Details
Contributor Stein & Jones, printer.
Ehrgott & Fobriger, printer.
Klauprech & Menzel, printer.
Weiss, Jacob, printer.
Title [Job printing specimens for certificates, bank notes, receipts, labels, and billheads] [graphic].
Publisher [United States]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1860-1865
Date [ca. 1860-ca. 1865]
Physical Description ca. 250 prints: lithographs; 13 x 20 cm. (5.25 x 8 in.) or smaller.
Description 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.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Various printers, including Ehrgott & Fobriger, Klauprech & Menzel, Stein & Jones, and Jacob Weiss.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject 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.
Genre Lithographs -- 1860-1870.
Specimens -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.155-162]
Accession number P.9349.155
P.9349.156
P.9349.157
P.9349.158
P.9349.159
P.9349.160
P.9349.161
P.9349.162