Brandreth Pill Factory (Historical Treasures of Westchester County)
photograph · 1900
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SUMMARY
Westchester County Archives 'Historical Treasures' page for the Brandreth Pill Factory collection, fetched directly. States that Brandreth built the factory in 1836 along the Hudson River in Ossining (then Sing Sing), that his products were manufactured and distributed there until 1979, and that the pills "were sold throughout the United States and, eventually, all over the world." Describes Brandreth as an early and vigorous proponent of advertising. The page catalogues, among other items, a black-and-white photograph of women packing pills into tins at the factory around 1900. That same photograph is held on Wikimedia Commons, credited to this Westchester County Archives page and tagged public domain (US copyright expired) as a circa-1900 work of unknown authorship, and is used in this bundle as the object-role media asset for the factory's industrial-scale pill packing. Used for the 1836 factory-founding date, the mass national/international distribution claim, and as the archival holding record (per this archive's Commons-to-holding-record rule) for the packing-room photograph.
NOTES
The Westchester County Archives’ “Historical Treasures” page for the Brandreth Pill Factory, fetched directly, documents the 1836 construction of Brandreth’s Sing Sing (later Ossining) factory, its use until 1979, and the claim that the pills “were sold throughout the United States and, eventually, all over the world.” The page also catalogues a circa-1900 photograph of women packing pills into tins at the factory; that same image is held on Wikimedia Commons (credited to this Westchester County Archives page, tagged public domain as a circa-1900 work of unknown authorship whose US copyright has expired) and is used in this bundle as the case’s object-role media asset. Per this archive’s convention of preferring a direct institutional holding record over a Commons-only citation, this Westchester County Archives page, not the Commons file page, is used as the media asset’s archival source.