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Whitman & Barnes Manufacturing Company

Description: 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.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: after 1875
Call number: priJLC_AGR_000652
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005.

Syracuse Chilled Plow Co

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Image of a pair of farmers plowing a field with teams of horses in an advertisement for Syracuse Chilled Plow Company of Syracuse, New York; lower panel features image of a factory building complex framed by images of four models of plows.

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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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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.

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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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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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