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Title: Black Diamond File Works illustrated price list G. & H. Barnett No. 39, 41 & 43 Richmond Street Philadelphia Pa
Description: Illustrated title page showing an exterior view of the factory complex for the file Works "established in 1863" in Richmond. Shows clerks and laborers moving and loading crates on to a company horse-drawn wagon parked in front of the office building. Individuals stand in the doorway of the building that is adorned with signage containing the name of the company and proprietors. In the rear of the office, the "File Factory" with several operating smokestacks, one adorned with a model of the company trademark, stands. Figures are seen in a window and door of sections of the edifice. At a two-story building, adjacent to the office, a worker carries planks of wood through the door. Also shows a "Richmond & Exchange" horse-drawn omnibus filled with passengers passing in the street., Not in Wainwright., Published as title page in Black Diamond File Works illustrated price list. ([Philadelphia, 1874])., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 57, Gift of David Doret.
Date: [1874]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare **Am 1874 G.& H. Barnett 10069.F.title page

Title: Wetherill's white lead, red lead, chemical glass, drug & dye stuff store. Wetherill & Brother, manufacturer of white lead & red lead litharge chrome yellow & green, oil vitrol, copperas, chemicals Sons of and successors to Samuel Wetherill who established the first white lead manufactory in the United States. Old stand 65 North Front Street east side, three doors south of Arch St. Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement showing the four-story storefront of Wetherwill & Brother (John Price and Dr. William Wetherill) heavily covered in signage on Front Street above Market Street. Signs advertise the "Drug, Paint" & Glass Store," the proprietors - "Druggist & Color Men," and depict the store emblem of an American eagle with a shield atop a barrel, surrounded by apothecary packages, and bordered by the text "Encourage your own Manufactory" and "65 Old Stand." Building also adorned with a railing on the roof. Stacks of barrels, two atop boxes marked "8-10 Glass" and "12-16 Glass," flank the two open entryways (covered in signs) in which the back of a clerk carrying a large box and two male patrons are visible. Decanters fill the display windows, and boxes, barrels, and glassware are stacked near the upper floor windows. A clerk descends into the cellar across from a drayman, in the street, steadying his horse-drawn vehicle loaded with labeled packages. Several more labeled packages line the sidewalk. Materials include opium, linseed oil, shellac, gum opal, sperm oil, myrrh, "dry. w. lead", salad oil, "ol. vit.," "aq. fortis," "bn. indigo," and "ref. camph." Also shows partial views of adjacent businesses, including signs reading "Dru..", "Pai.." and "M..... Whi...", John Price and William Wetherill, were the grandson's of Samuel Wetherill, the founder of the earliest white lead manufactory in America. They assumed management of the business, under the name Wetherill & Brother in 1837 with William handling purchases and John Price superintending the manufacturing branches. William assumed sole management of the firm following the death of John in 1853., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 833, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [ca. 1845]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W450 [P.2239]

Title: [Womrath & Neville, manufactory of fringes, tassels, cords & c. & Geo. F. Womrath, fur store, 15 & 13 North Fourth Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Advertisement showing the adjoining four-story storefronts adorned with signage and displayed windows above Market Street on North Fourth Street. At the Womrath & Neville storefront (15), a clerk is visible helping a female patron through the open entry to the building. Shelves of merchandise line the wall behind the employee. Fringes, tassles, a framed graphic, a small broadside, and other trimmings fill the display windows marked "Hosiery," "Trimmings," "Bindings," and "Tapes & Thread." Another clerk stands at an upper floor window and two crates, one marked "W&N," line the sidewalk. Between the stores, a woman and girl stand in front of an open entry to a stairwell and between the cellar doors of the establishments. The girl points at a fur piece in the display window of the "George F. Womrath Fur Store" (13). A couple enters the building past a stack of wrapped bundles and packages, some marked "Black" and "White," and fur muffs and skins displayed near the entry. More fur muffs and stoles fill the showcase window. Two packages of "Bear Skins" line the sidewalk. Also shows partial views of adjacent buildings, including signage reading "...use" and "....er." Womrath and Neville partnered at the address 1846-1849. Womrath established his fur business in 1829., Tite supplied by cataloguer., Date from Poulson insciption on recto: Dec. 1846. 1846. North Fourth Street., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 863, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Trimmed and lacking title.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [December 1846]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W468 [P.2249]

Title: [A. H. Eckhardt. Soap & candle manufactory, No. 326 N. Second Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Advertisement showing the three-and-a-half story storefront for the manufacturer on North Second Street between Noble and Green streets (i.e., 500 block). A store clerk, possibly the proprietor stands at the open doorway, a quill in one hand and the other resting on a stack of boxes. He watches a laborer load boxes onto the "A.H. Eckhardt Soap & Candle Manufacturer No. 326 N. 2nd Street" horse-drawn wagon parked in the street. Boxes, jars, crates, and other small containers adorn the large display window and a crate resting on a table is visible through the doorway. The store is also adorned with poles for an awning; a section of side awning reading "A.H. Eckhardt Soap & Candle Manufacturer"; advertising signs at the doorway; and a fire insurance marker. Augustus H. Eckhardt ran the chandler business from the address 1848-1856., Wainwright dates image as circa 1854., Title supplied by cataloguer., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Aug. 1847. North Second Street., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 6, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Heiss, George G., artist
Date: [August 1847]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W3 [P.2001]

Title: George W. Watson coach & harness maker. Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement containing views of the "Factory at 13th & Parrish Sts." and the factory and showroom, i.e., "Old Stand No. 9, Sth. Sixth St." Factory view shows the bustling "George S. Watson Coach Factory" complex with workshops, courtyard, and sheds surrounded by a wood fence on the 800 block of North 13th Street. Within the courtyard, wheelwrights work on a wheel propped up next to a blazing fire as another worker walks past with a watering can. Other workers retrieve planks of wood from piles loaded in a shed and attend to a carriage. Carriage parts, a horse in a single stall, and piles of wood surround the workers. Within the workshops, carriages and coaches and metalworkers at a forge are visible. A wagon maker also works on a few vehicles placed on a balcony attached to the upper floor of the main workshop. Outside of the complex, a worker rolls a wheel toward the entrance to the workshop with the forge as another leads two horses toward the entrance of the courtyard. A man carrying a stick with rags over his shoulder, near an ambling dog, also walks on the sidewalk. Also shows rows of buildings and a wagon crossing an empty lot in the background., "Old Stand" view shows the factory and show room, adorned with signage, on the 100 block of South Sixth Street. Through the two open entries, a clerk is visible showing a couple one of several carriages that line the showroom floor. Outside the building, in front of the display window, a gentleman gestures to a handler of two horses hitched to a coach in the street. Behind the gesturing man, a laborer enters the cellar of the showroom below the window that displays harnesses, horse equipment, and a small-model coach. Three unhitched carriages and coaches line the street in front of the adjoining building marked "Geo. W. Watson Coach & Harness Maker." Laborers work at a number of the windows at the upper floors of the two buildings. Partial views of adjacent businesses complete the view. One building contains an awning marked "Wind...RLIN." Print also contains vignette views of a fancy coach, from the rear, and a carriage, from the front, in motion. A coachman rides at the back of the horse-drawn coach with driver. The horse-drawn carriage with a driver and folded-down roof contains a well-dressed couple as its passengers., Date from Poulson inscriptions on duplicate split into half-sheets: Aug. 1847., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 299, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [ca. 1847]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W151 [P.2081]

Title: Lippincott & Co. south west corner of Fourth & Market St Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement showing the red, two-bay, six-story building tenanted by Barclay and Isaac Lippincott's clothing store at the southwest corner of Fourth and Market Streets, marked with pre-consolidation addressed buildings. An advertisement painted in white on the east side of the building reads, "Lippincotts one price clothing warehouse cheap for cash." The same phrase is displayed on the front facade, along with the address, "4th & Market Sts., 130" A large flag reading, "Clothing Lippincott & Co.," flies at the top of the building. Two men stand near a display of shirts, pants, vests, and other articles of clothing under the corner awning. Patrons speak with sales clerks who stand behind counters, in front of shelves that extend to the ceiling. The store's wares cover the shop windows. A man walks with a woman holding a parasol near boxes piled outside of the adjacent, four-story property occupied by Lippincott's Clothing Warehouse (132 Market Street, ie. 402 Market Street). Next to the clothing warehouse, framed engravings are displayed in the partially visible shop window of Thomas, importer of engravings (404 Market Street). A large framed print is prominently advertised on the outside of the shop. A person stands in the front doorway of the building immediately south of Lippincott & Co. on Fourth Street. A woman in a red dress rides a white horse along Market Street, and two dogs stand together in the middle of the street in the foreground., The clothing store operated at this address as Lippincott, Taylor & Co., until 1851 when it became Lippincott & Co. under the ownership of Barclay and Isaac Lippincott. The named changed again in 1860 to Lippincott, Hunter & Scott, with an additional store at 424 Market Street. Purportedly the store where John Wanamaker worked and was introduced to the clothing business., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Decemr. 1858., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 439, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Reynolds, Robert F., artist
Date: [December 1858]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W219 [P.2136]

Title: [Jacob Emerick importer and wholesaler, dealer in china, glass & Queensware, No. 215 North Third Street. Philada. 4 doors below Callowhill St. east side. Packing warranted.]
Description: Advertisement showing the three-and-one-half story storefront at 215, i.e., 349 North Third Street that the dealer tenanted 1837-1874. Within the store, visible through the open doorways, a clerk assists a patron. Shelves of porcelain and glassware lining the walls surround the men. Additional porcelain and glassware, including plates, serving trays, tureens, and pitchers are piled on the floor, fill the central display window, and are exhibited outside near the open cellar to the store. In the street, a laborer unloads large hampers from a horse-drawn a dray. Also shows a large model teapot adorning the front facade of the building., Title from duplicate in the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: North Third Street. Oct. 1846., Wainwright suggests date of circa 1845., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 402, LCP copy trimmed and lacking title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb38 E53.
Creator: Weaver, Matthias S., 1815 or 16-1847, artist
Date: [October 1846]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W196 [P.2061]

Title: John C. Baker & Co. wholesale dealers & importers of drugs, medicines, chemicals, paints & dye stuffs, No. 100, North Third St. Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement showing the five-story storefront, adorned with signage and an ornamental iron work balcony, of the druggist on the 100 block of North Third Street. A patron enters one of the entrances to the establishment as in front of him a crate is hoisted. To the left, the window and second entry of the building are open and casks, jugs, bottles, and boxes line a wall of shelves and the floor. Additional inventory are visible near the upper floor windows. In front of the store, a clerk, with a receipt in his hand, watches two draymen load their vehicle in the street. One drayman controls the horse as the other loads a crate onto the dray. A line of crates and barrels, some marked with barely legible print, line the sidewalk near the laborer. Also shows partial views of neighboring buildings in front of which a couple and gentleman stroll. Partial signage is visible on the buildings reading "..Mann....ufacturer" (98) and "Tobac.. & Segar...John" (102). Piles of crates rest near the open doorway of the tobacco store. John C. Baker & Co. tenanted the site from 1849. The firm was one of the founding members of the Philadelphia Drug Exchange in 1861., Date from Poulson inscription on recto., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 408, Wainwright retrospective conversion project.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [August 1849]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W201 [P.2140]

Title: [John Horn, drugs and chemical store, N.E. corner of Third & Brown Streets, Philadelphia]
Description: Advertisement showing the bustling and sign covered four-story corner storefront of the druggist at 801 North Third Street. A large banner above the main entrances to the building reads "J. Horn Drugs & Chemical Store City & County Physicians Can Always Be Supplied With Medicines & Chemicals Of The Purest Kind Prepared With The Greatest Care From The Latest French English German & American Journals." A figure of an eagle adorns the doorways in which a man enters and through which a clerk assisting a lady at the counter is visible. Flasks, decanters and medical type instruments fill the three display windows. A woman peers at one of them. Barrels and crates, a few marked, line the building and sidewalk. Boxes are piled near most of the upper floor windows and a clerk works at a lower one near a side door in which a lady enters across from a tree in full bloom. In the street, a partially loaded horse-drawn dray rests as a laborer retrieves goods for it from the store cellar. On the roof, lined with balustrades, two couples and a trio of women look out at the vista. Marked goods include indigo, oil-vitrol, and soda ash. Horn operated from the location 1829-1871., Title supplied by cataloguer., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: N.E. cor. Third & Brown St. Nov. 1846., Wainwright suggests date of circa 1850., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 411, LCP copy trimmed and lacking title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [November 1846]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W204 [P.2115]

Title: [John Ziegler, grocer, N.W. corner of Callowhill and Water Streets, Philadelphia]
Description: Advertisement showing the four-and-one-half story corner building containing signage for the grocer at the inclined corner of Callowhill and Water Street. Signage, including a flag hanging from an upper window, advertises "Groceries & Provisions" and "Sea Stores Put Up." A male patron enters one of the entrances near a pile of sacks as through the other a clerk helping a patron is visible. Barrels of merchandise, including brooms, are displayed at that entryway. Outside of the business, more barrels are piled on the sidewalk while a laborer runs a rope around another at the open cellar door. On the opposite side of the store, near a raised walkway with wood railings, a clerk consults with a drayman transporting a load of goods., Title supplied by cataloguer., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: N.W. cor. Callowhill, Water St. Aug. 1847., Wainwright suggests date of circa 1849., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 412, LCP copy trimmed and lacking title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [August 1847]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W205 [P.2114]

Title: [Joseph Feinour & Son stove store and Joseph Feinour's tin, copper brass & iron ware house 213-215 South Front Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Advertisement for the twin storefronts for the "Joseph Feinour & Son Tin, Copper Brass & Iron Ware Manufactory Stove Store" and "Tin, Copper Brass & Iron Ware-House" at 213-215, i.e., 345-347 South Front Street. A patron and clerk enter through the back entrance of the stove store that is crowded with stoves visible through the three open entryways. Potts and kettles lay on the displayed appliances as well as line rows of shelves adorning the wall opposite a stairwell. In front of the store, various types and patterns of stoves, including a "Bath Heater" and one on which a laborer brushes polish, crowd an extended platform and the sidewalk and continue over into in front of the adjoining warehouse. At the warehouse entrance, a clerk assists a woman patron who inspects cauldrons displayed on the end of the platform. Through the open entrance, a clerk is visible helping another woman patron at the counter. Metal cookware including pots, pans, and kettles line the shelves behind them and the display windows of the building. Several of the displayed stoves have their feed doors open. The Feinours operated from the location circa 1828 - circa 1860., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: August 1846 So. Front St., Wainwright suggests date of circa 1845., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 416, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Trimmed and lacking title., Reproduced in Jennifer Ambrose's "Nineteenth-century Philadelphia advertising prints," Magazine Antiques (August 2006).
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [August 1846]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W209 [P.2112]

Title: [Stereograph showing the office of the Grand Union Hotel advertising Maine druggists J.H. Irish & Co. on verso]
Description: Interior view of the office of the Grand Union Hotel in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. showing two employees at the front desk. An African American man, attired in a suit, stands and leans his left elbow on the desk. A white man, attired in a suit, stands behind the desk with a large book opened in front of him. Architectural details of the large space include columns draped in flower garlands, a tiled floor, and a large clock hanging above the desk. Built originally as Gideon Putnam's tavern and boarding house in 1802, the hotel formed through many expansions and additions. The name of the hotel as it appears on the stereograph was adopted in 1869. Demolished 1852-1853., Title supplied by cataloger., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Advertisement printed on verso printed by Wm. Miller Co., 57 Cedar, N.Y.: J.H. Irish & Co., druggists and apothecaries, dealers in drugs, medicines, chemicals, fancy and toilet articles, school books, stationery, periodicals, etc., Gorham, Maine. Physicians' prescriptions carefully compounded., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - I [P.9828.6186]

Title: [T. Sharpless & Sons, wholesale ware room, clothes, cassimeres, merinoes, silks and vestings and Pekin Tea Company, South Second Street and Trotter's Alley, Philadelphia]
Description: Advertisement showing the four-story double storefronts adorned with signage at 30-32 South Second Street, below Market Street. Massive merchandise displays adorn the windows and front facades of the businesses. At the wareroom, reams of different cloths hang within open windows from rods behind tables covered in swatches and bolts of cloth. A number of patrons, including women and a couple, admire the displays, and enter the open entry through which shadowy figures of female clerks are visible. More merchandise, including bolts of cloth and cloth-covered hat boxes, are visible in showcase spaces on the second floor. At the tea store, couples exit and enter the business in which several boxes of tea are piled between Chinese figurines displayed in the window. A clerk stands within the store. Potted plants adorn the third floor windows between which a large model of a box of tea hangs. In front of the store, boxes of tea are piled under a frame for an awning that displays a sign advertising "Fresh Teas." Manhole covers and a fire hydrant adorn the sidewalk as well. Around the corner of the building, a woman and girl walk past a horse-drawn dray travelling down a side alley to Strawberry Street partially visible in the background. Also shows partial views of adjacent buildings. Pekin Tea Company relocated to Sixth and Callowhill streets in 1847. The textile firm established by Townsend Sharpless in 1815 located to the address in 1841 under the name T. Sharpless & Son. Firm was renamed T. Sharpless & Sons in 1842., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from Poulson inscriptions on recto: Strawberry. So. Second St. & Trotter's Alley. Sept. 1846. "Strawberry" written in image to identify street., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 736, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., See related advertisement print, *W278 [P.2168]
Creator: Reynolds, Robert F., artist
Date: [September 1846]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W358 [P.2198]

Title: B. Lieber, importer of brandies, wines, gins, brown-stout, scotch ale, absinthe, segars, &c. and manufacturer of punch essence, cordials, lemon syrup, raspberry, lavender, rose, blackberry and wild-cherry. Brandies, bitters &c. No. 121 North Fourth Street between Vine & Callowhill Streets Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement showing the four-story storefront adorned with signage and displays on the 300 block of North 4th Street. Bottles, small boxes, and broadside advertisements, predominately for French cordials and bitters, fill the display window, and a large model cask with advertising text and stacks of labeled boxes flank the open entrance. Box labels include "Ysla de Cuba," "Assorted Cordials," "Glorias," "Habano." A clerk confers with a patron within the entrance as a laborer enters the cellar to continue to retrieve barrels of "Madeira No.1" and "Port," which line the sidewalk. In the street, a drayman departs with his delivery of a cask of "J. Hennesy [sic] & Co. Cognac." Image also includes a massive post adorned with a weather vane designed as a Native American figure, and partial views of adjacent buildings., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: April 1849., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 32, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Date: [April 1849]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W22 [P.2015]

Title: [George Mecke cabinet maker and upholsterer, No 355, North 2nd St. nearly opposite Tammany St. Philadelphia.]
Description: Advertisement showing the four-story storefront, with decorative masonry, for "George Mecke's Northern Cabinet Ware-Rooms and Furniture Ware Rooms" on Second Street between Noble and Green streets (i.e., 500 block). At the ground floor, a couple enters one of the two entranceways of the building. Furniture, including a side table, chaise lounge, armoire, and rocker are visible at the entrances, display window, and within the store. A woman, in a shawl, and holding a parasol approaches the chairs displayed at the second entrance. She stands across from two clerks retrieving a chair from the cellar to be loaded onto a "G. Mecke No. 355" horse-drawn cart parked in the street. The cart already contains a chest of drawers. Additional cabinetry, including chairs and a bed frame, and a worker are seen in the upper floor windows. Also shows partial views of the adjacent businesses of "Dubois & Son's Confectionary" (357) and P. Fries, watchmaker (353 - identified by a depiction of a watch on a visible edge of signage). Plates of treats are visible in the window of Mrs. Dubois & Son' s confectionery. Mecke relocated to 355 North Second Street and was a neighbor to Dubois and Fries circa 1846., Title, artist, and publication information from duplicate in the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: North Second Street. Oct. 1846., Wainwright suggests date of circa 1847., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 298, LCP copy lacking title and imprint., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 38 M487.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [October 1846]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W150 [P.2060]

Title: H. S. Tarr's marble yard, no. 274 Green St. above Seventh Philadelphia Pa
Description: Advertisement showing a view of the marble yard fronted by a triple arch adorned with plaques, the adjoining three-story office building, and rear factory of the establishment at Green Street above 7th Street. From the sidewalk, decorated as black and white tile, a lady, holding a parasol, and a gentleman admire several ornate obelisks and monuments within the fenced, arched yard. Several of the pieces are adorned with patriotic details, urns, and statuary. Plaques on the arches include the name of the business in addition to text reading "Every Description of Monumental Works Executed" and "Plain & Carved Mantels of Every Description." Under the third arch and entrance to the yard, a clerk and patron talk near slabs of marble propped against the wall of the office building. Behind the men, a laborer hauls a large monument by a dolly into the factory yard. More monuments, including animal sculpture and statuary, are displayed in the fenced court, upper balcony, and Gothic-style windows of the adjacent office building. A female patron walks between the marble pieces down a pathway toward a clerk standing at the entrance. An American eagle sculpture adorns the arches and an American flag adorns the office. Tarr was one of the four major marble manufactories in the city during the mid nineteenth century., Names of "References" printed below the image including Thos. U. Walter, John E. Carver, Charles Le Brun, architects; Frederick Brown; Caleb, Cope & Co.; Levi & James Dickson; H.N. Burroughs; Cooper & Co. New Orleans, Louisiana; H.W. Peronneau Charleston, S.C.; and Rev. Henry A. Boardman, D.D., Phila., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 340.1, LCP exhibit catalogue: Made in America #83., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Rease, W. H.
Date: [ca. 1858]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W166.1 [P.2073]

Title: [J. & J. Reakirt, wholesale druggists and importers of drugs, chemicals, paints, dye-stuffs, &c. &c. S.E. cor. of Third & Callowhill Sts., Philada.]
Description: Advertisement showing the three-and-one-half story building with several windows that is adorned with signage and advertising text for the druggists on the 200 block of Callowhill Street. Signs and text advertise "Drugs, Chemicals, Paints, Oil Glass, and Dye Stuff"; "White-Lead & Window-Glass at Manufacturers Lowest Prices"; and "Alum, Madder, Logwood, Camwood, Indigo, Copperas, Fustic and Turpentine." Patrons, visible through the open doorways, stand at counters within the storefront; jars, and decanters line the display windows; and crates and barrels, some marked, line the sidewalk. At the side of the store, a clerk checks a list as a drayman unloads his horse-drawn vehicle. Also shows the doors open to the cellar of the store that also contains a large-scale model of an apothecary's mortar and pestle and a fire insurance marker. Joseph Reakirt operated the business solely until 1838 when he partnered with John Reakirt who assumed sole proprietorship in 1859., Title supplied by Wainwright., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Nov. 1846. S.E. cor. Third and Callowhill sts., Wainwright suggests date of circa 1844., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 397, LCP copy trimmed and lacking title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb38 R288.
Creator: Weaver, Matthias S., 1815 or 16-1847, artist
Date: [November 1846]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W192 [P.2056]

Title: Is yo' sho' lady when I wears dese stockings I won' fin' ma laigs all black
Description: Racist caricature reminiscent of the plate "Have you any flesh coloured silk stockings...?" from E.W. Clay's racist satiric series, Life in Philadelphia, originally published in the late 1820s and early 1830s. Depicts an African American man dressed as a woman attired in a brimmed hat, a long-sleeved dress tied with a bow at the back, a fur shawl, shoes, and with a closed umbrella and a basket at her feet. She sits in front of the counter of a dry goods store and inquires in the vernacular about a pair of dark stockings which she holds. A young white woman sales clerk smiles with her elbows on the counter and displays to the customer a second pair of dark-colored stockings. Bolts of fabric rest on shelves behind the clerk, and socks and hosiery hang above. A white woman customer shops at the other end of the counter, in the right., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1902 by Underwood & Underwood., Printed on mount: Works and Studios. Arlington, N.J. Westwood, N.J. Washington, D.C., Sun sculpture trademark printed on mount., Title printed on verso in six different languages, including French, German, and Spanish., Grey mount with rounded corners., See Life in Philadelphia. "Have you any flesh coloured silk stockings...?" [LCP Life in Philadelphia (Philadelphia) P.9701.9], Purchase 2002., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Underwood & Underwood
Date: 1902
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereos - Underwood & Underwood - Genre [P.2002.31]

Title: Spoiling the slide Clarence Brooks & Co. fine coach varnishes cor. West & West 12th Sts. New York
Description: Trade card promoting varnish manufacturer Clarence Brooks & Co. and depicting a racist, genre scene of an anguished-looking African American man clerk “spoiling the slide” on a snow-covered sidewalk. Shows the man, attired in a blue shirt; red and yellow striped apron; green pants; and black boots, leaning over and using a scoop and red pan to pour salt onto a bare track in the snow-covered sidewalk outside a storefront. In the near left background, two smiling African American boys throw snowballs at the clerk. The boy in the left, attired in black boots; brown pants; blue jacket and hat; and red scarf around his head, holds a snowball in both hands at his waist. The boy in the right, attired in black boots; blue pants, shirt, and hat; and green jacket pitches back his right arm, snowball in his hand. In the far right of the image, a white boy, attired in brown boots and pants; blue jacket and hat; and a red scarf wrapped over his head and tied under his chin, and his hands in his jacket pockets, walks on the sidewalk. He walks past an iron railing in front of the store that is adorned with a sign reading "Clarence Brooks & Co. Fine Coach Varnishes, Cor. West & West 12th Sts. New York." Clarence Brooks established his varnish business in 1859 as Brooks and Fitzgerald, later Clarence Brooks & Co. In 1881, the firm issued a calendar illustrated with African American caricatures in genre scenes., Title from item., Date deduced from history of the advertised business and visual content., Illegible signature written on verso., Gift of David Doret., Library Company holds a duplicate copy [P.2017.95.29].
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Clarence [P.2017.95.28]

Title: Spoiling the slide Clarence Brooks & Co. fine coach varnishes cor. West & West 12th Sts. New York
Description: Trade card promoting varnish manufacturer Clarence Brooks & Co. and depicting a racist, genre scene of an anguished-looking African American man clerk “spoiling the slide” on a snow-covered sidewalk. Shows the man, attired in a blue shirt; red and yellow striped apron; green pants; and black boots, leaning over and using a scoop and red pan to pour salt onto a bare track in the snow-covered sidewalk outside a storefront. In the near left background, two smiling African American boys throw snowballs at the clerk. The boy in the left, attired in black boots; brown pants; blue jacket and hat; and red scarf around his head, holds a snowball in both hands at his waist. The boy in the right, attired in black boots; blue pants, shirt, and hat; and green jacket pitches back his right arm, snowball in his hand. In the far right of the image, a white boy, attired in brown boots and pants; blue jacket and hat; and a red scarf wrapped over his head and tied under his chin, and his hands in his jacket pockets, walks on the sidewalk. He walks past an iron railing in front of the store that is adorned with a sign reading "Clarence Brooks & Co. Fine Coach Varnishes, Cor. West & West 12th Sts. New York." Clarence Brooks established his varnish business in 1859 as Brooks and Fitzgerald, later Clarence Brooks & Co. In 1881, the firm issued a calendar illustrated with African American caricatures in genre scenes., Title from item., Date deduced from history of the advertised business and visual content., Gift of David Doret., Library Company holds a duplicate copy [P.2017.95.28].
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Clarence [P.2017.95.29]

Title: Parsons, William, 1701-1757
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: March 25, 1732

Title: Life in Philadelphia. "Have you any flesh coloured silk stockings...?"
Description: Racist caricature of an African American woman shopping for a pair of "flesh coloured silk stockings" in a hosiery store with a white male sales clerk speaking with a French dialect. Depicts, in the center right, the woman standing at the counter in front of the clerk who holds up a pair of gray-colored stockings from out of a rectangular box. She is attired in a pink floral patterned dress, as well as tall, wide-brimmed pink hat adorned with several flowers, greenery, and a veil and long yellow ribbon, and yellow gloves, earrings, and blue button-up boots. She rests her yellow, flower-patterned purse on the counter and holds up a monocle from the end of her neck fob to inspect the stockings that the clerk declares are of "de first qualite!" Her red parasol rests against the counter. Rows of red, blue, and yellow stockings hang on the wall behind the clerk. The clerk is attired in a blue waistcoat with tails, a yellow vest, red cravat, and white pants. In the right, an African American woman attired in a yellow polka dot dress and tall, wide brimmed yellow hat adorned with ribbons is seen in the doorway of the shop in which multi-colored curtains hang and are pushed to the side. The wheel of a carriage is seen behind the woman. The figures are portrayed with oversized and exaggerated features. The women’s skin tone is depicted with brown hand coloring. The man is depicted with rosy cheeks and brown, curled hair., Title from print., Date from print., Inscribed: Plate XI., Inscribed: Copy Right Secured., Contains five lines of dialogue in the vernacular and dialect above the image: Have you any flesh coloured silk stockings, young man? Oui Madame! here is von pair of de first qualité!, RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Clay, Edward Williams, 1799-1857, etcher
Date: May 1829
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Life in Philadelphia (Philadelphia Set) [P.2004.39.1]

Title: Life in Philadelphia. "What you tink of my new poke bonnet...?"
Description: Racist caricature depicting an African American woman trying on a bonnet in the company of her African American companion, "Frederick Augustus." Depicts the woman in profile, in front of a standing mirror tilted toward her, trying on a yellow Dunstable bonnet so large that the side of her face is obscured. Her hand rests on the side of the hat adorned with a pink ribbon. Her reflection is not visible in the mirror. She wears a yellow calico dress with a white collar that covers her shoulders, black gloves, patterned stockings, and blue slipper shoes. She asks "Frederick Augustus" what he thinks. He stands behind her with his arms crossed and looks toward the mirror. He holds a walking stick under his left upper arm. A dog with a muzzle sits behind him. He responds that he does not like the style. He wears a beard and is attired in a top hat, long green overcoat with collar, red-striped pants, white gloves, and black slipper shoes. A white woman sales clerk, wearing a large top-knot hairstyle, watches the woman from behind a counter on which another Dunstable bonnet is displayed. Pink bunting is visible above the clerk’s head. The figures are portrayed with oversized and exaggerated features. Their skin tone is depicted with black hand coloring., Title from item., Date from item., Inscribed: Plate 14., Inscribed: Copy right secured., Contains seven lines of dialogue in the vernacular and dialect above the image: What you tink of my new poke bonnet Frederick Augustus? I don’t like him no how, case dey hide you lubly face, so you can’t tell one she nigger from anoder., Sarah Hart was a Jewish Philadelphia stationer who with her son, Abraham Hart, a future eminent Philadelphia publisher, assumed the publishing of the "Life in Philadelphia" series in 1829. She, alone, reprinted the entire series of 14 prints in 1830., Described in Pennsylvania Inquirer, 17 June 1830, p. 2 and ‘Life in Philadelphia, No. 14. The Dunstable Bonnet’, Pennsylvania Inquirer, 17 June 1830, p. 3., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Clay, Edward Williams, 1799-1857, etcher
Date: 1830
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Life in Philadelphia (Philadelphia Set) [P.9701.5]

Title: Life in Philadelphia. "Have you any flesh coloured silk stockings...?"
Description: Racist caricature of an African American woman shopping for a pair of "flesh coloured silk stockings" in a hosiery store with a white male sales clerk speaking with a French dialect. Depicts, in the center right, the woman standing at the blue and pink counter in front of the clerk who holds up a pair of gray-colored stockings from out of a rectangular box. She is attired in a pink floral patterned dress, as well as tall, wide-brimmed blue hat adorned with several flowers, greenery, and a veil and long yellow ribbon, yellow gloves, earrings, and blue button-up boots. She rests her blue, flower-patterned purse on the counter and holds up a monocle from the end of her neck fob to inspect the stockings that the clerk declares are of "de first qualite!" Her brown parasol rests against the counter. Rows of stockings, including in the color of blue, hang on the wall behind the clerk. The clerk is attired in a green waistcoat with tails, a yellow vest, red cravat, and white pants. In the right, an African American woman attired in a yellow polka dot dress and tall, wide brimmed hat adorned with blue ribbons is seen in the doorway of the shop in which blue curtains hang and are pushed to the side. The wheel of a carriage is seen behind the woman. The figures are portrayed with oversized and exaggerated features. The women’s skin tone is depicted with black hand coloring. The man is depicted with rosy cheeks and brown, curled hair., Title from print., Date inferred from content., Inscribed: Plate XI., Inscribed: Copy Right Secured., Probably published by Sarah Hart of Philadelphia., Contains five lines of dialogue in the vernacular and dialect above the image: Have you any flesh coloured silk stockings, young man? Oui Madame! here is von pair of de first qualité!, RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Clay, Edward Williams, 1799-1857, etcher
Date: [ca. 1830]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Life in Philadelphia (Philadelphia Set) [P.9701.9]

Title: Life in Philadelphia. "Have you any flesh coloured silk stockings...?"
Description: Racist caricature of an African American woman shopping for a pair of "flesh coloured silk stockings" in a hosiery store with a white male sales clerk speaking with a French dialect. Depicts, in the center right, the woman standing at the blue and white counter in front of the clerk who holds up a pair of brown-colored stockings from out of a rectangular box. She is attired in a pink floral patterned dress, as well as tall, wide-brimmed pink hat adorned with several flowers, greenery, and a veil and long yellow ribbon, white gloves, earrings, and tan button-up boots. She rests her white, flower-patterned purse on the counter and holds up a monocle from the end of her neck fob to inspect the stockings that the clerk declares are of "de first qualite!" Her green parasol rests against the counter. Rows of stockings, including in the color of blue and pink, hang on the wall behind the clerk. The clerk is attired in a tan waistcoat with tails, a white vest, purple cravat, and purple pants. In the right, an African American woman attired in a blue polka dot dress and tall, wide brimmed hat adorned with ribbons is seen in the doorway of the shop in which purple and white curtains hang and are pushed to the side. The wheel of a carriage is seen behind the woman. The figures are portrayed with oversized and exaggerated features. The women’s skin tone is depicted with black hand coloring. The man is depicted with dark brown, curled hair., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Plate 11 of the original series published in Philadelphia., After the work of Edward W. Clay., Possibly by New York lithographer Curtis Burr Graham (1814-1890)., Contains five lines of dialogue in the vernacular and dialect above the image: Have you any flesh coloured silk stockings, young man? Oui Madame! here is von pair of de first qualité!, RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Date: [ca. 1830]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Life in Philadelphia (New York Set) [P.9701.10]

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]

Title: Life in Philadelphia. "Have you any flesh coloured silk stockings...?"
Description: Racist caricature of an African American woman shopping for a pair of "flesh coloured silk stockings" in a hosiery store with a white male sales clerk speaking with a French dialect. Depicts, in the center left, the woman standing at the green counter in front of the clerk who holds up a pair of black-colored stockings from out of a rectangular box. She is attired in a pink floral patterned dress, as well as yellow tall, wide-brimmed floral-patterned hat adorned with purple flowers, greenery, and a veil and long yellow floral-patterned ribbon, yellow gloves, earrings, and green and red button-up boots. She rests her white, polka-dot-patterned purse on the counter and holds up a monocle from the end of her neck fob to inspect the stockings that the clerk declares are of "de first qualite!" Her yellow parasol rests against the counter. Rows of brown, white, pink, black, and tan stockings and fashion accessories hang on the wall behind the clerk. The clerk is attired in a green waistcoat with tails, a blue vest, white cravat, and white pants. In the left, an African American woman attired in a blue polka dot dress with pink neckerchief and tall, wide brimmed hat adorned with a veil and yellow ribbons is seen in the doorway of the shop in which multi-color curtains hang and are pushed to the side. A shelf lined with bolts of textiles hangs above the doorway. The wheel of a carriage is seen behind the woman. The figures are portrayed with oversized and exaggerated features. The woman’s skin tone is depicted with black hand coloring. The man is depicted with rosy cheeks and brown, curled hair., Title from item., Date inferred from content and name of publisher., After the work of Edward W. Clay., Attributed to William Summers., Plate 11 of the original series of Life in Philadelphia., Contains five lines of dialogue in the vernacular and dialect above the image: Have you any flesh coloured silk stockings, young man? Oui Madame! here is von pair of de first qualité!, Inscribed: No. 9., Charles Hunt was a respected London engraver who was most known for his aquatints of sporting subjects., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Summers, William, artist
Date: [ca. 1833]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Life in Philadelphia (London) [P.9710.9]

Title: Life in Philadelphia. "What you tink of my new poke bonnet...?"
Description: Racist caricature depicting an African American woman trying on a bonnet in the company of her African American companion, "Frederick Augustus." Depicts the woman in profile, in front of a standing mirror tilted toward her, trying on a yellow Dunstable bonnet so large that the side of her face is obscured. Her hand rests on the side of the hat adorned with a green ribbon. Her reflection is not visible in the mirror. She wears a pink and yellow calico dress with a white collar that covers her shoulders, blue gloves, patterned stockings, and red slipper shoes. She asks "Frederick Augustus" what he thinks. He stands behind her with his arms crossed and looks toward the mirror. He holds a walking stick under his left upper arm. A dog with a muzzle sits behind him. He responds that he does not like the style. He wears a beard and is attired in a top hat, long blue overcoat with collar, yellow striped pants, white gloves, and black slipper shoes. A white woman sales clerk, wearing a large top-knot hairstyle, and attired in a green waistshirt, watches the woman from behind a counter on which other Dunstable bonnet and a candlestick are displayed. Bonnets, hat boxes, and packages on shelving and green and yellow bunting is visible above the clerk’s head. The figures are portrayed with oversized and exaggerated features., Title from item., Date inferred from content and name of publisher., After the work of Edward W. Clay., Attributed to William Summers., Plate 14 of the original series published in Philadelphia., Contains seven lines of dialogue in the vernacular and dialect below the image: What you tink of my new poke bonnet Frederick Augustus? I don’t like him no how, case dey hide you lubly face, so you can’t tell one she nigger from anoder., Inscribed: P.14., Charles Hunt was a respected 19th-century London engraver who was most well known for his aquatints of sporting subjects., Copy published in Philadelphia described in Pennsylvania Inquirer, 17 June 1830, p. 2 and ‘Life in Philadelphia, No. 14. The Dunstable Bonnet’, Pennsylvania Inquirer, 17 June 1830, p. 3., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Summers, William, artist
Date: [ca. 1833]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Life in Philadelphia (London Set) [P.8442]

Title: Life in Philadelphia. "Have you any flesh coloured silk stockings...?"
Description: Racist caricature of an African American woman shopping for a pair of "flesh coloured silk stockings" in a hosiery store with a white male sales clerk speaking with a French dialect. Depicts, in the center left, the woman standing at the brown counter in front of the clerk who holds up a pair of black-colored stockings from out of a rectangular box. She is attired in a red floral patterned dress, as well as yellow tall, wide-brimmed floral-patterned hat adorned with tan flowers, greenery, and a veil and long yellow floral-patterned ribbon, white gloves, earrings, and brown button-up boots. She rests her white, polka-dot-patterned purse on the counter and holds up a monocle from the end of her neck fob to inspect the stockings that the clerk declares are of "de first qualite!" Her black parasol rests against the counter. Rows of black, white, pink, and yellow stockings and fashion accessories hang on the wall behind the clerk. The clerk is attired in a green waistcoat with tails, a blue vest, white cravat, and white pants. In the left, an African American woman attired in a white polka dot dress and tall, wide brimmed hat adorned with a veil and pink ribbons is seen in the doorway of the shop in which light blue curtains hang and are pushed to the side. A shelf lined with bolts of textiles hangs above the doorway. The wheel of a carriage is seen behind the woman. The figures are portrayed with oversized and exaggerated features. The central woman figure’s skin tone is depicted with black hand coloring and the woman figure in the doorway’s skin tone is depicted with brown hand coloring. The man is depicted with rosy cheeks and brown, curled hair., Title from item., Date inferred from content and name of publisher., After the work of Edward W. Clay., Attributed to William Summers., Plate 11 of the original series of Life in Philadelphia., Contains five lines of dialogue in the vernacular and dialect below the image: Have you any flesh coloured silk stockings, young man? Oui Madame! here is von pair of de first qualité!, Inscribed: No. 9., Charles Hunt was a respected London engraver who was most known for his aquatints of sporting subjects., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Summers, William, artist
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Life in Philadelphia (London) [P.9713.2]

Title: Life in Philadelphia. "What you tink of my new poke bonnet...?"
Description: Racist caricature depicting an African American woman trying on a bonnet in the company of her African American companion, "Frederick Augustus." Depicts the woman in profile, in front of a standing mirror tilted toward her, trying on a yellow Dunstable bonnet so large that the side of her face is obscured. Her hand rests on the side of the hat adorned with a pink ribbon. Her reflection is not visible in the mirror. She wears a pink calico dress with a white collar that covers her shoulders, white gloves, patterned stockings, and white slipper shoes. She asks "Frederick Augustus" what he thinks. He stands behind her with his arms crossed and looks toward the mirror. He holds a walking stick under his left upper arm. A dog with a muzzle sits behind him. He responds that he does not like the style. He wears a beard and is attired in a top hat, long blue overcoat with collar, striped pants, white gloves, and black slipper shoes. A white woman sales clerk, wearing a large top-knot hairstyle, watches the woman from behind a counter on which other Dunstable bonnet and a candlestick are displayed. Bonnets, hat boxes, and packages on shelving and pink and yellow bunting is visible above the clerk’s head. The figures are portrayed with oversized and exaggerated features., Title from item., Date inferred from content and name of publisher., After the work of Edward W. Clay., Attributed to William Summers., Plate 14 of the original series published in Philadelphia., Contains seven lines of dialogue in the vernacular and dialect below the image: What you tink of my new poke bonnet Frederick Augustus? I don’t like him no how, case dey hide you lubly face, so you can’t tell one she nigger from anoder., Charles Hunt was a respected London engraver who was most well known for his aquatints of sporting subjects., Copy published in Philadelphia described in Pennsylvania Inquirer, 17 June 1830, p. 2 and ‘Life in Philadelphia, No. 14. The Dunstable Bonnet’, Pennsylvania Inquirer, 17 June 1830, p. 3., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Summers, William, artist
Date: [ca. 1833]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Life in Philadelphia (London Set) - publisher - Isaacs, W.H. [P.9709.1]

Title: Life in Philadelphia. "Have you any flesh coloured silk stockings...?"
Description: Racist caricature of an African American woman shopping for a pair of "flesh coloured silk stockings" in a hosiery store with a white male sales clerk speaking with a French dialect. Depicts, in the center left, the woman standing at the blue counter in front of the clerk who holds up a pair of black-colored stockings from out of a rectangular box. She is attired in a yellow floral patterned dress, as well as tall, wide-brimmed floral-patterned hat adorned with yellow flowers, greenery, and a veil and long floral-patterned ribbon, white gloves, earrings, and white button-up boots. She rests her pink, polka-dot-patterned purse on the counter and holds up a monocle from the end of her neck fob to inspect the stockings that the clerk declares are of "de first qualite!" Her brown parasol rests against the counter. Rows of red, blue, brown, black, and yellow stockings and fashion accessories hang on the wall behind the clerk. The clerk is attired in a green waistcoat with tails, a blue vest, white cravat, and white pants. In the left, an African American woman attired in a pink polka dot dress and tall, wide brimmed hat adorned with a veil and green ribbons is seen in the doorway of the shop in which curtains hang and are pushed to the side. A shelf lined with bolts of textiles hangs above the doorway. The wheel of a carriage is seen behind the woman. The figures are portrayed with oversized and exaggerated features. The central woman figure’s skin tone is depicted with black hand coloring and the woman figure in the doorway’s skin tone is depicted with brown hand coloring. The man is depicted with rosy cheeks and brown, curled hair., Title from item., Date inferred from content and name of publisher., After the work of Edward W. Clay., Attributed to William Summers., Plate 11 of the original series of Life in Philadelphia., Contains five lines of dialogue in the vernacular and dialect above the image: Have you any flesh coloured silk stockings, young man? Oui Madame! here is von pair of de first qualité!, Charles Hunt was a respected London engraver who was most known for his aquatints of sporting subjects., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Summers, William, artist
Date: [ca. 1831]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Life in Philadelphia (London) [P.9707.3]

Title: Goodyears Rubber-Packing & Belting Company Warehouse 104 Chestnut St. Philada. Factory Newtown, Connecticut. Belting, packing, hose, clothing, druggist-articles, etc
Description: Advertisement showing the five-story offices and storefront known as the Girard Building (102-104, i.e., 306-308 Chestnut) tenanted by Goodyears, i.e., the Philadelphia warehouse of the New York Belting and Packing Company (104), "Peterson's Book Establishment," i.e., the store of publisher T.B. Peterson & Brothers, and C. J. Peterson, publisher of Peterson' Ladies national magazine (102). Lettering reading "Goodyears Rubber Packing & Belting Company" adorns the roof of the building. Through the open entryways and large display windows, clerks, patrons, and merchandise displays are visible in both stores. At Peterson's, clerks assist patrons with items from bookshelves surrounding the room in addition to a centrally located U-shaped display counter labeled "Peterson's Magazine." Stacks of books are displayed near the windows that contain promotions "Subscriptions for all Magazines" and "Chas. Dickens Complete Works." At Goodyears, a white man clerk stands at a counter in front of rows of shelves as he attends to a customer. Other patrons, including a white man and woman couple and a white man, converse and depart with rubber belting. A large model boot, shoes, and rubber toys adorn the display windows that are adorned with the company trademark and read "Goodyears Patent." A white man with a cane and an excited white boy, near his mother, peer at the displays from the busy sidewalk., Other activity, on opposite ends of the sidewalk, includes a white man paying a white newsboy for a paper, gentlemen in conversation, and a white man, a book under his arm, strolling by. Between the storefronts, a white man descends stairs within a central entryway. In the street, a coach with turned-down roof, occupied by a white lady, and driven by an African American coachman travels past a mounted First Troop Philadelphia City Calvary member in full regalia in the direction of a drayman. The white man laborer transports rubber belting on his horse-drawn dray. Two dogs greet each other in the street near his vehicle. Also shows shadowy figures, a man and two women, in upper floor windows of the buildings. Charles Goodyear patented the process to vulcanize rubber in 1844 and oversaw the factory where vulcanized rubber was practically manufactured at Newtown, Connecticut. Peterson established his magazine Peterson's Ladies national magazine in 1840 at 102, i.e., 306 Chestnut Street. Both establishments operated at the pre-consolidated address in 1856. Building razed to first floor by fire in 1857., Title from item., Date from Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 322, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Luders, E., artist
Date: [ca. 1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W158 [P.2080]

Title: Goodyears Rubber, Packing & Belting Company Warehouse 104 Chestnut St. Philada. Factory Newtown, Connecticut. Belting, packing, hose, clothing, druggist-articles, etc
Description: Advertisement showing the five-story offices and storefront known as the Girard Building (102-104, i.e., 306-308 Chestnut) tenanted by Goodyears, i.e., the Philadelphia warehouse of the New York Belting and Packing Company (104) "Peterson's Book Establishment," i.e., the store of publisher T.B. Peterson & Brothers, and C. J. Peterson, publisher of Peterson' Ladies national magazine (102). At Peterson's, shadowy rows of books and folios, including one titled, "A. Kollner View Philadel," adorn the display windows flanking the closed entry. At Goodyears, a white man and woman couple is visible through the open entry, standing at a counter. A large model boot, and other shadowy merchandise adorn the display windows that are marked with the company trademark and read "Goodyears Patent." A white man with a cane and an excited white boy, near his mother, peer at the displays from the busy sidewalk., Other activity, on opposite ends of the sidewalk, includes a white man paying a white newsboy for a paper, gentlemen in conversation, and a white man, a book under his arm, strolling by. Between the storefronts, a white man descends stairs within a central entryway. In the street, a fancy coach occupied by a white lady and driven by an African American coachman travels past a mounted First Troop Philadelphia City Calvary member in full regalia in the direction of a drayman. The women passenger looks with an expression of disdain at the horse of the cavalryman and the white man laborer transporting rubber belting on his horse-drawn dray. Two dogs greet each other in the street near the vehicle. Also shows shadowy figures, a man and two women, in upper floor windows of the buildings. Charles Goodyear patented the process to vulcanize rubber in 1844 and oversaw the factory where vulcanized rubber was practically manufactured at Newtown, Connecticut. Peterson established his magazine Peterson's Ladies national magazine in 1840 at 102, i.e., 306 Chestnut Street. Both establishments operated at the pre-consolidated address in 1856. Building razed to first floor by fire in 1857., Title from item., Manuscript note on recto: Wood Oct. 10 56., Date supplied by Wainwright who suggests an alternate date of 1857 as well., Artist and publication information inferred from color variant. See **W158., Title annotated with correction in pencil. Comma between "Rubber" and "Packing" crossed out., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 321, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Luders, E., artist
Date: [ca. 1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W159 [P.2079]

Title: Life in Philadelphia. The new shoes
Description: Racist caricature depicting an African American woman trying on shoes at "Sambo Paley Boots & Shoe Manufacturer." In the left, the woman, seated on a chair, looks down at her slightly raised left foot on which an African American clerk has placed a black slip-on shoe. Her removed yellow shoe rests beside her feet. She is attired in a yellow bonnet adorned with feathers and with a white veil that frames her face like long straight hair, a red puff sleeve dress, and a yellow slip-on shoe. She slightly raises her dress with her left ungloved hand to appear at her shoe and holds a green parasol to the floor with her gloved right hand. A blue and yellow purse hangs from her right wrist. The clerk kneels in front of her and holds her left foot. He is attired in a striped shirt, neck tie, brown vest, brown pantaloons, white stocking and red slipper shoes. The woman states the shoe "is sich a bery dirty color" and does he not have any white or pink ones. The clerk replies that it may not be "handsome" to look at, but surely a "good color to wear." In the background, an African American man, attired in shirt sleeves and an apron, possibly the bootmaker, shines a boot behind a counter and in front of a row of boots and shoes on a cabinet. A brush and can of boot black rest on the counter. A sign reading “Sambo Paley Boots & Shoe Manufacturer. The Best Jet Blacking Sold Here" hangs above the man’s head. In the far left, shoes hang inside the store’s window and visible through the shop’s doorway, a well-dressed African American man and woman walk past in the street. The man wears a top hat and waistcoat and the woman wears a yellow bonnet and puff sleeve dress. Scene also shows pairs of boots resting on the floor across from the kneeling clerk in the right. Figures are portrayed with oversized and exaggerated features and their skin tone is depicted in black hand coloring., Title from item., Date inferred from content and name of publisher., Inscribed: No. 3., P.2016.45.1 trimmed., Charles Hunt was a respected 19th century London engraver and etcher known primarily for his prints of sporting subjects., P.2016.45.1 gift of Dr. Richard Dunn & Dr. Mary Maples Dunn., Digital image depicted is P.9710.3., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Creator: Summers, William, artist
Date: [ca. 1833]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Life in Philadelphia (London Set) [P.9710.3 & P.2016.45.1]

Title: Grigg Block, North Fourth Street, Philadelphia. [graphic] / W.H. Rease, No. 17 1/2 South Fifth Street.
Description: Contains advertisements for six of the depicted businesses below the image., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Dec. 1848., 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, earthernware, 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.
Creator: Rease, W. H., lithographer., creator
Date: [[1848]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W162.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W 162 [P.2077]

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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