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Simes' storage warehouse & yards. Trenton Avenue, Somerset, and Fulton sts. Philadelphia. Down-town office, 224 Walnut St. [graphic] : Receive furniture and merchandise of all kinds. Issue receipts and makes advances.
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Contributor
Kurtz, Horatio I., printer.
Title
Simes' storage warehouse & yards. Trenton Avenue, Somerset, and Fulton sts. Philadelphia. Down-town office, 224 Walnut St. [graphic] : Receive furniture and merchandise of all kinds. Issue receipts and makes advances.
Publisher
Philadelphia: Lith. by H. I. Kurtz 605 Sansom St
Date
[ca. 1880]
Physical Description
1 print: chromolithograph; 35 x 45 cm.(13.75 x 17.75 in.)
Description
Advertisement showing the storage warehouse operated by James B. Simes, built 1879-1880, and connected with the yards of the Pennsylvania and Reading Railroads in Port Richmond. Horse-drawn carts loaded with goods enter and depart from the main five-story warehouse. Behind the main building, smaller warehouses; piles of coal, lumber, and barrels; and train tracks are visible. Train tracks also surround the warehouse facilities and four trains travel around and within the complex. Also shows a family, including a child with a hoop, in the lower right corner of the image. Two of the buildings and a fence marked with the name of the business. The warehouse specialized in the storage of furniture, bulky valuables, and paintings in addition to machinery, building materials, lumber and heavy goods.
Notes
Image annotated with the names of the streets.
Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 217
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 39 S 583
Subject
Simes, James B.
Storage & moving trade -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Storage facilities -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Port Richmond (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre
Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Advertisements -- 1870-1880.
Location
Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP Bb 39 S 583
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