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Black-owned businesses in early Philadelphia Clora Powell
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks UPA/PAM E 185 .C66 1989 FOLIO
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Powell, Clora.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dutrieuille, Peter Albert, b. 1838.
- Dutrieuille, Peter Albert.
- Augustin, Clara Baptiste.
- Forten, James, 1766-1842.
- Forten, James.
- Perry, Christopher James.
- African American business enterprises--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History.
- African American business enterprises.
- Business enterprises--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History.
- Business enterprises.
- African American businesspeople--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History.
- African American businesspeople.
- Businesspeople--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History.
- Businesspeople.
- Physical Description:
- p. 2-3 : ill. ; 44 cm.
- Contained In:
- Continuum (Philadelphia, Pa.). Feb. 1989.
- Place of Publication:
- [Philadelphia, PA : PATHS/PRISM, 1989]
- Summary:
- Particular emphasis on Peter Albert Dutrieuille, organizer of Caterers' Manufacturing & Supply Co.; Clara Baptiste Augustin, owner of a catering business; James Forten, inventor and sailmaker, one of the organizers of the Free African Society and the American Moral Reform Society; and Christopher James Perry, who established Philadelphia's first black newspaper in 1884, the Weekly Tribune.
- Notes:
- Caption title.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- OCLC:
- 37477347
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