Details
Contributor P.S. Duval & Son, printer.
Young, Edward, publisher.
Title West Philadelphia Manufacturing Cos. starch & farina works. [graphic] : Corner of Chestnut & Bridgewater Sts.
Publisher Philadelphia : P.S. Duval & Sons lith
Date 1859
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph ; 12 x 20 cm. (4.75 x 8 in.)
Description Advertisement showing the bustling industrial starch and farina works at the corner of Chestnut and Bridgewater Streets (ie. Chestnut and Thirtieth Streets) looking northeast toward the Schuylkill River. Laborers direct horse-drawn drays and wagons to and from factory buildings and railroad cars. Scene includes a man on horseback riding toward the factory buildings, a laborer standing in the foreground near the tracks, smoke rising from several chimneys in the complex, the Market Street Bridge crossing the Schuylkill River in the distance, and the outline of Philadelphia Gas Works gasholders immediately east of the bridge.
Is referenced by Wainwright 445.2
Notes Published in Edwin T. Freedley's Philadelphia and its manufactures: a handbook exhibiting the development, variety, and statistics of the manufacturing industry in Philadelphia in 1857 (Philadelphia: Edward Young, 333 Walnut Street, 1859 [c1858]), opposite page 460.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 826.2
Atwater Kent Museum: 88.98.74
Free Library of Philadelphia: 917.481 F87
Artist's study for print held in the collections of the Library of Congress. [DLC-PP-1997-105-Prints-StarchWorks]
Subject West Philadelphia Manufacturing Company.
Philadelphia Gas Works.
Starch industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Laborers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carts & wagons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Railroad cars -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Gas industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Public utility companies -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject West Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Market Street Permanent Bridge (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Genre Lithographs -- 1850-1860.
Book illustrations -- 1850-1860.
Advertisements -- 1850-1860.
Printer Young, Edward, publisher.
Location Atwater Kent Museum| Print Department AKM| AKM 88.98.74