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Bergner & Engel's Brewery. Office, 412 Library Street. Brewery, 32d and Thompson Sts. Philadelphia. [graphic] : Gustavus Bergner. Charles Engel. Tholey del. & lith. No. 419 Green St. Phila.
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Creator
Tholey, Charles P., d. 1898.
Title
Bergner & Engel's Brewery. Office, 412 Library Street. Brewery, 32d and Thompson Sts. Philadelphia. [graphic] : Gustavus Bergner. Charles Engel. Tholey del. & lith. No. 419 Green St. Phila.
Publisher
Philadelphia
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1873
Date
[ca. 1873]
Physical Description
1 print: chromolithograph; 55 x 71 cm. (21.5 x 28 in.)
Description
Advertisement containing a view of the hectic brewery complex in Northwest Philadelphia, i.e. Brewerytown. Complex includes an office building and dwelling (right), two ice houses (built 1865 and 1871, left), brewery plant, sheds, and courtyard. Outside of the plant, several Bergner & Engel horse-drawn wagons loaded with barrels travel in the street. The vehicles pass carriages, a man on horseback, two unoccupied drivers consulting each other, and a man, probably a brewery worker, seated on barrels talking with a man, possibly a job seeker, who has a carpetbag and a dog at his side. On the sidewalk, women, children, and gentlemen stroll, as brewery laborers work around them. Men load a wagon with barrels from one of the ice houses, as others coordinate the wagons (two excited dogs at his sides), carry barrels, and calm a horse at the courtyard entrance. Near the entrance, Mr. Bergner stands outside his office by his parked carriage and listens to an employee. Barrels line the wall of the courtyard. Within the space, loaded company wagons arrive, idle wagons and crate beds are stored, and laborers move barrels, including one from a huge pile on the terrace of the keg washing room attached to the second ice house. A grove of trees borders the complex in the left of the image. The partnership of Bergner & Engel was formed in 1870 at the brewery of Bergner (erected 1857-1858) following the dissolution of the partnership of brewers Wolf & Engel. Bergner & Engle ceased operations during prohibition.
Notes
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 38
Subject
Bergner, Gustavus William, 1832-1883 -- Portraits.
Bergner & Engel.
Brewing industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Breweries -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carts & wagons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Thompson Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 3100 block.
Brewerytown (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre
Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Advertisements -- 1870-1880.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| **BW-Industries [P.8970.30]
Accession number
P.8970.30
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