Advertisement containing an exterior view of the busy courtyard of the "N.H. Graham & Cos. Curing, Packing & Smoking Establishment" on the 2000 block of Filbert Street. Horse-drawn wagons and drays enter and exit the yard between the stable and "Office" under an archway with the name of the business. The wagons are marked with the company name and the drays carry barrels marked with the name of their contents and recipient, including hams, beef, pork, and shoulders and "Miller & Brown, Packers, Cincinatti." The hinds of horses are seen through the stable entry near where barrels of beef are lined and a gentleman departs the office next to which several more barrels are lined. A gentleman passes next to them on the sidewalk. Within the courtyard, men cut and pack meat into barrels near and under sheds. One shed contains a row of hook and more barrels line the space in which another horse-drawn dray is visible leaving through the rear entry., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 497, LCP AR [Annual Report] 1990 p. 45.
Creator
Rease, W. H., artist
Date
[1850]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Industries [P.9303.10]
Advertisement showing the four-story building, adorned with signage, for the meat packing house at the southwest corner of Front and Willow streets. In the five open entryways to the building, patrons enter and depart, workers converse, a drayman departs, and barrels are stored. In the street, in front of the building, laborers push a handcart and load horse-drawn drays. At the side of the building, a laborer lowers a barrel from the top receiving entrance to a horse-drawn truck loaded with barrels waiting on the tracks on Willow Street. The loading is managed by three men. Ahead of the truck, a freight car disappears in the distance. Also shows a man with a hand cart standing at the corner near one of many surrounding buildings, including the adjacent business adorned with signage marked "Jones." A trompe l'oeil frame surrounds the image., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 395, Wainwright retrospective conversion project.
Creator
Rease, W. H., artist
Date
[ca. 1851]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W190 [P.2067]
