Schomacker Advertisement - 1915

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Schomacker - A Philadelphia Piano - 1838-1941

Schomacker Piano Manufacturing

Schomacker was a Philadelphia well built, expensive middle class piano that is forgotten besides the PR prone New York Steinways that gained fame for giving or leasing for peanuts Grand Pianos to famous pianists mostly on the New York stage. 

The display at the Centennial Exposition in 1876 shows that the company was established in the market and well marketed to middle class parlor tastes. 

The Factory at 11th and Catherine was no doubt something to brag about as in illustration in the Philadelphia and Environs 1873 visitor's guidebook. 

Factory moved about 1915 and business address listed as 1020 S 21st Street.

NY Tribune 4 Nov 1907
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11th and Catherine - 1930 - PhillyHistory.org

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President Hayes Regatta Review Schuylkill River - April 24, 1878 - Leslie's Illustrated 11 May 1878

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Philadelphia Macaroni Company - 11th and Catherine - 1915 - 1920s

1915 - Philadelphia Macaroni Manufacturing Company - Left
Tall building in distance is Gladstone Apartments - 11th and Pine Sts. 


 
Public Ledger - 10 Jan 1922


 
Public Ledger 2 July 1920


 
Public Ledger 14 July 1920


 
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Goetz Music Store - 3030 Kensington Ave - 1925

http://www.victor-victrola.com/GoetzPhilly.htm

Inquirer 18 Oct 1925


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University of Pennsylvania - 1840

Library Company of Philadelphia 1840



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Curtis Publishing Company - Coal Storage Facility - 11th St and Washington Ave - Black Diamond 3 January 1914

Postcard 1910 - Library company of Phila.

https://libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/item/40202

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Owen Letter's Sons Coal - Autocar Trucks - Coal Trade Journal 15 Sept 1915

Owen Letter's Coal - HQ Trenton Ave and E. Westmoreland St. 

Evening Ledger 1922
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.Inquirer 7 May 1924


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Philadelphia Brewing Company - Advertisement 1897 Philadelphia Times Almanac

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Facing Harrowgate Park - Inquirer 24 Sept 1911

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Cinco Cigars Advertisement - 1922

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Campbell's Oxtail Soup Advertisement - Saturday Evening Post 1 July 1922

Rallying Around the Flag - St. Joachim's - 4306 Frankford Ave - Evening Ledger 24 Oct 1914

4624-26 Longshore Street at Marsden Street - Tacony - Inquirer 23 Nov 1924

Bell Telephone Exchange Building. 

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Lehigh Silk Hosiery Mill 3781 Jasper Street - Harrowgate - Inquirer 23 Nov 1924

1925 Bromley Ward 45 Map


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(Old) Liberty Theatre - 4724 Longshore Street - Tacony

4724 (then 3524 in 1918)  Longshore Street

Public Ledger 31 Aug 1918

Another Liberty Theatre the "New Liberty Theatre" on 1920 41st ward map, on 6814Torresdale - closed 1963

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Terra Cotta - Witherspoon Building - Conkling-Armstrong Terra Cotta Co. Philadelphia - 1899

Brick and clay record. v.11 no.3 1899 Sep.



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Plumber John A Quinn, Backbone of the Frankford Yellow Jackets Organization, Dead at 54 - Inquirer 28 Jan 1930

A lot of the background noise about the quick decline of the Frankford Yellow Jackets had to do with the Depression, especially starting in the 1930 season, firing the veterans and hiring the cheap players out of college. A losing season. That and a few stadium fires at their stadium on present Harbison Ave.  

It is possible that the death of John A. Quinn, a pillar of Frankford financial and sport circles can be a metaphor of the Depression cause for decline of the Yellow Jackets. His obit says that he was sick for ten weeks before passing away. On a timeline, that could be from a week or two out from the stock market crash for the decline in markets, for the number crunching and realizations to sink in, local markets like Real Estate especially, in which he was heavily involved as a factor in his illness(?).

As such the story of the Yellow Jackets would not have been much different than actual history. But it is possible that John A. Quinn was sheltered from the full effects of the crash and he was the backbone as a director of the Athletic organization that was the Yellow Jackets, that history would have been kinder to the Jackets and history revised had he lived a bit longer. 

I have tried to figure out where "Brown's Field" was exactly on a map, described vaguely as on Oxford Pike and above Frankford High School, and or below the Boulevard in newspapers. I have also seen a modern reference to Brown's Field being on Pratt Street. I have seen a glimpse of the "stadium" in a grainy newspaper photo which looks like 5-6 rows of wooden bleachers, much like Cambria Stadium on Kensington at Erie/Torresdale Aves.in the 1930s/40s. Brown's Field's capacity is 15,000 to 20,000 as described in record attendance in some newspapers. The question to me is whether Brown's Field was east or west of Oxford Pike in those vague newspaper descriptions. 

But considering how John A. Quinn was into many Frankford building and loan associations, his house at 1143 Dyre Street is not on the 1920 23rd Ward map. As such I am guessing that his modest home was built on the corner of Dyre at Horrocks. And it, the house was a likely candidate to have been built on the large lot(s) that was "Brown's Field" and on the west side of Oxford and from Dyre to Pratt before the Yellow Jackets home field moved in 1923. 

1920 map 23rd Ward, Plate 9 

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"Sunny Jim of the Northeast" Nulty in Frankford Wins State Senate on Independent Ticket - Inquirer 10 Nov 1910

Blowback from the Trolley Strike a factor in the election of James T. Nulty.


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