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Creator Rease, W.H.
Title Penn Steam Engine & Boiler Works foot of Palmer Street Kensington Philadelphia. [graphic] : Neafie & Levy, engineers, machinists, boiler makers, black smiths & founders. Manufacturers of high & low pressure marine & stationery engines, boilers of all descriptions, propellers, iron boats, water tanks, heavy & light forgings, iron & brass castings, coppersmithing, pattern making, & an extensive assortment of all patterns of all kinds on hand. Having extensive wharf & dockroom are always prepared to build and repair engines & steamers at the shortest notice. Every facility offered for lifting heavy & light weights. Jacob G. Neafie. John P. Levy.
Publisher Philadelphia: W. H. Rease
Date [ca. 1861]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, tinted with one stone; 61 x 88 cm.(24 x 35 in.)
Description Advertisement showing several marine vessels docked in front of the engine & boiler works complex at the busy river front. Complex contains several buildings, including a "boiler works," "steam works," an "office," "ship house," and "smith shop." One of the buildings contains a weather vane adorned by the figure of William Penn. Teams of several horses haul materials on trucks past the boiler and steam works. Laborers, including men attending to a massive pipe in a yard lined with steam engines and other machinery, work on the docks, piers, and boats at the complex. Docked vessels include the tug boat "Columbia," paddleboats, barges, a sailboat, and other tugs. Also contains a vignette of a paddleboat and a sailing ship on each side of the title. 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 273
Notes Philadelphia on Stone
Atwater Kent Museum: 41.31.1/2
Subject Neafie & Levy Ship & Engine Building Co.
Machinery industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Boat & ship industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Piers & wharves -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Vessels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Kensington (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1860-1870.
Advertisements -- 1860-1870.
Location Atwater Kent Museum| Print Department AKM| AKM 41.31.1/2