Details
Contributor P.S. Duval & Sons, printer.
Title The Delaware County Society, for the Promotion of Agriculture, Horticulture, Manufactures, and the Mechanic and Household Arts. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia: P. S. Duval & Sons, lith
Date [ca. 1857]
Physical Description 1 print: chromolithograph; 42 x 56 cm.(16.5 x 22 in.)
Description Fair certificate containing vignettes and scenes related to farming, industry, and domestic work. Predominately contains farm images that show farmers reaping, plowing, and threshing fields, transporting a truck of hay near the coastline, scraping feathers from a goose on a table as a locomotive travels past in the distant background, and a woman milking a cow in the field. Industrial images include women working at sewing machines and operating mechanical looms; a printer at a press; a mill; and a hull of a ship under construction. Vignettes also show farm animals and produce; bakeware, cookware, and other implements to prepare food; and the figure of William Penn.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Issued September 1857 to J[ohn?] Davidson for H[orse?] General Scott 2 years old. James Andrews, President. Abram P. Morgan, Secretary.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 49
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 65 D 343
Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Societies - Certificates
Subject Penn, William, 1644-1718.
Delaware County Society, for the Promotion, Agriculture, Horticulture, Manufactures, and the Mechanic and Household Arts.
Farmers' groups -- Pennsylvania.
Agricultural exhibits -- Pennsylvania -- Delaware County.
Agricultural machinery & implements.
Cookware.
Farming.
Farm produce.
Industry.
Livestock.
Women.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1850-1860.
Certificates -- 1850-1860.
Location Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP Bc 65 D 343