Image of an elevated street view of the factory and laboratory buildings of the Powers and Weightman chemical manufacturing company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with railroad tracks, trains, horse-drawn wagons, crates, barrels, workers, and pedestrians in the foreground. The main building is at the corner of Ninth St. Title transcribed from signage on building in image. Publisher and date supplied by cataloger based on copy held by the Library Company of Philadelphia. "Longacre & Co - Blanc."--text, bottom left margin. "Philadelphia"--text, bottom right margin.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 38.74 x 46.04 cm (15 1/4 x 18 1/8 in.)
Advertising--Medicine Chemical industries--Pictorial works Industrial buildings--Pictorial works Philadelphia (Pa.)--Pictorial works Powers and Weightman Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc) Views. (gmgpc)
Place
Philadelphia (Pa.)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Medicine Large Size The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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