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Warden's Office of the Port of Philadelphia

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Description: Image of a certificate from the Warden's Office of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, authorizing the West Jersey Ferry Company to build a ferry slip on the Delaware River; image of the waterfront with ships sailing and rowboats at top center; seal for Delaware Bay at bottom left corner; decorative border; additional text along left margin.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 14 March 1877
Call number: priJLC_MAR_001396
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
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Washington Mills Gloucester N. J. near Philadelphia

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Image of a riverscape showing the textile mill factory buildings of Washington Mills on the waterfront in Gloucester City, New Jersey; sailboats, steamships, and long boat with rowing crew on the Delaware River in the foreground; with text advertising merchant David S. Brown and Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

priJLC_FASH_000650

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.

priJLC_FIN_002598

Tygert-Allen Fertilizer Co. Philadelphia

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Image of an elevated view of a factory building complex for Tygert-Allen Fertilizer Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; buildings visible along a waterfront with steam and sailing ships docking at the ports and locomotives transporting goods.

priJLC_AGR_000646

Thomas B. Florence

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Image of a three-quarter length portrait of United States Congressional Representative Thomas B. Florence of Pennsylvania, standing with one hand resting on a stack of books; sketch of a building along a waterfront with boats hangs under books at right, presumably of the Old Navy Yard on the Delaware River in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

priJLC_POL_002667

In the name, and by the authority, of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Thomas Mifflin, governor of the said commonwealth

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Image of a certificate issued to Peter Benson of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, authorizing him to the office of Auctioneer; "virtue, liberty and independence" insignia with horses, and eagle, and ships at center left; seal and manuscript text on verso.

priJLC_FIN_004288

View of the dam and water works at Fair Mount, Philadelphia

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Image of an eye-level landscape view of the Fairmount Water Works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, showing the Schuylkill River, dam, waterworks' pump house and bridge, waterfalls, a steamboat, rowboats, and houses on the hillside.

priJLC_VIEW_000697

Warden's Office of the Port of Philadelphia

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