[Job printing specimens for certificates, bank notes, receipts, labels, and billheads]
Weiss, Jacob
printer
Stein & Jones
printer
Ehrgott & Fobriger
printer
Klauprech & Menzel
printer
still image
Graphic
Lithographs -- 1860-1870
Specimens -- 1860-1870
xxu
United States]
PA. Philadelphia
[ca. 1860-ca. 1865]
1860
1865
monographic
eng
ca. 250 prints: lithographs; 13 x 20 cm. (5.25 x 8 in.) or smaller.
Series of specimens (some proofs) depicting masonic, military, allegorical, and patriotic imagery, transportation views, women, agriculture, buildings, animals, and machinery. Includes views of locomotives traveling railroad tracks; sailing and steam boats; mines and mine workers; distilleries and refineries; farmers, farm hands, and farm animals; female allegorical figures of liberty, justice, and bounty; and sailors, blacksmiths, and steam factory workers. Imagery also depicts Native Americans; peasants; sheep herding; the American eagle; masonic emblems; historical and patriotic figures, including George Washington and Benjamin Franklin; storefronts, factories, and government buildings, including A. Exton cracker bakery (Trenton, N.J.) and Phoenix Iron Foundry (Wilmington, Del.); military camp and solider; deers, dogs, and children with animals; state and corporate seals, including Pennsylvania; and a city block on fire and an erupted volcano.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Various printers, including Ehrgott & Fobriger, Klauprech & Menzel, Stein & Jones, and Jacob Weiss.
Forms part of Specimens Album [P.9349].
Exton, Adam
Franklin, Benjamin
1706-1790
Portraits
Washington, George
1732-1799
Portraits
Phoenix Iron foundry
Agriculture
Animals
Disasters
Farming
Indians of North America
Industry
Justice
Liberty
Patriotism
Public buildings
Railroads
Transportation
Vessels
P.9349.155
P.9349.156
P.9349.157
P.9349.158
P.9349.159
P.9349.160
P.9349.161
P.9349.162
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department
albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.155-162]
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