Antique New Jersey Print - Burlington NJ, City Hall and The Underground Railroad In New Jersey. Oldest Pharmacy in the United States.

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THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD IN NEW JERSEY.  Burlington Pharmacy, High Street, Burlington, New Jersey.

Allison's Burlington Pharmacy and City Hall, similar to another structure now long gone at 2nd & Market in Philadelphia.

Burlington touts itself as a hotbed of the Underground Railroad, and their tourism literature promotes that regularly. What always surprises me is the minimal tip of the hat to the Quaker abolitionists dedicated to their core to the fight against the institution of slavery. The Friends Meeting House up the street and Quaker pharmacist and not particularly subtle activist William Allinson's Burlington Pharmacy here next to City Hall, still the oldest continually running pharmacy in the United States, were stalwart characters, central players to the action.

One of a series of remarkable views of historic Burlington City along the Delaware River, drawn on stone by John Collins, 1847. Lithograph by T. Sinclair, Philadelphia. Nearly a 18 years ago we acquired and restored the whole series of Collins' works, we will finally begin to present them here for your consideration over the next few months.

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A NOTE ON OUR PROCESS, OUR CHOICES AND THE QUALITY OF THE GRAPHIC CRAFTSMANSHIP THAT GOES INTO OUR PRINTS.

Every print we deem exciting enough to present to the public via our Etsy store or available here at our studio has gone through a number of steps.  The first of those is always discovering and falling in love with an obscure image, always an original that we can hold in our hands.  That image is speaking to us, sometime screaming “Don’t leave me here.  See what I am, what I was, what I can be, what I SHOULD be!”

There is a real sense of excitement involved, and a great many smiles and knowing grins when we make that deal and bring that ancient print, that battered photo, that scrap of ephemera that contains some scrap of genius from an unknown commercial artist home with us, knowing already how we mean to approach its restoration.

There is the heady promise of a further hunt just as real as what drags a weekend fisherman out of bed at 3AM to work a favorite brook as we start our research, looking for that great backstory, and both ready and willing to tumble down as many rabbit holes as are revealed to us to get that story.

Then there is a meticulous digital restoration that is as often as much fun as riding a vintage Moto Guzzi on a winding coastal road.  I don’t care if that sounds crazy, it really is like jumping in the saddle!  So many choices, so many chances to take to subtly or spectacularly give new life to otherwise permanently obscure images.

This dedication and the ongoing rush of joy in the accomplishment of it, and the opportunity to share the results in our studio and here on Etsy, is the fire of passion that keeps these engines roaring. We make every effort to ensure our customers are not just satisfied but thrilled, and we happily stand 100% behind our work.