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Atlantic Petroleum Storage Company for refined oil. Empire stores for crude oil. [graphic] : Warehouse: Point Breeze. Office: 115 Walnut Street} Philadelphia. Surveyed & drawn by E. Hexamer, 422 Walnut St., Phila.
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Contributor
Hexamer, E., surveyor.
Herline, Edward, printer.
Title
Atlantic Petroleum Storage Company for refined oil. Empire stores for crude oil. [graphic] : Warehouse: Point Breeze. Office: 115 Walnut Street} Philadelphia. Surveyed & drawn by E. Hexamer, 422 Walnut St., Phila.
Publisher
Philadelphia, E. Herline, Lith. 630 Chestnut St
Date
[1866]
Physical Description
1 print: chromolithograph; image 36 x 67 cm. (14.25 x 26.5 in.), overall 67 x 67 cm. (26.5 x 26.5 in.)
Description
Advertisement containing a view of the company's oil storage facilities at Point Breeze on the Schuylkill River, a plan of the grounds by Hexamer, and text describing the facilities. View depicts sailing ships docked at the wharves adjoining the "refined" and "crude" oil warehouses. Horse-drawn carriages travel on River Road toward the wharves. Individuals mill along the banks and on the wharves. The "Garden Farm" is visible in the background. Hexamer plan contains 7 numbered buildings, including the oil warehouses, crude oil wharf, and office in addition to cooper shops, crude oil tanks, and the railroad. Also identifies the surrounding plots of land including, the Garden Farm, Empire Stores for Crude Oil, Farmland of the Atlantic Petroleum Storage Co., and B.J. Crew's Atlantic Petroleum Refinery. Advertising text promotes the experience and care of the "those having charge of the business" and the erection of "large and commodious" warehouses and docks. It describes the warehouses and docks of the "Crude and Refined Oil Departments," including their length, capacity, and construction. Text also describes the safety of the property from fire due to the separation of the warehouses, tanks and docks in addition to the beneficial proximity of the warehouses to the Pennsylvania Central, and Philadelphia and Erie railroads in allowing a direct connection to the oil regions of the West as well as preventing the loss and destruction of oil from leaks and the sun.
Also contains a list of the company's board of directors and officers for 1866. Philadelphia members include James A. Wright, Wm. G. Warden, and Clement A. Griscom. Atlantic was founded by Charles Lockhart and William Warden in 1866 and renamed Atlantic Refining in 1870. The firm was purchased by John D. Rockerfeller in 1874 for incorporation into Standard Oil.
Notes
Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 31
Reproduced and described in Edwin Wolf 2nd and Marie Lena Korey, eds. Quarter of a Millennium (Philadelphia: The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1981) entry #178.
Free Library of Philadelphia: Oversize Philadelphiana - Refineries, Oil
Possibly Wainwright 295.
Subject
Atlantic Petroleum Storage Company of Philadelphia.
Petroleum products -- Storage -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Petroleum industry and trade -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carriages & coaches -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Point Breeze (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Genre
Chromolithographs -- 1860-1870.
Advertisements -- 1860-1870.
Site plans -- 1860-1870.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| **BW-Industries [P.2145]
Accession number
P.2145
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