Jump to navigation
Main menu
LCP Home
Search
Search Library Catalog
Search Digital Collections
How to Search the Collections
Access Terms Used in Our Catalogs
Finding Aids
Explore
Browse Collections
LCP News
Social Media
Exhibitions
Podcast
Academic Programs
Overview
Fellowships
Innovation Award
Biennial First Book Award
Seminars
Program in African American History
Program in Early American Economy and Society
The Davida T. Deutsch Program in Women’s History
Visual Culture Program
Research
Overview
Subject Guides
Finding Aids
Online Exhibitions
Bookbinding Research
Using the Library
Overview
Hours, Access, & Location
Rights & Reproductions
How to Search Collections
Potentially Harmful Materials and Descriptions Statement
Online Resources
Events
Upcoming Events
Seminars
LCP News
LCP Press Resources
Projects
Beyond Glass Cases
Library Company Papers Project
Hearing Voices
Imperfect History
Fireside Chats
Support the Library
Overview
Donate Online!
Join & Renew Membership Online
Support: Shareholding
Lecture in Honor of John C. Van Horne
Membership Benefits
Planned Giving
Annual Dinner
Junto
About LCP
Annual Reports
Staff
Board of Trustees
Employment
Affiliations
LCP Blog
Press Resources
LCP Privacy Policy
Overview and History
LCP FAQ Sheet
Portable type 'G' stone loader, Field, Barker & Underwood, Philmont, Pa. [graphic].
You are here
Browse Collections
›
African American History Graphics Collection
›
African American History Photographs
Back to top
Details
Title
Portable type 'G' stone loader, Field, Barker & Underwood, Philmont, Pa. [graphic].
Publisher
[Philadelphia]
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1913
Date
1913
Physical Description
1 photograph : cyanotype; sheet 8 x 10 in.
Description
Product advertisement, probably from a trade portfolio, showing a group of laborers, including an African American man, utilizing a Belt-Link portable type "D" stone loader in a cleared field. In the left, the white man stands behind a wheelbarrow filled with stone. In the center, a man digs with a shovel, another man tilts a wheelbarrow, and three other men stand and look on.
Notes
Title and date from typewritten text on recto.
Title altered in manuscript: Portable type "D" stone loader, Field, Barker & Underwood, Philmont, Pa.
Typewritten on recto: 3 HP Ideal gasoline engine, SS825 chain with 14 x 7 M.I. AA buckets, having manganese steel digging prongs. Provided with extra chute and cutoff gate for delivering to wheel Barrows. (1913)
Inscribed in negative: 6462.
Purchase 1990.
Description revised 2022.
Access points revised 2022.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Subject
Field, Barker & Underwood.
Link-Belt Engineering Co.
African American men -- Pennsylvania -- Philmont.
Digging -- Pennsylvania -- Philmont.
Laborers -- Pennsylvania -- Philmont.
Loaders (Machines)
Wheelbarrows.
African American laborers -- Pennsylvania -- Philmont.
African-American laborers -- Pennsylvania -- Philmont.
Genre
Cyanotypes -- 1910-1920.
Advertisements -- 1910-1920.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo - Link-Belt [P.9285.7]
Accession number
P.9285.7
In Collections
African American History Photographs
Log In