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Title: Laborn, Adolph
Description: Adolph Laborn, born ca. 1835 in Ohio, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia in 1860. He resided at 537 Spruce Street (Ward 5) in a boarding house operated by Elizabeth H. Remson with fellow lithographers Charles Schilcock and Nicholas Ships.
Date: b. ca. 1835
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Eastley, John
Description: John Eastley delineated naval views printed ca. 1846 by the Wagner & McGuigan firm. Titles include "The U.S.S.'s Columbus and Vicennes in Japan" and "Departure of the U.S.S.'s Columbus and Vincennes from Jeddo Bay.", Eastley was not listed in the 1846 Philadelphia city directory.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Tholey, Augustus
Description: See Tholeys.
Date: d. January 12, 1898
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Hallman & Citti
Description: Hallman & Citti, formed by lithographers Louis F. Citti and Franklin B. Hallman, operated from 57 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia between 1850 and 1853.
Date: fl. 1850-1853
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Hall, James
Description: James Hall, born ca. 1830 in Pennsylvania, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia in 1860. He possibly was the Hall who in 1866 partnered in Kunzmann & Hall with George Kunzman at 216 1/2 Walnut Street., According to the 1860 census, Hall lived with his wife Mary (b. ca. 1830) in Center City (Ward 3) and owned personal estate valued at $300.
Date: b. ca. 1830
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Kollner, Augustus
Description: Augustus Kollner, born 1812 in Wurttemberg, Germany, was a distinguished 19th-century Philadelphia artist, etcher, engraver, and lithographer who started his career in the arts in Germany. Kollner worked as an engraver of book illustrations and animal portraiture in Stutgart by 1828 and in Paris during the 1830s. He immigrated to the United States via New York and then to Washington, D.C. in 1839. In D.C., he worked at the Haas firm and lithographed advertisements, bank notes, and cityscape views until he relocated to Philadelphia in 1840. In his new city of residence, he established a studio as a portrait painter at Chestnut and Exchange streets with a residence at Noble above Franklin streets by 1844., Soon after his Philadelphia arrival, with his portrait studio proving unsuccessful, Kollner began his lithographic career in Philadelphia as the second chief artist of P. S. Duval and William Huddy's "U.S. Military Magazine" (1839-1842). By the mid 1840s, Kollner had married well-to-do Mary Sheek (ca. 1821-1899) and continued to work with Duval as well as the other premier establishments of Thomas Sinclair, Wagner & McGuigan, J. T. Bowen, and Frederick Kuhl. He also declared his intent to naturalize in 1844 and resided at 39 North Fourth Street over the book and drug store of his brother-in-law Charles Rademacher and his wife Catherine, whose murder was sadly discovered by Kollner in 1848., Between 1847 and 1848, Kollner became the artist for the lithographic firm Brechemin & Camp (Phoenix Block, Second and Dock streets) where he designed all genres of lithographs as well as advertised his picturesque views based on his annual summer sketching trips of the East Coast, including Canada. In addition, his views of American landmarks, including Philadelphia, began to be published for the seminal series "View of American Cities" issued 1848-1851 by Goupil, Vibert & Co. He also assumed a partnering role with John H. Camp following the retirement of Louis Brechemin. During this time Kollner had also relocated his residence to 239 Arch Street, where he lived ca. 1848-ca. 1854., The new partnership lasted to ca. 1851 during which time the men issued a number of advertisements promoting their collaboration and Kollner began his work for the American Sunday School Union. He contributed a number of plates for their children's' moral lesson books such as "City Sights for Country Eyes" (1856). The lithographs created by pen and ink were atypical for American pictorial lithography and often included Kollner's expertise in the delineation of horses. The final year of their partnership yielded the noted multi-foot Dripp's map of New York City., After 1851, Kollner established his own firm at the Phoenix Block address, which he advertised with a catalog of specimens that included bank notes and examples of script. As a sole proprietor, he produced labels, advertisements, maps, and city and landscape views, including "East View of Philadelphia, Pennsylva. and part of Camden, New Jersey" (1856). During the 1850s Kollner also exhibited lithographic maps, book engravings, and colored drawings, respectively at the 1852, 1854, and 1856 Exhibition of American Manufacturers at the Franklin Institute. He and his family relocated to 616 North Seventh Street in 1855 as well. The residence, a part of the estate of his wife, remained Kollner's dwelling until his death. From 1870 to 1900, the household included a servant., By 1861, Kollner gave up his Dock Street establishment. However, he remained in the trade through the 1870s, including the lithography of a plan for a Philadelphia post office and court house, one of a series of about 50 portfolios of architectural plans issued 1855-1861 by the Construction Branch of the Treasury. That year, he also took a life class at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA). During the Civil War, despite his age, he enlisted in the cavalry in 1863, and in 1865 and 1868, displayed drawings at PAFA and sold photographic reproductions of his etchings executed while a soldier. In the 1870s, Kollner produced his last major series of landscape lithographs and issued "Bits of Nature" in 1878, which focused on unusual landscapes in Fairmount Park in addition to a similar set depicting Maryland, Pennsylvania, Canada and Virginia. Previous series included "North American Foliage and Trees" in 1860., With his work in lithography waning in the 1870s - he never pursued chromolithography - Kollner focused more on his watercolors and oil painting, many of which show Bucks County and Philadelphia and are held in the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Other watercolor work included his series of the "Life of General Washington" advertised in the late 19th century. By the early 1880s, Kollner "retired" and described himself as a "gentleman," while he continued to make regular sketching trips around the Philadelphia area. Some of the etchings produced from these trips, often of Fairmount Park, were published in 1895 as "Life Scenes in the Park.", Kollner married in 1843 and had several children with Mary of whom three survived beyond infancy: William (b. 1849); Clara (ca. 1845) who married businessman Edward Mears, Jr. in 1867; and Josephine (b. 1847) who remained unmarried and took care of her father in his later years until his death on December 10, 1906.
Date: 1812 - December 10, 1906
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Childs, C. G. (Cephas G.)
Description: Cephas G. Childs, one of the foremost engravers in Philadelphia, born on September 8, 1793 in Plumstead Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, managed some of the earliest premier commercial lithograph firms in the city. Through his partnerships in the firms Pendleton, Kearny & Childs (1829-1830), Childs & Inman (1830-1833), and Childs & Lehman (1833-1835), along with his active pursuit of skilled artists and lithographers, such as Albert Newsam, P. S. Duval and Henry Inman, Childs facilitated the growth and popularity of lithography as a printing medium in Philadelphia., Childs entered the printing trades in 1812 following the early loss of his parents. He was apprenticed to Philadelphia bank note engraver Gideon Fairman of the firm Murray, Draper, Fairman & Co. on Sansom Street above Eighth Street. The following year Childs enlisted with the Washington Guards and began his lifelong involvement in volunteer military organizations, including the Washington Greys of Philadelphia, who elected him Lieutenant Colonel in December 1825., Even though Childs established his own business in 1818, he continued to work on commissions with Fairman, including the portrait engraving of the head of Washington (1823), portraits of General Jackson and Lafayette (1824), and miscellaneous engraved book illustrations. Between 1827 and 1830, Childs completed his most noted project to date - "Views of Philadelphia." The guidebook, issued in six parts of twenty-four plates by local artists and engravers, depicted the landmarks of Philadelphia and was praised in the National Gazette, "we have seen no publication of the kind more deserving of the patronage of Pennsylvania, or more likely to succeed in other parts of the Union, particularly the chief cities. We hope that it will be widely spread.", Between 1829 and 1830 Childs began his lithographic career and worked in the partnership Pendleton, Kearny & Childs (185, i.e., 500 block, Chestnut Street) and printed and published lithographs delineated by Hugh Bridport, E. W. Clay, Albert Newsam, and Moses Swett. The brief partnership ended with Pendleton relocating to New York ca. 1830 and by January 1830 Childs had "the whole lithographic establishment in Chestnut Street." Childs subsequently partnered with New York portrait painter Henry Inman in Childs & Inman. The lithographic firm, often praised in the local press, worked on the seminal McKenney & Hall's "History of the Indian Tribes of North America" and issued city and town views, portraits, political caricatures, natural history prints, and advertisements delineated by Albert Newsam, George Lehman, Thomas Doughty, and E. W. Clay. By May 1, 1830, the firm operated from 80 Walnut Street (i.e., Fourth and Walnut Streets), The following year, Childs set out in the spring on a voyage to Europe to better learn the trade (his passport application dated May 13, 1831). He returned to Philadelphia that fall, with permanent injuries received during his trip, as well as with French-born lithographer P. S. Duval to bolster the experience of his firm. In 1833 Childs & Inman dissolved and Childs partnered with Lehman, an engraver and lithographer with whom he associated as early as 1827. As Childs & Lehman (43-45 Walnut Street), the firm predominately created lithographs of public landmarks in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, including views of "Eastern Penitentiary," "Fairmount Waterworks," "Philadelphia Arcade," and "Coal Mine at Maunch Chunk." By 1835, his injury sustained abroad and financial failings ended his career in the trade. Duval bought Childs' share of the business at the end of 1834 and the firm was reestablished as Lehman & Duval., Subsequently, Childs transitioned into editing and publishing, and published "The Commercial List and Price Current" from offices at 221 Dock Street. He retired from the "Current" in 1852, and served as the president of the New Creek Coal Company. He owned real estate valued at $20,000 during his tenure with the company. Childs was also a member of the Library Company of Philadelphia and a director of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, According to censuses and city directories, Childs was married first to Ann (b. ca. 1807) (1850 census) and later Francis (b. ca. 1817) in 1866. In 1840 he resided in the South Mulberry Ward at 365 Mulberry (i.e., Arch) Street. By 1850, he had relocated to “Inglewood Cottage” at 150 Bethlehem Pike in Chestnut Hill. He remained at the residence designed by Thomas Ustick Walter until his death on July 7, 1871.
Date: September 8, 1793- July 7, 1871
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Childs, John
Description: John Childs, artist and lithographer, born in England ca. 1819, was a prolific publisher of lithographic cartoons, genre scenes, and social satires in the mid 19th century. Residing in New York by 1830, Childs initially worked as predominately a colorist. By the late 1830s and early 1840s, he operated his own printing establishment and printed several political cartoons drawn by lithographic artist Edward W. Clay., Following a brief residency in Boston and the exhibition of an oil painting at the American Institute (NYC) in 1845, Childs relocated to Philadelphia and exhibited two oil paintings at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1847. From 1848 to 1852, he worked from the lithographic establishment of Frederick Kuhl (46 1/2 Walnut Street), and issued the infamous depiction of members of the Philadelphia gang "The Killers." Childs established his own studio at 84 (i.e., 154) South Third Street before 1855 and as in New York, issued predominately cartoons as well as genre and disaster scenes. In 1855, he also partnered with George R. Curtis in the short-lived firm (less than a year) of John Childs & Co., picture frame makers. By 1860, Childs began to publish prints from 63 North Second Street, including a variant of his amusing 1857 caricature of Philadelphia drunkards, "Three in the Morning," originally titled "3 o'clock in the Morning" in English and German. By the mid 1860s, Childs was predominately listed as an artist in directories although an 1864 print "The Generals" (Harry T. Peters Collection, Smithsonian) bears his imprint as a lithographer. In the 1870s, he devoted most of his time "to touching up, maps, charts, etc.", Childs was married to Mary (b. ca. 1830) with whom he had two children Louisa (b. ca. 1854) and William (b. ca. 1864). During much of his career in Philadelphia, he resided in Center City and South Philadelphia (Bella Vista) and by 1870 at 764 South Fourth Street., Childs died on May 27, 1880; his body discovered by concerned friends from his "usual haunts" who broke down his door at his room and studio at 727 Sansom Street. He was survived by his two children who resided in North Wales, Pa.
Date: ca. 1819-May 27, 1880
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Bovell, Thomas W.
Description: Thomas W. Bovell, born ca. 1831 in Pennsylvania, was a lithographer active in Philadelphia and New York ca. 1853-1881. A former employee of P. S. Duval, Bovell established his own shop at 37 South Third Street in September 1853. In 1854, Bovell began to be listed in Philadelphia city directories and he exhibited colored lithographs (awarded Second Class premium) and a lithographic press at the Franklin Institute Exhibition of Manufacturers. By 1859, Bovell relocated to New York and partnered with lithographer William B. Dalston as Dalston & Bovell until 1860. In 1869, Bovell operated his own Philadelphia lithographic establishment again, first from 328 Chestnut (1869-1873), then 409 Chestnut Street (1874-1878), and finally 305 Chestnut Street (1879-ca. 1881), In 1871, he was elected vice-president of the committee established to organize the centennial of the birthday of lithography inventor Alois Senefelder and he printed a chromolithograph of Fairmount for "Everybody's Journal." Bovell remained in lithography until ca. 1881, despite being reported by R.G. Dun & Co. as having "no credit or standing among the trade" in 1875., Bovell lived predominately in Center City during his career in Philadelphia. In 1850, he lived with the Shaw family in the Pine Ward of Philadelphia; in 1860 at 323 Pine Street; in 1870 at 331 Lombard Street; and in 1880 at 305 South Third Street (Second Ward). Bovell never married (inferred from census information) and died on February 11, 1893 with his residence at 1931 North Twenty-Third Street in North Philadelphia. He was interred at Odd Fellows Cemetery.
Date: ca. 1831-February 11, 1893
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Gilbert, George
Description: George Gilbert, born in Pennsylvania ca. 1834, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia between ca. 1858 and ca. 1860. In 1859, he resided at 1147 School Street. In 1860, he lived with book binders and book folders in a boarding house in Ward 11. Probably not George W. Gilbert, a Philadelphia lithographer who was born circa 1839 and who died May 2, 1863.
Date: b. ca. 1834
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Fabronius, Dominique C.
Description: Dominique C. Fabronius, born in Belgium on January 28, 1828, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia during the 1850s. According to graphics scholar Frank Weitenkampf, Fabronius arrived in Philadelphia in 1855 and worked at the establishments of P. S. Duval and L. N. Rosenthal producing portraiture. Fabronius also drew designs for political cartoons and genre scenes for Boston and New York lithographers during the 1860s. From 1868 to 1870, he partnered in Fabronius, Gurney & Son, printers of chromolithographs. In 1876, he again associated himself with the Philadelphia lithographic trade and designed "The Flag that has Waved One Hundred Years" printed by E. P. & L. Restein and published by the National Chromo Co. in 1876., Between 1859 and ca. 1863, Fabronius partnered in Middleton, Strobridge & Company (Cincinnati) and worked in Boston with L. Prang & Co. and J. H. Bufford. By 1865 he relocated to New York (22 E 14th Street), and in 1873 applied in Erie County for a passport, as a naturalized citizen, with wife Sarah. Between 1873 and 1874, Fabronius traveled to Europe. In 1888 he worked as a water color portraitist in Philadelphia. By 1890, Fabronius resided in Providence, Rhode Island as an artist.
Date: b. January 28, 1828
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Newsam, Albert
Description: Albert Newsam, a deaf artist born in Steubenville, Ohio on May 20, 1809, was the premier Philadelphia lithographic artist of portraiture during the mid 19th century. Orphaned at an early age, Newsam relocated to Philadelphia in 1820 with con man William Davis who had dubiously taken over his guardianship from inn keeper William Hamilton. Newsam showed a natural inclination for drawing and while "under the care" of Davis was admitted in 1820 to the recently established Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb. At the institution, Newsam studied under artist George Catlin and graduated as a model student in 1826., In 1827, he was placed in an apprenticeship with engraver and later lithographer C. G. Childs. Under Child's tutelage, he excelled as a lithographic portraitist and became Child's primary artist of this genre in the early 1830s and received notice in a number of newspapers throughout the country. As a result of his success in lithography, in 1833, Newsam presented the state House of Representatives with specimens of his lithographs as a testimony of gratitude that was duly acknowledged by the legislature. When Child's left the trade in 1835, Newsam remained in the employ of his successors Lehman & Duval, which later became the establishment of P. S. Duval in 1837. He would remain as an artist for Duval for the rest of his career, including creating portraits for McKenney & Hall's "History of the Indian Tribes of North America" (1837); Thomas Wagner's periodical "The U.S. Ecclesiastical Gallery"(1841); and the C.S. William series "Portraits of the Presidents" published in 1846., Although Newsam primarily delineated portraits, he also designed a small number of non portraits including a William Norris manufactured locomotive (ca. 1837); an advertisement for Richard Dunn's Chinese collection (ca. 1838); and a view of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb (1851). In 1853 he also designed the structure for the monument erected to deaf educator Thomas Galludet in Hartford, Ct. in 1854., City directory and census listings for Newsam are few and as a consequence, information about his residences during his career is sparse. The only residential address known for Newsam was when he resided at 330 Walnut Street in 1859. He previously lived in the South Ward (i.e., Center City) in a boarding house in 1850. Newsam married "E.R." in 1834, but the marriage proved short and unhappy and was annulled shortly thereafter. Throughout his career, Newsam suffered from financial instability. He received back pay from notes of Childs over a decade (1835-1846); often relied on patron John A. McAllister to help him discover and settle his debts owed; and was robbed of his collection of European lithographs (in which he invested much of his money) a few years before his death., By the end of the 1850s, Newsam's career began to wind down due to illness - eye problems in 1857 and a stroke in 1859 - as well as the rise of portrait photography. By 1860, he remained at Pennsylvania Hospital where he continued to recdover from his stroke, and then resided in West Philadelphia before friend McAllister secured funding for his residency at the Dr. John A. Brown's Living Home for the Sick and Well, near Wilmington, Delaware in 1862. Newsam resided at the home until his death on November 20, 1864.
Date: May 20, 1809-November 20, 1864
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Hoffy, Alfred A.
Description: Alfred A. Hoffy, born in England in 1796 and an ex-Major of the British Army, was an author, lithographic artist, and publisher of noted lithographic periodicals active in Philadelphia ca. 1838-1868. He issued the first illustrated American journal devoted to fruit cultivation, the "Orchardist's Companion," published 1841-1842 and was also the predominate artist of the plates for the military fashion periodical "U.S. Military Magazine" published 1839-1842 by Duval and Huddy. Hoffy delineated portraits, advertisements, fashion plates, and sheet music, predominately printed by P. S. Duval and Wagner & McGuigan during his thirty-year career in Philadelphia., A British soldier who fought in the Battle of Waterloo as an aide-de-camp to the Duke of Wellington, Hoffy immigrated to New York City in the mid-1830s, where he worked as an artist and lithographer in collaboration with British lithographer J.T. Bowen at 59 Cedar Street. Together with John Elliott they produced the portrait "Eng-Chang" depicting the "Siamese twins" in New York in 1837. Both Hoffy and Bowen relocated to Philadelphia ca. 1838, where in 1839, advertisements for Hoffy's drawings and lithographs, including "The Robert F. Stockton" and "Sarcophagus brought from Syria," appear in the Philadelphia newspaper "North American." During the 1840s and 1850s, Hoffy's portraiture work often received notice in local newspapers, including his lithographs of Casius M. Clay from a daguerreotype by Plumbe (1846), Abby Kelly Foster from a daguerreotype (1846), General Santa Anna (1847), the Washington family (1857), and Cyrus W. Field (1858)., Hoffy operated his lithographic establishment from several locations in Philadelphia. His first known shop was located at 41 Chestnut Street until 1842. He moved twice the following year, working from 45 Chestnut Street and 173 Arch Street. He operated from 88 Walnut Street 1844-1847; 20 South Third Street 1848-1852; 89 South Fifth Street in 1854; 90 Walnut Street 1855-1856; the southeast corner of Fifth and Vine Streets in 1857; 312 North Front Street in 1858; and at 1534 Vine Street as an artist and publisher by 1860., According to the 1850 and 1860 censuses, Hoffy married Emma Jane Patterson (ca. 1820-1892), a New York native, and had eight children: Martha (b. 1836) and Emma (b. 1838) born in New York; and Alfred A., Jr. (1840-1858), Amanda (b. 1843), Louisa (b. 1843), Adelaide (b. 1845), Adell (b. 1847), and Henry (b. 1850) born in Philadelphia. The family resided in the Chestnut Street Ward in Center City in 1850, and by 1859 had moved north to 1315 Vine Street (Ward 10). In 1861, the family relocated to 1716 Wallace Street, where they lived until 1864 before another change of residency to West Philadelphia where Hoffy resided as a "gentleman" at 3914 Baltimore Avenue for three years. In 1868, Hoffy and his family moved to Brooklyn, New York where he died on March 10, 1872.
Date: 1796 - March 10, 1872
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Ketterlinus, J. L. (John Louis)
Description: John Louis Ketterlinus, son of Philadelphia lithographer Eugene Ketterlinus, born on June 18, 1852 in Philadelphia, was proprietor of Ketterlinus Printing house, later Ketterlinus Lithographic Manufacturing Company, a firm active until ca. 1970. In 1876 Ketterlinus assumed the premier commercial lithograph and printing establishment E. Ketterlinus & Co. started in 1842 by his father Eugene (1824-1886) and Uncle Paul (1820-1894) at Fourth Street below Arch Street. The firm, which printed color stock cards and manufacturer's labels earlier than any other Philadelphia firm was renowned for their label work. The "plain & fancy printing" firm also printed illustrated Congressional documents, "cards, bill heads, notes, checks, circulars, and catalogues" in addition to "embossed show cards, perfumery, fabric, wine and liquor labels, druggists' furniture, jar and drawer labels.", Under the younger Ketterlinus's management, the firm focused on printing advertising trade cards for the 1876 Centennial Exhibition and operated from a large building owned by the elder Ketterlinus at the northwest corner of Fourth and Arch Streets, The shop employed the most advanced equipment of the time, such as the Hoe steam power press; employed innovative techniques for graining details; and maintained a large typographic department with cylinder presses., Under J. Ketterlinus's administration from the 1890s to about 1920, the business expanded physically to include all of the land north to Appletree Street and west to 413 Arch Street. Builder William R. Dougherty oversaw the addition of two stories to the existing building in 1894, and after the business was incorporated into the Ketterlinus Lithographic Manufacturing Company in 1896 with John as president, a new eight-story concrete building was constructed by architects and engineers Ballinger & Perot in 1905. This structure, along with properties spanning the entire city block, was demolished ca. 1965 for the construction of the fourth United States Mint building. In 1919, Ketterlinus semi-retired from the firm and became Chairman of its Board of Directors. The firm remained in business until ca. 1970., Ketterlinus was born in Northern Liberties preceding his family's relocation to School House Lane in Germantown around 1861. Educated at the Germantown Academy, his education in lithography began when he was fifteen at his father's establishment, where he rotated between departments and experimented with creating color lithographs. Ketterlinus was married to Elizabeth H. B. (1856-1930) and resided in Germantown and the Rittenhouse Square sections of Philadelphia. When he retired as president of the printing house in the early 1920s, Ketterlinus became more active in his various clubs, including the Union League, the Racquet Club, Philadelphia Country Club, Manufacturers' Club, and Sunnybrook Golf Club. Ketterlinus died in Jacksonville, Florida, his winter residence, on July 22, 1932 and was interred at West Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia. He left no children.
Date: June 18, 1852-July 22, 1932
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

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