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Contains images of the John B. Stetson Hat Company manufactury near 5th and Montgomery Avenues. The company moved to this site in 1874 and constructed 20 buildings over a 55 year period. Operations ceased in this location in 1971. Images depict an aerial drawing of the 29 acre campus and interior photographs of the office corridor, reception room and salesroom. Also includes employees finishing soft hats, forming and sizing hat bodies, cutting fur and flanging soft hats, trimming stiff hats and weaving silk bands and bindings., Divided backs. Company biography on verso., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Industry - [P.9934.1-12]
View looking east on Chestnut Street showing the north side of the block including Caspar Souder, bootmaker (43 Chestnut Street), and a leather store., Title supplied by cataloguer., Probably a reproduction of an 1843 daguerreotype by William G. Mason. See P.2282.16., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Creator
Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer.
Date
ca. 1859
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Streets - Chestnut [(3)1322.F.73d]
View showing the south side of the 400 block of Chestnut Street. Includes abandoned buildings still displaying signage for former tenants L.J. Levy & Co., dry goods store (426 Chestnut) and Broadbent & Co. daguerreotype rooms and Bailey & Co., jewelers (428 Chestnut). Businesses relocated circa 1858. Also shows William F. Warburton, hatter (430 Chestnut); a peddler; small notices and broadsides adorning the shuttered, abandoned buildings; and a lamppost and horse-drawn wagon in the foreground., Title from manuscript note on mount: Chestnut St. SS E of 5th., Attributed to F. De. B. Richards., Date on photograph., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Creator
Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer.
Date
January 1859
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Streets - Chestnut [(6)1322.F.69b]
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