Skate store - skates of all kinds for sale here (LOC)

Reen, Charles,, b. approximately 1827,, printer.

 

Skate store - skates of all kinds for sale here W.W. Knight Son & Co. 509 Commerce St. between 5th & 6th & Market and Arch Sts. formerly 619 Market St. Philadelphia /

 

Phila[delphia] : Chas. Reen Lith., 42 Sth. 3rd. St., c1860.

 

1 print : chromolithograph ; 32.8 x 41.1 cm (sheet)

 

Notes:

Advertising or window display card showing winter scene with many people ice skating, possibly on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia, and a bridge spanning the river in the background. Includes text for the W.W. Knight Son & Co. "Skate Store" where "skates of all kinds" can be purchased.

Title from item.

Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1860, by W.W. Knight Son & Co. in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Purchase; Marian Carson; 1997; (DLC/PP-1997:105).

Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection at the Library of Congress.

 

Subjects:

Ice skating--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--1860.

Business enterprises--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--1860.

 

Format: Advertising cards--1860.

Window cards--1860.

Chromolithographs--Color--1860.

 

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

 

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

 

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.24859

 

Call Number: PGA - Reen (C.)--Skate store ...

 

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