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Title: Henderson & Brother, 1906 Sansom St., Philadelphia Thos. Henderson, 1906 Sansom Street. Wm. Henderson, 2120 Sansom Street. Heavy hauling of all kinds promptly attended to
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting hauling and hoisting equipment in a wagon hitched to a horse. Image surrounded by decorative border including chain links., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Henderson [P.2006.20.59]

Title: Fairmount Machine Works, office, 2106 Wood Street, Philadelphia, Penna Thomas Wood, manufactures as specialties, power looms, with improved box and pattern machines. Bobbin winding, spooling, beaming, dye & sizing machines. Self-acting wool scouring machines (Yewdall's patent.) Improved power hoisting machines, lard and paraffine [sic] oil presses. Wall paper machinery, such as grounding, clay and color mixing machines, paper rolling and bundling machines
Description: Advertisement for the machine manufacturer containing a series of vignettes and descriptions of company products. Shows power looms; a "dye frame for dying six warps"; a "30 spindle bobbin winding machine"; "vertical cone & cradle indigo mills, for crushing indigo, etc."; "new style' beaming machines"; and couplings, post hangers, pulleys, and a pillow block. Also contains a chart of "Change Pinions for Regulating the number of Picks on Goods, with Positive Take-up Motion" and advertising text about shafting, gearing, and pulleys. Fairmount Machine Works was established in 1839 by John and Thomas Wood as a manufactory of power looms and other textile machinery., Various artists including Rea & Sharp, Klein, and Longacre Co., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 233
Creator: Longacre & Co.
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Industries - F [P.2004.43]

Title: David G. Schafer, contractor and teamster, 2527 South St., Phila. Residence: 2209 St. Alban St Stone hauling. Monumental hauling a specialty. Your patronage is respectfully solicited. All orders will receive prompt attention
Description: Illustrated trade cards depicting hauling and hoisting equipment in a wagon hitched to a horse., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Schafer [P.2006.20.57 & 58]

Title: General view of the erecting shop, Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.A
Description: 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]

Title: [United Gas Improvement Company's Point Breeze Gas Works from the Passyunk Avenue bridge over the Schuylkill River, Philadelphia]
Description: 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

Title: Raising the stand pipe for the Germantown Water Works. Birkinbine & Trotter, engineers
Description: 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

Title: Marble monument of John M. Clayton at Dover Del. executed by J. Struthers & Son, Philada
Description: View showing the monument for Delaware Senator and Secretary of State John M. Clayton in the Presbyterian Church of Dover cemetery known as Old Presbyterian Cemetery. Tomb inscribed "Born July 24, 1796. Died Nov. 9, 1856." Also shows a man near a hoist, a partial view of the church steeple, and surrounding buildings in the background., Title from manuscript note on mount., Attributed to Frederick De Bourg Richards., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of American views.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: ca. 1857
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Monuments & statues - C [5739.F.85a]

Title: Scene on the Schuylkill from E bank near Spruce St
Description: 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

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