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McKeone, Van Haagen & Co

Description: 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.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1861-1873
Call number: priJLC_HHD_000629
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.

Shoe factory of V.K. & A.H. Jones

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Image of an eye-level view of a seven story footwear factory in Lynn, Massachusetts, on a street corner showing horse-drawn carts and carriages along the street.

priJLC_FASH_000687

C.L. Centlivre Brewing Co., incorporated

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Image of an elevated street view of the C.L. Centlivre Brewing Company factory buildings in Fort Wayne, Indiana, including the main building, which has the lettering "Est'd 1862 ... Rebt 1888," an office, bottling works, store room, and wagon shed; with a barge in a canal, carriages and trolleys in the streets, and a rural landscape and the St. Joe River in the background; vignette portrait of founder Charles Louis Centlivre at bottom left.

priJLC_BEV_000588

Girard avenue bridge. : Fairmount Park, Philadelphia

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Image of an elevated landscape view of the Girard Avenue Bridge spanning the Schuylkill River in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with pedestrians, horse-drawn carriages, and boats.

priJLC_VIEW_001202

B.T. Babbitt’s best soap

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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.

priJLC_HHD_000600

The Howe Machine Co’s factory, Bridgeport, Ct

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Image of an eye-level view of the Howe Machine Company's sewing machine factory in Bridgeport, Connecticut, from across the water showing a sailboat and an Elias Howe Jr. steamboat ferry, horse-drawn carriages, and an American flag in foreground; coin with profile of Elias Howe, Jr. pictured at bottom center.

priJLC_HHD_000622

Davis Gould & Co. Cincinnati, O. U.S.A

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Image of an advertisement for the Davis, Gould & Co. carriage manufacturers of Cincinnati, Ohio, containing twenty-two side views of carriages and wagons, each captioned with numbers and titles, and a center image of an eye-level exterior view of the Davis, Gould & Co. factory building in Cincinnati, Ohio, with buggies lined up on the street in front, and signage on the building.

priJLC_TRAN_001384

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