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Title: Wakefield Manufacturing Company. Hosiery. Germantown, Philada. County. [graphic] / Designed & lith. B.F. Smith, Jr.
Description: Location: Eighteenth Street and Fishers Lane., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 35 W149.
Creator: Smith, B. F., Jr. lithographer., creator
Date: ca. 1850.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W441-2.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W441 [P.2265]

Title: Wakefield Manufacturing Company. Hosiery. Germantown, Philada. County. [graphic] / Designed & lith. B.F. Smith, Jr.
Description: Location: Eighteenth Street and Fishers Lane., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 35 W149.
Creator: Smith, B. F., Jr. lithographer., creator
Date: ca. 1850.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W441-1.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W441 [P.2266]

Title: Wakefield Manufacturing Company. Hosiery. Germantown, Philada. County
Description: Pastoral view depicting children playing on the hillside surrounding the Wakefield mills, established by William Logan Fisher circa 1815 at Eighteenth Street and Fisher's Lane. Six children play, one with a basket over his head, in the foreground (center), while a man drives a horse-drawn cart loaded with boxes marked "hosiery" (left). Mill buildings are visible in the distance, behind which more people are frolicking on the green. A large residence is partially visible through the woods on the hill in the far distance (center). Owned by the Fisher family of Wakefield, the mills stopped operating in the 1880s., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 816b, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 35 W149.
Creator: Smith, B. F., Jr., artist
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W441 [P.2265]

Title: Wakefield Manufacturing Company. Hosiery. Germantown, Philada. County
Description: Pastoral view depicting children playing on the hillside surrounding the Wakefield mills, established by William Logan Fisher circa 1815 at Eighteenth Street and Fisher's Lane. Six children play, one with a basket over his head, in the foreground (center), while a man drives a horse-drawn cart loaded with boxes marked "hosiery" (left). Mill buildings are visible in the distance, behind which more people are frolicking on the green. A large residence is partially visible through the woods on the hill in the far distance (center). Owned by the Fisher family of Wakefield, the mills stopped operating in the 1880s., Date supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 816a, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 35 W149.
Creator: Smith, B. F., Jr., artist
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W441 [P.2266]

Title: Martin Landenberger & Co Manufacturers of shawls - fancy knit goods - hosiery. Frankford Road & Wildey St. Philadelphia Pa
Description: Advertisement showing the two Italianate-style buildings (1101-1103 Frankford, built 1851-1856, and 1045-1055 Frankford, built 1871) in Fishtown of the hosiery manufactory established in 1843. A covered pedestrian bridge marked with the name of the company connects the buildings that are surrounded by heavy street activity. Horse-drawn wagons, drays, and carts, including vehicles for L. Berges Dyeing & Printing and F. Schoettles Paper Box company, deliver and transport goods and merchandise among a couple on horsebacks, a carriage, buggy, and a "Bridesburg Richmond 1 Exchange" streetcar. Pedestrians also fill the sidewalks and street. A boy flies a kite near a gentleman tipping his hat to a woman and child. Laborers transport sacks over their shoulder and by pushing a handcart. A postman is on route to deliver mail across from a man accompanying another using a shoulder strap to carry a basket of rags. A lady peers into one of the several large front windows of Landenberger & Co. Around the corner, two other fashionable women promenade past crates lining the side of the older building. A cupola and an American flag adorn its roof., Around the corner of the newer building inscribed with the date the business was established, a man leads a bridled horse past a wood bin. Birds fly above the building adorned with a weather vane decorated with a sheep. Also contains two vignettes of the company seal printed below the image. Seal includes a crown and two eagles. Landenberger & Co. was the only Philadelphia factory in the late 1850s to produce hosiery, opera hoods, comforters, shawls, and scarves. The factory expanded in 1870 as a result of the massive increase in sales of hosiery and blankets spurred by the Civil War. Landenberger sold the properties in 1882 but continued as tenant at 1101-1103 Frankford Avenue until 1886., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 459, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 35 L 254, Longacre & Co. operated at 30 & 32 S. 7th Street in 1871.
Creator: Tholey, Charles P., d. 1898
Date: [ca. 1871]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 35 L 254

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