Details
Creator Fenderich, Charles.
Title Cardington Foundry [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia: Charles Fenderich]
Date [ca. 1833]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph.
Description Proof print for Coleman Sellers & Sons (No. 3 No. 6th Street) billhead containing vignette views of their "Cardington Factory" ironworks built along Cobbs Creek near West Philadelphia in 1828. Vignettes accompanied by caption reading "Iron and brass castings. Mill gearing all kinds of paper making machinery. Hydraulic and Screw Presses. Paper Molds & Cutters. Wood & Cotton Machine Cards & also wirework of all descriptions. The factory made equipment for the textile, paper and locomotive industry before its bankruptcy in 1838.
Is referenced by Parker and Kaplan, Charles Fenderich 59
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Attributed to Charles Fenderich.
Inscribed: Mr. Coleman Sellers & Sons Dr. to F[enderich] for following work. Engraved Bills $2.00; 200 copies [illegible] 2.00; $4.00
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 82
Library of Congress: PGA - Fenderich, no. 59 (A size) [P&P]
Sheet music cover illustrated with a ballroom scene titled "Concordia...Respectuflly dedicated to Miss Fanny Kemble..." and with imprint Chs. Fenderich's Lith Press, No. 21 Callowhill St., Phiada. printed on verso. Scene shows several formally attired couples engaged in a waltz as other attendees socialize, watch the dancing, and attend to a woman who has fainted. Also shows the orchestra playing from a balcony above.
Subject Coleman Sellers & Sons.
Iron foundries -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject West Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Lithographs -- 1830-1840.
Proofs -- 1830-1840.
Billheads -- 1830-1840.
Location Library of Congress| Prints and Photographs Division | LOC PGA - Fenderich, no. 59 (A size) [P&P]