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Explosion and burning of the cartridge factory, cor. Tenth and Read [sic], March 2[9]th 1862. [graphic].
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Creator
Magee, John L., artist.
Title
Explosion and burning of the cartridge factory, cor. Tenth and Read [sic], March 2[9]th 1862. [graphic].
Publisher
[Philadelphia]
Date
[1862]
Physical Description
1 print: lithograph, hand-colored; 36 x 49 cm.(14 x 19.25 in.)
Description
Disaster scene showing the aftermath of the explosion of the factory of Professor Samuel Jackson located in South Philadelphia. Shows people fleeing, trapped, and engulfed in flames at the ruins of the burning factory. In the foreground, a man rushes to cover a man's body that has had its head and arm amputated; men throw buckets of water and blankets on women on fire; individuals carry the wounded; comfort the survivors; rush in with buckets; and hose the fire. Also shows a man looking in horror from a train car in the left of the image and debris flying in the air and lying on the ground. Over 15 people, including the son of the proprietor, perished in the explosion of the factory that was contracted to produce one and a half million experimental "solid water proof patent cartridges" during the Civil War. Jackson, a Philadelphia pyrotechnist and inventor, began the manufacture of fireworks in Philadelphia in 1837. He continued in pyrotechnics until 1887, when he began to manufacture danger signals for railroads. During his pyrotechnic career, a number of his establishments were destroyed through explosions.
Is referenced by
Wainwright 115
Notes
Name of artist supplied by Wainwright.
The numeral "9" printed in the reverse in the date in the title.
Inscribed on recto: North of Moyamensing Prison. Philada.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 215
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 83 C 328
Subject
Jackson, Samuel, 1814-1892.
Explosions -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Factories -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Dead persons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Disaster victims -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
South Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pa.)
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Genre
Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1860-1870.
Location
Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP Bb 83 C 328
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