[Wine & liquor store. Charles Egner 10 North Third Street, Philadelphia]
Title
[Wine & liquor store. Charles Egner 10 North Third Street, Philadelphia]
Description
Advertisement showing the busy four-story storefront for "Charles Enger Wine & Liquor Store." Two white gentleman converse near a row of stacked barrels within the store and two male workers, including an African American man, hoist a barrel at the second entranceway. In front of the open cellar to the building, a white man employee rolls one of several barrels lined on the sidewalk. To the left of the worker, three barrels stand upright and a white gentleman approaches. Also shows boxes in the first-floor store window; the shutters and windows of the upper floors in various states of being open; and partial views of the adjacent buildings., Poulson inscription on recto: N. Third St. Third Street. Oct. 1846., Title supplied by cataloger., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 845, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., LCP copy trimmed and lacking title., Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator
Breton, William L., approximately 1773-1855, artist
Date
[ca. 1837]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W460 [P.2244]
State-House
Title
State-House
Description
Exterior view from the southeast showing the intersection of Sixth and Chestnut streets in Philadelphia. View depicts street and pedestrian traffic including horse-drawn carriages, omnibuses, delivery carts, an African American man porter pushing a hand-cart, and white men, women, and children strolling and conversing. Visible on the northeast corner of Sixth Street is Hart's Building, a row of stores and offices owned by prominent Jewish publisher and philanthropist, Abraham Hart, erected in 1848., Title from item., Plate 11 of a series of fifty-four views published by Goupil, Vibert & Company from 1848 to 1851 that were drawn by Kollner and lithographed by Deroy, and later bound under the title "Views of American Cities.", Philadelphia on Stone, POS 721/722, Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator
Deroy, Laurent, 1797-1886, lithographer
Date
[1848]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Government Buildings [P.2283.20]
State-House
Title
State-House
Description
Exterior view from the southeast showing the intersection of Sixth and Chestnut streets in Philadelphia. View depicts street and pedestrian traffic including horse-drawn carriages, omnibuses, delivery carts, an African American man porter pushing a hand-cart, and white men, women, and children strolling and conversing. Visible on the northeast corner of Sixth Street is Hart's Building, a row of stores and offices owned by prominent Jewish publisher and philanthropist, Abraham Hart, erected in 1848., Title from item., Not in Wainwright., Plate 11 of a series of fifty-four views published by Goupil, Vibert & Company from 1848 to 1851 that were drawn by Kollner and lithographed by Deroy, and later bound under the title "Views of American Cities.", Philadelphia on Stone, POS 721/722, Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator
Deroy, Laurent, 1797-1886, lithographer
Date
[1848]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Government Buildings [P.2283.26]
Foering & Thudiums cheap stove ware-house.
Title
Foering & Thudiums cheap stove ware-house
Description
Advertisement depicting the three-and-a-half story warehouse operated by Frederick Foering and C.A. Thudium at 87 North Second Street. In the open entranceways, a white man clerk assists a white woman shopper and an African American laborer lifts a stove. Displays of stoves line the sidewalk and the store walls. On the second floor near open windows, white laborers work. A horse-drawn cart departs an adjoining exitway. Foering and Thudium, one of the city's first domestic stove manufacturers, started in business in 1828, and operated on North Second Street from 1845 until 1847., Print trimmed and lacking caption., Title from item., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Dec. 1846. North Second Street., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 266, Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Rease, a prominent mid-19th century Philadelphia trade card lithographer known to highlight details of human interest in his advertisements, partnered with Francis H. Schell in the 1850s and eventually operated his own press until around 1872.
Creator
Rease, W. H., lithographer
Date
[December 1846]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W132 [P.2045]
Grigg Block, North Fourth Street, Philadelphia.
Title
Grigg Block, North Fourth Street, Philadelphia
Description
View of the active business block containing and named after Grigg, Elliot, & Co., the largest and most prosperous publishing firm in the city that was founded by John Grigg in 1823 and purchased by J. B. Lippincott in 1849. Shows the block of buildings (10-20 North Fourth Street) covered in signage and including Barcroft, Beaver & Co., dry good dealers and S. M. Day, wholesale combs, brush and fancy goods trimmings (10); Goff & Peterson, importers and manufacturers of saddlery, carriage, and harness trimmings (12); Grigg, Elliot & Co. (14); C. H. & Geo. Abbott, dealers and importers of hardware and cutlery and C. Ahrenfeldt & Co., importers of toys & fancy goods (16); C. B. Lassell & Co., hats and caps and Charles Wingate, dealer in shoes, boots, and palm leaf hats (18); and Edwin & John Tams, importers and dealers of china, earthenware, and glass (20). Patrons exit and enter the various storefronts; delivery men, including an African American man, haul, load, and remove goods from horse-drawn and push carts; laborers load goods into shop storage cellars and use a pulley to raise a large cask; store clerks inspect and open newly arrived packages on the sidewalk; a horse-drawn dust settling machine passes in the street; and artisans and merchandise are visible in several of the shops' upper floor windows. Partial views of the adjacent buildings and a nearby alley with a laborer and push cart are also visible., Title from item., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Dec. 1848., Contains advertisements for six of the depicted businesses below the image., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 331, Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Rease, a prominent mid-19th century Philadelphia trade card lithographer known to highlight details of human interest in his advertisements, partnered with Francis H. Schell in the 1850s and eventually operated his own press until around 1872.
Creator
Rease, W. H., lithographer
Date
[1848]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W 162 [P.2077]