Print trimmed and lacking caption., Poulson inscription on recto: Dec. 1846. North Second Street., 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 clerk assists a female 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.
Creator
Rease, W. H., lithographer., creator
Date
[December 1846]
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W132.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W132 [P.2045]