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Title: John C. Baker & Co. wholesale dealers & importers of drugs, medicines, chemicals, paints & dye stuffs, No. 100, North Third St. Philadelphia. [graphic] / On stone by W. H. Rease No. 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. 1849.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W201.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W201 [P.2140]

Title: [J. & J. Reakirt, wholesale druggists and importers of drugs, chemicals, paints, dye-stuffs, &c. &c. S.E. cor. of Third & Callowhill Sts., Philada.] [graphic] / M. S. Weaver, del.
Description: LCP copy trimmed, lacking title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb38 R288.
Creator: Weaver, Matthias S., 1815 or 16-1847 artist., creator
Date: ca. 1844.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W192.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W192 [P.2056]

Title: Bought of Browning & Brothers, wholesale druggists, and dealers in white and red lead, litharge, linseed oil, oil of vitriol, window glass, putty, dye stuffs, &c.&c. No. 33 Market Street
Description: Illustrated billheads containing an exterior view of the "Browning & Brothers Drug and Chemical Warehouse" and storefront on the 100 block of Market Street. Crates and barrels line the sidewalk, near awning posts, in front of the store. One is marked "Oil Vitriol." Also shows partial views of adjacent buidlings. Established by Maurice Browning and his brothers circa 1839, the firm was one of the earliest involved in the United States dye trade and operated a factory known as the Aroma Mills in Camden, N.J., P.2011.46.17 completed in manuscript to Mess. Camitt & Albertson on July 18, 1849 for five items including "2 [fg.?] Laudamun" and "1# Cinnamon Bark" for $9.60. Signed "Recd Payment" Browning & Bros., P.2011.46.18 completed in manuscript to Mess. Camitt & Albertson on March 7, 1850 for six items including "5 #os Liquorice [sic] Root" and "4 doz. Batemans drops" for $3.80. Signed "Recd Payment" Browning & Bros., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [1840]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - B [P.2011.46.17 & 18]

Title: John C. Baker & Co. wholesale dealers & importers of drugs, medicines, chemicals, paints & dye stuffs, No. 100, North Third St. Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement showing the five-story storefront, adorned with signage and an ornamental iron work balcony, of the druggist on the 100 block of North Third Street. A patron enters one of the entrances to the establishment as in front of him a crate is hoisted. To the left, the window and second entry of the building are open and casks, jugs, bottles, and boxes line a wall of shelves and the floor. Additional inventory are visible near the upper floor windows. In front of the store, a clerk, with a receipt in his hand, watches two draymen load their vehicle in the street. One drayman controls the horse as the other loads a crate onto the dray. A line of crates and barrels, some marked with barely legible print, line the sidewalk near the laborer. Also shows partial views of neighboring buildings in front of which a couple and gentleman stroll. Partial signage is visible on the buildings reading "..Mann....ufacturer" (98) and "Tobac.. & Segar...John" (102). Piles of crates rest near the open doorway of the tobacco store. John C. Baker & Co. tenanted the site from 1849. The firm was one of the founding members of the Philadelphia Drug Exchange in 1861., Date from Poulson inscription on recto., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 408, Wainwright retrospective conversion project.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [August 1849]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W201 [P.2140]

Title: [J. & J. Reakirt, wholesale druggists and importers of drugs, chemicals, paints, dye-stuffs, &c. &c. S.E. cor. of Third & Callowhill Sts., Philada.]
Description: Advertisement showing the three-and-one-half story building with several windows that is adorned with signage and advertising text for the druggists on the 200 block of Callowhill Street. Signs and text advertise "Drugs, Chemicals, Paints, Oil Glass, and Dye Stuff"; "White-Lead & Window-Glass at Manufacturers Lowest Prices"; and "Alum, Madder, Logwood, Camwood, Indigo, Copperas, Fustic and Turpentine." Patrons, visible through the open doorways, stand at counters within the storefront; jars, and decanters line the display windows; and crates and barrels, some marked, line the sidewalk. At the side of the store, a clerk checks a list as a drayman unloads his horse-drawn vehicle. Also shows the doors open to the cellar of the store that also contains a large-scale model of an apothecary's mortar and pestle and a fire insurance marker. Joseph Reakirt operated the business solely until 1838 when he partnered with John Reakirt who assumed sole proprietorship in 1859., Title supplied by Wainwright., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Nov. 1846. S.E. cor. Third and Callowhill sts., Wainwright suggests date of circa 1844., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 397, LCP copy trimmed and lacking title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb38 R288.
Creator: Weaver, Matthias S., 1815 or 16-1847, artist
Date: [November 1846]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W192 [P.2056]

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