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Parham's sewing machine manufactory, George St. below Tenth, Philadelphia: [graphic] For the use of families, tailors, shoe & harness manufacturers &c. &c. Every machine warranted against all competition and for all kind of material.
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Contributor
McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Title
Parham's sewing machine manufactory, George St. below Tenth, Philadelphia: [graphic] For the use of families, tailors, shoe & harness manufacturers &c. &c. Every machine warranted against all competition and for all kind of material.
Publisher
Philadelphia: Pilliner Lith. 37 1/2 S. 3rd St
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1858
Date
[1858]
Physical Description
1 print: lithograph, tinted with one stone; 61 x 49 cm. (24 x 19 in.)
Description
Advertisement containing an exterior view of the four-story factory and "office" at 927 George, i.e., Sansom Street. A clerk stands next to a displayed sewing machine base on the small stoop to the entrance of the first-floor "office" and converses with approaching patrons, a couple. In the street, a laborer loads a horse-drawn wagon near a departing dray and a parked carriage. Also shows a sign reading "Entrance to Factory," views of adjacent buildings, and two drivers conversing near the parked carriage. Factory established at this address in 1858, the year the street name was changed to Sansom.
Notes
Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 545
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Civil war recruitment poster for federal guards printed on verso.
Subject
Parham, Charles.
Sewing machine industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Factories -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Clerks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Horse-drawn vehicles -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Sansom Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 927.
Genre
Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1850-1860.
Advertisements -- 1850-1860.
Provenance
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| **BW - Industries [(2)1322.F.52]
Accession number
(2)1322.F.52
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