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Murphy & Allison. [graphic] : Car builders. 1908 Market Street, Philadelphia.
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Creator
Rease, W. H.
Contributor
Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813, printer.
Title
Murphy & Allison. [graphic] : Car builders. 1908 Market Street, Philadelphia.
Publisher
Philadelphia: Lith. of W. H. Rease, n.e. cor. 4th & Chestnut Str
Date
[ca. 1857]
Physical Description
1 print: lithograph, tinted with two stones; 44 x 57 cm.(17 x 22.5 in.)
Description
Advertisement showing the busy "Car Factory & Bolt Nut & Washer Works," of John Murphy and J. C. Allison, also proprietors of the Girard Tube Works, who established a partnership in 1851 at 1908 Market Street. A completed rail car and a horse-drawn double decker omnibus depart from the sign-covered factory and "Office of the Girard Tube Works." A worker labors on a rail car in an upper window, a man on horseback stops near the entrance to the "Blacksmith Shop," and clusters of pedestrians walk in front of the works. A small crowd flanks the omnibus that is adorned with illustrations of rail cars as it leaves the factory bay. In the foreground, men and boys, across from two men shaking hands, inspect an ornately painted "City Passenger R.R." car on display in the street in front of the factory. Nearby, a boy admires an elegantly dressed lady while a newsboy hawks a paper to a gentleman on promenade with two ladies who pass a woman, possibly attired in mourning garb. Murphy & Allison assumed proprietorship of Girard Tube Works, manufacturer of wrought iron gas tubes, in 1856 and began construction of cars for the City Passenger Railways circa 1857. The firm made several improvements to the cars including adding more head room and lamps to the center of car roofs and in front of the overshoots.
Notes
Not in Wainwright.
Annotated in stenciled letters below title: DESTROYED BY FIRE SATURDAY MAY 3. 1863 AT 3-AM.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 494
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 35 M 978
Label pasted on verso: Purchased at auction from Freemans May 20, 1959 Library Fund.
Biographical / historical note
Rease, a prolific lithographer of advertising prints, relocated his studio to 4th and Chestnut in 1857.
Subject
Murphy & Allison.
Factories -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Machinery industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Horse-drawn vehicles -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre
Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1850-1860.
Advertisements -- 1850-1860.
Location
Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP Bc 35 M 978
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