Carriage repository. Medal awarded at the World's Fair of 1851. G.W. Watson, Chestnut St. above Twelfth, Philadelphia.
Title
Carriage repository. Medal awarded at the World's Fair of 1851. G.W. Watson, Chestnut St. above Twelfth, Philadelphia
Description
Illustrated trade card depicting an exterior view of George W. Watson's coach manufactory at 1219 Chestnut Street. Coaches inside the repository are visible through two large doorways on the ground level. Built in 1851, the building also served as a concert hall beginning in 1853., Damaged in upper right corner., 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 - Watson [(6)1322.F.163a]
George W. Watson coach & harness maker. Philadelphia.
Title
George W. Watson coach & harness maker. Philadelphia
Description
Advertisement containing views of the "Factory at 13th & Parrish Sts." and the factory and showroom, i.e., "Old Stand No. 9, Sth. Sixth St." Factory view shows the bustling "George S. Watson Coach Factory" complex with workshops, courtyard, and sheds surrounded by a wood fence on the 800 block of North 13th Street. Within the courtyard, wheelwrights work on a wheel propped up next to a blazing fire as another worker walks past with a watering can. Other workers retrieve planks of wood from piles loaded in a shed and attend to a carriage. Carriage parts, a horse in a single stall, and piles of wood surround the workers. Within the workshops, carriages and coaches and metalworkers at a forge are visible. A wagon maker also works on a few vehicles placed on a balcony attached to the upper floor of the main workshop. Outside of the complex, a worker rolls a wheel toward the entrance to the workshop with the forge as another leads two horses toward the entrance of the courtyard. A man carrying a stick with rags over his shoulder, near an ambling dog, also walks on the sidewalk. Also shows rows of buildings and a wagon crossing an empty lot in the background., "Old Stand" view shows the factory and show room, adorned with signage, on the 100 block of South Sixth Street. Through the two open entries, a clerk is visible showing a couple one of several carriages that line the showroom floor. Outside the building, in front of the display window, a gentleman gestures to a handler of two horses hitched to a coach in the street. Behind the gesturing man, a laborer enters the cellar of the showroom below the window that displays harnesses, horse equipment, and a small-model coach. Three unhitched carriages and coaches line the street in front of the adjoining building marked "Geo. W. Watson Coach & Harness Maker." Laborers work at a number of the windows at the upper floors of the two buildings. Partial views of adjacent businesses complete the view. One building contains an awning marked "Wind...RLIN." Print also contains vignette views of a fancy coach, from the rear, and a carriage, from the front, in motion. A coachman rides at the back of the horse-drawn coach with driver. The horse-drawn carriage with a driver and folded-down roof contains a well-dressed couple as its passengers., Date from Poulson inscriptions on duplicate split into half-sheets: Aug. 1847., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 299, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator
Rease, W. H., artist
Date
[ca. 1847]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W151 [P.2081]