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Photo, Print, Drawing Keyser & Foxe's Mahogany Steam Saw Mill & Turning Shop, Number 21 Crown Street between Race & Vine Streets, Philadelphia. Keyser & Foxe's mahogany steam saw mill & turning shop No. 21 Crown St. between Race & Vine Sts., Philadelphia

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Title

  • Keyser & Foxe's Mahogany Steam Saw Mill & Turning Shop, Number 21 Crown Street between Race & Vine Streets, Philadelphia.

Other Title

  • Keyser & Foxe's mahogany steam saw mill & turning shop No. 21 Crown St. between Race & Vine Sts., Philadelphia

Summary

  • George G. Heiss was a mid-19th century Philadelphia lithographer, who specialized in views of fire-fighting equipment. This lithograph advertises the sawmill run by Jacob Keyser and Bryan Fox at 21 (later 225) Crown Street. Three men work with mahogany logs. One of them guides a log onto a block-and-tackle lift from the sidewalk, while another holds the ropes and waits for the log on the second level. Another laborer moves a log on a ramp through an open doorway on the first floor. In the foreground, an unhitched dray stands near a log in the cobblestone street. Most of the windows and the doors are flanked by open, white shutters. Keyser & Foxe operated from this location between 1853 and 1861, after which the sawmill was renamed Bryan Fox & Son. Heiss was born in Philadelphia in 1823. He exhibited at the Artists' Fund Society 1840-43 and was also known as a portrait painter. He worked closely with Thomas Wagner and James McGuigan's lithography studio from 1847 until 1855, when he opened his own establishment at 213 North Second Street. From then until the early 1860s, he mainly lithographed and published views of fire-fighting engines for local volunteer companies. Heiss published The Illustrated National Alphabet illustrated with lithographs in 1865. He left lithography in 1868 and established an artists' materials emporium at 25 North 11th Street, which he operated until about 1885.

Names

  • Heiss, George G., 1823-circa 1885 Artist.

Created / Published

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

Headings

  • -  United States of America--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
  • -  1847-08
  • -  Advertising
  • -  Carriages and carts
  • -  Cities and towns
  • -  Factories
  • -  Laborers
  • -  Lithographs
  • -  Lumber
  • -  Lumber industry
  • -  Sawmills
  • -  Warehouses

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  "Digital catalog number: POS 420"--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 print : lithograph ; 45 x 59 centimeters.
  • -  Reference extracted from World Digital Library: Heiss, George G., 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

  • 2021670264

Online Format

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  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Heiss, George G., Circa 1885 Artist. Keyser & Foxe's Mahogany Steam Saw Mill & Turning Shop, Number 21 Crown Street between Race & Vine Streets, Philadelphia. Pennsylvania United States of America Philadelphia, 1847. Philadelphia: Printed by Wagner & McGuigan, -08. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670264/.

APA citation style:

Heiss, G. G. (1847) Keyser & Foxe's Mahogany Steam Saw Mill & Turning Shop, Number 21 Crown Street between Race & Vine Streets, 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/2021670264/.

MLA citation style:

Heiss, George G., Circa 1885 Artist. Keyser & Foxe's Mahogany Steam Saw Mill & Turning Shop, Number 21 Crown Street between Race & Vine Streets, Philadelphia. Philadelphia: Printed by Wagner & McGuigan, -08. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021670264/>.