Advertisement containing vignettes showing male and female gym patrons participating in physical activities and the use of exercise equipment. Equipment includes parallel bars, pummel horse, pull-up bars, ropes, weights, and peg poles. Activities include shooting, fencing, boxing, gymnastics, and weightlifting. Exercise poles incorporated into the image as pictorial elements separating the vignettes. Also contains text advertising the hours of the establishment; the skills of its instructors; separate classes and drawing rooms for the different sexes; and the benefits of exercise for the "proper development of strength, health, mind and the cure of chronic affections" and the importance to ladies to produce "strength, health, beauty and grace.", Philadelphia on Stone, POS 567, See related tradecards for Hillebrand & Lewis, including one printed by Stein & Jones. [P.9349.147a and 8608.F.5b].
Date
[ca. 1863]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Advertisements - H [P.8729.16]
Advertisement showing the four-story storefront, covered in signage at the corner of Market and Oak streets (i.e., 1300 block of Market). Signage advertises "J. Ward's Paper Warehouse," "Paper Hanging Wholesale & Retail," and "Cash Paid for Rags."Two male patrons enter two of the three entries to the storefront as a woman exits the third with a scroll in her hand. Two women, one with a girl, admire the displays of paper hangings in the showcase windows. Displays depict the Capitol building, a romantic genre scene, and still lifes. A man accompanied by a boy walk past the Oak Street side of the business. Also shows partial views of adjacent buildings. Ward tenanted the site circa 1847-circa 1849., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: June 1847. Market Street., Title and name of printer from duplicate in collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 831, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., LCP copy trimmed, lacking title and advertising text., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc38 W827., HSP copy contains advertising text printed in red ink by letterpress by Bryson & Cooper, Fancy Job Printer. No. 2 North Sixth Street, Philadelphia. Image hand-colored.
Creator
Rease, W. H., artist
Date
[June 1847]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W449 [P.2238]
