Details
Contributor Keystone View Company, publisher.
Title Coining presses. Government Mint, Philadelphia, Pa. [graphic].
Publisher Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company, manufacturers, publishers
Publisher PA. Meadville. 1910
Date [ca. 1910]
Physical Description 1 photographic print: gelatin silver on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.5 x 7 in.)
Description Depicts a row of presses attended by two male operators at the third mint building on Spring Garden Street between Sixteenth and Seventeenth streets. One laborer stands next to a handtruck loaded with drawers of coins. Electric lights hang from the ceiling. The U.S. Mint was established in Philadelphia in 1792.
Is part of Unidentified series. 84
Notes Copyrighted by Keystone View Company.
Negative number printed on mount: 22291.
Title printed on mount.
Printed above image: 84.
Contains a detailed explanation of the coin-making process and two questions about metal content of specific coinage on verso.
Gift of Robert M. Vogel.
Duplicate of P.9573.26.
Keystone View Company, stock publisher of stereographs of the late 19th and 20th century, started issuing educational stereoviews around 1898. In 1906, the first boxed set of 600 educational views with an accompanying guide book was issued.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject United States Mint.
Mints -- Pennyslvania -- Philadelphia.
Coinage.
Geographic subject Spring Garden Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 1600 block.
Genre Stereographs -- 1900-1910.
Gelatin silver prints -- 1900-1910.
Printer Keystone View Company, publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Keystone View Company - Gov't Buildings [P.9047.143]
Accession number P.9047.143