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Hoopes & Townsend. Manufacturers. Buttonwood Street, below Broad Philadelphia, Pa. [graphic].
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Contributor
Easton, Alexander, printer.
Title
Hoopes & Townsend. Manufacturers. Buttonwood Street, below Broad Philadelphia, Pa. [graphic].
Publisher
Philadelphia: A. Easton lith. 407 Walnut St. Philada
Date
[1868]
Physical Description
1 print: lithograph.
Description
Advertisement utilizing a trompe l'oeil motif to promote the bolt works manufactory at 1330 Buttonwood Street. Shows, from the perspective of looking down, a variety of several types of nuts and bolts, including a "bridge bolt" laid out on a flat surface. Hoopes & Townsend was founded by Barton and Edward Hoopes and S. Sharpless Townsend in 1849 in Wilmington, Delaware. The factory relocated to the Philadelphia address in 1852.
Notes
Date from manuscript note on recto: No 1097. Filed Nov. 30 1868. Hoopes & Townsend.
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Library of Congress: PGA - Easton--Hoopes & Townsend, manufacturers... (C size) [P&P]
Easton was a Philadelphia civil engineer and printer of lithographs.
Subject
Hoopes & Townsend.
Bolts and nuts industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Bolts & nuts -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Trompe l'oeil prints -- 1860-1870.
Genre
Lithographs -- 1860-1870.
Advertisements -- 1860-1870.
Location
Library of Congress| Prints and Photographs Division | LOC PGA - Easton--Hoopes & Townsend, manufacturers...
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