Details
Contributor F. Bourquin & Co., printer.
Title Alfred Jenks & Son's machine works, Bridesburg. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia : F. Bourquin & Co. lith
Date 1857
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph ; 10 x 16 cm. (3.75 x 6.25 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.
Is referenced by Wainwright 33.2
Notes Illustration in Edwin T. Freedley's Philadelphia and its Manufactures (Philadelphia: Edward Young, 333 Walnut Street, 1858), opposite page 301.
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POS 13.2
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Library Company of Philadelphia: in Am 1858 Fre 67170.D.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Atwater Kent Museum: 40.79.3/2
Subject Alfred Jenks & Son.
Textile machinery industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Machine shops -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Textile machinery -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carts & wagons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Richmond Street (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Bridesburg (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Lithographs -- 1850-1860.
Advertisements -- 1850-1860.
Book illustrations -- 1850-1860.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| W33.2 [Am 1858 Fre 67170.D.301a]
Accession number 67170.D.301a