Published References

• Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) Collection at the Library of Congress
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  Client/Project Name: Lit Brothers Store (HABS PA-1438)
   
• Conkling-Armstrong Terra Cotta Co. Port-folio / Philadelphia, Pa. : Conkling-Armstrong Terra Cotta Co., 1898.
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  Client/Project Name: Store
  Architects Referenced: Collins & Autenrieth (fl. 1852-1902); Conkling Armstrong Terra Cotta Company
   
• Edmunds, Franklin Davenport, ed. The Public School Buildings of the City of Philadelphia Philadelphia, Pa., 1913-, p. 627
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  Client/Project Name: Lit Brothers Store
  Architect Referenced: Burns, David R. (b. 1852)
   
• White, Theo B., ed., Philadelphia Architecture in the Nineteenth Century. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1953., p. 33, plate 72
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  Client/Project Name: Lit Brothers / Lit Brothers' Store
  Architect Referenced: Collins & Autenrieth (fl. 1852-1902)
   
• The Official Office Building Directory and Architectural Handbook of Philadelphia, The Commercial Publishing and Directory Co., Philadelphia, 1899, p. 391
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  Client/Project Name: Lit Brothers
   
• Pennsylvania Cultural Resources Geographic Information System, a cooperative venture of the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission and the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.
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  Client/Project Name: Lits Department Store
   
• National Register. (National Register Information System)
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  Client/Project Name: Lits Department Store
   
• Webster, Richard J., Philadelphia Preserved. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1976., p. 83, 345
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  Client/Project Name: Lit Brothers Store
   
• Teitelman, Edward, and Richard W. Longstreth. Architecture in Philadelphia: A Guide. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1974., p. 77
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  Client/Project Name: Lit Brothers Store
   
• Chiumenti, Ralph, The Cast-Iron Architecture of Philadelphia's Old City, Philadelphia, 1975., p. pl. 20
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  Client/Project Name: Lit Brothers Store
   
• Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Cultural Resources Database
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  Client/Project Name: Lits Department Store
   
• Philadelphia Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide, v. 27, n. 27, p. 434, 7/3/1912
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  Client/Project Name: Lit Bros.
  Architect Referenced: Stearns & Castor (fl. 1895 - 1917)
   
• Philadelphia Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide, v. 34, n. 6, p. 70, 2/5/1919
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  Client/Project Name: Lit Bros.
  Architect Referenced: Simon & Simon (fl. 1918 - ca. 1927)
   
• Philadelphia Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide, v. 35, n. 18, p. 438, 5/5/1920
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  Client/Project Name: Lit Bros.
  Architect Referenced: Hoffman-Henon Co.
   
• Philadelphia Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide, v. 38, n. 6, p. 90, 2/7/1923
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  Client/Project Name: Lit Bros.
  Architect Referenced: Simon & Simon (fl. 1918 - ca. 1927)
   
• Philadelphia Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide, v. 38, n. 18, p. 277, 5/2/1923
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  Client/Project Name: Lit Bros.
  Architect Referenced: Simon & Simon (fl. 1918 - ca. 1927)
   
• Philadelphia Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide, v. 41, n. 27, p. 424, 7/7/1926
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  Client/Project Name: Lit Brothers
  Architect Referenced: Simon & Simon (fl. 1918 - ca. 1927)
   
• Philadelphia Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide, v. 45, n. 19, p. 293, 5/7/1930
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  Client/Project Name: Lit Bros.
  Architect Referenced: Simon & Simon (fl. 1918 - ca. 1927)
   
• Philadelphia Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide, v. 45, n. 27, p. 421, 7/2/1930
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  Client/Project Name: Lit Bros.
  Architect Referenced: Simon & Simon (fl. 1918 - ca. 1927)
   
• Philadelphia Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide, v. 46, n. 17, p. 155, 4/29/1931
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  Client/Project Name: Lit Brothers
  Architects Referenced: Alluan, Sydney K., Jr.; Simon & Simon (fl. 1918 - ca. 1927)
   
• Philadelphia Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide, v. 46, n. 17, p. 155, 4/29/1931
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  Client/Project Name: Lit Bros.
  Architect Referenced: Simon & Simon (fl. 1918 - ca. 1927)
   
• Philadelphia Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide, v. 46, n. 40, p. 343, 10/7/1931
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  Client/Project Name: Lit Brothers
  Architect Referenced: Simon & Simon (fl. 1918 - ca. 1927)
   
• Philadelphia Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide, v. 46, n. 42, p. 359, 10/21/1931
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  Client/Project Name: Lit Brothers
  Architects Referenced: Linker, William (fl. 1904 - ca. 1940); Simon & Simon (fl. 1918 - ca. 1927)
   
• Philadelphia Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide, v. 46, n. 42, p. 359, 10/21/1931
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  Client/Project Name: Lit Bros.
  Architect Referenced: Simon & Simon (fl. 1918 - ca. 1927)
   
• Philadelphia Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide, v. 50, n. 19, p. 89, 5/8/1935
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  Client/Project Name: Lit Bros., George Johnson, President
  Architect Referenced: Simon & Simon (fl. 1918 - ca. 1927)
   
• Philadelphia Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide, v. 51, n. 26, p. 105, 7/29/1936
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  Client/Project Name: Lit Bros.
  Architect Referenced: Simon & Simon (fl. 1918 - ca. 1927)
   
• Philadelphia Register of Historic Places (Imported)
   
• National Register Information System database (imported May 8, 2001)
   
• HABS/HAER/HALS list for Philadelphia and surrounding counties (imported November 8, 2001)
   

Drawings, Photos, Papers, etc.

• Athenaeum of Philadelphia - General Collection - Albums
  Holding Name: Office of Simon & Simon Photo Album
  Call Number: 001-AL-002
  Architect Referenced: Simon & Simon (fl. 1918 - ca. 1927)
   
• Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Lawrence S. Williams, Inc. Collection
  Holding Name: Lit Bros.
  Quantity: 5 items, Call Number: 140-N-64783-64787
  Architect Referenced: Thalheimer & Weitz (fl. 1924 - ca. 1988)
   
• Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Moss- Historic Landmarks of Philadelphia Research Notes
  Holding Name: Lit Brothers Department Store
  Quantity: 1 Folder, Call Number: 208-F-029
  Architect Referenced: Collins & Autenrieth (fl. 1852-1902)
   
• Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Olson Collection
  Holding Name: Lit Brothers
  Quantity: 3 items, Call Number: 192A-N-004
   
• Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Olson Collection
  Holding Name: Lit Brothers
  Quantity: 8 items, Call Number: 192A-N-021
   
• Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Olson Collection
  Holding Name: Lit Brothers
  Quantity: 1 item, Call Number: 192A-N-090
   
• Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Olson Collection
  Holding Name: Lit Brothers
  Call Number: 192A-P-003
   
• Athenaeum of Philadelphia - PAB Collection
  Holding Name: Lit Brothers Department Store Protest
  Quantity: 1 item, Call Number: 146-DP-011
   
• Athenaeum of Philadelphia - PAB Collection
  Holding Name: Lit Brothers Store
  Quantity: 2 photographs, Call Number: 146-DP-042
   
• Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Jane Campbell Scrapbooks
  Holding Name: [Part of Lit Brothers]
  Call Number: v.2, p.34
   

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