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Title: W. P. Hacker, importer and wholesale dealer in china, glass, queensware & fancy goods, No. 60, North Second Street, Philadelphia Queensware and glass in original package, or repacked to order
Description: Advertisement showing the four-story, three-bay building tenanted by the china, glass and queensware business of Wm. P. Hacker at 60 (ie. 108) North Second Street. Pitchers, vases and bowls in various shapes and sizes are stacked on shelves lining the walls of the shop interior, and are also displayed in the storefront window, which is flanked by two wide doors on the ground level. In the left doorway, a man lifts a barrel using a pulley system running all the way to the top floor of the building. Another worker loads hampers onto a horse-drawn dray. Barrels and hampers line the sidewalk and cobblestone street in front of the shop. Signboards marked "china, glass" and "queens-ware" cover the front facade of Hacker's shop. Also shows bits of the interior of adjacent properties, including the stairway in 58 North Second Street (left) and casks (presumably of wine) in 62 North Second Street (right). A man and woman stroll by arm in arm on the sidewalk. William P. Hacker moved his business to several nearby properties on North Second Street, starting out at 64, moving to 62 and then inhabiting 60 in 1851. Hacker was president of the Philadelphia Common Council from 1855 to 1856., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Aug. 1848., Wainwright suggests date of circa 1851., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 814, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [ca. 1848]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W439 [P.2264]

Title: [Lockwood & Smith, importers and dealers china, glass and Queensware, 7 South Fourth Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Advertisement showing the five-story storefront for the importer and dealer at 7 South Fourth Street between Market and Chestnut streets. A clerk greets a male patron at one of the open entryways. Shelves of plates, bowls, and pitchers line the walls of the store. In the display windows, more china, glass, and queensware, including tureens and pitchers are on view. On the sidewalk, clerks handle a large hamper lying between large marked barrels and a second large hamper. Marked barrels read "China Withers & Stowers Cynthiana. KY." and "F. Cornog Phoenixville, Pa." Also shows partial views of adjacent buildings. Lockwood & Smith partnered at the address 1845-1846., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: South Fourth Street Oct. 1846., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 441, Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Trimmed and lacking title.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [October 1846]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W221 [P.2111]

Title: [Benjamin H. Shoemaker, French Plate Glass Depot, 205-211 North Fourth Street, Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: Frontispiece showing the five-story storefront of the window and plate glass dealer at 205-211 North Front Street. Signage adorns the building and reads "French Plate Glass Depot"; "French, English and American Window Glass"; "Plate Glass"; and "Window Glass." A patron enters one of the entryways near a couple with their child walking on the sidewalk. Two men, possibly the proprietor and a clerk, stand in adjacent entries and watch drayman unload large boxed sheets of glass from a horse-drawn cart in the street. Shoemaker established his glass depot in 1855 when he left the druggist business of his brother Robert Shoemaker. Shoemaker served as president of the Pennsylvania Hospital for several years., Date inferred from publication date of catalog in which print is included., Frontispiece to Benjamin H. Shoemaker, importer, dealer, and sole agent in Philadelphia for the sale of French thick white plate glass (Philadelphia, 1875). [Am 1875 Benja, 117681.D]., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 879
Date: [1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Am 1875 Benja 117681.D. frontspiece

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]

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