OLIVER EVANS CHAPTER

Author: Muriel K, Veep

  • Oat Foundry, makers of Split Flap Displays

    Society for Industrial Archeology Oliver Evans Chapter presents a Tour of Oat Foundry DATE: Thursday, April 20, 2023                                                                        TIME: 11 AM Oat Foundry began in 2013 with a team of six Drexel Engineers on a mission to build cool stuff. They spent their early days prototyping and building a range of products from furniture for coffee…

  • Steamboats on the Upper Delaware River

    Tuesday, March 21st at 7:00 pm a Zoom presentation A Virtual Illustrated Presentation By Paul W. Schopp A Delaware River Heritage Lecture Sponsored by the Delaware River Greenway Partnership (DRGP) Please click here to register at the DRGP’s website. The Upper Delaware River, extending from Market Street, Philadelphia, to the head of navigation at Trenton,…

  • Rich Wagner Beer History Tour

    Fairmount Park Conservancy presents Trails to Ales DATESaturday, March 18, 2023 TIME1:00pm – 4:00pm LOCATIONMount Pleasant Mansion3800 Mt Pleasant DrPhiladelphia, 19121 Join beer historian Rich Wagner for a history of brewing and beer gardens on a hiking tour of East Fairmount Park. As the name of the Brewerytown neighborhood that borders East Park indicates, Philadelphia…

  • Typewriters, Typewriters, Typewriters II

    Oliver Evans Chapter presents a tour Philly Typewriter Date: March 11, 2023Time: 11amLocation: 1735 East Passyunk Ave, Philadelphia PA 19148, between Morris St and Moore St. Bryan Kravitz is passionate about typewriters. He has established a workshop with machines and tools for restoring them. As he puts it on his website, “We work simultaneously as…

  • Can Easter be Far Behind?

    Zitner’s, the Philadelphia candy company known for their signature chocolate-covered eggs, turns 100 this year, and it’s still churning out ovoidal confections filled with coconut, buttercream, peanut butter, and its signature “Butter Krak” concoction. The local treats were born when a couple, Sam and Anne Zitner, began making and selling candy eggs at their home…

  • Typewriters, Typewriters, Typewriters

    Bryan Kravitz, a friend of Joel Spivak’s,  is passionate about typewriters. He has established a workshop with machines and tools for restoring them. Shortly you will see a notice here about a tour of his workshop on March 11, 2023. Bryan was tapped by the Literature Department at Parkway Central Library to present an 8…

  • Finding Conshohocken

    UPCOMING TALK by Ned Drinker, local Navigator: DESCRIPTION: “Finding Conshohocken” is a two-hour slide show exploration of the history of Conshohocken from William Penn to the present including the Schuylkill Navigation, iron and steel, J Ellwood Lee, Woodmont and redevelopment. WHEN: Monday, January 30th 5:30 – 7:30 PM WHERE: Conshohocken Free Library, Community Room (downstairs),…

  •  PHILADELPHIA’S GLOBAL HERITAGE

    Oliver Evans Society for Industrial Archeology presents A GUIDED TOUR OF BEYOND THE BELL: PHILADELPHIA’S GLOBAL HERITAGE Saturday, January 28, 2023, 10:00 a.m. to noon West Chester University Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology775 S Church Street, West Chester, PA 19383  In partnership with the Global Philadelphia Association, this special exhibition celebrates the 50th anniversary of UNESCO’s…

  • Pennsylvania and the Potato Chip

    An interesting piece from the online site Atlas Obscura. Accuracy not assured. “Hanover, and a few counties surrounding it, is the biggest producer of America’s favorite guilty pleasures. More potato chips (and pretzels, candy, ice cream, and chocolate) are produced over these few counties than anywhere else on Earth.”

  • The Campbell Soup Company

    Princeton Preservation Group presents The Campbell Soup Company Corporate Archives: Preserving the History of an American Food Brand November 15, 2022, 7pm via Zoom by Scott Hearn The business that would become Campbell Soup Company was founded in 1869 in Camden, NJ as a cannery. The invention of condensed soup in 1897 fundamentally changed the…