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Photo, Print, Drawing Potter & Carmichael, Oil Cloth Manufacturers. Warehouse, Number 135, North Third Street, Philadelphia. Potter & Carmichael, oil cloth manufacturers. warehouse, No. 135, North Third Street, Philadelphia

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Title

  • Potter & Carmichael, Oil Cloth Manufacturers. Warehouse, Number 135, North Third Street, Philadelphia.

Other Title

  • Potter & Carmichael, oil cloth manufacturers. warehouse, No. 135, North Third Street, 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 the busy factory complex on Second Street above the Reading Railroad (i.e., 135 North Third Street above Race Street). A "Franklin-ville, Oilcloth Works" sign tops the roof of the main factory building around which workers stretch cloth on long flat racks. Cloth is also stretched down the sides of buildings. Other men move a roll of carpet into a hatch, load materials into a wagon in the courtyard, and transport materials by handcart and horse-drawn dray. Behind the smaller building, men work in and around a shed. Countryside frames the scene. The firm of Potter & Carmichael moved their warehouse to 135 North Third Street from 568 North Third Street (above Poplar Street) circa 1848. The partnership was dissolved in 1853. 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 Lithographer.

Created / Published

  • Philadelphia : Printed by F. Kuhl, 1849-04.

Headings

  • -  United States of America--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
  • -  1849-04
  • -  Advertising
  • -  Cities and towns
  • -  Factories
  • -  Floor coverings industry
  • -  Horse-drawn vehicles
  • -  Laborers
  • -  Lithographs
  • -  Oilcloth
  • -  Street scenes
  • -  Textile industry
  • -  Wagons
  • -  Warehouses

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  "Digital catalog number: POS 618"--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 print : lithograph ; 22 x 46 centimeters.
  • -  Reference extracted from World Digital Library: Rease, William H., Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary, Library Company of Philadelphia, http://www.lcpdigital.org|Watson, External John Fanning, Annals of Philadelphia, and Pennsylvania, in the Olden Time (Philadelphia: J.M. Stoddart and Company, 1877).
  • -  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

  • 2021670300

Online Format

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  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Rease, William H., Circa Lithographer. Potter & Carmichael, Oil Cloth Manufacturers. Warehouse, Number 135, North Third Street, Philadelphia. Pennsylvania United States of America Philadelphia, 1849. Philadelphia: Printed by F. Kuhl, -04. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670300/.

APA citation style:

Rease, W. H. (1849) Potter & Carmichael, Oil Cloth Manufacturers. Warehouse, Number 135, North Third Street, Philadelphia. Pennsylvania United States of America Philadelphia, 1849. Philadelphia: Printed by F. Kuhl, -04. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670300/.

MLA citation style:

Rease, William H., Circa Lithographer. Potter & Carmichael, Oil Cloth Manufacturers. Warehouse, Number 135, North Third Street, Philadelphia. Philadelphia: Printed by F. Kuhl, -04. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021670300/>.