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Cotton mills, Schuylkill River, Manayunk. [graphic].
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Title
Cotton mills, Schuylkill River, Manayunk. [graphic].
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1860
Date
ca. 1860
Physical Description
1 photographic print: albumen; 8 x 8 cm.(3 x 3 in.)
Description
View showing the mills of Joseph Ripka erected in 1831, 1835, and 1853 between Main Street and the Schuylkill River in Manayunk. Ripka's mills, one of the largest U.S. textile manufacturers during the 1840s and 1850s, went bankrupt during the Civil War with the loss of the essential patronage of the Southern states. General Robert Patterson purchased and reopened the mills following the war. Includes the Flat Rock Turnpike Bridge, a covered bridge near the mills.
Notes
Title from manuscript note on verso.
Unmounted half of stereoview.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject
Ripka, Joseph.
Textile industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Mills -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Schuylkill River.
Covered bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Manayunk (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre
Albumen prints -- 1850-1860.
Stereographs -- 1850-1860.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - unidentified - Industry [P.2282.39]
Accession number
P.2282.39
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Printed and Graphic Ephemera
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