Advertisment showing the brewery marked as established "1861" and adjacent residences. Horse-drawn wagons loaded with barrels from the brewery depart the fence-lined, landscaped property from under an archway reading "Philadelphia Brewery" and travel in the street in the foreground. Also shows a couple walking on the sidewalk in front of one of the residences., Not in Wainwright., Title supplied by cataloger., Philadelphia on Stone, Trimmed, Library of Congress: DLC PP 2001: 068 [Philadelphia Brewery]
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC DLC PP 2001: 068 [Philadelphia Brewery]
Trade card for Moras, a German-born lithographer who established his own firm in 1853 from which he retired in 1890. The firm continued to operate until the late 1890s. Contains two vignettes separated and bordered by Gothic details, vinery, and scrolls. Vignettes show a lithographer and a lithograph printing room. Lithographic artist uses a hand rest and draws on stone from a sketch displayed on his sketch table. Printing room scene shows printers at work, including rolling ink on stones on hand-presses, checking proof prints, and moving stones. Also shows lithographic stones resting against a support column and the rooms adorned with wall lamps., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 29, Library of Congress: DLC/PP-1997:105 Queen Prints - 23 (AA size) F. Moras
Creator
Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC DLC/PP-1997:105 Queen Prints - 23 (AA size) F. Moras
Proof print of advertisement containing an ornate border surrounding a central view of the exterior of the six-story brownstone and print shop owned by lithographer Haehnlen at 420 Library Street. Signage advertising the "lithographic establishment" adorns the doorway, front, and side of "Goldsmith’s Hall." Building also adorned with large display windows and an eagle above the entranceway. View includes street and pedestrian traffic. Pedestrians walk on the sidewalk, stand in doorways, and enter the shop. In the street, horse-drawn wagons and drays, including one hauling crates marked "J.H.," pass in the street near a man pushing a hand-cart loaded with crates. Shop included salesrooms and offices, a machine shop, a drying room, lithographic presses, and card, handbill, and pamphlet printing presses. Border composed of cards containing ornate letters spelling Haehnlen's name and examples of his genres of work, including portraiture, industrial views, and machine imagery. Haehnlen established his own studio at Goldsmith’s Hall in 1866 and operated his business from all but the first floor. He sold his shop to the firm Lehman & Bolton in 1870. Building destroyed by fire on December 20, 1882., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 46
Creator
Haehnlen, Jacob, b. 1824
Date
[ca. 1867]
Location
Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PGA - Haehnlen--Jacob (A size) [P&P]
Advertisement utilizing a trompe l'oeil motif to promote the bolt works manufactory at 1330 Buttonwood Street. Shows, from the perspective of looking down, a variety of several types of nuts and bolts, including a "bridge bolt" laid out on a flat surface. Hoopes & Townsend was founded by Barton and Edward Hoopes and S. Sharpless Townsend in 1849 in Wilmington, Delaware. The factory relocated to the Philadelphia address in 1852., Date from manuscript note on recto: No 1097. Filed Nov. 30 1868. Hoopes & Townsend., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 111, Library of Congress: PGA - Easton--Hoopes & Townsend, manufacturers... (C size) [P&P], Easton was a Philadelphia civil engineer and printer of lithographs.
Date
[1868]
Location
Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PGA - Easton--Hoopes & Townsend, manufacturers...
Advertisement showing a medley of "family and fancy" soaps, most not in wrappers, of different shapes (rectangular, oval, and square), sizes, and colors (brown, yellow, pink, and white). Scents and makes of soap include detersive soap, almond soap; "Brown Windsor," musk soap, honey & glycerin, elder flower, and "Oriental Shaving Soap." McKeone, Van Haagen & Co. was founded in 1854., Not in Wainwright., Copyrighted by McKeone, Van Haagen & Co., Copyright date from manuscript note on recto: #55. Filed January 27, 1865 by McKeone, Van Haagen & Co., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 147, Library of Congress: PAGA, Rosenthal, Medley of Soaps (B size) McKeone
Date
cJanuary 27, 1865
Location
Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PAGA, Rosenthal, Medley of Soaps (B size) McKeone
