Details
Contributor P.S. Duval & Co., printer.
Title The North Philadelphia Plank Road Company [stock certificate] [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia: P.S. Duval & Co.'s Lithy
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1855
Date [ca. 1855]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 16 x 26 cm. (6.25 x 10 in.)
Description Stock certificate containing a vignette of a horse-drawn carriage and wagon traveling on a road near a country estate and a pictorial element of "textured" filigree surrounding the incorporation date. Company incorporated 1852 to build a toll road linking South Penn Township and Germantown.
Notes Issued to Samuel Welsh for ten shares on June 11, 1857. Signed by Jno. Welsh, president; and Jas. Stuber, treasurer.
Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 153
Gift of Mrs. Nicholas B. Wainwright.
Subject North Philadelphia Plank Road Company.
Plank roads -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Estates.
Horse-drawn vehicles.
Genre Lithographs -- 1850-1860.
Stock certificates -- 1850-1860.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Philadelphia Certificates - Transportation [P.9408.3]
Accession number P.9408.3