Details
Creator Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist.
Contributor P.S. Duval & Son, printer.
Title West Philadelphia Manufacturing Cos. Starch & Farina Works. Chestnut & Bridgewater Streets, Philadelphia. Refined pearl starch & corn farina. [graphic] / James Queen.
Publisher Philadelphia : P.S. Duval & Son
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1858
Date ca. 1858
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph, color ; approximately 36.8 x 25.4 cm. (14.5 x 10 in.)
Description Shows the bustling industrial starch and farina works at the corner of Chestnut and Bridgewater Streets (ie. Chestnut and Thirtieth Streets) looking northeast toward the Schuylkill River. Laborers direct horse-drawn drays and wagons to and from factory buildings and railroad cars. Scene includes a man on horseback riding toward the factory buildings, a laborer standing in the foreground near the tracks, smoke rising from several chimneys in the complex, the Market Street Bridge crossing the Schuylkill River in the distance, and the outline of Philadelphia Gas Works gasholders immediately east of the bridge.
Is referenced by Wainwright 445.1
Notes Philadelphia on Stone
POS 826.1
Library of Congress: PGA - Queen (J.) -- West Philadelphia Manufactoring (B size)
Subject West Philadelphia Manufacturing Company.
Philadelphia Gas Works.
Starch industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Laborers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carts & wagons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Railroad cars -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Gas industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Public utility companies -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject West Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Market Street Permanent Bridge (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Genre Lithographs -- Color -- 1850-1860.
Location Library of Congress| Prints and Photographs Division | LOC PGA - Queen (J.) -- West Philadelphia Manufactoring (B size) [P&P]