Proof for an advertisement showing the two-and-a-half story warehouse with numerous windows at the northeast corner of Eight and Zane streets. Patrons enter the entrances, including one adorned with signage, of the building. Sign advertises "Beds Hair Mattresses Cushions Feathers Moss Ticking Cotts Cattail." Bedding and bed posts are visible in or hang out of most of the warehouse windows. A stuffed swan standing among pillows is also visible in one of the lower windows. Bags of "Feathers" and bed posts lean against the building and mattresses and bed cushions are displayed on racks on the sidewalk. View also includes a fire hydrant and a boy walking past the warehouse. Frederick Fisher operated an upholstery business 1839-1853 and from the Eighth and Zane location 1844-1848., Title supplied by Wainwright., Wainwright suggests date of circa 1845., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: August 1846. North east corner Eighth and Zane Streets., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 220, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Date
[August 1846]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W118 [P.2044]
Advertisement showing the cluttered-looking three-story storefront of the bedding warehouse on the 200 block of South Second Street. A clerk, possibly one of the proprietors, stands at the main entrance to his store and points to a disheveled display of mattresses, one of many. Behind him, a couple enters the wareroom in which two women work in a backroom. The couple walks under a framed figure of a goose hanging above the doorway. Shelves of mattresses line the walls and rolled mattresses fill the large open display windows. In the upper floor windows, mattresses and bedding are propped out of windows and piles of feathers are visible. In front of the store, a mattress on a bed frame, a bed frame, and bedding on a cot is on display; a clerk loads bedding onto a horse-drawn cart; and a gentleman walks past a fire hydrant on the sidewalk. Also shows partial views of adjacent buildings. Partners Joseph Hartley and Reeve L. Knight relocated to this address circa 1842 and remained in a partnership until 1854., Title supplied by cataloguer., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: South Second street. Augt. 1846, Philadelphia on Stone, POS 345, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., LCP copy trimmed and lacking imprint.
Date
[August 1846]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W170 [P.2064]
