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Penn Steam Engine & Boiler Works. Foot of Palmer Street, Kensington, Philadelphia. Reaney Neafie & Co. engineers, machinists, boiler makers, black smiths & founders. [graphic] / Lith. by W. H. Rease 4th & Chesnut [sic] St.
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Creator
Rease, W. H., lithographer.
Title
Penn Steam Engine & Boiler Works. Foot of Palmer Street, Kensington, Philadelphia. Reaney Neafie & Co. engineers, machinists, boiler makers, black smiths & founders. [graphic] / Lith. by W. H. Rease 4th & Chesnut [sic] St.
Publisher
Philadelphia : s.n
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1859
Date
1859
Physical Description
1 print : lithograph ; 9 x 18 cm. (3.5 x 7 in.)
Description
Advertisement showing several marine vessels docked in front of the engine & boiler works complex at the busy river front. Teams of several horses haul materials on trucks past the boiler works. Laborers work on the docks, piers, and boats at the complex. Docked vessels include the tug boats, steamboats, paddleboats, and a sailboat. The firm established as Reaney, Neafie & Levy in 1844, specialized in iron boats and engines, and later steam fire engines. Reaney left the partnership to start his own shipyard in 1859. Neafie & Levy remained in operation until 1907.
Is referenced by
Wainwright 271
Notes
Published in The Hibernia Fire Engine Company No.1 (Philadelphia: Printed by J. B. Chandler, 306 & 308 Chestnut St, 1859), page 109.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 551
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Library Company of Philadelphia: in *Am 1859 Hibernia 11750.Q.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Factories, etc.
Subject
Reaney, Neafie & Co.
Foundries -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Machinists -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Boiler-making industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Steam engines.
Piers & wharves -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Vessels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre
Lithographs -- 1850-1860.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| W271 [*Am 1859 Hibernia 11750.Q]
Accession number
11750.Q
In Collections
Philadelphia on Stone Digital Catalog
Philadelphia on Stone: Library Company of Philadelphia
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