Details
Contributor Herline & Co., printer.
Title Iron Manufacture : boilers, steam engines, hydraulic pumps. [graphic] : Port Richmond Iron Works Philadelphia. I.P. Morris & Co. Iron founders, steam engine builders, general machinists, and boiler makers. : Southwark Foundry, cor. 5th & Washington St. Philadelphia. Merrick & Sons, engineers & machinists. : Camden Iron Manufacturing Company. Engineers, machinists, iron founders & boiler makers. Kaighn's Point, Camden, N.J. Agency: n.w. cor, of Front & Walnut sts., Philadephia.
Publisher Philadelphia: Herline & Co., 2 N. 6th St
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1856
Date [1856]
Physical Description 1 print: engraving on stone; 47 x 42 cm. (18.5 x 16.25 in.)
Description Atlas advertisement containing exterior views of the two Philadelphia and the Camden foundries. Views contain promotional text about the products manufactured, the names of the proprietors, and the dates of establishment of two of the firms. Views include maritime traffic, horse-drawn trucks hauling machinery, and operating smokestacks. Machinery advertised includes pumping, hoisting, and stationery engines; sugar mills; iron boats; and bon black washers and bruisers. The Morris foundry was established in 1828 and the Merrick foundry was established in 1836. Atlas entry for "The State of Connecticut" printed on the verso.
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 23. (HSP O 458).
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 392
Subject Camden Iron Manufacturing Company.
I.P. Morris & Company.
Merrick & Sons.
Foundries -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Foundries -- New Jersey -- Camden.
Machinery industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Machinery industry -- New Jersey -- Camden.
Horse-drawn vehicles -- United States.
Genre Transfer lithographs -- 1850-1860.
Advertisements -- 1850-1860.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *BW - Industries - Morris [P.2007.22]
Accession number P.2007.22