Details
Title Ficken & Williams, steam sugar refiners, Crown, Willow and Fifth streets [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia: J. Haehnlen
Date [1867]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 14 x 23 (5.5 x 9 in.)
Description Advertisement containing a view of the refinery complex in Northern Liberties. View surrounded by an ornamental border. Includes the office building adorned with signage. Horse-drawn wagons travel and are parked in front of the buildings. A man on horseback passes coal bins lining the side of the multi-storied processing plant of the complex. Also shows smokestacks and a tank. Advertising text flanking the view promotes "Double Loaf," two types of "A Crushed" "Patent Cut Loaf," "Chip Crushed," "Pulverized," "Lozenge do." and "Granulated" in addition to "A" "B" and "C" coffee and "X Yellow" and "Yellows."
Notes Not in Wainwright
Published in Edwin T. Freedley’s Philadelphia and its manufactures : a handbook of the great manufactories and representative mercantile houses of Philadelphia in 1867 (Philadelphia: E. Young, 1867), opp. p. 472.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 246
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Print Collection - Small - Stores & Factories, Box 57, Folder 6
Subject Ficken & Williams.
Sugar industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Refineries -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Lithographs -- 1860-1870.
Genre Advertisements -- 1860-1870.
Book illustrations -- 1860-1870.
Location Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP Print Collection - Small - Stores & Factories, Box 57, Folder 6