Details
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