W. P. Hacker, importer and wholesale dealer in china, glass, queensware & fancy goods, No....

Advertisement showing the four-story, three-bay building tenanted by the china, glass and queensware business of William P. Hacker (d.1874) at 60 (ie. 108) North Second Street. Pitchers, vases and bowls in various shapes and sizes are stacked on shelves lining the walls of the shop interior, and are also displayed in the storefront window, which is flanked by two wide doors on the ground level. In the left doorway, a man lifts a barrel using a pulley system running all the way to the top floor of the building. Another worker loads hampers onto a horse-drawn dray. Barrels ...