Details
Creator Rease, W. H., artist.
Contributor Wagner & M'Guigan, printer.
Title [Patent improved lead pipe sheet lead and composition gas tubes, manufactured by Tatham & Brothers, office 15 Minor Street, Philadelphia, and No. 249 Water Street, New York.] [graphic] / On stone by W. H. Rease.
Publisher Philadelphia: Printed by Wagner & McGuigan
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1847
Date [August 1847]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 10 x 21 cm. (4 x 8 in.)
Description Advertisement showing the factory complex at 608 Delaware Avenue (occupied 1844) for the lead pipe manufactory established in 1841 by George N., Henry B., and William P. Tatham. Factory employees work in front of and at the wharf of the industrial building that is covered with signage. Men lift a barrel with a hoist; guide horse-drawn drays into a courtyard, down an alley, and to be unloaded; move planks of wood; and spray a hose into the river. Also shows partial views of surrounding buildings. Tatham & Brothers, a firm established in New York in 1838, operated the Philadelphia branch from the address until circa 1867. The firm patented a hydraulic pressure method to produce pipe in 1841.
Is referenced by Wainwright 364
Notes Title from duplicate in the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Aug. 1847. Delaware Avenue.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 547
LCP copy trimmed and lacking title.
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba34 T218.
HSP copy contains advertising text about the "better quality" patent leaden pipe process and price lists printed in letterpress. Price lists documents "Water Pipes for Hydrant, Pumps &c."; "Fountain or Aqueduct Pipe"; and "Sheet Lead."
Subject Tatham & Brothers.
Lead industry and trade -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Piers & wharves -- Pennsylvania -- Philadephia.
Carts & wagons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadephia.
Geographic subject Delaware Avenue -- South -- 608.
Genre Lithographs -- 1840-1850.
Advertisements -- 1840-1850.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| W364 [P.2200]
Accession number P.2200