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Title: Martin, Thomas
Description: Thomas Martin, born in Ireland ca. 1825, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia ca. 1860-ca. 1872. In 1860, Martin resided in the 5th Ward Southern Division and by 1872 at 1721 South Twelfth Street.
Date: b. ca. 1825
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Fritz, Thomas
Description: Thomas Fritz, born ca. 1825 in Württemberg, Germany, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia in 1860. He resided in Ward 5 of the city with his wife Whilamena (b. 1835), and their three children, Amelia (b. 1854), Mary (b. 1856), and Caroline (b. 1858).
Date: b. ca. 1825
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Holler, Peter
Description: Peter Holler delineated the lithograph of General David R. Porter, Governor of Pennsylvania (copied from a similar portrait created by Augustus Kollner in Volume 3 of Huddy and Duval's "U. S. Military Magazine (1841)") printed by P. S. Duval. Holler's lithograph was later issued as a sheet music cover, "Governor Porter's (Grand) March," published by George Willig., Holler/Heller is possibly the Peter Keller listed in the 1860 Philadelphia city directory as a painter at 1339 Mervine Street as well as the Peter Keller/Heller, born 1810-1815 listed in the 1850 and 1860 censuses. He resided in Ward 20 and was married to Margaret (b. ca. 1815).
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Goldbacher, Isaac
Description: Isaac Goldbacher, born in 1824 in Bavaria, Germany, worked as a lithographer and printer in Philadelphia ca. 1860-1880. In 1850, Goldbacher worked as a turner in Philadelphia and resided in Kensington (Ward 2). By 1860, he entered the lithographic trade and resided in Ward 12 with his family, including his wife and possible lithographer Barbara/Babetta., Between 1862 and 1865, he served as a Private in Company F, 150th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Infantry and in 1864 relocated to 6 Westford Avenue in North Philadelphia (Ward 13) with his wife and five children, Rebecca (b. ca. 1851), Theresa (b. ca. 1853), Louis (b. ca. 1856), Adolph (b. ca. 1857) and Raphael (b. ca. 1861). The family remained at the address until 1875. After this time, Goldbacher's residence and occupations changed frequently. He worked as a plater, polisher and turner until admitted to the solders' home in Hampton, Virginia in 1889. By 1893, Goldbacher returned to Philadelphia and he and his wife lived with his son-in-law and printer Leopold D. Goodman until his death in 1905.
Date: 1824-January 10, 1905
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Hall, James
Description: James Hall, born ca. 1834 in Pennsylvania, son of police officer James Hall, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia during the 1850s and 1860s. An employee of Wagner & Mcguigan in 1856, Hall worked at Bowen & Co. by 1867. He possibly was the Hall who in 1866 partnered in Kunzmann & Hall with George Kunzman at 216 1/2 Walnut Street., Hall resided in the 7th Ward for his recorded career, including on the 1200 block of Ann Street below Lombard Street in 1856; the 1900 block of Webster Street in 1867; and 2051 South Street in 1870. In 1860, he owned personal estate worth $100.
Date: b. ca. 1834
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Patton, William
Description: William Patton, born September 1823 in Pennsylvania, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia ca. 1848-ca. 1897. He served as treasurer of the Lithographic Printers Union in 1862 and was a member of the nativist organization Order of the United American Mechanics for which he lithographed a membership certificate ca. 1870. He also copyrighted an 1848 lithographic certificate for the nativist organization Order of the United Daughters of America, worked at the establishment of Thomas Wagner (34 Hudson Street) in 1859, and was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows., Patton resided in North Philadelphia, predominately in Northern Liberties during his career. In 1850 he was the head of his own household in Northern Liberties Ward 1 and was married to Hannah (b. ca. 1823) with whom he had a son, and later, at least five children. By 1859 the family resided at 334 Coates Street where they would remain until the 1870s. In 1880 the Patton family lived at 973 North Sixth Street and in the 1890s at 1018 Randolph Street. By 1900 Patton was widowed and lived with his daughter Esther (b. 1851) and her husband George G. Stark's family as a "gentleman" at 1422 North Sixth Street. Patton died on March 1, 1904, his funeral services held at Stark's residence at 415 Hobart Street (West Philadelphia). He was interred at the American Mechanics Cemetery.
Date: September 1823-March 1, 1904
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Wedekind, Gustave
Description: Gustave Wedekind, born ca. 1800 in Baden, Germany, was a lithographer, lamp shade manufacturer, and inventor active in Philadelphia ca. 1856-1870. First listed in Philadelphia city directories in 1856 as a lamp shade manufacturer at 327 Race Street, Wedekind worked at the lamp shade manufactory and lithographic establishment V. Quarre & Co. by the 1860s., Between 1860 and 1869, Wedekind declared his intent for naturalization (May 1860) and was issued a series of patents (1860, 1862-1863, 1869) for improving lamp shades through preparation of transparent pictures, improvement of shade holders, and incombustible paper shades. During this period, Wedekind had financial success; his ownership of a watch and carriage in addition to his income made him eligible to be taxed by the I.R.S., During most of his recorded career (1856-1869), Wedekind resided at Tioga and North Twenty-first Street. He relocated to 808 North Broad Street following his marriage to Victoria Quarre with whom he resided in 1870 as recorded in the census. At that time, he held a personal estate valued at $50,000 ($851,000 value 2008) and real estate valued at $25,000; further attesting to a very successful career. Wedekind died on July 17, 1870.
Date: ca. 1800 - July 17, 1870
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Gimber, Stephen Henry
Description: Stephen Henry Gimber, a British engraver born about 1806, worked as an artist and lithographer in Philadelphia during the 1850s. In 1828 Gimber immigrated to New York City with his wife Louisa (b. ca. 1810) and in the early 1830s engraved book plates and frontispiece illustrations, and also designed sheet music covers and other lithographs published by the Pendleton firm in the early 1830s. By the 1840 census, he resided in New York's Fifteenth Ward with Louisa and five New-York born children. Three years later, on November 7, 1843, printer Edward B. Kraft witnessed Gimber's naturalization in the New York County Superior Court., Gimber relocated to Philadelphia shortly after his naturalization, where in the 1850 census he is listed as "Stephen Kimber" living in Spring Garden Ward 3. (Gimber should not be confused with the twenty-five year old Stephen Gimber, engraver, boarding in Albany, New York in 1850). According to Peters. Gimber was active in the Philadelphia lithographic trade and designed portraiture for P. S. Duval in the late 1850s. During his residency in Philadelphia, Gimber lived at 311 Shippen Street, and then 1336 North Thirteenth Street until his death in 1862.
Date: ca. 1806-1862
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Worley & Bracher
Description: Worley & Bracher, the partnership between George Worley and William Bracher, that specialized in map engraving and lithography, operated in Philadelphia ca. 1858-1879. The firm, founded ca. 1858 with Worley, Bracher, and Benjamin Matthias as Worley, Bracher & Matthias, was active at 600-602 Chestnut Street, until 1860 and the departure of Matthias., The reestablished firm of Worley & Bracher operated from the same address until 1866, when the business relocated to 104 Hudson Street (rear 320 Chestnut Street) and remained until 1873. From 1873 to 1875, the firm tenanted a shop at 31 South Sixth Street and then 27 South Sixth Street until 1891. During the mid to late 1870s, the firm was described as doing a "fair" and later "small" business" with "fair credit." The firm's estimated worth ranged from $2,000-4,000 (1875) to $1,000 (1878)., The firm produced over 200 maps and atlases between 1858 and 1879, predominately in collaboration with Frederick Bourquin (with whom they often shared a facility), as well as lithographers William Hart, James McGuigan, F. C. Paxson, H. J. Toudy and Thomas S. Wagner.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Biddle, Edward C.
Description: Edward C. Biddle, print and book publisher and son of John Biddle and Elizabeth Canby, was born January 5, 1808 in Philadelphia. He published from an office at the S.W. corner of Fifth and Minor streets during the 1830s and 1840s, and later the 200 block of South Third Street. He resided in Center City. By the time of his death on July 18, 1893, he lived at 1422 Spruce Street., Biddle was the third publisher of the seminal Thomas L. McKenney and James Hall's "History of the Indian tribes of North America..." issued 1837-1844. The work about early 19th-century Native American culture contained 117 portraits, several after paintings by Charles Bird King. Biddle collaborated with printers Lehman & Duval with artist Albert Newsam and printer J. T. Bowen with artist A. Hoffy 1836-1838 and issued parts 1-8 (Vol. 1).
Date: January 5, 1808-July 18, 1893
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Kuchel, Charles Conrad
Description: Charles Conrad Kuchel, the noted California lithographer born in Zweibrücken, Switzerland in 1820, worked in the trade in Philadelphia ca. 1840-ca. 1853. By 1840 Kuchel worked in the local trade as a lithographic artist from a studio at 19 Cherry Street where he delineated a portrait of Washington printed in cooperation with Frederick Kuhl (24 Vine Street). In 1845 city directories list Kuchel at Kuhl's establishment at 46 1/2 Walnut Street. A year later, he was naturalized, applied for a passport in Philadelphia, and entered into a partnership with William C. Alden in Hartford, Ct. Although the business did not last beyond 1846, Kuchel continued to work with Alden until about 1849 before he returned to work in Philadelphia about 1851 at P. S. Duval & Co.. He remained at the Duval establishment where he lithographed cityscape views, including "Commissioners Hall, Spring Garden" (1851), book illustrations, surgical plates, and non-Philadelphia views until about 1853., Shortly thereafter, he relocated to San Francisco and entered into Kuchel & Dresel, a partnership with Emil Dresel that specialized in views of California mining camps and towns. He also acted as mentor to Grafton Tyler Brown (1841-1918), a Pennsylvania-born, black artist who later operated his own lithographic studio in San Francisco. Kuchel & Dresel dissolved in 1859 and Kuchel continued in the trade, including the partnership Nagel, Fishbourne & Kuchel (1862) in San Francisco until his death on December 20, 1864.
Date: 1820-December 20, 1864
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Lehman, William H.
Description: William H. Lehman, partner in the lithographic firm Lehman & Bolton, was born in 1847 in Norristown, Pennsylvania, Born to German emigrants, merchant miller Henry (b. 1819) and Sophia (b. 1818), William had three Pennsylvania-born siblings: Amelia R. (b. 1844), Emma M. (b. 1846), and Clara (b. 1855), all of with whom he lived in 1860., A clerk during the late 1860s, Lehman partnered with lithographer Mahlon Bolton, Jr. in 1873 to form Lehman & Bolton at the former establishment of Jacob Haehnlen at Goldsmiths' Hall. The firm operated until 1920. By 1870 William resided at 2214 Wallace Street with his wife Isabell (b. 1851) and child Clara (b. 1874). Though the business bore his name until 1920, Lehman died prematurely at the age of thirty-one in 1878. William's wife and daughter resided with his business partner Mahlon Bolton and his family after his death.
Date: 1847-November 6, 1878
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Childs & Inman
Description: Childs & Inman, the partnership between Philadelphia engraver and lithographer Cephas G. Childs and New York portrait painter Henry Inman, was active 1830-1833 on Walnut Street near Fourth Street. One of the earliest premier lithographic firms in the city, Childs & Inman succeeded the firm of Pendleton, Kearny & Childs and was noted for lithographs eliciting the "spirit and freedom of execution, which no merely imitative art can ascertain." Through the first year of the partnership, Inman remained in New York and coordinated with Childs about the business through correspondence. While outside of Philadelphia, Inman acted not only as the head artist, but as a business agent. He interacted with print sellers to gauge the state of the market for lithographs; purchased and shipped supplies; and suggested artists, such as James Clonney for employment., Other artists employed by Childs & Inman included George Lehman, who later becomes Childs's partner; Thomas Doughty; E. W. Clay; Albert Newsam; W. H. Hay; and H. E. Sauinier. Renown printer P. S. Duval also entered the firm in September 1831 after he was recruited in Europe by Childs who was traveling abroad to better learn the trade., Childs & Inman printed city and town views, portraits, political caricatures, advertisements and plates for J. & T. Doughty's "Cabinet of Natural History," and McKenney & Hall's "History of the Indian Tribes of North America." In 1833, Inman left the partnership and Childs continued proprietorship of the firm with artist Lehman under the business name Childs & Lehman.
Date: fl. 1830-1833
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Arnold, Victor
Description: Victor Arnold, born ca. 1844 in France, worked as an engraver and lithographer in Philadelphia 1860-1870 at William Graf & Co. (400 Chestnut Street). He resided at 722 Moss Street with his sister Elizabeth (b. 1846), mother Magdeline (b. 1813) and brother Harry (b. 1860).
Date: b. ca. 1844
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Certier, George
Description: George Certier, born in France ca. 1831, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia from 1856 to 1859. Certier was employed by Wagner & McGuigan at 4 Franklin Place in 1856 and 34 Franklin Place in 1858. In 1857, he worked for L. N. Rosenthal at the northwest corner of Fifth and Chestnut Streets. Certier shared the same home addresses as lithographers Jerome Bastian (southwest corner of Fifth and Spruce Streets in 1856) and Simon Rosenthal, brother of Louis N. (7 Powell, i.e. Delancey, Street in 1857)., By 1850, Certier resided with his parents in the Chestnut Ward in Philadelphia. Included in their household was German engraver Maurice Geienshoper and French engraver Maximilian Bellay. Certier's father, also George (b. ca. 1803), was a watch spring maker, saloon/liquor store owner, and printer, active in Philadelphia between 1845 and 1873, predominately while tenanting 235 Union (i.e. Delancey) Street . George, Sr. also appears to have been associated with French-born Philadelphia lithographer Alphonse Brett . The two men are listed as passengers who traveled between LeHavre, France and New York on the ship Elizabeth in January of 1851. Whether George, Jr. had an association is undetermined.
Date: b. ca. 1831
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Bowen & Company
Description: See Lavinia Bowen.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Kuhl, Frederick
Description: Frederick Kuhl, born in Hesse Darmstadt circa 1812, traveled to New York in 1839 and was naturalized in Philadelphia in 1844. He operated from 24 Vine Street in 1840 and 120 South Second Street, rear / 46 1/2 (i.e., 200 block) Walnut Street circa 1843-1851 and 46 1/2 Walnut Street and 7 Powell Street circa 1852-1853 before moving to San Francisco by 1854. He worked with lithographer Augustus Kollner in the early 1840s and partnered with George Kuhl in the partnership F. & G. Kuhl 1842-1846., Kuhl also worked with John Childs at his establishment, known as the "Lithographic Institute," between 1848 and about 1854 when Morris Traubel, Theodore Leonhardt, Edward Schnabel, and John Finkeldey assumed the business. Kuhl is known principally for printing advertising prints, particularly with William H. Rease, and portrait lithographs during the 1840s and was starting to branch out into map printing in the early 1850s.
Date: b. ca. 1812
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Hensel & Urwiter
Description: Hensel & Urwiter (Urwiler), was the short-lived partnership between Philadelphia lithographers Daniel Hensel and John J. or Benjamin F. Urwiler ca. 1855-1856 at 76 South Third Street., Known work by the partnership includes the portrait of "A.E. Ames, M.W.G.M. of the Grand Lodge of Minnesota" for the Philadelphia periodical "Masonic Mirror & Keystone," edited by Jewish mason Leon Hyneman and published 1852-ca. 1860 and "Washington and His Staff at Valley Forge" by E. Moran after Veron Fletcher.
Date: fl. 1855-1856
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Alkin, M. (Martin)
Description: Martin Alkin, and English immigrant, contributed a log and the lithographic illustration "Prison Ship Saratoga, off Dartmouth," to the article, "Horrors of a Prison Ship" in William M. Huddy's Military Magazine and Record of the Volunteers of the City and County, volume 2, no. 11. Alkin was naturalized in South Carolina on July 22, 1805 and worked in South Carolina for about two decades before making a living as a merchant in Philadelphia from 1818 to 1828. He was one of eighty prisoners aboard the prison ship Saratoga during the War of 1812.
Date: b. 1762
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Kelly, William J.
Description: William J. Kelly, born ca. 1838 in Pennsylvania, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia from ca. 1860 to the early 1870s. Son of the Irish-born tailor James Kelly (b. ca. 1808), Kelly possibly worked with his brother and lithographer Thomas F. (b. ca. 1847)., Kelly lived with his family, including Thomas in Center City at 1542 Sansom Street from at least 1860 until the early 1870s. As of 1870, another brother James (b. ca. 1853) worked in the field of art as well - as a portrait painter. In 1880, Kelly continued to work as a printer and resided as a boarder in Burlington, N.J., During the early 1890s, a William J. Kelly, possibly this lithographer, was listed as a printer at 227 Jacoby Street and later 1145 Vine Street.
Date: b. ca. 1838
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Fitzsimons, Thomas W.
Description: Thomas W. Fitzsimons, born 1829 in Pennsylvania, worked as a lithographer at the firm of P. S. Duval (22 South Fifth Street) in 1859. He resided at 428 Lombard Street, Fitzsimons is listed in the 1860 census as a bookkeeper at the boarding house of his mother Elizabeth (b. ca. 1803) at 428 Lombard Street (5th Ward). Boarding house residents included lithographer John Elleson (b. ca. 1822). Fitzsimons died on December 18 or 19, 1890; his funeral services held at the Mariner's Bethel M.E. Church.
Date: 1829-December 18/19, 1890
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Mykins, Andrew A.
Description: Andrew A. Mykins, born ca. 1835 in New York, worked as a lithographic printer in Philadelphia at P. S. Duval's lithographic establishment 1856-1860. He resided in Center City (Ward 5) at 202 Watson's Alley, 202 Vandeveer (i.e., Delhi) Street (Ward 8), and 242 Quince Street before relocating to Ottawa, Illinois with his Irish mother Theresa (b. ca. 1813) and five younger siblings in 1860., Before Mykins resided in Philadelphia, he lived in New York and Maryland as inferred by the places of birth for his sisters born in 1848 and 1852., Possibly the Andrew Makins, born ca. 1808 in New York, listed in the 1870 census who worked as an engineer in Philadelphia and resided in Ward 26 in a household that included a Theresa and four adult children.
Date: b. ca. 1835
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Reynolds, Robert F.
Description: Robert F. Reynolds, born ca. 1818 in Pennsylvania, was a portrait painter who worked as a lithographic artist in Philadelphia ca. 1841-1886. He primarily designed fine-detailed architectural advertising prints, such as the beautiful chromolithograph "H. B. McCalla, Successor to the late Andrew McCalla, No. 252 Market St. First Hat & Cap Store Below 8th St. South Side, Philadelphia" (ca. 1852)., Reynolds began his career as a portrait painter in 1841, when he exhibited a portrait after Henry Inman at the Artists' Fund Society. Two years later he operated from 17 South Fifth Street, the same address tenanted by William H. Rease from 1844-1854. Reynolds delineated many lithographs for Frederick Kuhl in the mid-to-late 1840s and for Wagner & McGuigan in the 1850s. Reynolds's subsequent business addresses were: 75 Dock Street (1853); 30 South Fifth Street (1854-1856); 204 South Fifth Street (1858-1859); 209 South Fifth Street (1863-1869); 506 Walnut Street (1874-1878); 1539 Chestnut Street (1881-1883); 723 Walnut Street (1884-1885); and 909 Walnut Street (1886)., His residences between 1850 and 1880, when not his studio address, are mostly unknown. The 1850 census indicates that he resided with his mother Mary Reynolds (b. ca. 1785) in Center City near South Street in the New Market Ward. By 1880 he resided as a single man at 242 South Third Street in Center City.
Date: b. ca. 1818
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Gambel, William
Description: William Gambel, born in June 1823 in Pennsylvania to William Gamble, Sr. and school teacher Elizabeth Gamble, was a naturalist, ornithologist and physician who designed flower lithographs for Thomas Sinclair's "North American Sylva" (1846). Introduced to naturalist Thomas Nuttall (1786-1859) in 1838, Gambel accompanied Nuttall on survey trips, learning botany, mineralogy, and ornithology and in 1841 began to explore Santa Fe, New Mexico and the "Far West" region between the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada. He subsequently explored the Hawaiian Islands and South America by serving as a clerk on United States navy ships. He returned to Philadelphia in July 1845, entered medical school at the University of Pennsylvania, and served as the secretary of the Academy of the Natural Sciences. He married Catharine Towson (b. ca. 1825) and resided with her family at 118 North Eighth Street in the northern part of Center City (South Mulberry Ward). After completing his degree in 1848, Gambel decided to relocate to California and left Philadelphia in April of 1849. He arrived in ill-health, treated miners in the Feather River area, and eventually contracted typhoid fever. He died on December 13, 1849 at the young age of twenty-six.
Date: June 1823-December 13, 1849
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Bourquin, David L.
Description: David L. Bourquin, son of lithographer Frederick Bourquin, was born in Philadelphia about 1845. In 1860, Bourquin worked as a printer while a resident of Camden, N.J. By 1872, he worked at the Philadelphia studio of his father at 320 Chestnut Street, and soon thereafter relocated to Chicago where his name appears as an assistant on the Warner & Beers "Atlas of Woodford County, Illinois" in 1873. After 1881, Bourquin returned to the Philadelphia area and resumed work for his father. He committed suicide on July 30, 1884.
Date: ca. 1845-July 30, 1884
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Heap, Gwinn Harris
Description: Gwinn Harris Heap, a draftsman, legal indexer, diplomat, and camel agent, born in Chester, Pennsylvania on March 23, 1817, delineated views of the West printed by P. S. Duval in the 1850s. Heap was the son of Samuel Davies Heap (1781-1853), a naval surgeon, and Margaret Porter (1791-1858). His uncle was Commodore David Porter (1780-1843), his grandfather was Pennsylvania judge John Heap (1750-1828), and his great-grandfather was George Heap (ca. 1715-1752) who, with Nicholas Scull, surveyed and drew one of the earliest published maps of Philadelphia (1752)., Heap's diverse career was likely influenced by his youth spent overseas while his father served four terms as American consul at Tunis between 1825 and 1853. Much of his own life was spent in civil service, including positions as vice- and acting-consul at Tunis (1839-1840), as consul at Belfast, Northern Ireland (1866-1867) and Tunis (1867-1878), and as consul-general at Constantinople from 1878 through his death there on March 7, 1887., However, from 1846 to 1855 Heap was employed as a clerk in Washington, D.C., where he compiled the cumulative index to the first edition of the "United States Public Statutes at Large" (A Synoptical Index to the Laws and Treaties of the United States of America, from March 4, 1789 to March 3, 1851, 1852). In 1853 he traveled across the country with his cousin Edwin Fitzgerald Beale (1822-1893) to survey a possible route for a transcontinental railroad. Heap kept a diary and sketched scenes during their trip, thirteen of which were lithographed by P. S. Duval to illustrate their "Central Route to the Pacific, from the Valley of the Mississippi to California: "Journal of the Expedition of E. F. Beale, Superintendent of Indian Affairs in California," and Gwinn Harris Heap, "From the Missouri to California in 1853" (Philadelphia, 1854). Afterward, Heap and Beale became involved with the short-lived War Department initiative of importing camels from the Near East for use as pack animals in the American Southwest.
Date: March 23, 1817-March 7, 1887
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Schussele, Christian
Description: Christian Shussele, born ca. 1824 in Alsace, France was a premier chromolithographic artist, active in the Philadelphia trade ca. 1851-early 1860s. Schussele, trained as an artist and painter in Strasbourg and Paris, and worked as a chromolithographer for premier French lithographer Godefroy Engelmann before he immigrated to New York aboard the "Jupiter" from Le Havre, France in February 1848. By 1849, Schussele entered the Philadelphia trade and began his long association with Duval. Duval used the artist's skills to expand his business into chromolithography and Schussele delineated some of his earliest chromolithographs, including "P.S. Duval's Colour Printing & Lithographic Establishment [Artisan Building]" (1849) and his plate "Chromo Lithography" in a 1849 U. S. Patent Office Report. Schussele's work for P. S. Duval in the 1850s and early 1860s included certificates, book illustrations, and allegorical prints., Although active in chromolithography during the 1860s, Schussele focused predominately on painting historical scenes, landscapes, and portraits as well as watercolors. Works include portraits of George Washington and General McClellan, "Men of Progress," the "Woman's Mission," "The Iron Worker," and "Evangeline"; many engraved by his good friend and prominent engraver John Sartain. Schussele was also a member of the Philadelphia Sketch Club and Artists' Fund Society as well as exhibited work at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. In 1851, he earned a "first premium" for his fine art piece, "Lager Beer Saloon," at the Franklin Institute of American Manufactures., Schussele's professional success in the 1860s continued despite suffering palsy of the hand since around 1863. In 1868, he taught at the School of Design for Women (i.e., Moore College of Art) and accepted the position of Professor of Drawing and Painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Schussele remained in the position, including the mentoring of Thomas Eakins, until his death in New Jersey on August 21, 1879., Schussele resided with fellow French artist and lithographer Caspar Muringer shortly after arriving in Philadelphia. His studio, first at 183 North Eighth Street (1850s), then at 253 North Eighth Street (ca. 1860-1865) was also tenanted by Muringer. Schussele married Muringer's daughter Cecilia (ca. 1838-1916) and the couple lived with the Muringers through the 1860s, along with their daughters Eva (b. ca. 1856) and Mary (b. ca. 1862). Presumably after Caspar Muringer's death ca. 1865, the Schusseles and Muringers traveled to France to seek a cure for the palsy that afflicted Schussele's right hand. They returned on the Ville de Paris ship en-route to New York from Le Havre, France in May 1868 and by 1870 the Muringer and Schussele families resided again in Philadelphia, north of Center City (Ward 14).
Date: 1824-August 21, 1879
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Rosenthal, Louis N.
Description: Louis N. Rosenthal, born ca. 1824 in Turck, Russian Poland, was a pioneer chromolithographer who operated the Philadelphia lithography firm, the Rosenthals, with his brothers Max, Morris, and Simon 1851-ca. 1872. Raised in Turck, Russian Poland, the four brothers departed their home country at the bequest of their father to avoid draft into the army. Louis N. and Simon (buried in Federal Street Cemetery, Philadelphia) were indentured to lithographic printers in London, Morris was sent to Rabbinical School in Berlin, Germany, and Max was indentured to artist and lithographer Martin Thurwanger in Paris. Following his indenture in London, Louis N. Rosenthal arrived in New York aboard the "Spartan" on September 29, 1848., Around 1849, he established himself in the Philadelphia lithographic trade and partnered briefly with Peter Kramer in 1850. Around the same time, brother Max arrived in Philadelphia with Thurwanger and worked for a short time under Napoleon Sarony. In 1851, he and Louis N. established the firm L. N. Rosenthal, also known as Rosenthals, at the southeast corner of Third and Dock Streets and chromolithographed nine plates for Charles W. Webber's "Hunter-Naturalist" (1851). Peters and Marzio suggest that Max operated primarily as the artist, and Louis as the printer, publisher and proprietor of the establishment. Within the year, Rosenthal received a "First Premium" award from the Franklin Institute for chromolithography and became one of the earliest Philadelphia firms to specialize in this branch of lithography. The Rosenthals issued illuminated book plates, sheet music covers, advertisements, labels, geological and anatomical prints, portraits, maps, views of buildings, and Civil War scenes., In 1857, Rosenthal relocated to a larger space with new equipment at the northwest corner of Fifth and Chestnut Streets. By 1863, the business relocated to 327 Walnut Street, where on September 15, 1872 fire struck and caused severe water damage. Soon thereafter, the Rosenthal firm dissolved after twenty-plus years in Philadelphia and Rosenthal relocated to Chicago., Rosenthal married Louisa (b. ca. 1830) in Philadelphia by 1850 and resided in the Penn Ward with his brothers Max and Samuel (b. ca. 1831). By 1860, Rosenthal and his wife resided with their six children at 316 New Street, immediately south of Vine Street (Ward 6). Two more children were born by 1870, by which time the family had relocated to 1036 Pine Street in Center City (Ward 7). The Rosenthal family moved to Chicago ca. 1873, where Louis continued to work as a lithographer and printer until his death sometime after 1900.
Date: b. ca. 1824-after 1900
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Bridgens, Richard
Description: Richard/Robert Bridgens, a Philadelphia lithographer, established the map publishing firm R. P. & H. F. Bridgens with Henry F. Bridgens in 1853. Following the short-lived partnership, Bridgens, who surveyed a number of maps and plans in the early 1850s, relocated to California where he worked as a civil engineer and architect. Later, he traveled to Japan where he designed a number of structures throughout the country.
Date: b. ca. 1820
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Drew, Lewis F.
Description: Lewis F. Drew, born in Pennsylvania in 1840, worked as a "lithographist" in Philadelphia in 1860. He resided in the household of his father William (b ca. 1818, Delaware) in Ward 10. He was married to Matilda P. (1843-1922) and had five children. He died suddenly on January 9, 1900.
Date: 1840-January 9, 1900
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Hallman, G. A.
Description: G. A. Hallman served as the secretary for the Lithographic Printers Union in 1857., G. A. Hallman may be William A. Hallman, a lithographer listed in the 1881 and 1887 Philadelphia directories. He partnered in the engraving firm Newman & Hallman in the 1880s and resided at 319 North Eighth Street in 1881 and 1428 North Twenty-fourth Street in 1887.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Toomey, James
Description: James Toomey, was a Philadelphia lithographer employed by P.S. Duval 1856-1858. He resided at 33 Concord, 12 Deacon, and 260 North Second streets during his time with Duval.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Quintin, D. S. (David S.)
Description: David S. Quintin, respected Trenton farmer and horseman born in Pennsylvania in July 1818, trained and worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia ca. 1841-ca. 1845. A pupil of Alfred Hoffy, known work by Quintin includes a periodical illustration for Hoffy's "Orchardist Companion" (1841) and the advertisement "United States Hotel" (1840), both printed by P. S. Duval. Although he delineated lithographs of horses in the 1860s, Quintin remained active in the Philadelphia trade until about 1845 and by 1850 operated a boarding house in Nottingham, New Jersey, before entering the farming and horsemanship trade. He was known as an excellent rider and instructor, owned Quintin's Track (a.k.a. Villa Park) in Trenton, as well as operated Trenton Riding Academy until 1888. Quintin died on January 24, 1905 while he resided with his son and engineer Thomas (b. 1847) in Philadelphia. He was interred at Mercer Cemetery in the Quintin family vault in Trenton, N.J., During the 1840s while working in the lithographic trade, Quintin resided at Allen Road above Frankford Road in Kensington. By 1850, he relocated to Mercer County, N.J. and resided with his wife Caroline (b. ca. 1825-1876) and his first two of several sons in the boarding house that he operated. He remained in Mercer County through the 1880s maintaining real estate valued at $18-20,000 between 1860 and 1870. By 1900, Quintin relocated to the Philadelphia residence of his son.
Date: July 1818-January 24, 1905
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Coster, George G.
Description: George G. Coster, born in 1840 in Pennsylvania, worked as a lithographer and printer in Philadelphia between 1865 and 1895. A Union soldier with Company K, 91st Regiment, Pennsylvania Infantry from September 27, 1861 to the end of the war, Coster was mustered out as Full 1st Sergeant. He returned to Philadelphia and was employed as a lithographic printer. Coster resided in several different wards of the city, predominately in the north, with his wife, Barbara (b. ca. 1847), and their five children: Charlie H. (b. 1867), Emma J. (b. 1871), George G. (b. 1872), Harry (b. 1876), and William (b. 1880). In 1897, the widowed Coster admitted himself to the Central Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Dayton, Ohio. By 1900, he resided on North Jessup Street in Philadelphia with two of his sons and his mother-in-law. Ten years later he lived with his daughter, Emma Snyder, and her family in Ward 37 of the city. Coster died on July 4, 1924.
Date: 1840-1924
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Scherbonnier, Henry
Description: See Charbonnier, Henry.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Akin, James
Description: James Akin, born ca. 1773 in Charleston, South Carolina, worked as an engraver, lithographer, print publisher, druggist and restaurant owner in Philadelphia between 1794 and 1846. Although Akin worked briefly in the engraving business in Salem and Newburyport, Massachusetts between about 1804 and 1807, he spent most of his time in Philadelphia. Akin tenanted many locations throughout his Philadelphia career, but produced most of his lithographs, including "Settling the French Question," "A Kean Shave," "Philadelphia Taste Displayed. Or, Bon-Ton below stairs," and "A Downright Gabbler" from his 18 Prune (i.e., Locust) Street establishment, between Fourth and Fifth Streets. After his death on July 18, 1846, his wife Ophelia, also an engraver, continued to operate from the Prune Street location.
Date: ca. 1773-1846
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Hirsch & Larzelere
Description: Hirsch & Larzelere, the Philadelphia lithographic and printing partnership between Edward Hirsch (b. 1847) and Samuel Larzelere (1852-1908), was active 1876-1879. The firm located at 30 South Fourth Street produced circulars, pamphlets, and trade cards. Edward Hirsch & Co. continued at the address until the early 1880s., Edward Hirsch, born of Jewish-descent in May 1847 in Luxembourg, Holland, immigrated to the United States and Philadelphia, as well as gained citizenship, in 1870. Son of Rabbi Samuel (b. ca. 1815) and Louise (b. ca. 1824), Hirsch lived in Ward 13 with his parents and siblings in 1870. In 1876 he entered into partnership with Larzelere and married Matilda (b. ca. 1855) with whom he lived at 635 North Seventh Street in 1882. Following his partnership in Hirsch & Larzelere, Hirsch operated Edward Hirsch & Co., with his brother Henry until ca. 1887; first at 30 South Fourth Street and later at 117 North Fourth Street. By 1900 Hirsch had two children with his wife and had relocated to Chicago. His household included his brother Henry and a nephew., Samuel Larzelere, son of Alfred and Margaret, was born in April 1852 in New Jersey, his long time state of residence. He was married to Ida R. (b. 1847) on December 24, 1874 in Camden, N.J. and with her had six children as of 1900. Following his partnership with Hirsch, Larzelere continued until at least 1900 to work as a printer in Philadelphia while a resident of Camden, New Jersey. His business addresses included 218 Carters Street (1880) and 237 Dock Street (1890). Larzelere died suddenly on October 15, 1908 with a residence in Maple Shade, N.J. He was interred at Colestown Cemetery in Colestown, N.J.
Date: fl. 1876-1879
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Neiman, William
Description: William Neiman, born ca. 1840, was a Philadelphia lithographer by trade whose death was reported in the local newspaper when he slept walk out of the window of the South Penn Hose House in May 1871. At the time of his death, he was foreman in Zeiss' match factory.
Date: ca. 1840- May 1871
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Stout, William
Description: William Stout, born ca. 1825 in England, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia in 1860. He resided in Elizabeth Wilson's boarding house in northwest Center City (Ward 10)., Stout was possibly the William B. Stout listed as a printer with a residence at 1324 Girard Avenue in the 1882 Philadelphia city directory.
Date: b. ca. 1825
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Goff, Joseph L.
Description: Joseph L. Goff, born about 1833 in Newark, New Jersey, published engravings and lithographs in Philadelphia from the mid-1860s to the mid-1870s. Before this time he owned a coach and sign painting business with John G. Rogers and lived on Juniper Street, below Spruce Street, with his mother Martha Goff (b. ca. 1800), a shopkeeper, and brother, Richard W.P. Goff (b. ca. 1835)., By June 1865, Joseph posted an advertisement in the Philadelphia Inquirer listing himself as a publisher and agent looking for other agents to sell a deathbed picture of Lincoln. The city directory for this year lists "books" as his profession, and by 1866; "engravings." Joseph's brother joined him in business in 1867 and formed Goff & Brother, an engraving and publishing company at 31 South Sixth Street. Joseph remained at this address and was engaged in publishing a few years longer than his brother Richard, who, around 1870, dealt in ornaments at 1307 Chestnut Street, and eventually founded an art furniture business. After Richard's departure, city directories list "chromos" as Joseph's trade at 31 South Sixth Street until about 1875. In the mid-1870s he was listed as a frame maker and a clerk, and by 1880, he was back in the publishing business. A few years later, he managed J. H. Shaw's "Liberal Credit House," a furniture store at 1122 Market Street., By 1860 Goff resided iin Ward 26 with his wife Eliza J. (ca. 1836-1882) and three children, and then in Ward 7 by 1880. In 1893, a decade after his first wife's death, Joseph married Ella J. Long (d. 1909). They had one child together in 1894, and six years later, Ella is listed as a widow in the 1900 census.
Date: b. ca. 1833
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Landis, Enos Y.
Description: Enos Y. Landis, born September 1837 in Pennsylvania, worked in Philadelphia as a lithographer who specialized in trade cards 1875-ca. 1893. Before he entered the lithography trade in Philadelphia, Landis was probably the natural science and vocal music teacher listed in the 1860 census at the New York Conference Seminary in Charlotteville, New York. By 1870 he had located to Clinton, New Jersey where he lived with his wife and younger Landis family members, probably his siblings. In 1875, he entered the lithography trade and worked from an establishment at 716 Filbert with fellow lithographer tenants Duval & Hunter, Packard & Butler, and Louis H. Everts. By 1890, Landis relocated his business to 306-308 Chestnut Street and remained listed in city directories until ca. 1904, as lithographer or manager at the Chestnut Street address or president at 410 Walnut Street in 1896., During his career in Philadelphia, Landis resided in North Philadelphia and Germantown at 1437 North Twelfth Street (1875); 1723 North Eighth Street (1880); 4241 Wayne Avenue (1890) and 3445 North Fifteenth Street (1893-). Landis was married to Mary (b. ca. 1843) with whom he had at least two children. By 1900, he resided as a widowed boarder at 1703 Tioga Street. Landis, a member of the Artisans Order of Mutual Protection died on December 17, 1907. His funeral service was held at the Tioga Methodist Episcopal Church and he was interred at Ivy Hill Cemetery.
Date: September 1837-December 17, 1907
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Stein & Jones
Description: Stein & Jones, a Jewish "printing and lithographic office" established ca. 1859 between Rudolph Stein, a printer, and Alfred T. Jones, a merchant, at 321 Chestnut Street, specialized in trade cards. In 1868, the partnership dissolved and Stein operated the business as sole proprietor until his death in 1871. Following Stein's death, Jones, with partner Theodore B. Potsdamer, reassumed operations ca. 1872-1873 of the business under the name Jones & Potsdamer. In 1875, Jones left the partnership for the establishment of The Jewish Record, and Potsdamer continued the business as Potsdamer & Co.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Lineaweaver & Wallace
Description: Lineaweaver & Wallace, the steam-power printing firm in Philadelphia operated by Samuel T. Lineaweaver (1837-ca. 1911) and John W. Wallace (b. ca. 1837) between 1866 and ca. 1910, published the tinted lithograph, "View of the grounds and buildings International Exhibition," delineated by lithographer A. L. Weise in 1876. Although the copyright holders and publishers of this lithograph, Lineaweaver & Wallace were primarily steam-powered book and job printers. They helped to organize the Typothetae of Philadelphia in April of 1888, along with Burk & McFetridge and other large Philadelphia printing businesses., Lineaweaver, born in Pennsylvania, began his printing career around 1860 as the foreman of a printing establishment in Madison, Kentucky. He returned to Philadelphia by 1865, where he began his printing business at 31 South Third Street with J. J. Sullivan. Pennsylvania-born John W. Wallace became partner in the firm by 1866. They moved their operations to 32 South Fourth Street ca. 1870, and by 1893, moved to 321 Chestnut Street, the former lithographic establishment of Stein & Jones (1863-1873) and Potsdamer & Co. (1873-1880). Their business survived until around the time of the death of Lineaweaver, who passed away ca. 1911, when his wife, Emma J., began to be listed as a widow in city directories.
Date: fl. 1866-ca. 1910
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Bowen, John T.
Description: John T. Bowen, the preeminent Philadelphia lithographer and the most important mid 19th-century American publisher of publication plates, was born in England ca. 1801. Immigrating to the United States in 1834, he worked as a colorist and lithographer in New York before relocating to Philadelphia (probably with collaborator and lithographic artist Alfred Hoffy) in 1838. In Philadelphia to assume the publication of the seminal McKenney and Hall's "History of the Indian Tribes," he also took over the establishment of Wild & Chevalier (94 Walnut Street), including the rights to their "Views of Philadelphia." He reissued the third edition of the series at the end of the year, and the hand-colored fourth edition in 1848., From 1838 to the early 1840s, Bowen's general and book-plate work was widely praised in the local press. Promoted as "an ornament to the city" and with "one of the most extensive establishments in the country, he gained a reputation as one of the premier general lithographers, especially of hand-colored works, of the city. During this period, he published the "Architect's Magazine" (1839); was honored by and offered membership to the Franklin Institute (1840); and printed plates for Audubon's "Quadrupeds" (1845-1848) and octavo edition of "Birds of America" (1839-1844) in addition to McKenney & Hall (1837-1844). Although plate work became the specialty of Bowen's firm after 1844 and his relocation to 12 South Broad Street, he also issued maps, genre prints, including "Log Cabin Politicians" (1841), political cartoons, praised frameable views of Fairmount, and drawing books, such as "My Own Sketch Book" (ca. 1840)., Despite these numerous projects, in 1842 Bowen petitioned for bankruptcy. The compounded expenditures for McKenney & Hall in conjunction with the work on "Birds" could not offset the income received from the latter commission of which over 1400 copies of the first number were ordered. The bankruptcy, however, did not prove a major detriment to his business, and after 1844, Bowen predominately collaborated with Audubon and his sons on reissues and completion of their natural history volumes. He also worked with Philadelphia ornithologist John Cassin. Following the printing of the plates for his "Illustrations of the Birds of California,...," Cassin associated with Bowen's firm as a business manager and artist. By the time of Bowen's death in the summer of 1856, he served as one of the appraisers of his estate of about $5,500 that included presses worth $250 and lithographic stone worth $30. Before 1838, Bowen married Lavinia, a colorist, with whom he had a son John (b. ca. 1838). From 1839 through the 1840s, Bowen 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. Following his death, Lavinia assumed operations of the Bowen firm and engaged John Cassin as partner in 1858. The firm Bowen & Co. was active until ca. 1870.
Date: b. ca. 1801-1856
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Muringer, Caspar
Description: Caspar Muringer, born ca. 1806 in France, worked as an artist, lithographer, and merchant in Philadelphia from about 1847 (when lithographs with his imprint appeared in Thomas W. Gwilt Mapleson's "Pearls of American Poetry") to about 1861. Listed as a lithographer in Philadelphia city directories in the 1850s, his 1858 business address was given as 22 South Fifth Street; the same address as P. S. Duval's lithographic establishment. In 1861, he drew on stone, "In Defence [sic] of the Union and the Constitution," a certificate printed by P. S. Duval after a design by his future son-in-law and fellow French-born lithographic artist Christian Schussele. Together with lithographer Peter Kramer, he also printed the cartoon "Shadow of the Times" from his 253 North Eighth Street establishment. Beginning ca. 1862, Muringer operated a wine & liquor wholesale establishment, possibly until his death ca. 1868 (his wife was listed as a widow in the 1869 Philadelphia city directory)., Muringer was married to French-born Eva Salome (b. ca. 1821) with whom he had lithographer son Emile (b. ca. 1834), and three daughters, all born in France except for Lydia (b. ca. 1849, Pennsylvania). By 1850, the family, and boarder lithographer Christian Schussele, resided on North Eighth Street in the North Mulberry Ward of the city. Schussele married Muringer's daughter Cecilia (ca. 1838-1916) and the couple lived with the Muringers through the 1860s, along with their daughters Eva (b. ca. 1856) and Mary (b. ca. 1862). Presumably after Caspar Muringer's death ca. 1865, his family traveled with Schussele to France to seek a cure for the palsy that afflicted his right hand. The Muringer family returned on the Ville de Paris ship en-route to New York from Le Havre, France in May 1868 and by 1870 the Muringer and Schussele families resided again in Philadelphia, north of Center City (Ward 14).
Date: b. ca. 1806-ca. 1868
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Watson, C. A. (Charles Augustus)
Description: Charles Augustus Watson, born in Philadelphia to merchant Joseph Watson and Margaret Rodman, worked as a lithographer and printer with his brother John Frampton Watson in Philadelphia between 1833 and 1837. In 1835, an advertisement for the new lithographic establishment of J. F. & C.A. Watson at 62 Walnut Street appeared regularly in the "Philadelphia Inquirer" and emphasized "that cards &c. engraved on stone for all the practical purposes of business, are equal to those on copper, and at one third the cost." Their earliest known lithographic plates, "Grizzly Bears," "Ground Squirrel," and "Argali," were published in the third volume of "Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports"(1833). They also printed sheet music covers and maps, along with a lithograph of Chadds Ford delineated by Swiss artist and lithographer John Caspar Wild in 1834. By 1837, Watson withdrew from the business and began to be unlisted in business and city directories.
Date: fl. 1833-1837
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Rehn, Isaac
Description: Isaac Rehn, the Philadelphia photographer born in York, Pennsylvania in 1815, also worked as a photolithographer in the city ca. 1861-ca. 1883. Born of the Quaker faith, Rehn entered the field of photography by 1849 when he was listed as a "photographist" in city directories. In the 1850s he received a patent for an ambrotype process with partner James Cutting of Boston (1854) and began to experiment with the photolithographic process. In 1858 a collection of his photolithographs was noted in the "American Journal of Photography and the Allied Arts and Sciences" and he issued a series of stereographs of European views in this medium through the American Stereoscopic Co. (i.e., Langenheim, Lloyd & Co.) ca. 1859-60. In 1861 he began to be listed in city directories as a photolithographer and in 1873 was in partnership with Alfred Dickes (Rehn & Dickes) in this field at 125 South Fourth Street. Although Rehn died in 1883, his experiments with transfer paper are cited in a December 1884 article about photolithography in "The Photographic News.", Rehn was also a noted and devoted spiritualist who often lectured about the subject and served as the leader of the Harmonial Association of Philadelphia, as well as "The Penetralium," an investigative group of scientifically-minded spiritualists. His pursuit of scientific inquiry also led to his patenting of improvements to photography, photolithography, and fine art printing as well as displays at the Exhibitions of Manufacturers at the Franklin Institute. He was also an innovator in microphotography, a labor organizer, the recipient of a $500,000 contract to reproduce Patent Office Drawings in 1860, and a member of the faculty of Pennsylvania Medical University (1874-1876)., According to censuses, Isaac Rehn lived in Center City (Ward 9) with his wife Abigail (1818-1894) and several children, including photographer William (b. ca. 1842) in 1860 and in Washington, D.C. in 1870. His personal estate had increased from $1000 to $5000 during this decade. By 1871 he returned to Philadelphia and resided at 1321 North Seventh Street before returning to York, Pa. in the late 1870s where he died in September 1883.
Date: 1815-September 1883
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Clark, James G.
Description: See Rice & Clark.
Date: 1798-May 8, 1883
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Darley, Felix O. C. (Felix Octavius Carr)
Description: Felix Octavius Carr Darley, born June 23, 1822 in Philadelphia, the son of actors John and Eleanor Darley, Jr., was the leading 19th-century American book and magazine illustrator, including in the medium of lithography Originally apprenticed as a clerk, Darley a self-trained artist, entered the field of commercial illustration and design in Philadelphia in 1840. During the 1840s, Darley served as staff illustrator for "Graham's Magazine" and provided engraved illustrations for a number of books and series, including "Scenes of Indian Life" (1843). He also produced lithographs, including the portrait print of performer "John Day, American Jester" issued by Henry Dacre in 1847 and the series printed by Thomas Sinclair "In Town and About" (1843) depicting Philadelphia street life., In 1848, Dacre relocated to New York where he continued a very successful career as a book and periodical illustrator of the works of popular authors. In 1859, he relocated to Clayton, Delaware following his marriage to Jane Colburn and remained active in the trade until his death on March 27, 1888, Darley was listed in Philadelphia city directories in only the year 1847 as a designer at 417 High (i.e., Market) Street. Throughout his art career, he exhibited work at the National Academy of Design, the Artist Fund Society, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Brooklyn Art Association. He also designed bank note vignettes.
Date: June 23, 1822- March 27, 1888
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Smith, Joseph
Description: Joseph Smith was a Philadelphia lithographer who served as steward of the Lithographic Printers Union in 1862., Most likely the same Joseph B. Smith, born ca. 1835 in Pennsylvania, residing with Herman Meyer at 123 North Seventh Street (Ward 6) in 1860. The census for 1860 misidentifies Joseph B. Smith as "John B. Smith".
Date: b. January 1835
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

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