Warner Miskey & Merrill's show room, 718 Chestnut St. Phil.
Title
Warner Miskey & Merrill's show room, 718 Chestnut St. Phil
Description
Interior view of the gas fixture store. Gas light fixtures and chandeliers line the walls and ceilings above shelves lined with merchandise wrapped in paper. A store catalog is displayed in front of banister surrounding an opening in the floor. Also includes a stairwell in the background., Photographer's imprint blindstamped on mount., White paper mount with square corners., Title printed on mount., Accompanied by advertising label titled "Philadelphia Gas Fixture works. " Promotes the Philadelphia and New York branch (Warner, Peck & Co.) of the fixture manufactory and the company's line of products of "gas fixtures, lamps, girandoles, Bronzes, &c." designed by French artists. Also contains a one-line promotion for the photographic firm Langenheim, Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Published in Kenneth Finkel’s Nineteenth century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1980), entry #109., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
W. & F. Langenheim (Firm)
Date
[ca. 1860]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereos - Langenheim - Businesses [(8)1322.F.33e]
Warner Miskey & Merrill's show room, 718 Chestnut St. Phil. [graphic] / Langenheim.
Title
Warner Miskey & Merrill's show room, 718 Chestnut St. Phil
Description
Interior view of the gas fixture store. Gas light fixtures and chandeliers line the walls and ceilings above shelves lined with merchandise wrapped in paper. A store catalog is displayed in front of banister surrounding an opening in the floor. Also includes a stairwell in the background., Photographer's imprint blindstamped on mount., White paper mount with square corners., Title printed on mount., Accompanied by advertising label titled "Philadelphia Gas Fixture works. " Promotes the Philadelphia and New York branch (Warner, Peck & Co.) of the fixture manufactory and the company's line of products of "gas fixtures, lamps, girandoles, Bronzes, &c." designed by French artists. Also contains a one-line promotion for the photographic firm Langenheim, Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Published in Kenneth Finkel’s Nineteenth century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1980), entry #109., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
W. & F. Langenheim (Firm)
Date
[ca. 1860]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereos - Langenheim - Businesses [(8)1322.F.33e]
Warner Miskey & Merrill's show room, 718 Chestnut St. Phil.
Title
Warner Miskey & Merrill's show room, 718 Chestnut St. Phil
Description
Interior view of the gas fixture store. Gas light fixtures and chandeliers line the walls and ceilings above shelves lined with merchandise wrapped in paper. A store catalog is displayed in front of banister surrounding an opening in the floor. Also includes a stairwell in the background., Photographer's imprint blindstamped on mount., White paper mount with square corners., Title printed on mount., Accompanied by advertising label titled "Philadelphia Gas Fixture works. " Promotes the Philadelphia and New York branch (Warner, Peck & Co.) of the fixture manufactory and the company's line of products of "gas fixtures, lamps, girandoles, Bronzes, &c." designed by French artists. Also contains a one-line promotion for the photographic firm Langenheim, Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Published in Kenneth Finkel’s Nineteenth century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1980), entry #109., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
W. & F. Langenheim (Firm)
Date
[ca. 1860]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereos - Langenheim - Businesses [(8)1322.F.33e]