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Title: Nolde and Horst Company, Reading, Pennsylvania
Description: Aerial view of the Nolde and Horst Company hosiery plant located at Moss and Windsor Streets in Reading, Pennsylvania. Row houses and other buildings surround the factory. View is northwest to southeast. Factory built ca. 1900. Probably taken September 12-16, 1922., Negative number: 2769., Record created with information supplied by former Aero Service employee Carl H. Winnefeld, Jr.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: 1922
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.2769]

Title: Aerial view of Mount Joy, Pennsylvania
Description: Aerial view of Mount Joy, Pennsylvania from the east along Main Street. George Brown's Sons Cotton and Woolen Mill (now known as the Sassafras Alley Apartments) is visible., Negative numbers: 1647.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: ca. 1922
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.1647]

Title: A. Wilhelm Company, Reading, Pennsylvania
Description: Aerial view of the A. Wilhelm Company paint manufacturing plant located on Bern Street between Center Avenue and the Fifth Street Highway. View is southwest to northeast. George Field and Hiesters Lane tunnel are visible as are other factories and residential row homes. Berks Knitting Company visible at bottom of image. Paint factory plant was closed in late 2007 and the complex has been demolished. Image probably taken November 1928., Negative number: 9108., Record created with information supplied by former Aero Service employee Carl H. Winnefeld, Jr.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: ca. 1928
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.9108]

Title: Powers-Weightman-Rosengarten Co. Works, East Schuylkill Falls. Powers & Weightman, Manufacturing Chemists, Philadelphia. Established 1818
Description: Advertisement showing the large industrial complex, including warehouses, storage sheds, and a reservoir originally established in 1848 by Powers & Weightman. Several of the buildings contain working smokestacks. A horse-drawn wagon departs from the main entranceway and a number of others are visible within the complex. Train tracks run within and along the periphery of the plant. A locomotive with train cars, horse–drawn freight cars, and free standing freight cars are visible on the tracks. Fenced pasture land is visible in the background. Also contains two titled insets in the lower corners. "Tartaric and Citric Acid Department, Falls of Schuylkill" includes horse-drawn wagons arriving and crossing a small bridge in the foreground. "Laboratory for Fine Chemicals, Ninth and Parrish Streets" includes trains traveling in the foreground. 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. Powers & Weightman merged with Rosengarten & Sons to form Powers, Weightman, Rosengarten Co. in 1905., pdcp00047, Not in Wainwright., Probably a later reprint with variant title of circa 1876 lithograph., Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Factories, etc.
Creator: Blanc, Albert, artist
Date: [ca. 1905]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - Factories, etc. - P

Title: Powers & Weightman manufacturing chemists Philadelphia East view of Schuylkill Falls Laboratory. Office at City Laboratory Ninth & Parrish Sts. New York Office No. 6 Maiden Lane
Description: View showing the laboratory complex established in 1848 on Ridge Avenue near Schuylkill Falls (i.e., East Falls). In the foreground, the “No. 40” coal-tender locomotive approaches from one of the series of tracks surrounding and within the factory grounds. Nearby, a line of freight cars, some covered in tarp rest on a set of tracks. Within the factory grounds comprised of processing plants and storage sheds, a horse-drawn cart travels and stacks of wood slabs are piled on an elevated, centrally-located piece of land. Smokestacks adorn several of the buildings. Another stack of wood and hillside are visible in the right background. 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., pdcp00035, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Oversize Philadelphiana - Factories and Foundries (N-Z)
Creator: Rease, W.H
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Oversize Philadelphiana - Factories and Foundries (N-Z)

Title: Murphy & Allison Car builders. 1908 Market Street, Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement showing the busy "Car Factory & Bolt Nut & Washer Works," of John Murphy and J. C. Allison, also proprietors of the Girard Tube Works, who established a partnership in 1851 at 1908 Market Street. A completed rail car and a horse-drawn double decker omnibus depart from the sign-covered factory and "Office of the Girard Tube Works." A worker labors on a rail car in an upper window, a man on horseback stops near the entrance to the "Blacksmith Shop," and clusters of pedestrians walk in front of the works. A small crowd flanks the omnibus that is adorned with illustrations of rail cars as it leaves the factory bay. In the foreground, men and boys, across from two men shaking hands, inspect an ornately painted "City Passenger R.R." car on display in the street in front of the factory. Nearby, a boy admires an elegantly dressed lady while a newsboy hawks a paper to a gentleman on promenade with two ladies who pass a woman, possibly attired in mourning garb. Murphy & Allison assumed proprietorship of Girard Tube Works, manufacturer of wrought iron gas tubes, in 1856 and began construction of cars for the City Passenger Railways circa 1857. The firm made several improvements to the cars including adding more head room and lamps to the center of car roofs and in front of the overshoots., Not in Wainwright., Annotated in stenciled letters below title: DESTROYED BY FIRE SATURDAY MAY 3. 1863 AT 3-AM., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 494, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 35 M 978, Label pasted on verso: Purchased at auction from Freemans May 20, 1959 Library Fund., Rease, a prolific lithographer of advertising prints, relocated his studio to 4th and Chestnut in 1857.
Creator: Rease, W. H.
Date: [ca. 1857]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 35 M 978

Title: West view of Schuylkill Falls Laboratory. Powers & Weightman, manufacturing chemists, Philadelphia
Description: View showing the laboratory complex established in 1848 on Ridge Avenue near a covered bridge in Schuylkill Falls (i.e., East Falls). Within the complex, laborers haul goods by horse among the several stone buildings, smoke stacks, and trees. Near the Schuylkill River in the foreground, other laborers move crates by a pulley on a pier. Also shows a man on foot and a wagon entering the bridge, a steamboat traversing the water, and a train traveling past the complex and several adjacent lots of pasture land in the background. 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., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 828, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 38 Sch 89, Trimmed.
Creator: Rease, W. H.
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 38 Sch 89

Title: Schuylkill
Description: Landscape view showing the Market Street Permanent Bridge commissioned by the Schuylkill Bridge Company and completed in 1805 after the designs of engineer Timothy Palmer. The William Ellis Tucker porcelain factory (est. 1826) in the old water works pumping station (Chestnut and 21st Street) stands in the foreground. A lumber yard, pairs of trees, and pastureland are visible across from the factory. Also shows Paul Beck’s Shot Tower and sailing vessels on the river in the background. Market Street Permanent Bridge was redesigned in 1850 by the Pennsylvania Railroad and destroyed by fire in 1875., Not in Wainwright., Date from inscription on stone: Ch 1836 [3 reversed], pdcc00020, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 21:90, See Kathleen Foster’s Captain Watsons’ travels in America" The sketchbooks and diary of Joshua Rowley Watson, 1772-1818 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997), plate 7 for possible original study for print.
Creator: De Chastelain, A., artist
Date: [1836]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Photograph Collection. FLP Castner 21:90

Title: Craig, Finley & Co. Lithographers and printers. Commercial stationery, stock certificates, and checks. 2218-20-22 Vine Street, Philadelphia. Established 1867 Telephones. Bell: Rittenhouse 7842. Keystone: Race 6379
Description: Blotter illustrated with an exterior view of the Philadelphia printer's factory and adjoining buildings on the 2200 block of Vine Street. Signage with the firm's name adorns the three-story main building depicted with a working smoke stack. Pedestrians walk in front and across from the building. Also shows a car and a Craig, Finley & Co. truck parked in the street. Established as Craig, Butt & Finley in 1869, the firm was renamed Craig, Finley & Co. in 1872. It remained in operation until 1950., Image caption reads: A Plant Equipped Solely for the Production of First Class Lithographing and Printing, Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 123, See also the Craig, Finley & Co. entry in the online Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary., Gift of Erika Piola.
Date: [ca. 1930]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Ph Pr - 11 x 14 - Industry - C [P.2014.18.2]

Title: Charles Baeder's Philada. Steam Works, manufacturer of glue, starch, curled hair & hidewhips, store, N. 7 South Third Str 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
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., 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.
Date: [ca. 1844]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Advertisements - Baeder [P.2015.19]

Title: Wire Bridge (Fairmount). From the southeast in the spring of 1855
Description: View looking from the east bank showing the Wire Suspension Bridge spanning the Schuylkill River. Also shows mills, factories, stables, and hotels lining both banks of the river. The bridge, the first suspension bridge in the United States, was built from 1841-1842 after the designs of engineer Charles Ellet, Jr. It was removed in 1874, Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on accompanying label., Originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 5, page 63. The scrapbooks contained photographs of 18th-century public, commercial, and residential buildings in the city of Philadelphia collected by Poulson to document the vanishing architectural landscape., McClees 1855-3., McClees, a prominent Philadelphia photographer and daguerreotypist, produced some of the earliest paper photographic views of Philadelphia between 1853 and 1859.
Creator: M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.), photographer
Date: 1855
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - McClees - Bridges [(5)2526.F.7a]

Title: Bought of C. Cumming & Co. Manufacturers & dealers in twine, glues, curled hair, hide whips, sand paper, lace leather, horns, bones, neats' foot oil, plastering hair & c. Factory -St. John STreet, above Beaver, Philad'a. Stores---nos. 3, 5 & 7 South Third St., Phila Superior hair mattresses made to order at short notice. Highest cash price paid for glue pieces, cattle tails, damaged hides and caroons. Printers' glue. A superior Article for Rollers
Description: Billhead containing an exterior view of the L-shaped glue factory, and courtyard. Smoke billows from the stacks on the roof and a weather vane adorns a tower at the cross-section of the building. One section includes vented windows and a chute into the yard, which contains crates and a lamp post. In the street, a horse-drawn cart travels toward one stopped near a gentleman. Charles Cumming operated a factory as a sole proprietor until circa 1855 when his firm C. Cumming & Co. was established., Name of proprietors (Charles Cumming and James R. White) and "Terms" printed below image. Terms detail "Current Accounts, Cash Jan'y 1st and July 1st. For Bills of $100 and over, 4 months negotiable notes. Bills less than $100 positively Cash less five per cent. Ground Bones, Neats' Foot Oil and Springs, Nett., Completed in manuscript to G.W. [Rernadon]? & Bros. on August 3, 1860 for" 2 boxes 'Coul whips" - 10 % of each. 20 gross at $600: $120., Inscribed in greasy pencil and in ink on recto: Ella Reed., Inscribed on recto: R H & Co. within a drawing of a diamond., Manuscript note on verso: C. Cumming. [Riera?] Herman & Co. $120. Augt 3 1860. Paid Sept 21., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Creator: Lowe, Samuel W., engraver
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Receipts [P.2011.10.127]

Title: Joseph J. Cana[v]an morocco factory Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement depicting the manufactory complex at 1225 North Fifth Street (Canal Street between Thompson and Girard avenues). complex included a slaughterhouse, drying rooms, pulling shop, and office and sales room. A horse-drawn dray loaded with goods departs from the exit way between two sections of buildings that contain a flag and working smokestack. Also shows a worker in a doorway and a few pedestrians., Probably engraved by John Serz., Name of business misspelled in title: Canaran., 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.9773.76b]

Title: Atlantic Refining Company plant, 3314 Passyunk Avenue, Point Breeze, Philadelphia
Description: Aerial views of the Atlantic Refining Company (later Atlantic Richfield Co. or ARCO) petroleum refinery plant along the Schuylkill River in the Point Breeze neighborhood of Philadelphia. The company was founded as the Atlantic Petroleum Storage Company in 1866 as a storage facility but quickly expanded operations to include refining as the possible uses of petroleum were discovered. It was purchased by John D. Rockefeller in 1874 and became part of the Standard Oil Trust and became Atlantic Refining Company after the Trust was dissolved in 1911. The facility is shown from several angles and altitudes and includes views of the refining equipment and storage drums as well as boats and ships docked on the river. Probably taken 1921 [1138, 1213]; 1922 [1861]; 1924 [4602-4609]; 1926 [5464-5922]., Negative numbers: 1138, 1213, 1861, 4586, 4602-4609, 5464, 5922., 4602, 4603, 4605, 4606 not digitized; negatives are damaged and cannot be scanned., Digitized for AMD: Global Commodities., Record revised with information supplied by former Aero Service employee Carl H. Winnefeld, Jr.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: ca. 1921-1926
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.1138; P.8990.1213; P.8990.1861; P.8990.4586; P.8990.4602-4609; P.8990.5464; P.8990.5922]

Title: Heintz Manufacturing Company plant, Olney Avenue and Front Street, Olney, Philadelphia
Description: Aerial views of the Heintz Manufacturing Company steel fabricating plant in the Onley section of Philadelphia. The factory and its watertower can be seen from several angles adjacent to railroad tracks, surrounded by rowhomes and undeveloped land., Negative numbers: 11295, 11296, 11297, 11298, 11300, 11301, 11302.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: 1929
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.11295-11298; P.8990.11300-11302]

Title: Atlantic Refining Company plant, 3314 Passyunk Avenue, Point Breeze, Philadelphia
Description: Aerial views of the Atlantic Refining Company (later Atlantic Richfield Co. or ARCO) petroleum refinery plant along the Schuylkill River in the Point Breeze neighborhood of Philadelphia. The company was founded as the Atlantic Petroleum Storage Company in 1866 as a storage facility but quickly expanded operations to include refining as the possible uses of petroleum were discovered. It was purchased by John D. Rockefeller in 1874 and became part of the Standard Oil Trust and became Atlantic Refining Company after the Trust was dissolved in 1911. The facility is shown from several angles and altitudes and includes views of the refining equipment and storage drums as well as boats and ships docked on the river., Negative numbers: 6110, 6111, 6112, 6113, 6177, 6178, 6180, 6181, 6182, 6183.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: 1926
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.6110-6113; P.8990.6177; P.8990.6178; P.8990.6180-6183]

Title: Tioga Steel & Iron Company plant, Grays Avenue and 51st Street, Kingsessing, Philadelphia
Description: Aerial views of factories and industrial buildings in the Kingsessing neighborhood of Philadelphia. Though the focus is on the Tioga Iron and Steel Company plant (absorbed by the Taylor-Wharton Iron & Steel Company in 1913) adjacent industrial facilities are also visible, includingt he Geo. W. Smith Woodworking Co., Breyer's Ice Cream and the Mason Adams Coal Company. Residential areas of row houses and railroad tracks and yards servicing the factories can also be seen., Negative numbers: 7913, 7914, 7915.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: 1929
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.7913; P.8990.7914; P.8990.7915]

Title: Leeds and Northrup Company plant, 4901 Stenton Avenue, Nicetown-Tioga, Philadelphia
Description: Aerial views of the Leeds and Northrup plant and laboratory in the Nicetown-Tioga section of Philadelphia. The company was founded by Morris E. Leeds and Edwin F. Northrup in 1903. Originally known as Morris E. Leeds & Company, the organization produced electrical measuring instruments for laboratory and testing use and was an important supplier of this equipment to industrial markets. In the late 1990's, the company became the L&N Metallurgical Products Company. The facility consists of several buildings and sits alongside railroad tracks very near a residential area with row homes., Negative numbers: 11312, 11313, 11314, 11315, 11316, 11319.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: 1929
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.11312-11316; P.8990.11319]

Title: Boger and Crawford textile mill, vicinity of East Ontario, Janney, J, and Venango Streets, Harrowgate, Philadelphia
Description: Aerial views of the Boger and Crawford yarn processing plant in the Harrowgate section of Philadelphia. The facility sits near row homes, a playground, Harrowgate Square and Frankford elevated tracks near tioga Station. An area of what appear to be croplands is visible across the street from it., Negative numbers: 19843s., Manuscript note on negative sleeve: Boger & Crawford [plant], Phila, June 26, 1939.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: 1939
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.19843s]

Title: Diamond State Fibre Company, Bridgeport, Pennsylvania
Description: Aerial views of the Diamond State Fibre Company industrial facility on the banks of the Schuylkill River just south of DeKalb Pike in Bridgeport, Pennsylvania. The facility contained the company's main offices and a fiber processing mill and factory. Views show the facility and the adjacent railroad tracks that serviced it. Bridges over the Schuylkill River and portions of Norristown are also visible., Negative numbers: 1576, 7096, 7097, 7098, 7099.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: ca. 1915-1926
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.1576; P.8990.7096-7099]

Title: [Carpenter Steel Company, Reading, Pennsylvania.]
Description: Aerial views of the Carpenter Steel Company plant on the banks of the Schuylkill River in Reading, Pennsylvania. Surrounding croplands and Berkshire Country Club golf course are visible in the distance. View is south to north. Probably taken September 12-16, 1922., Negative numbers: 2775., Record revised with information supplied by former Aero Service employee Carl H. Winnefeld, Jr.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: 1922
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.2775]

Title: [Glen Gery Brick Company factory and environs, Wyomissing, Pennsylvania.]
Description: Aerial view of the Glen Gery Brick factory building and adjacent farmlands and railroad tracks. The Wyomissing plant was built in 1898, the same year the company reorganized as the United States Brick Company. The Wyomissing facility applied the continuous firing process in what was then the largest brick kiln in the United States. View is southeast to northwest. Location is immediately across Park Rd. from Vanity Fair textile mill along the Reading Railroad tracks. Probably taken September 12-16, 1922., Negative numbers: 2772., Record revised with information supplied by former Aero Service employee Carl H. Winnefeld, Jr.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: 1922
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.2772]

Title: Delaware River waterfront, South Philadelphia, Philadelphia
Description: Aerial views of the waterfront along the Delaware River in Philadelphia generally south of Market Street to Pattison Avenue. Piers, industrial facilities, railroad tracks, ships and ferries are visible as are portions of neighborhoods adjacent to the waterfront. The city skyline is visible in the distance., Negative numbers: 1196, 1198, 1199, 1201, 2835, 2836, 2843, 2852, 2853, 2854, 2856, 4862a.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: ca. 1915
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.1196; P.8990.1198; P.8990.1199; P.8990.1201; P.8990.2835; P.8990.2836; P.8990.2843; P.8990.2852; P.8990.2853; P.8990.2854; P.8990.2856; P.8990.4862a]

Title: Pennsylvania and Reading Railroad terminus on the Delaware River, vicinity of Lehigh Avenue and Richmond Street, Port Richmond, Philadelphia
Description: Aerial views of the terminus of the Pennsylvania and Reading Railroad at Port Richmond, Philadelphia. Railroad ends at the Delaware River, where an extensive network of railroad tracks, piers and industrial buildings are visible along the riverfront, many of which served the coal trade. Large ships are visible on the river and portions of the city to the north and west of the terminus can be seen in the distance., Negative numbers: 2841, 2842, 4862., Record revised with information supplied by former Aero Service employee Carl H. Winnefeld, Jr.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: ca. 1925
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.2841; P.8990.2842; P.8990.4862]

Title: [T. Wattson & Sons, biscuit bakery, 129 North Front Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Advertisement showing the busy four-story factory for the bakery at 129 North Front Street, between Chestnut and Walnut Streets. A gentleman, possibly the proprietor Thomas Wattson, stands in one of the open doorways to the bakery as laborers work around him. Near the doorways, workers load kegs onto a horse-drawn "T. Wattson & Sons Biscuit Bakery" wagon and dray. Other men, hoist kegs to upper receiving windows from a group of several lined in front of the factory. In a few of the windows, men at work and stacks of barrels are visible. Laborers hammer shut and move kegs. Also shows "X"-shaped joint bolts on a section of the building under near which a pedestrian walks past. Business established at address in 1846. Thomas Wattson sold the business to his son-in-law in 1852 and it was renamed Wattson & Co., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: North Front Street-Phila. Aug. 1846., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 737, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Trimmed.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [August 1846]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W359 [P.2199]

Title: [Morocco leather manufactory, B. D. Stewart, S.E. corner of Willow Street and Old York Road, Philadelphia]
Description: Advertisement showing the multi-storied manufactory of Benedict D. Stewart at Willow Street and Old York Road, i.e., 435-437 York Avenue. Signs with the name of the proprietor, the business, and street names adorn the building in which a man enters the doorway. Shutters adorn the lower and slats adorn the upper windows. In the right, broadsides adorn the small fence to the courtyard between the main and partially visible rear building of the factory. In the right foreground, laborers transport, pile, and load crates (some marked), and sacks onto a horse-drawn dray. Also shows a gentleman walking on the sidewalk. Stewart began his factory at the address in 1839., Title supplied by cataloguer., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: S.E. cor. Willow & Old York Road Aug. 1847, Wainwright suggests date of circa 1855., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 485, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Date: [August 1847]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W236 [P.2106]

Title: Parham's sewing machine manufactory, George St. below Tenth, Philadelphia For the use of families, tailors, shoe & harness manufacturers &c. &c. Every machine warranted against all competition and for all kind of material
Description: Advertisement containing an exterior view of the four-story factory and "office" at 927 George, i.e., Sansom Street. A clerk stands next to a displayed sewing machine base on the small stoop to the entrance of the first-floor "office" and converses with approaching patrons, a couple. In the street, a laborer loads a horse-drawn wagon near a departing dray and a parked carriage. Also shows a sign reading "Entrance to Factory," views of adjacent buildings, and two drivers conversing near the parked carriage. Factory established at this address in 1858, the year the street name was changed to Sansom., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 545, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Civil war recruitment poster for federal guards printed on verso.
Date: [1858]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Industries [(2)1322.F.52]

Title: Suspension bridge
Description: View from the east bank of the Schuylkill River looking south showing the Wire Suspension Bridge. View also shows a barge in transit and mills, factories, and stables lining the banks of the river. The bridge, the first suspension bridge in the United States, was built from 1841-1842 after the designs of engineer Charles Ellet, Jr. It was removed in 1874., Title from accompanying label., Publisher's imprint printed on mount., Orange mount with rounded corners., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Mount discolored., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., McAllister operated his optician business as a sole proprietor between 1865 and 1882.
Creator: McAllister, W. Y. (William Young), 1812-1896
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - McAllister, W.Y. - Bridges [(3)1322.F.123c]

Title: The suspension bridge
Description: View looking across the Wire Suspension Bridge from the east side of the Schuylkill River. View also shows barges docked under the bridge and businesses, including factories and the Crittenden Tavern, lining the west bank in the background. The bridge, the first suspension bridge in the United States, was built from 1841-1842 after the designs of engineer Charles Ellet, Jr. It was removed in 1874., Title from accompanying label., Orange mount with rounded corners., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Mount discolored., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., McAllister operated his optician business as a sole proprietor between 1865 and 1882.
Creator: McAllister, W. Y. (William Young), 1812-1896
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - McAllister, W.Y. - Bridges [(3)1322.F.123d]

Title: [Wire Suspension Bridge at Fairmount, Philadelphia.]
Description: View looking from West Fairmount Park showing the Wire Suspension Bridge spanning the Schuylkill River. View also shows mills, factories, stables, and hotels lining both banks of the river. Two men stand in the foreground near a fenced property. The bridge, the first suspension bridge in the United States, was built from 1841-1842 after the designs of engineer Charles Ellet, Jr. It was removed in 1874., Attributed to James E. McClees., Title supplied by cataloguer., Buff mount with square corners., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.), photographer
Date: ca. 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - McClees - Bridges [(3)1322.F.123h]

Title: [Wire Suspension Bridge at Fairmount, Philadelphia.]
Description: View looking from West Fairmount Park showing the Wire Suspension Bridge spanning the Schuylkill River. View also shows mills, factories, stables, and hotels lining both banks of the river. Two men stand in the foreground near a fenced property. The bridge, the first suspension bridge in the United States, was built from 1841-1842 after the designs of engineer Charles Ellet, Jr. It was removed in 1874., Attributed to James E. McClees., Title supplied by cataloguer., Buff mount with square corners., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.), photographer
Date: ca. 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - McClees - Bridges [(3)1322.F.123h]

Title: Dunlaps'[sic] Phoenix Coach Works, corner of Fifth & Buttonwood Streets, Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement showing the industrial complex for the "Phoenix Coach Works" on the 400 block of Buttonwood Street. Complex includes a four-story main building, adorned with street signs, connected to additions and the "General Coach Furnishing Store." Several smokestacks and a tower decorated with the model of a carriage adorn the roof. Signage reading "Phoenix Coach Works" adorns one of the additions, which contains a rooftop crossover to the main building in addition to an entry, adorned with the figures of lions, to a courtyard. A man drives a horse-drawn carriage through the entryway, as above, carriages are displayed on the crossover. Four unhitched carriages, including an ornately decorated one, line the street in front of the main building as a single-seat carriage and a fancy coach with driver and passenger travel in the street. On the sidewalk, a woman, holding a parasol, promenades with a child; a man accompanied by a dog strolls; and two boys pull and push a wheelbarrow. Neighboring buildings (adjacent and rear), including a drugstore, are visible in the left of the image. The shop is adorned with signage "Drugs [sic] & Medecines Wholesale & Retail," an American flag, and a display window lined with jars, bottles, and canisters. Also shows a woman exiting one of the rear neighboring buildings. Circa 1845, Dunlap began operating from the factory which was later used as a hospital, prison, and barracks during the Civil War., Inscribed on recto: Wood Oct 10 56., Wainwright suggests date of circa 1850., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 192, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Date: [ca. 1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W100 [P.2084]

Title: John Bancroft, Jr. soap and candle manufactory. No. 19, Wood St. betw. 2nd & 3rd Sts. & Vine and Callowhill Sts. Philadelphia Palm, white, variegated, yellow and brown soaps, mould & dipped candles, with all the varieties of fancy soap
Description: Advertisement showing the factory on the 200 block of Wood Street. Signs reading "Steam Soap & Candle Manufactory" and "John Bancroft Jr." adorn the manufactory (left) and smaller adjoining office building (right). A clerk, writing in an account book, stands at the doorway of the office in which another clerk is visible in a lower window. Near the adjacent arch to the alleyway to the rear courtyard, a boy carries a box on his shoulder and laborers hoist boxes from a receiving window to a long factory wagon parked on the cobblestone street. A sign reading "Jno Bancroft Jr. Soap and Candle Manufacturer 19 Wood St." adorns the wagon. A barrel and boxes are stored in the courtyard. Boxes and molds are piled in front of upper floor windows. Factory also contains a second archway, cellar doors, a fire insurance marker, and smokestacks spewing smoke., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 407, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Heiss, George G., artist
Date: [June 1847]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W200 [P.2117]

Title: Schuylkill River
Description: View from the east bank of the Schuylkill River looking southwest showing the Wire Suspension Bridge in the distance. The bridge, the first suspension bridge in the United States, was built from 1841-1842 after the designs of engineer Charles Ellet, Jr. It was removed in 1874. Also shows Moan's boat store and stables, floating boat houses, taverns, and factories on the west bank of the river., Photographer, publisher, and title from label pasted on verso listing over sixty views published by the firm., Green mount with rounded corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Gift of Jane Carson James., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., R. Newell & Son, a partnership between Robert Newell and his son, Henry, was active from circa 1870 until 1897 and the death of the elder Newell.
Creator: R. Newell & Son
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Bridges [P.9299.57]

Title: Rosengarten & Sons, Manufacturing Chemists, Philadelphia Medals awarded, Centennial, Franklin Institute, American ", Maryland ", World’s Fair, N.Y. Manufacturers of sulphate of quinine, sulphate of morphine, nitrate of silver, and other chemicals
Description: Advertisement showing a bird’s eye view of the factory complex of several buildings and courtyards originally built 1855 between 18th, Fitzwater, 17th, and Catherine streets. Complex includes the L-shaped building at the corner of Fitzwater and Seventeeth streets that displays the sign “Rosengarten & Sons. Established 1822” near the entrance. The building contained the office, packing rooms, and manufacturing rooms for the firm. Several individuals walk on the sidewalk and horse-drawn carts and wagons travel near the street corner. On the Fitzwater block in front of the complex, which also includes a storage shed, stable, and warehouse for the factory, other wagons and carts are parked. Next to the warehouse, a horse-drawn cart enters a passageway to the complex in which laborers and horse-drawn carts are visible at work. Several of the factory buildings contain smokestacks. Also shows a horse-drawn omnibus traveling near the intersection, surrounding blocks of buildings, and tree tops. Rosengarten & Sons, one of the oldest U.S. chemical manufacturers and a leader in plant alkaloid and bromine production, merged with Powers & Weightman to form Powers, Weightman, Rosengarten Co. in 1905., pdcp00039, Not in Wainwright., Probably printed by Longacre & Co., Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Factories, etc.
Creator: Blanc, Albert, artist
Date: [ca. 1876]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - Factories, etc. - R

Title: Baeder, Delany & Adamson, manufacturers of glue curled, cow hide whips, sand & emery paper, neatsfoot, oil, bone, dust, plastering hair Stores: Philada. No. 14 S. 4th St. New York No. 225, Pearl Street; N.B. The highest price in cash given for glue pieces, damaged hides, cattle tails, ceroons, horns, bones &c. &c
Description: Tradecard showing a view of the glue and animal product manufacturing complex for partners Charles Baeder, Charles Delany, and William Adamson at 1006 North Sixth Street. Complex contains several buildings and two courtyards. The two largest buildings contain several stories, receiving entrances, and cupolas. Laborers holding tools with handles work on the roof of a shed-like building in the center of the complex. Horse-drawn carts are visible in the yard. Also includes street traffic in the foreground. A horse-drawn omnibus, wagon, and men on horseback travel in front of the fenced manufactory. 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., Not in Wainwright, pdcc00010, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 26:12b, POS 33
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Castner 26:12b

Title: Explosion and burning of the cartridge factory, cor. Tenth and Read [sic], March 2[9]th 1862
Description: Disaster scene showing the aftermath of the explosion of the factory of Professor Samuel Jackson located in South Philadelphia. Shows people fleeing, trapped, and engulfed in flames at the ruins of the burning factory. In the foreground, a man rushes to cover a man's body that has had its head and arm amputated; men throw buckets of water and blankets on women on fire; individuals carry the wounded; comfort the survivors; rush in with buckets; and hose the fire. Also shows a man looking in horror from a train car in the left of the image and debris flying in the air and lying on the ground. Over 15 people, including the son of the proprietor, perished in the explosion of the factory that was contracted to produce one and a half million experimental "solid water proof patent cartridges" during the Civil War. Jackson, a Philadelphia pyrotechnist and inventor, began the manufacture of fireworks in Philadelphia in 1837. He continued in pyrotechnics until 1887, when he began to manufacture danger signals for railroads. During his pyrotechnic career, a number of his establishments were destroyed through explosions., Name of artist supplied by Wainwright., The numeral "9" printed in the reverse in the date in the title., Inscribed on recto: North of Moyamensing Prison. Philada., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 215, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 83 C 328
Creator: Magee, John L., artist
Date: [1862]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 83 C 328

Title: Henry Simons Philadelphia wheelwright-works on Second Street 2 miles north of Market Street County of Philada Orders received at the old established stand no: 113 New Market Street between Noble and Green streets and between Front and Second strs. N.L. Also at the Southern Depository in Grave Str. opposite St. Charles Hotel New Orleans
Description: Advertisement showing the busy small manufactory complex established by Simons in 1831. Several laborers work diligently in the yard, and at the windows and workshops of the wheel making establishment. In the yard, workers carry slabs of wood from a large pile, fashion wheels near an open fire, and lead a horse-drawn truck of wagon parts past an idle truck marked "Wm. Massey, New Orleans" and wagons marked "T. Craven Old Point Virginia" and "U.S. 1720." Wagon wheels and frames rest along the buildings where laborers toil away at the windows. Also show workers hoisting wagon bodies, blacksmithing at an anvil, working on a wheel and wagon body, and operating a large piece of machinery in the workshops. Crates, handcarts, and carriages are also visible through shop openings. In the right of the image, the rear of a small street car marked "Philadelphia Fox & Grass" that is occupied by two ladies travels toward the "Henry Simons Office" located behind the factory. The office is attached to an open shed storing wood slabs. Smokestacks and a steeple with bell and weather vane adorn the roofs of the buildings, including the main building marked "Philadelphia Wheelwright Works." A partial view of a shed and piles of wood are visible in the left foreground and background, Philadelphia on Stone, Atwater Kent Museum: 54.29.2/2
Creator: Reynolds, R. F., artist
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Atwater Kent Museum | Print Department AKM AKM 54.29.2/2

Title: McNeely & Co. manufacturers of morocco, buckskin & chamois, white leather, bark tanned, sheep, calf & deer skins, parchment, vellum &c. 64 N[or]th 4th. St. below Arch St. near the Merchants Hotel, Philadelphia. Manufactory 4th & Franklin Aven[ue] [graphic].
Description: Date of publication supplied by Wainwright., Advertisement depicting the large factory's several industrial buildings, sheds, and fenced yard near a busy street and sidewalk. Workers attend to a maze of drying lines with hanging leather pieces; delivery carts traverse the yard and depart through the gate under the sign "McNeely & Co."; and a laborer uses a horse-drawn cart to collect coal from a mound beside the main building. Pedestrians, including a woman and boy, stroll and converse on the sidewalk. In the street, an African American couple push a filled handcart and a crowded horse-drawn omnibus from the "Frankford Road - Fourth Street" line passes by. The McNeely family operated a leather manufactory in Philadelphia from 1830 until the early 20th century.
Creator: Rease, W.H., lithographer., creator
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W230.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W230 [P.2129]

Title: City Marble Works and Steam Mantel Factory. Corner Tenth and Vine Streets Philadelphia. J.E. & B. Schell. [graphic] / Rease & Schell's Lith., No. 17 So. 5th St., Philda.
Description: Although Wainwright suggests date of publication as circa 1855, date of circa 1854 is used since Rease relocated to the new business address of 97 Chestnut Street as of 1855., Contains two lines of text below the title advertising the manufactory's improved facilities., Advertisement depicting a corner view of the three building showroom and factory operated by the Schells from 1853 until 1856. J.E. Schell continued the business as J.E. Schell & Company starting in 1857. On Tenth Street, patrons enter the four-story storefront and mantle room adorned with signage and statuary displayed on a second floor veranda. At the corner, a coach waits, the disembarked African American driver standing at the ready. On Vine Street, behind the showroom, a family of passerbys admire the marble statuary, monuments, and headstones in the factory's fenced in yard. Factory laborers load a headstone onto a horse-drawn cart, inspect open crates lining the street, and review slabs of marble outside the factory's storage building. Partial views of adjacent buildings and the "10th" Street carriage are visible.
Creator: Rease & Schell, lithographer., creator
Date: [ca. 1854]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W071.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W71 [P.2032]

Title: 729 N. 10th
Description: Real estate photograph commissioned by the Jackson-Cross Company depicting an empty lot at 729 North Tenth Street. Two large billboards are posted on the side of the adjacent property at 727 North Tenth Street, advertising The Bulletin and Tastykake. Advertisements and posters are also plastered to the front of the same property. The water tank atop one of the towers of the Penn Paper & Stock Co. is visible in the background behind two dwellings on Brown Street., Title from manuscript note on verso., The Jackson-Cross Company, established around 1876, was a Philadelphia real estate firm in operation until 1998.
Date: ca. 1940
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Jackson-Cross [P.9784.2]

Title: Carey, Bro. & Grevemeyer, 423 Market St., Philadelphia, booksellers, stationers and blank book manufacturers, paper curtains, oil shades and shading, floor and table oil cloth. Also, jobbers and manufacturers of wall paper
Description: Wall calendar with tear sheets. Mount contains a vignette showing the Carey Bro. & Grevemeyer wallpaper "Factory, 2228 to 2234 North 10th Street." View also shows street traffic, including horse-drawn carts and a locomotive. R. Davis and Theodore Carey and W.H. Grevemeyer partnered circa 1883 with a retail store on Market Street and a wall paper manufactory at North Tenth Street. The firm succeeded Hollowbrush & Carey, booksellers, stationers, and blank book manufacturers., Advertising text printed in borders: Orders by Mail promptly attended to. Blank books of all kinds Made to Order. Estimates furnished for Printing of all kinds., Bottom edge of each calendar page contains printed name of different types of products offered by the firm. Includes: Pocket Books and Satchels; Pocket Cutlery; Looking Glasses; Wrapping Paper, Paper Bags & Flour Sacks; Brushes of All Kinds; Paper and Oil Curtains; Table and Floor Oil Cloth; Store Shades made & Lettered to order; Photograph Frames & Albums; Bibles, Prayer and Hymn Books; Holiday Goods; and Almanacs and Diaries., Text on mount printed in blue and red., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [1883]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Calendars [P.2011.10.163]

Title: Alan Wood Iron and Steel Company, Conshohocken, Pennsylvania
Description: Aerial views of the Alan Wood Iron and Steel Company in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania. Views from higher and lower altitudes show the factory complex from several angles as it sits on the bank of the Schuylkill River and straddles Conshohocken Road. The mainfacility was designed by the architecture firm of Savory, Scheetz, & Savory and built in 1910. Railroad tracks and bridges over the river are visible as are portions of the city of Conshohocken in the distance., Negative numbers: 1573, 1575, 2860, 2861., Record revised with information supplied by former Aero Service employee Carl H. Winnefeld, Jr.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: ca. 1922
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.1573; P.8990.1575; P.8990.2860; P.8990.2861]

Title: Allied Chemical & Dye Corporation plant, Grays Ferry Avenue and the Schuylkill River, Grays Ferry, Philadelphia
Description: Aerial view of the Allied Chemical & Dye Corporation plant on the Schuylkill River in the Gray's Ferry neighborhood in Philadelphia. The corporation (later known as Allied Chemical Corporation and then as the Allied Corporation) was formed in 1921 as an amalgamation of five of the largest U.S. chemical companies established in the 1800s. View of the chemical plant looks north from a vantage point just south of the Grays Ferry Avenue bridge at around Reed Street and spans north to include portions of Center City and West Philadelphia along the river. Residential neighborhoods in the vicinity are also visible., Negative numbers: 20898n., Manuscript note on negative sleeve: Allied Chemical Co., Grey's Ferry, Pa, May 12, 1940.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: 1940
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.20898n]

Title: Black Diamond File Works illustrated price list G. & H. Barnett No. 39, 41 & 43 Richmond Street Philadelphia Pa
Description: Illustrated title page showing an exterior view of the factory complex for the file Works "established in 1863" in Richmond. Shows clerks and laborers moving and loading crates on to a company horse-drawn wagon parked in front of the office building. Individuals stand in the doorway of the building that is adorned with signage containing the name of the company and proprietors. In the rear of the office, the "File Factory" with several operating smokestacks, one adorned with a model of the company trademark, stands. Figures are seen in a window and door of sections of the edifice. At a two-story building, adjacent to the office, a worker carries planks of wood through the door. Also shows a "Richmond & Exchange" horse-drawn omnibus filled with passengers passing in the street., Not in Wainwright., Published as title page in Black Diamond File Works illustrated price list. ([Philadelphia, 1874])., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 57, Gift of David Doret.
Date: [1874]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare **Am 1874 G.& H. Barnett 10069.F.title page

Title: Potter & Carmichael, oil cloth manufacturers warehouse, No. 135, North Third Street, Philadelphia Patent oil cloths, for carriages, floors, tables, &c. Transparent window shades; dealers in carpets, &c
Description: Advertisement showing the busy factory complex on Second Street road above the Reading Railroad, i.e., 135 North Third Street above Race Street. Signage reading "Franklin-ville, Oil Cloth Works" adorns the roof of the main factory building around which several workers labor. Laborers stretch cloth on long flat racks and on the side of the main building in which other men move a roll of carpet into a hatch. In the courtyard, laborers load materials into a wagon, and transport materials by hand-cart and horse-drawn dray. Other factory workers pull a long sheet of cloth along the side of a smaller factory building. At the rear of that workshop, men work in and approach a shed. Crates and large packages rest near the pulling racks and are piled in front of the main building. Countryside frames the scene. The firm of Potter & Carmichael moved their warehouse to 135 North Third Street from 568 North Third Street (above Poplar Street) circa 1848. The partnership was dissolved in 1853., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: April 1849. The above factory is situated on the Second St. road above the Reading Railroad., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 618, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [April 1849]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W298 [P.2174]

Title: [A. H. Eckhardt. Soap & candle manufactory, No. 326 N. Second Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Advertisement showing the three-and-a-half story storefront for the manufacturer on North Second Street between Noble and Green streets (i.e., 500 block). A store clerk, possibly the proprietor stands at the open doorway, a quill in one hand and the other resting on a stack of boxes. He watches a laborer load boxes onto the "A.H. Eckhardt Soap & Candle Manufacturer No. 326 N. 2nd Street" horse-drawn wagon parked in the street. Boxes, jars, crates, and other small containers adorn the large display window and a crate resting on a table is visible through the doorway. The store is also adorned with poles for an awning; a section of side awning reading "A.H. Eckhardt Soap & Candle Manufacturer"; advertising signs at the doorway; and a fire insurance marker. Augustus H. Eckhardt ran the chandler business from the address 1848-1856., Wainwright dates image as circa 1854., Title supplied by cataloguer., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Aug. 1847. North Second Street., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 6, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Heiss, George G., artist
Date: [August 1847]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W3 [P.2001]

Title: Burton & Laning. Manufactory: 6th Street above Camac
Description: Advertisement showing the factory established in 1852 at Sixth and Columbia Avenue. A worker hoists a barrel up the street-side of the four-and-a-half story "Burton & Laning's Paper Hangings Manufactory" on the industrial block. Sheds, fenced factory yards, and factory buildings dominate the surrounding landscape. Image includes heavy street activity in the foreground. A horse-drawn dray is unloaded in front of the factory; a farmer transports a pile of hay via wagon; and men push handcarts, lead a dray loaded with barrels, drive a covered wagon filled with logs, and ride on horseback. Across the street from the factory, a female vendor serves a boy a cup of milk from her canister beside her. Burton & Laning were active until 1862., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 70, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Free Library of Philadelphia: Oversize Philadelphiana - Factories and Foundries (A-M).
Creator: Rease & Schell, artist
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W37 [P.2018]

Title: H.S. Tarr monument, &c. marble mantle manufacturer
Description: Advertisement containing an exterior view of the factory (adorned in signage) and fenced marble yard located at Green Street above 7th Street. In the yard, a couple reviews one of several cemetery monuments displayed in front of the factory in which marble workers are visible. The men toil near the open entry and windows. Several of the monuments, many obelisks, contain sculpted adornments. In the street, passengers arrive from an omnibus for the "Exchange & Norristown R.R. Depot. Peters Sixth Street Line" near laborers loading marble works onto a horse-drawn cart. Also shows a woman and boy peering into the yard from the fence and a slight view of the neighboring residential building marked "Green St." Tarr was one of the four major marble manufactories in the city during the mid nineteenth century., Not in Wainwright., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: 1848. Green Street above Seventh Street., Philadelphia on Stone., POS 339, Originally part of a Poulson scrapbook of illustrations of Philadelphia.
Creator: Reynolds, R. F., artist
Date: 1848
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Industries [(7)2521.F.190(v)]

Title: George W. Watson coach & harness maker. Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement containing views of the "Factory at 13th & Parrish Sts." and the factory and showroom, i.e., "Old Stand No. 9, Sth. Sixth St." Factory view shows the bustling "George S. Watson Coach Factory" complex with workshops, courtyard, and sheds surrounded by a wood fence on the 800 block of North 13th Street. Within the courtyard, wheelwrights work on a wheel propped up next to a blazing fire as another worker walks past with a watering can. Other workers retrieve planks of wood from piles loaded in a shed and attend to a carriage. Carriage parts, a horse in a single stall, and piles of wood surround the workers. Within the workshops, carriages and coaches and metalworkers at a forge are visible. A wagon maker also works on a few vehicles placed on a balcony attached to the upper floor of the main workshop. Outside of the complex, a worker rolls a wheel toward the entrance to the workshop with the forge as another leads two horses toward the entrance of the courtyard. A man carrying a stick with rags over his shoulder, near an ambling dog, also walks on the sidewalk. Also shows rows of buildings and a wagon crossing an empty lot in the background., "Old Stand" view shows the factory and show room, adorned with signage, on the 100 block of South Sixth Street. Through the two open entries, a clerk is visible showing a couple one of several carriages that line the showroom floor. Outside the building, in front of the display window, a gentleman gestures to a handler of two horses hitched to a coach in the street. Behind the gesturing man, a laborer enters the cellar of the showroom below the window that displays harnesses, horse equipment, and a small-model coach. Three unhitched carriages and coaches line the street in front of the adjoining building marked "Geo. W. Watson Coach & Harness Maker." Laborers work at a number of the windows at the upper floors of the two buildings. Partial views of adjacent businesses complete the view. One building contains an awning marked "Wind...RLIN." Print also contains vignette views of a fancy coach, from the rear, and a carriage, from the front, in motion. A coachman rides at the back of the horse-drawn coach with driver. The horse-drawn carriage with a driver and folded-down roof contains a well-dressed couple as its passengers., Date from Poulson inscriptions on duplicate split into half-sheets: Aug. 1847., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 299, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [ca. 1847]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W151 [P.2081]

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