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Title: Charles Baeder's Philada. Steam Works, manufacturer of glue, starch, curled hair & hidewhips, store, N. 7 South Third Str No. 750 Old York road [sic] or North 6th Str. above Camac Str. and store no. 45 Fulton Str. New York. The highest price given for damaged hides, glue pieces, ceroons &c &c
Description: Advertisement showing a view of the glue and animal product manufactories of Charles Baeder on a lot of land on the 1700 block of North Sixth Street. Includes the seven-story glue works with cupola and the smaller multi-story starch, hide whip, and curled hair factory. Two outbuildings with active smoke stacks stand between the factories. Trees and bushes are visible on the property. A horse-drawn cart travels in the foreground. The firm, established in 1828 by Baeder, became the premier manufacturer of its kind in the United States. The manufactory, of the firm later renamed Baeder, Adamson & Co., relocated to Richmond Street, Allegheny Avenue, and Westmoreland Street circa 1866., Not in Wainwright, Manuscript note in ink on verso: Glue [illegible] A.D. 10cts. by 80# or 1 bbl. Buffaloe No. 2 at 20 cts., Manuscript notes in pencil on verso: A. & D. 10 [symbol for cents]/ Buffaloe No. 2 15 [symbol for cents]/Horse [edges?] 15 yds [frm?] 2 00, 2 25, 2 50., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 878, Kuhl operated from 120 South Second Street, rear circa 1842-circa 1851.
Date: [ca. 1844]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Advertisements - Baeder [P.2015.19]

Title: Bought of C. Cumming & Co. Manufacturers & dealers in twine, glues, curled hair, hide whips, sand paper, lace leather, horns, bones, neats' foot oil, plastering hair & c. Factory -St. John STreet, above Beaver, Philad'a. Stores---nos. 3, 5 & 7 South Third St., Phila Superior hair mattresses made to order at short notice. Highest cash price paid for glue pieces, cattle tails, damaged hides and caroons. Printers' glue. A superior Article for Rollers
Description: Billhead containing an exterior view of the L-shaped glue factory, and courtyard. Smoke billows from the stacks on the roof and a weather vane adorns a tower at the cross-section of the building. One section includes vented windows and a chute into the yard, which contains crates and a lamp post. In the street, a horse-drawn cart travels toward one stopped near a gentleman. Charles Cumming operated a factory as a sole proprietor until circa 1855 when his firm C. Cumming & Co. was established., Name of proprietors (Charles Cumming and James R. White) and "Terms" printed below image. Terms detail "Current Accounts, Cash Jan'y 1st and July 1st. For Bills of $100 and over, 4 months negotiable notes. Bills less than $100 positively Cash less five per cent. Ground Bones, Neats' Foot Oil and Springs, Nett., Completed in manuscript to G.W. [Rernadon]? & Bros. on August 3, 1860 for" 2 boxes 'Coul whips" - 10 % of each. 20 gross at $600: $120., Inscribed in greasy pencil and in ink on recto: Ella Reed., Inscribed on recto: R H & Co. within a drawing of a diamond., Manuscript note on verso: C. Cumming. [Riera?] Herman & Co. $120. Augt 3 1860. Paid Sept 21., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Creator: Lowe, Samuel W., engraver
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Receipts [P.2011.10.127]

Title: Baeder, Delany & Adamson, manufacturers of glue curled, cow hide whips, sand & emery paper, neatsfoot, oil, bone, dust, plastering hair Stores: Philada. No. 14 S. 4th St. New York No. 225, Pearl Street; N.B. The highest price in cash given for glue pieces, damaged hides, cattle tails, ceroons, horns, bones &c. &c
Description: Tradecard showing a view of the glue and animal product manufacturing complex for partners Charles Baeder, Charles Delany, and William Adamson at 1006 North Sixth Street. Complex contains several buildings and two courtyards. The two largest buildings contain several stories, receiving entrances, and cupolas. Laborers holding tools with handles work on the roof of a shed-like building in the center of the complex. Horse-drawn carts are visible in the yard. Also includes street traffic in the foreground. A horse-drawn omnibus, wagon, and men on horseback travel in front of the fenced manufactory. The firm, established in 1828 by Baeder, became the premier manufacturer of its kind in the United States. The manufactory, of the firm later renamed Baeder, Adamson & Co., relocated to Richmond Street, Allegheny Avenue, and Westmoreland Street circa 1866., Not in Wainwright, pdcc00010, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 26:12b, POS 33
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Castner 26:12b

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