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- Title
- [J. Hartman's biscuit bakery, No. 90 Penn Street, Philadelphia] [graphic] / Executed on stone by W. H. Rease, No. 17 1/2 S. 5th. St.
- Description
- Location: 90 S. Wharves, later at 412 S. Delaware Avenue., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
- Date
- ca. 1846.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W191.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W191 [P.2054]
- Title
- [P. Maison's biscuit bakery, 134 N. Front Street, Philadelphia.] [graphic] / Executed on stone by W. H. Rease, No. 17, S. 5th St.
- Description
- Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
- Date
- ca. 1846.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W260.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W260 [P.2150]
- Title
- [T. Wattson & Sons, biscuit bakery, 129 North Front Street, Philadelphia] [graphic] / Drawn on stone by W. H. Rease, 17 So. 5th. St.
- Description
- Location: 129 North Front Street (pre-consolidation)., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H., creator
- Date
- ca. 1846.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W359.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W359 [P.2199]
- Title
- Theo. Wilson & Co.'s steam ship bread, cracker, & cake bakery, 212 & 214 North Front St. Phila
- Description
- Advertisement depicting the one-block deep manufactory and "retail sales rooms" adorned in signage. Signs advertise "bread and crackers" for export and "All Kinds of Crackers, Soda Biscuits, Sugar Biscuit, Cakes &c &c. Pilot and Navy Bread." Barrels are visible in upper freight windows and pedestrians walk on the sidewalk. During the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, the company, renamed Walter G. Wilson & Co., introduced animal crackers to America. The building was razed by fire in 1879., Probably engraved by John Serz., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Madelyn Wolke, Lucianne Reichert, and Clifford A. Mohwinkel Jr.
- Date
- [ca. 1870]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Serz [P.9773.79b]
- Title
- Chr. Jud, fancy cake bakery, ice cream saloon and confectionery, 238 S. Eleventh, Philadelphia
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting a business card for Chr. Jud surrounded and embellished by flowering vines and cherubs., Manuscipt note on verso: M.H. Smith, 863 11th St., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Jud [1975.F.456]
- Title
- To John Hartman, dr. East End Steam Biscuit Work, No. 412 South Wharves, and 413 Penn St. Plain & fancy biscuit & crackers Established 1826
- Description
- Billhead containing two vignettes. Vignette in left shows "Blue Points. Cracker in Shape of an Oyster Patented." Image also contains text dating the patent and trademark to 1883 and 1884. Vignette in right shows a sailing ship at sea captioned "Pilot, Ship and Navy Bread A Specialty.", Completed in manuscript to Mr. J. B. Bechtel, Allentown L.V.R.R. on October 4, 1886 for "1 Bbl Acme Cr 70#" @ $.06, $4.20; "12 Tin Trunks Extra La" 56 1/2# @ $.095, $5.37; "12 Glass Front & Extra Asst 72 1/2#" @ 13, $9.42; "2 Crates of Tin Trunks" @ 3.75, $7.50; "2 " " Glass Fronts" @ 3.50, $7.00: $33.49., Manuscript note on recto: Cans & cases off $14.50 to be returned: $18.99. Recd Payment J. Hartman Per M 14.50, Stamped on recto: Terms - 30 Days, Subject to Sight Draft Without Notice. One Per Cent. Discount if Paid Within 10 Days., Printed on recto: No Boxes Received unless Freight Prepaid. All Claims To Be Made in Five Days. Highest Premium Awarded By United States Centennial Commission For Extent Of Variety and Superior Manufacture of Biscuits. Long Preserved Excellence., Accompanied by corresponding envelope illustrated with "Cracker in Shape of An Oyster Patented." Illustration duplicates illustration on billhead. Envelope contains postmarks and two-cent stamp depicting George Washington. [P.2011.10.136a], Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
- Date
- [ca. 1884]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Receipts [P.2011.10.136 & 136a]
- Title
- [P. Maison's biscuit bakery, 134 N. Front Street, Philadelphia.]
- Description
- Advertisement showing the busy three-story bakery at 134, i.e., 214 North Front Street. Building contains banners attached to awning posts adorned with a sign to advertise "P. Maison's Bakery 134." Another "Bakery" sign extends over the adjacent alley between the business and neighboring building. A gentleman, possibly the proprietor, stands at the entrance of the building as laborers transport and stack barrels at the open entryway and upper receiving windows. In front of the store, a "P. Maison Biscuit Bakery" conestoga wagon is loaded with barrels next to a dray loaded with goods of which a clerk overlooks. At the side of the building, a driver with a horse-drawn cart loaded with barrels confers with his coworker in an upper floor window. Also shows a gentleman walking down the stairs of the adjacent residence visible in the image., Title supplied by cataloguer., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: April 1847. N. Front St., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 536, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H., artist
- Date
- [April 1847]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W260 [P.2150]
- Title
- [J. Hartman's biscuit bakery, No. 90 Penn Street, Philadelphia]
- Description
- Advertisement showing the bakery house at 90 S. Wharves, i.e., 412 S. Delaware Avenue. Signage adorning the building advertises "Crackers, Sugar & Soda Biscuit, Pilot, Ship & Navy Bread Wholesale & Retail." Employees and patrons enter and exit the building past stacks of barrels and are visible through the open entranceways and receiving windows, climbing stairs, discussing business, and inspecting barrels. In front of the business, under a large store banner, a patron and clerk converse and employees load a horse-drawn cart with provisions. At the side of the building, a driver with a horse-drawn cart is stopped in the alley to receive a barrel to be hoisted down from the third floor of the bakery. Also shows a sailor standing at the opposite street corner, and in the distance, part of a docked square-rigged ship., Title supplied by cataloguer., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Aug. 1847. Penn Street., Wainwright suggests date of circa 1846., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 396, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Trimmed.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H., artist
- Date
- [August 1847]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W191 [P.2054]
- Title
- [G. Byron Morse trade cards]
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards depicting various flowers; bread shaped into kipful, pinafore, twist, keyser semmel, Vienna ring, long Vienna, and short Vienna shapes; platters of fish and lobster on serving carts; a man driving a horse-drawn carriage made entirely of bread; and nets and oars partially obscured by a small landscape vignette depicting a tall rock formation., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers and engravers include Graf Brothers (Philadelphia), L. Prang & Co. (Boston), and McCalla & Stavely (Philadelphia)., Advertising text printed on versos promotes G. Byron Morse as a "baker of genuine Vienna bread, rolls, &c." and his "dining and ice cream parlors, fine and fancy cake depot" for weddings and private and social parties at 1312 Chestnut Street and 912 Arch Street in Philadelphia., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [1876-ca. 1885]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Morse [1975.F.582; 1975.F.585 & 586; 1975.F.619; 1975.F.624; P.9777.1 & 2]
- Title
- [T. Wattson & Sons, biscuit bakery, 129 North Front Street, Philadelphia]
- Description
- Advertisement showing the busy four-story factory for the bakery at 129 North Front Street, between Chestnut and Walnut Streets. A gentleman, possibly the proprietor Thomas Wattson, stands in one of the open doorways to the bakery as laborers work around him. Near the doorways, workers load kegs onto a horse-drawn "T. Wattson & Sons Biscuit Bakery" wagon and dray. Other men, hoist kegs to upper receiving windows from a group of several lined in front of the factory. In a few of the windows, men at work and stacks of barrels are visible. Laborers hammer shut and move kegs. Also shows "X"-shaped joint bolts on a section of the building under near which a pedestrian walks past. Business established at address in 1846. Thomas Wattson sold the business to his son-in-law in 1852 and it was renamed Wattson & Co., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: North Front Street-Phila. Aug. 1846., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 737, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Trimmed.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H., artist
- Date
- [August 1846]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W359 [P.2199]
- Title
- Old houses, on the north side of Arch Street, between Second and Third Street
- Description
- View showing former residences on the 200 block of Arch Street, including the Betsy Ross House being tenanted by tailor Philip Mund at 239 Arch Street . View also shows adjacent businesses. Shows William Gelbert, cake bakery (241 Arch), a cigar store (237 Arch), and Alexander Oelsner, hat, cap, and fur store (235 Arch)., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Date inscribed on photograph., Originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 11, page 73. The scrapbooks contained approximately 120 photographs by Philadelphia painter and pioneer photographer Richards of 18th-century public, commercial, and residential buildings in the city of Philadelphia commissioned by Poulson to document the vanishing architectural landscape., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Reproduced in Edward Arthur Mauger's Philadelphia Then and Now, (San Diego: Thunder Bay Press, 2002), p. 10.
- Creator
- Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
- Date
- March 1859
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Residences - R [(11)2526.F.73 (Poulson)]

