Details
Creator Reynolds, Robert F., artist.
Contributor Kuhl, Frederick, printer.
Title S. Griffiths, manufacturer of wrought iron tubes and fittings for gas, steam and water. Works in Vine st: betw: Schuylkill 2d and 3d Streets. A constant supply at warerooms no. 15 Nth. Del. 7th St, Philadelphia. [graphic] / On stone by R. F. Reynolds.
Publisher Philadelphia: F. Kuhl's lith. press
Date [ca. 1845]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 31 x 48 cm.(12 x 19 in.)
Description Advertisement showing the "Spring Garden Tube Works" on Vine Street above Twentieth Street. Signage reading "S. Griffith's Manufacturer of Wrought Iron, Welded Tubes, For Gas, Steam, Water" adorns a doorway that is flanked by spiral tubings. Employees work in the windows of the two-story factory, exit the doorways with tubes, and load horse-drawn carts parked in front of the building. Also shows a side-alley on which a horse-drawn cart loaded with coal is guided to the furnace at the rear of the works. Griffiths was listed at a Vine Street address from 1845 to 1854 and circa 1860-circa 1868.
Is referenced by Wainwright 324
Notes Philadelphia on Stone
POS 669
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 35 G 855
Subject Griffiths, Samuel.
Pipe industry -- Pennsylvania. -- Philadelphia.
Carts & wagons -- Pennsylvania. -- Philadelphia.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1850-1860.
Advertisements -- 1850-1860.
Location Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP Bb 35 G 855