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Title: Knirsch, Otto
Description: Otto Knirsch, born ca. 1831 in Prussia, possibly Dresden, Germany operated a lithographic establishment (311 Chestnut Street, later 311 and 429 Walnut Street) in Philadelphia 1858-ca. 1861. A practical lithographer, Knirsch worked for Currier & Ives designing genre scenes, landscapes, and political cartoons during the 1850s before he relocated to Philadelphia. Knirsch's known work issued in Philadelphia includes portraiture, genre views, and a sheet music cover. In 1865, Knirsch relocated to Chicago and founded the Chicago Lithographing Company with Otto Jevne, Peter M. Almini, Louis Kurz and Edward Carqueville. The firm specialized in view prints and was active into the 1870s. Following the fire Knirsch relocated to New Jersey and remained in the trade until at least 1893., Knirsch was married to Mary (b. ca. 1842) with whom he had two sons. In 1860, the family resided at 742 South Eighth Street (Ward 3) in Philadelphia. While a Philadelphia resident, Knirsch was active in the Maennerchor Musical Society and served on their Eleventh Annual Grand Fancy Dress Ball committee in 1858. Following the Chicago fire of 1871, Knirsch and his family relocated to Hoboken, New Jersey where he was a member of the Hoboken Rifles Club. By 1880, the household included a servant. Knirsh remained in Hoboken residing and working as a lithographer in Jersey City with his son Otto, Jr. (b. ca. 1854) as of 1893.
Date: b. ca. 1831
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Loudenslager, J.L.
Description: J. L. Loudenslager exhibited two lithographic drawings at the Twenty-fourth Exhibition of the American Manufactures at the Franklin Institute in 1854., Possibly the John L. Loudenslager, born ca. 1812 in Pennsylvania, listed in the 1855 and 1856 city directories as employed at the Custom House and with a residence at 62 Dilwyn and 107 Noble Street, respectively. In the 1853 city directory and the 1850 and 1860 censuses, he was listed as a distiller. In 1860, he resided in the 12th Ward, with his wife and four children, with a combined personal and real estate valued at $2200.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Burk & McFetridge
Description: Burk & McFetridge, the steam power printing, lithography and publishing establishment operated by Pennsylvania natives William M. Burk (ca. 1857-1905) and John R. McFetridge (1844-1903), produced lithographic trade cards, advertisements, book illustrations, pamphlets, calendars and other job printing related material in Philadelphia between 1877 and 1900. Initially colleagues at the Inquirer Printing Office (304 Chestnut Street), where Burk worked as the printer and foreman and McFetridge as a stamp agent, they purchased the printing house from William W. Harding in 1877. The Burk & McFetridge partnership operated from the second and fourth floors of the building until relocating next door to 306-308 Chestnut Street in 1884. In 1893, the firm incorporated and was renamed Burk & McFetridge Co. By 1898, the firm advertised they employed "one hundred and ten hands," one of who two years later caused an investigation by creditors as a result of the embezzlement of funds from the company. The company had total assets valued at between $400,000 and $500,000 at the time. Subsequently, three months after the inquiry, John R. McFetridge withdrew from the firm and legally filed to incorporate a new printing and publishing establishment under the name John R. McFetridge & Sons. McFetridge Sr. died suddenly in Atlantic City, New Jersey in 1903, and Burk not long after in 1905. John R. McFetridge & Sons remained in operations until at least 1945
Date: fl. 1877-1900
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Seitz, Louis
Description: Louis Seitz, born ca. 1824 in Hanover, Germany, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia in 1860., According to the 1860 census, Seitz was married to Paulina (b. ca. 1821) and had five children fourteen years of age and under born in Pennsylvania. He owned real estate valued at $1200 and personal estate valued at $500.
Date: b. ca. 1824
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Dinneen, Cornelius
Description: Cornelius Dinneen, born ca. 1832 in Ireland, worked as a lithographer and printer in Philadelphia between 1856 and the mid-1860s. Dineen immigrated to Philadelphia in 1851 and was in the employ of P. S. Duval beginning about 1856 and was named in his insolvency petition of 1859. Cornelius worked at his establishments at 5 Ranstead Place, 8 South Fifth Street, and 22 South Fifth Street, as well as served as the secretary of the Lithographic Printers Union in 1858. By 1860, he owned real estate valued at $700 and personal estate valued at $100., During this time he resided in Ward 1 of the city with his wife, Mary (b. ca. 1835), and their Pennsylvania-born daughters, Mary (b. 1857) and Margaret (b. 1859). His brothers, Patrick Dinneen (b. ca. 1828) and Dennis Dinneen (b ca. 1833), also worked as lithographers for P.S. Duval.
Date: b. ca. 1832
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Blucher, Joseph
Description: Joseph Blucher, born ca. 1810 in France, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia in 1850. He resided with his wife, Mary (b. ca. 1815), and two daughters, Catharine (b. ca. 1844) and Mary (b. ca. 1847) in the Pine Ward of the city., The 1856 Philadelphia City Directory lists an H. Blucher at 5th Street below Bridge Ave that is possibly this lithographer.
Date: b. ca. 1810
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Restein, E. P. & L.
Description: E. P. & L. Restein, the Philadelphia chromolithographic firm established by brothers Edmund Prosper and Louis (Ludwig) Restein, operated ca. 1864-1912., Originally an independent branch of their father's fancy card manufactory, James Restein & Sons, at 702 Chestnut Street, E. P. & L. Restein also included a "chroma factory" at 714-16 Federal Street by 1867. The establishment, which maintained good to fair to poor credit, initially produced lamp shades before specializing in parlor prints and novelties, particularly views and genre scenes, by the 1870s. Credit reports indicate the Resteins' establishment's worth at about $12,000 to $15,000, and in 1874, the brothers purchased several lots above Seventh and Dickinson Streets. By 1876, the establishment relocated to their lots on Dickinson; associated with the financially-troubled The National Chromo Company as their publisher; and was noted in the credit reports as having a fair number of judgments owed. Despite these financial instabilities, the Resteins continued to do a "large business publishing chromos" in 1889. Following the deaths of the brothers in the early 1890s, the firm continued under the management of Edmund's wife Rebecca, but by 1897 the business's several judgments began to take a major financial toll and the establishment entered into bankruptcy proceedings. In October 1912, the firm, including 300,000 lbs of lithographic stones, was sold at auction., Edmund Prosper and Louis (Ludwig) Restein, sons of lithographer, card, and paper manufacturer James Restein (b. ca. 1811) and Catherine (b. ca. 1812), born in France in 1837 and ca. 1838, respectively, immigrated to Philadelphia in 1852. In 1855, their father worked at the establishment of P. S. Duval (5 Ranstead Place), where the brothers were purported by Peters to have trained. Other early work experience was provided by the lampshade and lithograph manufactory of V. Quarre & Co., where father and sons were also employed as cited in credit reports., In 1858, Edmund was listed in city directories at the establishment of Alphonse Brett (N. E. Sixth and Minor Streets) and in 1861 at the establishment of L. N. Rosenthal (501 Chestnut Street) before the brothers are listed in partnership with William Stott in E. P. & L. Restein & Co., shade manufacturers at 713 Federal Street (the Resteins residential address). By 1867, Edmund and Louis only remained in the firm., In 1860, the brothers lived with their parents in South Philadelphia, where they lived and worked throughout their lives. By 1870, Edmund had married Rebecca (b. ca. 1842) and had several children. In 1880, Edmund lived at 1224 South Eight Street with his family and Louis resided at 8041 Wharton Street with possibly his second wife, Virginia-born Elizabeth (b. ca. 1847) and his two sons, John and James, whose mother was born in Pennsylvania. Edmund died in December 1890, while Louis died on January 25, 1894 in a carriage on his way to his residence on Wharton Street. According to Louis's will, he left an estate and real estate, each worth $10, 000. Indicative of the troubled states of the Restein firm, his share of the business remained as a loan to the surviving partners (as agreed to by executors of his brother's estate in 1893) from which the interest and all revenue went to his two sons and wife as long as she remained a widow.
Date: fl. ca. 1864-1912
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Lorio, Peter
Description: Peter Lorio, born ca. 1820 in Austria, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia in 1860. He lived with his Prussian-born wife Caroline (b. ca. 1825) and son Otter (b. 1857) in Ward 5, Southern Division.
Date: b. ca. 1820
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Mayberry, James A.
Description: James Mayberry, born ca. 1841 in Pennsylvania, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia ca. 1860-ca. 1874. Brother to printers John (b. ca. 1838) and David (ca. 1843), Mayberry lived with his mother Sarah (b. ca. 1815) and siblings in Center City (Ward 4) in 1860. During the late 1860s he lived at 620 South Sixth Street and 713 South Fifteenth Street in South Philadelphia. By 1870 he continued to live in the neighborhood (Ward 2) with his wife Mary (ca. 1834-1901) and three-year old son John. Mayberry worked in the trade until the early 1870s and resided at 1721 South Twelfth Street (1872) and 1519 North Second Street (1873-). By 1880 Mayberry worked as a peddler and resided at 1408 North Second Street (Ward 17) with his wife and two sons.
Date: b. ca. 1841
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Brechemin & Camp
Description: Brechemin & Camp was a brief partnership between Philadelphia jeweler, lithographer Lewis Brechemin and Philadelphia lithographer John Henry Camp between 1847 and 1848 at 120 South Second street. The partnership produced portrait prints and commercial vignettes, including a view of the Merchants' Exchange by Augustus Kollner, a later partner of Camp.
Date: fl. 1847-1848
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Smith, Robert Pearsall
Description: Robert Pearsall Smith, son and brother of Library Company of Philadelphia librarians John Jay and Lloyd P. Smith, respectively, born in Philadelphia on February 1, 1827, was a premier map lithographer during the mid 19th century. Known for his salesmanship and ability to negotiate, Smith continued Philadelphia's tradition as a center for map publishing and printing. He married evangelist reformer Hannah Whitall (1832-1911) in 1851 and they had several children, including daughter Rachel Pearsall Smith., Smith began his career in lithography in 1846 in collaboration with his father and brother in the operation of the Anastatic Office, which specialized in a form of transfer lithography. Within a year, Smith assumed the business and converted it into a printing and map publishing establishment, with several of his early maps lithographed by premier Philadelphia lithographer Peter S. Duval. In 1848-1849, he associated, but did not formalize a partnership, with Isaac Jones Wistar under the firm name Smith & Wistar, but Wistar soon left Philadelphia. In 1849, Smith moved his office to 15 Minor Street, later expanded to 17-21, i.e., 517-521 Minor Street employing a number of noteworthy lithographers, engravers and map colorists, including George Worley, Benjamin Matthias, William Bracher, George Eimerman, F. Fuchs, and Jacob Brunner., In 1857, Smith entered into a partnership with Duval's former foreman, Frederick Bourquin, following the dissolution of P. S. Duval & Company. The men established a separate lithographic office from Pearsall's establishment at 600 Chestnut Street. The firm, known as F. Bourquin & Company or Smith & Bourquin, operated until 1865. In 1863, Smith added a third address of 410 Walnut Street to his operations that already included the Minor and Chestnut Street studios. A few years later, however, Smith left the lithographic and map publishing fields to assume a partnership in 1865 in the glass manufacturing firm of his father-in-law Whitall, Tatum & Company of New Jersey. He eventually became an evangelist, like his wife, for the Holiness movement in America and died in London, England on April 17, 1898.
Date: February 1, 1827 - April 17, 1898
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Breton, W. L. (William L.)
Description: William L. Breton, born ca. 1773-6 in England, was a watercolorist and early lithographer of Philadelphia landscapes active in the city ca. 1825-1855. Breton, a self-trained artist immigrated to Philadelphia about 1824, leaving a wife and several children in Europe. An amateur watercolorist of Philadelphia landmarks, Breton attracted the attention of antiquarian John F. Watson in the late 1820s as the latter compiled his "Annals of Philadelphia.", Retained by Watson as the artist of the illustrations for his "Annals," Breton also served 1828-1837 as an artist of engraved Philadelphia and West Pennsylvania views for Samuel Atkinson's "The Casket"; of which several reside in the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia Athenaeum. In 1829, Breton entered the lithographic trade to execute the illustrations for the "Annals" and continued to work with the printers of the plates, first commercial Philadelphia lithographers, Kennedy & Lucas, throughout the early 1830s. The collaboration also created 1829-1830 the first separately-issued series of lithographic views of Philadelphia depicting local churches of variant denominations as well as produced lithographic illustrations for Watson's "Historic Tales of Olden Times..." of New York and Philadelphia (1832-1833); Mease and Porter's "Picture of Philadelphia from 1811 to 1833"; and "Godey's Lady's Book." Breton's lithography also included advertisements, including work for Lehman & Duval (1835-1837) and railroad imagery., Throughout the 1830s, Breton continued his work in watercolor. In 1837, he received acclaim and a sale for his view of the launching of the new frigate Pennsylvania from the Navy Yard which was followed by a depiction of the Departure of the Steam Ship Great Western from New York in 1838; both of which went on display with other of his work at the "Head Quarters." Following this era of productivity and success, Breton began to lessen his association with lithography. He possibly worked with Thomas Sinclair in the early 1840s, but soon thereafter his work mainly focused on watercolors that he produced in a state of retirement before his death on August 14, 1855, Breton appears to have lived mainly as a tenant during his Philadelphia residency with a studio at the Arcade Building in 1830 and at the S.E corner of Fourth and Walnut streets in 1849. He was a "gentleman" resident of the inn of Alex Quinton in Manayunk according to the 1850 census.
Date: ca. 1773-August 14, 1855
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Packard & Butler
Description: Packard & Butler, a Philadelphia lithographic firm, was established by Boston lithographer and artist Herbert S. Packard and New York lithographer William H. Butler at 716 Filbert Street in 1879. By 1882 credit reports listed the firm that specialized in church views as "well-connected" and maintaining quite the "profitable business." The firm employed five artists and was valued at $15,00-$25,000 with excellent credit., Photo-lithographer David Anson Patridge joined the firm on January 1, 1883. In 1885 Packard left the partnership which retained his name. Packard, Butler & Patridge remained active until a fire razed the building tenanted by the firm at 715 Arch Street on January 26, 1886. Following the fire, Packard & Partridge continued to work together until 1893., The firm also issued advertisements, trade cards, sheet music covers, and views.
Date: fl. 1879-1883
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Grandon, Joseph
Description: Joseph Grandon, born in Ireland ca. 1843, immigrated to Philadelphia in 1856, and worked as a lithographer ca. 1856-1880s. Employed at P. S. Duval at his 8 South Fifth Street establishment during the 1850s, he resided in North Philadelphia with his older sister Mary in Ward 13 by 1860 and Ward 17 by 1864. Although Grandon worked as a lithographer, engraver, and printer through the 1880s, a May 1864 U.S. IRS Tax Assessment List indicates that he also operated a retail establishment with a residence at 1345 North Second Street (Ward 17); his address until his death. The business, described in Philadelphia city directories as "gents furnishing," "dry goods," and "shirts," operated, probably from East 2431-2433 Somerset Street, until at least the turn of the century. About 1885, Grandon married Annie (d. 1913) and in February 1893, he received $2,654 from the city for damages to his East Somerset property during grade changes. Grandon died on November 10, 1905.
Date: ca. 1843-November 10, 1905
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Mahan, Francis
Description: Francis Mahan, born ca. 1790 in Pennsylvania, worked primarily as a fashion lithographer, publisher and designer in Philadelphia from 1829 to 1871. Trained as a tailor in Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania in the mid-1810s "by making clothes of every description, plain or fashionable, to suit customers," Mahan relocated and was proprietor of Francis Mahan & Co. in Philadelphia (Chestnut Street Ward) by the late 1820s. He copyrighted and advertised protractors and his proof system "to impart the art of garment cutting" to tailors, a system disputed by rival tailor and publisher Allen Ward in local newspapers beginning in the late 1830s. In a newspaper war that endured many years, Ward accused Mahan of copying designs from old drafts of his work, resulting in several design competitions; an injunction against Mahan by Ward in 1839; and a libel suit by Mahan against Ward in 1840., By the 1840s both Mahan and Ward published fashion prints. The prints displayed in local tailors' shops depicted several figures attired in seasonal fashions that often included prominent figures for credibility and made the lithographs collectibles. Prominent figures in Mahan prints, which were often advertised in the local newspapers, included Henry Clay and James K. Polk in 1844 and 1845 and Colonel May, "the hero of Palo Alto," (from a daguerreotype) in 1847. During the 1840s, Mahan also exhibited fashion plates in the Franklin Institute Exhibition of American Manufactures (1848) and included an advertisement in the catalog that claimed he had "near Six Thousand regular subscribers" to his plates. He continued to publish plates through the 1850s and in the 1860 issued a print "which contain[ed] all the Presidential Candidates" for which he advertised in the "Public Ledger" for canvassers., A listing for Mahan's tailor shop at 20 South Sixth Street appeared in city directories in 1831. The shop moved to Chestnut Street in the early 1840s, with locations at 215, then 211, 186, 720, 911 and then back to 720 Chestnut Street. Mahan resided within the same ward as his business, and by 1850 he lived in the hotel owned by Filbert I. Nagle at 18 South Sixth Street. He moved to Camden, New Jersey in the 1860s, and returned to Philadelphia by 1871, after which time his name is absent from city directories. He had one son, Phineas Jenks Mahan (1814-1875), who was an expert gardener and a soldier in Texas in the mid-late 1830s. The younger Mahan was appointed by Richard G. Harrison of Philadelphia to secure contracts for bank note engraving in Texas, which is where he subsequently moved his family by 1870.
Date: ca. 1790-1871
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Morine, Henry
Description: See Morris, Henry.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Currier, Nathaniel
Description: Premier lithographer Nathaniel Currier, born in Roxbury, Massachusetts on March 27, 1813, worked in Philadelphia in 1833 with former, fellow Pendleton of Boston apprentice M. E. D. Brown. Currier worked at Brown's establishment (5 Library Street) before he relocated to New York City. He, however, remained associated with Brown and the first print issued by his press was delineated by his former Philadelphia employer., Before the establishment of his renown partnership in 1856 with James Ives, Currier worked with Adam Stodart in the 1830s and then solely. The Currier & Ives partnership survived until about 1907. While in Philadelphia, Currier probably assisted in the design of lithographs with M. E. D. Brown imprints, including plates in the "Floral Magazine" (1832-1834);"American Journal of Science and Arts" (1832-1833); and "Cabinet of Natural History" (1830-1834). Currier retired in 1880, leaving his interest in the firm to his son, Edward and died of pneumonia in November 1888.
Date: March 27, 1813-November 22, 1888
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Linfoot & Fleu
Description: Linfoot & Fleu, the short-lived lithographic publishing partnership between architect Benjamin Linfoot and Germantown printer Conyers Fleu, was active 1870-1871. The firm formed in 1870 to publish Philadelphia's second architectural journal, "The American Architect and Builders' Monthly," which included lithographic illustrations of buildings and plans. Their lithograph firm, listed in an 1871 Philadelphia city directory at 328 Walnut Street, dissolved after approximately nine months when the journal ceased operations in January, 1871. In 1874, Linfoot received a certificate of honorable mention for a water color drawing "South Transept Cathedral" exhibited at the Franklin Institute.
Date: fl. 1870-1871
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Clay, E. W. (Edward W.)
Description: Edward W. Clay, the most prolific lithographic cartoonist of the Jacksonian era, was born of English-decent on April 17, 1799 in Philadelphia where he was active as an artist, engraver, and lithographer ca. 1819-1837. Son of well-to-do sea captain Robert Clay (1770-1804) and Eliza Williams (1776-1857) and admitted to the bar as a lawyer in 1825, Clay entered the printing trade as a Philadelphia engraver during his legal studies in the late 1810s. In pursuit of his chosen career, Clay traveled to Europe and studied art (ca. 1825-ca. 1828) and created book and periodical illustrations, sheet music covers, portraits, and character vignettes, such as "Lessons in Dancing" published by R. H. Hobson in 1828., He created his most known work issued in Philadelphia, his etched series "Life in Philadelphia" (1828-1830) satirizing middle-class African American Philadelphians, following his return from Europe. Clay also began to work in lithography at that time and drew complementary lithographs to the "Life" series, including "Back to Back" (ca. 1829) and "A Dead Cut," (1829); the latter published by Pendleton, Kearny & Childs. Clay would continue to work with Childs' noted lithographic establishments from 1830 to 1833 and delineated advertisements, and satiric genre and news event prints, including "Skating. Scene on the River Delaware..." and "Ropers Gymnasium," both published by Childs & Inman in 1831. By 1831, however, Clay predominately focused his skills on political cartoons. He started to publish this work from the southeast corner of Fourth and Walnut Streets, including the popular anti-Jackson lithograph "The Rats Leaving a Falling House" (1831)., At about 1835, Clay relocated from his 300 Spruce Street Philadelphia residence to New York. Although he had lithographs published in New York previously by John Pendleton (formerly of Pendleton, Kearny, & Childs) and Anthony Imbert. he predominately designed cartoons printed by H. R. Robinson. In New York, Clay also drew lithographic sheet music covers on rare occasions, and during the 1840s and 1850s had many of his cartoons published by John Childs. Clay remained in New York designing political cartoons until about 1852 when his eye sight began to fail. Soon thereafter, as a result of family connections, he served as the Clerk of the Court of Chancery and Clerk of the Orphan's Court for Delaware between 1854 and 1856, as well as designed a Shankland's American fashion plate printed in 1854 by P. S. Duval & Co. By 1857 Clay returned to New York for medical care and died of "pulmonary consumption" on December 31, 1857. He was buried at the Christ Church Burial Ground in Philadelphia.
Date: April 17, 1799- December 31, 1857
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Citti, Orelius
Description: Orelius Citti, born ca. 1831 in Pennsylvania, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia and New York City between 1855 and about 1880. Brother of Louis F. Citti, and from a family of artists, painters and lithographers, Orelius began his lithographic career with P. S. Duval on 5 Ranstead Place in 1855. By 1860, he lived in Ward 21 in New York City with his parents, siblings, and his wife, Elizabeth (b. ca. 1835) and daughter, Ida (b. ca. 1856). Orelius may have lived briefly in Richmond, Virginia at the same time as his brother, Louis, given the place of birth of his daughter, Ida. He returns to Philadelphia in the 1870s, presumably working for his brother's business, L. F. Citti & Co., at Seventh and Market Streets. His family resided in Ward 1 at 229 Mifflin Street. Orelius died around 1880.
Date: b. ca. 1831-ca. 1880
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Wild & Chevalier
Description: Wild & Chevalier, was the short-lived partnership between Swiss-born lithographer John C. Wild and French-born lithographer John B. Chevalier between ca. 1837-1838. The firm, most known for the publication of Wild's "Views of Philadelphia" in 1838, also issued song sheets, souvenir prints, and views of Cape May and the 1838 destruction of Pennsylvania Hall.
Date: fl. ca. 1837-1838
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Stopfer, Robert L.
Description: See Stopfer, Frank.
Date: b. ca. 1852
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Stopfer, Francis
Description: Francis Stopfer, born ca. 1820 in Austria, worked in Philadelphia as a lithographer, engraver, and printer ca. 1858-ca. 1877. He immigrated to the United States in September 1852 through the Port of Baltimore with his wife and two children with the listed occupation of "lithographer." By 1858, he worked in Philadelphia as a "lithographic artist" at the map establishment of Robert Pearsall Smith at 519 Minor Street., In 1860, Stopfer resided in Ward 5 with his Austrian-born family: wife Madeline (b. ca. 1822) and three children, including Robert (b. ca. 1852) who entered the printing trade ca. 1866. During his career, Stopfer resided at 521 South Sixth Street in 1869 and in West Philadelphia by the 1870s at 745 May Street and 738 June Street by 1877., Despite an infamous past, Stopfer's son Robert still worked as a Philadelphia lithographer as of 1894 and resided at 423 McKean Street. In 1883, according to newspaper reports Robert was denied custody of his son from his former actress wife because of child abuse.
Date: b. ca. 1820
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Kessler, J. Millard
Description: John Millard Kessler, born in 1848 in the Northern Liberties Ward of Philadelphia, was a partner in the lithographic firm of Breuker & Kessler. Established 1866 by George W. Breuker, Sr. and John's older brother Harry C. Kessler, the firm employed Kessler as a clerk in 1868. By the mid 1870s he acted as a proprietor following the departure of his elder brother., Kessler resided with his parents at 1621 Summer Street until the mid-1880s. He resided at 619 N 18th and 1928 Wallace Street until the mid-1890s, when he moved to the Aldine Hotel, then the Belgravia, and finally The Maidstone. By 1900 he married Evelina M. Haehnlen(1853-1922), the daughter of Philadelphia lithographer Louis Haehnlen. From 1906 to 1911, he worked for Otto Martin & Co., a lithographic supply company before, presumably for retirement, he relocated with his wife to Los Angeles in the late 1910s. Evelina Kessler died in Los Angeles in 1922.
Date: b. 1848
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Altemus, Alfred C.
Description: Alfred C. Altemus, a Pennsylvania-born book binder and lithographer born into a family of book binders, partnered with Robert J. Hitchins in 1876 to operate the lithography firm Altemus & Hitchins at 20 North Seventh Street. The shot-lived firm lasted about a year. Altemus resided at 2330 Watt Street (Ward 7) with his wife, Mary W. Shurlock (1831-1910), and three children, during his time in the lithographic trade., His father, Joseph Altemus (ca. 1800-1853), and uncle, Samuel Altemus (1815-1891) started the bookbinding firm Altemus & Co. at 44 North Fourth Street in 1842. Alfred's brother, Henry (b. ca. 1833), operated Altemus & Co. after their father's death in 1853. The bookbinding business evolved to include the publication of photograph albums, scrapbooks and blank books in the 1870s and operated at various locations until 1936. Alfred presumably worked as a book binder for the family firm.
Date: b. July 1831
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Carr, Richard
Description: Richard Carr, born about 1801 in England, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia between 1846 and 1870. During this time period, Carr and his family resided in Wards 1 and 6 in South Philadelphia, usually near Washington Avenue, east of Seventh Street. His wife, Keziah (b. 1803), and son, Richard (b. 1833), were also born in England, but his three younger sons, Samuel (b. 1835), William (b. 1837), and John (b. 1840) were born in the United States.
Date: b. ca. 1801
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Wright, Ernest A.
Description: Ernest A. Wright, born in England in July 1851 was a late 19th-century Philadelphia engraver, printer, and lithographer who specialized in bank notes, and society and collegiate stationery. Immigrated to Canada in 1856 and apprenticed in steel and copper plate engraving in New York ca. 1866, Wright established his own engraving firm in Philadelphia at 1032 Chestnut Street in 1872., Following the Centennial of 1876, Wright's business entered a period of prosperity, including the addition of lithography to his printing services by 1891. By that year, Wright operated a five-story plant with 150 employees at 1108 Chestnut Street and executed bank note engraving, government contracts, and corporate printing jobs., Wright, also known as an expert counterfeit detector, was married in 1878 to Elizabeth (b. 1854) with whom he had three children, and was a member of the Canadian Club, Chamber of Commerce, Manufacturer's Club, and the Tioga Methodist Episcopal Church. Wright died on May 30, 1912 at his residence on Wissahickon and Park avenues. He was interred at Westminster Cemetery.
Date: 1851-May 30, 1912
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Worley, George
Description: George Worley, born in England ca. 1819, possibly in Huntingdonshire, was a Philadelphia lithographer who specialized in maps. By 1843, Worley resided in Philadelphia as an artist, later working as a lithographer at the map publishing establishment of Robert Pearsall Smith ca. 1856-1859 before he became senior partner in the firm of Worley, Bracher & Matthias. He is credited with work on the "Map of Burlington County" (Philadelphia: Smith & Wistar, 1849) with Gustavus Kramm and "Map of Greene County, Ohio" (Philadelphia: Anthony D. Byles, 1855). Worley married Ann Thackeray in Huntingdonshire on March 14, 1841. He was naturalized on June 3, 1863 and listed in the tax assessment lists of 1865 for tax on his income and a piano while residing at 2128 Green Street. He died of liver disease on November 21, 1879 in Philadelphia.
Date: ca. 1819 - November 21, 1879
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Ward, S. A. and A. F. (Samuel A. and Asahel F.)
Description: Samuel A. and Asahel F. Ward, tailors, designers and "publishers of fashion" issued lithographic fashion plates in Philadelphia from 1841 to 1857. Sons of Allen Ward, who claimed to be "the first inventor, patentee and teacher of systematical rules of garment cutting," the Wards produced The Philadelphia Fashions & Tailors' Archetypes, a subscription-based publication containing garment cutting instructions accompanied by lithographed plates of patterns similar to the protractor and proof system created by local designer Francis Mahan. In a newspaper war that endured many years, their father accused Mahan of copying designs from old drafts of his work, resulting in several design competitions; an injunction against Mahan by Ward in 1839; and a libel suit by Mahan against Ward in 1840. By the 1840s both Mahan and the Wards were publishing fashion prints (the Wards' lithographed by Thomas Sinclair) depicting figures attired in seasonal fashions., According to city directories, Samuel A. Ward (b. ca. 1812) began his tailoring business at 62 Walnut Street in 1841. He began publishing fashion plates as early as 1842 with Asahel F. Ward (1817-1895) from this location and in 1847, according to Peters, he exhibited at the Franklin Institute Exhibition of Manufacturers. In 1854 they removed to the second floor of 100 Chestnut Street, where they remained until Samuel moved to Chicago with his wife Jane A. (b. ca. 1810) in 1857 to pursue music printing. Asahel continued the business in Philadelphia at 335 Chestnut Street from 1857-1862, then tenanted 138 South Third Street until the end of the 1870s. He transitioned into a "reporter of fashions" in the 1880s., Asahel resided on South Ninth and Tenth Streets in South Philadelphia (Wards 2, 3 and 4) with his wife Anna M. (b. ca. 1820) and their five children until his death in 1895., Samuel A. remained in Chicago until at least 1877, after which time he is unlisted in the business and city directories.
Date: fl. 1841-1857
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Bracher & Matthias
Description: A partnership between William Bracher and Benjamin Matthias active ca. 1854-1855 from Robert Pearsall Smith's publishing house at 15, i.e., 517 Minor Street.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Smith & Bourquin
Description: See Bourquin, Frederick and Smith, Robert Pearsall.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Koehler, Otto
Description: Otto Koehler, born ca. 1830 in Hesse, Germany, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia, including from a studio at 720 Chestnut Street (later the establishment of the Resteins), between ca. 1858 and the mid 1870s. In 1870 Koehler, according to his listing in the census, also worked in the field of photography, Koehler resided in North Philadelphia while active in the trade in the city. In 1860 he resided at 4 Godfrey Avenue (Ward 19) with his wife Philipina (b. ca. 1834) and two children under six years of age born in Philadelphia. He also owned personal estate worth $800. In 1870 he resided at 1535 Stiles Street (Ward 20) with his second wife Christina (b. ca. 1844) and two children from his previous wife. His personal estate was valued at $300 and his real estate at $3500. By 1880 he had relocated his residency to Burlington, N.J. and continued to work as a lithographer outside of Philadelphia.
Date: ca. 1830
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Dando, Thomas S. (Thomas Stotesbury)
Description: Thomas S. Dando, printer, lithographer, publisher, and businessman was born on January 21, 1856 in Newark, New Jersey. Son of Joseph Clifford Dando, a Pennsylvania-born oil merchant and bookkeeper, Dando attended Friends schools in Philadelphia, and by the age of eighteen was employed as a printer at 307 Walnut Street. Some of his earliest works were maps distributed by general agents Peter Wright & Sons, also located at the Walnut Street address. In the late 1870s, he copartnered with Henry B. Davis to operate Thomas S. Dando & Co., and continued to produce catalogs, annual reports, pamphlets, and maps in addition to lithographed trade cards and advertisements from this location until 1885. Thomas resided with his parents and siblings at 1306 Master Street (Ward 20) during this period of his career., On January 1, 1886, Dando Printing and Publishing Co. succeeded Thomas S. Dando & Co. in the building formerly occupied by Drexel & Co. at 34 South Third Street. Henry W. Brown served as president, Thomas S. Dando as vice president, and H. B. Davis as secretary and treasurer. Thomas's brother, Joseph Clifford Dando (b. ca. 1863) joined the business shortly after, filling the roles of secretary and treasurer, as Thomas managed the "Public Ledger' (600 Chestnut Street) and co-founded "The Sporting Life Publishing Company" (also located at 34 South Third Street). Thomas was a member the Union League, the Keystone Shooting League and the Riverton Gun Club, and, in addition to his publishing companies, he also served as a director for the Manufacturers' Casualty Insurance Company, incorporated in 1915 to protect employers of labor in Pennsylvania., Thomas married Helena Jones (b. May 1865) in 1884 and together they had four children. The family moved several times, from Germantown to Moorestown, New Jersey and back to the Fairmount section of the city (Ward 15). By the time of his death on July 31, 1921, he resided on Montgomery Avenue east of Edgewood Road in Ardmore, Pa.
Date: January 21, 1856-July 31, 1921
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Zell, Christian
Description: Christian Zell, born ca. 1830 in Maryland, worked as a painter in Baltimore before moving to Philadelphia and opening a retail liquor store. It is probable that he was accidentally listed as a lithographer operating at 510 South Fifteenth Street in the Philadelphia Business Directory for 1859. Every other directory between the years 1858 and 1868, along with IRS tax assessment information, list him as a tavern keeper or retail liquor store owner at 510 South Eighteenth Street., The 1850 census indicates Zell lived in Baltimore with his brother Henry (b. ca. 1833), in Josiah G. Keller's household in Ward 19. On November 3, 1850, Zell married Eleanor McGleun and by 1860, they lived in Ward 7 in Philadelphia with four children: Amelia (b. ca. 1849), Henry (b. ca. 1851), Josiah (b. ca. 1855) and Christiana (b. ca. 1858). Ten years later, Zell resided again with Josiah Keller in Baltimore with sons Henry and John (b. ca. 1861) and worked as a painter.
Date: b. ca. 1830
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: F. Bourquin & Company
Description: F. Bourquin & Company, a partnership between Frederick Bourquin and Robert Pearsall Smith, which specialized in maps, operated from 600-602 Chestnut Street from 1857 to 1864. The firm name of F. Bourquin & Co. appears on published maps between 1862 and 1864.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Pfeil, Herman
Description: Herman C. Pfeil, born August 1841 in Poland, immigrated to the United States in 1851, and worked intermittently as a lithographer in Philadelphia from ca. 1860 to 1881. Primarily a lithographer of decalcomania, i.e., decals, and showcards, he began his career with Thomas Sinclair at 311 Chestnut Street. By 1866 he had partnered with Jacob Weiss in Pfeil & Weiss, manufacturers of decals and labels, but Weiss's untimely death ended their business within the year. Pfeil subsequently partnered with August L. Weise and Louis Haugg to operate A. L. Weise & Co. at 29 South Fourth Street until 1872., Originally residing with his mother and siblings at 623 North Fourth Street in 1860, Pfeil then married a Pennsylvania-born dry goods dealer Mary (b. ca. 1845) and by 1866 shared a residence with fellow lithographer and future business partner Julius Golz at 614 Callowhill Street (Ward 13). Pfeil relocated to Camden, New Jersey in 1873, where Camden directories list him as a lithographer. In 1877 and 1878 he patented items related to lithography and printing, including an improvement in the manufacture of tablets, signs, etc., and an improvement to the printer's blanket from the use of manila paper and a sheet of oil cloth instead of rubber, respectively., Employed by Wells & Hope Co., another decalcomania and showcard firm, at 918 Vine Street in Philadelphia in 1881, a year later he established Pfeil & Golz, a New York City firm that specialized in showcards. By the end of the 1880s, Pfeil & Golz moved their operations to Camden, New Jersey and altered the name to The Pfeil & Golz Company. The Pfeil family, including five children, resided next to the Golz family on Elm Street in Camden until at least 1910.
Date: b. August 1841
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Hunter, Thomas
Description: Thomas Hunter, born ca. 1828 in Ireland, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia from ca. 1868 to ca. 1894, including the partnership Duval & Hunter (ca. 1869-1874). Immigrating to Pennsylvania by 1831, Hunter worked as a manufacturer and resided with his parents and Philadelphia-born siblings, including brother Charles (b. ca. 1833), a calico printer, in Blockley in 1850. By 1860 Hunter entered his brother's trade and was listed as a mast calico printer in the census, married to Julia (b. ca. 1832), with three children and two servants. The family resided in West Philadelphia near the family of his brother James (b. ca. 1825), also a calico printer. Hunter remained a resident of Hestonville, West Philadelphia when he entered the lithography trade in 1868. Soon thereafter, he partnered with Stephen C. Duval, son of P. S. Duval, in the firm Duval & Hunter (223 South Fifth Street, 716 Filbert)., Hunter continued to head a well-to-do household and manage a successful business with his switch in trades. In 1870, he still retained a servant and in 1874 won an American Manufacturer Exhibition silver medal; assumed the business of partner Duval; and printed the noted "Portraits and Autograph Signatures of the Framers and Signers of The Declaration of Independence, Philadelphia, July 4th, 1776 published by the Centennial Portrait and Autograph Co., Philadelphia. According to credit reports which previously rated the business of Duval & Hunter an excellent one, the sole proprietorship by Hunter "rendered the house stronger in the opinion of the trade." Hunter's brothers James and John, calico printers, supplied much of the capital for the establishment estimated to perform $100,000 worth of business a year., Two years after assuming sole proprietorship of the lithographic firm, Hunter served as one of the few Philadelphia publishers of Centennial Exhibition of 1876 views (copyrighted by the Centennial Board of Finance) depicting the buildings and grounds of the fair. Cited in the "Printer's Weekly" as a "first-class lithographer" for his "artistic excellencies of coloring and drawing" of the prints, Hunter also used the journal to advertise his business in 1878 as the "oldest lithographic establishment in the country;" capitalizing on the legacy of his former partner. Between ca. 1878 and 1881, Hunter issued another significant series of views when he printed a series of panoramas, predominately after W. W. Denslow, showing the several county seats of Pennsylvania. During the early 1880s, Hunter also produced photolithographs as well as sheet music covers before handing over the management of his debt-riddled firm (still owned by his brothers) to William H. Butler, formerly of Packard & Butler, in 1885. In January 1886, the "Hunter" establishment suffered a business-ending fire with Butler having paid off near 2/3 of the debt owed by the firm to its local suppliers., By 1880, Hunter continued to reside with his family, including sons and lithographers James (b. ca. 1856) and Owen (b. ca. 1861) as well as a servant in Hestonville at North Fifty-Fifth Street and Lancaster Avenue. Following the disposition of his business to Butler, Hunter remained listed as a lithographer in city directories until 1894. Throughout the early 1890s, he was listed with a variety of addresses, including 803 North Forty-First Street, 626 North Fortieth Street, and 3324 Lancaster Avenue. Hunter remained listed until 1894 and his probable death., Hunter was also a member of the Supreme Grand Orange Lodge of the United States, in which he served on the Committee of Finance during the Centennial as well as active in the opposition to the 1877 tariff to abolish the duty on books.
Date: b. ca. 1828
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Gebbie, George
Description: George Gebbie, born in Scotland on August 24, 1832, was a Philadelphia and New York bookseller and publisher of fine art books who published lithographic reproductions of Cruikshank's "The Bottle" in 1871. Gebbie immigrated to the United States in 1863 and resided in Utica, New York and New York City before locating to Philadelphia ca. 1866 when he was listed in the March 1866 I.R.S. tax assessment list as a peddler at 814 Market Street. In 1871, Gebbie relocated his establishment to 730 Sansom Street from 825 Filbert Street. Gebbie also formed the firms Gebbie & Barries (1873-1880) and Gebbie & Co. (1881-1907)., By 1870, Gebbie resided at 1714 Rittenhouse in Ward 8 with his wife Mary (b. 1839) and daughter. By 1880 he had relocated to West Philadelphia where he resided at 3608 Walnut Street with his wife and several children, a governess, and a number of servants. Gebbie died at his home in Philadelphia on August 13, 1892.
Date: August 24, 1832-August 13, 1892
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Bellard, Maxim
Description: Maxim Bellard, born about 1830 in Canada, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia in 1860. He resided in the New Market Ward with his wife, Sarah.
Date: b. ca. 1830
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Leonhardt, Theodore
Description: Theodore Leonhardt, born October 18, 1818 in Bautzen, Germany, worked as a commercial lithographer in Philadelphia, producing certificates, bonds, checks, diplomas, cards, letterheads and labels. Trained in the trade in Germany under Beneke, he worked in Leipzig and Gorlitz until 1848 when forced to emigrate from the revolutions. As a result , Leonhardt arrived in New York City in 1849 with his German-born wife Emilie (b. 1820), and two young sons, who died from cholera shortly thereafter. By August 1850, Leonhardt relocated to Philadelphia and established a shop at Third Street and Elbow Lane ca. 1851 before partnering in 1853 with fellow German-born lithographers Maurice Traubel, Edward Schnabel and John F. Finkeldey in the purchase of Frederick Kuhl's "Lithographic Institute" near Dock Street (46 1/2 Walnut Street). Departing the "Institute" ca. 1856, Leonhardt worked with J. Henry Camp (211 Chestnut Street) in 1857, then with Ferdinand Moras (609 Chestnut Street 1858-1859), before in 1861 he opened his own firm at 109 South Fourth Street. In 1868, he relocated his firm to 114 South Third Street and in 1871 Leonhardt engaged Theodore Bosin as his partner so that he could travel and take a brief hiatus from the business until 1872. By 1871, he had also become a naturalized citizen, probably through the New York Court in 1857. At his return, the establishment removed to 324 Chestnut and in 1874 he promoted his son, Arno Leonhardt (1850-1909), from "errand boy and stone grinder" to partner in the company. Two years later, the partnership celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the family business in conjunction with the Centennial Exhibition and issued a souvenir flier advertisement illustrated with Centennial imagery, including vignettes representing the arts. The firm also issued specimen sheets and catalogs promoting their "finely detailed" commercial job printing work as well as expanded theirbuilding ca. 1880, despite the "dreadfully dull" trade during the late 1870s. In 1890, the firm relocated to the southeast corner of Fifth and Library streets and began to include an illustrated, quarter-page advertisement promoting the firm in the city directory (The Library Company holds one of the original copperplates)., Although primarily a lithographic firm specializing in commercial work, the Leonhardts' also imported European trade cards and printed a number of membership certificates reflective of their ties to the local German community, including "Die Deutsche Gesellschaftes staates Pennsylvanien and Gambrinus Unterstutzungus Gesellschaft and Gambrinus Unterstutzungus Gesellschaft" (ca. 1875). The certificate for membership to a German brewing society contains a jauntily portrayed King Gambrinus, patron saint of beer., Upon arrival in Philadelphia, Leonhardt resided with his wife, and son Arno in the Dock Street Ward, the area Leonhardt would reside his entire career and the rest of his life. Originally tenanting Second and Spruce Streets (Arno's residence at birth), by 1854, the family lived at 208 South Fourth Street and later 247, 518, 344 South Fourth Street, respectively, before finally settling at 526 Buttonwood Street. Leonhardt died on August 9, 1877 and his son Arno continued to operate the lithographic establishment and produce mercantile and bank lithographs. The firm remained in operation until at least 1960.
Date: October 18, 1818 - August 9, 1877
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Collins, John
Description: John Collins, the grandson of premier New Jersey printer Isaac Collins, born in New York in 1814, was a Quaker artist, teacher, poet, and author, who worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia and Burlington, N.J. during the mid and later 19th century. Collins was also husband to Anna Baily (b. ca. 1815-1894), and father of six children, of whom four lived to adulthood., A student at the academy of John Gummere in Burlington and the first class at Haverford School (i.e., College) founded in 1833, Collins entered the lithography profession in Philadelphia in 1836. From 1836 to 1837, Collins established his own print shop at 79 South Third Street, exhibited two art works at the Artist Fund Society, and printed a lithograph of his alma mater Haverford School (1837). Soon thereafter, he printed lithographs for the seminal works John C. Wild's "Views of Philadelphia" (1838) and his cousin's husband Samuel Morton's "Crania Americana" (1839), as well as married., By 1840, although Collins contributed lithographs to The Oxford Drawing Book (New York, 1840), he sold his studio to his associate Thomas Sinclair. Sinclair would remain the printer of most of his future lithographic endeavors, including the series "Views of Burlington" (1847) and "The City and Scenery of Newport" (1857). In addition, the drawing book would be the first of a number of art instruction books that Collins either authored or to which he contributed lithographs, including Progressive Drawing Book of Flowers for Beginners (1844); My First Drawing Book (1871); and Model Drawing Book for Boy and Girls (1892). Following the sale of his shop, Collins resided in Philadelphia, New York, and Burlington, where he finally settled in 1846 at his family home at Broad and York streets and pursued a teaching career. He, however, continued his association with lithography and drew a series of lithographs of the West-town Boarding School (ca. 1858) and authored "The Art of Engraving on Metal, Wood and Stone" (1858) in addition to working at the shop of P. S. Duval & Son in 1858. He also wrote an antislavery poem "The Slave Mother" (1855) and traveled to Cuba in 1859 where he made sketches and watercolors of sites from his trip. During the 1860s, Collins still remained active in lithography and served as a floor manager and committee member of the Lithographic Printer's Union Ball of 1863. In 1870, he authored the prophetic poem "1970 - A Vision of the Coming Age.", The ensuing decade saw Collins and his family transplanted to Eastern Tennessee, following a visit to the North Carolina Yearly Meeting to learn about Southern Quakers' lives under Reconstruction. From 1870 to 1878, Collins lived first in Friendsville, Tn. where he may have had a position as principal of the William Foster Institute and then Maryville, Tn. where he returned to teaching. In the South, he continued with his art and drew and sketched the people and sites of his residence., In 1879, Collins and his family, returned to Philadelphia where by 1880 they resided at 602 North Forty-Third Street and by 1885 at 702 North Forty-Third Street. In his later years, Collins cited his occupation as an artist and in 1883 he lithographed a portrait of Burlington porter Benny Jackson during a visit to his former place of residence. Collins made other trips to Burlington in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including reading a historical sketch (published 1893) about Isaac and Rachel Collins at a Collins Family Reunion in 1890, as well as visited Tennessee. Collins also continued with his reform activities and was a member of the Prison Society, the Pennsylvania Peace Society, and the Temperance Society until his death on December 17, 1902 in Philadelphia.
Date: 1814-December 17, 1902
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Shoemaker, Andrew
Description: Andrew Shoemaker, born ca. 1828 in Bavaria, Germany, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia for P. S. Duval ca. 1856-1862. He immigrated to the United States and Pennsylvania by ca. 1854. He resided in Philadelphia and Camden, New Jersey before moving to 816 Cherry Street in Philadelphia (Ward 10) by 1860 with his wife Emma (b. ca. 1829) and three children Emily (b. ca. 1851, Germany), Adolph (b. ca. 1854, Pennsylvania) and Emma (b. ca. 1859, Pennsylvania).
Date: b. ca. 1828
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Goldbacher, Babetta
Description: Babetta or Barbara Goldbacher, born in Germany in 1826 and wife of Philadelphia lithographer Isaac Goldbacher, possibly worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia in 1860 as recorded in the census. The censuses of 1850 and 1870 list Goldbacher as "keeping house" and residing with her husband in Kensington (Ward 2)., By 1864, Goldbacher relocated within North Philadelphia to 6 Westford Avenue (Ward 13) with her husband 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. By 1893, Goldbacher and her husband resided with their son-in-law and printer, Leopold D. Goodman. Goldbacher died at the age of 75 on April 14, 1901.
Date: 1826-April 14, 1901
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Kessler, Harry C.
Description: Harry C. Kessler, Brigadier General in the Union army and partner in the lithographic firm Breuker & Kessler, was born on March 18, 1844 in the Northern Liberties, Philadelphia. In 1861, at the age of seventeen, he enlisted in the Union army, where he served as first lieutenant of the 104th Pennsylvania Regiment of Volunteers, fought in the Amy of the Potomac, and oversaw the return of confederate prisoners to Camp Curtain in Pennsylvania before resigning in 1863., In 1864 he clerked in Jacob Haehnlen's lithographic establishment at 125 South Third Street, where he met fellow lithographer and future business partner George W. Breuker, Sr. Together in 1866, they established the "practical" lithographic firm of Breuker & Kessler at Seventh and Chestnut Streets. Kessler remained with the company until the mid 1870s, at which time he joined his brother, Charles Kessler (b. 1851), in Butte, Montana. Harry's two younger brothers, J. Millard (b. 1848) and William S. (b. 1846), assumed Harry's portion of Breuker & Kessler., In Montana, Harry purchased and mined land, established a newspaper entitled the Butte Miner, married Josephine Alden Dillworth (b. November 1846), and had two children, Josephine (b. 1878) and Harry C., Jr. (b. 1883). Kessler served as Silver Bow county commissioner and county treasurer, and designed what would later become the state flag of Montana. In 1889 he formed the First Montana U.S. Volunteer Infantry, now known as the National Guard. President William McKinley brevetted Kessler to the rank of Brigadier General for his service in the Spanish-American War with the First Montana Volunteers. In August of 1903 he was appointed junior vice commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic., By 1905, Harry returned to Philadelphia with his family, and served as president of Breuker & Kessler, with his son Harry, Jr. (b 1883) as treasurer. He died two years later from complications of several diseases on September 10, 1907 at Jefferson Hospital in Philadelphia.
Date: March 18, 1844-September 10, 1907
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Bigot, Francis
Description: Francis Bigot, born circa 1805 in France, worked as a lithographer with his son, Alphonse, in Philadelphia in the 1860s and 1870s. He resided in Alphonse's household, with fellow French-born lithographer Francis Roux, at 847 North Broad Street.
Date: b. ca. 1805
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Wagner, William W.
Description: See Wagner & Stuart.
Date: b. ca. 1817
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Concannon, Thomas
Description: Thomas Concannon, born ca. 1841 in Ireland, worked as a lithographer and printer in Philadelphia in 1860 and 1861. He resided with siblings and his widowed mother on 616 Charles and 1 Berlin (i.e., South Leithgow) Street. This lithographer may be the Thomas Concannon living in Chicago, Illinois by 1870 with wife, Mary Concannon (b. ca. 1842) and daughter, Sarah E. Concannon (b. ca. 1867).
Date: b. ca. 1841
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Smith, John B.
Description: See Smith, Joseph.
Date: b. ca. 1835
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Stewart, S[amuel] M.
Description: Samuel M. Stewart, stationer and manufacturer of playing cards at 122 Chestnut street, co-published with Childs & Inman in 1832 the Fanny Kemble portrait lithograph designed by Albert Newsam .
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Craig, Finley & Co.
Description: Craig, Finley & Co., the lithographic and printing firm established in 1867 by printer William Craig (b. ca. 1838), operated until 1950. The firm printed pamphlets, trade cards, and commercial business ephemera, including certificates and letterhead for patrons like Riehl Bros., manufacturer of cutting machines. Between 1867 and 1870, the firm, including partners Craig and James Finley (1846-1932), operated under the names of Craig, Butt, Finley (1869) and Craig, Finley & Rowley (1869-1870) from Tenth and Chestnut streets., In August 1870, Craig, Finley & Rowley announced their dissolution in the "Printers Circular" as a result of the retirement of Thomas Rowley. The firm continued as Craig, Finley & Co. with the remaining partners of William Craig, James G. Finley and James Ferguson, Jr. (b. ca. 1840). After 1870, the firm relocated to South Eleventh and Chestnut streets, and in 1875, to 1018/1020 Arch Street. On October 31, 1877 a fire struck the firm. The blaze destroyed the establishment's stock of printing presses, paper, and types in addition to damaging its stored lithographic stones at an estimated cost of $25,000, which was covered by their insurance., The three partners remained in business into the 20th-century with increasingly larger facilities at 137-139 North Twelfth Street by 1920 and 2218-20-22 Vine Street by 1929 where the firm remained until at least 1945., William Craig, born in Ireland ca. 1838, lived on Franklin Street (20th Ward) in North Philadelphia with his wife Mary (b. ca. 1840) and six children in 1880. James G. Finley, born in Pennsylvania ca. 1846, was married to Ellen (b. ca. 1848) with two children and lived in a household with a servant on Evergreen Avenue (Roxborough) in 1880. By 1930, Finley remained active in the printing trade and lived in Springfield, Pa. with his second wife Anna (b. ca. 1849) and a servant. He died in June 1932. James Ferguson, Jr., born ca. 1840 in Pennsylvania, lived on 1646 Vienna, (i.e., Berks) Street in Kensington with his three children, including step son James Alexander in 1880.
Date: fl. 1867-1950
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

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