Harrison Brothers' white lead works & chemical laboratory, Philadelphia.
Title
Harrison Brothers' white lead works & chemical laboratory, Philadelphia
Description
Advertisement showing a bird's eye view of the chemical works of Harrison Brothers near Fitler and Harrison Streets in Frankford, showing from left to right, the buildings containing "Pyro Acid Works," "Sulphuric Acid Works," "Sugar Lead Works," "White Lead Works," "Alum Works," "Copperas Works," and the company office. The bustling scene includes laborers pushing wheel barrows, putting coal in a furnace, and hoisting barrels using a block and tackle pulley system. Piles of lumber, barrels, and vats cover the ground, and smoke rises from the chimneys of the buildings within the enclosed compound. A man walks along the periphery of the fence in the foreground, between two gates. A loaded wagon enters the left gate, as a dray exits through the right. A dog stands on the left hand side of the fence, facing the pedestrian. Deer and horses graze the fields in the tree-lined, country-like setting behind the chemical works. Established circa 1793, Harrison Brothers operated plants in New York, Maryland and Philadelphia by the Civil War, operating this plant in Frankford until about 1870., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Aug. 1847., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 341, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Rease, a prominent mid-19th century Philadelphia trade card lithographer known to highlight details of human interest in his advertisements, partnered with Francis H. Schell in the 1850s and eventually operated his own press until around 1872.
Creator
Rease, W. H., artist
Date
[1847]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W475 [P.2271]
Friends Asylum for the Insane near Frankford.
Title
Friends Asylum for the Insane near Frankford
Description
Exterior view of the almshouse building as it appeared after two patient wings were added to the original structure in 1827. The grounds of the mental institution, formerly a fifty-two acre farm in Oxford Township, were purchased by the Society of Friends in 1813, near Frankford. The hospital opened to patients four years later in 1817., Frontispiece to Fifteenth annual report on the state of the Asylum for the relief of persons deprived of the use of their reason, (Philadelphia: Printed by T.A. Conrad, corner Sixth and Cherry Streets, 1832). Report also contains "Map of the Asylum Farm" and "Groundfloor of the Asylum" printed on tissue by Childs & Inman lithrs. Philadelphia., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 284, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Am 1814 Phi Asy (box) 9092.O.11a., Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 9:38, Philadelphiana
Creator
Doughty, Thomas, 1793-1856, artist
Date
[1832]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W143 [Am 1814 Phi Asy (box) 9092.O.11a.frontis]
Friends' Asylum for the Insane near Frankford.
Title
Friends' Asylum for the Insane near Frankford
Description
Exterior view of the almshouse building as it appeared after two patient wings were added to the original structure in 1827. Includes men standing in the foreground and animals grazing. The grounds of the mental institution, formerly a fifty-two acre farm in Oxford Township, were purchased by the Society of Friends in 1813, near Frankford. The hospital opened to patients four years later in 1817., Published as the frontispiece of the annual reports of the asylum (entitled: ... Annual Report of the State of the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason) from 1836 to 1840., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 285, Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2049 and in Am 1814 Phi Asy (box) 51117.O.6; 51117.O.9; and 51908.O.5., Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Creator
Lehman, George, d. 1870, artist
Date
[1836]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W144 [P.2049]