Details
Creator Brightbill, George M., collector.
Contributor Seeler, Edgar Viguers, 1867-1929, architect.
Title Curtis Publishing postcards. [graphic].
Date 1910-1940
Physical Description 37 photomechanical prints (postcards): photolithograph, color; 9 x 15 cm.(3.5 x 5.5 in.)
Description Contains views of the Curtis Publishing Company built 1910-1921 after designs by Edgar Viguers Seeler. Includes several exterior views from Sixth Street, Walnut Street, Independence Park and Washington Square. Also includes interior views of the first floor lobby; the director's room; offices and press rooms for Ladies Home Journal and the Saturday Evening Post; the circulation department and circulation manager's office; the women's recreation, lunch and rest rooms; the paper stock room; a section of the engraving department; the composition division; the boiler room; and the power division.
Notes Contains 37 postcards printed in color.
Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Curtis Publishing Company.
Office buildings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Publishing industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Walnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 601.
Genre Photomechanical prints -- Color -- 1910-1940.
Postcards -- 1910-1940.
Associated name Seeler, Edgar Viguers, 1867-1929, architect.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Brightbill postcards [Business and Industry - Curtis Publishing - 37]
Accession number Brightbill 37
037-a01-d