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When sugar helped fuel industry in Philadelphia

A trademark earnestness and delight in quirky discovery suffused the cluttered, third-floor loft above Old City's vintage Franklin Fountain one morning last week.

Spreckels Sugar Refinery in late-19th-century Philadelphia, part of the Berley Brothers' collection in "Oh, Sugar" at the Seaport Museum.
Spreckels Sugar Refinery in late-19th-century Philadelphia, part of the Berley Brothers' collection in "Oh, Sugar" at the Seaport Museum.Read more