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Photo, Print, Drawing Price and Harper's Steam Saw Mill, Fancy Chair Manufactory, and Lumber Yard, Girard Avenue, between Seventh and Eighth, Philadelphia. Price & Harper's steam saw mill, fancy chair manufactory, and lumber yard, Girard Avenue, between Seventh & Eighth, Philadelphia

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Title

  • Price and Harper's Steam Saw Mill, Fancy Chair Manufactory, and Lumber Yard, Girard Avenue, between Seventh and Eighth, Philadelphia.

Other Title

  • Price & Harper's steam saw mill, fancy chair manufactory, and lumber yard, Girard Avenue, between Seventh & Eighth, Philadelphia

Summary

  • William H. Rease, born in Pennsylvania circa 1818, was the most prolific lithographer of advertising prints in Philadelphia during the 1840s and 1850s. This advertisement shows the four-story brick building and adjoining lumber yard on Girard Avenue above Seventh Street tenanted by Price & Harper. Signboards on the front facade read, "fancy-chair factory, steam sawmill, turning & scroll sawing, and iron foundry." Large piles of lumber are visible in the yard that extends west to Eighth Street from the factory building. A man leads a horse out of the yard, while horse-drawn carts, some pulling lumber, travel up the street in front of the building. A carriage and a man and woman travel south on Eighth Street. A bale of hay sits on the sidewalk near a lamppost and a stalled carriage in the foreground. Price & Harper were partners in 1853-55. Rease became active in his trade around 1844, and through the 1850s he mainly worked with printers Frederick Kuhl and Wagner & McGuigan in the production of advertising prints known for their portrayals of human details. Although Rease often collaborated with other lithographers, by 1850 he promoted in O'Brien's Business Directory his own establishment at 17 South Fifth Street, above Chestnut Street. In 1855 he relocated his establishment to the northeast corner of Fourth and Chestnut Streets (after a circa 1853-55 partnership with Francis Schell), where in addition to advertising prints he produced certificates, views, maps, and maritime prints.

Names

  • Rease, William H., circa 1818-1893 Lithographer.

Created / Published

  • Philadelphia : Printed by Wagner & McGuigan, 1855.

Headings

  • -  United States of America--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
  • -  1853 to 1855
  • -  Advertising
  • -  Carriages and carts
  • -  Commerce
  • -  Factories
  • -  Furniture industry
  • -  Horse-drawn vehicles
  • -  Horses
  • -  Iron foundries
  • -  Lithographs
  • -  Lumber industry
  • -  Sawmills
  • -  Storefronts
  • -  Stores and shops
  • -  Street scenes

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  "Digital catalog number: POS 626"--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 print : lithograph, tinted with two stones ; 30 x 54 centimeters.
  • -  Reference extracted from World Digital Library: Rease, William H., Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary, Library Company of Philadelphia, http://www.lcpdigital.org. External
  • -  Original resource at: The Library Company of Philadelphia.
  • -  Content in English.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Source Collection

  • Philadelphia on Stone

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021670377

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Chicago citation style:

Rease, William H., Circa Lithographer. Price and Harper's Steam Saw Mill, Fancy Chair Manufactory, and Lumber Yard, Girard Avenue, between Seventh and Eighth, Philadelphia. Pennsylvania United States of America Philadelphia, 1855. Philadelphia: Printed by Wagner & McGuigan. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670377/.

APA citation style:

Rease, W. H. (1855) Price and Harper's Steam Saw Mill, Fancy Chair Manufactory, and Lumber Yard, Girard Avenue, between Seventh and Eighth, Philadelphia. Pennsylvania United States of America Philadelphia, 1855. Philadelphia: Printed by Wagner & McGuigan. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670377/.

MLA citation style:

Rease, William H., Circa Lithographer. Price and Harper's Steam Saw Mill, Fancy Chair Manufactory, and Lumber Yard, Girard Avenue, between Seventh and Eighth, Philadelphia. Philadelphia: Printed by Wagner & McGuigan. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021670377/>.