Details
Creator Beaulieu, Emile F., artist.
Contributor Herline & Co., printer.
Title Bridesburg Machine Works. Alfred Jenks & Son, manufacturers of cotton and wool carding spinning and weaving machinery, shafting and millgearing, Bridesburg post office Philadelphia. [graphic] / From nature & on stone by E. Beaulieu, 99 Walnut St.
Publisher Philadelphia: Printed by Herline & Co. 2 Nth. 6th. St
Date [1856]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, tinted with three stones; 32 x 59 cm. (12.75 x 23.5 in.)
Description Advertisement showing the busy industrial complex established circa 1819 by Alfred Jenks and enlarged in 1853 on the east side of Richmond Street between Franklin & Locust streets in Bridesburg. A horse-drawn flatbed truck enters the courtyard of the U-shaped complex containing several buildings that are surrounded by wood fencing. Within the yard, clusters of workers transport boxes and planks of wood by hand near an unhitched wagon surrounded by crates. A carriage with driver waits near a smaller building, landscaped with trees and attached to one of the large workshops. Outside the complex, a driver handles a four-horse team plodding to pull a truck loaded with two large machines as other factory workers transport planks, carry crates, mill about with their tools, drive a dray, and stand at a shed facing the street. Also shows two gentlemen talking to a worker in the middle of the roadway, a worker carrying a box near abandoned carts in an adjacent courtyard, and several working smokestacks on the roofs of the works. Six vignettes of different types of textile machinery illustrate the side borders. Includes a single breaker card, loom, cotton card, railway drawing head, and ring frame thostle.
Is referenced by Wainwright 33.1
Notes Published in Colton's atlas of America, illustrating the physical and political geography of North and South America... Commercial edition with business cards of prominent houses in Philadelphia. (New York: J.H. Colton and Company, 1856), page 79. (HSP O 458).
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 13.1
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc35 B851.
Free Library of Philadelphia: Oversize Philadelphiana - Factories and Foundries (A-M).
Reduced variant printed in 1857 by Frederick Bourquin & Co. published in Edwin T. Freedley's Philadelphia and its manufacturers ... in 1857 (Philadelphia, 1859), p. 301.
Subject Alfred Jenks & Son.
Textile machinery industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Machine shops -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carts & wagons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Laborers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Textile machinery -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Richmond Street (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Bridesburg (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1850-1860.
Advertisements -- 1850-1860.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| **W33.1 [P.2020]
Accession number P.2020