Details
Creator Rease, W. H. artist.
Contributor Wagner & M'Guigan, printer.
Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector.
Title West Philadelphia Sadiron Works, M.L. Keen & Brother, Proprietors. [graphic] / Drawn on stone by W.H. Rease, 17 So. 5th St. Phila.
Publisher Philadelphia: Printed by Wagner & McGuigan
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1848
Date [September 1848]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 15 x 29 cm. (5.75 x 11.25 in.)
Description Advertisement for the small fenced factory complex with courtyard of the busy "M.L. Keen & Bror." sadiron works on Washington Avenue in West Philadelphia. Complex includes the single story "Iron foundry" and "Grinding Shop" to the right of the two-story warehouse adorned with signage reading "West Phila. Sad Iron Works." Laborers lead horse-drawn carts into and out of the complex. One entry is marked "No admittance." Within the complex, workers move large wheels by hand, push a handcart, and drive a cart. They also enter and exit doorways of the warehouse where men also hoist barrels. Also shows piles of wood planks and other material lined in front of the works around a worker being harrassed by a dog as he eats his lunch on a log.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Sept. 1848.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 827
Trimmed.
Originally part of a Poulson scrapbook of illustrations of Philadelphia.
Subject West Philadelphia Sadiron Works.
M.L. Keen & Brother.
Iron foundries -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Irons (Pressing) -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Laborers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carts & wagons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject West Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Lithographs -- 1840-1850.
Advertisements -- 1840-1850.
Provenance Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| BW - Industry [2526.F.86a]
Accession number 2526.F.86a