Photo, Print, Drawing Hartley and Knight's Bedding Warehouse. Number 148 South Second Street, Philadelphia.
About this Item
Title
- Hartley and Knight's Bedding Warehouse. Number 148 South Second Street, Philadelphia.
Summary
- This advertising print from 1846 shows the cluttered-looking three-story storefront of the bedding warehouse located on the 200 block of South Second Street in Philadelphia. A clerk, possibly one of the proprietors, stands at the main entrance to the store and points to one of many disheveled displays of mattresses. Behind him, a couple enters the wareroom. The couple walks under a framed figure of a goose hanging above the doorway. Shelves of mattresses line the walls and rolled mattresses fill the large open display windows. In the back of the store, two women work in a back room. In the upper floor windows of the building, mattresses and bedding are propped out of windows and piles of feathers are visible. In front of the store, a mattress on a bed frame, a bed frame, and bedding on a cot are on display; a clerk loads bedding onto a horse-drawn cart; and a gentleman walks past a fire hydrant on the sidewalk. Partial views of adjacent buildings also can be seen. A prominent sign on the building reads, "Hartley & Knight's Bedding Warehouse." Partners Joseph Hartley and Reeve L. Knight relocated to this address circa 1842 and remained in a partnership until 1854.
Created / Published
- Philadelphia : [publisher not identified], 1846-08.
Headings
- - United States of America--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
- - 1846-08
- - Advertising
- - Bedding
- - Bedding industry
- - Cities and towns
- - Commerce
- - Horse-drawn vehicles
- - Horses
- - Lithographs
- - Mattresses
- - Merchants
- - Storefronts
- - Stores and shops
- - Street scenes
- - Upholstery trade
- - Wagons
Notes
- - Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
- - "Digital catalog number: POS 345"--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
- - Original resource extent: 1 print : lithograph ; 39 x 31 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
- 2021670260
Online Format
- compressed data
- image