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Title: Benj. C. Hornor, manufacturer of varnishes, Japans, &c. Dealer in gum copal spts. turpentines &c. No. 81 Arch St. Philadelphia
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting the four-story front elevation of 81 Arch Street (i.e., 200 block of Arch Street), the location of Benjamin C. Hornor's varnishing business. Includes a shop window on the ground level flanked by two large doorways and sideboards on the building that read, "varnish" and "Benj. C. Horner"., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1853]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Hornor [(6)1322.F.119a]

Title: Compliments of Nice & Rau, varnishes, paints, oils, etc. 328 & 330 S. Second St. Philadelphia
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a vignette shaped into a leaf showing a few figures ice skating by moonlight. Includes a bare tree in the foreground and the townscape in the background., Advertising text printed on verso: Woodhouse Excelsior Liquid. Patented March 17, 1885. An article the use of which makes finishing woodwork in the natural state easy for the painter and always satisfactory to the owner. Sole agents, Nice & Rau, manufacturers and dealers in varnishes, paints, oils, glass, etc., No. 328 & 330 S. Second Street, Philadelphia., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Nice [P.9651.18]

Title: Louis L. Peck manufacturer & dealer in burning fluid varnishes, pine oil, virgin & sp[iri]ts of turpentine absolute, apothecaries, deodorized and fluid alcohol, of a superior quality linseed oil, white lead, lamps of every description, German & English bronzes, Dutch metal, sand paper, &c. [graphic] : Hecker's farina, family flour, & Hope Mills pure ground spices. Flour & farina store, 101 S. Front St. Varnish Store, 15 Dock Street. Lamp, pine oil & fluid store, 3 & 5 N. Eighth St. Philadelphia.
Description: Date supplied by Wainwright., Contains statement on product and shipping costs., Reproduced in Edwin Wolf's Quarter of a Millennium (Philadelphia: The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1981, rev. 1990), p. 177., LCP exhibit catalogue: Made in America #79., Advertisement showing the busy street corner at Front and Walnut streets near the Delaware River with a view of the building containing the oil manufactory, and the flour and farina store. The scene is depicted within a lithographed tromp l'oeil wood frame containing an inset of an exterior view of Peck's Works at Dock Street. Delivery wagons and drays traverse the business-lined streets, including one for Peck's driven by an African American man. Pedestrians walk the sidewalks and cross the intersection, and a boy rolls a hoop passed a female peddler sewing by her foodstand. Visible in the background are the busy Walnut Street Ferry wharf and Smith and Windmill Islands in the Delaware River. Louis L. Peck's varnish business operated from around 1848 until 1855.
Creator: Wagner & M'Guigan, lithographer., creator
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W222.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W222 [P.2134]

Title: Louis L. Peck manufacturer & dealer in burning fluid varnishes, pine oil, virgin & sp[iri]ts of turpentine absolute, apothecaries, deodorized and fluid alcohol, of a superior quality linseed oil, white lead, lamps of every description, German & English bronzes, Dutch metal, sand paper, &c Hecker's farina, family flour, & Hope Mills pure ground spices. Flour & farina store, 101 S. Front St. Varnish Store, 15 Dock Street. Lamp, pine oil & fluid store, 3 & 5 N. Eighth St. Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement showing the busy street corner at Front and Walnut streets near the Delaware River with a view of the building containing the oil manufactory, and the flour and farina store. The scene is depicted within a lithographed tromp l'oeil wood frame containing an inset of an exterior view of Peck's Works at Dock Street. Delivery wagons and drays traverse the business-lined streets, including one for Peck's driven by an African American man. Pedestrians walk the sidewalks and cross the intersection, and a white boy rolls a hoop past a white woman peddler sewing by her food stand. Visible in the background are the busy Walnut Street Ferry wharf and Smith and Windmill Islands in the Delaware River. Louis L. Peck's varnish business operated from around 1848 until 1855., Title from item., Date supplied by Wainwright., Printed below the image: Orders for the City, Country, or Shipping put up, with Care and Despatch, at the lowest market prices., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 444, Reproduced in Edwin Wolf's Quarter of a millennium (Philadelphia: The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1981, rev. 1990), p. 177., LCP exhibition catalogue: Made in America #79., Lithograph reproduced on the cover of Nicholas B. Wainwright's Philadelphia in the romantic age of lithography (Philadelphia: The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1958). Proof of cover in the Library Company's collections (W222.1)., Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Wagner & M'Guigan, was an early successful experimenter in chromolithography, winning a silver medal at the 1844 Franklin Institute exhibition.
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W222 [P.2134]

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