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Photo, Print, Drawing F. Leaming and Company. Hardware, Nail, Steel, Hollow-Ware and Looking Glass Store. Number 215 Market Street.

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Title

  • F. Leaming and Company. Hardware, Nail, Steel, Hollow-Ware and Looking Glass Store. Number 215 Market Street.

Summary

  • This crudely-printed advertising print is from Philadelphia, circa 1831. It shows the four-story storefront located at 215 Market Street (i.e., the 500 block of Market Street). The building housed F. Leaming & Company, which sold "hardware, nail, steel, hollow-ware & looking glass." A patron approaches the glass-paned door of the business and a couple strolls past on the sidewalk. The cellar doors of the building are partially visible. Leaming operated at this location from 1831 to 1833. The lithograph was published by Childs & Inman, a partnership between Philadelphia engraver and lithographer Cephas G. Childs and New York portrait painter Henry Inman, which was one of the earliest important lithographic firms in Philadelphia. The partnership was active between 1830 and 1833.

Created / Published

  • Philadelphia : Childs & Inman Press, 1831.

Headings

  • -  United States of America--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
  • -  1831
  • -  Advertising
  • -  Cities and towns
  • -  Commerce
  • -  Hardware stores
  • -  Lithographs
  • -  Merchants
  • -  Storefronts
  • -  Stores and shops
  • -  Street scenes

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  "Digital catalog number: POS 223"--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 print : lithograph ; 14 x 9 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

  • 2021670200

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

F. Leaming and Company. Hardware, Nail, Steel, Hollow-Ware and Looking Glass Store. Number 215 Market Street. Pennsylvania United States of America Philadelphia, 1831. Philadelphia: Childs & Inman Press. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670200/.

APA citation style:

(1831) F. Leaming and Company. Hardware, Nail, Steel, Hollow-Ware and Looking Glass Store. Number 215 Market Street. Pennsylvania United States of America Philadelphia, 1831. Philadelphia: Childs & Inman Press. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670200/.

MLA citation style:

F. Leaming and Company. Hardware, Nail, Steel, Hollow-Ware and Looking Glass Store. Number 215 Market Street. Philadelphia: Childs & Inman Press. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021670200/>.