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Mount Joy Car Manufacturing Co. [graphic] : Manufacturers of steam_engines, rail_road_cars, thrashing_machines, castings and machinery in general. Located in the borough of Mount Joy, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. J. Stauffer, del.
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Creator
Stauffer, Jacob, b. 1808, artist.
Contributor
Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813, printer.
Title
Mount Joy Car Manufacturing Co. [graphic] : Manufacturers of steam_engines, rail_road_cars, thrashing_machines, castings and machinery in general. Located in the borough of Mount Joy, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. J. Stauffer, del.
Publisher
Philadelphia: Lithy. of A. Kollner
Date
[ca. 1855]
Physical Description
1 print: chromolithograph; 41 x 51 cm.(16.25 x 19.75 in.)
Description
Advertisement showing the busy factory complex of several red brick buildings, including one with signage reading "Mount Joy Car Manufactory." Laborers load wagons with machinery parts; haul crates by hand, cart, and truck; unload coal; and move wood slabs. At the opposite corner to the factory, near a fenced lot, a woman with her excited son, watch the two agitated horses of a buggy passing them near a couple and a man on horseback in the street. Also shows a train traveling behind the factory in the background.
Notes
Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 489
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 35 M 928
Mifflin Fund. February 5, 1958.
Subject
Mount Joy Car Manufacturing Co.
Machinery industry -- Pennsylvania -- Mount Joy.
Genre
Chromolithographs -- 1850-1860.
Advertisements -- 1850-1860.
Location
Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP Bc 35 M 928
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