Leedom, Shaw & Stewart. Office and Warehouse 635 Market St. Philadelphia Carpet Mills. Manufactures of extra superfines, superfines, fines, damasks, twilled & plain venetian carpetings
Permanent ID:
14661
Call number:
Bc 35 L 484
Date:
1871
Image Description:
Advertisement showing the four buildings of the wholesale department (organized 1866) of the business established by Thomas Leedom and Adam Shaw in 1865. Laborers load and hoist rolled carpets into company wagons and carts in the street and in a courtyard. Carpets dry on racks on the roof of a small building bordering the courtyard. Also shows street and pedestrian traffic, including horse-drawn wagons hauling crates, barrels, and wood slabs, and several pedestrians on promenade. Robert and Arthur Stewart joined the firm in 1869, which remained in business until 1885.
Address:
635 Market Street, Philadelphia
Dimensions:
Width: 38 cm, Height: 33 cm
