Advertisement showing the three-story office building with an addition and attached to the nine-story "Sugar Refinery" (rear) at the southwest corner of Willow Street and Old York Road, i.e., York Avenue. Signage reading "Rock Candy Manufactory. Isaac Koon's Sugar Refinery" adorns the office in which a stout clerk stands in the doorway. A horse-drawn dray loaded with goods (some labeled K) rests in the street and the drayman walks toward the clerk. A barrel stands next to the side of the office across from a laborer. He walks from an open entryway to the refinery marked "No Admittance." Barrels are visible inside and more barrels in addition to crates are piled in front of the refinery from which smoke spews from the stacks. Koons relocated from Race Street to Old York Road in 1844., Title from duplicate in the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: S.W. cor. Willow & Old York Road. Aug. 1847. Aug., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 513, LCP copy trimmed and lacking title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: B638 N874.
Creator
Weaver, Matthias S., 1815 or 16-1847, artist
Date
[August 1847]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W255 [P.2149]
