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Photo, Print, Drawing Jacob Emerick's Wholesale and Retail China, Glass, and Queensware. Number 215, North Third Street, Philadelphia.

About this Item

Title

  • Jacob Emerick's Wholesale and Retail China, Glass, and Queensware. Number 215, North Third Street, Philadelphia.

Summary

  • This advertisement from 1846 shows a three-and-one-half story storefront, located at 215 [349] North Third Street in Philadelphia, tenanted by the firm of Jacob Emerick from 1837 to 1874. Inside the store, visible through an open doorway, a clerk assists a patron. The sign north of the first floor proclaims, "Jacob Emerick's China Glass & Liverpool Warehouse." A large model teapot adorns the front facade of the building. Shelves of porcelain and glassware line the walls. Additional porcelain and glassware, including plates, serving trays, tureens, and pitchers, are piled on the floor, fill the central display window, and are exhibited outside near the open cellar of the store. In the street, a laborer unloads large hampers from a horse-drawn dray. This illustration is by Matthias Shirk Weaver. Born around 1816, probably in New Holland, Pennsylvania, Weaver came to Philadelphia in 1838 to study art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. To support himself, he worked as a lithographic artist, predominantly with printer Thomas S. Sinclair, drawing large Philadelphia business advertisements, portraits, membership certificates, book illustrations, sheet music covers, and maps. He left Philadelphia for Ohio in 1845, where he died of consumption (tuberculosis) in 1847. This print was produced by Sinclair, one of the premier Philadelphia lithographers of the 19th century.

Names

  • Weaver, Matthias S., 1815 or 16-1847 Artist.

Created / Published

  • Philadelphia : Sinclair's Lithography, 1846-10.

Headings

  • -  United States of America--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
  • -  1846-10
  • -  Advertising
  • -  Cities and towns
  • -  Clerks
  • -  Glass trade
  • -  Horses
  • -  Implements, utensils, etc
  • -  Laborers
  • -  Lithographs
  • -  Merchants
  • -  Pitchers
  • -  Porcelain industry
  • -  Storefronts
  • -  Stores and shops
  • -  Street scenes
  • -  Teapots
  • -  Vases
  • -  Vessels
  • -  Wagons

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  "Digital catalog number: POS 402"--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 print : lithograph ; 43 x 25 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

  • 2021670257

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Weaver, Matthias S., 1815 Or 16-1847 Artist. Jacob Emerick's Wholesale and Retail China, Glass, and Queensware. Number 215, North Third Street, Philadelphia. Pennsylvania United States of America Philadelphia, 1846. Philadelphia: Sinclair's Lithography, -10. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670257/.

APA citation style:

Weaver, M. S. (1846) Jacob Emerick's Wholesale and Retail China, Glass, and Queensware. Number 215, North Third Street, Philadelphia. Pennsylvania United States of America Philadelphia, 1846. Philadelphia: Sinclair's Lithography, -10. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670257/.

MLA citation style:

Weaver, Matthias S., 1815 Or 16-1847 Artist. Jacob Emerick's Wholesale and Retail China, Glass, and Queensware. Number 215, North Third Street, Philadelphia. Philadelphia: Sinclair's Lithography, -10. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021670257/>.