G. G. Evans's great gift book establishment, 439 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia: Stockroom – Antique Photo Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this antique engraving of G. G. Evans's great gift book establishment, 439 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia: Stockroom. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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G. G. Evans's great gift book establishment, 439 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia: Stockroom
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The subject is the stockroom of G. G. Evans's gift book establishment at 439 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia, a view of the storage space behind the sales floor rather than the shop front. The wood engraving appeared in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper at the very end of 1859, when the holiday season drove sales of gift books, illustrated volumes bought as presents. Wood engraving was the standard way to reproduce pictures in weekly papers of the period, so the image shows readers an inside view of a business many would never enter.
| Created / published | 1859 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Notes | Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 9, no. 213 (1859 Dec. 31), p. 76. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,160 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-159354 |
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