Details
Creator Rosenthal, Max, 1833-1918 artist.
Contributor Page, E. A., artist.
Rosenthal, L. N. (Louis N.), printer.
Title Freight locomotive engine for Pennsylvania Rail Road manufactured by Richard Norris & Son Philadelphia. [graphic] / Drawn by E. A. Page; on stone by M. Rosenthal.
Publisher Philadelphia : Lithog. of L.N. Rosenthal, Exchange Coffee House, 3d & Dock Sts
Date [ca. 1855]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, tinted with one stone; 48 x 73 cm.(18.75 x 29.5)
Description Advertisement showing the freight engine designed with three large wheels behind a smaller one that is situated at the front end of the engine. Engine shown on a stretch of tracks. Richard Norris assumed operations of the Norris Locomotive Works from his father, William, circa 1841. During the 1850s, Norris Locomotive Works was the largest producer of locomotives in America.
Notes Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 84
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Subject Richard Norris & Son.
Railroad car industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Railroad locomotives.
Genre Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1850-1860
Advertisements -- 1850-1860
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| **BW - Transportation [P.8970.22]
Accession number P.8970.22