Details
Creator Weaver, Matthias S., 1815 or 16-1847, artist.
Contributor Sinclair, Thomas S., ca. 1805-1881, printer.
Title Adams & Co.'s American Express [graphic] : General agency, forwarding & commission house / M. S. Weaver, del.
Publisher Philadelphia: Lith. of T. Sinclair
Date [ca. 1843]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 25 x 42 cm.(9.5 x 16 in.)
Description Advertisement for the Philadelphia branch (est. circa 1843) of the rail express service company started by Alvin Adams of Boston in 1840. Shows a line of freight cars being pulled by a fireball and lightning across train tracks on a stone culvert in a wilderness setting. The cars are marked with the city and name of its recipients, including Boston & New York, Adams & Co.; Philada. & Baltimore, Adams & Co.; Baltimore, Washington & Richmond, Rogers & Co.; Baltimore & Wheeling, Green & Co. A creek with rocky banks flows through the culvert. Also includes an American eagle standing on a rocky ledge rising about the freight cars. The express service incorporated in 1854 served as the Union Army paymaster.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 5
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 67 A 211
Trimmed.
Subject Adams Express Company.
Express service -- United States.
Railroads -- United States.
Eagles.
Genre Lithographs -- 1840-1850.
Advertisements -- 1840-1850.
Location Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP Bb 67 A 211