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B. A. Atkinson & Co. house furnishers

Description: Image of an aerial view of the Boston, Massachusetts, city block corner of Washington St. and Common St. with a complex of buildings offering furnishings sold by B.A. Atkinson & Company; variety of horse-drawn vehicles visible in streets surrounding the buildings; vignette of a comfortably furnished home interior at top left; full-length portrait of owner Byron A. Atkinson wearing a coat and holding a top hat at right.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1888
Call number: priJLC_HHD_002487
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)

Spring 1873 C. H. Garden & Co. 606 & 608 Market Street Philadelphia

Visual Materials

Image of several dozen hat styles being advertised by C.H. Garden & Company for men, women, and children including bowler, straw, cap, ribbon, feathered, and top hat styles; small image of the company's storefront building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at top left; small image of a bearded gentleman in a coat, jacket, waistcoat, and necktie holding a top hat at top right of print.

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The Henry Burlesque Co. : Ada Henry

Visual Materials

Image of a full-length portrait of burlesque performer Ada Henry in a burlesque formal riding costume impersonating a man with a long riding coat, top hat, ruffled shirt, cummerbund, blue garter, tights; with a vignette of a head-and-shoulders portrait of Ada Henry in formal female dress at top left bordered by leaves.

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Image of an advertisement for threshing machines manufactured by the Westinghouse Company of Schenectady, New York; farmers working with agricultural machinery and engines in a field at center; machinery and grain inset at left; factory building complex with locomotives coming and going inset at top right.

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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

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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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