James P. Wood & Co., manufacturers of improved apparatus for steam heating, (high and low pressure,) ranges, cooking apparatus, &c. Gas lighting, for public buildings, dwellings and towns. Ventilating, by automatic action, steam or power fans. 39 South Fo
Title
James P. Wood & Co., manufacturers of improved apparatus for steam heating, (high and low pressure,) ranges, cooking apparatus, &c. Gas lighting, for public buildings, dwellings and towns. Ventilating, by automatic action, steam or power fans. 39 South Fourth Street, Philadelphia T. Van Kannel, Manager Gas Department
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 cards - Wood [P.2006.20.49]
Schuehler Bros., tin roofers, heater & range workers, 1124 North Second Street, shop, 142 Edward St., Philadelphia.
Title
Schuehler Bros., tin roofers, heater & range workers, 1124 North Second Street, shop, 142 Edward St., Philadelphia L.C. Schuehler, 1222 N. Fourth Street. H.G. Schuehler, 142 Edward Street. Jobbing promptly attended to. Speaking tubes put up
Description
Manuscript note on verso: One $38.00 from O. Jorden, roof boiler house., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date
[ca. 1895]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Schuehler [P.2006.20.43]
Winter scene in Philadelphia.
Title
Winter scene in Philadelphia Send for circulars
Description
Advertisement for Daniel Mershon's Sons heating and ventilating warehouse at 1203 Filbert Street. Shows busy street and pedestrian traffic in front of the four-story red brick warehouse heavily adorned with signage and a "Russian Heater Works" flag at the northwest corner of Twelfth and Filbert streets. Signs advertising patent airtight heaters, grates, registers, ventilators, fireplace heaters, ranges, slate mantels, and house warming and cooking ranges are visible near the doorway and in the show windows of the storefront. Stoves, ranges, and fireplaces are displayed in the windows and on the sidewalk. Laborers load heating equipment into a store delivery wagon marked "Prepare for Winter" as a patron leaves the store near a policeman standing at the corner of the building. Several pedestrians wearing heavy coats, hats, and muffs walk in the street and on the sidewalks near several horse-drawn vehicles, including sleighs and a "Twelfth Street Passenger Railway" streetcar. Also shows partial views of horse-drawn wagons and of neighboring buildings in addition to a man on horseback. The business, established as Fink, Potts & Savoy in 1838, was known for the "Mershon" Patent Shaking Grate" and was renamed Daniel Mershon's Sons following the death of the original successor, Daniel Mershon, in 1865., Not in Wainwright., Filbert St. and Twelfth St. printed below the image as key., Copyrighted by H.H. & Geo. Mershon. Original letter of copyright held in the Print and Picture Collection of the Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa. Copyright letter No. 2333A. [Oversize Philadelphiana - Factories & Foundries (A-M)]., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 846, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 38 M 574, Longacre & Co. operated at 30 & 32 S. 7th Street in 1871.
Creator
Blanc, Albert, artist
Date
[ca. 1871], c1870
Location
Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 38 M 574
Winter scene in Philadelphia. [graphic].
Title
Winter scene in Philadelphia
Description
Advertisement for Daniel Mershon's Sons heating and ventilating warehouse at 1203 Filbert Street. Shows busy street and pedestrian traffic in front of the four-story red brick warehouse heavily adorned with signage and a "Russian Heater Works" flag at the northwest corner of Twelfth and Filbert streets. Signs advertising patent airtight heaters, grates, registers, ventilators, fireplace heaters, ranges, slate mantels, and house warming and cooking ranges are visible near the doorway and in the show windows of the storefront. Stoves, ranges, and fireplaces are displayed in the windows and on the sidewalk. Laborers load heating equipment into a store delivery wagon marked "Prepare for Winter" as a patron leaves the store near a policeman standing at the corner of the building. Several pedestrians wearing heavy coats, hats, and muffs walk in the street and on the sidewalks near several horse-drawn vehicles, including sleighs and a "Twelfth Street Passenger Railway" streetcar. Also shows partial views of horse-drawn wagons and of neighboring buildings in addition to a man on horseback. The business, established as Fink, Potts & Savoy in 1838, was known for the "Mershon" Patent Shaking Grate" and was renamed Daniel Mershon's Sons following the death of the original successor, Daniel Mershon, in 1865., Not in Wainwright., Filbert St. and Twelfth St. printed below the image as key., Title from item., Date inferred from original letter of copyright issued to H.H. & Geo. Mershon held in the Print and Picture Collection of the Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa. Copyright letter No. 2333A. [Oversize Philadelphiana - Factories & Foundries (A-M)]., Gift of David Doret., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 846 variant, Variant copy at Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 38 M 574, Longacre & Co. operated at 30 & 32 S. 7th Street in 1871.
Creator
Blanc, Albert, artist
Date
[ca. 1871], 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection - Prints [P.2022.62.3.38]