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Title: [River scene with factory]
Description: Depicts a concrete pier jutting into the middle of a river, probably the Schuylkill River, off of which people are fishing. Smokestacks rise from a cluster of industrial buildings along the river bank., Modern reference prints available., Gift of Richard R. Frame.
Creator: Berry, Frank, b. 1863, photographer
Date: ca. 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Berry [P.8986.67]

Title: [Factory building, Manayunk]
Description: Depicts four large stone buildings along a street on a hillside. Telephone poles and wires line the street., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 156 [P.8513.156], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson156.htm

Title: [A. H. Eckhardt. Soap & candle manufactory, No. 326 N. Second Street, Philadelphia] [graphic] / On stone by G. Heiss.
Description: Location: 326 North Second Street (pre-consolidation)., Wainwright originally dated image as ca. 1854., Wainwright retrospective conversion project.
Creator: Heiss, George G., lithographer., creator
Date: August, 1847.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W003.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W3 [P.2001]

Title: [Morocco leather manufactory, B. D. Stewart, S.E. corner of Willow Street and Old York Road, Philadelphia] [graphic].
Description: Location: Old York Road, later 435-437 and Willow St., S.E. corner., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W236.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W236 [P.2106]

Title: Texas Co's plant. W[est] side Commercial Av. looking north
Description: Film negative showing a factory complex with a row of large drums on a platform in the foreground. The nearest drum is labeled "The Texas Company Petroleum and Its Products South Philadelphia Station." Telephone wires run behind the drums. The Texas Company was an oil company founded in 1901 in Beaumont, Texas. Later known as Texaco, the company eventually merged into Chevron Corporation in 2001., Originally located in negative album [P.2013.13a]., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: May 24, 1912
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.477]

Title: Baldwin Locomotive Works postcards
Description: Exterior views of Baldwin Locomotive Works at 400 North Broad Street built circa 1902. Demolished in 1937., Sheet number: 40A01B, Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Brightbill, George M., collector
Date: 1909-1914
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Business and Industry - Miscellaneous - 40]

Title: General Electric Company buildings, 5901 Elmwood Avenue, Philadelphia
Description: View of the General Electric Company building at 59th St. and Elmwood Ave. in Southwest Philadelphia. Photographs probably taken in March 1925 [4684]; December 1926 [7133-a]; and May 1920 [12469]., Negative numbers: 4684; 7133-a; 12469., Record created with information supplied by former Aero Service employee Carl H. Winnefeld, Jr.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: 1925-1930
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.4684; P.8990.7133-a; P.8990.12469]

Title: Western Electric Company Kearny Works, Kearny, New Jersey
Description: Aerial view of the Western Electric Kearny Works factory, Distribution Avenue, Kearny, NJ along the Passaic River looking west/northwest. Other industrial buildings along the river are also visible. Probably taken September 1926., Negative numbers: 6595., Record created with information supplied by former Aero Service employee Carl H. Winnefeld, Jr.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: 1926
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.6595]

Title: John Bancroft, Jr. soap and candle manufactory. No. 19, Wood St. betw. 2nd & 3rd Sts. & Vine and Callowhill Sts. Philadelphia. [graphic] / Drawn on stone by G. Heiss.
Description: Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator: Heiss, George G., lithographer., creator
Date: ca. 1850.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W200.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W200 [P.2117]

Title: Northern Liberties' Sugar Refinery. [graphic] / Drawn by M. S. Weaver, No. 62 Walnut St.
Description: LCP copy lacking title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: B638 N874.
Creator: Weaver, Matthias S., 1815 or 16-1847., creator
Date: ca. 1844.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W255.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W255 [P.2149]

Title: [Aerial view of the Schuylkill River looking southeast from Manayunk, Philadelphia.]
Description: Aerial view of the Schuylkill River looking southeast from the vicinity of Fountain Street in Manayunk. Relatively high vantage point shows the river and adjacent areas for some distance. Several bridges crossing the river are visible, as are industrial buildings in Manayunk and portions of Fairmount Park., Negative numbers: 1624., Manuscript note on negative sleeve: Girard Ave. Bridge., 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.8990.1624]

Title: Comlyville power loom factory. No. [blank] 50 1/2 yards. Warranted fast colours. J. Steel
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting an exterior view of the loom factory founded by Samuel Comly. Later known as the Frankford Woolen Mills., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1835]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Comlyville [1975.F.128]

Title: Factories of Brainerd & Armstrong Co
Description: Contains views of the dye house, spinning and twisting mill, and weaving and spooling mill of Brainerd & Armstrong Co., Number 2697 on recto., Text on verso., Sheet number: 40A02A, Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Brightbill, George M., collector
Date: ca. 1910
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Business and Industry - Miscellaneous - 40]

Title: Frankford Creek at Frankford Ave., looking east
Description: Depicts bend in creek with industrial buildings lining banks and bridge crossing creek in the distance., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 129 [P.8213.129], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson129.htm

Title: [Industrial buildings lining canal in Manayunk, Philadelphia during winter]
Description: Depicts buildings lining canal in Manayunk from opposite side of canal. Includes bridges crossing the canal., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Canal scene in winter - Manayunk, Phila. Along this canal are located the largest mills and factories of Manayunk, the output of which represents several hundred thousand dollars a year. Akin to a scene in Holland., Duplicate: P8513.18: same neg., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Reproduced in Frederic M. Miller, Morris J. Vogel, and Allen F. Davis' Still Philadelphia: A Photographic History, 1890-1940 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983), p. 68.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 214 [P.8513.214], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson214.htm

Title: [Industrial buildings lining canal in Manayunk, Philadelphia, during winter]
Description: Depicts buildings lining canal in Manayunk from opposite side of canal. Includes bridges crossing the canal., Photographer's manuscript note on duplicate: Canal scene in winter - Manayunk, Phila. Along this canal are located the largest mills and factories of Manayunk, the output of which represents several hundred thousand dollars a year. Akin to a scene in Holland., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Duplicate: P.8513.214: same neg., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Reproduced in Frederic M. Miller, Morris J. Vogel, and Allen F. Davis' Still Philadelphia: A Photographic History, 1890-1940 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983), p. 68.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 18 [P.8513.18], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson214.htm

Title: Mercer Automobile Company, Hamilton Township, New Jersey
Description: Aerial views of the the Mercer Automobile Company factory plant on Whitehead Road in Hamilton Township, New Jersey, north of Trenton. Mercer was an American automobile manufacturer from 1909 until 1925 notable for its high-performance cars, especially the Type 35 Raceabout. View shows several buildings and water towers that comprise the factory surrounded by a scattering of buildings, some likely residential, spread across a relatively open landscape., Negative number: 1220., Record created with information supplied by former Aero Service employee Carl H. Winnefeld, Jr.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: ca. 1921
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.1220]

Title: Aerial views of Darby, Pennsylvania
Description: Aerial views from very high altitude showing Darby, Pennsylvania. Views are from northwest to southeast, with the Elmwood section of Philadelphia visible [5587]; from southwest to northeast with the B & O and Pennsylvania Railroads, Chester Pike, and MacDade Boulevard visible [5593]; and from west to east showing Darby Creek, Cobbs Creek, and the Fels & Company plant formerly at Woodland and Island Avenues [5615]. The General Electric plant formerly at 69th and Elmwood Avenues is visible in all three views. Probably taken April 1926., Negative numbers: 5587; 5593; 5615., Record created with information supplied by former Aero Service employee Carl H. Winnefeld, Jr.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: [ca. 1926]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.5587; P.8990.5593; P.8990.5615]

Title: Caswell, Berengera Dalton, 1828-1850.
Description: In J.A.B. Mary Bean: the factory girl / a domestic story, illustrative of the trials and temptations of factory life (Boston, 1850), front wrapper., Waist-length portrait of Bean, wearing a bracelet., Miss Caswell, also known as Mary Bean, was a factory girl who became the subject of popular fiction after her body was discovered in a stream, following her death by a botched abortion., "Not unfrequently impatient of restraint, and indisposed to listen to the voice of counsel, the unthinking female is ensnared in the toils of the destroyer, and being insidiously led onward, step by step, she awakes from her dream of fancied happiness, but to mourn over her dishonor, and the destruction of her cherished hopes. Such was the case with Mary Bean. Her life, her sufferings, and her death, are but a picture of the life, the sufferings, and the death of many others. Let those of her sex, then, who may chance to read these pages, be admonished in season, and not turn a deaf ear to those counsels, which, if regarded, would save them from misery and dishonor."--P. 40.
Date: [1850?]
Location: http://www.librarycompany.org/women/virtue/vice.htm

Title: S. W. cor. Orthodox & Horrocks Sts. [Frankford]
Description: Real estate photograph commissioned by the Jackson-Cross Company depicting a three story brick industrial building, with a tower surmounted by a water tank. A smaller one level brick building sits adjacent to the main building at the southwest corner of Orthodox and Horrocks Streets. A sign is posted above the doorway of the one story building, but the first line is illegible. Displayed on the second line is the name Peter Paul Inc., Label on recto: Jackson-Cross Company., 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.9784.33]

Title: Rear of 1217-41 Carpenter St. on Montrose St
Description: Real estate photograph commissioned by the Jackson-Cross Company depicting the outbuildings in the rear of a factory on the 1200 block of Carpenter Street, viewed from Montrose Street. Includes partial views of two water tanks on top of the factory buildings. An old covered delivery wagon is parked next to a two story brick dwelling., Label on recto: C. Harry Johnson, Philadelphia. Member American Institute Real Estate Appraisers - National Association of Real Estate Boards., Title from typed note on recto., 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.9784.34]

Title: 900-[9]10 Brown
Description: Real estate photograph commissioned by the Jackson-Cross Company depicting the five story industrial building of Penn Paper and Stock Co. Two large brick towers, a water tank and a pedestrian crosswalk spanning Ninth Street are visible. Built for Powers, Weightman & Rosengarten across the street from their chemical works at Ninth and Parrish Streets., 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.9784.1]

Title: Frederick Stearns & Co. manufacturing pharmacists, Detroit, Mich., U.S.A Frederick K. Stearns, President. Frank C. McLaughlin, Vice Prest. & Treas. Thomas Bennett, Secretary. Established 1855. Incorporated 1882. Detroit, Mich. Windsor, Ont. London, Eng. New York City. 1 Platt St
Description: Billhead containing a vignette exterior view of the manufactory of the business established in 1855 by Frederick Stearns. View shows the multi-story, block long factory building in front of which street and pedestrian traffic, including horse-drawn wagons travel. Also contains pictorial details, including a ribbon, flowers, and the company trademark designed as a coat of arms., Completed in type on September 12, 1895 to H. A. Kerste, Schenectady, N.Y. for 6 items, including "Edel. Cream," "Talc. Powd.," and "Tansy Pills" for $15.05., Typewritten on recto: 1 case. 9 LBS. For Wm. Sauter shipped in you care. Please notify by postal which we enclose in your case., Inscribed on recto: 15.05 Less 3% .45/14.60. Less freight .56/14.04., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Ephemera Collection - Billheads, etc. [P.2010.37.19]

Title: Steel's Bay Printing Company [certificate]
Description: Stock certificate containing a view of the printing company in "Camden Co. New Jersey." View shows the factory building, including smokestacks and a tank, along a riverbank. Men in a rowboat and a sailboat are visible on the water in the foreground. Certificate also contains pictorial details deisgned as frames surrounding printed text and a space for a stamp. Details include flowers, scrolls, and filigree., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.237b]

Title: [Gumpert Bros., cigar manufacturers, 1341 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: Advertisement depicting the factory during the Centennial Exhibition of 1876 adorned with several signs, including ones illustrated with allegorical figures and patriotic imagery. Passersby look at displays of boxes in the window near pedestrians walking on the sidewalk. In the street, a man on horseback, and a horse-drawn carriage and omnibus travel. Also shows partial views of adjacent buildings. Gumpert Bros, originally W.H. Grumpert, was established in 1856. The firm name changed to Gumpert Bros in 1866 and the business removed from the site in 1879., Probably engraved by John Serz., Title supplied by cataloger., 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: [1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Serz [P.9773.76e]

Title: [Joseph Beckhaus carriage factory, 1204 Frankford Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: Advertisement depicting the factory and office at 1204 Frankford Avenue. Coaches line the street in front of the establishment and pedestrians walk on the sidewalk. Beckhaus was originally established as Beckhaus, Allgaier, and Petry in 1853. Beckhaus assumed sole operation about 1869., 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.9773.76d]

Title: [Agasote Millboard Company, West Trenton, New Jersey.]
Description: Aerial views of the the Agasote Millboard Company in West Trenton, New Jersey, located on the main line of the Reading Railroad. The company was founded in 1909 by Eugenius Harvey Outerbridge who brought what was then a secred process of creating fiberboard out of newspapers from England to the U.S.. The company's products included: agasote, used in the manufacture of passenger railroad car roofs; vehisote, used in the making of truck panels; and homasote, still used as a versatile building material today. The company changed its name to Homasote Company in the late 1930s., Negative numbers: P65., Manuscript note on negative sleeve: Agasote Millboard, Trenton, N.J.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: ca. 1930-1931
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.P65]

Title: Alirene Mills textile plant at Frankford Creek, 1200-1300 Adams Avenue, Frankford, Philadelphia
Description: Aerial views of Alirene Mills (formerly Bromley Mills) textile plant at Frankford Creek and Adams Avenue. The mill was owned by James Bromley and was built in 1903, designed by the architecture firm Stearns and Castor. Row homes can be seen adjacent to the factory complex., Negative numbers: 13002n, P98, P99, P103, P104., Manuscript note on negative sleeve of 13002n: Buckman and Buckman, Fkd. Creek, N. Phila, Pa, August 27, 1930.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: 1930-1931
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.13002n; P.8990.P98; P.8990.P99; P.8990.P103; P.8990.P104]

Title: American Can Company plant, Bridgeton, New Jersey
Description: Aerial views of the American Can Company factory in Bridgeton, New Jersey. The Sanitary Can Company opened the facility in 1906. American Can purchased the factory in 1908. The plant remained in operation until 1931 when the equipment became outmoded. View shows the factory and watertower labeled "American Can Company" with adjacent residential areas and farmlands., Negative numbers: 1378., Manuscript note on negative sleeve: Bridgeton, N.J., Record revised with information supplied by former Aero Service employee Carl H. Winnefeld, Jr.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: ca. 1921
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.1378]

Title: Crown Can Company plant, vicinity of I Street and Erie Avenue, Juniata Park, Philadelphia
Description: Aerial views of the Crown Can Company plant in the Juniata Park section of Philadelphia. Other industrial facilities can be seen, including those of Richardson's Mints and Cuneo Press. The Crown facility spans several city blocks and sits adjacent to the Bellvue Cemetery, a stadium, railroad tracks and areas of row homes. A trolley car is visible on the trolley tracks., Negative numbers: 19842s, 19848s, 19849s., Manuscript note on negative sleeve: Crown Can Co., Phila, Pa., June 26, 1939.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: 1939
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.19842s; P.8990.19848s; P.8990.19849s]

Title: Abrasive Company, James and Fraley Streets, Wissinoming, Philadelphia
Description: Aerial views of the Abrasive Company industrial site in the Wissinoming neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded as the Abrasive Material Company in 1893, the company was purchased by Simonds and the name changed in 1927. The name changed again to the Simonds Abrasive Company in 1946. The Abrasive Company was known as an innovator in the grinding wheel market and abrasives industry. The factory was designed by the Philadelphia architecture firm Stearns & Castor. The images show the factory as well as the surrounding residential area and row homes., Negative numbers: 5604, 11500, 11501, 11502.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: ca. 1926-1929
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.5604; P.8990.11500-11502]

Title: [Vanity Fair textile mill and environs, Reading, Pennsylvania.]
Description: Aerial view of the Vanity Fair factory building showing nearby row homes and other industrial buildings. Founded as the Reading Glove and Mitten Manufacturing Company in 1899 and later known as Vanity Fair Mills, the company more recently operates as the VF Corporation. View is southeast to northwest. Vanity Fair Mills buildings are on the east side of Coventry Way and south of Buttonwood St. Buttonwood St., Schuylville Ave. and a portion of the Reading Iron Company, Oley St. mill are visible. In addition the homes on the north side of Buttonwood St. between Tulpehocken St. and Gordon St. are still in place. Probably taken September 12-16, 1922., Negative numbers: 2760., 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.8990.2760]

Title: Delaware River waterfront at Spring Garden Street, Northern Liberties, Philadelphia
Description: Aerial views of the piers and industrial buildings along the Delaware riverfront in Northern Liberties. Views face north and west from the vicinity of Spring Garden Street and Delaware Avenue., Negative numbers: 2834, 4860.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: ca. 1915
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.2834; P.8990.4860]

Title: [North Philadelphia waterfront looking south along the Delaware River, Philadelphia.]
Description: Aerial views of the Delaware River looking south from the Camden, New Jersey side of the river from a low altitude. Ships and industrial facilities are visible and the Philadelphia city skyline can be seen in the distance., Negative numbers: 14734n., Manuscript note on negative sleeve: N. Phila Waterfront & Delaware River, Phila, Pa., July 12, 1931 (city in background).
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: 1931
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.14734n]

Title: [Warner Company, Berk Street Wharf, Berk and Beach Streets, Fishtown, Philadelphia.]
Description: Aerial views of Warner Company industrial piers on the Delaware waterfront at Berk Street and Beach Street in Fishtown. Facility is shown in its entirety. Piers are marked number 66 and 67. Ships are docked at the pier and what look like construction materials float on barges. A portion of the area just beyond Delaware Avenue to the northwest of the facility is also visible., Negative numbers: 20672n., Manuscript note on negative sleeve: Warner Co., Berk St. Wharf, Phila, Pa., Oct. 18, 1939.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: 1939
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.20672n]

Title: [Industrial waterfront along the Delaware River, Camden, New Jersey.]
Description: Aerial views of industrial facilities on the Camden, New Jersey waterfront along the Delaware River. Residential areas near the waterfront are also visible., Negative numbers: 7993., Manuscript note on negative sleeve: Camden Water Front, 12/10/1927.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: 1927
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.7993]

Title: [Delaware River waterfront north, vicinity of Port Richmond, Philadelphia.]
Description: Aerial view of the riverfront from the vicinity of Columbia Avenue looking north. The Reading Railroad Company railroad terminus and Port Richmond are visible in the distance, as are industrial buildings and piers along the riverfront. Ships sail on the river., Negative numbers: 4873., Manuscript note on negative sleeve: Philadelphia, Pa, N.E. Waterfront, 1925.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: 1925
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.4873]

Title: Aerial views of Gloucester City, New Jersey
Description: Aerial views of Gloucester City from several angles. Views show industrial buildings lining the waterfront along the Delaware River as well as large portions of residential and other areas of the city., Negative numbers: 1265, 1266, 1267, 1315, 1317, 2848., Record revised with information supplied by former Aero Service employee Carl H. Winnefeld, Jr.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: ca. 1921-1922
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.1265; P.8990.1266; P.8990.1267; P.8990.1315; P.8990.1317; P.8990.2848]

Title: Factory of the Meter Co. Phila
Description: View of the American Meter Company at Arch and Twenty-Second streets. Includes a group of children seated on a patch of grass in front of the manufactory. Philadelphia served as the chief seat of gas-making machinery in the United States during the mid nineteenth century., Title from manuscript note on verso., Attributed to John Moran., Pale yellow mount with square corners., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Moran, John, 1831-1903
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Moran - Industry [P.8464.21]

Title: Scene in a Lynchburg tobacco factory
Description: Illustration is included in Chapter LXI, "A Visit to Lynchburg in Virginia," and corresponds with the following passage, which clearly aims to present the tobacco factories in a positive, and even romantic light: "It [Lynchburg] has thirty-five tobacco factories, employing great numbers of negroes, men, women, and children. These negroes earn good wages, work faithfully, and turn out vast quantities of the black, ugly compound known as "plug," which has enslaved so many thousands, and promoted such a sublime disregard for the proprieties in the matter of expectoration. . . . In the maufacturies the negro is the same cheery, capricious being that one finds him in the cotton or sugar-cane fields; he sings quaintly over his toil, and seems entirely devoid of the sullen ambition which many of our Northern factory laborers exhibit. The men and women working around the tables in the basements of the Lynchburg tobacco establishments croon eccentric hymns in concert all day long; and their little children, laboring before they are hardly large enough to go alon, join in the refrains." (p. 556) Correspondingly, the engraving shows four small children stripping tobacco leaves alongside the adults., Illustration in Edward King's The Great South (Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, 1875), p. 557., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Work Scenes.
Date: [1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1875 King 3379.Q p 557, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2828

Title: Looking toward the city
Description: View looking south from East Fairmount Park showing the Wire Suspension Bridge at Fairmount. 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. View also shows the old engine house at the Fairmount Water Works, factory buildings lining the west bank of the river, and cityscape., Title from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Orange mount with rounded corners., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Bridges [8353.F.10]

Title: Offices, paint factory and warehouse of Samuel H. French & Co
Description: Exterior view of Company's facilities at the corner of 4th & Callowhill Streets, Philadelphia., Sheet number: 40A06B, Holiday greeting in manuscript on verso., Undivided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Brightbill, George M., collector
Date: ca. 1911
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Business and Industry - Miscellaneous - 40]

Title: Philadelphia, from Lapierre House
Description: Cityscape view looking northwest from the hotel LaPierre House (southwest corner Broad and Sansom) showing the Logan Square area. Includes a "wood mouldings steam turning mill and hydrant manufactory"; a hardware store, and the steeple of the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul (1708-1720 Summer Street)., Attributed to William and Frederick Langenheim., Pale yellow paper mount with square corners., Title printed on mount., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., The Langenheim brothers, William and Frederick, were pioneer photographers and stereograph publishers, who operated a photographic studio in Philadelphia from the 1840s to 1874 and the death of William.
Creator: W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
Date: ca. 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - Views [(8)1322.F.1f-1]

Title: Philadelphia, from Lapierre House
Description: Cityscape view looking northwest from the hotel LaPierre House (southwest corner Broad and Sansom) showing the Logan Square area. Includes a "wood mouldings steam turning mill and hydrant manufactory"; a hardware store, and the steeple of the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul (1708-1720 Summer Street)., Attributed to William and Frederick Langenheim., Pale yellow paper mount with square corners., Title printed on mount., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., The Langenheim brothers, William and Frederick, were pioneer photographers and stereograph publishers, who operated a photographic studio in Philadelphia from the 1840s to 1874 and the death of William.
Creator: W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
Date: ca. 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - Views [(8)1322.F.1f-1]

Title: Philadelphia, from Lapierre House
Description: Cityscape view looking northwest from the hotel LaPierre House (southwest corner Broad and Sansom) showing the Logan Square area. Includes a "wood mouldings steam turning mill and hydrant manufactory"; a hardware store, and the steeple of the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul (1708-1720 Summer Street)., Attributed to William and Frederick Langenheim., Pale yellow paper mount with square corners., Title printed on mount., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., The Langenheim brothers, William and Frederick, were pioneer photographers and stereograph publishers, who operated a photographic studio in Philadelphia from the 1840s to 1874 and the death of William.
Creator: W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
Date: ca. 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - Views [(8)1322.F.1f-1]

Title: Old Wire Bridge
Description: View looking east from West Fairmount Park showing the Wire Suspension Bridge spanning the Schuylkill River. The bridge, the first suspension bridge in the United States, was built 1841-1842 after the designs of engineer Charles Ellet, Jr. It was removed in 1874. View includes a man standing among piles of rock and gravel near a storage shed, possibly an ice house, on the west bank of the river in the foreground. Several buildings, including factories and mills, line the east bank of the river in the background. Also includes a distant view of the dome of the Cathedral Bascillica of SS. Peter and Paul., Title from manuscript note on mount., Photographer's imprint on mount., Publisher's imprint printed on verso., Printed on mount: No. 4., Pink 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, photographer
Date: c1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Bridges [P.9299.71]

Title: Wire Bridge at Fairmount, Phila. Pa
Description: View from the east bank of the Schuylkill River looking south showing the Wire Suspension Bridge. 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 factories and mills lining the east bank; horse-drawn wagons transporting materials across the bridge; and men in rowboats on the river in the foreground., Orange mount with rounded corners., Title from label on negative., Publisher's imprint printed on mount., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Missing upper left corner., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Union View Co.
Date: [ca. 1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Union View Company - Bridges [P.9260.81]

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: Wall Rope Works, Beverly, New Jersey
Description: Aerial view of the Wall Rope Works factory plant at Railroad Avenue and Mt.Holly Road in Beverly, New Jersey. Wall Rope Works was an industrial complex of national importance. The heart of the factory was its ropewalk, a long narrow building where strands of material were laid and twisted into rope. The 1,700 foot-long facility was the largest in the U.S. The company supplied rope products for the military beginning with the Spanish-American War; its products were used in the construction of the Kennedy Space Center. View is from northwest to southeast. Railroad tracks and adjacent residential areas are visible., Negative number: 1837., Record created 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.8990.1837]

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