Details
Contributor John D. Avil & Co., printer.
Title A.G. Brooks, machinery exchange, 261 N. Third Street, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.A. [graphic] : N.B.--Machinery taken in trade. Over.
Publisher Philadelphia : Avil & Co., prs., 3941 Market St
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1885
Date [ca. 1885]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph ; 8 x 14 cm. (3 x 5.5 in.)
Notes Manuscript note on recto: Ball engine.
Trade card with printed text on verso advertising: portable and stationary engines & boilers, saw mills, steam pumps, all sizes. Aland injector blowers & exhausters, Forster's crushers, Judson's governors, bucket plunger steam pumps, hot-polished shafting, adjustable pipe tongs. Holland sight feed lubricators, scotch glass tubes, Jordan's steam traps, Clark's damper regulators, lathes, planers, drills, &c. A large stock of machinery taken in trade, for sale at the lowest prices. Appraisements of machinery made. Machinery sold on commission.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Biographical / historical note John D. Avil founded and managed the Avil Printing Company (also known as John D. Avil & Co.) in West Philadelphia from the early 1860s until his death in 1918. In 1868 he purchased land to construct a small building at 3941-3945 Market Street.
Subject Brooks, A.G.
Machinery industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Trade cards -- 1880-1890.
Lithographs -- 1880-1890.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Brooks [P.2006.20.23]
Accession number P.2006.20.23