"PILLING" with "Receiving" reversed out of directional arrow.
Established 1814, the silversmith-turned-instrument maker George P. Pilling & Son Co. manufactured and exported surgical, dental and veterinary instruments. They also mass-produced hearing aids and stethoscopes throughout the 1800s.
Moravian Street at 34th [map]
Numerous overlapping signs, the brightest of which incorporates a large circular seal or logo, along with remnants of a phone number or address "505". At bottom, can see remnants of sign company's tagline "OUTDOOR ADV".
Here is the same sign in 1965 with an advertisement for some Seagrams 7:
PhillyHistory.org. Philadelphia Department of Records. 27 February 2012.
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13th just north of Cuthbert [map]
