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- Title
- To captains and ship owners. Kensington Screw Dock, Penn Street above Maiden, Philadelphia The above establishment has been recently refitted and is now in perfect order for the raising of sailing vessels or propellers, having been in successful operation since 1830, without a single mishap, it is with renewed confidence that proprietors ask for a continuation of patronage heretofore enjoyed. Vessels sail or float into the dock and are raised without strain on any one part. Bilge blocks being worked in such a manner as to take the vessel in her natural shape. The dock is located in the most enterprising part of the town, in the immediate neighborhood of the largest ship yards, black smith shops, mast yards, riggers, block makers, plumbers, painters, &c. &c. with ample depth of water at the wharves for the largest vessels. Watchman always on the premises, also a fire plug on the premises with Schuylkill water with over 300 ft. hose, & can be reached by Glenat's Second Street Omnibusses [sic] at any time during the day. There is also an oil factory & alcohol distillery adjoining the premises, also sheds for the storage of goods. For terms apply on the premises to Alex. H. Campbell, proprietor
- Description
- Advertisement showing the dry dock along a tumultuous Delaware River. Shipwrights work on the hull of a ship raised in the dry dock in front of the firm's building adorned with signage "Kensington Screw Dock." At the wharf of the dry dock, horse-drawn drays travel past the neighboring oil manufactory and distillery and a captain, with a dog, leans on a hitching post to which a tugboat is tied. In the rough water of the river, skiffs, sailboats, and a rowboat navigate the choppy waves. Also shows surrounding boathouses, wharves, and buildings lining the riverfront., Philadelphia on Stone, Atwater Kent Museum: 54.78.1/2
- Creator
- Schell, Francis H., 1834-1909, artist
- Date
- [ca. 1855]
- Location
- Atwater Kent Museum | Print Department AKM AKM 54.78.1/2
- Title
- Rowley, Ashburner & Co.'s oil, alcohol, fluid & pine oil works Rowley, Ashburner & Co., manufacturers, Kensington screw dock, Penn Street above Maiden, Philadelphia. Store, No. 14 North Wharves, Philadelphia. Have constantly on hand, and for sale, at lowest market prices in bbls. and half bbls. alcohol, all qualities, burning fluid, pine oil, or camphene, rice in tierces and half ditto, spirits turpentine, soapmakers' rosin nos. 1, 2 & 3. common shipping rosin, tar, pitch and varnish, sperm oil, lard oil, elephant oil, whale oil, tanners' oil, linseed oil, machinery oil, refined paint oil, common greaing oil, extra refined winter machinery oil, winter, spring and summer strained in any size, refined winter greasing oil, refined black greasing oil, do do grease, no. 1 ship varnish
- Description
- Advertisement showing the Kensington Screw Dock on North Penn Street above Maiden (ie. Laurel) Street from the tumultuous Delaware River. Three small sailboats navigate the water in the foreground, while shipwrights work on the hull of a square-rigged ship raised in the dry dock in front of the firm's building. At the wharf, horse-drawn drays travel past the neighboring oil manufactory and distillery and a captain, with a dog, leans on a hitching post to which a tugboat is tied. In the rough water of the river, skiffs, sailboats, and a rowboat navigate the choppy waves. Also shows surrounding boathouses, wharves, and buildings lining the riverfront. Edward Rowley, Algernon Ashburner, and George B. Keen purchased the screw dock in 1850., Date supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 662, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H., lithographer
- Date
- [ca. 1855]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W321 [P.2256]
- Title
- Sectional floating dry dock. J. Simpson & Neill ship wrights & proprietors Christian Street Philadelphia
- Description
- Advertisement showing the floating dry dock near the Delaware riverfront in South Philadelphia surrounded by marine traffic. The floating dock supports a three-masted square rigged ship under which laborers work on its base. Behind the floating dock, the frame of a ship is under construction near a large vessel at dry dock. In the foreground, a fishing boat being rowed by a four-man crew and carrying a bundled fishing net sails near two other row boats, one adorned with an American flag. Also shows a tug boat and ferry boat sailing on opposite sides of the floating dock. Masts of docked vessels, dock houses, wharves, and buildings, line the riverfront in the background. Also shows Sparks shot tower (Carpenter Street near Second Street)., Inscribed on image: Messenger., Philadelphia on Stone, Atwater Kent Museum: 52.1.1/2, In manuscript over ship: Messenger
- Creator
- Rease & Schell, artist
- Date
- [ca. 1860]
- Location
- Atwater Kent Museum | Print Department AKM AKM 52.1.1/2
- Title
- Penn Steam Engine & Boiler Works foot of Palmer Street Kensington Philadelphia 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
- 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., Philadelphia on Stone, Atwater Kent Museum: 41.31.1/2
- Creator
- Rease, W.H
- Date
- [ca. 1861]
- Location
- Atwater Kent Museum | Print Department AKM AKM 41.31.1/2