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Wetherill & Brothers white lead manufactory & chemical works, corner of 12th & Cherry streets,...

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LCP463852
Image title
Wetherill & Brothers white lead manufactory & chemical works, corner of 12th & Cherry streets, Philadelphia, printed by Kennedy & Lucas's Lithography, 1831 (litho)
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Artist
Breton, William L. (fl.1830) / American
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia, PA, USA
Medium
lithograph
Date
1831 AD (C19th AD)
Dimensions
10 x 18 cms
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View predominately showing the yard of the complex built circa 1812-1813 for the earliest American white lead manufactory founded by Samuel Wetherill Jr. in the 1780s. Factory workers labor between a horse-drawn cart, and rows and stacks of crates, barrels, and vats, which cover the yard that is surrounded by buildings. Several smoke stacks adorn the roofs of the shops. Following the circa 1812 fire of the Wetherill white lead manufactory at Broad and Chestnut streets, the new factory was built at the northeast corner of 12th & Cherry streets, including the addition of a chemical manufactory. In 1847, ...

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19th century / USA / North America / America (continent) / worker / advertising / barrel / smoke / labourers / cart / barrels / poster / factory / chemical industry / wagon / philadelphia / lead industry / pennsylvania / labourer / united states of america / industrial / usa / Engraving / Mzengraving

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