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- Title
- [James Lane's stove store, No. 218 North Third Street, Philadelphia] [graphic] / Drawn on stone by W. H. Rease, 17, Sth. 5th St. Phil.
- Description
- Location: 218 North Third Street., LCP copy lacking title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
- Date
- ca. 1848.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W197.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W197 [P.2062]
- Title
- [Charles Gilbert's stove manufactory, 249 North Second Street, Philadelphia] [graphic] / Drawn by W. H. Rease, 17 So. 5th Str. Phila.
- Description
- Location: 249 North Second Street., LCP copy lacking title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
- Date
- ca. 1846.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W054.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W54 [P.2021]
- Title
- Abbott & Lawrence. Liberty Stove Works, Brown Street above Fourth St. Philada. [graphic] / Drawn & lithd. by A. Kollner.
- Description
- Location: Brown Street above Fourth St. Philada., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Creator
- Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813 lithographer., creator
- Date
- ca. 1852.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W011.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W11 [P.2002]
- Title
- Warnick & Leibrandt's Philadelphia stove works and hollow-ware foundry. First wharf above Noble St. Philadelphia. [graphic] / From nature & on stone by W. H. Rease 17 So. 5th St.
- Description
- Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
- Date
- ca. 1850.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W442.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W442 [P.2267]
- Title
- [Piper & Andrews, warm air furnace manufactory. Cooking ranges. 82 North Sixth Street, Philadelphia] [graphic].
- Description
- Location: 82 North Sixth Street (pre-consolidation)., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Date
- [ca. 1845]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W293.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W293 [P.2172]
- Title
- [Joseph Feinour & Son stove store and Joseph Feinour's tin, copper brass & iron ware house 213-215 South Front Street, Philadelphia] [graphic] / ...by W. H. Rease, 17, So. 5th St.
- Description
- Location: 213-215, later 345-347 South Front Street., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H., creator
- Date
- ca. 1845.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W209.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W209 [P.2112]
- Title
- [Warnick, Chadwick & Bro. stove factory and iron founders, northeast corner of 2nd & Race streets, Philadelphia]
- Description
- Shows several stoves and furnaces on display in front of the large stove manufactory. Building covered in signage advertising registers, ranges, stoves, and furnaces. Also shows a company horse-drawn wagon parked in front of the building., Title supplied by cataloguer., Attributed to F. De B. Richards., Date on photograph.
- Creator
- Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
- Date
- March 1859 or 1860
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Industries - W [P.9808.1]
- Title
- Perkins & McFarland, late of Rand, Perkins & Co. Sole manufacturers and wholesale and retail dealers in the air-tight standard heaters & cooking ranges
- Description
- Photographic advertisement depicting the storefront of Perkins & McFarland Standard Heaters, Ranges, and Stoves at 211 N. 6th Street, Philadelphia. Heaters, stoves, and equipment parts line the sidewalk in front of the store. An African American man ascends from the cellar entryway. Stove parts and pipes jut out from open windows. A broadside for "The Black Crook" at Arch St. Theatre is pasted to the side of the building. Partial views of the buildings on either side of "Perkins & McFarland" are visible., Title printed on mount., Printed above title: E. F. Perkins; E. McFarland., Purchase 1986., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1870
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Photographs-Unidentified Photographers-Business [P.9153.3]
- Title
- [Piper & Andrews, warm air furnace manufactory. Cooking ranges. 82 North Sixth Street, Philadelphia]
- Description
- Advertisement showing the four-story storefront adorned with signage on the 100 block of North Sixth Street. Signage reads "Radiator Stoves Perpetual Ovens Backs & Jambs Vault & Hearth Grates. Metalic Roofing in Tin & Copper." A patron enters one of the two open entryways into the storefront that is lined with a wall of shelves holding merchandise. Clerks and employees are visible at the cellar entrance, second entry way across from the stairs to the second floor, and in the rear of the business. Pipes and stoves are displayed at the entryways. Two other workers toil at the second floor windows. To the right of the manufactory, a woman street vendor sits in front of a rickety, wooden building front, at a falling shutter used as a table lined with foodstuffs, under an awning with a frame weighted by rocks. The upper floors of a wooden building rise from behind the site of the vendor. Also shows a partial view of an adjacent factory. Partially visible and semi-legible signs, including one reading "ady's Factory" adorn the building. Henry A. Piper and R.S. R. Andrews partnered circa 1845-1847., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: North Sixth Street - 1845 -., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 603, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Trimmed.
- Date
- [1845]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W293 [P.2172]
- Title
- [James Lane's stove store, No. 218 North Third Street, Philadelphia]
- Description
- Advertisement showing the three-story storefront adorned with signage on the 300 block of North Third Street. Patrons enter the door near merchandise on display on shelves on the wall. In the first and second floor windows, stoves and laborers at work, respectively, are visible. In the foreground, men load a horse-drawn cart. Next to them, four different-style stoves are lined up on the sidewalk. Also shows partial views of adjacent buildings. Lane operated his store from the address 1847-1848., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Dec. 1847. no. 218 North Third St. N. Third St., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 403, LCP copy trimmed and lacking title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H., artist
- Date
- December 1847
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W197 [P.2062]
- Title
- Abbott & Lawrence. Liberty Stove Works, Brown Street above Fourth St. Philada James J. Abbott. Archilus Lawrence
- Description
- Advertisement showing the stove works founded in 1851 on the 400 block of Brown Street in Northern Liberties. Works include a four-story building containing the "office" and adorned with a cupola, a large work yard, and a rear "Foundry." At the multi-story building, a laborer loads stoves that are lined on the sidewalk into a horse-drawn wagon under the eye of a man at the doorway. On the roof, two other men stand in the cupola that is adorned with a statue of Liberty. In the adjacent work yard, laborers shovel and pick at mounds of coal and bricks, and load and transport hand- and horse-drawn carts on the grounds and up a ramp leading to an opening in the foundry. Near the workers, a group of men, one leaning on a shovel convenes and two boys chase each other over a mound. On the sidewalk, men, women, and children pedestrians stroll past a street lamp, watch the workers, and converse near a dog sniffing a fire hydrant. In the street, drivers guide horse-drawn carts, a drayman travels, and a pedestrian crosses in the path of an "Abbott & Lawrence Liberty stove Works" wagon and speeding carriage occupied by a family of three. Street activity also includes a man on horse back, two dogs in a greeting stance, and two gentlemen engaged in conversation. The firm was reestablished as Abbott & Noble in 1858, and operated until 1915 under various proprietors., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 7, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
- Creator
- Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813
- Date
- [ca. 1852]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W11 [P.2002]
- Title
- [Charles Gilbert's stove manufactory, 249 North Second Street, Philadelphia]
- Description
- Advertisement showing the stove manufactory covered in signage in German and English on the 400 block of North Second Street. Patrons enter the storefront and a clerk, possibly the proprietor, greets a patron at a second entrance. Stoves line the walls, and are displayed at the entrances and in the shop windows. The appliances, of variant styles, including a cooking stove with a tea kettle, also line the sidewalk. Laborers work at the upper floor windows. A man and woman figure adorn two of the stoves, which flank the entrances. Also shows partial views of the adjacent businesses, including P. McBride & Co., grocer (251) and Salon [sic] Walton (247), operated by Salem Walton. A sign post illustrated with a horse for the tavern stands in front of the building., Date from Poulson inscription Dec. 1846. N. Second Street., Title supplied by cataloguer., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 105, LCP copy trimmed and lacking title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H., artist
- Date
- [December 1846]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W54 [P.2021]
- Title
- [Joseph Feinour & Son stove store and Joseph Feinour's tin, copper brass & iron ware house 213-215 South Front Street, Philadelphia]
- Description
- Advertisement for the twin storefronts for the "Joseph Feinour & Son Tin, Copper Brass & Iron Ware Manufactory Stove Store" and "Tin, Copper Brass & Iron Ware-House" at 213-215, i.e., 345-347 South Front Street. A patron and clerk enter through the back entrance of the stove store that is crowded with stoves visible through the three open entryways. Potts and kettles lay on the displayed appliances as well as line rows of shelves adorning the wall opposite a stairwell. In front of the store, various types and patterns of stoves, including a "Bath Heater" and one on which a laborer brushes polish, crowd an extended platform and the sidewalk and continue over into in front of the adjoining warehouse. At the warehouse entrance, a clerk assists a woman patron who inspects cauldrons displayed on the end of the platform. Through the open entrance, a clerk is visible helping another woman patron at the counter. Metal cookware including pots, pans, and kettles line the shelves behind them and the display windows of the building. Several of the displayed stoves have their feed doors open. The Feinours operated from the location circa 1828 - circa 1860., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: August 1846 So. Front St., Wainwright suggests date of circa 1845., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 416, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Trimmed and lacking title., Reproduced in Jennifer Ambrose's "Nineteenth-century Philadelphia advertising prints," Magazine Antiques (August 2006).
- Creator
- Rease, W. H., artist
- Date
- [August 1846]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W209 [P.2112]
- Title
- Warnick & Leibrandt's Philadelphia stove works and hollow-ware foundry. First wharf above Noble St. Philadelphia Gunners Run & Franklin Avenue. Noble St. Wharf
- Description
- Advertisement containing two views of the stove works and hollow-ware foundries owned and operated by Charles W. Warnick and Frederick Leibrandt. The upper scene depicts the stove works at Gunners Run (ie. Aramingo Canal) and Franklin Avenue (ie. Girard Avenue). Viewed from the opposite bank of Gunner's Run, the scene shows laborers working with horse-drawn carts and drays on the bank of the canal, in front of a complex of industrial buildings labeled "Foundry" (left) and "Warnick & Leibrandt's Stove Works" (right). In the foreground, four laborers lift a large plank of wood, and men in groups of three move materials across the canal in row boats. Includes a docked sailing vessel (left) and smaller vessels in the canal. The bottom winter scene depicts the stove works looking northeast at the Noble Street Wharf (ie. northeast corner of Beach and Noble Streets) showing horse-drawn traffic in the snow-covered street outside of the company's wide, four-story brick building surmounted by a large cupola and weathervane. Includes drivers pulling horse-drawn sleds (left), speeding horse-drawn sleighs carrying a family of four (right), Warnick & Leibrandt covered wagons (center), and children playing with dogs and sleds on North Beach Street in the foreground. A group of bare masts is visible on the Delaware River behind the company's building. The Noble Street Wharf site later became home to the Philadelphia Sugar House., Date supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 818, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H., artist
- Date
- [ca. 1850]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W442 [P.2267]
- Title
- Foering & Thudiums cheap stove ware-house
- Description
- Advertisement depicting the three-and-a-half story warehouse operated by Frederick Foering and C.A. Thudium at 87 North Second Street. In the open entranceways, a white man clerk assists a white woman shopper and an African American laborer lifts a stove. Displays of stoves line the sidewalk and the store walls. On the second floor near open windows, white laborers work. A horse-drawn cart departs an adjoining exitway. Foering and Thudium, one of the city's first domestic stove manufacturers, started in business in 1828, and operated on North Second Street from 1845 until 1847., Print trimmed and lacking caption., Title from item., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Dec. 1846. North Second Street., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 266, Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Rease, a prominent mid-19th century Philadelphia trade card lithographer known to highlight details of human interest in his advertisements, partnered with Francis H. Schell in the 1850s and eventually operated his own press until around 1872.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H., lithographer
- Date
- [December 1846]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W132 [P.2045]