Details
Creator Blanc, Albert, artist.
Contributor Longacre & Co., printer.
Title [Powers & Weightman, chemical manufactory, Philadelphia] [graphic] / Blanc.
Publisher [Philadelphia]: Longacre & Co
Date [ca. 1876]
Physical Description 1 print: chromolithograph mounted on cardboard; 34 x 43 cm.(13.5 x 17 in.)
Description Advertisement showing the factory complex built 1825-1876 between 9th, Parrish, Brown, and Darien Streets. Buildings house a showroom, storerooms, laboratories, boiler rooms, acid houses, drying rooms, and warehouses. Horse-drawn carts and wagons pick up and make deliveries and travel past the manufactory. In the right of the image, a crossing guard with a signal flag stands at the corner of Ninth and Paris streets. Train cars travel the tracks of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad past a separately-standing warehouse of the factory in the foreground. Opposite the factory and across from the railroad tracks, laborers load a horse-drawn cart with crates and barrels that are lined up in several rows. Also shows pedestrians on the sidewalks, a partial view of a neighboring building, and distant cityscape. In 1847, Powers & Weightman succeeded Farr & Kunzi (established in 1818), and became internationally renown for their manufacture of medicinal and other fine chemicals. The company was the first to introduce quinine to the United states.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 620
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 38 P 872
Gift of David Doret.
Subject Powers and Weightman -- Buildings.
Chemical industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Factories -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Advertisements -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *BW - Industries [P.2007.28.20]
Accession number P.2007.28.20