Advertisement showing the storefront of Baxter & Brother hardware store at 244, later renumbered 522, South Second Street. Merchandise adorns the display windows of the shop and a clerk assisting a customer is visible through the doorway. A sign for "looking glasses," two teapots, and an anvil hang above the open entrance. In front of the store, crates, barrels marked "B&B," and unpackaged merchandise line the sidewalk and windowsills of the business. A shop employee rolls a barrel between the items that include shovels, rakes, and pots., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Aug 1846. Aug 1846. So. Second St. Probably a reissue. Pinkerton, Wagner & McGuigan was active 1844-1845., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 506, LCP copy trimmed and lacking complete title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator
Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date
[August 1846]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W249 [P.2100]
