Wurfflein Store Pamphlet

[vmicraig]

While it's not a period photo per se, it's indeed a photo of a period brochure - did this building actually exist? I couldn't find any antique photos of it online, but then again, it's a darn big internet! Anyone familiar enough with the history of Philly to know if the drawing was modeled after an actual building? Im particularly interested in whether or not the giant musket actually appears in any old photos.

 

[Mike Serpa]

I didn't find answers to you questions but I found another ad.

Sheppard, J. S. & Allen, W. H. - Sheppard's Shippers' Guide To The West (1867) : J. S. Sheppard : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Sheppard, J. S. & Allen, W. H. - Sheppard's Shippers' Guide To The West. Embracing Twenty-Three States (Cincinnati: J. S. Sheppard & Co., Publishers,...

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And this from an 1849 patent book.

Annual report of the Commissioner of Patents / U.S. Department of Commerce, Patent Office. Volume 1, 1849. : Annual report of the Commissioner of Patents / U.S. Department of Commerce, Patent Office. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet

volumes : 23 cm

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