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Photo, Print, Drawing Hart, Montgomery and Company, Successors to Isaac Pugh and Company. Manufacturers and Importers of Paper Hangings, Number 118 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Manufactory, Northeast Corner of Schuylkill Front and Wood Streets. Hart, Montgomery & Co. Successors to Isaac Pugh & Co. Manufacturers and importers of paper hangings, No. 118 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Manufactory N.E. Cor. Schuyl Front & Wood Streets

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Title

  • Hart, Montgomery and Company, Successors to Isaac Pugh and Company. Manufacturers and Importers of Paper Hangings, Number 118 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Manufactory, Northeast Corner of Schuylkill Front and Wood Streets.

Other Title

  • Hart, Montgomery & Co. Successors to Isaac Pugh & Co. Manufacturers and importers of paper hangings, No. 118 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Manufactory N.E. Cor. Schuyl Front & Wood Streets

Summary

  • This advertising print from around 1852 shows an exterior view of the manufactory operated from 1849 until 1860 by William Hart and A.J. Montgomery at Schuylkill Front (later 22nd Street) and Wood Streets, depicted within a lithographed tromp l'oeil wood frame. Hart, Montgomery & Company describes itself in the print as manufacturers and importers of paper hangings. During the mid-19th century, Philadelphia was the premier American city of fine wallpaper production. A horse-drawn cart stands idle by a side entrance of the multi-storied factory and four goats roam a nearby yard. Smaller factory buildings are visible to the right. Horse-drawn delivery carts, one driven by an African American, travel past each other on the adjacent street. Pedestrians and laborers walk the sidewalks and converse near a street lamp. Eastern State Penitentiary is visible in the background. The print is by William H. Rease, the most prolific lithographer of advertising prints in Philadelphia during the 1840s and 1850s. Born in Pennsylvania circa 1818, Rease became active in his trade around 1844. 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, a listing in O'Brien's Business Directory indicates that by 1850 he had founded his own establishment at 17 South Fifth Street, north of Chestnut Street. After a partnership with Francis Schell that lasted from about 1853 to 1855, in 1855 he relocated his shop to the northeast corner of Fourth and Chestnut Streets, where, in addition to advertising prints, he produced certificates, views, maps, and maritime prints.

Names

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

Created / Published

  • Philadelphia : Printed by F. Kuhl, 1852.

Headings

  • -  United States of America--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
  • -  1852
  • -  Advertising
  • -  Cities and towns
  • -  Decoration and ornament
  • -  Factories
  • -  Horses
  • -  Lithographs
  • -  Merchants
  • -  Street scenes
  • -  Wagons
  • -  Wallpaper industry

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  "Digital catalog number: POS 344"--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 print : lithograph, tinted ; 49 x 67 centimeters.
  • -  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

  • 2021670329

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Rease, William H., Circa Artist. Hart, Montgomery and Company, Successors to Isaac Pugh and Company. Manufacturers and Importers of Paper Hangings, Number 118 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Manufactory, Northeast Corner of Schuylkill Front and Wood Streets. Pennsylvania United States of America Philadelphia, 1852. Philadelphia: Printed by F. Kuhl. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670329/.

APA citation style:

Rease, W. H. (1852) Hart, Montgomery and Company, Successors to Isaac Pugh and Company. Manufacturers and Importers of Paper Hangings, Number 118 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Manufactory, Northeast Corner of Schuylkill Front and Wood Streets. Pennsylvania United States of America Philadelphia, 1852. Philadelphia: Printed by F. Kuhl. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670329/.

MLA citation style:

Rease, William H., Circa Artist. Hart, Montgomery and Company, Successors to Isaac Pugh and Company. Manufacturers and Importers of Paper Hangings, Number 118 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Manufactory, Northeast Corner of Schuylkill Front and Wood Streets. Philadelphia: Printed by F. Kuhl. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021670329/>.