennedy, a well-established carver, gilder, and glass and picture store owner in Philadelphia before partnering with Lucas, operated from 109 Walnut Street and also managed a tavern at Ninth and Walnut Streets in the 1820s. Lucas's background before operating the lithograph firm is unclear; his will dated 1833 listed him as a gilder and lithographer.
Date: fl. 1828-1833
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Ackerman, Emil
Description: Emil Ackerman, born ca. 1840 in Dresden, Germany, moved to the United States with his father in 1848 and began a lithographic apprenticeship ca. 1856 with Max Rosenthal in Philadelphia. He resided at the northeast corner of Fifth and Wood Streets and worked as a "lithographist" in 1861, operating from the upper floors of 311 Chestnut Street. Soon thereafter, Ackerman moved to Boston and worked from 134 Washington Street by 1863. He was later affiliated with the New England Lithographic Co. (1869-71), J.H. Bufford's Sons (1875 and 1878), and Ackermann & Prand, Roxbury, Mass. (1880). By 1900, Ackerman returned to the Philadelphia area with his wife, Henrietta (b. ca. 1848), and two sons, Henry (b. ca. 1870, also a lithographer) and George (b. ca. 1880), and made his home in Jersey City, NJ.
Date: b. 1840
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Kelly, William F.
Description: William F. Kelly, born ca. 1833 in Pennsylvania, worked as a lithographer for P. S. Duval 1859-ca. 1860. He resided in a boarding house in Center City with his wife Sarah, and two children, Jane and Margaret. Fellow lithographers William Lewis and George Thomas resided in the same house. He was also named in the insolvency petition of Duval in 1859.
Date: b. ca. 1833
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: McClain, Francis
Description: Francis McClain, son of master carpenter Hugh McClain, born ca. 1838 in Pennsylvania, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia in 1860. McClain resided with his parents and siblings in South Philadelphia (2nd Ward). His father owned real estate valued at $3000 and personal estate valued at $1000., By 1866 McClain entered the carpentry trade and continued to live with his family at a residence at 1012 Christian Street.
Date: b. ca. 1838
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Martin, Charles
Description: See Mansure, Charles.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: McLean, Alexander
Description: Alexander McLean, born in Scotland ca. 1823, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia in 1849. McLean resided in Pennsylvania by 1847 and at 5 Paynter's Court in Southwark in 1849. Between 1850 and the early 1870s, Mclean continued in the trade, first in Louisville, Ky. and then St. Louis Mo., According to the 1870 census, McLean resided in St. Louis. His household included his wife Caroline (b. ca. 1830), whom he married in the later 1840s, and three of his four recorded children, including son and lithographer Alexander, Jr. (b. 1849), who joined his father in business after 1860. McLean owned real estate valued at $5000 and personal estate valued at $10000., He may be the Alexander McClean who applied for or received citizenship in Philadelphia in 1844.
Date: b. ca. 1823
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Adelung, Ernest
Description: Ernst Adelung, born in Württemberg, Germany, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia in 1860. He resided in Ward 6 of the city.
Date: b. ca. 1824
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Hart, William Sr.
Description: William Hart, Sr., a prominent Philadelphia lithographer, was born in England ca. 1815. Immigrating to the United States as a boy with his family, he resided and operated his own lithographic establishment (21 Bank Street) in Philadelphia by ca. 1847. During the mid 1850s, he relocated to his longtime establishment at 25 North Fourth Street (ca. 1858-ca. 1877) before his move in 1878 to the building at 18-20 South Sixth Street owned by paper manufacturer Theodore Megarge. Despite a devastating fire resulting in $20,000 worth of loses for Hart in 1879, he continued in business at North Fourth and Cherry Streets (123-127 North Fourth) with "three spacious and well-lighted rooms", a stock of equipment worth $20,000, 15 employees, and a business income of $25,000 a year as of 1881., Although most recognized for his plates for a number of John Gould's multi-volume ornithological color-plate books, including "Birds of Asia" (1850-1883) and "Birds of Great Britain" (1862-1873), Hart practiced all branches of the trade. He early advertised the capability to print in colors (1850) and later in his career, received recognition for his card mounts for photographs., During his first decade in Philadelphia, Hart resided in Kensington (Third Ward) with his wife Grace (b. ca. 1815) and his son William, also a lithographer. By the early 1860s, Hart and his family relocated to West Philadelphia and established a residence at 3703 Spring Garden Street., Hart died on March 9, 1888 with the reputation as a "pioneer" and "progressive" lithographer. His son William continued the business until ca. 1900.
Date: ca. 1815-March 9, 1888
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Wynkoop, John Frank
Description: John Frank Wynkoop, the son of lithographer John Johnson Wynkoop, born about 1852 in New York, worked in Philadelphia as an apprentice lithographer by 1870 and a lithographer by 1873. In 1876, he worked at the lithographic firm managed by Stephen C. Duval that included Louis Haugg and Augustus L. Weise, (401 Ranstead Place) when his lithographic career ended as a consequence of a severe injury to his right hand from a lithographic press. Following the accident, he began work in bookkeeping.
Date: b. ca. 1852
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Duval, Stephen Orr
Description: See Duval, Stephen C.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

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