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John B. Stetson Company postcards. [graphic].
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Title
John B. Stetson Company postcards. [graphic].
Date
ca. 1910
Physical Description
12 photomechanical prints (postcard): photolithograph; 9 x 15 cm.(3.5 x 5.5 in.)
Description
Contains images of the John B. Stetson Hat Company manufactury near 5th and Montgomery Avenues. The company moved to this site in 1874 and constructed 20 buildings over a 55 year period. Operations ceased in this location in 1971. Images depict an aerial drawing of the 29 acre campus and interior photographs of the office corridor, reception room and salesroom. Also includes employees finishing soft hats, forming and sizing hat bodies, cutting fur and flanging soft hats, trimming stiff hats and weaving silk bands and bindings.
Notes
Divided backs. Company biography on verso.
Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject
John B. Stetson Hat Company.
Factories -- Pennsylvania.
Hat industry -- Pennsylvania.
Geographic subject
Germantown Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 1801.
Genre
Photomechanical prints -- 1900-1910.
Postcards -- 1900-1910.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| LCP postcards - Industry - [P.9934.1-12]
Accession number
P.9934.1
P.9934.2
P.9934.3
P.9934.4
P.9934.5
P.9934.6
P.9934.7
P.9934.8
P.9934.9
P.9934.10
P.9934.11
P.9934.12
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Printed and Graphic Ephemera
Library Company Postcard Collection
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Fashioning Philadelphia: The Style of the City, 1720-1940
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