Franklin Iron Works, Franklin Str. between Second and Front sts. Kensington Philadelphia.
Title
Franklin Iron Works, Franklin Str. between Second and Front sts. Kensington Philadelphia J. T. Sutton & Co. take this method of informing their friends and the public that they have been making an extensive addition to their foundry, and are now prepared to make any sized casting that may be called for. They have also increased their already large stock of tools by an addition of several planning machines, lathes, and an upright boring mill and can bore the largest size low and high pressure steam and blowing cylinders with it, that may be offered
Description
Advertisement for the iron foundry established at the 100 block of Franklin Street in 1841. Shows an exterior view of the foundry complex adorned with the company sign "Franklin Iron Works. J. T. Sutton & Co. Iron Foundry, Steam Engines, Boilers & Machinery Of All Descriptions." Cylinders, shafts, and wheels lay on the sidewalk in front of the building. Workers are visible at many of the numerous entranceways, hoisting, talking with company officers, and spotting machinery. At the corner, two gentlemen converse as a driver via a three-horse team cart transports a large cylinder in which he stands. Smoke rises from three smokestacks. Below the main image, a Corinthian frame for a steam engine adorned with the makers plate "J. T. Sutton & Co. Makers. Kensington. Phila" is depicted. Also contains several additional lines of advertising text noting that the firm continues to manufacture steam engines and boilers in addition to machinery for mills and cotton processing; the excellence of their patterns, blacksmith's work, and lathes and tools; and the accuracy, efficiency, and reasonableness in dispatching orders from the concentration of the "subscribers who are all practical mechanics of the different branches of the business.", Philadelphia on Stone, POS 276, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 35 S 967
Date
[ca. 1842]
Location
Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 35 S 967