Details
Creator Blanc, Albert, 1850-, artist.
Contributor Longacre & Co., printer.
Title Works, East Schuylkill Falls. Powers & Weightman, manufacturing chemists, Philadelphia. Established 1818. [graphic] : Tartaric and citric acid department, Falls of Schuylkill. ; Laboratory for fine chemicals, Ninth and Parrish Streets. / Longacre & Co. - A. Blanc.
Publisher Philadelphia : [Longacre & Co]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1870
Date [ca. 1870]
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; 37 x 51 cm. (14.5 x 20 in.)
Description View showing the laboratory complex of processing plants and storage sheds established in 1848 on Ridge Avenue near Schuylkill Falls (i.e., East Falls). Within the complex, laborers haul goods by horse among the several buildings, smoke stacks, and trees. Men and women converse near the entrance to the complex in the foreground, as a horse-drawn cart exits the compound. In the background, a locomotive travels past the complex (right) and a laborer works with a team of horses that pull several railroad carts loaded with goods (left) on the series of tracks surrounding the complex. View also shows adjacent lots of pasture land. In the lower corners are two vignettes depicting exterior views of the tartaric and citric acid department and the laboratory for fine chemicals at Ninth and Parrish Streets. In 1847, Powers & Weightman succeeded Farr & Kunzi (established in 1818), and became internationally renown for their manufacture of medicinal and other fine chemicals. The company was the first to introduce quinine to the United States. A second factory complex operated between 9th, Parrish, Brown, and Darien Streets. The East Falls operation included housing for employees.
Is referenced by Bloomsburg Auctions (Firm). Jay T. Snider Collection, 333
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 867
A. Blanc worked as an artist for Longacre & Co. between 1870 and 1876.
Subject Powers and Weightman.
Chemical industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Factories -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Railroads -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject East Falls (Pa.)
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| PRINTS PRINTS| *BW-Industry [P.2008.34.23]
Accession number P.2008.34.23