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Reliance Portable Boat Company's line of portable iron boats for the transportation of goods between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. [graphic] / Geo. Lehman, del.
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Creator
Lehman, George, d. 1870, artist.
Contributor
Duval, Peter S., 1804 or 5-1886, printer.
Title
Reliance Portable Boat Company's line of portable iron boats for the transportation of goods between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. [graphic] / Geo. Lehman, del.
Publisher
Philadelphia: P. S. Duval lith
Date
[ca. 1840]
Physical Description
1 print: lithograph; 29 x 44 cm.(11 x 17.5 in.)
Description
Advertisement for the shipping company established by John Dougherty as Reliance Transportation Company circa 1835. Company operated on the Allegheny Portage Railroad, a system of inclined planes opened in 1834 that transported canal boats, box cars, and carriages by horse and steam engine to connect the east and west branches of the Pennsylvania Main Line canal. Contains two views of canal boats on trucks being transported on the railroad by locomotive. Upper image depicts a bird's eye view of a locomotive that is hauling boat sections approaching an incline to the canal. A long canal boat traverses the waterway. In the background, a farm and farmland are visible on the numerous hillsides. Lower image depicts a close-up view of the portable boats being hauled on the round-bottomed trucks by a locomotive exiting a tunnel and passing dwellings along the route. In 1839, the company was renamed Reliance Portable Boat Company following the departure of Dougherty.
Notes
Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 193
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 67 L 528
Trimmed.
Subject
Reliance Portable Boat Company.
Shipping -- Pennsylvania.
Canal boats -- Pennsylvania.
Railroads -- Pennsylvania.
Genre
Lithographs -- 1840-1850.
Advertisements -- 1840-1850.
Location
Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP Bb 67 L 528
In Collections
Philadelphia on Stone Digital Catalog
Historical Society of Pennsylvania Collections
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