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Contributor Serz, John, ca. 1810-ca. 1878.
Title [X. Bazin, steam fancy soap works and perfumery, 917 Cherry Street, Philadelphia] [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1870
Date [ca. 1870]
Physical Description 1 print: steel engraving; 22 x 26 cm.(8.5 x 10.25 in.)
Description Advertisement depicting the manufactory and laboratory complex. Also shows crates lining the sidewalks and street and pedestrian traffic, including a horse-drawn wagon hauling crates and departing the complex. Bazin served as the lab director for perfumer Eugene Roussel from circa 1840 to circa 1849 when he assumed proprietorship of the business. Bazin continued to use Roussel’s name until circa 1853. The Bazin family owned the business until 1884.
Notes Probably engraved by John Serz.
Title supplied by cataloger.
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 Bazin, Xavier.
Perfume industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carts & wagons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Cherry Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 917.
Genre Advertisements -- 1860-1870.
Steel engravings -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| albums - Serz [P.9773.76a]
Accession number P.9773.76a

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