Photo, Print, Drawing Bowlby and Weaver's Hardware Store, Number 77, Market Street, Philadelphia. Bowlby & Weaver's hardware store No.77 Market Street Philadelphia
About this Item
Title
- Bowlby and Weaver's Hardware Store, Number 77, Market Street, Philadelphia.
Other Title
- Bowlby & Weaver's hardware store No.77 Market Street Philadelphia
Summary
- This print shows Bowlby & Weaver's Hardware Store, located at 77 Market Street (above Second Street) in Philadelphia. It was published in James Mease and Thomas Porter's Picture of Philadelphia from 1811 to 1831: Giving an Account of its Origin, Increase and Improvements in Arts, Sciences, Manufactures, Commerce and Revenue (Philadelphia, 1831). The illustration is by William L. Breton, a watercolorist and early lithographer of Philadelphia scenes, who was active in the city between about 1825 and 1855. Born in England circa 1773, Breton immigrated to Philadelphia around 1824. In the late 1820s, he contributed illustrations to Annals of Philadelphia, compiled by the antiquarian John F. Watson. In 1829 Breton entered the lithographic trade to execute the illustrations for the Annals. He worked extensively with the firm of Kennedy & Lucas, operated by David Kennedy and William B. Lucas, which produced Annals of Philadelphia. Breton also contributed to other publications at this time, including Mease and Porter's Picture of Philadelphia, also produced by Kennedy & Lucas, the first commercial lithographers in Philadelphia.
Names
- Breton, William L., circa 1773-1855 Artist.
Created / Published
- Philadelphia : Kennedy & Lucas's Lithography, 1831.
Headings
- - United States of America--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
- - 1831
- - Advertising
- - Cities and towns
- - Hardware stores
- - Lithographs
- - Merchants
- - Storefronts
- - Stores and shops
Notes
- - Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
- - "Digital catalog number: POS 61"--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
- - Original resource extent: 1 print : lithograph ; 18 x 10 centimeters.
- - Reference extracted from World Digital Library: William L. Breton, Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary, Library Company of Philadelphia, http://www.lcpdigital.org.|Philadelphia External on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers, http://www.librarycompany.org/pos/posdictionary.htm. 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
- 2021670189
Online Format
- compressed data
- image