Image / Harrison & Newhall, corner of Race and Crown Streets, Philadelphia

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Title: Harrison & Newhall, corner of Race and Crown Streets, Philadelphia
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Wagner & M’Guigan, printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1856
1857
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of an advertisement for Harrison & Newhall coffee and sugar merchants of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; eye-level street view of their Pennsylvania sugar refinery buildings; barrels being loaded and transported by horse-drawn carts along the street amidst pedestrians and workers.
Date supplied by cataloger based on company and printer history; Harrison & Newhall are first listed on Race & Crown in 1856, and Wagner & McGuigan were in business together until a fire destroyed their business in 1857. "Commission Merchants and Importers of Rio Coffee, Sugar, Hides, &C., Philadelphia."--text, right margin. "Printed by Wagner & McGuigan."--text, bottom left margin. "Lith by W.H. Rease N.E. Cor. of 4th Chesnut St. Phila."--text, bottom right margin.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : uncolored ; overall 47.31 x 77.15 cm (18 5/8 x 30 3/8 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_FOOD_000621
408411
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/3823
Language: English
Subject: Advertising--Food
Horse-drawn vehicles--Pictorial works
Industrial buildings--Pictorial works
Sugar factories--Pictorial works
Harrison & Newhall
Lithographs--Color--1850-1875. (gmgpc)
Views. (gmgpc)
Place: Philadelphia (Pa.)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
Food
Large Size
The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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