Details
Creator Frey, A., artist.
Contributor Winner, William E., ca. 1815-1883, artist.
Sinclair, Thomas S., ca. 1805-1881, printer.
Title Wissahiccon Paper Mills. Warehouse, 30 South Sixth Street, Charles Magarge & Co., Philadelphia, Penna. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia: T. Sinclair's lith
Date [ca. 1858]
Physical Description 1 print: chromolithograph; 51 x 66 cm.(20.25 x 26 in.)
Description Advertisement after a circa 1858 oil painting "Magarge Paper Mill" by William E. Winner showing the expanded paper mill originally built for William Dewees in 1731 at the foot of Wise's Mill Road on the bucolic Wissahickon Creek. Mill includes the main building, boiler house, machine room, and chimney. Mill was rented by Charles Magarge (President of Bank of Germantown) in 1844 and purchased by him in 1853 and thereafter expanded to house a Fourdrinier Paper machine. It was the first mill to use wood pulp to make paper. Also shows a girl gathering flowers on a hillside in the foreground and a horse-drawn carriage on a dirt road in front of the mill in the background.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 847
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 35 W 763
Original painting in the collections of the Germantown Historical Society, Philadelphia, Pa.
Subject Chas. Magarge & Co.
Paper mills -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1850-1860.
Location Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP Bc 35 W 763