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| Two years earlier: "The Franklin Institute's exhibition of American Manufacturers, October 1842, at the Chinese Museum. Daguerreotype by Paul Beck Goddard." |
Philadelphia Inquirer (GenealogyBank)
15 Oct 1844
page 2
(excerpted from a longer article)
A Rich Display. Franklin Institute
The Exhibition of the present year is likely at least to equal any similar display. It is impossible, however, to express a confident opinion at the present time, so many of the articles had not been finally arranged when we looked through the rooms yesterday.
--There are some splendid specimens in the collection, and others exhibiting extraordinary ingenuity and skill. Crowded as our columns are, it will not be in our power to notice every thing of merit and interest in the rich collection, but we will with pleasure specify any article to which our attention may be directed by friends or subscribers. Contributors should be careful to label their specimens, and also to accompany them with descriptions, when novel or curious. Too much in the way of commendation cannot be said in favor of an institution that is instrumental in collecting from year to year such abundant evidences of the progress of American skill and industry, and as the present is an opportune moment for direct and substantial approbation on the part of our citizens, we trust that the rooms will be crowded, morning, noon, and night, while they continue open....
The Lower Saloon....
Patent Awning. This article is raised and lowered by means of a crank, at the post, and thus the trouble is saved of unhooking and untying, as is now done, with the old style of awnings. Made and deposited by Joseph H. Fost, Philada.
NOTE: I could not find a patent entry for him in the Ancestry database U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patents, 1790-1909.
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