Vignette view clipped from an advertisement showing the interior of the coach and carriage factory on the 800 block of North Sixth Street. Shows several smiths at work stations divided by brick partitions with forges lining the wall. The workers use anvils, hammers, and bellows. Also shows a foreman and well-dressed gentleman conversing in the corner, wagon wheels mounted on a wall, and carriage frames in different stages of completion on the floor., Date from Poulson inscription on companion print showing the exterior of the smith shop titled, partially in manuscript,"Wm. D. Rogers Coach and light Carriage Factory.", Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Byram, Joseph H., engraver
Date
Oct. 1856
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Poulson scrapbooks - vol. 8 [(8)2526.F.12]
Advertisement showing the two-story factory adorned with signage on the 800 block of North Sixth Street near Spring Garden. A boy pulls a carriage out of one of the two entries to the building (Sixth Street) as patrons inspect a different model of coach being pushed out by a factory worker at the other. A family walks between the coaches and other carriages are visible inside. Around the corner (Brown Street), on the sidewalk, two gentlemen converse and a couple peers into a factory window. Near the rear of the factory, a laborer transports a sack on his back near a strolling couple past a hackney displayed on a one-story addition. In the street, a driver tries to reign in his speeding carriage occupied by a couple that is being chased by a barking dog as a boy works on the wheel of a factory carriage nearby. A pedestrian watches the scene from the corner. Also shows hitching posts lining the sidewalks and a smaller factory with several smokestacks in the right background. Rogers operated from the site 1846-1854., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: 1847. Corner Sixth & Brown Sts., Wainwright suggests date of circa 1850., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 856, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Trimmed.
Creator
Hoffy, Alfred M., b. ca. 1790, artist
Date
[1847]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W465 [P.2247]
