Advertisement showing the storefront of the grocery and tea shop with unusually tall display windows on the 1200 block of Chestnut Street. The side of the building is adorned with signage reading "Flour Fish & Salt Hams Beef & Tongues Choice Family Groceries J.C. Jenkins & Co., displays of tongue and ham, signs for "Mats," and markers for Twelfth Street. A mannequin of a Chinese laborer carrying boxes of tea with a bamboo pole exhibited on a display of tea crates in addition to other displays of boxes and canisters of fancy soaps and candles line the interior and exterior of the front windows. Within the store, a clerk assists a woman and a boy at the counter. On the sidewalk, a gentleman stops in front of the building, near a box of tea at the edge of the sidewalk, to gaze at the Chinese figure, and a man, with a sack, walks past the corner. At the side of the building, a "Jenkins T Store" handcart, a barrel of "Flour," boxes of "Soap," a display of "Brooms," and a stack of pails line the sidewalk, near four trees resembling cherry trees., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Aug. 1847. S.W. corner of Chestnut & Twelfth St., Title supplied by cataloguer., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 394, LCP copy lacking title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Trimmed., Stott operated a Philadelphia studio 1847-1848.
Creator
Long, Ellwood D., artist
Date
[August 1847]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W189 [P.2055]
