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B.T. Babbitt’s best soap

Description: 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.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1871-1886
Call number: priJLC_HHD_000600
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005. This collection forms part of the Jay T. Last collection of graphic arts and social history, which was donated to the Huntington Library by Jay T. Last in 2005 as a gift in progress. The bulk of the household goods prints were transferred to the Library between 2010 and 2012.

Tygert-Allen Fertilizer Co. Philadelphia

Visual Materials

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

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.

priJLC_TRAN_000701

McKeone, Van Haagen & Co

Visual Materials

Image of an elevated view of the Fancy and Family Soap Works factory on the corner of Callowhill St. and Hamilton St. (SW corner) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; goods moving in and out in carriages and the town in the background behind the Schuylkill River.

priJLC_HHD_000629

Georgia : city of Savannah

Visual Materials

Image of an elevated landscape view of a waterfront scene with boats, and the city of Savannah, Georgia, in the distance, in a shield motif; vignettes of the seal of Georgia, African American workers unloading barrels, and a horse-drawn cart going over a bridge.

priJLC_VIEW_000545

Fulton Worsted Mills. Oswego Falls, N.Y. Rebuilt 1891. Charles Fletcher proprietor

Visual Materials

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.

priJLC_FASH_000617

Delaware : city of Wilmington

Visual Materials

Image of an elevated landscape view of a waterfront scene with boats, and the city of Wilmington, Delaware, in the distance, in a shield motif; vignettes of the seal of Connecticut and landscapes, with busts of Thomas McKean and George Read, two signers of the Declaration of Independence.

priJLC_VIEW_000542

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