Location: 41 North Front Street (pre-consolidation)., LCP copy lacking title and imprint., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Date
[Dec. 1847]
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W217.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W217 [P.2110]
Advertisement showing the manufactory of John Donnelly below Front Street near the Delaware River. Signage covers the three-story building that contains several windows. Male and female workers are visible at many. Workers also hoist a crate from a horse-drawn cart parked along the building, load a horse-drawn wagon, and enter the factory. Also shows two men in a rowboat gliding past and partial views of surrounding buildings. The Donnelly factory operated from the address in 1847., Title supplied by cataloguer., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Aug. 1847., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 186, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Date
[August 1847]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W97 [P.2031]
Advertisement showing the three-story building covered in signage for the polish and match business located between Market and Arch streets on Front Street. A clerk, crates, cans piled on a table, and a rope hoist are visible through the first floor window and entrances. Another worker is visible in a third-floor window. A conestoga wagon passes in the street with the driver astride one of the four horses in the team. Fatman operated a second factory at 412 Coates Street, i.e., Fairmount Avenue., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: N. Front streets. Dec. 1847., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 437, LCP copy trimmed and lacking title and imprint., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Date
[December 1847]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W217 [P.2110]
Advertisement showing the adjoined three-and two-story manufactory buildings covered in signage for the polish and match business located on the 1000 block of Coates Street, i.e. Fairmount Avenue. Laborers, including one carrying a stack on his shoulder, are visible at a few windows and at an entrance. In the foreground, a gentleman walks, and a boy plays with a hoop near some crates and barrels, on the sidewalk. In the street, a drayman transports planks of wood, a "Fatman and Co.'s Matches & Blacking" wagon is parked, and a laborer loads crates on to a dray. Fatman operated a factory from this location circa 1844-1848 in addition to a second factory on North Front Street., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Dec. 1847. Back of No. 412 Coates Street., Title supplied by cataloguer., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 436, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Trimmed and lacking title.
Date
[ca. 1847]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W218 [P.2109]