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Chicopee, Mass., 1856

Description: Image of an elevated landscape view of the city of Chicopee, Massachusetts, showing factories, a covered bridge, and a towpath along the river in the foreground; the factory buildings are identified as those of bobbin manufacturer Benning Leavitt and Company; the Ames Manufacturing Company; Dwight Manufacturing Company; boiler manufacturer J. D. Ashten; and the Connecticut River Railroad Company.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1856
Call number: priJLC_VIEW_000538
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance

Whitman & Barnes Manufacturing Company

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Image of four elevated views of four different Whitman & Barnes manufacturing factories in Canton, Ohio; St. Catharines, Ontario; Syracuse, New York; and Akron, Ohio; factory building complexes visible with surrounding access to locomotives, ports, and roads.

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Views of the Rising Sun stove polish factory and black lead works. Morse Bros, proprietors, Canton, Mass

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Image of a four-fold leaflet advertising Rising Sun stove polish with a series of ten panels of interior and exterior views of their factory in Canton, Massachusetts, including the office, the residence of the proprietor Elijah A. Morse, boiler and engine rooms, and packing and wrapping departments.

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Phoenix Horse Shoe Co

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Image of two elevated views of the Phoenix Horse Shoe factories, one in Poughkeepsie, New York, showing factory buildings with smoke stacks, locomotives, and ships at the dock, and one in Joliet, Illinois, showing the factory buildings with smoke stacks and locomotives; framed with horseshoes.

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Chapin House, A. P. Chapin Proprietor, Chicopee Falls Mass

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Image of a perspective view of the Chapin House showing the Billiard Hall, barber and harness shops, and M. Morton Livery Stable in the background and horse-drawn carriages on the street in the foreground.

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Organized A.D. 1794. Insurance Company of North America Philadelphia

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Image of an advertisement for Insurance Company of North America of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; two men (a factory worker and a sailor) pictured next to an American eagle perched atop a large globe with an elevated view of an industrial waterfront in background, including factories, railroad train, lighthouse, ships, bridges, and buildings on fire; horse and eagle and man and woman clasping outreached hands inset at top left and right.

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Manufacturing chemists : Powers & Weightman

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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.

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Chicopee, Mass., 1856

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