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Contributor Lehman & Bolton, printer.
Title The great fertilizer. Whann's raw bone super phosphate. Walton, Whann & Co.'s Works, Wilmington, Del. [graphic] : The unexampled results of this great fertilizer on cotton, corn, wheat, tobacco, and all other crops prove it to be the best and cheapest manure in the market. Made if pure raw bone, dissolved in sulphuric acid, guano, and salts of potash and soda, it contains every element needed by growing plants. No fertilizer has been more uniformly successful in all sections of the country.
Publisher Philadelphia: Lehman & Bolton, prs
Date [ca. 1870]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph, tinted with two stones, mounted on cardboard; 42 x 38 cm.(16.5 x 15 in.)
Description Advertisement containing a view of the busy fertilizer factory complex on the riverfront in Wilmington, Delaware. Complex includes three smock stacks. Several workers move, inspect, and use handcarts near rows of crates piled on the dock and in front of the manufactory. Horse-drawn wagons arrive and depart from the site. Ships and barges deliver and receive supplies from the Christina River. Also contains notice about "Descriptive Pamphlets mailed free on application" and the three locations of the manufacturers, including 203 West Front Street, Wilmington, Del.; 57 South Calvert Street, Baltimore, Md.; 28 South Wharves, Philadelphia. Manufactory established in 1861.
Notes Printed above title: [Trade Mark Patented, November 22d, 1870].
Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 100
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 38 W 173
Manuscript note on verso: Library Fund Oct. 28, 1960.
Subject Walton, Whann & Co.
Fertilizer industry -- Delaware -- Wilmington.
Genre Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1860-1870.
Advertisements -- Tinted -- 1860-1870.
Location Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP Bb 38 W 173