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- Title
- Henry Tolman, dealier in railway, machinists', engineers' and general supplies, also machinery and tools, No. [228] Arch Street, Philadelphia
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting metal hardware flanking the title., Title annotated to No. 228 Arch Street from No. 116 Arch Street., Manuscript note on verso: Office hours 12 to 26c., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Tolman [P.2006.20.63]
- Title
- Geo. Rehfuss & Sons, mech. eng's, manufacturers of light machinery of every description. Dental and surgical instruments. Inventors of special machinery, Tiernan Street, below Wharton, Philadelphia, Pa. Residence, 1316 S. Broad St
- Description
- Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1885]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Rehfuss [P.2006.20.41]
- Title
- Robert Reid, machinist, 42, 44 & 46 E. Canal Street, below Front, Philadelphia, Pa Maker of steam engines, shafting, pulleys, hangers, boxes, punching presses, dies, punches, shears & cutters. Gear cutting up to six feet diameter. Also, maker of F. & R. Reid's celebrated patent corn crusher. Jobbing promptly attended to
- Description
- Robert Reid relocated his machinist shop to 71 East Laurel Street in 1886., Manuscript note written diagonally across recto: Removed to 71 East Laurel St., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized., Craig, Finley & Co., the partnership between William Craig, James G. Finley and James Ferguson, Jr., relocated to 1018/1020 Arch Street in 1875.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Reid [P.2006.20.36]
- Title
- Philadelphia Machinery Company, 1819 to 1827 Montgomery Ave., Philadelphia, Penna Exclusively manufacture of patented specialties. Dan'l Mills, president. Jas. M. Dalton, sec'y & treas
- Description
- Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Philadelphia [P.2006.20.39]
- Title
- Zindgraf & Hohenadel, 215 Race Street, Philadelphia, Pa Machinists, millwrights, steam engine builders and mill stone manufacturers, contractors for the building of paper, flour, malt and saw mills, breweries, paint, drug and chemical works, portable mills & hoisting machines, also patent paint mills, smut machines, mill bushes, conveyors, elevators and belting. Machinery of every description on hand and made to order. Also agents for the celebrated Niagara steam pump. All orders for jobbing, forging, &c., will be promptly attended to at reasonable rates. George P. Zindgraf, John Hohenadel, Jr
- Description
- Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Zindgraf [P.9798.6]
- Title
- Eagle Iron Works. Hoff & Fontaine, founders, and manufacturers of steam engines, patent steam stocking presses, pumps, patent hoisting machines, pulleys, hangers, couplings, shafting and mill gearing, general machinists, boiler makers & millwrights, No. 1162 North Third Street, Philadelphia
- Description
- Manuscript note on verso: Benjamin F. Skeen, no. 3651 Market St., fireman, Baldwin's boiler., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Eagle [P.2006.20.8]
- Title
- Charles Diedrichs, manufacturer of braiding, cord, & whip machinery, & machinery in general, No. 31 Vine St., Philadelphia
- Description
- Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1855]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Diedrichs [P.2006.20.12]
- Title
- Matthew H. Fifield, machinist, light "special" machinery and models. Also tools for jewelers, silversmiths, dentists and sheet metal workers, No. 3015 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia
- Description
- Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1885]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Fifield [P.2006.20.14]
- Title
- A.G. Brooks, machinery exchange, 261 N. Third Street, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.A N.B.--Machinery taken in trade. Over
- Description
- Manuscript note on recto: Ball engine., Trade card with printed text on verso advertising: portable and stationary engines & boilers, saw mills, steam pumps, all sizes. Aland injector blowers & exhausters, Forster's crushers, Judson's governors, bucket plunger steam pumps, hot-polished shafting, adjustable pipe tongs. Holland sight feed lubricators, scotch glass tubes, Jordan's steam traps, Clark's damper regulators, lathes, planers, drills, &c. A large stock of machinery taken in trade, for sale at the lowest prices. Appraisements of machinery made. Machinery sold on commission., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized., John D. Avil founded and managed the Avil Printing Company (also known as John D. Avil & Co.) in West Philadelphia from the early 1860s until his death in 1918. In 1868 he purchased land to construct a small building at 3941-3945 Market Street.
- Date
- [ca. 1885]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Brooks [P.2006.20.23]
- Title
- Snediker & Carr, practical engineers and general machinists, manufacturers of light machinery, cutting, forming and stamping dies. Power summer fans for offices, hotels & restaurants. Shafting, pullies and hangers furnished and put up at short notice. 925, 927 & 929 Filbert Street, Philadelphia James F. Snediker. Joseph Carr
- Description
- Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1885]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Snediker [P.2006.20.56]
- Title
- Chambers, Bro. & Co., manufacturers of folding machines, also, machines that fold, paste and trim periodicals, 52d Street below Lancaster Avenue. Philadelphia. (Means of access, over.)
- Description
- Contains "Means of access" information printed on verso., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1890]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Chambers [P.2002.67.11]
- Title
- Bridesburg Machine Works. Alfred Jenks & Son, manufacturers of cotton and wool carding spinning and weaving machinery, shafting and millgearing, Bridesburg post office Philadelphia. [graphic] / From nature & on stone by E. Beaulieu, 99 Walnut St.
- Description
- Published in Colton's atlas of America, illustrating the physical and political geography of North and South America... Commercial edition with business cards of prominent houses in Philadelphia. (New York: J.H. Colton and Company, 1856), page 79. (HSP O 458)., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc35 B851.
- Creator
- Beaulieu, Emile F. lithographer., creator
- Date
- [1856]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W033-1.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W33.1 [P.2020]
- Title
- Alfred Jenks & Son's machine works, Bridesburg. [graphic].
- Description
- Illustration in Edwin T. Freedley's Philadelphia and its Manufactures (Philadelphia: Edward Young, 333 Walnut Street, 1858), opposite page 301., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Am 1858 Fre 67170.D., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
- Date
- 1857.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W033-2.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W33.2 [Am 1858 Fre 67170.D]
- Title
- August Nittinger, Jr., manufacturer of butchers' & packers' machinery and tools, nos. 826, 828 & 830 North Fourth Street, Philadelphia Established 1852. The oldest and largest establishment of the kind in the United States. Meat chopping machines, meat rockers, sausage stuffing machines, lard presses &c. Boilers & engines, horizontal or vertical. Importer of genuine English sheep casings, and the celebrates John Wilson's butchers' knives & steels. Depot for the sale of all kinds of casings and spices. Everything in the butchers' and packers' line can be had at this establishment. All goods warranted as represented. Illustrated catalogue & price list sent free upon application
- Description
- Advertisement printed on verso in German., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Nittinger [P.9849]
- 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
- [Ford Model T truck with signage "Walker & Davis Inc., Machinists, Ruth & Cambria Sts."]
- Description
- Depicts a Ford Model T truck owned by Walker & Davis, machinists, sitting in front of their building at Ruth & Cambria Streets. Two small American flags hang over the car's headlights., Gift of Emily Riese., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
- Creator
- Davis, Eugene H., photographer
- Date
- ca. 1925
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Davis [P.9332.17]
- Title
- [Walker & Davis, Inc. Machinists building at Ruth & Cambria Sts.]
- Description
- Exterior view of industrial facility operated by Walker & Davis, Inc., showing four bays of large, multi-paned square windows that have smaller sections propped open for ventilation. In the center is a garage with large, open wooden doors. The entry is fenced off. A door marked "Office" is on the left side of the building., Gift of Emily Riese., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
- Creator
- Davis, Eugene H., photographer
- Date
- ca. 1910
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Davis [P.9332.6]
- Title
- Merrick & Sons iron founders, boiler makers & machinists. Washington Ave. & Fifth Street, Philadelphia Established 1836. Manufacturers of marine steam engines, light houses, sugar machinery & gas works, nasmyth & condie steam hammers. Machinery of all kinds. Aspinwall & Woolseys sugar draining centrifugals. See Agents for Rillieux Sugar Boiling Apparatus
- Description
- Civil war-era advertisement containing seven titled views promoting the manufactory (orginally established in 1836 as a foundry for castings) on the 400 block of Washington Avenue. Central view shows the "Front View" of the foundry. Soldiers march in front of the "Southwark Foundry" building that is adorned with signage advertising "Merrick & Sons Engineers & Machinests." An omnibus stops near the foundry to allow the passing of troops who are greeted by a small group of women. In the foreground, a six-horse team truck transports a large pipe, as behind it, a truck without a load follows. A family waits to cross the street because of the trucks. Also shows a rail truck loaded with barrels and large cylinders parked in front of the loading bay of the factory. Across the street men inspect large pipes on blocks in the left of the image. Scenes above the central view show "Steamer Keystone State at Reed St. Wharf"; a rowboat of men in the waters in front of the "U.S. Steamers Ironsides (Armored) Mississippi & Tuscaroroa off Fortress Monroe"; a man leading an 8-horse team pulling a "Bedplate for Monongahela" past a workshop., Views at the bottom of the print show the "Interior of the Boiler Shop" with laborers working around a large crane and elevated walkways as they hammer large metal forms; the "Steamer Quaker City off 'Sombrero Key.' Light House" tilting in rough waters; and the "Interior of the 'Old Foundry' " with workers at their tasks around a large crane and surrounded by machine parts. Merrick & Sons, a premier iron foundry, constructed almost all the machinery for U.S. Navy steamers during the war, as well as the New Ironsides, the first U.S. armor-clad war vessel. The firm was also the exclusive maker of the N. Rillieux patent sugar boiler apparatus and Nasmyth steam hammers., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 477, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 35 M 551, Lower right corner missing.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H.
- Date
- [ca. 1863]
- Location
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 35 M 551
- 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
- American Machine Co. manufacturers of hardware specialties, N.E. cor. Lehigh Ave. amd American St., Philadelphia Specialties: American ice cream freezer, gem ice cream freezer, star ice cream freezer, crown ice cream freezer, crown ice chipper, American, crown, knox and eagle, fluting machines, crown hand fluter, perfection counter scales [with automatic action.], automatic potato scales, Mrs. Potts' cold handle sad irons, A.M. Co's clothes wringer, American cake mixer, American tobacco cutter, American tobacco shave, etc
- Description
- Trade card illustrated by six blonde putti frolicking outdoors around an "American Freezer" in a barrel labeled "American Machine Co." Includes four winged angels that play with arrows and a shield., Advertising text and "specialties" list printed on verso for the American Machine Co., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized., Gift of Helen Beitler.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - American Machine [P.9994]
- Title
- Merrick & Hijo, Succesores De Merrick & Towne, Filadelfia. = Merrick & Son, successors to Merrick & Towne, Philadelphia. = Merrick & Fils, Successeur De Merrick & Towne, Philadelphie Ingernieros y Fabricantes de Maquinas de Vapor, de Calderas, trapiches y de Maquinaria en general. Ellos son tambien agents exclusivos para la fabrica y la venta del martillo patente de vapor de accion de Nasmyth, -y del aparato ò maquina patente de Rillieux para cocer azucar. = Engineers and manufacturers of steam engines and boilers, sugar mills, and machinery in general. They are the exclusive agents for the manufacture and sale of Nasmyth's patent direct-action steam hammer, and for Rillieux’s patent apparatus for the manufacture of sugar. =Ingénieurs et fabricants de machina à vapeur, de chaudières, Moulin à cane at de machines et appareilles en général. Ils sont les agents exclusives pour la fabrique et la vente du marteau a vapeur à action directe (breveté) de Nasmyth,- et pour l’appareil (breveté) de Rillieux pour la fabrication de sucre
- Description
- Advertisement showing the factory complex between Washington, Federal, Fourth, and Fifth streets for the firm established in 1836 as Merrick & Towne (renamed Merrick & Son in 1849 and Merrick & Sons in 1852). In the right of the image, several laborers remove a pipe through the stable-like doors of a warehouse near which a pile of pipes lies on the sidewalk. A boy, sitting on a hydrant, with a dog watches the scene from the opposite corner. To the rear of the warehouse, a horse-drawn cart filled with coal enters the fenced courtyard. Piles of pipe are visible in the yard and workers are visible at the doorway of the workshop bordering the yard. Past the courtyard, a laborer pushes a hand cart by another workshop. Smokestacks adorn most of the buildings and machine parts and tools line the sidewalk in front of them. In the street, a team of six horses pulls a truck carrying a large pipe. The team driver walks on the sidewalk behind a couple taking a stroll., pdcp00023, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Factories, etc.
- Creator
- Rease, W.H, artist
- Date
- 1850
- Location
- Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - Factories, etc. - M
- Title
- Penn Steam Engine & Boiler Works foot of Palmer Street Kensington Philadelphia Neafie & Levy, engineers, machinists, boiler makers, black smiths & founders. Manufacturers of high & low pressure marine & stationery engines, boilers of all descriptions, propellers, iron boats, water tanks, heavy & light forgings, iron & brass castings, coppersmithing, pattern making, & an extensive assortment of all patterns of all kinds on hand. Having extensive wharf & dockroom are always prepared to build and repair engines & steamers at the shortest notice. Every facility offered for lifting heavy & light weights. Jacob G. Neafie. John P. Levy
- Description
- Advertisement showing several marine vessels docked in front of the engine & boiler works complex at the busy river front. Complex contains several buildings, including a "boiler works," "steam works," an "office," "ship house," and "smith shop." One of the buildings contains a weather vane adorned by the figure of William Penn. Teams of several horses haul materials on trucks past the boiler and steam works. Laborers, including men attending to a massive pipe in a yard lined with steam engines and other machinery, work on the docks, piers, and boats at the complex. Docked vessels include the tug boat "Columbia," paddleboats, barges, a sailboat, and other tugs. Also contains a vignette of a paddleboat and a sailing ship on each side of the title. The firm established as Reaney, Neafie & Levy in 1844, specialized in iron boats and engines, and later steam fire engines. Reaney left the partnership to start his own shipyard in 1859. Neafie & Levy remained in operation until 1907., Philadelphia on Stone, Atwater Kent Museum: 41.31.1/2
- Creator
- Rease, W.H
- Date
- [ca. 1861]
- Location
- Atwater Kent Museum | Print Department AKM AKM 41.31.1/2
- Title
- Franklin Institute Exhibition, 1874
- Description
- Interior view of 1874 Exhibition of American Manufactures at the Franklin Institute, showing prize-winning gas fixtures designed by Cornelius & Sons (1332 Chestnut St.) and the display of the machine tool firm of Wm. Sellers & Co., owned and operated by William Sellers who was elected president of the Franklin Institute in 1864. The Exhibition was held in the John Haviland-designed building on South Seventh Street., Title on mounts., Photographer's imprint on mounts., Yellow mounts with rounded corners., Printed text on versos in paragraph form within decorative border describes history of the Franklin Institute and lists the present officers and exhibition officers., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Cremer, James, 1821-1893
- Date
- 1874
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Exhibitions [P.9687.1-2]
- Title
- Interior views of Franklin Institute Exhibition, 1874
- Description
- Interior views of 1874 Exhibition of American Manufactures at the Franklin Institute (13-17 South Seventh Street), showing displays by Edwin Harrington & Son, manufacturer of machinist tools; F. Gossin, terra cotta; Harrison Bros., white lead; and Cornelius & Sons, gas fixtures. Images depict machinery; terra cotta vases, pedestals, statues, and urns; containers of lead; and gas fixtures and lamps. The Exhibition was held in the John Haviland-designed building on South Seventh Street., Copyrighted by Kiralfy Bros., Philadelphia., Attributed to Robert Newell., Titles written in manuscript notes on mounts., Pink mounts with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Ms. Jane Carson James.
- Creator
- Newell, Robert, 1822-1897
- Date
- c1876
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Exhibitions [P.9299.105-108]