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Title: Wagner & McGuigan's steam lithographic printing establishment no. 4 Athenian Buildings, Franklin Place Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement showing a montage of vignettes related to lithography to promote partners Thomas Wagner and James M'Guigan, who jointly operated a lithographic studio jointly 1846-1858. Vignettes show the exterior of the printing establishment; lithographic artists working on stones propped flat and on an angle; pressmen operating two different types of lithographic presses (one modified with a cylinder that served as a paper feeding device); and the large steam engine that powered the presses. Also shows symbols of patriotism and the trade propped against the base of the steam engine. Includes lithographic stones, an ink roller, a brush, a large stoppered bottle probably representing gum arabic, and American flag and shield., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 115.1, Library of Congress: Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1997:105 Wagner & McGuigan, Reproduced and described in Jennifer Ambrose's "Nineteenth Century Advertising Prints," Magazine Antiques (August 2006), pp. 96 & 98., LOC also holds variant state, tinted with one stone under same call number. Variant includes text in tint color: Drawings of Every Description Executed on Stone. Also, Maps, Plans, Certificates, Circulars, &c. Transferring from Steel, Copper & Stone. (POSA 115.2)
Creator: Wagner & M'Guigan
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1997:105 Wagner & McGuigan

Title: Order of the United American Mechanics. Founded July 8th, 1845. Honesty, industry & sobriety. [membership certificate]
Description: Membership certificate for the fraternal, nativist organization containing patriotic vignettes and pictorial details adorning and bordering an ornamented arch. Includes portraits of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin in addition to state seals, the figures of Liberty and Justice, American flags, and the American eagle and shield. OUAM, founded in Philadelphia in 1845 as the Union of Workers, was an anti-immigration, anti-Catholic benevolent society that provided its white, native-born members with sick and funeral funds., Not in Wainwright., Issued to Brother A. H. Alexander on January 23, 1872. Signed by Geo. H. Kidder, Councillor and Wm. B. [Pierez?], Secretary., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 159, Patton worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia ca. 1852-ca. 1897., American Antiquarian Society: Graphic Arts Lithf Patt Hone, See "Order of the United Daughters of America." HSP Bc 052 U58.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: American Antiquarian Society AAS Graphic Arts Lithf Patt Hone

Title: R. & G.A. Wright Manufacturers of the celebrated gold medal perfumery and importers of French, English & German druggist & fancy articles, no. 23 South 4th St. Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement containing a large central text panel with a background printed in color in a rainbow style and surrounded by an ornate decorative border. Border contains symbols, allegorical figures, and pictorial details representing the United States and patriotism (the American flag, Liberty, a shield adorned with the banner "E Pluribus Unum," and an eagle); Pennsylvania (a portrait of William Penn and the Pennsylvania state seal); and trade, commerce, and farming (barrels, crates, bundles of goods, a scythe, a hoe, sheaves of wheat, a mast of a sailing ship, and a land/marinescape view with a railroad and "John Fitch" steamboat). Some goods are marked "R & G.A.W." or "R." or "C.R." Border also includes a maternal female figure, attired in Roman garb, holding two children, and wrapped in a banner reading "Love One Another"; medals, some with classical figures and one with the text "Reward for 1849"; a book open to an illustration titled "Chemistry Analysis"; scroll-like ornaments; grape vinery; and floral and botanical details. R. & G. A. Wright, a partnership established about 1845 between Richard and George A. Wright, was a premier Philadelphia perfume manufacturer. The business was noted in the mid-19th century as the largest manufactory of its kind in the United States, England, and France. The Wright partnership relocated to 624 Chestnut Street about 1860. The business operated as R. & G. A. Wright until circa 1878., Title from item., 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 45 3/4. (HSP O 458), Not in Wainright., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., LCP AR [Annual Report] 1981, pg. 51-52., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 295
Creator: Reen, Charles
Date: [1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Advertisements - Wright [P.8692]

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