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Contributor Serz, John, ca. 1810-ca. 1878.
Title Joseph J. Cana[v]an morocco factory Philadelphia. [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1870
Date [ca. 1870]
Physical Description 1 print: steel engraving mounted on paper; 18 x 19 cm.(7 x 7.5 in.)
Description Advertisement depicting the manufactory complex at 1225 North Fifth Street (Canal Street between Thompson and Girard avenues). complex included a slaughterhouse, drying rooms, pulling shop, and office and sales room. A horse-drawn dray loaded with goods departs from the exit way between two sections of buildings that contain a flag and working smokestack. Also shows a worker in a doorway and a few pedestrians.
Notes Probably engraved by John Serz.
Name of business misspelled in title: Canaran.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of Madelyn Wolke, Lucianne Reichert, and Clifford A. Mohwinkel Jr.
Subject Canavan, Joseph J., d. 1872.
Leather industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Factories -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Laborers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carts & wagons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Fifth Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- North -- 1225.
Genre Advertisements -- 1860-1870.
Steel engravings -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| albums - Serz [P.9773.76b]
Accession number P.9773.76b

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