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Washington Mills, Gloucester, N.J. near Philadelphia. [graphic] : David S. Brown & Co. Nos. 38 and 40 South Front Street, and No. 29 Letitia Street, Philadelphia, selling agents for the following American cotton and woolen goods.
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Contributor
P.S. Duval & Co., printer.
Title
Washington Mills, Gloucester, N.J. near Philadelphia. [graphic] : David S. Brown & Co. Nos. 38 and 40 South Front Street, and No. 29 Letitia Street, Philadelphia, selling agents for the following American cotton and woolen goods.
Publisher
Philadelphia, P.S. Duval & Co.'s lith. Phila
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1856
Date
[1856]
Physical Description
1 print: lithograph; 36 x 83 cm. (14 x 32.5 in.)
Description
Advertisement for David S. Brown & Co. textile merchants containing a view of the several factory buildings of the Washington Manufacturing Company's cotton mills on the Delaware River. Shows heavy maritime traffic, including a steamboat, sailboats, schooners, and a long boat with a crew transporting a bale of cotton. Also shows a church on the property in the far right of the image. Advertising text printed below the image lists the variety of the "Brown Cottons - Woolens - Prints - Pantaloonery &c. - and Bleached Cottons" available at Brown's as selling agents for other suppliers. Suppliers include Bates Mills, Essex Mills, Lion Mills, Whittenton Mills, Climax Mills, and Hale Mills. Products include sheetlings, shirtlings, jeans, flannels, shawls, zephyr coating, and corset jeans. Brown served as both senior partner in Brown & Co., and president and manager of Washington Mills.
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 the prominent houses in Philadelphia. (New York: J.H. Colton and Company, 1856), page 76. (HSP O 458)
Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 269
Gift of George S. Macmanus Co.
HSP copy BC 35 W 317.
FLP copy Castner 20:21. Trimmed and folded.
Subject
David S. Brown & Co.
Washington Manufacturing Company.
Textile industry -- New Jersey -- Gloucester.
Textile factories -- New Jersey -- Gloucester City.
Vessels -- New Jersey -- Gloucester City.
Geographic subject
Delaware River (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)
Genre
Lithographs -- 1850-1860.
Advertisements -- 1850-1860
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| **BW - Industries [P.8694]
Accession number
P.8694
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