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Wakefield Manufacturing Company. Hosiery. Germantown, Philada. County. [graphic] / Designed & lith. B.F. Smith, Jr.
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Creator
Smith, B. F., Jr. artist.
Contributor
Duval, Peter S., 1804 or 5-1886, printer.
Title
Wakefield Manufacturing Company. Hosiery. Germantown, Philada. County. [graphic] / Designed & lith. B.F. Smith, Jr.
Publisher
Philadelphia : P. S. Duval's steam lith. press
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1850
Date
[ca. 1850]
Physical Description
1 print : lithograph, tinted with one stone and hand-colored ; 42 x 65 cm. (16.5 x 25.75 in.)
Description
Pastoral view depicting children playing on the hillside surrounding the Wakefield mills, established by William Logan Fisher circa 1815 at Eighteenth Street and Fisher's Lane. Six children play, one with a basket over his head, in the foreground (center), while a man drives a horse-drawn cart loaded with boxes marked "hosiery" (left). Mill buildings are visible in the distance, behind which more people are frolicking on the green. A large residence is partially visible through the woods on the hill in the far distance (center). Owned by the Fisher family of Wakefield, the mills stopped operating in the 1880s.
Is referenced by
Wainwright 441
Notes
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 816b
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 35 W149.
Subject
Fisher, W. L. (William Logan), 1781-1862.
Wakefield Manufacturing Company (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Hosiery industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Mills -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carts & wagons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre
Lithographs -- Tinted -- Hand-colored -- 1840-1850.
Advertisements -- 1840-1850.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| **W441 [P.2265]
Accession number
W441-2
P.2265
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Philadelphia on Stone Digital Catalog
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