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Tygert-Allen Fertilizer Co. Philadelphia

Description: 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.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1890-1899
Call number: priJLC_AGR_000646
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005.

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Image of an elevated street view of B.T. Babbitt's waterfront soap factory complex in New York City, surrounded by vignettes showing people in the dress of different countries with boxes of Best Soap.

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Image of an elevated street view of the Woodburn "Sarven Wheel" Company factory complex, including smokestacks and buildings for the bending factory, wagon & carriage materials, and office, with a street scene of horse-drawn wagons, pedestrians, and a lumberyard in the foreground.

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Image of an elevated panoramic view of the Fulton Worsted Mills factory complex of buildings in Fulton, New York; a bridge over Oswego River near Oswego Falls is visible in the foreground; housing pictured at right and the city in the background.

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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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Image of an elevated landscape view of the Mount Joy Car Manufacturing Company factory complex in the borough of Mount Joy in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, with the main building labeled "Mount Joy Car Manufactory," smokestacks, laborers, a railroad train in the left background, and pedestrians and horse-drawn vehicles in the street in the foreground.

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