Advertising souvenir depicting the American Sewing Machine Company's exhibit at the Centennial Exhibition. Exhibit includes sewing machines, women's clothing and other decorative items., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 153
Date
[1876]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Advertisements [1975.F.6]
Advertisement containing an exterior view of the four-story factory and "office" at 927 George, i.e., Sansom Street. A clerk stands next to a displayed sewing machine base on the small stoop to the entrance of the first-floor "office" and converses with approaching patrons, a couple. In the street, a laborer loads a horse-drawn wagon near a departing dray and a parked carriage. Also shows a sign reading "Entrance to Factory," views of adjacent buildings, and two drivers conversing near the parked carriage. Factory established at this address in 1858, the year the street name was changed to Sansom., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 545, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Civil war recruitment poster for federal guards printed on verso.
Date
[1858]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Industries [(2)1322.F.52]
