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Contributor Kuhl, Frederick, printer.
Title Charles Baeder's Philada. Steam Works, manufacturer of glue, starch, curled hair & hidewhips, store, N. 7 South Third Str. [graphic] : No. 750 Old York road [sic] or North 6th Str. above Camac Str. and store no. 45 Fulton Str. New York. The highest price given for damaged hides, glue pieces, ceroons &c &c.
Publisher Philadelphia : F. Kuhl's lith. press, S. Sec. Str. No. 120
Date [ca. 1844]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph ; 9 x 12 cm (3.5 x 4.75 in.)
Description Advertisement showing a view of the glue and animal product manufactories of Charles Baeder on a lot of land on the 1700 block of North Sixth Street. Includes the seven-story glue works with cupola and the smaller multi-story starch, hide whip, and curled hair factory. Two outbuildings with active smoke stacks stand between the factories. Trees and bushes are visible on the property. A horse-drawn cart travels in the foreground. The firm, established in 1828 by Baeder, became the premier manufacturer of its kind in the United States. The manufactory, of the firm later renamed Baeder, Adamson & Co., relocated to Richmond Street, Allegheny Avenue, and Westmoreland Street circa 1866.
Notes Not in Wainwright
Manuscript note in ink on verso: Glue [illegible] A.D. 10cts. by 80# or 1 bbl. Buffaloe No. 2 at 20 cts.
Manuscript notes in pencil on verso: A. & D. 10 [symbol for cents]/ Buffaloe No. 2 15 [symbol for cents]/Horse [edges?] 15 yds [frm?] 2 00, 2 25, 2 50.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 878
Kuhl operated from 120 South Second Street, rear circa 1842-circa 1851.
Subject Baeder, Charles, approximately 1807-1886.
Factories -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Adhesives industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Animal products.
Horse-drawn vehicles -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Sixth Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- North -- 1700 block.
Genre Lithographs -- 1840-1850.
Advertisements -- 1840-1850.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| BW - Advertisements - Baeder [P.2015.19]
Accession number P.2015.19

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