Advertisement showing the five-story manufactory and storefront covered in signage of the tobacco and grocery business at 111 Race Street, i.e. the 300 block of Race Street. Within the first-floor window and entryways, a patron enters the store near a wall of shelved good and boxes on the floor; a clerk organizes canisters; and other employees check a list and move a crate. At the upper floor windows, boxes, barrels, and sacks are piled and employees work. In front of the store, laborers unload and transport boxes from a horse-drawn dray parked in the street. Crates and barrels line the sidewalk near the dray. Also shows partial views of adjacent buildings. Jacob Mayland established his tobacco business circa 1803 and operated from the 300 block of Race Street beginning in 1805. The business, renamed Jacob Mayland Jr. & Co. circa 1842, remained at 111 Race Street until circa 1848., Title supplied by cataloguer., Poulson inscription on recto: Race west of third Street. Oct. 1846., Wainwright suggests date of circa 1842., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 399, LCP copy trimmed and lacking title and imprint., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Date
[October 1846]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W193 [P.2053]
