Details
Creator Rease & Schell, artist.
Contributor Sinclair, Thomas S., ca. 1805-1881, printer.
Title Sectional floating dry dock. J. Simpson & Neill ship wrights & proprietors Christian Street Philadelphia. [graphic] / Lith. by Rease & Schell 17 So. 5th St. Phila.
Publisher Philadelphia: T. Sinclair's lith
Date [ca. 1860]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, tinted and hand-colored; 33 x 54 cm.(13 x 21.75 in.) image.
Description Advertisement showing the floating dry dock near the Delaware riverfront in South Philadelphia surrounded by marine traffic. The floating dock supports a three-masted square rigged ship under which laborers work on its base. Behind the floating dock, the frame of a ship is under construction near a large vessel at dry dock. In the foreground, a fishing boat being rowed by a four-man crew and carrying a bundled fishing net sails near two other row boats, one adorned with an American flag. Also shows a tug boat and ferry boat sailing on opposite sides of the floating dock. Masts of docked vessels, dock houses, wharves, and buildings, line the riverfront in the background. Also shows Sparks shot tower (Carpenter Street near Second Street).
Is referenced by Wainwright 334
Notes Inscribed on image: Messenger.
Philadelphia on Stone
Atwater Kent Museum: 52.1.1/2
In manuscript over ship: Messenger
Subject J. Simpson & Neill.
Boat & ship industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Vessels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Piers & wharves -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Spark's Shot Tower (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Lithographs -- Tinted -- Hand-colored -- 1850-1860.
Advertisements -- 1850-1860.
Location Atwater Kent Museum| Print Department AKM| AKM 52.1.1/2