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Walter Baker & Co.'s chocolate & cocoa preparations

Description: Image of an advertisement for Walter Baker & Company of Dorchester, Massachusetts; eye-level street view of a chocolate and cocoa factory complex surrounded by homes with streets filled with horse-drawn vehicles and pedestrians; medals for various exhibition awards in each corner.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1862-1886
Call number: priJLC_FOOD_000649
Find out more: View in the Huntington Digital Library(Opens in new tab); View in the Library catalog

W. Baker & Co. ... American and vanilla chocolates prepared cocoa, broma and homeopathic cocoa

Visual Materials

Image of an advertisement for cocoa and chocolate manufacturers Walter Baker & Company of Boston, Massachusetts; cacao plantation laborer in native dress at left; frontier hunter and dog with covered wagon at right; bald eagle with Union shield, "Established 1780" banner, and American flags at top center; lower vignettes show the W. Baker & Co. cocoa mill building in Dorchester, Massachusetts, shipments being transported by train, and boxes being loaded from ship docks onto horse-drawn carts.

priJLC_FOOD_001980

W. Baker & Co. ... American and vanilla chocolates prepared cocoa, broma and homeopathic cocoa

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Woodburn "Sarven Wheel" Co

Visual Materials

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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Mount Joy Car Manufacturing Co

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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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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

The Howe Machine Co.'s sewing machine manufactory, Bridgeport, Conn

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Image of four eye-level views of Howe Machine Company sewing machine factories surrounded by busy streets, ferries, and carriages; coin with profile of Elias Howe, Jr. at center left.

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