Details
Creator Bartlett & Smith, photographer.
Title [John B. Stevenson, flaxseed and linseed oil manufactory, 439-441 York Avenue, Philadelphia] [graphic] / Bartlett & Smith, photographers.
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1867
Date [ca. 1867]
Physical Description 1 photographic print : albumen on stereograph mount ; 8 x 17 cm. (3.25 x 6.75 in.)
Description View shows the four-story flaxseed and linseed oil manufactory at the northeast corner of York Avenue and Willow Street. Signs reading "John B. Stevenson, flaxseed & linseed oil," "brimstone & soda ash," "oil cake & cake meal," "oil cake, cake meal, linseed oil & flaxseed," span the west front and south facades of the corner brick building. Men stand and sit outside of the front entrance of the manufactory and on the steps of the adjacent property (441 York Avenue). The row house occupied by John B. Stevenson (443 York Avenue) in the mid-to-late 1860s is also visible. In the foreground, trolley tracks span Willow Street.
Is part of Unidentified series No. 13
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Photographer's imprint from embossed stamp on recto.
Yellow mount with square corners.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Stevenson, John B.
Linseed oil industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Dwellings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject York Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 439-441.
York Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 443.
Willow Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 400 block -- north side.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Bartlett & Smith - Industries [P.9669.13]
Accession number P.9669.13