Lit Brothers Philadelphia Ceramics

The lit brothers building on the northeast corner of 8th and market streets continues to display the original lit brothers name on the building.

Lit brothers philadelphia ceramics.

Lit brothers market street between 7 th and 8 th streets. Seder wannamakers gimbal s and lit brothers. In an environment that already included plenty of competition the lit brothers set their store apart. This is a nice old piece.

Lit brothers was a moderately priced department store based in philadelphia samuel and jacob lit opened the first store at north 8th and market streets in 1891. Antique lit brothers philadelphia department store credit card charge coin key fob token quality courtesy service thelazypeacock. In 1893 rachel s brothers samuel and jacob lit joined rachel and built a new store at the northeast corner of eighth and market streets. Find great deals on ebay for lit brothers.

Lippincott was the original publisher of to kill a mockingbird. Before lit brothers occupied the 8th and market location j b. Lit brothers began as a millinery shop founded by rachel lit wedell on eighth street above filbert in 1890. 5 out of 5 stars 1 663 1 663 reviews 28 00.

The other side has a name and address with a number underneath pressed into the metal. Required cookies technologies. Some of the technologies we use are necessary for critical functions like security and site integrity account authentication security and privacy preferences internal site usage and maintenance data and to make the site work correctly for browsing and transactions. Snellenburgs blauner s frank amp.

In 1893 samuel and jacob lit opened their first department store in philadelphia. Ceramics pottery metalworking carving whittling. Lits positioned itself well as a more affordable alternate to its upscale competitors strawbridge and clothier john wanamaker and gimbels the store s slogan was a great store in a great city and it was noted for its millinery. Lippincott a publisher occupied that location there was a fire before lit brothers ever occupied the space.

These are all from philadelphia department stores. It comes in a green plastic case with lit brothers philadelphia 5 pa on one side and a great store in a great city on the other side. If you remember these stores you must be. My mom worked there too.

I grew up a mile from lit brothers at echelon mall voorhees nj. One side reads lit brothers with a signature under it.