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A portrait of Joshua Ballinger Lippincott by Thomas Eakins. Joshua Ballinger Lippincott (March 18, 1813 – January 5, 1886) [2] founded the publishing company in Philadelphia when he was 23 years old. J. B. Lippincott & Co. began business publishing Bibles and prayer books before expanding into history, biography, fiction, poetry, and gift books.
The Potts House at 3905 Spruce Street in Philadelphia.A mid-nineteenth century villa, it serves as home of the press [2]. The press was originally incorporated with by the Pennsylvania state government on March 26, 1890, [3] and the imprint of the University of Pennsylvania Press first appeared on publications in the 1890s, among the earliest such imprints in America.
The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. 20 (3). University of Pennsylvania Press: 315– 333. JSTOR 20085701. K. Korty, Margaret Barton (October 1967). "Franklin's World of Books". The Journal of Library History. 2 (4). University of Texas Press: 271– 328. JSTOR 25540067. L. Lacey, Barbara E. (2014). "The Illustrated Imprints of ...
The Curtis Publishing Company was founded in 1891 by publisher Cyrus H. K. Curtis, who published the People's Ledger, a news magazine he launched in Boston in 1872, and then moved to Philadelphia, which was a major publishing center in the nation, four years later, in 1876.
National Publishing Company is a historic book publisher in the United States. It was established in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by Joshua R. Jones. [1] In 1878 the business had a five-storey building constructed for its headquarters at 726 Cherry Street in Philadelphia. [2] The publisher produced bibles, books of maps, encyclopedias and other ...
The A.J. Holman and Company at 1224 Arch Street between N. 12th and N. 13th Streets in the Center City area of Philadelphia was built in 1881 and was designed by the Wilson Brothers, who also designed the nearby Reading Terminal. Andrew J. Holman founded the Bible-publishing business in 1872 and had this building constructed when their original ...
The house included a library, billiard room and a built-in pipe organ. It was located on a 42-acre estate. The house was demolished in the 1950s to make way for a housing project. Only the gardener's cottage remains. [8] John Gribbel also owned a summer cottage named "Weatherend" on Deadman Point in Rockport, Maine. [9]
The monorail car is a static display at Philadelphia's Please Touch Museum. [24] 9th floor: Crystal Tea Room; 10th floor: In-house physician and nurses; 12th floor: Wanamaker Organ Shop, where the Wanamaker Organ was enlarged by an in-house expert staff; Sub-floors: The Downstairs Store, post office, lost and found, shoe repair, the Dairy Bar ...