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Photo, Print, Drawing Harrison Brothers' White Lead Works and Chemical Laboratory, Philadelphia. Harrison Brothers' white lead works & chemical laboratory, Philadelphia

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Title

  • Harrison Brothers' White Lead Works and Chemical Laboratory, Philadelphia.

Other Title

  • Harrison Brothers' white lead works & chemical laboratory, 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 a bird's eye view of the chemical works of Harrison Brothers near Fitler and Harrison Streets in Frankford, lower northeast Philadelphia. The signs on the buildings, from left to right, read "Pyro Acid Works," "Sulphuric Acid Works," "Sugar Lead Works," "White Lead Works," "Alum Works," and "Copperas Works." The scene includes laborers pushing wheelbarrows, putting coal in a furnace, and hoisting barrels using a block-and-tackle pulley system. Deer and horses graze the fields in the tree-lined fields behind the chemical works. Established circa 1793, Harrison Brothers operated, by the time of the Civil War, plants in New York, Maryland, and Philadelphia. It operated this plant in Frankford until about 1870. 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 Artist.

Created / Published

  • Philadelphia : Printed by Wagner & McGuigan, 1847-08.

Headings

  • -  United States of America--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
  • -  1847-08
  • -  Advertising
  • -  Chemical industry
  • -  Cities and towns
  • -  Factories
  • -  Horse-drawn vehicles
  • -  Laborers
  • -  Lead industry
  • -  Lithographs
  • -  Paint industry and trade
  • -  Wagons

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  "Digital catalog number: POS 341"--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 print : lithograph ; 32 x 64 centimeters.
  • -  Reference extracted from World Digital Library: Cervaux, Augustin, "Paints and Varnishes," in The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia, http://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/archive/paints-and-varnishes/|Rease, External 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

  • 2021670404

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  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Rease, William H., Circa Artist. Harrison Brothers' White Lead Works and Chemical Laboratory, Philadelphia. Pennsylvania United States of America Philadelphia, 1847. Philadelphia: Printed by Wagner & McGuigan, -08. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670404/.

APA citation style:

Rease, W. H. (1847) Harrison Brothers' White Lead Works and Chemical Laboratory, Philadelphia. Pennsylvania United States of America Philadelphia, 1847. Philadelphia: Printed by Wagner & McGuigan, -08. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670404/.

MLA citation style:

Rease, William H., Circa Artist. Harrison Brothers' White Lead Works and Chemical Laboratory, Philadelphia. Philadelphia: Printed by Wagner & McGuigan, -08. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021670404/>.