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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]
