Victor Talking Machine Co., Camden, N.J. [graphic] / Ballinger & Perrot, architects & engineers, Phila.

Format:

Image

Author/Creator:

Ballinger & Perrot.

Contributor:

Jennings, W. N.

Ballinger Company.

Visual Materials Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrial buildings--New Jersey--Camden.

office buildings--New Jersey--Camden.

Warehouses--New Jersey--Camden.

2nd & Cooper Sts. (Camden, N.J.).

Front & Linden (Camden, N.J.).

127 Front St. (Camden, N.J.).

Victor Talking Machine Co. (Camden, N.J.) Manufacturing Building.

Victor Talking Machine Co. (Camden, N.J.) Warehouse.

Victor Talking Machine Co. (Camden, N.J.) Office & Laboratory.

Victor Talking Machine Co. (Camden, N.J.) Cabinet Factory.

Victor Talking Machine Co. (Camden, N.J.) Tank Tower.

Local Subjects:

2nd & Cooper Sts. (Camden, N.J.).

Front & Linden (Camden, N.J.).

127 Front St. (Camden, N.J.).

Victor Talking Machine Co. (Camden, N.J.) Manufacturing Building.

Victor Talking Machine Co. (Camden, N.J.) Warehouse.

Victor Talking Machine Co. (Camden, N.J.) Office & Laboratory.

Victor Talking Machine Co. (Camden, N.J.) Cabinet Factory.

Victor Talking Machine Co. (Camden, N.J.) Tank Tower.

Genre:

Architectural drawings.

Physical Description:

278 photoprints : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.

Contained In:

Ballinger Company. Architectural photographs of the work of Ballinger & Perrot, and the successor Ballinger Company.

Place of Publication:

1906-1920.

Notes:

Ballinger log book 1, p. 50-51, includes photo nos. 152-158, 164-167, 174-175, 188, 191, 219-220, 222-223, 239, 241-242, 325-338, 351-354, 365, and 378 for photos absent from this collection. It also lists unnumbered photos for a "burned building, Front St." absent from the collection. Photo nos. 449-450, 476, 478-480, 630-633, 649, 676, 710, 715-717, and 727-729 are included in the collection. Photo no. 676 is an architectural perspective of a proposed six-story building at 2nd & Cooper Sts., with horse-drawn wagon entrances, flying a banner "Victor". Also illustrated in these photos are the Warehouse at Front & Linden Sts., the Old building on Front St. below Cooper (absent), and the Office & Laboratory with entrance at 127 Front St.

Ballinger log book 1, p. 90-91, includes photo nos. 860-864, 870-875, 878-879, 885-886, 893-895, 898-902, 913-917, 919-922, 968-969, 971, 1007, 1020, 1023-1025, 1031-1037, 1062-1065, 1090 and 1100. No. 901 is absent from the collection. Many of these photos show the construction of the Cabinet Factory, but also include the demolition of the Old Power House, the installation of the Tank Tower on Market St., and the 2nd St. Building.

Ballinger log book 1, p. 102-103, includes photo nos. 1139-1144, 1169-1170, 1179-1180, 1187, 1189, 1243-1248, 1256, 1264-1268, 1286-1287, 1306-1308, 1338, 1461-1465, 1502-1506, 1527, 1529-1530, 1543, 1558, 1578-1582, 1597-1600. Absent from the collection are nos. 1266, 1268, 1308, 1338, and 1461-1465. Photo no. 1483 is not part of the Victor Co. complex illustrated by most of the photos, but is instead a sales room at street no. 1343, at unidentified street corners.

Ballinger log book 1, p. 168-169 includes photo nos. 1601-1602, 1626, 1637-1639, 1689-1692, 1718-1722, 1751-1753, 1798-1800, 2025-2029, 2055-2058, 2075-2077, 2090-2096, 2167-2170, 2176-2180, 2193-2196. Photo nos. 1601-1602, 1626, 1637-1639, and 1689-1692 are absent from the collection. Photo nos. 1718-1722 & 1798-1800 are for the original machine shop & site. Photo no. 1798 is an architectural rendering which appears to show the old shop, within a garden setting, with a pool and a Victrola machine & dog sculpture. Photo nos. 1751-1753 are architectural renderings for the "Elevator Office Building" Photo nos. 2025-2029 and 2091-2095 are for the Grinding building. Some photos are for the Shipping Building. Photo no. 2096 is for the Dining Hall.

Ballinger log book 1, p. 171 includes photo nos. 2197-2199, 2204, 208-2209, 2214-2223, 2231-2234, 2252-2253, 2261-2262, 2265-2266. Photo nos. 2208-2009 include the stamp of W.N. Jennings, 1305 Arch. St., Philadelphia, who is the photographer often named in the Ballinger logs. These photos include many for the new Power House in construction, and Buildings 17-B & 17-C. Photo nos. 2252-2253 are called "Conveyor Bridge connecting #1 and 18". They show overhead constructions connecting two buildings.

Ballinger log book 1, p. 173 includes photo nos. 2283-2291, 2329-2332, 2347-2350, 2355, 2357-2364. Only photo nos. 2283-2291 are present in this collection. Photo nos. 2283 & 2289 are architectural renderings, called in the log "Perspective 17-C and 17-D. These drawings are labelled "Victor Cabinet Factory, Camden, N.J. / Ballinger & Perrot, architects & engineers, Phila. and New York. Dec. 1915." They show a large building with 6-story wings on either side of 9-story(?) central tower. Photos 2284-2287 shows the Power House completed.

Ballinger log book 1, p. 175 includes photo nos. 2409-2416, 2439, [2444-2445] 2487, 2489, 2497, 2515-2518, 2565.

Ballinger log book 2, p. 130 includes photo nos. 2717, 2806, 3071-3073, 3116-3119, 3277-3278 (absent), 3298-3300(absent), 3301-3305, 3316-3324. Photo nos. 2717 & 2806 show the complete Buildings C & D are illustrated in the renderings in photos 2283 & 2289. The central tower shows the Victrola / dog symbol at the top. Photo nos. 3061-3073 and 3116-3119 show building no. 24 in progress. Photo no. 3117 gives a bird's-eye view of the new building, and also railroad sides, lumber, and two industrial buildings with "Victor" stacks. The Delaware River is behind. Photo nos. 3301-3324 are progress photos in the construction of building no. 53. No. 3316 is a double photo, i.e. two consecutive images attached at the center to form one large photo. The sign "Turner for Concrete, Turner Construction Co." is visible in the yard.

Ballinger log book 2, p. 133 includes photo nos. 3325-3326, 3328-3330, 3340-3352, 3367-3375. Photo no. 3351 is another double photo, apparently showing Building no. 53 after much progress.

Ballinger log book 2, p. 140 includes photo nos. 3376-3386. Photo no. 3385 shows Building no. 53 completed. Photo no. 3386 is another double photo, bird-eye view near the end of construction.

Due to the voluminous holdings for this record set, only selected items are entered in the 789 fields attached to this record. For a full listing of holdings, see the inventory, at the Athenaeum archives.

Forms part of: Ballinger Company. Architectural photographs of the work of Ballinger & Perrot, and the successor Ballinger Company.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Gift of the Ballinger Co.,

Finding Aid/Index:

Inventory item level control.