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The North Philadelphia Plank Road Company [stock certificate] [graphic].
Persistent link:
https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/digitool%3A65653
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Contributor
P.S. Duval & Co., printer.
Title
The North Philadelphia Plank Road Company [stock certificate] [graphic].
Publisher
Philadelphia: P.S. Duval & Co.'s Lithy
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1855
Date
[ca. 1855]
Physical Description
1 print: lithograph; 16 x 26 cm. (6.25 x 10 in.)
Description
Stock certificate containing a vignette of a horse-drawn carriage and wagon traveling on a road near a country estate and a pictorial element of "textured" filigree surrounding the incorporation date. Company incorporated 1852 to build a toll road linking South Penn Township and Germantown.
Notes
Issued to Samuel Welsh for ten shares on June 11, 1857. Signed by Jno. Welsh, president; and Jas. Stuber, treasurer.
Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 153
Gift of Mrs. Nicholas B. Wainwright.
Subject
North Philadelphia Plank Road Company.
Plank roads -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Estates.
Horse-drawn vehicles.
Genre
Lithographs -- 1850-1860.
Stock certificates -- 1850-1860.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Philadelphia Certificates - Transportation [P.9408.3]
Accession number
P.9408.3
In Collections
Philadelphia on Stone Digital Catalog
Philadelphia on Stone: Library Company of Philadelphia
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