| Creator |
Major & Knapp Engraving, Manufacturing & Lithographic Co. |
| Title |
Fairbanks' standard scales. Buy only the genuine. [graphic]. |
| Publisher |
New York:. The Major & Knapp Eng. Mfg. & Lith. Co, 56 Park Pl |
| Publisher |
N.Y. New York. 1865 |
| Date |
[ca. 1865] |
| Physical Description |
1 print: chromolithograph; 9 x 15 cm. (3.5 x 5.75 in.) |
| Description |
Trade card depicting a scene on a farm. A farmer, sits on a rock, and watches as an agent weighs a horse-drawn cart loaded
with hay with a "Fairbanks Standard Scale." In the background, another Fairbanks' agent weighs cows on a platform scale in
a pen. View also shows hay stacks in the distance. Fairbanks' Scales was established in 1830.
|
| Notes |
"Principal Warehouses," including in Philadelphia listed on verso. |
|
Originally part of Specimens Album [P.9349]. |
|
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012. |
| Subject |
E. & T. Fairbanks & Co. |
|
Carts & wagons. |
|
Farms. |
|
Haystacks. |
|
Scales. |
|
Weighing instruments industry. |
| Genre |
Chromolithographs -- 1860-1870. |
|
Trade cards -- 1860-1870. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Specimens Album Loose Prints Collection - Advertising Specimens [P.9349.366] |
| Accession number |
P.9349.366 |
