Details
Creator Byram, Joseph H., engraver.
Title Interior view of Rogers Smith Shop. Corner of Sixth & Master streets. [graphic] / J.H. Byram.
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Date Oct. 1856
Physical Description 1 print: wood engraving mounted on paper; 7 x 16 cm. (2.75 x 6 in.)
Description Vignette view clipped from an advertisement showing the interior of the coach and carriage factory on the 800 block of North Sixth Street. Shows several smiths at work stations divided by brick partitions with forges lining the wall. The workers use anvils, hammers, and bellows. Also shows a foreman and well-dressed gentleman conversing in the corner, wagon wheels mounted on a wall, and carriage frames in different stages of completion on the floor.
Notes Date from Poulson inscription on companion print showing the exterior of the smith shop titled, partially in manuscript,"Wm. D. Rogers Coach and light Carriage Factory."
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Rogers, William D.
Carriage manufacturers and dealers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Forge shops -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Blacksmiths -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Blacksmithing -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Sixth Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- North -- 800 block.
Spring Garden (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Engravings -- 1850-1860.
Vignettes -- 1850-1860.
Provenance Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, compiler.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts| Rare| Poulson scrapbooks - vol. 8 [(8)2526.F.12]
Accession number (8) 2526.F.12