Manufacture of Toy Pianos - 1912 - Wooden Usage Industries Pennsylvania

Manufacture of Toy Pianos - 1912 - Wooden Usage Industries - Dept. of Forestry Pennsylvania

I am betting that this is the Schoenhut Toy Factory - E. Hagert and Sepviva Sts.


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Manufacture of Dolls - 1912 - Wooden Usage Industries Pennsylvania

Manufacture of Dolls - 1912 - Wooden Usage Industries - Dept. of Forestry Pennsylvania

I am betting that this is the Schoenhut Toy Factory - E. Hagert and Sepviva Sts.


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John Paulding - Scupture - "Over the Top" Doughboy Statue - Once York Ave. and Buttonwood Street. 1920

Evening Ledger 1 March 1920



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paulding_(sculptor)


http://doughboysearcher.weebly.com/model-2043-a.html

Source: American Stone Trade - January 1922

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Grindstones - Where They Come From - J.E. Mitchell - Philadelphia

Sunbury American and Shamokin Journal - 19 Apr 1851

Scientific American 14 Aug 1869




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Life Magazine - 21 Jan 1892

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When Washington Was Carved in Wood - Wood Craft July 1913

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Delaware Avenue Northeast of Marlborough Street - 1921

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Delaware Avenue at Vine Street - 1921

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Delaware Avenue before Improvements - 1921

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Merritt Square - 1921

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Inquirer - Steeple Jacks Joe Funtes and F. Harrington - Inquirer 29 Apr 1928

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Steeplejack Milton Snyder In Lightning Strike Falls - Inquirer 26 July 1908

"Steeple Jack" Martin Neary - Dies in Moyamensing - Inquirer 21 Oct 1905

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Maurice S. Tucker - Ferryman - Public Ledger 22 Oct 1921

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Indian Pole ? - N 4th and Wood Streets - Map 1910 - Photo 1824

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Madison House Hotel - 39 N 2nd Street - 1844

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Saint Tammany Indian Pole - 1844 - Old York Road and Wood Street

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.54612745;view=1up;seq=131


With much thanks to member "ASUIT" at Philadelphia Speaks History Forum for research on this matter.


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The Old York Road (1670-1870) - 1890



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Good Will Hose Attacked - Phila.Inquirer 13 April 1869

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Good Will Hose Company-2239 Wood Street-in 1865

 

PhillyHistory - Detail View



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Samuel H French and Co. Paints and Pharmaceuticals - 4th and Callowhill Sts. - King's View of Philadelphia - 1900

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Liberty Pole - Weathervane - Chief Tammany - Old York Road and Wood Street - 1862 - 1894 - 1924

Inquirer 5 July 1862

Inquirer 29 June 1894

Some bits and pieces on the long lost Liberty Pole with a Wooden Indian figure of St. Tammany that once graced the traffic triangle around Old York Road and Wood Street. 

I have reprinted the image form the Library of Congress of a 1938 WPA poster that fits the description of Philly icon and some newspaper bits from 1894 that says the "weather vane" was pointing, from 1862 that puts its address at OYR and Wood St. and a reprint of a Phila. Bulletin Article in a New York Newspaper from Jan 1924. 

Over all, I have used a measure to compare the 9-1/2 H X 9 foot W of the Harry Kyriakodis Hidden City Article. Have you seen the Indian Pole?

A lot of speculation here but thinking about it, let me say this. 

Was it a Weathervane or decoration? Weathervane of Chief Tammany of the size and weights mentioned make me think that as a weather vane it was would a high maintenance item needing grease up top to lubricate a turning figure to the wind. 

I am reminded that the original Diana weathervane on the original Madison Square Garden in 1892 was too big and too heavy to do the job of weathervane and was farmed out to the Columbian Exhibition in Chicago 1893 only to be eventually destroyed or damaged when that exhibit building burnt down after the closing of the fair. That it is was the second smaller lighter copper Diana weathervane stood above that MSG until 1925 and eventually making it to the Philly Museum of Art. 

That the repairs suggested in the 1894 article was paint and copper trim around the edge to retard further rot on the wood when the paint had faded. 

Speaking of paint, I would think that the primary benefactor of the Liberty Pole and weathervane would be done by the French Paint company that probably contributed paint to maintaining brightness of a local object of interest. 

The 1924 article on wooden Indians indicate that the whole thing was still standing as of January 1924. That is also the year of Howard B French's, one of the local merchants so enthusiastic about saving the old monument, death.

That without paint and maintenance, the top likely fell off in pieces is a good thunderstorm one day. It is taken down, put in storage and or tossed by post 1924 merchants who do not want the expense of something the city probably would not maintain. 

The image on the WPA poster of a wooden Indian weathervane might be a true likeness. 

I would like to think that this old relic in semi-original condition in bits, pieces or a glued together whole is in some private collection somewhere in some upstate New York mansion of old money that has yet to catalog or dispose of old art work in storage etc. 

Geneseo NY Livingston Democrat 2 Jan 1924

Inquirer 4 May 1894


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Frankford Yellow Jackets vs. New York Giants at Polo Grounds - October 18, 1925

1925 New York Giants Season

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Football, today and tomorrow, by William W. (Bill) Roper 1927

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Frankford Yellow Jackets vs. All-Philadelphia - October 1, 1921 - Brown's Field Frankford

Public Ledger 3 Oct 1921

Public Ledger 1 Oct 1921

There is some Yellowjacket literature that puts the game between that team and the All-Phillies on Oct 8, 1921 with a 54-0 win for the Yellowjackets. A second game? The literature also notes a two game gap in records. 

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