[Philada. & New York Pekin Tea Company, N.W. corner of Callowhill and Sixth Streets, Philadelphia]
Title
[Philada. & New York Pekin Tea Company, N.W. corner of Callowhill and Sixth Streets, Philadelphia]
Description
Advertisement showing the three-and-a-half-story "Northern Depot of the Philada. & New York Pekin Tea Company" heavily adorned with lettering on the 600 block of Callowhill Street. Through the open entrances, clerks are visible standing at counters in front of shelves of boxes of tea. Within the large display windows, men and women Chinese figurines flank additional merchandise displays. A female and male patron pass stacked boxes of tea displayed near the entrances as they proceed into the storefront. Other foot traffic includes a couple on promenade, and a man and woman, at opposite showcase windows, peering at the figurines. A larger Chinese male figure, holding and atop a box of tea, adorns the second floor corner of the building. Street signs displayed on two of the stores window frames are visible on each side of the figure. Also shows partial views of adjacent buildings, including partial signage reading "aylor's Room." Pekin Tea Company operated from the address circa 1847-circa 1851., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: North West Cor. Callowhill & Sixth St., Title supplied by cataloguer., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 566, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Trimmed.
Creator
Rease, W. H., artist
Date
[July 1847]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W278 [P.2168]
[J. C. Jenkins & Co. grocery and tea store, S.W. corner of Chestnut and 12th Streets, Philadelphia]
Title
[J. C. Jenkins & Co. grocery and tea store, S.W. corner of Chestnut and 12th Streets, Philadelphia]
Description
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]