Photograph of First Floor, 217 and 219 Market Street. Our Retail Department for Counter Trade. 



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OUR MARKET STREET STORES. 



r ^ HINKING it might prove interesting to many of 

 our customers in distant sections of the country-, 

 who have never visited Philadelphia, to look in 

 upon us, -we have had the above excellent photo- 

 graph reproduced, showing our first floor, or Retail 

 Department at Nos. 217 and 219 Market Street. Our 

 ofiices are located on the second floor, immediately over 

 this department. Our Mail Order Department is in the 

 rear, occupjnng the second floors of Nos. 206 and 208 

 Chtirch Street, the first floor of that building being used 

 for our Express and Freight Order and Shipping Depart- 

 ments. The upper floors of both buildings are used for 

 cleaning, packing and storing seeds, being connected with 

 the lower floors bj- three large elevators. The basements 

 are used almost entirely for the storing of Seed Potatoes. 

 These Great Double Seed Warehouses, tlie largest 

 in the East, are arranged expressly for the seed busi- 

 ness and exclusively occupied by us. In the background, 

 to the right of the photograph of our Market Street stores, 

 appears the steeple of Old Christ Church, -which is 

 directly opposite our Church Street stores, and is one of 

 the most historical spots in Philadelphia. This church -was 

 commenced in the year 1727, and the building and steeple 

 completed in 1753. In pews Nos. 54 and 56, General George 

 Washington and wife worshipped regularly, and in pew No. 

 70, Benjamin Franklin. John Adams, Robert Morris, 

 Francis Hopkinson and Mrs. Ross, who made the first 

 American flag, the Stars and Stripes, in a house 3-et stand- 

 ing near bj-, were also parishioners of this church, which 

 now contains many precious relics of Colonial days. 



