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Title: Chemical laboratory of Crew, Rogers & Crew Philadelphia Penna
Description: Advertisement with heavy street activity showing the manufactory at 1601 North Sixth Street for the firm founded by Benjamin J. and J. Lewis Crew and Stephen R. Rogers in 1860. Shop laborers load barrels onto a horse-drawn cart parked in front of the laboratory and unstack and shift crates and barrels that line the sidewalks. A company horse-drawn wagon passes in the street. Other traffic includes horse-drawn drays, a "Frankford & Southwark" street car, and elegantly-attired women and men crossing from and to street corners. Also shows a company wagon entering a bay and a dray entering a storage yard at the factory. Surrounding buildings, including probably the warehouse at the lumber yard of Jacob and George A. Binder (6th & Oxford), are visible in the background., Inscribed on recto: About 1854. Used during Civil War 1863-1865 as U.S. laboratory under charge of Prof. John M. Maisch. Maisch was a professor at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and secretary of the American Pharmaceutical Association., Philadelphia on Stone, Atwater Kent Museum: 88.98.423/90
Creator: Rease, W. H.
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Atwater Kent Museum | Print Department AKM AKM 88.98.423/90

Title: [Bennet's Tower Hall Clothing Bazaar, 518]
Description: Quirky advertisement showing heavy street traffic in front of the clothing store, designed as a medieval tower, at 518 Market Street. Patrons and pedestrians gather near the entrance of the store across from a saddled horse and a dray loaded with crates parked in front of the building. Other street traffic includes a stopped "Hestonville, Market Street, Cambridge Ferry" omnibus from which a lady departs from the rear while a chariot-like horse-drawn vehicle advertising "Tower Hall Clothing Bazaar Market Street" passes her. The unique vehicle is followed by an ornately painted "West Philadelphia" street car crowded with passengers, including men seated on the roof beside the driver. Also shows neighboring buildings. Joseph M. Bennett opened his clothier establishment in 1849, which he named Tower Hall in 1853., Title supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, Atwater Kent Museum: 88.98.393/2, Trimmed. Varnished.
Date: [ca. 1859]
Location: Atwater Kent Museum | Print Department AKM AKM 88.98.393/2

Title: Engel & Wolf's brewery & vaults at Fountain Green. Office No. 26 & 28 Dillwyn St. between Vine & Callowhill & Third & Fourth Sts. Philadelphia Including five large vaults containing 50,352 cubic feet cut out of the solid rock and about 45 feet below ground, where they keep their well known lager beer. Temperature of the vaults in midsummer 40 degrees of Fahrenheit. They are situated on the Columbia Rail Road, about one mile above the Fairmount Waterworks, Philadelphia Co
Description: Advertisement showing the facility at Fountain Green (Fairmount Park) for the brewery established in 1844 by Charles Engel & Charles Wolf. Includes the wash house and entrance to the vault on the lowest level of the hill, the office (middle level), fermenting and brewing building, and storage house with fermenting cellar (upper level). Horse-drawn wagons loaded with barrels exit from different level entries to the buildings and a laborer working on a barrel toils within the brewery. Two gentlemen stand on the porch to the office and a woman with children uses the property for recreation. In the foreground, a Columbia and Philadelphia Railroad locomotive pulls a train car full of passengers, a double-decker horse-drawn omnibus travels, men ride on horseback, and individuals (woman with child and two men) stroll and descend the river embankment to greet a man arriving by rowboat. A weather vane designed as a beer barrel adorns the storage house. Engel & Wolf purchased Fountain Green in 1849 to dig lager beer vaults to ferment and age the beer brewed at Dillwyn Street. A third-story was added to the storage house after 1855 and the plant was remodeled in 1859. The brewery ceased operations in 1870 when Fountain Green, the former estate of Samuel Meeker, was seized by the city for the park., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 209, Atwater Kent Musuem: 54.3.6/3. Copy unlocated. Description based on Wainwright and second state of print held in the collections of the Library Company. See POS 210 for digital image of second state.
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Atwater Kent Museum | Print Department AKM AKM 54.3.6/3

Title: View of the Pennsylvania State Agricultural Fair, held at Powellton [sic], twenty-fourth ward, Philadelphia, late West Philadelphia, September 1854
Description: Shows the well-attended fair on grounds landscaped with dirt paths and a track, tenanted by tents and sheds adorned with American flags, and enclosed by a white fence. Visitors enter by foot, on horseback, and carriage through an arched opening near the "Ticket Office" as a lone carriage departs through the opposite exit way. Throngs of people spill out from the temporary shelters while individuals ride horseback, travel in carriages, and rest on a mound of dirt nearby. Also shows horses racing on the track and trees lining the back of the property in the background. The Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society was founded in 1851 by representatives from 50 counties with the object to "foster and improve agriculture, horticulture, and the domestic and household arts." Powelton was the estate of John Hare Powel, an experimental farmer and diplomat., Title supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, Atwater Kent Museum: 49.34.25
Date: [ca. 1854]
Location: Atwater Kent Museum | Print Department AKM AKM 49.34.25

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

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