Details
Creator Rease, W. H., artist.
Contributor Wagner & M'Guigan, printer.
Title Joseph Ripka's mills. Manayunk 21st Ward Philadelphia. Manufacturer of all description of plain and fancy cottonades for men & boy's clothing warehouse 32 So. Front St. [graphic] / Lith. of W. H. Rease N.E. cor. 4th & Chesnut [sic].
Publisher Philadelphia : Printed by Wagner & McGuigan
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1856
Date [1856]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph ; 39 x 64 cm. (15.25 x 25.5 in.)
Description Advertisement showing in the distance a compound of large mill buildings belonging to Joseph Ripka's textile manufacturing business, situated between the east bank of the Schuylkill River and the Manayunk Canal. Two men in top hats stand and converse in the foreground, while a man stands in a rowboat nearby. Buildings and trees dot the hilly landscape behind the mills. Ripka relocated to Manayunk in 1828, developing one of the largest textile businesses in the United States. During the Civil War, the shrinking Southern demand for cottonades caused Ripka to file for bankruptcy before the war's end and his death in 1864.
Is referenced by Wainwright 211
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), 77. (HSP O 458).
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 418
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc35 R588.
Subject Ripka, Joseph.
Textile factories -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Cotton industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Mills -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Manayunk (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Genre Lithographs -- 1850-1860.
Advertisements -- 1850-1860.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| **W211 [P.2139]
Accession number P.2139