Book advertisement containing landscape views, allegorical figures, and artist and printer's tools. Shows the allegorical figure Art as she leans on a pedestal that is covered in vines and displays a vase of flowers. She stands on a moss covered rock marked "Labels" that is surrounded by a stone tablet, possibly a lithographer's stone, inscribed "Manufacturers of Transferable Pictures"; a press machine; and a paint palette resting on a book. In the background, trees, hills, and a bridge spanning a river near townscape are visible. Breuker & Kessler, a partnership between George W. Breuker & Harry C. Kessler, operated circa 1867-1880., Not in Wainwright., Published in Edwin Freedley's Philadelphia and its manufactures: a hand-Book of the great manufactories and representative mercantile houses of Philadelphia, in 1867(Philadelphia: Edward Young & Co., 1867), opp. p. 134., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 7, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 39 B 750
Creator
Breuker & Kessler Co.
Date
[1867]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1867 Free 55213.O.134a
Advertisement containing a view of the busy fertilizer factory complex on the riverfront in Wilmington, Delaware. Complex includes three smock stacks. Several workers move, inspect, and use handcarts near rows of crates piled on the dock and in front of the manufactory. Horse-drawn wagons arrive and depart from the site. Ships and barges deliver and receive supplies from the Christina River. Also contains notice about "Descriptive Pamphlets mailed free on application" and the three locations of the manufacturers, including 203 West Front Street, Wilmington, Del.; 57 South Calvert Street, Baltimore, Md.; 28 South Wharves, Philadelphia. Manufactory established in 1861., Printed above title: [Trade Mark Patented, November 22d, 1870]., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 100, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 38 W 173, Manuscript note on verso: Library Fund Oct. 28, 1960.
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 38 W 173