Comic genre scene set at a shoemaker's shop depicting a cobbler's assistant measuring the stocking foot of a woman, who is seated with her skirt slightly raised. Her female companion and the shoemaker, who has stopped work on a boot, watch with concern. Also shows a painted backdrop adorned with shoes and cobbler's tools., Distributor's imprint printed on mount: Sold by Underwood & Underwoood, New York, London, Toronto Canada, Ottawa Kansas., Buff mount with rounded corners., Negative number printed on mount: 337A., Title printed in six different languages on verso., Gift of Jesse Randall., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Littleton View Co.
Date
c1893
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Underwood & Underwood - Genre [P.2005.19.10]
View showing the south side of the 500 block of Market Street. Businesses include: A. Hirsch & Brothers, umbrellas and parasols (500 Market); Charles Hirsch & Brothers , clothiers, and Samuel Vendig, shirt manufacturer (502 Market); F. Paxson & Co., fancy and white goods (504 Market); C.D. McClees & Co., auctioneers (506 Market); Jacob Goldsmith, Jr., clothing (508 Market); Capitol Clothing House (510 Market); Graff Watkins & Co., boots and shoes (512 Market); Bennett's Tower Hall, clothier (518 Market); and Wanamaker and Brown's Oak Hall, clothiers (534 Market). Businesses are heavily adorned with signage. Also includes horse-drawn wagons lining the street, crates lining the sidewalk, individuals standing in front of the shops, and a telegraph pole on the corner., Title supplied by cataloguer., Manuscript note on verso: 5th & Market looking west., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Publisher's imprint printed on verso., Inscribed on negative: 218., Pink mount with rounded corners., Printed on mount: No. 4., Reproduced in Joseph Jackson's America's most historic highway Market Street, Philadelphia, New ed. (Philadelphia: John Wanamaker, 1926), p. 153., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Gift of Jane Carson James., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Newell & Son, a partnership between Robert and his son, Henry, was active from around 1870 until 1897 and the death of the elder Newell.
Creator
R. Newell & Son, photographer
Date
ca. 1871, c1876
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Streets [P.9299.130]
