Details
Creator Rease, W. H., artist.
Contributor Sinclair, Thomas S., ca. 1805-1881, printer.
Title Francis Bacon & Co.'s coal yard. Spruce Street Wharf, Schuylkill Philadelphia. [graphic] : Vessels loaded with dispatch, by steam power. Office no. 53 South Fourth Street. / On stone by W. H. Rease.
Publisher Philadelphia: Printed by T. Sinclair 101 Chesnut [sic] street [sic]
Date [ca. 1853]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph, tinted with one stone; 44 x 63 cm.(17.25 x 25 in.)
Description Advertisement showing the busy coal yard along the Schuylkill River. Yard workers haul cauldrons of coal by pulley and load and transport trucks on a multi-level wharf elevated above and surrounded by piles of coal. A schooner docked near two long boats at the end of the wharf receives a haul of coal from two chutes. A skiff and rowboat flank the boats. Opposite the schooner, a man sails a skiff named "Go On" past a tugboat. Signage for the coal yard is visible behind the tug and several industrial buildings line the wharf in the background. Bacon & Co. operated from the wharf address 1853-1854.
Is referenced by Wainwright 137
Notes Philadelphia on Stone
POS 273
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 76 R 288
Subject Francis Bacon & Co.
Coal trade -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Piers & wharves -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Vessels -- Pennsylvania -- Schuylkill River.
Genre Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1850-1860.
Advertisements -- 1850-1860.
Location Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP Bc 76 R 288