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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]