Details
Creator Rease, W. H., lithographer.
Contributor Schell, Francis H., 1834-1909, artist.
Sinclair, Thomas S., ca. 1805-1881, printer.
Title Rowley, Ashburner & Co.'s oil, alcohol, fluid & pine oil works. [graphic] : Rowley, Ashburner & Co., manufacturers, Kensington screw dock, Penn Street above Maiden, Philadelphia. Store, No. 14 North Wharves, Philadelphia. Have constantly on hand, and for sale, at lowest market prices in bbls. and half bbls. alcohol, all qualities, burning fluid, pine oil, or camphene, rice in tierces and half ditto, spirits turpentine, soapmakers' rosin nos. 1, 2 & 3. common shipping rosin, tar, pitch and varnish, sperm oil, lard oil, elephant oil, whale oil, tanners' oil, linseed oil, machinery oil, refined paint oil, common greaing oil, extra refined winter machinery oil, winter, spring and summer strained in any size, refined winter greasing oil, refined black greasing oil, do do grease, no. 1 ship varnish. / On stone by W. H. Rease 17 So. 5th. St. ; F.H.S.
Publisher Philadelphia : T. Sinclair's lith. press
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1855
Date [ca. 1855]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph, tinted and gilted with two stones ; 33 x 54 cm. (13 x 21.25 in.)
Description Advertisement showing the Kensington Screw Dock on North Penn Street above Maiden (ie. Laurel) Street from the tumultuous Delaware River. Three small sailboats navigate the water in the foreground, while shipwrights work on the hull of a square-rigged ship raised in the dry dock in front of the firm's building. At the wharf, horse-drawn drays travel past the neighboring oil manufactory and distillery and a captain, with a dog, leans on a hitching post to which a tugboat is tied. In the rough water of the river, skiffs, sailboats, and a rowboat navigate the choppy waves. Also shows surrounding boathouses, wharves, and buildings lining the riverfront. Edward Rowley, Algernon Ashburner, and George B. Keen purchased the screw dock in 1850.
Is referenced by Wainwright 321
Notes Date supplied by Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 662
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Subject Rowley, Ashburner & Co.
Boat & ship industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Alcohols.
Pine oil.
Piers & wharves -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Vessels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Kensington (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Delaware River (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)
Genre Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1850-1860.
Advertisements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| **W321 [P.2256]
Accession number P.2256