Manufacturing in Philadelphia 1683-1912

[ZARK]

I found this a pretty interesting book, with lots of photos. Amazing all the industry we once had.Manufacturing in Philadelphia, 1683 ... - Google Books I do remember the old Hagedorn and Merz building at 3rd and Brown st. when it was a cigar factory

[dmun]

Philadelphia has reached it's present prominence as a manufacturing center through the intelligence, pluck, energy, and perseverance of it's individual citizens. The patient work of it's early settlers planted these industries, the untiring energy of those who followed made them prosper, and their present magnificent development is due to the individual merits of the leaders in the various lines of industries, for which Philadelphia is justly celebrated.

Truer words never spoken...