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Title: Butler, William H.
Description: William H. Butler, lithographer and partner in Packard & Butler, was born in New York ca. 1848. In 1880, he relocated to Philadelphia with his wife Lena (b. ca. 1854) and resided with his new partner Hebert S. Packard (1850-1912) at his residence at 1918 Mt. Vernon Street. By 1884, Butler settled at 1832 North Twenty-First Street (North Philadelphia); his residential address until the end of his listings in Philadelphia city directories ca. 1893., Butler remained with Packard & Butler, later Packard, Butler & Partridge, until May 1885 when he assumed management of the firm previously operated by Thomas Hunter (former partner of S. C. Duval). Despite Butler's departure from Packard, Bulter & Partridge, his name remained associated with the Packard partnership until January 1886 when fire claimed the building tenanted by the establishment at 715 Arch Street. According to newspaper reports, Butler was fully insured for $45,000. Only a month earlier, Butler was also in the news when he filed charges against the financially troubled "Godey's Lady Book" proprietor J. H. Haulenbeck for false pretenses regarding a credit of $1800 worth of goods. Butler continued as a Philadelphia lithographer until ca. 1893.
Date: b. ca. 1854
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: C. W. Bender & Co.
Description: C.W. Bender & Co., the business name for C. W. Bender, published the P. S. Duval lithograph "Henry Clay" in 1844. Bender operated a planing mill in Philadelphia in 1857. The imprint of the lithograph lists the 1844 residential address of C. W. Bender at 71 Dock Street.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Camp, John Henry
Description: John Henry Camp, born ca. 1821 in Prussia (Germany), was an established engraver, lithographer, and transferrer who worked in Philadelphia ca. 1847-1881. Arriving in the United States before the 1840s, Camp declared his intent to naturalize in Philadelphia in September 1844. The Philadelphia city directories first listed Camp as a lithographer in 1847 with a residence in Northern Liberties at 22 Duke Street. Within a year, having possibly left the employ of P. S. Duval, he formed the short-lived partnership Brechemin & Camp with jeweler and lithographer Louis Brechemin and ca. 1849-1851 worked in a partnership with Augustus Kollner. Kollner served as artist and Camp as printer in their practical lithography firm on Phoenix Block (i.e., Second and Chestnut streets) that produced illustrations for American Sunday School moral lesson books, advertisements, views, and maps., By 1852, the partnership with Kollner ended and Camp tenanted the Artisan Building, Ranstead Place (4th and Chestnut) and was noted for his production of maps for school atlases. He remained at the site until 1856 when fire destroyed his underinsured shop and he joined Theodore Leonhardt and Ferdinand Moras at 609 Chestnut Street (1857-ca. 1860) where he served as head of the printing department and his monetary misfortunes continued. According to credit reports, in 1857, poor financial dealings with the publishing firm H. Cowperthwaite & Co. caused Camp to lose any credit rating. However, he remained in the trade and by 1868, he relocated his own establishment from Seventh and Cherry Streets to 36 South Fifth Street, and began to receive a fair-credit rating. By 1870, however, he again associated with Moras at 609 Chestnut and 610 Jayne streets, where he remained for several years. Camp was also purported by Jackson to have operated the first steam lithographic press in the city., In the early 1870s, Camp added photo-lithography to his printing services and produced a large number of photo-lithographs of views of the Centennial Exhibition of 1876. He also assumed sole operation of the 610 Jayne Street establishment in 1877 as well as produced fashion plates for "Godey's Lady's Book." That year, he was reported as "now pays and stands well, has a good stock of plates, does a nice business, and has good credit" and in 1878 had an estimated worth of $20,000. By 1881, he had assumed the business of his brother A. Camp, a dyer, and his son John, Jr. (b. ca. 1853) managed the lithographic establishment. Camp died on April 8, 1881 with an estate estimated at $40, 000 and left his shop with twelve employees and an estimated worth of $20,000 under the management of his son, John, Jr. The firm remained active until 1893 when assumed by Arno Leonhardt, the son of John Sr.'s former associate., Camp lived in North Philadelphia from the beginning of his residency in Philadelphia. By the 1850 census, he lived at Duke Street with his French-born wife Sarah (b. ca. 1823), with whom he had three children, including son John, Jr., as well as his in-laws the Sniders, including brother-in-law George (b. ca. 1840), also a lithographer. Between 1852 and 1869, he and his family resided at 149 Noble Street and in 1870 the Camps relocated to 409 North Fourth Street where "lithograph printer" William Crawford (b. ca. 1834) lived with the Camps in 1870. Camp, who also associated with a number of German organizations, including acting as a director of the German Hospital, and serving as a member of the German Maennerchor and German Society, remained at that address until his death.
Date: ca. 1821-April 8, 1881
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Cantwell, Edward C.
Description: Edward C. Cantwell, born in Ireland circa 1837, worked as a lithographic printer in Philadelphia between 1858 and 1880. Early in his career Cantwell was employed at the L. N. Rosenthal establishment at the northwest corner of Fifth and Chestnut Streets., Cantwell remained in Ward 3 of the city for at least twenty years with his Pennsylvania-born wife, Margaret (b. ca. 1842). By 1880, they lived at 503 Christian Street and their household included ten children ranging in age from one month to twenty-three years of age. By 1880, Edward was unemployed due to "piles" with his wife suffering from heart disease.
Date: b. ca. 1837
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

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

Title: 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: Cassin, John
Description: John Cassin, preeminent U.S. ornithologist, and author of ornithological treatises, born September 6, 1813 near Media, Pennsylvania, was a partner in the Philadelphia lithographic firm Bowen & Co. 1859-1867. Descended from an Irish, Quaker family, Cassin pursued the study of natural science from the time of his primary education at the Westtown School, and in 1842, he was made honorary curator of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences., A resident of Philadelphia from 1834, Cassin worked as a provisions dealer and custom house officer before entering the lithographic trade ca. 1856 in association with John T. Bowen. Bowen, known for his hand-colored plate work for natural science texts issued Cassin's "Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, and British and Russian America" (1856). He also later paid Cassin $5,320 to draw, print and hand color 2,000 copies each of 38 plates of birds brought back from the Pacific Railroad Surveys (a total of 76,000 plates at a cost of 7 cents apiece). Following Bowen's death in 1856, Cassin served as one of the appraisers of his estate and later assumed the Bowen firm with his widow Lavinia as Bowen & Co. in 1858. During his time at Bowen & Co., Cassin produced lithographs for government reports and the firm printed the plates for his jointly-authored "Birds of North America" (1860). Cassin left the lithographic trade in 1867 and died two years later on January 10, 1869. He was buried at Laurel Hill Cemetery., Cassin was married to Hannah (b. ca. 1820) with whom he had two children. He also served on the City Council and was a member of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Zoological Society, the American Philosophical Society, and The Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Date: September 6, 1813-January 10, 1869
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Caterson, James H.
Description: James H. Caterson, born ca. 1836, worked as a lithographer and printer in Philadelphia at 23 South Seventh Street between 1867 and 1873. Before entering the lithographic trade, he worked with his brother, William Caterson, as a member of the Caterson Brothers Company (727 Sansom), a manufacturer of passé partouts (or skeleton keys). After 1873, he departed the trade and became a dealer of photographic materials. He lived at 516 Pine Street 1867-1868, before eventually relocating to 604 North Eleventh Street by 1881. There, he lived with his wife Hannah (b. 1840) and two children, Mary (b. 1861) and Alfred (b. 1865).
Date: b. ca. 1836
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: Cerveau
Description: Cerveau, was a partner in Wagner & Cerveau, at "n.w. cor. of Walnut & 2nd" Street who issued ca. mid 1830s-mid 1850s the portrait lithograph "John Vaughan, Esq. From the original picture by T. B. Welch in the possession of Jacob Snider, Jun.", Peter suggests Thomas Wagner as the partner. Given the period of Wagner's activeness in the lithographic trade, the print and partnership would date to the early 1840s.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Charbonnier, Henry
Description: Henry Charbonnier worked as a lithographer and printer in Philadelphia 1849- 1860. From 1855 to 1860 he worked at various P. S. Duval & Co. establishments, including 5 Ranstead Place (1855), 8 South Fifth Street (1857), and 22 South Fifth Street (1859). During this time, he was named in the insolvency petition of Duval and resided at Little Washington near Seventh Street, also home to lithographer Richard Carr in 1852., His wife was probably Josephine Charbonnier (b. ca. 1802), listed in the 1860 city directory as "wid Henry." By 1870, she resided in Ward 1 of the city with Alfred Charbonnier (b. ca. 1846), most likely their son.
Date: d. ca. 1860
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

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

Title: Chevalier, Leonard F.
Description: Leonard Chevalier, born in France about 1820, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia and Camden, New Jersey between 1852 and 1861. In 1858, he worked for P. S. Duval & Co. at 22 South Fifth Street., In 1850, Chevalier resided in the Southwark Ward of the city (Ward 4) with Susan Chevalier (b. ca. 1829) and the Dorff family. By 1853, the Chevaliers were living in Camden, NJ.
Date: b. ca. 1820
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: Childs & Lehman
Description: Childs & Lehman, the partnership between engraver and lithographer Cephas G. Childs and lithographer, engraver, and painter George Lehman, was active 1833-1835. The successor firm to Childs & Inman, the establishment predominately issued cityscape views, such as "Philadelphia Arcade," maps, and portraits, including plates for McKenney & Hall's "History of the Indian Tribes of North America," as well as the allegorical temperance print "Look Upon This Picture and On This" (ca. 1834). In 1834, P. S. Duval purchased Childs' share of the business for $750 and the firm was reestablished as Lehman & Duval.
Date: fl. 1833-1834
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: Chillas, David
Description: David Chillas, born ca. 1817 in Scotland, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia from 1852 to 1858. Chillas immigrated to Philadelphia by 1842 where he was naturalized on April 18, 1842. A lithographer of "labels, illustrations, maps, charts &c., executed in the best and most expeditious manner," Chillas entered the trade in 1852 when he partnered with Alphonse Brett (A. Brett & Co.) at Goldsmiths' Hall on Library Street near Fifth Street. Following the dissolution of the partnership in February 1853 and public auction of A. Brett & Co.'s stock, including lithographic plates, Chillas established his own firm at 50 (i.e., 112-114) South Third Street, later known as the Bulletin Building. He operated at the location producing advertisements, cityscapes, and certificates until 1858 when he left the trade and relocated to Delaware to farm., After Chillas arrived in Philadelphia in 1842 and before entering lithography, he worked as a merchant at the North American Coal Company (99 South Front Street) with his older brother Arthur (b. ca. 1810), president of the firm since 1839. After marrying Philadelphia-native Mary F. B. de la Roche in the fall of 1842, David relocated to Pottsville as an assignee, resident agent, and coal operator for the coal company. By 1850 he still resided at the Pottsville South Ward with his family, including two children, Louisa (b. ca. 1843) and Arthur (b. ca. 1849). By 1853 he resided at 7 South Penn Square in Philadelphia when he established his own lithographic firm. Chillas and his wife, while living in Philadelphia, had two more children, Emma (b. 1853) and Richard (b. 1855). Additional children Frances (b. 1858) and David W. (b. 1859) would be born in Delaware., Following his relocation to Delaware, the December 6, 1859 edition of the "Baltimore Sun" noted the sale of Chilas's 131-acre farm near Newark, Delaware to Thomas Lum of Philadelphia for $11,250. He remained as a Delaware farmer as of the 1860 census when listed at Mill Creek Hundred with real estate valued at $67,000 and a personal estate worth $5,000. During the Civil War, he earned enough income to be taxed by the I.R.S. (1862-1863) and published several advertisements for "water power to rent" from his Newark, Delaware location in 1864 in Philadelphia, New York and Delaware newspapers. Although still listed in the 1870 census at Mill Creek Hundred, New Castle, Delaware, with real estate valued at $25,000 and a personal estate worth $2,640, he possibly was the David Chillas who worked as a retail dealer in Burning Springs, West Virginia as noted in the 1865 I.R.S. tax assessments. According to the Federal census mortality schedule index lists, Chillas died at the age of sixty-three as a farmer in New Castle County, Delaware in 1880.
Date: ca. 1817-1880
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

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

Title: Church Lith. Co.
Description: Church Lith. Co. issued lithographic church views, including "St. Alphonsu's [sic] Church. Philadelphia" (ca. 1885) and St. Ann's Church (ca. 1895).
Date: fl. ca. 1880s?-1890s?
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

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

Title: Citti, John
Description: John Citti, born about 1795 in Italy, worked as an image maker, "figurist", and artist in Philadelphia between ca. 1845 and 1857. He relocated with most of his family to New York City by 1860. Several of his sons and grandchildren, including Lewis F. (b. ca. 1827), Orelius (ca. 1831-ca. 1880), Theodore (b. ca. 1835) and John B. (b. ca. 1850) were employed in the lithographic trade in Philadelphia, New York City, and in Richmond, Virginia. Though some of his children returned to Philadelphia after several years, John and his Italian-born wife, Mary (b. ca. 1811), remained in New York City until his death about 1875.
Date: ca. 1795-ca. 1875
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Citti, Louis F.
Description: Louis F. Citti, born of Italian descent in Philadelphia about 1827, worked as a lithographer and printer in Philadelphia, Richmond, Virginia, and Jersey City, New Jersey between 1850 and 1893. Reared in Philadelphia by a family of artists, including his lithographer brothers Orelius and Theodore, Citti began his lithographic career in 1850 with partner Franklin B. Hallman with whom he worked until 1853., By 1860, Louis relocated to Richmond, Virginia and worked as a lithographer for Charles L. Ludwig. Seven years later he returned to the print trade in Philadelphia while residing with his wife, Charlotte (a.k.a. Charlotta, b. ca. 1833), and son, John B. (b. 1852), at 335 Marriott (i.e. Montrose) Street, their residence until 1874. In 1875, Louis and son John, partnered with Herman F. Bitterlich, and set up the operations of L. F. Citti & Co. at the corner of Seventh and Market Streets. According to credit reports, the firm did a "fair trade" and had "fair credit" with an estimated worth of $3000. In the same year, the family moved their residence to 3412 North Eleventh Street. Citti lived and worked in Philadelphia until about 1888, when he established a residence in Jersey City, New Jersey and worked for Williams Citti & Co. in New York City. He died about 1893 (his last listing in the Jersey City directory with a concurrent Philadelphia directory listing for his wife as a widow).
Date: ca. 1827-ca. 1893
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: Clancy, Peter
Description: Peter Clancy, born 1841 in Pennsylvania, son of waterman Timothy Clancy (1801-ca. 1860) worked as a lithographic printer in Philadelphia between 1860 and 1866. A member of the Lithographic Printers' Union, Clancy worked with his brother-in-law, Charles Ross, at 929 North Front Street in 1861. They also shared a residence in the early 1860s in Ward 11 at 109 Green Street, until his sister, Ross's wife, Kate Clancy (b. 1838), died in 1862. His other sister Hannah (1845-1863) died a year later. Clancy also died young, at the age of twenty-five on March 17, 1866.
Date: 1841-March 17, 1866
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: Clarkson, E.
Description: E. Clarkson, probably Edward Clarkson, mid-19th century Philadelphia animal portrait painter, was the artist for the lithograph depicting trotting horse "Andrew Jackson, Jr." published ca. 1850 by Baltimore lithographic firm A. Hoen & Co., Clarkson, born ca. 1827 in Pennsylvania, presumably, although not listed in the census, lived with his wife Eliza (b. ca. 1831) and daughters in Ward 3 in 1860. In 1870, Clarkson resided in Ward 8 of the city with his wife and a daughter in a group family home. By 1880, he relocated to Buck County and worked as a farmer., Clarkson was listed as an engraver or artist intermittently in Philadelphia city directories ca. 1849-ca. 1869. From 1849 to 1850, Clarkson worked from the same address (80 1/2 Walnut Street) as lithographer John F. Watson. Clarkson also exhibited horse portrait paintings at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1855 and 1856., The 1856 city directory lists two Edward Clarksons: an artist at 182 Chestnut and an engraver at 99 Catherine Street (Ward 3). WWWAA suggests "engraver" Clarkson was the father of "artist" Clarkson, but the dual listings could indicate an evolving change of address.
Date: b. ca. 1827
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: 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: Clement, A.
Description: A. Clement, probably real estate agent Aaron Clement, was the Philadelphia publisher of the version of John Lewis Krimmel's "White's Great Cattle Show..." printed ca. 1861 by Frederick Bourquin., Aaron Clement worked from 5 Pennsylvania Railroad Building and resided at 1534 South Street in 1861.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Clements, John
Description: John Clements, born in Holland about 1832, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia in 1860. He resided in a boarding house in Ward 6 operated by Elizabeth Henne (b. ca. 1811).
Date: b. ca. 1832
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

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

Title: Clules, John
Description: John Clules worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia in 1854 according to Groce & Wallace.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Coggins, E. H. (Edward H.)
Description: Edward H. Coggins, born ca. 1822 in Pennsylvania, worked as a flour and feed dealer, engraver, printer, stationer and photographer in Philadelphia between 1851 and 1862. He began work as an engraver in 1853 at the northwest corner of Eighth and Market Streets (30 North Eighth Street), where he remained for his career in the printing trade, including acting as publisher of the L. N. Rosenthal lithograph reissue of "An East Prospect of the City of Philadelphia" (1854). In 1859, Horatio N. Harbach partnered with Coggins, but by 1861 Theodore J. Harbach took over his interest of the business (renamed Harbach & Bros.). Consequently, Coggins changed his profession to photographer and removed from Center City to Hestonville (West Philadelphia), where he opened and operated a portrait gallery on Lancaster Avenue above the railroad depot until the early years of the Civil War and his enlistment ca. 1862., Near the beginning of his career in the printing trade (1850), Coggins lived with his father and siblings in the Spring Garden Ward (Ward 1) and by the end (i.e., 1860) he resided in Ward 24 in Hestonville, on Lancaster Avenue, with one servant, Eliza Higbee., A soldier in Company P of the 28th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, Coggins died of wounds inflicted during the Battle of Antietam at the end of September 1862.
Date: ca. 1822-1862
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

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

Title: Collins, Alfred M.
Description: Alfred M. Collins, card and cardboard manufacturer for printers and lithographers, was born in New York in 1819. Residing in Philadelphia by the early 1840s, Collins pursued the mercantile trade before he established the paper manufacturing business A. M. Collins & Co. at 506-508 Minor Street in the early 1850s. By the 1860s, the business expanded to include card manufactory and by the end of the decade Collins's son Harry H. as well as Edward Cope, Jr. became partners in Alfred M. Collins, Son & Co. Around this time (ca. 1867), Collins also expanded to an additional location at North Third Street and Canal Street and introduced the "Chrystal Card" to the local market., A prolific advertiser in the "Printers Circular" journal, Collins gained a reputation as the "best and most appointed cardboard manufactory" in the country by the 1870s, and in 1876 he relocated his manufactory and warehouse to 9 Decatur Street (destroyed by fire December 1, 1879), and 18 South Sixth Street., Collins was married in 1843 to Hannah (b. ca. 1820), with whom he had three surviving children and was a contributor to and a secretary for the House of Refuge. Collins died on May 26, 1895 with funeral services held at his late residence of 1518 Locust Street.
Date: 1819-1895
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

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

Title: 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: Collis, Francis
Description: Francis Collis was active in the printing trades, including lithography, in Philadelphia in the mid-1860s. He was nominated for treasurer of the Lithographic Printers Union in 1862 and worked as an engraver at 412 Girard Avenue in Philadelphia in 1867.
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: Conklin, Jacob M.
Description: Jacob M. Conklin, born ca. 1840 in Vermont, worked as a lithographer and shirt manufacturer in Philadelphia. A member of the Lithographic Printers Union, serving as secretary in 1862, Conklin was employed by P. S. Duval & Co. at 22 South Fifth Street in 1858. By 1866, he partnered in Conklin & Gibbons at the southeast corner of Dock & Walnut Streets. Two years later he tenanted 148 1/2 Walnut Street, the same address as fellow lithographers Samuel B. Linton and Daniel O'Donnell. Conklin switched trades in 1872 and opened a varieties and furnishing store at 1221 Girard Avenue, where the business remained until the late 1880s. By the early 1890s the business had relocated at 1132 Arch Street., During the 1860s, Conklin resided at 906 Ontario Street (Ward 25). In the 1870s he lived near his "gentleman's furnishing" business at 1238 Girard Avenue (Ward 14), and in the 1880s he resided at 538 North Eleventh Street (Ward 10). In the 1890s he lived with his wife Margaret W. (b. ca. 1840) and her sister Nancy M. Platt (b. ca. 1837) at 330 Arch Street in Camden, N.J.
Date: b. ca. 1840
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Conrad, Timothy A.
Description: Timothy Abbott Conrad, born June 21, 1803 in Burlington County, New Jersey to a family interested in natural history, was a naturalist, conchologist, paleontologist, author, and artist of lithographic book plates. Educated at Westtown, Conrad drew lithographic plates for natural history works that he authored and include "American Marine Conchology, or Descriptions and Colored Figures of the Shells of the Atlantic Coast" (1831); "Fossil Shells of the Tertiary Formations of North America" (1832); and "New Fresh-water Shells of the United States, with Lithographic Illustrations and a Monograph of the Genus Anculotus of Say" (1832)., Son of Solomon White Conrad (1779-1831), a publisher and printer and professor of botany at the University of Pennsylvania, Conrad worked as a clerk for his father in the 1820s, and upon the elder's death assumed management of the establishment. After a few years, he abandoned the printing business to pursue his natural history studies, and in 1837 he was appointed Geologist of the state of New York. A member of the Academy of the Natural Sciences beginning in 1831 and later the American Philosophical Society, he contributed approximately twenty-two illustrated articles in the 1830s, some to the Academy's journal, and helped to found the Association of American Geologists in 1840., By 1850, he lived with family in the High Street Ward in Center City. Working as a geologist according to the 1860 census, he lived in his brother-in-law's household in Trenton (Ward 3). He returned again to Center City Philadelphia (Ward 9) by 1870. He never married, and according to one biography, was often melancholy, especially in his later years. He passed away in Trenton on August 9, 1877.
Date: June 21, 1803-August 9, 1877
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: 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

Title: Crawford, William
Description: William Crawford, born ca. 1834 in Pennsylvania, worked as a lithographic printer in Philadelphia in the early 1870s. His professional associations probably included lithographer John H. Camp, with whom he resided during that time at 409 North Fourth Street., Previous to his lithographic work (1860s) and again by 1876, Crawford worked as a druggist at 141 Market Street. Other than his residency with Camp, Crawford resided at 123 Noble Street during these decades.
Date: b. ca. 1834
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Cridland, Leander Jr.
Description: Leander Cridland, Jr., born in December of 1842, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia in 1860. He resided in his father's household in Ward 15 with five siblings and extended family. His career in lithography was short-lived, and by 1867 he was working as a carpenter with his father and brother., By 1880, Cridland resided on the Reading Turnpike with his wife's family, the Pipers. In 1900, Cridland headed a household on East Mount Airy Avenue (Ward 22) that included his wife Lydia (b. ca. 1850) and seven children, including Carrie L. (b. 1869), Robert B. (b. 1872), Leanora (b. 1873), Percy (b. 1876), Stanley (b. 1879), Laman S. (1884-1918), and Mira R. (b. 1887). At the time of Leander's death on March 24, 1905, he resided at 140 East Washington Lane.
Date: 1842-1905
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Croome, W. (William)
Description: W. Croome worked as a lithographic artist in Philadelphia for P. S. Duval between ca. 1847 and 1851. He designed portraits, and architectural and engineering views., Croome was probably engraver and artist William Croome (1790-1860) known for his work as a book and periodical illustrator. Trained in Boston under Abel Brown, he was also a member of the Boston Bewick Co. of engravers who published "American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge" (1830-1834). During his residency in Philadelphia ca. 1843-ca. 1850 (following his marriage to a Philadelphian), he predominately was employed as an engraver. He worked solely at Sixth and Walnut streets and later as a partner in the engraving firms of Croome, Meignelle & Minot and Croome & Minot (1841-1842) and Croome & Brightly (ca. 1850)., Croome was married to Rosalie Cress (ca. 1816-1903) on October 3, 1842 in West Chester, Pa. They appeared to have one daughter, Rosalie (b. ca, 1848) who lived with her maternal grandparents in 1860. During his career in Philadelphia he resided on the 1000 block of Spring Garden Street (1845) and at 59 Buttonwood Street (1847-1850).
Date: 1790-1860
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Crouse, Lewis
Description: Lewis Crouse, born about 1830 in Kassel, Germany, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia in 1860. He resided in Ward 5 of the city with his German-born wife, Clara (b. ca. 1832) and his son, Lewis (b. 1858).
Date: b. ca. 1830
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: Curtis, Thomas
Description: Thomas Curtis, was a Philadelphia bookseller, who exhibited a "lot of lithographic prints" at the 1854 Franklin Institute Exhibition of American Manufacturers. Curtis operated his business from 134 (i.e., 600 block) Arch Street and resided on Race Street above Sixth Street in 1855.
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

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