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- Title
- Jones & Co. of the crescent one price clothing store, No. 200 Market Street, above 6th Phila Has constantly on hand a large & fashionable stock of clothing made in the best manner, expressly for retail sales, with the very lowest selling price marked in plain figures on each article & never varied; so all must buy alike, and with the full assurance of getting a good article at the lowest rates. Remember the crescent above 6th in Market St. No. 200
- Description
- Advertisement depicting the two-bay, five-story, green building occupied by Owen Jones's clothing store since 1846. White text advertising the business as a cheap, one price clothing store covers the facade. A columned arcade extends along the ground floor of the properties depicted, stopping at the States Union Hotel (right). A sales booth displaying wares is sandwiched between two columns at the street level. Men's vests, pants, and jackets hang under the arcade, as several men, and a couple stroll by on the wide, brick sidewalk., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 413, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
- Creator
- Reynolds, Robert F., artist
- Date
- [ca. 1855]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W206 [P.2142]
- Title
- Wm. H. Horstmann & Sons No. 51, North Third Street Philadelphia, manufacturers and importers of military goods, coach laces, & fringes, epaulettes, swords, sashes, buttons, laces, chapeaux, pistols, holsters, saddle-cloths, banners, flags, embroideries, &c. &c Volunteer companies and officers of the Army & Navy supplied with every article in the military line, ladies fancy trimmings, cords, tassels, fringes, buttons, gimps, bindings, braids, &c. Military cloths & cassimeres
- Description
- Advertisement showing the ornately decorated storefront of William H. Horstmann & Sons clothing and military supply store. Patriotic bunting consisting of the names of artists J.H. Otten, carver and J. Gibson, pinxt, and a shield sumounted by an eagle, flags, swords and spears surround a sign that reads, "E Pluribus Unum, Horstmann," above the first level. Drums, military helmets, flags, and swords flank this central display. Laurel wreaths hang above the fasces that form columns on each side of the shop's two doorways and two bay windows. Tassels are visible in the left bay window, while various types of military hemlets are displayed in rows in the right window. Shields and crossed arrows adorn the transom lights above the windows and doors. Wm. H. Horstmann & Sons produced and sold their wares at this location between 1830 and 1857, after which time they moved their factory operations to 5th and Cherry Streets, and their storefront to a separate property at 223 Chestnut Street., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: August 1846., On recto: J.H. Otten, carver; J. Gibson, pinxt., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 857, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
- Creator
- French, John Taylor, 1822-1852, artist
- Date
- [August 1846]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W466 [P.2269]