Lovekin Water Heater Manufacturing Company records


Collection 4258

1911-1961, undated
(0.4 Linear feet ; 1 box)

Summary Information

Repository
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Creator
Deily and Fowler Manufacturing Company.
Creator
Lovekin Water Heater Company.
Title
Lovekin Water Heater Manufacturing Company records
ID
4258
Date
1911-1961, undated
Extent
0.4 Linear feet ; 1 box
Author
Finding aid prepared by Benjamin Walter-Range
Language
English

Preferred citation

Cite as: [Indicate cited item or series here], Lovekin Water Heater Manufacturing Company records (Collection 4258), The Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

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Scope and Contents note

The Lovekin Water Heater Manufacturing Company started life as the Deily and Fowler Iron Works, which was founded in Philadelphia (39 Laurel Street) in 1842. Deily and Fowler was the largest U. S. producer of gas holders in the 1800s and early 1900s. The iron works evolved into the Lovekin Water Heater Manufacturing Company in the 1920s, which produced one of the first automatic gas water heaters in the world. In 1965 the Lovekin was sold to the Bradford White Company in Pennsylvania.

This collection documents the history of the Lovekin Company through not only a small cache of company records, legal documents, and photographs, but also through an assortment of items from Deily and Fowler, which includes reports, specifications, catalogs, and photographs. There is similar material from the Lovekin period as well.

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

 Historical Society of Pennsylvania ; 2019.

1300 Locust Street
Philadelphia, PA, 19107
215-732-6200

Access restrictions

Collection is open for research.

Provenance

Gift of Philip D. Fowler, 2018.

Accession number 2018.102.

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Controlled Access Headings

Genre(s)

  • Business records.

Personal Name(s)

  • Fowler, Philip D.

Subject(s)

  • Business--History--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--20th century.
  • Gasholders
  • Iron industry and trade--Pennsylvania
  • Merchants--Pennslyvania--Philadelphia--20th century
  • Merchants--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History.
  • Water heaters, Gas

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Collection Inventory

Box Folder

Deily and Fowler mixed company records 

1 1

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Company transition records 

1 2

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Lovekin History related papers 

1 3

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Lovekin Advertising material 1925, 1956, undated 

1 4

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Lovekin technical information for salespersons 

1 5

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Lovekin Water Heater brochure for Laurel Filter-Heater for swimming pools 

1 6

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Lovekin Water Heater Company Photographs 1912-1915, 1951, undated 

1 7

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Lovekin Water Heater Company Photographs 1912-1960, undated 

1 8

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