Details
Creator Cremer, James 1821-1893, photographer.
Contributor Haviland, John, 1792-1852, architect.
Title First premium (silver medal) to Cornelius & Sons, for gas fixtures in the Franklin Institute Exhibition, 1874. [graphic] / James Cremer, photographer and publisher, 18 South Eighth Street, Philadelphia.
Publisher Philadelphia
Date 1874
Physical Description 1 photographic print : albumen on stereograph mount; 10 x 18 cm. (4 x 7 in.)
Description Interior view of 1874 Exhibition of American Manufactures at the Franklin Institute, showing prize-winning gas fixtures designed by Cornelius & Sons, 1332 Chestnut St. The Exhibition was held in the John Haviland-designed building on South Seventh Street.
Notes Title from inscription on mount.
Reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 13.
Arcadia caption text: Incorporated in 1824, the Franklin Institute promoted knowledge in mechanic arts among its science-minded members. The Institute provided for its members a library and reading room, lectures, classes, a monthly journal, and it periodically held displays of American made products. This view of the 1874 Exhibition of American Manufactures highlighted prize-winner Cornelius & Sons, maker of gas fixtures and lamps. The Institute, today an educational science and technology museum open to the public, was located on Seventh Street just below Market Street, in the John Haviland-designed building now occupied by the Atwater Kent Museum of Philadelphia.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Cornelius & Sons (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Exhibition of American Manufactures (1874 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
Exhibitions -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Gaslight fixtures -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Gaslight fixtures industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Seventh Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South -- 13-17.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Associated name Haviland, John, 1792-1852, architect.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Cremer [P.9229.3]
Accession number P.9229.3