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- Title
- Cornelius & Baker, manufacturers of lamps, chandeliers, gas fixtures, etc. Manufactories: No. 181 Cherry St & Columbia Avenue & 5th St, Philadelphia. Store, 176 Chestnut Street. [graphic] / Lith. by W. H. Rease, 97 Chestnut St.
- Description
- Published in Colton's atlas of America, illustrating the physical and political geography of North and South America... Commercial edition with business cards of prominent houses in Philadelphia. (New York: J.H. Colton and Company, 1856) (HSP O 458), Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 38 C814a.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
- Date
- [1856]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W087.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W87 [P.2036]
- Title
- Cornelius & Baker, 181 Cherry Street, Philadelphia. Manufacturers of lamps, gas fixtures etc. [graphic].
- Description
- Published in Colton's atlas of America, illustrating the physical and political geography of North and South America... Commercial edition with business cards of prominent houses in Philadelphia. (New York: J.H. Colton and Company, 1856) (HSP O 458), Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 38 C 814b.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
- Date
- [1856]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W088.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W88 [P.2038]
- Title
- Joseph Ripka's mills. Manayunk 21st Ward Philadelphia. Manufacturer of all description of plain and fancy cottonades for men & boy's clothing warehouse 32 So Front St. [graphic] / Lith. of W. H. Rease N.E. cor. 4th & Chesnut.
- Description
- Published in Colton's atlas of America, illustrating the physical and political geography of North and South America... Commercial edition with business cards of prominent houses in Philadelphia. (New York: J.H. Colton and Company, 1856), page 77. (HSP O 458)., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc35 R588.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
- Date
- [1856]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W211.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W211 [P.2139]
- Title
- Keystone Marble Works. S. F. Jacoby & Co., Market St. betw. 20th & 21st Philadelphia. [graphic].
- Description
- Location: 2025 Market Street., Published in Colton's atlas of America, illustrating the physical and political geography of North and South America... Commercial edition with business cards of prominent houses in Philadelphia. (New York: J.H. Colton and Company, 1856), page 53 1/2. (HSP O 458)., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc38 K44.
- Date
- [1856]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W213.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W213 [P.8691]
- Title
- John C. Farr & Co. importers of watches, watchmakers tools. Silver & plated ware, musical boxes, etc. No. 112, Chestnut St. between 3rd & 4th St. Philada. [graphic].
- Description
- Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Date
- ca. 1850.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W202.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W202 [P.2122]
- Title
- [James S. Mason & Co. ,108 North Front Street, challenge blacking, ink &c. manufactory] [graphic] / J. Queen, del.
- Description
- Location: 108 North Front Street, later 138-140 North Front St., Title from accompanying manuscript note., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Creator
- Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886 artist., creator
- Date
- ca. 1852.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W198.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W198 [P.2075]
- Title
- Keyser & Foxe's mahogany steam saw mill & turning shop No. 21 [later 225] Crown St. between Race & Vine Sts., Philadelphia. [graphic] / On stone by G. Heiss.
- Description
- Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Creator
- Heiss, George G., lithographer., creator
- Date
- ca. 1854.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W212.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W212 [P.2138]
- Title
- Louis L. Peck manufacturer & dealer in burning fluid varnishes, pine oil, virgin & sp[iri]ts of turpentine absolute, apothecaries, deodorized and fluid alcohol, of a superior quality linseed oil, white lead, lamps of every description, German & English bronzes, Dutch metal, sand paper, &c. [graphic] : Hecker's farina, family flour, & Hope Mills pure ground spices. Flour & farina store, 101 S. Front St. Varnish Store, 15 Dock Street. Lamp, pine oil & fluid store, 3 & 5 N. Eighth St. Philadelphia.
- Description
- Date supplied by Wainwright., Contains statement on product and shipping costs., Reproduced in Edwin Wolf's Quarter of a Millennium (Philadelphia: The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1981, rev. 1990), p. 177., LCP exhibit catalogue: Made in America #79., Advertisement showing the busy street corner at Front and Walnut streets near the Delaware River with a view of the building containing the oil manufactory, and the flour and farina store. The scene is depicted within a lithographed tromp l'oeil wood frame containing an inset of an exterior view of Peck's Works at Dock Street. Delivery wagons and drays traverse the business-lined streets, including one for Peck's driven by an African American man. Pedestrians walk the sidewalks and cross the intersection, and a boy rolls a hoop passed a female peddler sewing by her foodstand. Visible in the background are the busy Walnut Street Ferry wharf and Smith and Windmill Islands in the Delaware River. Louis L. Peck's varnish business operated from around 1848 until 1855.
- Creator
- Wagner & M'Guigan, lithographer., creator
- Date
- [ca. 1855]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W222.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W222 [P.2134]
- Title
- Race Street between 6th & 7th, Philadelphia. [graphic].
- Description
- Published in James Mease and Thomas Porter's Picture of Philadelphia from 1811 to 1831: Giving an account of its origin, increase and improvements in arts, sciences, manufactures, commerce and revenue. (Philadelphia: Published by Robert DeSilver, No. 110 Walnut Strret, 1831), vol. II, opposite page 118 and in Thomas Porter's Picture of Philadelphia 1811 to 1831: Giving an account of the improvements of the city, during that period (Philadelphia: Published by Robert DeSilver, No. 110 Walnut Stret, 1831), vol. II, opposite page 118., Franklin marble mantel manufactory, marble mantels, tombs &c. neatly executed by Peter Fritz., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.9830.5 a&b and in Am 1831 Mea 68582.D and in Am 1831 Mea Log 4072.D and in Am1831 Por 20876., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
- Creator
- Breton, William L., creator
- Date
- [1831]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W303.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W303 [P.9830.5 a&b]
- Title
- Thomas Hargrave ornamental carver and sculptor s.w. corner of Ridge Road & 13th St. [graphic] / On stone by R. F. Reynolds, 20 Gaskill St.
- Description
- Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Creator
- Reynolds, Robert F., lithographer., creator
- Date
- ca. 1848.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W402.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W402 [P.2217]
- Title
- [J. Mayland, Jr. & Co. tobacco & snuff manufactory. Segars, foreign & domestic. Wholesale grocers, N.W. corner of Third and Race Streets, Philadelphia] [graphic].
- Description
- Location: Third and Race Sts., northwest corner., LCP copy lacking title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Date
- ca. 1842.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W193.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W193 [P.2053]
- Title
- Penn Steam Engine & Boiler Works. Foot of Palmer Street, Kensington, Philadelphia. Reaney Neafie & Co. engineers, machinists, boiler makers, black smiths & founders. [graphic] / Lith. by W. H. Rease 4th & Chesnut St.
- Description
- Published in The Hibernia Fire Engine Company No.1 (Philadelphia: Printed by J. B. Chandler, 306 & 308 Chestnut St, 1859), page 109., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: in *Am 1859 Hibernia 11750.Q., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
- Creator
- Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
- Date
- 1859.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W271.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W271 [*Am 1859 Hibernia 11750.Q]
- Title
- Penn Steam Engine & Boiler Works. Foot of Palmer Street, Kensington, Philadelphia. Reaney, Neafie & Co. engineers, machinists, boiler makers, black smiths & founders. [graphic] / On stone by W. H. Rease, No. 17, So. 5th. St. (FHS on stone).
- Description
- Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc38 R288 (in color)
- Creator
- Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
- Date
- ca. 1854.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W272.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W272 [P.2127]
- Title
- Bridesburg Machine Works. Alfred Jenks & Son, manufacturers of cotton and wool carding spinning and weaving machinery, shafting and millgearing, Bridesburg post office Philadelphia. [graphic] / From nature & on stone by E. Beaulieu, 99 Walnut St.
- Description
- Published in Colton's atlas of America, illustrating the physical and political geography of North and South America... Commercial edition with business cards of prominent houses in Philadelphia. (New York: J.H. Colton and Company, 1856), page 79. (HSP O 458)., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc35 B851.
- Creator
- Beaulieu, Emile F. lithographer., creator
- Date
- [1856]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W033-1.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W33.1 [P.2020]
- Title
- Dale, Ross & Withers, importers & jobbers of silks & fancy goods, 219 Market St & 42 Commerce St, Philadelphia. [graphic] / S.D. Button, archt.
- Description
- Location: 521 Market Street., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Creator
- Button, Stephen Decatur, 1813-1897, architect., creator
- Date
- ca. 1857.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W091.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W91 [P.2146]
- Title
- Alfred Jenks & Son's machine works, Bridesburg. [graphic].
- Description
- Illustration in Edwin T. Freedley's Philadelphia and its Manufactures (Philadelphia: Edward Young, 333 Walnut Street, 1858), opposite page 301., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Am 1858 Fre 67170.D., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
- Date
- 1857.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W033-2.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W33.2 [Am 1858 Fre 67170.D]
- Title
- H. S. Tarr's marble yard, no. 274 Green St. above Seventh Philadelphia Pa. [graphic] / Lith. by W. H. Rease N. E. cor. 4th & Chesnut.
- Description
- LCP exhibit catalogue: Made in America #83., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
- Date
- [ca. 1858]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W166-1.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W166.1 [P.2073]
- Title
- Philadelphia Gas Works. From the south west. [graphic] / John C. Cresson, engineer.
- Description
- Location: Market St., northside. East side of the Schuylkill River., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc885 B786.
- Date
- ca. 1852.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W288.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W288 [P.2134]
- Title
- John Baird, steam marble works, Ridge Road above Spring Garden St. Philadelphia. [graphic]
- Description
- Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Exterior view showing the Ridge Road entrance to the works and the central courtyard. Adjoining yard contains a variety of fountains, vases, and statues. Gravestones are displayed at the doorway and on the balcony. Signage reads: Spring Garden steam marble works; Spring Garden marble mantle works; John Baird monuments; and garden statuary, vases, ornamental sculpture, &c. Includes workers moving large slabs of marble, several pedestrians, a couple on horseback, and two dogs.
- Creator
- Wagner & M'Guigan, lithographers., creator
- Date
- [ca. 1848]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W199.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W199 [P.2066]
- Title
- J. H. Michener & Cos. curing, packing & smoking establishment S.W. corner of Front and Willow Sts. Philadelphia. [graphic] / On stone by W. H. Rease, 17 So. 5th. St.
- Description
- Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
- Date
- ca. 1851.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W190.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W190 [P.2067]
- Title
- Melloy & Ford, wholesale tin ware manufacturers. [graphic] / On stone by W. Rease, No. 17 Sth 5th St.
- Description
- Print trimmed and lacking caption., Poulson's inscription on recto: Mar. 1849; Market Street., Advertisement depicting the three-and-a-half-story manufactory operated by John M. Melloy and Robert Ford at 291 Market Street, later renumbered 723, promoting the "lowest rates", "quick sales & small profits," and "metallic roofing." The building heavily adorned with signage and product advertisements including a large scale model of a coffee pot contains prominent displays of tinware in the shop window, on the store shelves, and near the open cellar door. Near the front of the shop, a couple strolls, two laborers lift a crate onto a horse-drawn sulky, and a female customer enters the store. An African American peddler with tray and bell passes a line of crates on the sidewalk. Tinsmiths work near the third floor windows. Melloy & Ford, a partnership established in 1849, was in business until 1861 when Melloy entered partnership with Isaac Smith at the same address.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H., lithographer., creator
- Date
- [[March 1849]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W231.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W 231 [P.2105]
- Title
- McNeely & Co. manufacturers of morocco, buckskin & chamois, white leather, bark tanned, sheep, calf & deer skins, parchment, vellum &c. 64 N[or]th 4th. St. below Arch St. near the Merchants Hotel, Philadelphia. Manufactory 4th & Franklin Aven[ue] [graphic].
- Description
- Date of publication supplied by Wainwright., Advertisement depicting the large factory's several industrial buildings, sheds, and fenced yard near a busy street and sidewalk. Workers attend to a maze of drying lines with hanging leather pieces; delivery carts traverse the yard and depart through the gate under the sign "McNeely & Co."; and a laborer uses a horse-drawn cart to collect coal from a mound beside the main building. Pedestrians, including a woman and boy, stroll and converse on the sidewalk. In the street, an African American couple push a filled handcart and a crowded horse-drawn omnibus from the "Frankford Road - Fourth Street" line passes by. The McNeely family operated a leather manufactory in Philadelphia from 1830 until the early 20th century.
- Creator
- Rease, W.H., lithographer., creator
- Date
- [ca. 1860]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W230.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W230 [P.2129]
- Title
- City Marble Works and Steam Mantel Factory. Corner Tenth and Vine Streets Philadelphia. J.E. & B. Schell. [graphic] / Rease & Schell's Lith., No. 17 So. 5th St., Philda.
- Description
- Although Wainwright suggests date of publication as circa 1855, date of circa 1854 is used since Rease relocated to the new business address of 97 Chestnut Street as of 1855., Contains two lines of text below the title advertising the manufactory's improved facilities., Advertisement depicting a corner view of the three building showroom and factory operated by the Schells from 1853 until 1856. J.E. Schell continued the business as J.E. Schell & Company starting in 1857. On Tenth Street, patrons enter the four-story storefront and mantle room adorned with signage and statuary displayed on a second floor veranda. At the corner, a coach waits, the disembarked African American driver standing at the ready. On Vine Street, behind the showroom, a family of passerbys admire the marble statuary, monuments, and headstones in the factory's fenced in yard. Factory laborers load a headstone onto a horse-drawn cart, inspect open crates lining the street, and review slabs of marble outside the factory's storage building. Partial views of adjacent buildings and the "10th" Street carriage are visible.
- Creator
- Rease & Schell, lithographer., creator
- Date
- [ca. 1854]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W071.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W71 [P.2032]
- Title
- Hart, Montgomery & Co. Successors to Isaac Pugh & Co. Manufacturers and importers of paper hangings, No. 118 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Manufactory N.E. Cor. Schuyl[kill] Front & Wood Streets
- Description
- Exterior view of the manufactory operated from 1849 until 1860 by William Hart and A.J. Montgomery at Schuylkill Front (i.e., Twenty-second) and Wood Streets depicted within a lithographed tromp l'oeil wood frame. A horse-drawn cart stands idle by a side entrance of the multi-storied factory and four goats roam a nearby yard. Smaller factory buildings are visible to the right. Horse-drawn delivery carts, one steered by an African American man, travel pass each other on the adjacent street. Pedestrians and laborers walk the sidewalks and converse near a street lamp. Eastern State Penitentiary is visible in the background. During the mid-nineteenth century, Philadelphia was the premier American city of fine wallpaper production., Title from item., Date of publication supplied by Wainwright., Accessioned 1982., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 344, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Rease, a prominent mid-19th century Philadelphia trade card lithographer known to highlight details of human interest in his advertisements, partnered with Francis H. Schell in the 1850s and eventually operated his own press until around 1872.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H., artist
- Date
- [ca. 1852]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W169 [P.2072]