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- Title
- Melloy & Ford, wholesale tin ware manufacturers. [graphic] / On stone by W. Rease, No. 17 Sth 5th St.
- Description
- Print trimmed and lacking caption., Poulson's inscription on recto: Mar. 1849; Market Street., Advertisement depicting the three-and-a-half-story manufactory operated by John M. Melloy and Robert Ford at 291 Market Street, later renumbered 723, promoting the "lowest rates", "quick sales & small profits," and "metallic roofing." The building heavily adorned with signage and product advertisements including a large scale model of a coffee pot contains prominent displays of tinware in the shop window, on the store shelves, and near the open cellar door. Near the front of the shop, a couple strolls, two laborers lift a crate onto a horse-drawn sulky, and a female customer enters the store. An African American peddler with tray and bell passes a line of crates on the sidewalk. Tinsmiths work near the third floor windows. Melloy & Ford, a partnership established in 1849, was in business until 1861 when Melloy entered partnership with Isaac Smith at the same address.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H., lithographer., creator
- Date
- [[March 1849]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W231.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W 231 [P.2105]
- Title
- Lacey & Phillips. [graphic] / Drawn on stone by W.H. Rease No. 17 So. 5th St., Philda.
- Description
- Print trimmed and lacking caption., Poulson inscription on recto: Aug. 1847., Select link below for a digital image., Advertisement depicting William N. Lacey's and Samuel R. Phillips' busy four-story equestrian store at 12 South Fifth Street selling "ladies and gentlemen's saddles, single and double harnesses, and bridles and whips." Saddles, bridles, harnesses, and blankets are prominently displayed in the storefront window and on the building facade. On the upper floors, several employees work by open windows. Elegantly dressed patrons converse near the entryway and four horses are lined up in the street awaiting and receiving service including a pair reined in by an African American coach driver. Partial view of the adjacent building containing the carpenter, W.B. Morrell, is visible. Lacey and Phillips partnership, established in 1845 remained at the site until 1852.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H., lithographer., creator
- Date
- [August 1847]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W215.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W 215 [P.2108]
- Title
- John Hibler, importer & wholesale dealer in foreign & American wines & liquors. No. 56, North Third Street, (second door above Arch,) Philadelphia. [graphic] / On stone by W.H. Rease, 17 So. 5th St., Phila.
- Description
- Date of publication supplied by Wainwright., Advertisement depicting the four-story shop containing signage advertising wines & liquors. The doors, windows, and cellar are open for business. Inside the shop, wine casks, crates, jugs, and bottles line the floors and a laborer raises a cask with a pulley. Outside, a laborer loads casks onto a horse-drawn cart as nearby. An African American peddler with a basket and ringing a bell passes by. Partial views of the adjacent stores, possibly an apothecary and bolting cloth business, are visible. Hibler, operated the wine business at the location from 1840 until 1844, where afterward he operated a grocery.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H., lithographer., creator
- Date
- [1844]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W203.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W203 [P.2116]
- Title
- Foering & Thudiums cheap stove ware-house. [graphic] / W.H. Rease, No. 17 S[out]h 5[t]h St.
- Description
- Print trimmed and lacking caption., Poulson inscription on recto: Dec. 1846. North Second Street., Advertisement depicting the three-and-a-half story warehouse operated by Frederick Foering and C.A. Thudium at 87 North Second Street. In the open entranceways, a clerk assists a female shopper and an African American laborer lifts a stove. Displays of stoves line the sidewalk and the store walls. On the second floor near open windows, white laborers work. A horse-drawn cart departs an adjoining exitway. Foering and Thudium, one of the city's first domestic stove manufacturers, started in business in 1828, and operated on North Second Street from 1845 until 1847.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H., lithographer., creator
- Date
- [December 1846]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W132.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W132 [P.2045]
- Title
- Penn Hotel & Denny's harness shop. [graphic] / On stone by W.H. Rease 17 1/2 S. 5th St.
- Description
- Print trimmed and lacking caption., Poulson inscription on recto: Dec. 1848 No. 327 1/2 Market Street., Select link below for a digital image., Advertisement depicting the three-and-a-half-story building containing the hotel and tavern operated by John Thompson at 329 Market Street and Robert Denny's saddles and harness store at 327 1/2 Market Street. Harnesses and other horse paraphernalia hang from the shop's display window and entranceways, including a stable entrance marked, "Entertainment for Horses." In front of the building, a man with his horse enters the marked entrance; a clerk from Denny's converses with a customer by a stack of trunks; and other horses rest nearby and in front of the adjacent hardware store, including one attached to a sulky attended by an African American man. Hotel guests stand near the second floor windows and enter the hotel entrance. The hotel, tavern, and harness and saddle store resided together at the site only for the year 1848 to 1849.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H., lithographer., creator
- Date
- [[December 1848]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W270.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W 270 [P.2156]
- Title
- [John Horn, drugs and chemical store, N.E. corner of Third & Brown Streets, Philadelphia] [graphic] / Drawn on stone by W. H. Rease, 17 1/2 S. 5th. St.
- Description
- Location: 801 N. Third Street., LCP copy lacking title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
- Date
- ca. 1850.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W204.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W204 [P.2115]