Details
Contributor Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector.
Title [Donnelly's steam patent match manufactory, Linden Street near the Stone Bridge, Philadelphia] [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1847
Date [August 1847]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 29 x 45 cm. (11.25 x 18 in.)
Description Advertisement showing the manufactory of John Donnelly below Front Street near the Delaware River. Signage covers the three-story building that contains several windows. Male and female workers are visible at many. Workers also hoist a crate from a horse-drawn cart parked along the building, load a horse-drawn wagon, and enter the factory. Also shows two men in a rowboat gliding past and partial views of surrounding buildings. The Donnelly factory operated from the address in 1847.
Is referenced by Wainwright 97
Notes Title supplied by cataloguer.
Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Aug. 1847.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 186
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Subject Donnelly, John.
Match industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Factories -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Laborers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Rowboats -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Linden Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 000 block.
Genre Lithographs -- 1840-1850.
Advertisements -- 1840-1850.
Provenance Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *W97 [P.2031]
Accession number P.2031