Advertisement showing the four-story building, adorned with signage, for the meat packing house at the southwest corner of Front and Willow streets. In the five open entryways to the building, patrons enter and depart, workers converse, a drayman departs, and barrels are stored. In the street, in front of the building, laborers push a handcart and load horse-drawn drays. At the side of the building, a laborer lowers a barrel from the top receiving entrance to a horse-drawn truck loaded with barrels waiting on the tracks on Willow Street. The loading is managed by three men. Ahead of the truck, a freight car disappears in the distance. Also shows a man with a hand cart standing at the corner near one of many surrounding buildings, including the adjacent business adorned with signage marked "Jones." A trompe l'oeil frame surrounds the image., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 395, Wainwright retrospective conversion project.
Creator
Rease, W. H., artist
Date
[ca. 1851]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W190 [P.2067]
Negative number: 2226, View looking south from Produce Avenue showing a man holding up a "Front St. Bent 40" sign next to a steel column. Men stand around the construction scene. Two horses are attached to carts carrying supplies. Store fronts on North Front Street are shaded by awnings. A sign for "419 Willard & Mitten" is visible.
Negative number: 2285, Street level view looking south at a "Front St. Bent 48" sign next to a steel column. Men work from railroad freight cars underneath of the steel tracks. A loading dock sits on the east side of the block. A covered wagon and "Pork Packers" car sit near the loading dock. A signboard for Sam Katzowsky, clothing and shoes, is visible at 446 North Front Street.
