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Title: Allman, F. B.
Description: F. B. Allman was listed as a lithographer residing at 1221 Whitehall (i.e., below Spring Garden Street) in the 1858 Philadelphia city directory.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Scott, Thomas M.
Description: Thomas M. Scott was a Philadelphia artist whose cityscape views were printed as lithographs by P.S. Duval in the early 1850s. Known works after Scott, often lithographed by Charles Conrad Kuchel, include "Northern Liberties and Spring Garden Works" (1852); "Tamany Fish House, on the Pea Shore, R. Delaware" (ca. 1852); and "Commissioners Hall, Northern Liberties, Phila." (1853) described in the July 1, 1853 edition of the "Public Ledger" as a "very fine and correct winter scene" by Capt. Thomas M. Scott., Scott may be the Thomas Scott listed in the 1860 Philadelphia city directory as an engraver at Allegheny House (814 Market Street).
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Hart, William Jr.
Description: William Hart, Jr., son of English-born lithographer William Hart, was born October 1846 and operated his late father's firm at 123-127 North Fourth Street 1888-ca. 1900. By 1870, Hart had been working as a "lithographic printer" at his father's establishment., Hart resided with his father until William Sr.'s death in 1888. Hart remained at his father's late residence at 3703 Spring Garden and lived with an aunt Esther Wilson (b. 1813) and a cousin Elizabeth Wilson (b. 1848) by 1900. Hart died suddenly on August 26, 1906.
Date: October 1846-August 26, 1906
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Fletcher, Veron
Description: Veron Fletcher, Philadelphia artist born ca. 1820 in Pennsylvania, designed the painting reproduced as the noted Herline & Co. lithograph "Washington and his Staff at Valley Forge" published in 1855. The painting was exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1855., By 1850, Fletcher lived at 188 Noble Street with his wife Mary A. (b. ca. 1831) in the Spring Garden Ward of Philadelphia and resided North of Center City throughout the 1860s. During this period, in 1867, Fletcher painted "London Coffee House" (1867) and "Slate Roof House" (1867). From ca. 1870 to ca. 1876, he resided at 1224 Heath Street (near Poplar Street) in North Philadelphia.
Date: b. ca. 1820
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

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

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

Title: French, John T.
Description: John T. French, born in Pennsylvania in July 1822, worked as a lithographer, predominately with Thomas Sinclair, in Philadelphia ca. 1845-1852. French was first listed as a lithographer in Philadelphia directories in 1845. He produced fashion advertisements, genre and view prints, and book illustrations. His S. A. & A. F. Ward fashion prints issued in the late 1840s received particularly note from Peters., French was listed in the 1850 census as a lithographer who resided in the Spring Garden Ward 3. He resided at Poplar Street above Seventh Street with his wife Sarah (b. ca. 1823) and two children in a multi-family dwelling. At the time of his death on March 3, 1852, he resided at 4 Clarence Row.
Date: July 1822-March 3, 1852
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Henderson, John N. [L.?]
Description: John N. Henderson, born in 1818, was a Philadelphia printer who published P. S. Duval's noted "Commissioner's Hall, Spring Garden" in 1851. Henderson worked in the printing trade from 1847 through the 1890s, including as a compositor and proof reader at the Philadelphia "Public Ledger" at the time of his death on July 29, 1892., Henderson lived in South Philadelphia, including Southwark Ward 4 and Ward 2 between 1850 and the 1890s. He resided at 1238 South Fifth Street at the time of his death. He was married to Mary (b. 1823) with whom he had children Catherine (b. 1849), Elizabeth (b. 1857) and John L. (b. 1861), who also worked in the printing trade.
Date: 1818-July 29, 1892
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

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

Title: Matlack, Albert
Description: Albert Matlack, a lithographer and gilder, born ca. 1821 in Pennsylvania, worked in Philadelphia between the 1850s and 1880s. By 1860, Matlack resided in Spring Garden at 1216 Ridge Avenue (Ward 14) with his wife Eliza Fudge (b. ca. 1821) and her mother Hannah Fudge (b. ca. 1788). Matlack and Eliza owned and operated a millinery and a manufactory. By 1880 Matlack was widowed, worked as a lithographic printer, and boarded with fellow lithographic printer James Hennesey (b. ca. 1862), and James's mother Mary Hennesey (b. ca. 1840) at 906 Aurora (i.e.. Latimer) Street in Ward 8. In the early 1880s, city directories listed Matlack as a porter at this address, and by 1884 as a gilder living in South Philadelphia.
Date: b. ca. 1821
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: Bowen, Lavinia
Description: Lavinia Bowen, born ca. 1820 in Maine and wife of preeminent Philadelphia lithographer John T. Bowen, operated the lithograph firm Bowen & Company with ornithologist John Cassin after her husband's death in 1856. The newly-styled firm, left with an estate worth about $5,500 from John T. Bowen, continued to operate from the southwest corner of Eleventh and Chestnut Streets until 1866, when it relocated to 713 Jayne Street until 1872. John Cassin left the firm in 1867, and R. B. Jones appears as a co-proprietor of Bowen & Co. in the 1868 Philadelphia directory., Lavinia was an artist, lithographer and plate colorist in her own right, presumably working on her husband's hand-colored book plate projects, and later, natural history commissions including three folio bird books for Daniel Elliot and Henry Schoolcraft's "Indian Tribes of North American." John Cassin praised her skills as an artist in ornithology in the "Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences" (1858), and named a bird, the Calliste Lavinia, in her honor.Lavinia married John T. Bowen before 1838, the year their son, John T., was born in New York. From 1839 through the 1840s, they lived in Center City at 61 South Fifth Street and later 96 Walnut Street and by 1855, resided at 674 Green Street above Spring Garden Street. After John's death in 1856, Lavinia resided at 1020 Cherry Street until 1872.
Date: b. ca. 1820
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

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

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

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

Title: Keller & Bright
Description: Keller & Bright, was a partnership between John B. Keller (b. ca. 1818) and William S. Bright, M.D. (b. ca. 1816), stationers and lithographers active from 1856 to about 1858 at 38 South Fourth Street. Residents together with their families in Spring Garden Ward 3 by 1850, their business partnership began ca. 1852 at the book selling and publishing establishment of William L. Keller (S.E. corner of 8th and Race streets). In 1853, Keller & Bright began to be listed as druggists in the city directory, and by 1856, the partnership relocated to the southwest corner of Fourth and Chestnut Streets (38 South Fourth Street) as "stationers, lithographers, &c.", Keller & Bright dissolved before 1859, when a city directory lists Keller as a looking glass manufacturer at 38 South Fourth Street. By 1864, Keller worked as a gilt frame maker and gilder at 31 South Fourth Street and in 1869 as a grocer at 501 South Third Street. Keller presumably died around 1869; the last year he was listed in city directories. His wife Fanny D. was listed as a widow in the 1871 city directory.
Date: fl. 1856-ca. 1858
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: Richard, John H.
Description: John H. Richard, born in Germany (or possibly France) in 1807, was the artist of the first true American lithotint published in Philadelphia in 1843. Richard was also an engraver , lithographer, scientific illustrator, as well as an exhibits preparator at the Smithsonian Institution, who worked in Philadelphia between the 1840s and 1870s. Between 1841 and 1843, although listed in city directories as an engraver, Richard also worked at the establishment of P. S. Duval. At Duval's firm, he delineated plates for Holbrook's "Herpetology" and experimented with lithotinting. In 1843, he produced "Grandpapa's Pet," the first true American lithotint published in "Miss Leslie's Magazine" (April 1843). By the early 1850s, he worked at the U. S. Mint and produced illustrations for several government reports and accepted commissions from the Smithsonian, such as the hand coloring of bird drawings by Robert Ridgway., His association with the Smithsonian continued through the 1870s and in 1875 he prepared the Smithsonian's natural history exhibits for the Centennial Exhibition of 1876. He died in Washington, D.C on March 18, 1881 with Mary H. Ettinger (later Bates) of Salfordville, Pa. and Professor Spencer F. Baird of Washington D.C as the executors of his will. Despite being bequeathed all his personal estate. Ms. Ettinger renounced her rights to it., During his career in Philadelphia, according to the censuses, Richard (listed as born in Germany) lived in 1850 in Spring Garden Ward 4 with his wife Mary (b. ca. 1819), Margaret Evans, and artist Siam Shindler. He was probably the John Richard listed at 500 Callowhill Street in the city directory for that year. In 1860, he was listed as born in France and as a designer who lived in Ward 21 (Schuylkill Falls) in a large household, including his wife, gentleman Henry Trumbauer, and a servant. He owned real estate worth $4,000 that increased to $18,000 in 1870 when he resided in Ward 25 (Northeast Philadelphia) alone.
Date: 1807-March 18, 1881
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Kramer, Peter
Description: Peter Kramer, an artist, painter, and lithographer born in Zweibrücken, Germany on July 24, 1823, was active in Philadelphia ca. 1848-ca. 1865. Kramer immigrated to New York on the Hendrik Hudson in October 1847 and settled in Philadelphia shortly there after. He partnered with P. S. Duval to delineate lithographs as early as 1848, including "Charles Oakford's 1848 & 49 Fashions for Hats, Caps & Furs, Wholesale & Retail Establishment, No. 104 Chestnut St., Philadelphia." He also designed political cartoons, including "The Resurrection of Henry Box Brown at Philadelphia" for L. N. Rosenthal and sheet music covers, including "City Museum Polka," for Thomas Sinclair in the early 1850s. By 1853, he operated from 116 Chestnut Street with lithographer Edward Herline and map publisher James D. Scott. Many sources indicate that Kramer left the states in 1857 to open a studio in Stuttgart, Germany, but Philadelphia city directory listings, census information, and the imprint of the Civil War satire "Shadows of the Times" (1862) published by Kramer and French-born lithographer Caspar Muringer suggest he remained in Philadelphia until ca. 1865. By the 1870 census, Peter Kramer, artist, lives in New York City (Ward 17) with his family., During his career in Philadelphia, Kramer lived with his German-born wife Louisa (b. ca. 1823) and their five children north of Center City in the Spring Garden and Northern Liberties neighborhoods. By about 1857, Kramer probably relocated his residence to New Jersey - censuses for 1860 and 1870 indicate that their daughter Julia was born in New Jersey ca. 1857. By 1880, Kramer resided at 231 East Tenth Street in New York, but by 1900, he lived with his daughter Julia and her family in Brooklyn, New York (Ward 25), where he died on July 30, 1907.
Date: July 24, 1823-July 30, 1907
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Kennedy & Lucas
Description: Kennedy & Lucas, the first commercial lithographic establishment in Philadelphia, established by looking glass and print store proprietors David Kennedy and William B. Lucas at 90 South Third Street, was active 1828-1833. Started as "Lucas's Lithography" by Lucas in the spring of 1828, early prints of the firm included "Cowell as Crack in the Turnpike Gate" and "The Pagoda and Labyrinth Garden" printed after the designs of British artist and lithographer Hugh Bridport. Officially established as a commercial firm in December 1828, Kennedy & Lucas announced "their Press at No. 90 South Third, where specimens can be seen" in the "National Gazette" on December 9 and 10, 1828., The firm printed book illustrations, city views, genre prints, sheet music covers, and advertisements, often delineated by artist W. L. Breton. The pairing issued a noted series of church views, including "Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church"; the cityscape illustrations for Watson's Annals of Philadelphia, and the advertisement "Philadelphia Baths, Corner of George and Seventh Sts., near Chestnut Street" as well as plates for Earle's Treatise on Railroads (1830) and The Floral Magazine and Botanical Repository (1832-1834). Following the death of Lucas in 1833, the firm ceased operations and on March 1, 1834, "The United States Gazette" advertised the executor's sale of the lithographic establishment. Equipment and tools sold included "3 presses of different sizes, one standing do., rollers and ink stones, with every requisite for the above business. Also, 8000 lbs. of first quality lithographic stones, assorted sizes, from 34 inches by 23 inches, down to 8 by 10 inches,...", Kennedy, a well-established carver, gilder, and glass and picture store owner in Philadelphia before partnering with Lucas, operated from 109 Walnut Street and also managed a tavern at Ninth and Walnut Streets in the 1820s. Lucas's background before operating the lithograph firm is unclear; his will dated 1833 listed him as a gilder and lithographer.
Date: fl. 1828-1833
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Hart, William Sr.
Description: William Hart, Sr., a prominent Philadelphia lithographer, was born in England ca. 1815. Immigrating to the United States as a boy with his family, he resided and operated his own lithographic establishment (21 Bank Street) in Philadelphia by ca. 1847. During the mid 1850s, he relocated to his longtime establishment at 25 North Fourth Street (ca. 1858-ca. 1877) before his move in 1878 to the building at 18-20 South Sixth Street owned by paper manufacturer Theodore Megarge. Despite a devastating fire resulting in $20,000 worth of loses for Hart in 1879, he continued in business at North Fourth and Cherry Streets (123-127 North Fourth) with "three spacious and well-lighted rooms", a stock of equipment worth $20,000, 15 employees, and a business income of $25,000 a year as of 1881., Although most recognized for his plates for a number of John Gould's multi-volume ornithological color-plate books, including "Birds of Asia" (1850-1883) and "Birds of Great Britain" (1862-1873), Hart practiced all branches of the trade. He early advertised the capability to print in colors (1850) and later in his career, received recognition for his card mounts for photographs., During his first decade in Philadelphia, Hart resided in Kensington (Third Ward) with his wife Grace (b. ca. 1815) and his son William, also a lithographer. By the early 1860s, Hart and his family relocated to West Philadelphia and established a residence at 3703 Spring Garden Street., Hart died on March 9, 1888 with the reputation as a "pioneer" and "progressive" lithographer. His son William continued the business until ca. 1900.
Date: ca. 1815-March 9, 1888
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Herline, Edward (Otto)
Description: Edward Otto Herline, born in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, in June 1825 was a Philadelphia engraver and lithographer known for his artistry who produced lithographs for all branches of the field, including book illustrations, maps, and advertising and view prints. One of six children of printer Gustaff Herline and Kunigune Siebenkaes, Herline emigrated to New York with his brother Gustavus (1829-1884, a lithographer in Cincinnati and later a silver plater in Pittsburgh) on the ship Alfred in July 1848., Herline soon thereafter relocated to Philadelphia, married German-born Amelia Zeitz (1828-1887), the daughter of a Philadelphia shoemaker, and worked as a lithographer by 1850. Working under the firm name Herline & Co. by 1856, Herline worked in a series of partnerships thereafter, including most notably with Daniel Hensel (1830-1919) with whom he entered into business at 630 Chestnut Street in 1857., Partnered with Hensel until ca. 1866, the firm was active in chromolithography, issued lithographs for the German American community, and produced prints for government reports, including near $100 worth of work for "Governor Stevens's" report in 1860. The firm proved successful and Herline earned enough income to be taxed throughout the Civil War from his home address at 1717 Wylie Street. By 1867, Herline relocated his residence to 1017 Wistar Street and served as sole proprietor of an establishment noted to produce labels, certificates, and checks that "employs a large number of persons." Those employed by Herline included artists James T. Palmatary, Emil F. Beaulieu, and Peter Moran., Circa 1869, Herline took on another new partner (Howard B. Hamilton) and a home address (504 N. 11th) that housed his immediate family, a niece Julia Shomaker, and housekeeper. The new partnership, again called Herline & Co., operated from 630 Chestnut Street, then 39 South Tenth Street until 1872. Over the next five years, Herline would work as a painter, partner in the lithographic firm Herline & Kane (328 Chestnut), and move his residence to 475 North Fourth Street before settling at 78 Garden Street in Hoboken, NJ as of 1880., While residing in NJ, Herline worked as an engraver and by 1900 as a glass sign manufacturer with his sons Emil F. (1850-1914) and Adolph (1852-1918) until his death in 1902. At the end of his life, Herline, a widower, lived with his daughter Helen (b. ca. 1856) and son-in-law Julius Lach in Jersey City. His colleague sons resided at the address as well while his fourth child Edward Otto, Jr. (b. August 28, 1855) resided elsewhere.
Date: June 1825-1902
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Otis, Bass
Description: Bass Otis, Philadelphia portrait painter born July 17, 1784 in East Bridgewater, Ma., produced the first American lithograph in 1819. Son of physician Josiah Otis (1749-1808) and Susanna Orr (1752-1836), Otis worked as an apprentice to a scythe maker or a nail/tack manufacturer before entering the arts, possibly as a student of Gilbert Stuart in Boston. In 1808 Otis relocated to New York, purportedly studied with John Wesley Jarvis, and by 1810 had gained a reputation as an artist. Two years later, he arrived in Philadelphia and cemented his career in the field. Between 1812 and 1824, he was elected to the Society of Artists in the United States, Columbian Society of Artists, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where he often exhibited., During this period, the "ingenious and enterprising artist of Philadelphia," drew and printed the first extant American lithograph, a modest image of a mill that accompanied a six-page descriptive account of the process by University of Pennsylvania chemistry professor Thomas Cooper in the July 1819 edition of the "Analectic Magazine." The lithograph, for which he received $15 from the periodical, was drawn on Bavarian limestone borrowed from the American Philosophical Society for conducting "experiments in the art of lithographic engraving" by Otis and Dr. Samuel Brown, a physician and chemist., Although Otis predominately focused on portrait painting after 1819, and worked and resided mainly in Philadelphia, he did draw a lithograph portrait for New York lithographer Albert Imbert in 1826. In addition, an undated lithographic stone signed by Otis with an image of "Christ Healing the Sick" is held in the collections of the National Historical Park, Philadelphia, Pa., Otis was married in 1813 to Alice Pierie (1796-1842) with whom he had six children. During his residencies in Philadelphia, Otis lived in Center City, including the 500 block of Cherry Street during his experimentation with lithography. On November 3, 1816, Otis died in his residence at 805 Spring Garden Street and was buried in the cemetery of Christ Church.
Date: July 17, 1784- November 3, 1861
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Bowen, John T.
Description: John T. Bowen, the preeminent Philadelphia lithographer and the most important mid 19th-century American publisher of publication plates, was born in England ca. 1801. Immigrating to the United States in 1834, he worked as a colorist and lithographer in New York before relocating to Philadelphia (probably with collaborator and lithographic artist Alfred Hoffy) in 1838. In Philadelphia to assume the publication of the seminal McKenney and Hall's "History of the Indian Tribes," he also took over the establishment of Wild & Chevalier (94 Walnut Street), including the rights to their "Views of Philadelphia." He reissued the third edition of the series at the end of the year, and the hand-colored fourth edition in 1848., From 1838 to the early 1840s, Bowen's general and book-plate work was widely praised in the local press. Promoted as "an ornament to the city" and with "one of the most extensive establishments in the country, he gained a reputation as one of the premier general lithographers, especially of hand-colored works, of the city. During this period, he published the "Architect's Magazine" (1839); was honored by and offered membership to the Franklin Institute (1840); and printed plates for Audubon's "Quadrupeds" (1845-1848) and octavo edition of "Birds of America" (1839-1844) in addition to McKenney & Hall (1837-1844). Although plate work became the specialty of Bowen's firm after 1844 and his relocation to 12 South Broad Street, he also issued maps, genre prints, including "Log Cabin Politicians" (1841), political cartoons, praised frameable views of Fairmount, and drawing books, such as "My Own Sketch Book" (ca. 1840)., Despite these numerous projects, in 1842 Bowen petitioned for bankruptcy. The compounded expenditures for McKenney & Hall in conjunction with the work on "Birds" could not offset the income received from the latter commission of which over 1400 copies of the first number were ordered. The bankruptcy, however, did not prove a major detriment to his business, and after 1844, Bowen predominately collaborated with Audubon and his sons on reissues and completion of their natural history volumes. He also worked with Philadelphia ornithologist John Cassin. Following the printing of the plates for his "Illustrations of the Birds of California,...," Cassin associated with Bowen's firm as a business manager and artist. By the time of Bowen's death in the summer of 1856, he served as one of the appraisers of his estate of about $5,500 that included presses worth $250 and lithographic stone worth $30. Before 1838, Bowen married Lavinia, a colorist, with whom he had a son John (b. ca. 1838). From 1839 through the 1840s, Bowen lived in Center City at 61 South Fifth Street and later 96 Walnut Street and by 1855, resided at 674 Green Street above Spring Garden Street. Following his death, Lavinia assumed operations of the Bowen firm and engaged John Cassin as partner in 1858. The firm Bowen & Co. was active until ca. 1870.
Date: b. ca. 1801-1856
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Bridport, Hugh
Description: Hugh Bridport, born in England in 1794, was a portrait painter, drawing instructor, architect, and engraver, who practiced lithography in Philadelphia 1828-1830s. Trained at the Royal Academy and with miniature painter Charles Wilkins, Bridport immigrated to Philadelphia with his artist brother George in 1816. Soon after their arrival, the brothers established an architectural drawing academy that operated until 1822. In 1824, Bridport served as a founding member of the Franklin Institute and taught architectural drawing classes there until 1833., During the latter portion of this time, Bridport engaged in the trade of lithography with Kennedy & Lucas, the first commercial establishment in the city. He lithographed two of Kennedy & Lucas's earliest prints "Cowell as Crack in The Turnpike Gate" (1828) and "The Pagoda and Labyrinth Gardens, near Fairmount" (1828). Bridport would continue to work with Kennedy & Lucas as a lithographer as well as with the early premier firms of C. G. Childs and M. E. D. Brown. Although predominately a lithographer of portraits, including one of Rev. W.H. Furness, Bridport also drew the noted lithograph "Camp Meeting" after the painting by Alexander Rider as well as views of Niagara Falls ca. 1830. Bridport's work in lithography tapered off in the early 1830s and he focused his artistic career on portrait painting., From the 1810s to 1840s, Bridport also exhibited paintings at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and Artist's Fund Society. In the 1860s, he earned sufficient income to be taxed by the I.R.S.; representative of his 1860 census listing as a "gentleman" with a personal estate worth $15,000 (ca. $400,000 in 2008 dollars)., During his lithographic career, he maintained a portrait painting studio at Fifth and Chestnut streets and lived at 2 Ranstead Court in 1833. Bridport was married to Rachel (b. ca. 1820) with whom he had at least three children. Bridport died on July 17, 1870 with his final listing in the census as a "merchant."
Date: 1794-July 27, 1870
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

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