Advertisement depicting the manufactory at 20 South Delaware Avenue. Freight ramps are visible, and vessels sail on the Delaware River in the foreground. Edward P. and son Daniel Baugh formed Baugh & Sons in 1855 in Chester County. The plant relocated to Philadelphia in 1860. Daniel assumed operations of the business with branches in Baltimore and Norfolk, Va. in 1888., Probably engraved by John Serz., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Madelyn Wolke, Lucianne Reichert, and Clifford A. Mohwinkel Jr.
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Serz [P.9773.79a]
Product advertisement, probably from a trade portfolio, showing an African American man laborer near a Link-Belt loader inside the Philadelphia warehouse at 20 South Delaware Avenue. An African American man laborer, with debris covering his hat and clothes, stands behind the machine and looks at the viewer. Loader displays a manufacturer's plate for the Philadelphia branch of the company. Link-Belt Engineering Co. was founded by William Dana Erwat, inventor of the link-belt, in 1874., Title and date typed on recto., Inscribed in negative: Link-Belt 17061., Contains four hole punches., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Purchase 1990., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date
November 1927
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Link-Belt [P.9285.12]
