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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

Additional Metadata Formats

IIIF Presentation Manifest

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Chicago citation style:

Hartley and Knight's Bedding Warehouse. Number 148 South Second Street, Philadelphia. Pennsylvania United States of America Philadelphia, 1846. [Philadelphia: Publisher Not Identified, -08] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670260/.

APA citation style:

(1846) Hartley and Knight's Bedding Warehouse. Number 148 South Second Street, Philadelphia. Pennsylvania United States of America Philadelphia, 1846. [Philadelphia: Publisher Not Identified, -08] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670260/.

MLA citation style:

Hartley and Knight's Bedding Warehouse. Number 148 South Second Street, Philadelphia. [Philadelphia: Publisher Not Identified, -08] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021670260/>.