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Title: G. W. Burgess & Company
Description: G. W. Burgess & Co., a Philadelphia variety store, published and copyrighted the J. T. Bowen genre lithograph "Log Cabin Politicians" in 1841. The variety store operated from 40 South Third Street, a few blocks from the Bowen lithographic establishment. A copy of the print is held in the Harry T. Peters Collection, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Clonney, James G.
Description: James G. Clonney, born in England in 1812, was a New York genre painter, miniaturist, and lithographer who practiced lithography in Philadelphia at Childs & Inman 1831-ca. 1833. He drew lithographic plates printed by the firm for the Doughty's "Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports" (1830-1833). Childs & Inman retained Clonney based on the recommendation of Inman (Vice-President of the National Academy of Design). In March 1831, he sent the New York lithographer and Academy student to Philadelphia with a letter of introduction for Childs. Clonney was never listed in Philadelphia city directories, but most likely resided in the city during the period he worked for the Philadelphia firm., Clonney left the lithographic trade by about 1840 (the year of his naturalization) and focused on genre painting in New York. He exhibited his works at the National Academy of Design, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Apollo Association, and the American Art Union. By 1850, he was listed in the census as a farmer residing in New Rochelle, New York with his wife Margaret and several children. He died in Binghamton, New York in 1867.
Date: 1812-1867
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Boerum, Simeon
Description: Simeon Boerum, born in New York ca. 1830, worked in Philadelphia as a wood engraver, lithographer, and printer 1850s-1880s. Predominately a wood engraver given his known extant work, Boerum had advertised in "The Philadelphia Shopping Guide & Housekeeper's Companion for 1859" as a "Designer and Engraver on Wood, Lithography, Printing and Die Sinking, In All Its Branches, No. 310 Chesnut St., above Third, opposite the Franklin House, Philadelphia." In addition, three years earlier, he designed and printed the lithograph "Awful Accident on the North Pennsylvania Rail Road on Thursday July 17th 1856." Boerum also exhibited engravings at the 1854 Franklin Institution Exhibition of American Manufacturers., During the 1860s and 1870s, Boerum lived in South Philadelphia (745 South Front Street and 531 Pierce Street) and Camden, New Jersey. By 1880 he had settled in Philadelphia on 177 Richmond Street (North Philadelphia) with his wife Martha (b. ca. 1840) and several children. By 1885, he again was living in South Philadelphia at 1826 Reed Street. Boerum died on October 16, 1894 and was interred at the Philadelphia Crematory., Boerum may also be the Simeon Boerum listed in Civil War Service Records, who enlisted in Company L, 2nd Cavalry Regiment New Jersey on September 15, 1864. He mustered out June 29, 1865.
Date: ca. 1830-October 16, 1894
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Hickok & Cantine
Description: Hickok & Cantine, a business formed by William Orville Hickok (1815-1891) and John J. Cantine (b. 1808), specialized in book binding, blank book manufacturing, and publishing between 1839 and 1846 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Despite a fire that razed their shop on March 5, 1840, Hickok & Cantine remained active, publishing most of their works between 1844 and 1846, including a lithograph drawn by Mrs. T. Schreiner, published in 1845 and entitled, "View of the Burning of the Cumberland Rail Road Bridge at Harrisburg, Dec. 4th, 1844.", By 1848, the New York-native William Orville Hickok, who had trained in book binding in Lewistown, Pennsylvania, focused his career on constructing special machinery for book binders. This enterprise, owing to the success of Hickok's patented ruling-machine, expanded rapidly, and the "Eagle Works," later known as the Hickok Manufacturing Company, consisted of a complex of buildings, including a machine shop, wood shop, and two iron foundries in Harrisburg., Less is known about John J. Cantine's life after Hickok & Cantine, except that he removed to Slaterville, New York, where he enlisted as a Private in Company K of the 137th Infantry of the New York Volunteers in 1862.
Date: fl. 1839-1846
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Kraft, Lewis
Description: Lewis Kraft, born in Germany ca. 1811, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia by 1850. He immigrated to the United States by 1849; the year his son Charles was born in Pennsylvania. He resided on Spruce Street in southeast Center City (Pine Ward) with his German-born wife Wilhelmina (b. ca. 1818) and three sons William (b. ca. 1842), Julius (b. ca. 1845) and Charles (b. ca. 1849)., Possibly the same Lewis C. Kraft listed as a ropemaker in the 1864 Philadelphia city directory.
Date: b. ca. 1811
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Bourquin, Charles L.
Description: Charles L. Bourquin, son of lithographer Frederick Bourquin, was born in New Jersey in January 1852. He worked as a lithographer while residing next to his father in Camden in 1880. He was married in 1878 to Clara or Jane (b. 1862), and had three children Maria (b. 1879), Clarence (1889-1913), and Howard (b. 1896). He died from a tumor on September 1, 1902 at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia.
Date: January 1852 - September 1, 1902
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Scheuerer, August
Description: August Scheuerer, born ca. 1823 in Baden, Germany, worked as a lithographer in New York and Philadelphia in the 1870s and 1880s. Scheuerer was married to German-born Karoline (b. ca. 1825) and had two sons August (b. ca. 1860, New York) and Louis (b. ca. 1865, New York. In 1870 he and his family resided in Brooklyn before they relocated to Philadelphia by 1880. In Philadelphia he headed a household at 1724 Germantown Avenue (Ward 19) that included his wife and two sons who worked in a "printing office."
Date: b ca. 1823
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Bourquin, Frederick
Description: Frederick Bourquin, born in 1808 in the Canton of Berne, Switzerland, was a pioneer Philadelphia lithographer who specialized in maps. Following immigration to the United States in 1817 with his brother Charles F. Bourquin, he resided in Bucks County, Pa. and New York as well as began his lithographic career at the Philadelphia firm of Kennedy & Lucas in 1829. A U.S. citizen as of 1834, he permanently located to Philadelphia ca. 1840 and gained employment with his brother at P. S. Duval's firm in 1842., In 1849 Frederick became the foreman and from 1852 to January 1, 1857, a partner in the firm P. S. Duval & Co. Within a year, he partnered with Robert Pearsall Smith to form the map publishing establishment F. Bourquin & Company (602 Chestnut Street). The partnership was active until ca. 1863 when Bourquin became the sole proprietor of the business until his death in 1897., In 1866, Bourquin moved his recently established firm from Sixth & Chestnut Streets to quarters at 104 Hudson Alley (now Carpenter's Court) behind 320 Chestnut Street where he remained until 1873. He then relocated to 31 South Sixth Street and occupied two large rooms employing, according to the demands of his work, between 6 and 20 skilled and experienced lithographers. Although he produced lithographic portraits and prints, his main business focused on the production of county maps and atlases. He succeeded Robert Pearsall Smith as the main producer in this branch of the trade after the latter's sudden retirement from the field in 1865., According to Bourquin's advertisements, he offered "every facility for engraving, printing, coloring and mounting state and county maps, of the largest size." Throughout his map publishing career, he worked closely with the firm of Worley & Bracher and maintained professional connections with New York. By his 1882 credit report, he was "quite favorably regarded by the trade" and "considered honest and worthy of confidence" with an estimated worth of $5,000, which rose to about $12,000 in 1886., Bourquin was an innovator in the field of lithography. He experimented with different methods of improving the transfer process for which the Franklin Institute awarded him a prize in 1847; introduced zincography to America in 1849; and worked with John Jay Smith, father of R. P. Smith, in the development of the Anastatic Press in 1846., A resident of Camden, N.J. from the mid 1850's, Bourquin served on Camden's City Council during the 1870s and 1880s and as a Democrat in the New Jersey legislature in 1872. Married to Mary (b. ca. 1820), Bourquin had several children including four sons Frederick Bourquin, Jr., Gordon M. Bourquin, David L. Bourquin, and Charles L. Bourquin, involved in the lithographic and/or printing business. Bourquin died at his home in Camden, N.J. in 1897 and was survived by two of his sons.
Date: 1808- May 25, 1897
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Nunns, John F.
Description: John F. Nunns, born ca. 1806 in England, was a sheet music publisher active in Philadelphia and New York in the 1830s and 1840s. He published the lithographic sheet music cover "The Fairmount Quadrilles" while he operated in Philadelphia from 70 South Third Street in 1836., In 1850 Nunns lived in New York and worked as a piano maker. He was married to Caroline (b. ca. 1807, New York) with whom he had several children 20 years and younger born in New York.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Jones, Ellen
Description: Ellen Jones, born ca. 1854 in Pennsylvania, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia in 1880 while a resident at 10 Wilson Street. She is one of the few listed female lithographers of the 19th century., Jones, daughter of a father born in New York and a mother Mary born ca. 1830 in Rhode Island, lived in a household with three men involved in the printing trade: William Brown (b. ca. 1869), a lithographer who had lost a finger; and brothers and printers Charles (b. ca. 1859) and Benjamin (b. ca. 1861).
Date: b. ca. 1854
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

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

Title: Birch, Thomas
Description: Thomas Birch, son of prominent English-born engraver William Birch, born in England in 1779, was a respected Philadelphia maritime painter whose work was issued as lithographs from the 1830s to 1850., Lithographs include "View of the United States Naval Hospital at Norfolk, Va." (Childs & Inman, ca. 1832); "Capture of H.M. Ships Cyane & Levant" (P.S. Duval, ca. 1850); and a S. A. & A. F. Ward "Spring & Summer 1846" fashion plate printed by Thomas Sinclair containing his view of Cape May, About 1835, Philadelphia lithographers Childs & Lehman also issued the allegorical temperance print "'Look Upon this Picture and on This.' Intemperance and Temperance" after an 1826 sketch, including the Fairmount Water Works, by Birch. Birch lived in Center City during much of his career, including addresses at 25 North Fourth Street (1825); 14 Filbert Street (1835); 100 Union Street (1845); and in 1850 at 77 Lombard Street in Southwark (Ward 1) with his second wife Sarah (b. ca. 1799). Birch also had two children a daughter (b. 1808) and son, auctioneer Thomas, Jr. (b. 1812). He died on January 3, 1851.
Date: 1779- January 3, 1851
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Stewart, Pythias
Description: Pythias D. Stewart, born ca. 1840 in Georgia, resided in Trenton, New Jersey by 1850 with his Pennsylvania-born parents and New Jersey-born infant sister. His father, Theodore (b. ca. 1829), was a grocer by trade. By 1860, Stewart worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia and resided in a boarding house in the Spring Garden (Ward 13). In 1870, he was a photographer working at 322 North Second Street, most likely with Pirrong & Son, photographers, and lived in Jacob W. Zell's household in Ward 14.
Date: b. ca. 1840
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Muehler, Thomas
Description: Thomas Muehler, born ca. 1815 in Germany, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia in 1850. He resided in a boarding house in the Pine Ward with fellow lithographer, French-born Jacob Pfeiffer.
Date: b. ca. 1815
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Duval, Stephen C. (Stephen Charles)
Description: Stephen Charles Duval, the son of the leading Philadelphia lithographer Peter S. Duval, was born in Philadelphia in 1833. He received lithographic training from his father and may have also studied the trade in Paris. In 1854, he exhibited nine framed lithographs at the Exhibitions of American Manufactures at the Franklin Institute., In 1857 he became a partner in his father's lithographic firm, which was then renamed P. S. Duval & Son. Three years later in 1860, Stephen Duval married Emma Hoffy, the daughter of artist and publisher Alfred Hoffy who had worked on a number of printing projects with his father. Upon his father's retirement in 1869, Stephen Duval took over the business, but soon formed a partnership with Thomas Hunter, creating the firm of Duval & Hunter at 223 South Fifth Street. Two years later Duval & Hunter moved to 716 Filbert Street. The firm emphasized its ability to produce high quality chromolithographic art reproductions., By 1875 Stephen Duval left the firm and may have moved to Richmond, Virginia, but by 1877 he had returned to Philadelphia and began a short-lived lithographic firm at Fourth Street and Ranstead Place. By 1880 he apparently left Philadelphia, having lived with his father in 1850 and 1860 in Center City and in West Philadelphia in 1870. He and his wife lived in New York City in 1900 with their adult daughter and her family. Both Stephen Duval and his wife Emma died in 1907 (Stephen on February 20, 1907) in New Orleans.
Date: January 1833-February 20, 1907
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Lewis, William
Description: William Lewis, born ca. 1834 in Pennsylvania, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia in 1860. He resided in a boarding house in Ward 5 in July 1860 with fellow lithographers George Thomas and William Kelly.
Date: b. ca. 1834
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Cohle, Ortelia
Description: Ortelia Cohle, born ca. 1835 in Pennsylvania, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia according to the 1860 census. He resided in a boarding house with Elizabeth Cohle (b. ca. 1836), probably his wife, in North Philadelphia (Ward 17).
Date: b. ca. 1835
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Rease, W. H. (William H.)
Description: William H. Rease, born in Pennsylvania ca. 1818, was the most prolific lithographer of advertising prints in Philadelphia during the 1840s and 1850s. Rease became active in the trade ca. 1844, and through the 1850s he predominately worked with printers Frederick Kuhl and Wagner & McGuigan in the production of advertising prints known for their portrayals of human details., Although Rease often collaborated with other lithographers, by 1850 he promoted in "O'Brien's Business Directory" his own establishment at 17 South Fifth Street, above Chestnut Street. He advertised his drawing on stone of "foundries, factories, stores, machinery, portraits, landscapes, architectural drawings etc." In 1855 he relocated his establishment to the northeast corner of Fourth and Chestnut streets, after a ca. 1853-1855 partnership with Francis Schell, where in addition to advertising prints he produced certificates, views, maps, and maritime prints., Between 1856 and 1861, Rease partnered with Henry W. Scattergood in map mounting with an additional shop front at 512 North Ninth Street 1861-1862. During this time Rease maintained a good credit rating with $2,000 of capital in 1856 and in 1861 he advertised his $1.00 lithograph "printed to order" of the U.S.S. Hartford as a memento and "Encouragement to our blue jackets." The same year he employed lithographers Charles Bonwill, Francis Daniels, and George Kunzman. Rease continued his successful business and during the Civil War earned enough income to be taxed by the I.R.S. In 1867 he entered another partnership with Horatio J. Kurtz, his probable apprentice whom lived with Rease as a teen in 1859 and 1860. The partnership lasted about a year and Rease remained active in the trade until ca. 1873., During his career in lithography, Rease resided in North Philadelphia (1844-1852, 1857-1862, 1868-1872) or Fairmount (1853-1856, 1862-1867). In 1860 he lived at 1440 Marshall with his wife Elizabeth (ca. 1824-1896) and the lithographers Horatio Kerse, i.e., Kurtz (b. ca. 1844) and Francis Daniels (b. ca. 1835). His personal estate was valued at $950, which increased to $4000 in 1870 when a resident at Marshall Street, corner of Venango Street. By 1880 "artist" Rease and his wife were boarders at 2120 Wallace Street. Rease died on April 26, 1893 while a resident of 313 Radcliffe Street, Bristol, Pa.
Date: ca. 1818 - April 26, 1893
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Abel, P. E. (Peter E.)
Description: Peter E. Abel, born on March 17, 1826 in Philadelphia, worked as a clerk, bookseller, publisher of lithographs, and business agent in the city between 1839 and 1876. Following his education at Central High School, Abel worked in Turner & Fisher's book store (15 North Sixth Street) until about 1849 and the death of proprietor Frederick Turner. During that time, he published lithographs, predominately political cartoons, with artist Edwin F. Durang. Titles, all dated 1848, include Bagging the Game; Cock of the Walk; The Democratic Funeral of 1848; The Liberty Chariot; Worrying the Bull; Studying Political Economy; and Who Says Gas? The Democratic B-Hoy., After 1849, he worked for the widowed Mrs. Turner and her sons at 384 North Second Street and by 1856 for T. B. Peterson & Bros.' publishing house at 102 (i.e. 306) Chestnut Street. Remaining with Peterson until about 1869, Abel then opened and operated his own book and curiosities shop at 131 South Seventh Street until around 1871. Soon thereafter, he became the business agent for the Chestnut Street Theater under the management of Edward Loon Davenport, and later worked for various bookstores and businesses, including those at 1211 Chestnut Street, 112 South Eighth Street, and 1315 Chestnut Street. Abel's work with the theater included the coordination of theater events and benefits and the publication of theater-related media, including playbills. He was one of the main organizers of "La Coterie Carnival" in Philadelphia in the late 1860s., Until about 1860, Abel resided on Wildey (i.e. Bedford) Street in Ward 19 with his wife, Cecile E. (1830-1897), and his son, Frederick (b. 1853) before moving to 1612 North Seventh Street (Ward 18). The family remained at the address until ca. 1875 when they relocated to 1632 Institute (i.e. Bouvier) Street, their address at the time of Abel's death on May 2, 1876, when the former lithograph publisher burdened by financial woes committed suicide by jumping from the Girard Avenue Bridge.
Date: March 17, 1826-May 2, 1876
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Bourquin, Charles F.
Description: Charles F. Bourquin, born about 1805 in Canton Bien, Switzerland, traveled to the United States with his younger brother, lithographer Frederick Bourquin in 1817. During the 1830s, he resided in New York where he was naturalized and married before relocating to Philadelphia about 1843. From 1843 to 1851, he resided at 194 (i.e., 600 block) Pine Street as he worked at the studio of P. S. Duval, where he remained employed until ca. 1857. Between 1855 and 1869 he resided at 804 Weccacoe (until 1864) and 2030 Christian Street (until 1869) and entered the employment of his brother F. Bourquin & Company, later Frederick Bourquin around 1857. Bourquin continued under the employment of his brother until his death on June 2, 1869 from drowning.
Date: ca. 1805 - ca. 1869
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Kramm, Gustavus
Description: Gustavus Kramm, born ca. 1807 in Frankfurt-au-Main, Germany, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia between the 1830s and 1850s. During the 1830s Kramm worked in New York City and Philadelphia before moving to Philadelphia ca. 1844 where he remained in the profession until 1854. During his early career, he lithographed a number of sheet music covers, including "Les Extraordinaires Paganini Quadrille" and worked for the Philadelphia firm Lehman & Duval (1835-1836). In 1851, he operated from the studio of L. N. Rosenthal at the S.E. corner of Third and Dock Streets. Between 1849 and 1852, he worked on a number of maps, including collaborations with George Worley on the "Map of Burlington County" (R.P. Smith, 1849) and "Map of the City of Philadelphia" (A. McElroy, 1852). He lived in Philadelphia at 1 Emslie's Alley and 27 Wharton Street and was married to Sarah (b. ca. 1818), and had three children. In his later years, he lived in Cincinnati, St. Louis, Missouri, and Iowa where he joined the 37th Iowa in 1863. He was accidentally killed at Memphis, Tennessee on August 16, 1864.
Date: ca. 1807 - August 16, 1864
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

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

Title: Wade, Frederick J.
Description: Frederick J. Wade, born December 1841 in England, was a later 19th-century Philadelphia manufacturer of metallic signs and general lithographer. Wade immigrated to Philadelphia on May 26, 1854 from Liverpool, England on board the "Manchester." By 1863 Wade worked in the city as a lithographer and by ca. 1873 established his own firm at 230 South Fifth Street. Smith produced the 1875 historic prints "Philadelphia in 1702" and Philadelphia in the Olden Time," church, views, certificates and labels. His firm was active until 1886 and he worked as a lithographer until ca. 1900., Wade was married to Margaret (b. ca. 1840) with whom he had two daughters. From ca. 1860 to ca. 1900, Wade predominately lived in Center City on the 300 block of Cypress Street (Ward 4); first at his own residence at 306 Cypress with his family and in 1900 as a widowed boarder at 310 Cypress. In the late 1880s he resided at 310 Aberdeen Street (West Philadelphia.). By 1910 Wade returned to West Philadelphia and resided at the "Old Mans Home "at Saunders and Powelton streets. He was listed in city directories at that address until 1918.
Date: December 1841 -ca. 1918
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Wild, John Caspar (or Canova)
Description: John Caspar (or Canova) Wild, a French-trained artist and lithographer, born ca. 1804 in Zurich, Switzerland and known primarily for his cityscapes and buildings, panoramas, landscapes, and "great proficiency in coloring" was active in Philadelphia between 1832 and ca. 1838. Wild trained as an artist and lithographer for approximately fifteen years in Paris before he arrived in New York City aboard the "Manchester" from Le Havre, France on August 22, 1832. Wild was in Philadelphia by the end of 1832, when he established Fenderich & Wild, a partnership with fellow Swiss lithographer, Charles Fenderich. The firm issued a portrait of the 103-year-old Sergeant Andrew Wallace that year and later printed lithographs with the imprint "Fenderich & Wild's Lithographic Press," at 215 Callowhill Street, including "Fairmount Water Works near Philadelphia," created after an 1834 gouache painting. Wild also delineated lithographs for other firms, including "The Bunch of Grapes" (1833) for Childs & Inman and "Chads Ford The Brandywine Battle Ground Where Gen. La Fayette Was Wounded Sept. 11, 1777" (1834) printed by J. F. & C. A. Watson. The latter print, promoted in an advertisement in the "Philadelphia Inquirer" on July 13, 1834, garnered him the praise, "one of the best artists in this country.", Despite these well-received lithographs, Wild relocated to Cincinnati, Ohio in the spring of 1835 with the intention of heading to Mexico. He, however, remained in Cincinnati and created city views and streetscapes before returning to Philadelphia in 1837. He probably returned to Philadelphia to work on "The Lions of Philadelphia," a project initially spearheaded by "Saturday Courier" proprietors Andrew M'Makin and Ezra Holden that would depict Philadelphia landmarks. Evolved into the seminal "Views of Philadelphia." the subscription series was issued by Wild and his partner J. B. Chevalier as opposed to the "Courier" in whose building at 72 Dock Street the partners operated. Issued in five series of four views, the first two sets, printed by John Collins, appeared in January 1838, the third set by March 1, 1838, and the fourth set, printed by Wild & Chevalier with their own press, in April 1838. The partners, although most identified with the "Views," also produced the same year: "Destruction by Fire of Pennsylvania Hall, on the Night of the 17th May, 1838"; "Girard College"; "Fairmount Waterworks"; and four panoramic views of Philadelphia from the steeple of Independence Hall to accompany the series., Wild left Philadelphia for St. Louis most likely in the fall of 1838. He married Sarah Ann Humphreys on September 1, 1841, but their marriage ended with her premature death four months later. Wild relocated to Davenport, Iowa by the summer of 1844, where he painted and lithographed nearby townscapes and portraits. He fell ill in the spring of 1846 and passed away on August 12, 1846 at the age of forty-two.
Date: 1804-August 12, 1846
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Brown, Bazilla S.
Description: Bazilla S. Brown, born ca. 1815 in New Jersey, was a Philadelphia grocer and organizer of the Volunteer Refreshment Saloon during the Civil War, who published "Volunteer Refreshment Saloon, supported gratuitously by the citizens of Philadelphia, Pa." in 1861. The print was designed and printed by Philadelphia lithographer William Boell., In 1870, Brown lived in the Second Ward with his wife Catherine and several children with a personal estate worth $1,500, i.e., about $25, 500 in the 2008 market.
Date: b. ca. 1815
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Naylor, Charles J. and Henry L.
Description: Brothers Charles J. Naylor, born January 1842, and Henry L. Naylor, born ca. 1845, in Pennsylvania, were apprentices in the Philadelphia lithographic trade in 1860. Philadelphia city directories and subsequent censuses indicate that they did not remain in the lithography or printing business. In 1860 they resided with their English parents, master carpenter Sampson (b. ca. 1809) and his wife Ann (b. ca. 1811) in South Philadelphia (Ward 1).
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Christy, William M.
Description: William M. Christy (firm) was a stationery, blank book manufactory, lithography and job printing business active ca. 1849-ca. 1900. Established by William Christy as a stationery ca. 1849 (82 Chestnut Street), the business expanded to include blank book manufactory and job printing by 1857 when it relocated to 127 South Third Street, opposite Girard Bank. By 1868, Christy added lithography to its printing services and the firm advertised the availability of lithographic checks and notes., Christy, born of Irish-descent in Philadelphia January 9, 1820, was married to Mary J. (b. ca. 1825) with whom he had eight children, including sons William B. (b. ca. 1848) and Joseph (b. ca. 1855). In 1850, the Christy family resided in the Southwark Ward and by 1860 in West Philadelphia. Christy was also a member of the Hibernian Society (elected 1854) and the Board of City Trusts, as well as an editor of the "Godey's Lady's Book"( before 1841). Christy died January 9, 1866 with presumably his son William assuming operations of the business. By 1878, the firm was renamed William M. Christy's Sons and under the proprietorship of William and Joseph Christy who resided at 3909 Spruce Street (West Philadelphia). The firm was still active as of 1896 at 312 Chestnut Street.
Date: 1820-January 9, 1866
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Wagner & Stuart
Description: Wagner & Stuart, the partnership between lithographers, engravers, and die sinkers William W. Wagner and Albert F. Stuart, was active in Philadelphia ca. 1846-ca. 1860s. The firm operated from 20, and later 11 South Sixth Street. Known work includes illustrations for sheet music. By the late 1850s the firm was only listed as "engravers" in city directories and by 1870 had evolved into a undertaker's trimmings establishment., William W. Wagner, born in Pennsylvania about 1817, resided with his wife Louisa (b. ca. 1828) and three children in Southwark (Ward 4) in 1850. He owned real estate worth $1600. In 1860 he resided in Germantown (Ward 21) with seven children and with real estate worth $5000 and a personal estate worth $1000. By 1880 Wagner had married presumably his second wife, Anna T. (b. ca. 1852). His children, their spouses, and grand children, including Sylvester Wunder, oil cloth printer, resided with the couple at North Eighteenth Street and Erie Avenue (North Philadelphia)., Albert F. Stuart, born ca. 1824 in Pennsylvania, resided in 4th Ward Spring Garden with his wife Rebecca (b. ca. 1824) in 1850. In 1870 Stuart lived in Center City (Ward 8) with his wife and two children.
Date: fl. ca. 1846-ca. 1860s
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Blanc, Albert
Description: Albert Blanc, born in Antwerp, Belgium in April 1850, was a Philadelphia engraver, electrotyper, and lithographer who specialized in horticultural trade catalog work in the later 19th century., Blanc immigrated to the United States in 1868 and by 1869 worked in Philadelphia as a clerk and book keeper (215 South Front Street) while he resided with his future in-laws, the Pennybackers at 701 Vine Street. By about 1870, he entered the lithographic trade and delineated lithographs until about 1876 for Longacre & Co., including a series of advertisements for pharmaceutical manufactory Powers & Weightman. Listed at 615 Vine Street in 1871, he established about 1874 his own engraving and lithography firm at Room 4, 702 Chestnut Street, a building also tenanted by chromolithographers E. P. & L. Restein., Between 1885 and 1887, Blanc entered the horticultural engraving trade and became a cultivator of cacti. In 1888, credit reports declared his dual business in "good standing" and estimated its worth at $8,000 to $10,000. By 1891, Blanc dominated the horticultural engraving trade and operated an extensive greenhouse for the cultivation of cacti under the firm name of A. Blanc & Co. He often exhibited at the annual spring flower show at Horticultural Hall., Blanc married Sunie, i.e., Susan (b. 1850) in 1873 and the couple had no known children. In 1900, Blanc lived at 314 West Eleventh Street, his residence since about 1877. By 1910, the couple relocated to 6710 North Sixth Street and by 1915 to 222 Buckingham Place. Blanc was last listed in the 1920 census as an artist at 2528 South Cleveland Street. He resided with his wife, sister-in-law Sophie Pennybacker, and niece Susan.
Date: b. April 1850
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Kolb, Hermania
Description: Hermania Kolb, born of German descent ca. 1859 in Philadelphia, worked as a lithographer in the city in 1880 while a resident at [1405?] North Fifth Street. She was one of the few listed female lithographers of the 19th century., Kolb was married to Augustus (b. ca. 1856), a cutler, and lived in a household with a servant
Date: b. ca. 1859
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Major & Knapp
Description: Major & Knapp, originally formed in 1846 in New York City as Sarony & Major, a partnership between lithographer and photographer Napoleon Sarony (1821-1896) and Henry B. Major. With the promotion to partner of Joseph F. Knapp (ca. 1830-1889) and the succession of Richard C. Major over Henry B. Major in 1857, the business was reestablished as Sarony, Major & Knapp. In 1863, Sarony withdrew from the firm, which was renamed Major & Knapp. Major & Knapp operated a Philadelphia branch in 1878-1879 at 150 South Third Street. Instrumental in New York for producing color lithography in the 1840s, especially colored sheet music covers, the firm shifted its specialty to advertising trade cards and tobacco box labels while the Philadelphia branch was active in the late 1870s.
Date: fl. 1878-1879
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Livasse, William
Description: William Livasse, born ca. 1810 in the District of Columbia, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia in 1860. He resided in Mary Schoch's boarding house north of Market Street and east of Seventh Street in Ward 6.
Date: b. ca. 1810
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Loag, Samuel
Description: Samuel Loag, born in 1835 in Pennsylvania to David and Ann Loag (1794-1878), worked as a job, wood block, and lithographic printer in Philadelphia ca. 1860 until his death in 1894. He produced cards, billheads, broadside posters, pamphlets, book illustrations and sheet music covers from his first known business address at 57 South Fourth Street. Between ca. 1862 and 1865, Loag tenanted the building also occupied by William H. Rease. By January 1866, he relocated to 610-614 Sansom Street. The "commodious rooms in Sansom Street Hall" included new steam presses and his brother and printer William as a fellow tenant. By 1870 Loag operated a successful business and held personal estate valued at $20,000. His shop remained on Sansom Street until his death over twenty years later., At the beginning of his career in the printing trade in 1860, Loag resided at 1430 South Third Street in South Philadelphia (Ward 2) with his parents. He married Anna Frances Powell (1835-1905) in January 1861 with whom he had four daughters, all born in Pennsylvania, except for Elizabeth (b. ca. 1869) born when the family relocated to Beverly, New Jersey. By 1880, the family returned to Philadelphia where they resided at 3210 Race Street in West Philadelphia, Loag's residence at the time of his death on December 19, 1894.
Date: October 30, 1835-December 14, 1894
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Braden, Oliver
Description: Oliver Braden, born ca. 1847, was a Philadelphia printer and lithographer, active ca. 1872-ca. 1889. He worked at 18 South Sixth Street (later the business address of lithographer William Hart) in 1872. In 1877, city directories list Braden at 622 Arch Street. He lived in North Philadelphia by the late 1880s.
Date: b. ca. 1847
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Sherwin, John H.
Description: John H. Sherwin, born February 1834 in Bellows Falls, Vt., worked as a lithographic artist in Philadelphia at the firm of L. N. Rosenthal ca. 1854-ca. 1861. By 1850, Sherwin started in the printing trades as a printer in Windham, Vt. at the newspaper "Bellows Falls Gazette." First listed as an "artist" at the address of Rosenthal (Fifth and Chestnut Streets) in Philadelphia city directories in 1857, Sherwin, according to Peters perviously trained in lithography under Morawski in New York. In New York, he also created lithographs printed by Sarony, including the sheet music cover for "The Hippopotamus Polka." While with Rosenthal, Sherwin designed book illustrations and cityscape views such as the intricately composed commemorative print "Second Reformed Dutch Church" (1857)., During the early 1860s, Sherwin departed Philadelphia; his last city directory listing was in 1861 with an address at 33 North Twelfth Street. He then worked as an artist in New York and later Boston as noted by Peters. By 1880, he resided as an artist in Springfield, Ma. where he married Laura Sadler (1829-1899), the widow of William Sadler, in 1884. Following the death of his wife in 1899, he relocated to New Haven, Ct. and the household of his brother-in-law [Merrill] Wheelock Chapin (b. 1826) as recorded in the 1900 census.
Date: b. February 1834
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Clarkson, E.
Description: E. Clarkson, probably Edward Clarkson, mid-19th century Philadelphia animal portrait painter, was the artist for the lithograph depicting trotting horse "Andrew Jackson, Jr." published ca. 1850 by Baltimore lithographic firm A. Hoen & Co., Clarkson, born ca. 1827 in Pennsylvania, presumably, although not listed in the census, lived with his wife Eliza (b. ca. 1831) and daughters in Ward 3 in 1860. In 1870, Clarkson resided in Ward 8 of the city with his wife and a daughter in a group family home. By 1880, he relocated to Buck County and worked as a farmer., Clarkson was listed as an engraver or artist intermittently in Philadelphia city directories ca. 1849-ca. 1869. From 1849 to 1850, Clarkson worked from the same address (80 1/2 Walnut Street) as lithographer John F. Watson. Clarkson also exhibited horse portrait paintings at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1855 and 1856., The 1856 city directory lists two Edward Clarksons: an artist at 182 Chestnut and an engraver at 99 Catherine Street (Ward 3). WWWAA suggests "engraver" Clarkson was the father of "artist" Clarkson, but the dual listings could indicate an evolving change of address.
Date: b. ca. 1827
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Shoemaker, Edward A.
Description: Edward A. Shoemaker, born in 1848 in Pennsylvania to German immigrants, was a lithographer and printer active in Philadelphia from 1868 until his death in 1893. Son of Philadelphia lithographer and engraver John G. Shoemaker who worked for P. S. Duval in the late 1850s, he may also have worked for Duval. Unfortunately, city directories never listed Shoemaker's business address although he was consistently identified as a lithographer or printer until 1890., Shoemaker resided in his father's household with his mother Wilhelmina (b. ca. 1821), her sister, and his two siblings, photographer William C. (b. ca. 1844) and Sophia (b. ca. 1845), until about 1872. He moved to 1531 North Ninth Street with his wife Emma (b. ca. 1853) and had three children John (b. 1875), Emma (b. 1878), and William (b. 1879) by 1880. The family moved twice within the city in the late 1880s, and finally moved out of the city to Lansdale by 1893, the year Shoemaker passed away at the age of 45.
Date: 1848-December 19, 1893
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Barnard, William C.
Description: William Barnard, born ca. 1822 in Pennsylvania, was a Philadelphia lithographer and printer, active between 1860 and 1881. In 1860, he lived in South Philadelphia (Ward 2) with his wife Sarah (b. 1822), and five children, including Joseph (b. 1842), a printer's apprentice, presumably for Barnard. During the 1870s and early 1880s, residential addresses included 342 South Second Street (1872), 407 McIlwain Street (1874), and 215 Carpenter Street (1881).
Date: b. ca. 1822
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Avil, John D.
Description: John D. Avil, born on March 28, 1849 in Ireland, founded and managed the Avil Printing Company in West Philadelphia from the early 1860s until his death in 1918. Son of an English father, John, Sr., and Irish mother, Avil emigrated with his family to Iowa by 1856 and the birth of his sister Margaret. By 1860, Avil's family relocated to Philadelphia (Ward 7) and his father was employed as a printer. By 1870, John married Annie (b. 1850) with whom he had a son, Francis (b. 1875) and they resided in West Philadelphia (Ward 27)., A prominent businessman, lithographer and printer, Avil began in the trade at the young age of thirteen by operating a one-room printing press from 4032 Market Street. He quickly expanded his operations to include the adjacent property at 4034 Market Street and in 1868 he purchased land to construct a small building at 3941-3945 Market Street., Two years later, he added a six-story building on nearby Filbert Street, which eventually expanded to include the entire city block. By 1893, Avil's company extended between 3941-45 Market Street (razed by fire 1904) and 3944-56 Filbert Street. The expansive establishment included thirty-five steam presses capable of lithographic and letter press printing, and an entire lithograph department devoted to "both commercial and artistic work" operated by "men of high ability." His plant employed approximately 350 people, including 25 skilled lithographers. As his operations grew, Avil also served as President of the Lithographers' Association of Philadelphia (16 member firms) in the mid-1890s., Avil died on November 18, 1918 with his residence listed at 34 Chester Pike in Glenolden, Pa.
Date: March 28, 1849-November 18, 1918
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Kramer, William
Description: According to Peters, William Kramer served as the lithographer with L. N. Rosenthal on plates printed for H. L. Stephens "The Comic Natural History of the Human Race" (1851) signed "Rosenthal & Kramer.", Possibly the William Kramer, born ca. 1814 in Pennsylvania, who worked as a printer in Philadelphia in the mid 19th century. In 1850, he resided in Spring Garden (Ward 6) and was married to Adeline (b. ca. 1812)., Most likely the Kramer cited by Peters was the lithographer Peter Kramer misidentified as William Kramer.
Date: b. ca. 1814
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Thomas, Eliza H.
Description: Eliza H. Thomas, born ca. 1865 in Pennsylvania, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia in 1880 while a resident at 621 Owen Street. She is one of the few LISTED female lithographers of the 19th century., Thomas lived in a household with her grocers clerk, father John R. born ca. 1828 in Pennsylvania and her mother Mary born ca. 1828 in New Jersey.
Date: b. ca. 1865
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Dick, Andrews & Co.
Description: Dick, Andrews & Co., the partnership between Horace B. Dick and Edward G. Andrews, was active in the Philadelphia lithographic trade at 614 Chestnut Street in 1867. Dick resided at 711 South Ninth Street and Andrews at 1040 Clement Street. By 1868, the firm, nor Andrews was listed in the Philadelphia city directories, but Dick was listed as an editor. According to the 1870 city directory, Dick resided in Camden and worked as a clerk at 808 Chestnut Street and Andrews worked as an artist at 1308 Chestnut Street and resided at 2032 North Seventh Street.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Goodliff, John
Description: John Goodliff, born ca. 1828 in England, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia ca. 1850-1852. In 1850, he had property valued at $3,000 and in 1852, he resided at 111 North Thirteenth Street.
Date: b. ca. 1828
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Reen, Charles
Description: Charles Reen, born in Germany ca. 1828, was a lithographer, engraver, and artist who worked in Philadelphia ca. 1850-1857 and ca. 1860-1881. Reen resided as an artist in Philadelphia by 1850 and lived with his wife Catherine (b. ca. 1829) in a multifamily residence with artists Lee Elliott and Morris Levly in the North Mulberry Ward. In 1857 Reen entered into a lithographic partnership with lithographer Charles Shober at 5 South Sixth Street, which they reestablished in Chicago the following year. By 1860 Reen returned to Philadelphia. He worked as a lithographer at 42 South Third and 403 Race streets 1860-ca. 1867. During this period, Reen also invented a new chemical process for watermarks for which he was recognized in the "Printers' Circular" in 1866. In 1870 he entered a partnership with Eyre Keyser as Keyser & Reen, "lithographers & fancy printers," at South Second and Chestnut streets. Reen also now resided at 126 Laurel Street (Ward 16) with his wife and three children with real estate valued at $10,000., By 1872 Reen had formed a new partnership with Watson Trump, a Germantown resident, and they advertised in July 1872 for a "good stout boy" to work a lithographic printer at their establishment at Fourth and Market streets. The partnership was active until 1881. Reen remained in the trade until 1885 with an establishment at 14 North Fourth Street in 1882. During his partnerships and solely, Reen produced advertising prints, view prints, certificates, and trade cards. Reen died in June 1885 while partnered with his son Charles, Jr. and a resident of 1235 Brown Street.
Date: b. ca. 1828-June 27, 1885
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Lawson, T. B.
Description: T.B. Lawson was an artist of sketches and portraits for the premier Philadelphia firm Childs & Inman active 1830-1833., Lawson was probably the artist Thomas B. Lawson who was born in Newbury, Massachusetts on January 13, 1807 and lived in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1850 with his wife Catharine (b. ca. 1814) and children Frances (b. ca. 1842) and Lella (b. ca. 1848). In 1831, he lived in New York and trained at the National Academy of Design for which Henry Inman (Childs & Inman) was one of the founders. In 1832, he located to Philadelphia briefly before returning to Newburyport, where he worked as a portrait painter. Lawson also exhibited work at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts annual exhibitions for 1876 and 1885.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Chevalier, J. B. (John B.)
Description: John B. Chevalier, naturalist, professor and lithographer, born in 1813 in Lyon, France, was a partner in Wild & Chevalier, the Philadelphia lithographic establishment noted for the publication of John C. Wild's "Views of Philadelphia" (1838). Chevalier started his lithographic career in Philadelphia ca. 1837, probably as the manager in his partnership with Swiss-born lithographer John C. Wild. He assumed sole proprietorship of the business in 1838 and issued an expanded edition of the "Views" later that year. Listed in city directories as a lithographer until 1841, Chevalier also issued from 1840 to 1842 his friend J. J. Audubon's "Birds of North America" in miniature, illustrated with lithographs by J. T. Bowen., In 1840 Chevalier lived at 40 (i.e., 100 block) Pine Street in the Locust Ward as the head of a household of 2 males under 5 years of age, a male between 20 and 30 years of age, and two females, one between 20 and 30 years of age and the other between 15 and 20 years of age. A year later he relocated to 56 South Twelfth Street. By the end of the decade, in 1848, Chevalier worked as a French teacher with a residence at 69 Locust Street and in January 1849 he received a passport in the city as a naturalized citizen. The reason Chevalier attained the passport is unknown, but by 1851 Chevalier had relocated to near San Francisco, California where he worked as a mining agent and later a professor of languages. He died on November 28, 1870 described in the San Francisco Bulletin as "a teacher of languages" and "an ardent naturalist, and a warm friend of Audubon..."
Date: 1813-November 28, 1870
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Wynkoop, Otto
Description: Otto Wynkoop (Winkopp) born on October 7, 1844 in Baden, Germany worked in Philadelphia as a lithographer between 1866 and the early 1900s. Apprenticed in Baden, Wynkoop first worked for Breuker & Kessler from 1866 to 1874, before relocating to Potsdamer & Co. where he worked until 1885. In 1885, the Potsdamer firm merged with the Ketterlinus Company retaining Wynkoop and other of his older colleagues. At Ketterlinus, Wynkoop first served as a transferrer, then foreman, a position he continued in until his retirement for health reasons a few years before his death., He was married to Caroline with whom he had two children Otto, Jr. (b. 1872) and Bertha (b. 1876). He resided at 434 Garden (now Darien) Street during the 1870s and died of nephritis in Philadelphia on March 7, 1915. He was buried in Hillside Cemetery.
Date: October 7, 1844 - March 7, 1915
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Kehl, Philip J.
Description: Philip J. Kehl, born ca. May 1852 in Pennsylvania to German parents, worked as a printer and lithographer in Philadelphia between 1870 and his death in 1912. First listed in the 1870 census as a plate printer, by the time of his death, Kehl was a member of the Lithographic Printers' Union who had been employed by Breuker & Kessler., Between 1870 and 1880, Kehl resided in South Philadelphia (Ward 1), first in the household of his father and shoe store owner William (b. ca. 1822) and then as head of his own, including his wife Naomi Murrows (ca. 1853-1921), two children, his father, and his in-laws at 114 Siegel. By 1900, Kehl had relocated to 139 Mifflin Street (Ward 1) and his family had grown to include three children, Harry M. (b. 1873), a shipping clerk; George W. (b. 1874), a plate printer; and Naomi S. (b. 1887). Philip died suddenly on October 5, 1912 with his residence listed at 65 North De Kalb Street (West Philadelphia), having relocated from 2315 South Eleventh Street after 1910. Following his funeral at St. James Catholic Church, he was interred at Holy Cross Cemetery.
Date: May 1852-October 5, 1912
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Rosenthal, Morris
Description: See Rosenthal, Louis N.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Duffy, Richard A.
Description: Richard A. Duffy, born ca. 1832 in Ireland, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia ca. 1850-ca. 1896. Duffy immigrated with his family to the United States sometime before his younger sister was born in Philadelphia in 1836. He was active in the local trade as early as 1850, and worked for P. S. Duval in the mid-1850s and F. Bourquin & Co. in 1861, as well as was a member of the Lithographic Printers Union. In 1850, Duffy resided with his mother Ellen (b. ca. 1801) and siblings in the South Ward. His brother William Duffy (b. ca. 1830) was a printer, engraver, and possible lithographer. Richard married Amelia (b. ca. 1839) in the late 1850s, had two children, and resided in Ward 26 with a personal estate valued at $1500 by 1870. By 1880, he still worked in the lithographic trade and headed a household at 1206 South Tenth Street that included his wife, children, and sister-in-law. At the time time of his death on October 17, 1896, he resided at 1506 South Tenth Street. He was buried at Cathedral Cemetery in Philadelphia.
Date: ca. 1832-October 17, 1896
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

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