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Grice & Long, patentees. Steam passenger car and self adjusting trucks for rail way curves. Offices 205 1/2 Walnut St. Philada. 94 Wall St. New York. [graphic] :
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Contributor
Stein & Jones, printer.
Title
Grice & Long, patentees. Steam passenger car and self adjusting trucks for rail way curves. Offices 205 1/2 Walnut St. Philada. 94 Wall St. New York. [graphic] :
Publisher
Philadelphia: Stein & Jones lith
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1860
Date
[ca. 1860]
Physical Description
1 print: lithograph; 7 x 11 cm. (2.75 x 4.25 in.)
Description
Trade card containing a central vignette showing a "Grice & Long" street car on a city block. Car contains ornate details. Cityscape is visible in background. Grice & Long, the partnership between Trenton entrepreneur Joseph Grice and Philadelphia engineer Robert H. Long, was established in 1860. The firm originally marketed their steam passenger car (patented by Long in 1860) for street railways, before changing production to steam railways in 1861. The firm dissolved in 1871.
Notes
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject
Grice & Long (Firm)
Railroad passenger cars.
Street rail roads
Genre
Lithographs -- 1850-1860.
Trade cards -- 1850-1860.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.151e]
Accession number
P.9349.151e
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Stein & Jones Specimens Album
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