Identifier: industriesofnewo01morr (find matches)
Title: The industries of New Orleans, her rank, resources, advantages, trade, commerce and manufactures, conditions of the past, present and future, representative industrial institutions, historical, descriptive, and statistical
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Morrison, Andrew
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Publisher: New Orleans, J. M. Elstner & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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93 gallery in the South that has need of an elevator. The first floor is the general salesi-oom.The second story contains the photographic apparatus and materials that are kept instock. The third floor has been set apart for the reception, dressing and general operat-ing room. In the top story is the furnishing floor. On the roof is an extra buildingfor the printing of photos. Mr. Lilienthal will have a splendid display at the Worlds Exposition, competingthere with the best galleries of Europe and America. He will use for the work to beexhibited there, the largest Camera in the South, one capable of producing life sizeand faultless pictures. His display will certainlj prove that in quality and artistic ex-cellence his work is unrivaled in this section of the world, and possibly it may be ap-proved as of more especial merit. THE LOUISIANA STEAM SASH, BLIND AND DOOR FACTORY. Roberts & Co., Proprietors: Factor)-, numbers 299 I0 307 Gravier street; branch office, 52 Carondelet street.
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Robert Roberts established this most important manufacturing concern in the year1850. As appears from the business card of the concern, that gentleman still remainsin control of affairs, having, however, Mrs. Isabella Brownlee in partnership with him.The factor)^ occupies a square or two of ground. It has an immense local trade andships to all parts of the South. The average number of employes is seventy. Thisestablishment is distinguished not only for the extent of its trade, but for the substan-tial and enduring qualities of its manufactures. Only the very best seasoned materialis used in the construction of its woodworks. Machineiw of the latest and most im-proved patterns enables it to turn out work speedily and at less cost than lesser concerns.Great care is evercised in satisfying the architectural niceties and more artistic demandsof these latter days. The managing proprietor, skilled by long experience in everybranch of the business, gives his personal attention to all the var

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