Image of an elevated street view of a starch factory in Oswego, New York, depicting the Oswego Canal to the left; two rows of factory buildings, including a foundry and machine shop and store house, with a busy street scene with railroad tracks, people, wagons, and a railroad train in the center of the image. Date supplied by cataloger based on company history; Kingsford operated an Oswego cornstarch facility in Oswego, New York, beginning in 1848. They merged with two other companies in 1899 to form United Starch Company.
Type
image
Extent
1 photomechanical : color printed ; overall 40.96 x 52.39 cm (16 1/8 x 20 5/8 in.)
Advertising--Cleaning compounds Cities and towns--Pictorial works Cornstarch industry Factories--Pictorial works Industrial buildings--Pictorial works Locomotives--Pictorial works Oswego River (N.Y.)--Pictorial works Rivers--Pictorial works Kingsford’s Oswego Corn Starch Lithographs--Color--1850-1875. (gmgpc) Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc) Views. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Household Large Size Cleaning Products The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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