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Tygert-Allen Fertilizer Co., office 2 Chestnut St., Philadelphia. [graphic] / Packard.
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Creator
Packard, Herbert S., 1850-1912, artist.
Contributor
Times Printing House, printer.
Title
Tygert-Allen Fertilizer Co., office 2 Chestnut St., Philadelphia. [graphic] / Packard.
Publisher
Philadelphia : Times Printing House
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1890
Date
[ca. 1890]
Physical Description
1 print : chromolithograph ; 53 x 71 cm. (21 x 28 in.)
Description
Exterior view of the terminal, factory complex and railyard adjacent to the piers and wharves at Greenwich Point along the Delaware River in South Philadelphia. Signage reading "Tygert-Allen Fertilizer Co." adorns the storage warehouse on the pier in the foreground, and "Office Tygert-Allen Fertilizer Co." is painted in large letters on a smaller building nearby. The on-deck rail carries cargo on tracks to and from docked ships into the second floor of a long building that sits behind Tygert-Allen's warehouse on the pier. Super phosphates storage, millroom, storeroom, engine house and boiler house are all located within the long building. Locomotives and carts full of freight travel along the railroad tracks that run parallel to the factory buildings. Workers and horse-drawn carts and coaches labor throughout the complex. A barge carrying railroad cars is docked in front of a slip labeled "P.R.R. Ferry". Several lines of elevated railroad tracks carrying carts and locomotives run next to the slip and into the distance. Steamboats with smoke billowing from the stacks and sailing vessels with men on deck approach the piers in the foreground. The Tygert-Allen Fertilizer Co., formed by J.E. Tygert, H.S. Tygert and Penrose Allen about 1889, also operated an office at 2 Chestnut Street. A fire in February 1892 destroyed most of the buildings within the factory complex, causing a loss of about $50,000.
Is referenced by
Bloomsburg Auctions (Firm). Jay T. Snider Collection, 375
Notes
Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 256
Subject
Tygert-Allen Fertilizer Co. (Philadelphia)
Pennsylvania Railroad Ferry.
Fertilizer industry -- Pennnsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Piers & wharves -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Railroads -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Railroad ferries -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Vessels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Greenwich Point (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Delaware River (Pa.)
Genre
Chromolithographs -- 1880-1890.
Advertisements -- 1880-1890.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| **BW - Industries [P.2008.34.29]
Accession number
P.2008.34.29
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Philadelphia on Stone Digital Catalog
Philadelphia on Stone: Library Company of Philadelphia
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