Details
Creator Boell, William.
Title Bridesburg Manufacturing Company. [graphic] / Boell sc.
Publisher Philadelphia : Lith. of W. Boell, 312 & 314 Walnut St
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1867
Date 1867
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph, tinted with two stones ; 13 x 19 cm. (5 x 7.5 in.)
Description Frontispiece illustration depicting the square, industrial complex of the textile machinery manufacturing company on Richmond Street between Walnut and Locust Streets from the Delaware River. View includes a steamboat traveling north on the Delaware River, a docked sailboat, and laborers and horse-drawn carts and drays near the entrance of the complex. Company originally established circa 1819 by Alfred Jenks as Bridesburg Macine Works. Facility was enlarged in 1853, manufactured arms during the Civil War, and returned to manufacturing textile machinery after the Civil War.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Published in Bridesburg Manufacturing Company's Descriptive catalogue of machines built by the Bridesburg Manufacturing Company (Bridesburg, Pa., 1867), frontispiece.
Catalogue includes fifty-eight lithographs by W. Boell depicting machinery manufactured by the company "to convey to them [patrons] an idea of the innumerable improvements we have made within a few years past, upon the machinery used for carding, spinning, and weaving Cotton and Wool."
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 62
Subject Bridesburg Manufacturing Company.
Textile machinery industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Machine shops -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Laborers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carts & wagons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Steamboats -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Bridesburg (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Delaware River (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)
Richmond Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- East side.
Genre Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1860-1870.
Frontispieces -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts| Rare| Am 1867 Brides 106980.D.frontispiece
Accession number 106980.D.frontispiece