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Title: [T. E. Chapman, book store and book bindery, 74 North Fourth Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Advertisement showing the three-and-a-half story building on the 100 block of North Fourth Street for the bookseller, binder, and publisher Thomas Ellwood Chapman. A male patron enters the doorway of the building past advertisements (e.g. Books Stationery) adorning a mantle and the entry. A small broadside hangs in the window of the door, bundles of fibrous material rest atop the mantle, and shelves of books are visible lining the wall of the interior of the store. To the right of the doorway, a woman hunches over, and stands to the side of the closed cellar doors as she looks at one of several books and printed matter displayed in the window. A sign reading "Rags Bought" hangs below. Building facade also contains a wood door, possibly to an alleyway. Chapman opened the bookstore at the address in 1840, and added the bindery in 1843. He relocated in 1849., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Aug. 1847. North Fourth St., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 734, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Rease, W. H.
Date: [August 1847]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W356 [P.2196]

Title: Jas. B. Smith & Co.'s Philada. blank book manufactory. Jas. B. Smith & Co. booksellers and blank book manufacturers. 207 Market St. above 5th Philadelphia Jas. B. Smith. Fredk. Scofield
Description: Advertisement containing a central interior view of the bustling manufactory bordered by several captioned vignettes of men and women at specific tasks, and the mechanisms used, in the manufacture of blank books. Central view depicts several woman at work seated at two tables in the center of the room surrounded by men at work stations lining the space lighted by windows in the right and rear of the area. Piles of pages of books rest in front of the workers. In the foreground, women sew as at the front end of the table as ladies at the rear toil at folding pages. At the work stations, rows of men work at finishing pages. In the background, men operate book presses and other machinery, and transport reams of papers near women folding pages below a loft. On the upper floor, men work at stations across from shelves of reams of paper as a boy carries a mound of book pages down the stairs to the lower floor. Also shows the walls adorned with a cabinet, posted papers, and a man's coat and hat. Work vignettes show "girls" sewing and folding pages and male employees rounding, stamping, gilding and extra finishing bindings, book pressing, cutting and operating large ruling and cutting machines. Other vignettes show a board cutting machine; Sewing bench; Bookbinders plough; a display of a pile of blank books and associated writing materials; and a view of the Smith & Co. storefront (500 block of Market Street) at which patrons stand in a doorway across from a crate covered with books., Also contains several lines of advertising text describing the several types of merchandise "which will be sold at very low prices." Products include "blank books ruled to pattern and bound in a superior manner," cap blanks bound and with "russia ends, ledgers, minute books, memorandums, pass books, copy books, wrapping paper, pocket books, ink stands, sealing wax, and "medical books, school books, & stationery.", Not in Wainwright., Manuscript note lower right corner., Philadelphia on Stone, Library of Congress: PGA - Kollner--Jas. B. Smith & Co's... (B size) [P&P], See "The Bookbinders Shop." Sketched from the establishment of Messrs. Westleys & Clark." PGA - Brechemin, L.--Bookbinders shop... (B size) [P&P]. Digital file included in LOC P&P on-line catalog.
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813, artist
Date: c1850
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photograph Division LOC PGA - Kollner--Jas. B. Smith & Co's... (B size) [P&P]

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]

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