Advertisement showing the four-story storefront adorned with signage and displays on the 300 block of North 4th Street. Bottles, small boxes, and broadside advertisements, predominately for French cordials and bitters, fill the display window, and a large model cask with advertising text and stacks of labeled boxes flank the open entrance. Box labels include "Ysla de Cuba," "Assorted Cordials," "Glorias," "Habano." A clerk confers with a patron within the entrance as a laborer enters the cellar to continue to retrieve barrels of "Madeira No.1" and "Port," which line the sidewalk. In the street, a drayman departs with his delivery of a cask of "J. Hennesy [sic] & Co. Cognac." Image also includes a massive post adorned with a weather vane designed as a Native American figure, and partial views of adjacent buildings., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: April 1849., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 32, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Date
[April 1849]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W22 [P.2015]
