Details
Creator Van Slyck & Co.
Contributor Myrick, Frank W. artist.
Title Works of P. & F. Corbin. New Britain Conn. U.S.A. [graphic] / Frank Myrick, del.
Publisher Boston: Van Slyck & Co. engrs & pubs
Publisher MA. Boston. 1877
Date [ca. 1877]
Physical Description 1 print: steel engraving mounted on board; 9 x 15 cm.(3.25 x 5.75 in.)
Description Trade card showing the factory complex of the hardware manufactory established in 1849 as Doen, Corbin & Company. Also shows operating smoke stacks and street and pedestrian traffic, including horse-drawn carts. Townscape is visible in the background. The firm operated as P. & F. Corbin Corporation between 1854 and 1880.
Notes Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Reproduced in John B. Comstock, History of the house of P. & F. Corbin, MCMIV... (Buffalo: Matthews-Northrup Works, 1904).
Forms part of Scrapbook of Ephemera [8608.F].
Subject P. & F. Corbin (Firm : New Britain, Conn.)
Hardware industry -- Connecticut -- New Britain.
Carts & wagons -- Connecticut -- Britain.
Genre Steel engravings -- 1870-1880.
Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| albums - Scrapbook [8608.F.17b]
Accession number 8608.F.17b