Details
Creator Longacre & Co.
Contributor Rea & Sharp engraver.
Title Fairmount Machine Works, office, 2106 Wood Street, Philadelphia, Penna. [graphic] : Thomas Wood, manufactures as specialties, power looms, with improved box and pattern machines. Bobbin winding, spooling, beaming, dye & sizing machines. Self-acting wool scouring machines (Yewdall's patent.) Improved power hoisting machines, lard and paraffine [sic] oil presses. Wall paper machinery, such as grounding, clay and color mixing machines, paper rolling and bundling machines. / Longacre & Co., engravers and printers 32 South Seventh Street, Phila.
Publisher Philadelphia: Longacre & Co
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1875
Date [ca. 1875]
Physical Description 1 print: transfer lithograph; 52 x 37 cm.(20.25 x 14.5 in.)
Description Advertisement for the machine manufacturer containing a series of vignettes and descriptions of company products. Shows power looms; a "dye frame for dying six warps"; a "30 spindle bobbin winding machine"; "vertical cone & cradle indigo mills, for crushing indigo, etc."; "new style' beaming machines"; and couplings, post hangers, pulleys, and a pillow block. Also contains a chart of "Change Pinions for Regulating the number of Picks on Goods, with Positive Take-up Motion" and advertising text about shafting, gearing, and pulleys. Fairmount Machine Works was established in 1839 by John and Thomas Wood as a manufactory of power looms and other textile machinery.
Notes Various artists including Rea & Sharp, Klein, and Longacre Co.
Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 233
Subject Fairmount Machine Works.
Machinery industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Textile machinery.
Hoisting machinery.
Grinding machinery.
Pulleys.
Genre Transfer lithographs -- 1870-1880.
Advertisements -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *BW - Industries - F [P.2004.43]
Accession number P.2004.43