John Bancroft, Jr. soap and candle manufactory, June 1847 (litho)

No. 19, Wood St. betw. 2nd & 3rd Sts. & Vine and Callowhill Sts. Philadelphia. Advertisement showing the factory on the 200 block of Wood Street. Signs reading "Steam Soap & Candle Manufactory" and "John Bancroft Jr." adorn the manufactory (left) and smaller adjoining office building (right). A clerk, writing in an account book, stands at the doorway of the office in which another clerk is visible in a lower window. Near the adjacent arch to the alleyway to the rear courtyard, a boy carries a box on his shoulder and laborers hoist boxes from a receiving window to a long factory wagon parked on the cobblestone street. A sign reading "Jno Bancroft Jr. Soap and ...