Advertisement showing the three-story factory and showroom with large first floor entryway for the ornamental iron works business. Signage covers the building advertising “Cemetery Lots Enclosed. Hood & Noblitt City Iron Railing Manufactory & Ornamental Iron Works” and “Hood & Noblitt 121 Iron Railing Manufactory. Fire Proof Doors…in General." Railings and ornamental works, including chairs, tables, and benches, are visible outside and within the entrance that is flanked by matching dog sculptures on pedestals. Interior stairs are also visible. Employees work on iron pieces near the windows of the upper floor that are adorned with a decorative railing. Also shows employees, both in top hats, and one in shirt sleeves, loading railing unto a horse-drawn factory cart parked in the street. The cart is labeled “Iron Railing Manufactory 121 Nth. Tenth.” Hood & Noblitt worked in a partnership 1851-1852., Date supplied by Wainwright., pdcc00022, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 26:13
Date
[1852]
Location
Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Castner 26:13
View showing the laboratory complex established in 1848 on Ridge Avenue near Schuylkill Falls (i.e., East Falls). In the foreground, the “No. 40” coal-tender locomotive approaches from one of the series of tracks surrounding and within the factory grounds. Nearby, a line of freight cars, some covered in tarp rest on a set of tracks. Within the factory grounds comprised of processing plants and storage sheds, a horse-drawn cart travels and stacks of wood slabs are piled on an elevated, centrally-located piece of land. Smokestacks adorn several of the buildings. Another stack of wood and hillside are visible in the right background. In 1847, Powers & Weightman succeeded Farr & Kunzi (established in 1818), and became internationally renown for their manufacture of medicinal and other fine chemicals. The company was the first to introduce quinine to the United States. A second factory complex operated between 9th, Parrish, Brown, and Darien Streets. The East Falls operation included housing for employees., pdcp00035, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Oversize Philadelphiana - Factories and Foundries (N-Z)
Creator
Rease, W.H
Date
[ca. 1860]
Location
Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Oversize Philadelphiana - Factories and Foundries (N-Z)
