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Title: Charles Oakford's 1848 & 49 fashions for hats, caps & furs, wholesale & retail establishment, no. 104 Chestnut St., Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement for the hat manufacturer containing a full-length portrait of a young woman wearing a hat and fur accessories surrounded by 11 bust portraits showing men, women and children in a variety of hats. Most of the women's and girl's hats contains ribbons, bows, and feathers. Oakford established his business in 1827 and located to 104 Chestnut in 1843 where he began his wholesale trade in 1850. He operated from the address until 1852., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP26
Creator: Kramer, Peter, 1823-1907, artist
Date: [1848]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Advertisements [P.8729.20]

Title: Charles Oakford's 1848 & 49 fashions for hats, caps & furs, wholesale & retail establishment, no. 104 Chestnut St., Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement for the hat manufacturer containing a full-length portrait of a young woman wearing a hat and fur accessories surrounded by 11 bust portraits showing men, women and children in a variety of hats. Most of the women's and girl's hats contains ribbons, bows, and feathers. Oakford established his business in 1827 and located to 104 Chestnut in 1843 where he began his wholesale trade in 1850. He operated from the address until 1852., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 26
Creator: Kramer, Peter, 1823-1907, artist
Date: [1848]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Advertisements [P.8729.19]

Title: O.N. Thacher, wholesale & retail hat, cap, & fur ware-house Nth Third St. No. 40 opposite the City Hotel Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement depicting the retail shop interior, showing a pile of hats, caps, and fur garments piled on the sales counter. Shelves built into the walls are lined neatly with merchandise behind the counter. An adjacent room is visible through an open door showing a male and a female worker standing over steaming tubs. Includes a vignette of a beaver, a symbol of the fur trade, gnawing through a tree near a stream. Oliver N. Thacher tenanted 40 North Third Street, opposite the City Hotel, from 1840 to 1842., Philadelphia on Stone, Library of Congress: PGA - Duval - O.N. Thacher...Ware-house (Size A) [P & P]
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: [ca. 1840]
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PGA - Duval - O.N. Thacher...Ware-house (Size A) [P & P]

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]

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