George Shubert Diary, 1866. Courtesy of Temple University Libraries, Rare Books & Manuscripts Collection.

 

George D. Shubert (b. 1842), a journeyman lithographer at the firms of Jacob Haehnlen and George Breuker during 1866, compiled one of only two known diaries of 19th-century Philadelphia lithographers. The journal provides a remarkable window on the daily life of a lithographer. Shubert was active in the Lithographic Printers Union, a member of the Catholic Philapatrian Literary Institute, and involved with the volunteer Washington Hose Company.

 

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