Interior view of the two-section erecting shop (remodeled in 1890) at the Baldwin factory on Broad and Spring Garden streets. Depicts a row of locomotives in various stages of completion on one side of an open framework of steel. The Seller electric cranes capable of lifting 100 tons are visible above the engines. The company was founded by Matthias W. Baldwin in 1831., Copyrighted by Keystone View Company., Negative number printed on mount: 7090., Title printed on mount., Printed above image: 82., Contains a description of the design and operation of the erecting shop on verso., Keystone View Company, stock publisher of stereographs of the late 19th and 20th century, started issuing educational stereoviews around 1898. In 1906, the first boxed set of 600 educational views with an accompanying guide book was issued., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
[ca. 1910]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Keystone View Company - Industries [P.9573.24]
Looking south from Passyunk Bridge over Schuylkill River, image depicts industrial area, including barge floating at river's edge, crane in distance, smokestacks, telephone wires, and various buildings of the United Gas Improvement Company's Point Breeze Gas Works., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso: U.G.I. Gas Works. Passayunk [sic] Ave. and Schuylkill River., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator
Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date
ca. 1923
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 137 [P.8513.137], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson137.htm
View showing the engineering crew using a windlass to raise the standpipe in a large field at the corner of Tulpehocken Street and Wayne Avenue on August 13, 1851. Several men work large cranks, in the foreground and background, as others guide the lifting, including a man elevated on a section of the hoisting apparatus. In the right, the foreman talks to two men in white coats, probably the engineers, while another group of well-dressed men converse to the left near a small crowd of spectators. Two workers carry pulley ropes while they walk toward the lass. Another laborer grabs a bucket with one hand as he holds the unwinding rope of one of the cranks with the other. Pasture land is visible in the background. The Germantown Water Company delivered water from the location 1851-1872. The standpipe was sold in 1873 and demolished., Philadelphia on Stone, Atwater Kent Museum: 54.64.3, Trotter was a cousin of Edward H. Trotter, one of the partners of Birkinbine & Trotter.
Creator
Rease & Schell, lithographer
Date
ca. 1855
Location
Atwater Kent Museum | Print Department AKM AKM 54.64.3
View of industrial riverfront along Schuylkill River. Crane appears in foreground; South Street bridge and boat named "Friendship" with four sail masts appear in background., Title from photographer's manuscript on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Note: foreground, packet-crane for unloading coal from boats. 4 mast schooner in distance for sale. Name of schooner "Frienship". South St. bridge in background. (pen on word sale (sail) and on name of boat; put clouds in., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator
Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date
ca. 1923
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 203 [P.8513.203], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson203.htm
