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- Title
- Kunzman & Hall, practical lithographers, no. 216 1/2 Walnut Street Philadelphia Maps, show cards, checks, bill heads, drafts &c. &c. Neatly executed
- Description
- Tradecard with text embellished with flourishes. Kunzman & Hall partnered in 1866. Possibly a partnership between George Kunzman and (Henry or James?) Hall., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 50
- Creator
- Kunzman & Hall
- Date
- [ca. 1866]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.149j]
- Title
- Schnabel & Finkeldey, lithographers, 218 Walnut St., Phila
- Description
- Tradecard containing an ornate border design comprised of scrolls, vinery, and flowers surrounding the text. The partnership, formerly of M.H. Traubel & Co., was active 1858-1863., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 82, See tradecard with similar design for M.H. Traubel & Co. [P.9349.144q]
- Creator
- Schanbel & Finkeldey
- Date
- [ca. 1860]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.144v]
- Title
- Edward L. Waller, lithographic printer. Portraits, landscapes, buildings, animals, charts, maps. Circulars, bill heads, music titles, checks, cards, labels, transfers from copper or steel, lithographed in a superior manner, no. 17 Minor Street, third story, Philadelphia
- Description
- Directory advertisement containing lettering in various styles. Waller operated a studio in Philadelphia 1856-1858., Published in The Philadelphia merchants' & manufacturers' business directory for 1856-57 (Philadelphia: Prepared & published by Griswold & Co., [1856]), p. [6], back ad section., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 25
- Date
- [1856]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Dir Phila 1856 10578.Q.6 (back ad section)
- Title
- John Collins, lithographer, no. 79 South Third Street, Philadelphia Plans, maps, circulars, portraits, landscapes, anatomical, and other drawings executed in the most accurate and highly finished style
- Description
- Directory advertisement containing an ornamental border around advertising text., Published in The Philadelphia circulating business directory. For 1838. (Philadelphia: Published at Morris's Xylographic Press, 1838), p. 107., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 49
- Date
- [1838]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Dir Phila 1838 (35) 10840.O.107
- Title
- E. Ketterlinus, steam power letter-press and lithographic printing house, n.w. cor. Arch & 4th sts. Philadelphia Gilt, embossed and illuminated labels, for manufacturers, liquor dealers and perfumers. Show cards, filled up & blank for the trade. Ball tickets, programmes, &c. Banks furnished with lithographed check with government stamps
- Description
- City directory advertisement printed with gilt lettering for the studio established by Eugene Ketterlinus in 1842. Also contains an ornamental border around the text. Ketterlinus was one of the earliest Philadelphia lithographers to produce stock cards, and embossed and colored mercantile labels. The firm remained in business until the 1970s., Not in Wainwright., Published in Gopsill's Philadelphia city directory for 1870... (Philadelphia: Published by James Gopsill, 1870), opp. p. 854 (verso)., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 23, Advertisement for "Wm. Wilson & Son s.w. cor. 5th & Cherry Sts. Philadelphia,...." on verso.
- Creator
- Ketterlinus, Eugene, d. 1886
- Date
- [1870]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Dir Phila 1870 (82) 10840.O.854b
- Title
- T. Sinclair & Son. Lithographic establishment. Philadelphia
- Description
- Genre scene trimmed from an 1883 advertisement calendar for T. Sinclair & Son. Shows children walking down a path in the woods. The boy and girl walk arm in arm. The boy holds a branch in his free hand. The girl wears a cape with bonnet-like hood and the boy wears a vest. Thomas Sinclair & Son operated as a partnership 1870-1889., Not in Wainwright., Title from untrimmed duplicate in the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa., Philadelphia on Stone, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Tradecard Collection - Scrapbook [Wf. 98 vol. 1]. HSP copy not trimmed.
- Creator
- T. Sinclair & Son
- Date
- 1883
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Advertisements - S [8173.F]
- Title
- M.H. Traubel & Co., successors to F. Kuhl, lithographic institute, 46 1/2 Walnut, Phila M.E. Traubel. John F. Finkeldey. Th. Leonhardt. Ed. Schnable
- Description
- Tradecard containing an ornate border design comprised of scrolls, vinery, and flowers surrounding the text. The lithographic firm spearheaded by Traubel operated 1853-ca. 1857., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 62, Leonhardt worked for M.H. Traubel & Co. 1853-1856., See tradecard with similar design for Schnabel and Finkeldey. [P.9349.144v]
- Creator
- M.H. Traubel & Co.
- Date
- [ca. 1853]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.144q]
- Title
- F. Moras, lithographer, 109 Sth Fourth St. Philadelphia
- Description
- Tradecard with ornamental lettering, floral details, and a banner. Moras operated from the address 1860-1866. Moras, a German-born lithographer established his own firm in 1853 from which he retired in 1890. The firm continued to operate until the late 1890s., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 28
- Creator
- Moras, Ferdinand, 1821-1908
- Date
- [ca. 1863]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.151p]
- Title
- Commercial lithography of Theo. Leonhardt & Co., 324 Chestnut St. Philadelphia
- Description
- Advertisement with ornamental lettering depicting a scene on the Schuylkill River near Fairmount Waterworks showing the dam, boathouses, gazebo, and a steamboat. Text advertises "checks, notes, drafts, certificates, bonds, note & letterheads, circulars, vignettes &c., and all drawings will be executed in the highest style of art." Leonhardt & Co. was a brief partnership (1871 to 1873) between Theodore Leonhardt, who established his lithographic firm in 1851, and Theodore Bosin., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 95, LCP AR [Annual Report] 1988 p. 41.
- Creator
- Theo. Leonhardt & Co.
- Date
- [ca. 1872]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Advertisements [P.9225.2]
- Title
- [Specimen sheet for Theodore Leonhardt & Son, Commercial Lithographers 922 Locust Street Philadelphia, PA.]
- Description
- Includes a "Specimen of High Grade Engraving" depicting an eagle. Leonhardt & Son was a partnership established circa 1874 between Theodore Leonhardt and his son Arno. The firm continued to operate into the early 20th century., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 87, Gift of David Doret.
- Creator
- Theo. Leonhardt & Son
- Date
- [ca. 1930]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Advertisements - L [P.2004.44.5]
- Title
- P.S. Duval, lithographer, no. 7 Bank Alley, near the Merchant's Exchange, Philadelphia Portraits from life, on stone, landscapes from nature, anatomical & architectural drawings, machinery, music titles, maps, plans, circulars, checks, bill heads, bills of lading, price currents, fac-similes, transfers from steel, copper, wood, and autographs, printing in colors, &c &c. Executed in the best possible manner, and on low terms
- Description
- Directory advertisement containing an ornamental border around advertising text., Published in The Mercantile register, or business man's guide.. (Philadelphia: H. Orr, 1846), p. 198., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 76
- Date
- [1846]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Dir Phila 1846 20728.O.1.198
- Title
- P.S. Duval's lithographic establishment, No. 7 Bank Alley, Philadelphia Long and favourably known under the firm of Childs & Inman. P.S.D. respectfully infroms the artists of Philadelphia, and the public in general, that he is prepared to execute orders in all the various branches of the above art in a superior style. N.B. Likenesses drawn from life on stone, maps, charts, plans, bill heads, bills of exchange, cheques, professional and visiting cards, labels &c. &c. will receive prompt attention, and no exertion spared to render perfect satisfaction in every department of lithography
- Description
- Directory advertisement containing an ornamental border around advertising text., Published in The Philadelphia circulating business directory. For 1838. (Philadelphia: Published at Morris's Xylographic Press, 1838), p. 106., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 77
- Date
- [1838]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Dir Phila 1838 (35) 10840.O.106
- Title
- J.T. Bowen, lithographer & print colourer, no. 94 Walnut Street, Philadelphia N.B. Views of public buildings, landscapes, maps, plans, charts, circualrs, &c. executed in the most beautiful style, and at the shortest notice; also portraits taken from life, or reduced from paintings, or enlarged from miniatures
- Description
- Directory advertisement containing an ornamental border around advertising text., Published in The Philadelphia circulating business directory. For 1838. (Philadelphia: Published at Morris's Xylographic Press, 1838), p. 107., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 41
- Date
- [1838]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Dir Phila 1838 (35) 10840.O.107
- Title
- P. S. Duval & Son lithographers, 22 & 24 South 5th St., ab. Chestnut Philada All works appertaining to the various branches of lithographic drawing, engraving, and transferring, printing, plain and in colors, are executed in this establishment in the best style of the art. Turn over
- Description
- Advertisement containing an allegorical scene surrounded by a floral border. Scene shows a child asleep in her bed labeled "The Dream of Heaven" as angels, including one holding a book of "wisdom" and a basket of fruits hovers near her on a cluster of clouds. The Duval firm operated under the name P.S. Duval & Son or P.S Duval, Son & Co. circa 1857-circa 1879 and from 22 & 24 South 5th Street 1858-1869., Not in Wainwright., Published in Edwin Freedley's Philadelphia and its manufactures: A hand-book exhibiting the development, variety, and statistics of the manufacturing industry of Philadelphia in 1857 (Philadelphia: Edward Young, 1858), opp. p. 182., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 73, Variant of HSP Tradecard Collection - D and HSP Ba 61 D 956a
- Creator
- Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
- Date
- [1858]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1857 Fre 67170.D.182a
- Title
- Stein & Jones, printers & lithographers, no. 320 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia Rudolph Stein. Alfred T. Jones
- Description
- Tradecard with ornamental lettering embellished by filigree. The partnership, established in 1859 was active under that name until the death of Stein in 1871 and its reestablishment as Jones & Potsdamer., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 90
- Creator
- Stein & Jones
- Date
- [ca. 1860]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.143h & 148m]
- Title
- W. Boell, practical lithographer and engraver, 311 Walnut Street Philadelphia Lithographic drawing, engraving & printing. Orders in all branches of the lithographic art executed in the best style
- Description
- Tradecard illustrated with two female allegorical figures representing Prosperity (left) and Art (right). Figure of Abundance wears a Roman-style gown, with one breast exposed, and rests one hand on a cornucopia filled with fruits and grains. She leans toward the direction of Art who wears netting in her hair and a draped gown. She holds a paint brush in one hand and a palette in the other. She looks toward Abundance. Grass, twigs, and bushes surround the figures. Boell, a French-born lithographer, worked in New York 1854-1858 before relocating to Philadelphia, where he was active until the 1880s. He operated from 311 Walnut Street circa 1859-circa 1865., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 107, Forms part of Specimens Album [P.9349].
- Creator
- Boell, William
- Date
- [ca. 1863]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.151s]
- Title
- Lehman & Bolton. Steam power lithographic & letter press printing rooms. Nos 418, 420 & 422 Library Street. Opposite Post Office Bonds, checks, billheads, chromos, showcards, maps, labels & c. W.H. Lehman. M. Bolton, Jr
- Description
- Tradecard illustrated with scrolls, filigree, a banner and a cherub drawing on a pad. William H. Lehman & Mahlon Bolton Jr., purchased the print shop of Jacob Haehnlen in 1873 and remained at the site until 1882 when the business relocated, following a fire, to 715 Arch Street. The firm was active until 1920., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 55
- Creator
- Lehman & Bolton
- Date
- [ca. 1878]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.153g]
- Title
- Breuker & Kessler lithographers, engravers & printers. S. W. corner 7th & Chestnut sts. Philadelphia. Particular attention paid to all kinds of commercial engraving
- Description
- Book advertisement containing landscape views, allegorical figures, and artist and printer's tools. Shows the allegorical figure Art as she leans on a pedestal that is covered in vines and displays a vase of flowers. She stands on a moss covered rock marked "Labels" that is surrounded by a stone tablet, possibly a lithographer's stone, inscribed "Manufacturers of Transferable Pictures"; a press machine; and a paint palette resting on a book. In the background, trees, hills, and a bridge spanning a river near townscape are visible. Breuker & Kessler, a partnership between George W. Breuker & Harry C. Kessler, operated circa 1867-1880., Not in Wainwright., Published in Edwin Freedley's Philadelphia and its manufactures: a hand-Book of the great manufactories and representative mercantile houses of Philadelphia, in 1867(Philadelphia: Edward Young & Co., 1867), opp. p. 134., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 7, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 39 B 750
- Creator
- Breuker & Kessler Co.
- Date
- [1867]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1867 Free 55213.O.134a
- Title
- Routes of the two parades by the soldiers and sailors, Friday, October 2d, 1868
- Description
- Trade card by Blood & Chew with text describing the divisions and the route for a soldiers' and sailors' parade on Friday, October 2d, 1868. Includes two woodcuts, one depicting a Civil War soldier with a bayonet, and the other a sailor, both attired in uniforms., Not in Wainwright., Advertising text running the length of the card on the right side reads "neat lithographing and wood engraving," and on the left, "all varieties of plain & ornamental printing.", Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 81
- Date
- 1868
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Trade cards - B [(1)1322.F.185]
- Title
- Compliments of Burk & M'Fetridge, printers & lithographers, 304 Chestnut, Philadelphia
- Description
- Trade card for lithographers Burk & M'Fetridge depicting a young boy and girl fishing in a body of water near a small cottage. They pull in a net, in which a cupid-like figure is caught with an arrow under his right arm. A sailboat, adorned with a wreath and a red cloth, is docked nearby. Fish from a previous catch lie in the sand next to a picnic basket., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 12, In 1877, William M. Burk and John R. M'Fetridge purchased the Inquirer Printing Office at 304 Chestnut Street from William W. Harding. The firm of Burk & McFetridge Co. succeeded Burk & McFetridge in 1893, when the company was chartered.
- Creator
- Burk & McFetridge
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Trade cards - B [P.9111.15]
- Title
- Commercial lithography. Theo. Leonhardt & Son, s.e. cor. 5th & Library sts. opposite Drexel Building, Philadelphia Bonds. Certificates of stock. Checks. Diplomas. Cards. Letterheads & Labels
- Description
- Copperplate of an advertisement for the firm used in the 1894-1897 editions of Gopsill's Philadelphia City Directory. Contains a view looking southeast of the multi-storied lithographic establishment and vignettes of the front and back of the "Silver Medal" awarded to the business by the Maryland Institute for "Lithographic Work" in 1878. View includes street traffic. Leonhardt & Son was a partnership established circa 1874 between Theodore Leonhardt and his son Arno. The firm operated from 123-125 South Fifth Street, i.e., s.e. cor. 5th and Library streets, beginning in 1890., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 11, See Gopsill's Philadelphia city directory for 1894 (Philadelphia: James Gopsills Sons, 1894), p. 1162.
- Creator
- Theo. Leonhardt & Son
- Date
- [ca. 1884]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department printing plates - Inventory #700
- Title
- J. Hoover, pictures and frames, 628 Arch St., Philadelphia
- Description
- Trade card by J. Hoover with an illustration on the recto showing a boy standing behind a girl and covering her eyes with his hands, as if he is trying to surprise her, as she sits on a stool with a doll in her lap. A rose bush and trees fill the scene behind the children. Advertising text on verso reads, "Bargains! Bargains! at Hoover's, Hoover's, 628 Arch Street. A beautifully and carefully selected stock of fine engravings, comprising all the principal and popular subjects in the market. Fine imported chromos suitable for parlor, sitting or dining room. Large assortment of easels in ebony, nickel, silver-plated, and twisted wire from 9 cents up. Photograph frames, our principal business is in photograph frames, of which we certainly have the largest stock in the city, consisting of velvet (over 100 different styles,) passepartouts, ebony and satin, plain ebony, gold, lacquer, and a number of ine easel frames, all of which can be had either in card or cabinet sizes. Framing of pictures of any description is one of our specialties. We manufacture our frames in the building, and guarantee our work to ne first-class in every particular. Our prices are less than elsewhere. Having the facilities of buying at the lowest prices we can furnish frames of any kind at prices that will compare with any house in the city. Call and examine our stock whether you wish to purchase or not. J. Hoover 628 Arch Street. Societies, social clubs and other organizations desiring to furnish their rooms are invited to call and examine our fine assortment.", Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 80, Joseph Hoover, a Swiss-German chromolithographer, operated his chromolithography, engraving, and picture frame business from 628 Arch Street in Philadelphia between 1880 and 1882.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *trade cards - Hoover [1975.F.453]
- Title
- Jacob Haehnlen's lithographic & fancy printing establishment, No. 125 South Third Street, directly opposite Girard Bank, Philadelphia
- Description
- Text only. Ornamental lettering. Describes types of job printing undertaken by Haehnlen including labels, visiting cards, and forms. "Late of the firm of E. Ketterlinus & Co." Haehnlen worked for Ketterlinus until 1858 when he established his own business at the address above., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 45
- Creator
- Haehnlen, Jacob, b. 1824
- Date
- [1859]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Advertisements [P.9178.5]
- Title
- P.S. Duval & Son's lithographic establishment, s.w. corner of 5th & Minor sts. (near Chestnut.) Philadelphia
- Description
- Advertisement containing a view of a chemistry laboratory during the middle ages. Shows the chemist and his assistants performing experiments surrounded by flasks of chemical solutions, books, a cauldron, and a fish hanging from the ceiling. Scene surrounded by an ornate border containing flags, flowers, chemical packets, and equipment used in chemistry including flasks, mortars, and burners. Also contains advertising text lithographed on the verso announcing the employment by Duval & Son of James Queen as superintendent of their drawing department. Text also promotes the ability of the firm to "execute any style of work" including portraits, anatomical and engineer drawings, views of factories, show cards, bill heads, and circulars., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 121
- Creator
- P.S. Duval & Son
- Date
- [ca. 1861]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Advertisements - D [(2)5786.F.121a]
- Title
- Wagner & M'Guigan, call the attention of the public to the superior facilities at their extensive lithographic establishment, no. 4 Athenian Buildings, Franklin Place, (north of no, 111 Chestnut Street.) Where the most efficient artistical skill is employed in the various branches of the art, enabling them to produce the most elaborate drawings on stone, anatomy, geology, botany, portraits, landscapes, title pages, book illustrations, machinery, show cards, maps, plans &c. . Transferring from steel and copper plates, wood cuts &c. This branch of the business is under their own immediate supervision, and having the assistance of the ablest work men enables them to produce work equal if not superior to any other establishment in the country, in color printing, they produce the most chaste, unique and magnificent illustrations for books, title pages, certificates, music titles, show cards &c. Also, a beautiful style in colors of stores, hotels, manufactories, and landscape views. Businessmen can be supplied with thousands of circulars, in their own hand-writing after a few hours notice
- Description
- Directory advertisement containing an "Interior view of Printing Room containing upwards of forty presses." Shows a couple attired in elegant winter clothing strolling down the aisle between the several presses. Men perform various duties at the machines, including rolling ink and pressing paper on the printing stones. Behind the couple, boy apprentices carry stones by hand and pull them by dolly near a man in a cape. Thomas Wagner and James M'Guigan operated a lithographic studio as partners 1846-1858., Published in McElroy's Philadelphia directory, for 1856 (Philadelphia: Edward C. & John Biddle, 1856), p. 10, front ad section., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 110, Variant of advertisement published in The Philadelphia merchants' & manufacturers' business directory for 1856-57 (Philadelphia: Prepared & published by Griswold & Co., [1856]), p. [15], front ad section and Catalogue of the twenty-fourth exhibition of American manufactures ...(Philadelphia, 1854), p. 39.
- Creator
- Scattergood, David, engraver
- Date
- [1856]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Dir Phila 1856 (58) 10840.O.10 (front ad section)
- Title
- Wagner & McGuigan's lithographic & steam power printing establishment Athenian Building, Franklin Place
- Description
- Directory advertisement containing an allegorical, patriotic scene. Shows the figure of Columbia, attired in a toga, American flag, and laurel wreath, with a broken shackle under her foot as she stands on a pedestal. She holds a sword in one hand beside an American eagle perched on a shield and a laurel wreath in the other in front of a sculpted bust of George Washington. The bust rests on a pedestal adorned with a fasces. A paint palette and brushes, compass, rolls of paper, and a banner reading "Encourage American Arts" rests at the feet of Columbia. Floral details frame the sides of the image. Thomas Wagner and James M'Guigan operated a lithographic studio as partners 1846-1858., Published in McElroy's Philadelphia directory, for 1856 (Philadelphia: Edward C. & John Biddle, 1856), frontispiece., Not in Wainwright., Names of artists from variant duplicate in Poulson's scrapbooks, Illustrations of Philadelphia, vol. 1., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 114
- Creator
- Wagner & M'Guigan
- Date
- [1856]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Dir Phila 1856 (58) 10840.O.frontispiece
- Title
- Wagner & M'Guigan's lithographic drawing, engraving, and printing establishment Wagner & McGuigan, respectfully call the attention of the public to the superior facilities to be found at their extensive establishment, employing upwards of forty presses, together with the most efficient artistical skill in the various branches of the art, enables them to produce all work equal to an establishment in the country. Transferring from steel and copper plates, wood cuts, stone and manuscript. We particularly recommend this branch of our business to the notice of those having plates of this description, as millions of impressions may be printed with but little wear to the original plate, and at a far greater speed than from the copperplate press, at very moderate cost. Business men can be supplied with thousands of circulars in their own handwriting, at a few hours' notice. Surveyors, draughtsmen, and others, desiring to execute their own plans, circulars, price currents, &c, for transferring, will be furnished with suitable paper and ink, free of charge
- Description
- Advertisement containing an "Interior view of Wagner & M'Guigan's forty press room, Athenian Building, Franklin Place, Philadelphia." Shows a couple attired in elegant winter clothing strolling down the aisle between the several presses. Men perform various duties at the machines, including rolling ink and pressing paper on the printing stones. Behind the couple, boy apprentices carry stones by hand and pull them by dolly near a man in a cape. Thomas Wagner and James M'Guigan operated a lithographic studio as partners 1846-1858., Not in Wainwright., Published in Catalogue of the twenty-fourth exhibition of American manufactures ...(Philadelphia, 1854), p. 39., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 112, Variant of advertisement published in The Philadelphia merchants' & manufacturers' business directory for 1856-57 (Philadelphia: Prepared & published by Griswold & Co., [1856]), p. [15], front ad section and McElroy's Philadelphia directory, for 1856 (Philadelphia: Edward C. & John Biddle, 1856), p. 10, front ad section.
- Creator
- Scattergood, David, engraver
- Date
- [1854]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1854 Exhib 13701.O.2.39
- Title
- P.S. Duval & Co.'s steam lithographic establishment, artizan's building Ranstead Place west from no 26 South Fourth Street Philadelphia Drawings of all kinds executed on stone. Copper and steel plates transferred. Printing, plain & coloured in the neatest style and the business in all its various branches carried on with punctuality and despatch. Nota: Engineers & surveyors wishing to execute their drawings, for transferring, merchants & others, writing their circulars or price currents, for the same purposes, will be supplied with the suitable ink & paper. Portraits, landscapes, geological and other maps, plans, architectural and historical drawings, ornamental title pages, colored illustrations, show cards, checks, circulars, price currents &c &c. Labels for patent medicines, perfumery, and all description of fancy articles, can be furnished at a very moderate cost to establishments requiring large quantities
- Description
- Directory advertisement showcasing the illuminated style of chromolithography executed by the Duval firm. Contains allegorical and historical vignettes and figures within a frame comprised of floral and Gothic elements. Includes the figure of Liberty attired in the American flag, holding a sword, and standing next to symbols of the arts such as a palette and sheet music below a framed bust-portrait of George Washington adorned with flowers and a banner reading "E. Pluribus Unum." Vignettes show lithographic artisans at work at a sketch table and rolling ink on a stone in a workshop, and a montage of medievally-attired artists and intellectuals, including a cartographer, sculptor, painter, mathematician, and composer. The Duval firm operated under the name P.S. Duval & Co. 1853-1857 and from Ranstead Place 1853-1856., Published in McElroy's Philadelphia directory, for 1854... (Philadelphia: Edward C. & John Biddle, 1854), opp. p. 12a., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 69, Also published in Catalogue of the twenty-second exhibition of American manufactures... (Philadelphia, 1852), frontispiece.
- Creator
- Schussele, Christian, 1826?-1879, artist
- Date
- [1854]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Dir Phila 1854 10840.O.12a
- Title
- P.S. Duval & Co.'s steam lithographic establishment, artizan's building Ranstead Place west from no 26 South Fourth Street Philadelphia Drawings of all kinds executed on stone. Copper and steel plates transferred. Printing, plain & coloured in the neatest style and the business in all its various branches carried on with punctuality and despatch. Nota: Engineers & surveyors wishing to execute their drawings, for transferring, merchants & others, writing their circulars or price currents, for the same purposes, will be supplied with the suitable ink & paper. Portraits, landscapes, geological and other maps, plans, architectural and historical drawings, ornamental title pages, colored illustrations, show cards, checks, circulars, price currents &c &c. Labels for patent medicines, perfumery, and all description of fancy articles, can be furnished at a very moderate cost to establishments requiring large quantities
- Description
- Directory advertisement showcasing the illuminated style of chromolithography executed by the Duval firm. Contains allegorical and historical vignettes and figures within a frame comprised of floral and Gothic elements. Includes the figure of Liberty attired in the American flag, holding a sword, and standing next to symbols of the arts such as a palette and sheet music below a framed bust-portrait of George Washington. The portrait is adorned with flowers and a banner reading "E. Pluribus Unum." Vignettes show lithographic artisans at work at a sketch table and rolling ink on a stone in a workshop, and a montage of medievally-attired artists and intellectuals, including a cartographer, sculptor, painter, mathematician, and composer. The Duval firm operated under the name P.S. Duval & Co. 1853-1857 and from Ranstead Place 1853-1856., Published in Catalogue of the twenty-second exhibition of American manufactures... (Philadelphia, 1852), frontispiece., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 68, Also published in McElroy's Philadelphia directory, for 1854... (Philadelphia: Edward C. & John Biddle, 1854), opp. p. 12a.
- Creator
- Schussele, Christian, 1826?-1879, artist
- Date
- [1852]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1852 Exhib of 50574.O.15
- Title
- Wagner & M'Guigan, respectfully invite the attention of the public to their extensive lithographic establishment no. 4 Athenian Building, Franklin Place, north of no. 111 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia Lithography in all its branches, portraits, landscape, anatomy, geology, botany, architecture, machinery, store views, title pages, certificates, steamboats, pattern books, country and town maps, plans circulars, commercial blanks, &c. Transferring from steel and copper-plate, wood cuts &c. This branch of the business is under their own immediate supervision, and having the assistance of the ablest work men enables them to produce work of a superior order in this line. Illuminated color printing unique and magnificent illustrations for books, title pages, certificates, show cards, labels, stores, hotels, manufactories, printed in various colors, bronzes, &c. All orders promptly attended to
- Description
- Directory advertisement containing an "Interior view of Printing Room containing upwards of forty presses." Shows a couple attired in elegant winter clothing strolling down the aisle between the several presses. Men perform various duties at the machines, including rolling ink and pressing paper on the printing stones. Behind the couple, boy apprentices carry stones by hand and pull them by dolly near a man in a cape. Thomas Wagner and James M'Guigan operated a lithographic studio as partners 1846-1858., Published in The Philadelphia merchants' & manufacturers' business directory for 1856-57 (Philadelphia: Prepared & published by Griswold & Co., [1856]), p. [15], front ad section., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 111, Variant of advertisement published in McElroy's Philadelphia directory, for 1856 (Philadelphia: Edward C. & John Biddle, 1856), p. 10, ad section and Catalogue of the twenty-fourth exhibition of American manufactures ...(Philadelphia, 1854), p. 39.
- Creator
- Scattergood, David, engraver
- Date
- [1856]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Dir Phila 1856 10578.Q.15 (front ad section)
- Title
- Specimen of chromo-lith. from P.S. Duval & Co.'s lithographic establishment, drawing on stone plain & color printing, Ranstead Place, west from 26 South 4th Street, Phila
- Description
- Frontispiece advertising the Philadelphia lithographic studio of P.S. Duval, which received an 1849 Franklin Institute medal for advancement in chromolithography. Contains allegorical, patriotic, romantic, and art-themed iconography. Includes a female allegorical figure, wearing a liberty cap, who holds a cornucopia under one arm, and raises a laurel wreath with the other. She stands on an American shield covered by a sword, palette, book, architectural plan, globe, and mallet. Also shows the American eagle, floral details, and two cherubs entwined in a banner reading "E Pluribus Unum.", Published in Catalogue of the twenty-third exhibition of American manufactures... (Philadelphia: William S. Young, 1853), frontispiece., Printed lower right corner: (See Page 491)., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 84, Variant of illustration in Patent office report. Part 1. 1849. [P.2002.67.68]
- Creator
- Schussele, Christian, 1826?-1879, artist
- Date
- 1853, c1850
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1853 Exhib 14181.O .5.frontispiece
- Title
- Chromo lithography
- Description
- Book illustration advertising the Philadelphia lithographic studio of P.S. Duval, which received an 1849 Franklin Institute medal for advancement in chromolithography. Contains allegorical, patriotic, romantic, and art-themed iconography. Includes a female allegorical figure, wearing a liberty cap, who holds a cornucopia under one arm, and raises a laurel wreath with the other. She stands on an American shield covered by a sword, palette, book, architectural plan, globe, and mallet. Also shows the American eagle, floral details, and two cherubs entwined in a banner reading "E Pluribus Unum.", Printed upper right corner: Patent Office Report. Part 1. 1849., Printed lower right corner: (See Page 491)., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 10, Gift of Helen Beitler., Variant of frontispiece published in Catalogue of the twenty-third exhibition of American manufactures... (Philadelphia: William S. Young, 1853). [LCP Am 1853 Exhib 14181.O.5]
- Creator
- Schussele, Christian, 1826?-1879, artist
- Date
- c1850
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Advertisements - D [P.2002.67.68]
- Title
- Jacob Haehnlen's lithographic & steam powered letter press printing rooms Nos. 125 & 127 Sth. Third Street, opposite Girard Bank, Philadelphia
- Description
- Advertisement calendar for 1865 containing an ornamental border and promotional text, including types of prints issued by the press. Prints includes show cards; wine, liquor, perfumers, and manufacturers labels; checks; notes; drafts; cards; circular receipts; and bonds. Promotional text advertises samples of work "always on hand" and "every kind & style of lithographic letter press printing executed promptly at fair prices." In 1866, Haehnlen established his own studio at Goldsmith's Hall., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 43, Gift of David Doret.
- Creator
- Haehnlen, Jacob, b. 1824
- Date
- 1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Advertisements - H [P.2003.41.4]
- Title
- Stein & Jones, steam power printers & lithographers, no. 321 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia
- Description
- Advertisement calendar for 1865 containing patriotic and seasonal vignettes, scenes, and allegorical figures framing a calendar. Upper corners contain an autumnal and winter scene. Autumnal scene shows a farmer at his plow with farmhands reaping wheat in the background and a yard of farm animals in the foreground. Winter scene shows individuals skating on a pond as a sled passes by, near a couple talking to a soldier under the gaze of two dogs. Dwellings and a train also comprise the landscape of the scenes. Lower corners contain the the breast-bearing female allegorical figures of Spring and Summer. Spring holds a sprig of flowers and Summer holds a basket of fruit. Patriotic imagery includes a battle scene, and the figure of Columbia surrounded by flags and soldiers, including an injured private, and another passing a laurel wreath to a fellow compatriot. Other vignettes show an artist working at a drawing table, and a lithographic printer rolling ink on a stone. The firm, established in 1859, was active under the name Stein & Jones, until the death of Stein in 1871 and its reestablishment as Jones & Potsdamer., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 91, See also variant uncolored proof with registration marks pasted on page 92. [P.9349.92]. Includes patriotic instead of seasonal female allegorcial figures and a vignette showing Abraham Lincoln and General Grant.
- Creator
- Stein & Jones
- Date
- [ca. 1864]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.274]
- Title
- Jacob Haehnlen's engraving steam power lithographic and letterpress printing house. Goldsmith's Hall Library St. opposite post office Philadelphia Commercial and fancy printing in all its branches, cards, bill and letter heads, check, certificates, bonds, maps &c. Kept stock. Show cards. Wine, liquor, perfumery, druggists labels. Printers materials. Cards, papers, etc
- Description
- Advertisement calendar for 1871 containing three vignettes, and pictorial elements. Vignettes depict a steam powered rotary press, a steam powered lithography press, and an exterior view of the "Jacob Haehnlen Lithographic Establishment" at 418 Library Street. Press views include operators, and exterior view also depicts street and pedestrian traffic and neighboring buildings. Traffic includes a horse-drawn carriage and a man pushing a handcart. Advertisement also contains cherubic figures sketching in a book and holding a palette, and floral and filigree border details. Haehnlen established his own business in 1858 and relocated his studio to Goldsmith’s Hall in 1866., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 42
- Creator
- Haehnlen, Jacob, b. 1824
- Date
- [1870]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.95]
- Title
- E. Ketterlinus' lithographic and letter press printing house cor. of Arch & Fourth Sts. Philadelphia Bill heads, cards, circulars, &c. lithographed at nearly the same cost as letter press in a superior style. Illuminated show cards in great variety
- Description
- Tradecard, probably issued during the Civil War, containing an exterior view of the lithographic establishment of Ketterlinus at the northwest corner of Fourth and Arch streets. Other pictorial details include an American flag flying from a flag pole beside the building, a banner, and scrolls., Not in Wainwright., Variant reproduced in Jay Last's The color explosion: Nineteenth century American lithography (Santa Ana, Ca.: Hillcrest Press, 2005), p. 108., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 21, Ketterlinus established his own firm in 1842 and relocated to Fourth and Arch streets in 1856.
- Creator
- Ketterlinus, Eugene, d. 1886
- Date
- [ca. 1865]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.142f]
- Title
- Lehman & Bolton, printers, publishers, [and] lithographers, 418, 420, 422 Library St., Philadelphia
- Description
- Advertising calendar for 1882 for Lehman & Bolton, a partnership between William H. Lehman and Mahlon Bolton, Jr. formed in 1871. Surrounded by a gilt border, the image shows an ornate stage setting containing classical figures and symbols of the arts, spring, and prosperity, including children surrounded by flowers, fruit, gold coins, a lyre, a marble bust, a tragedy mask, and an art palette. Text describes various kinds of job printing undertaken by the firm., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 53
- Creator
- Lehman & Bolton, lithographers
- Date
- [1881]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Advertisements [1975.F.4 (Phillips)]
- Title
- Lithographic and letter press printing. Lehman & Bolton, Goldsmiths Hall, Library Street, opposite post office
- Description
- Advertising card containing ornamental lettering and filligree border for Lehman & Bolton, a partnership between William H. Lehman and Mahlon Bolton, Jr. formed in 1873., Date assigned by cataloger., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 57
- Creator
- Lehman & Bolton, lithographers
- Date
- [ca. 1873]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Letterheads - L [P.9349.409]
- Title
- Geo. S. Harris & Sons, printers, engravers, lithographers, 718, 720, 722 & 724 Arch Street, Philadelphia Branch House, 53 State St., Chicago
- Description
- Advertisement containing a montage of images depicting the business and evoking the decorative arts. Includes an exterior view of the firm's building; an interior view showing artisans at work on and around printing presses; object d'art and works of art; an artist's palette; a seascape; printed wallpaper; draperies; and flowers. Exterior view includes street and pedestrian traffic. Harris' firm moved to this address circa 1882 and later relocated to 1033 Chestnut Street circa 1898., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 33
- Creator
- Geo. S. Harris & Sons
- Date
- [ca. 1885]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Advertisements [P.9349.406]
- Title
- Geo. S. Harris & Sons cigar box labels and trimmings
- Description
- Trade cards depicting specimens for cigar box labels and trimmings of George S. Harris & Sons. Shows No. 2151 "City cousin," No. 2126 "Mirth and beauty," and No. 2155 "First mate.""City cousin," depicts a young woman reclining against a bale of hay in a field. Above this scene are toiletries, perfumes, and a book of "Happy hour poems" wrapped in a ribbon. "Mirth and beauty" depicts a waist-length portrait of a young girl wearing a large plumed hat. "First mate" shows a sailor in his blue uniform at sea, gripping his straw hat in his right hand, and telescope in his left., George S. Harris opened his lithography business ca. 1847 at 119 North Fourth Street. In 1872, George Harris & Sons moved into a seven-story, "iron front" building erected for the company at 718-724 Arch Street, where they operated the largest lithographic firm in the city, with about 600 employees producing lithographic trade cards, labels for cans and cigar boxes, circulars, calendars and stamped envelopes for patrons worldwide., Not in Wainwright., Advertising text stamped on verso: Geo. S. Harris & Sons, manufacturers of cigar box labels and trimmings, 718, 720, 722 & 724 Arch St., Philadelphia. $15.00 per 1000. $1.60 per 100. Also furnished blank., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 31
- Creator
- Geo. S. Harris & Sons
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Trade cards - Harris [P.2002.67.2-4]
- Title
- International Exhibition. Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. 1876
- Description
- Stock trade card for lithographer Potsdamer & Co. depicting buildings constructed for the International Exhibition in 1876. Includes the Main Building, Art Gallery, Horticultural Hall, Machinery Hall, and Agricultural Hall as postcards displayed in a montage on a silver platter. Potsdamer & Co. operated from the mid 1870s until Ketterlinus acquired the firm in 1885. The Centennial Exhibition of 1876 celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Not in Wainwright., Advertising text on verso: Potsdamer & Co. 321 Chestnut Street, commercial, lithographic and letter press printing house, Philadelphia. Includes in the upper left-hand corner a design for the Franklin Institute Exhibition silver medal the company won in 1874 for engraving and printing., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 40
- Creator
- Potsdamer & Co.
- Date
- c1875
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Trade cards - P [P.9728.1]
- Title
- Alois Senefelder. Inventor of lithography
- Description
- Book illustration containing a portrait of Senefelder in a slightly draped oval frame bordered by scenes, pictorial details and vignettes representative of the lithographic trade. Frame contains a plate marked "1800" to represent the year of the invention of lithography. Pictorial details of lithographer's tools including a pen, ink pot, etching needle, straight edge, compass, sponge, brush, palette, and ink roller flank the upper edges of the frame. Scenes of a lithographic printer rolling ink on a stone on a hand press (left) and a lithographic artist using a hand rest to draw a portrait on stone from a sketch at his drawing table (right) adorn the lower edges. Scenes also include stones stored in a library of shelves and resting against the hand press as well as the artist's portfolio laying against his drawing table. Vignette shows a steam powered lithographic press framed as the base of the pedestal of the portrait. Duval & Hunter, the partnership between P.S. Duval's son Stephen C. Duval and Thomas Hunter operated 1869-1874., Published in J. Luther Ringwalt's The American encyclopaedia of printing (Philadelphia: Meniman & Ringwalt, 1871), opp. p. 280., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 8
- Creator
- Duval & Hunter
- Date
- [1871]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *Am 1871 Rin 3210.Q.280a (Sower)
- Title
- William Mann, stationer, blank book maker, steam-power printer & lithographer, 529 Market & 526 Commerce Sts., Philadelphia
- Description
- Blotter. Text only. Printed in green ink with decorative border., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 116
- Date
- [ca. 1875]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Advertisements [P.9783.2]
- Title
- Lehman & Bolton, lithographers, printers, engravers & publishers, 418, 420, 422 Library St., Philadelphia
- Description
- Advertising calendar for 1881 for Lehman & Bolton, a partnership between William H. Lehman and Mahlon Bolton, Jr. formed in 1871. Surrounded by a gilt border, the image shows an ornate setting containing patriotic allegorical figures and symbols, including Liberty with a lyre, marble bust, fasces, and an American shield at her feet sitting with the liberty pole draped across her lap and a laurel wreath on her head as she looks at an album of U.S. Presidents; flowers and cherubs holding grain, holly, a scythe, an umbrella, a watering pot, and other spring symbols; and the dome of the United States Capitol in the background. Text describes various kinds of job printing undertaken by the firm., Not in Wainwright., On bottom recto outside of gilt border: "Bell Telephone Communication.", Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 52
- Creator
- Lehman & Bolton, lithographers
- Date
- [1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Advertisements [P.9349.363]
- Title
- L.N. Rosenthal. Lithographic office, removed to N.W. cor. of Fifth & Chestnut Sts. Philadelphia
- Description
- Advertisement. Contains large central area of text describing types of artistic, and job and color printing work undertaken by the firm including book illustration; scientific, mechanical and architectural drawings; views; landscapes; portraits; labels and forms. Surrounded by an elaborate border containing flowers, classical statuary, two muses, a bust, a medallion reading "Awarded for tthe Best Chromolithography," and a small landscape view. Name of the firm in ornamental lettering is cleverly intertwined among flowers at the top. Rosenthal moved from southeast corner of 3rd and Dock to a larger printing shop at northwest corner of 5th and Chestnut in 1856., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Oct. 1856. Specimen of Lithography in colors., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 51, Accession number amended by cataloger., Originally part of a Poulson scrapbook of illustrations of Philadelphia., Duplicate in Specimen's Album. [P.9349.39]
- Creator
- Rosenthal, Max, 1833-1918, artist
- Date
- [October 1856]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Advertisements [(5)2526.F.b]
- Title
- Thos. S. Wagner, formerly Wagner & McGuigan lithographers, Franklin Place, no. 38. Lithography in all its branches
- Description
- Advertisement containing a central view of the allegorical figure of Columbia driving her chariot. Image framed within a gold border with ornamental lettering and embellished with flowers at the bottom. Verso contains engraved view of Wagner's building at 38 Frankln Place and text describing types of printing undertaken by the firm. Wagner's partnership with James McGuigan dissolved in 1858., Not in Wainwright., Poulson inscription on recto: Jany. 1859. Specimen of printing in colors., Published in McElroy's Philadelphia City Directory for 1859 (Philadelphia: E.C. and J. Biddle & Co., 1859) and McElroy's Philadelphia City Directory for 1860 (Philadelphia: E.C. and J. Biddle & Co., 1860)., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 103, Print Department copy verso obscured by mount.
- Creator
- Wagner, T. S. (Thomas S.)
- Date
- [1859]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Advertisements [P.8729.13]
- Title
- Geo. S. Harris & Sons, printers, engravers, lithographers, 718, 720, 722 & 724 Arch Street, Philadelphia
- Description
- Advertisement containing a montage of images depicting the business and evoking the decorative arts. Includes an exterior view of the firm's building; an interior view showing artisans at work on and around printing presses; object d'art and works of art; an artist's palette; a seascape; printed wallpaper; draperies; and flowers. Exterior view includes street and pedestrian traffic. Harris' firm moved to this address circa 1882 and later relocated to 1033 Chestnut Street circa 1898., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 32
- Creator
- Geo. S. Harris & Sons
- Date
- [ca. 1885]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Advertisements [P.8729.15]
- Title
- M. H. Traubel, lithographer, 146 So. Eighth St., Philadelphia Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap
- Description
- Trade card for the Philadelphia lithographer active ca. 1849-ca. 1880s. Shows cherubic figures sowing seeds and reaping sheaths of wheat. Also contains flying birds and vinery details. Textual elements include Gothic and cursive letters. Traubel operated from 146 South Eighth street beginning in 1881., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 119.1, See POSA 119, LOC proof copies of trade card., LCP copy acquired after 2010., Lib. Company. Annual report, 2016, p. 70-71.
- Creator
- Traubel, M. H. (Morris H.), 1820-1897
- Date
- [ca. 1881]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Traubel [P.2016.24.1]
- Title
- Craig, Finley & Co. Lithographers and printers. Commercial stationery, stock certificates, and checks. 2218-20-22 Vine Street, Philadelphia. Established 1867 Telephones. Bell: Rittenhouse 7842. Keystone: Race 6379
- Description
- Blotter illustrated with an exterior view of the Philadelphia printer's factory and adjoining buildings on the 2200 block of Vine Street. Signage with the firm's name adorns the three-story main building depicted with a working smoke stack. Pedestrians walk in front and across from the building. Also shows a car and a Craig, Finley & Co. truck parked in the street. Established as Craig, Butt & Finley in 1869, the firm was renamed Craig, Finley & Co. in 1872. It remained in operation until 1950., Image caption reads: A Plant Equipped Solely for the Production of First Class Lithographing and Printing, Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 123, See also the Craig, Finley & Co. entry in the online Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary., Gift of Erika Piola.
- Date
- [ca. 1930]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Ph Pr - 11 x 14 - Industry - C [P.2014.18.2]
- Title
- P.S. Duval & Son Lithography in all its various branches, transfer from copper or steel plates and autographic circulars. Nota: There is also a photographic department attached to this establishment. S.w. corner 5th and Minor streets, near Chestnut St. Philadelphia
- Description
- Directory advertisement containing a montage of pictorial elements including a landscape view, and depictions of a Gothic-style church tower and bas-relief bust profile of "A[lois] Senefelder, Inventor of Lithography." Landscape view includes a cow, horse, and several sheep. Other details depict two cherubs reading a ledger, next to a compass and another ledger, and near a lithographer rolling ink on a stone on a lithographic printing press. Floral and vinery ornamentations bordering a banner adorned with the firm's name and the bas-relief portrait also comprise the image.The Duval firm operated under the name P.S. Duval & Son or P.S Duval, Son & Co. circa 1857-circa 1879 and from 22 & 24 South 5th Street 1858-1869., Published in McElroy's Philadelphia city directory, for 1858... (Philadelphia: Edward C. & John Biddle, 1858), frontispiece., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 70
- Creator
- P.S. Duval & Son
- Date
- [1858]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Dir Phila 1858 (63) 10840.O.frontispiece

