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Title: Fairmount Machine Works, office, 2106 Wood Street, Philadelphia, Penna Thomas Wood, manufactures as specialties, power looms, with improved box and pattern machines. Bobbin winding, spooling, beaming, dye & sizing machines. Self-acting wool scouring machines (Yewdall's patent.) Improved power hoisting machines, lard and paraffine [sic] oil presses. Wall paper machinery, such as grounding, clay and color mixing machines, paper rolling and bundling machines
Description: Advertisement for the machine manufacturer containing a series of vignettes and descriptions of company products. Shows power looms; a "dye frame for dying six warps"; a "30 spindle bobbin winding machine"; "vertical cone & cradle indigo mills, for crushing indigo, etc."; "new style' beaming machines"; and couplings, post hangers, pulleys, and a pillow block. Also contains a chart of "Change Pinions for Regulating the number of Picks on Goods, with Positive Take-up Motion" and advertising text about shafting, gearing, and pulleys. Fairmount Machine Works was established in 1839 by John and Thomas Wood as a manufactory of power looms and other textile machinery., Various artists including Rea & Sharp, Klein, and Longacre Co., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 233
Creator: Longacre & Co.
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Industries - F [P.2004.43]

Title: Mount Joy Car Manufacturing Co Manufacturers of steam_engines, rail_road_cars, thrashing_machines, castings and machinery in general. Located in the borough of Mount Joy, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Description: Advertisement showing the busy factory complex of several red brick buildings, including one with signage reading "Mount Joy Car Manufactory." Laborers load wagons with machinery parts; haul crates by hand, cart, and truck; unload coal; and move wood slabs. At the opposite corner to the factory, near a fenced lot, a woman with her excited son, watch the two agitated horses of a buggy passing them near a couple and a man on horseback in the street. Also shows a train traveling behind the factory in the background., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 489, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 35 M 928, Mifflin Fund. February 5, 1958.
Creator: Stauffer, Jacob, b. 1808, artist
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 35 M 928

Title: Alfred Jenks & Son's machine works, Bridesburg
Description: Advertisement showing the busy industrial complex established circa 1819 by Alfred Jenks and enlarged in 1853 on the east side of Richmond Street between Franklin & Locust streets in Bridesburg. A horse-drawn flatbed truck enters the courtyard of the U-shaped complex containing several buildings that are surrounded by wood fencing. Within the yard, clusters of workers transport boxes and planks of wood by hand near an unhitched wagon surrounded by crates. A carriage with driver waits near a smaller building, landscaped with trees and attached to one of the large workshops. Outside the complex, a driver handles a four-horse team plodding to pull a truck loaded with two large machines as other factory workers transport planks, carry crates, mill about with their tools, drive a dray, and stand at a shed facing the street. Also shows two gentlemen talking to a worker in the middle of the roadway, a worker carrying a box near abandoned carts in an adjacent courtyard, and several working smokestacks on the roofs of the works., Illustration in Edwin T. Freedley's Philadelphia and its Manufactures (Philadelphia: Edward Young, 333 Walnut Street, 1858), opposite page 301., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 13.2, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Am 1858 Fre 67170.D., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Atwater Kent Museum: 40.79.3/2
Date: 1857
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W33.2 [Am 1858 Fre 67170.D.301a]

Title: Bridesburg Machine Works. Alfred Jenks & Son, manufacturers of cotton and wool carding spinning and weaving machinery, shafting and millgearing, Bridesburg post office Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement showing the busy industrial complex established circa 1819 by Alfred Jenks and enlarged in 1853 on the east side of Richmond Street between Franklin & Locust streets in Bridesburg. A horse-drawn flatbed truck enters the courtyard of the U-shaped complex containing several buildings that are surrounded by wood fencing. Within the yard, clusters of workers transport boxes and planks of wood by hand near an unhitched wagon surrounded by crates. A carriage with driver waits near a smaller building, landscaped with trees and attached to one of the large workshops. Outside the complex, a driver handles a four-horse team plodding to pull a truck loaded with two large machines as other factory workers transport planks, carry crates, mill about with their tools, drive a dray, and stand at a shed facing the street. Also shows two gentlemen talking to a worker in the middle of the roadway, a worker carrying a box near abandoned carts in an adjacent courtyard, and several working smokestacks on the roofs of the works. Six vignettes of different types of textile machinery illustrate the side borders. Includes a single breaker card, loom, cotton card, railway drawing head, and ring frame thostle., Published in Colton's atlas of America, illustrating the physical and political geography of North and South America... Commercial edition with business cards of prominent houses in Philadelphia. (New York: J.H. Colton and Company, 1856), page 79. (HSP O 458)., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 13.1, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc35 B851., Free Library of Philadelphia: Oversize Philadelphiana - Factories and Foundries (A-M)., Reduced variant printed in 1857 by Frederick Bourquin & Co. published in Edwin T. Freedley's Philadelphia and its manufacturers ... in 1857 (Philadelphia, 1859), p. 301.
Creator: Beaulieu, Emile F., artist
Date: [1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W33.1 [P.2020]

Title: Agricultural Implement Manufactory. Heebner & Sons. Lansdale, Montgomery Co. PA
Description: Exterior view showing the three-and-half story brick building "salesroom" and adjacent foundry. A clerk stands near the salesroom entrance in front of which three tractors are displayed in the yard. To the right a train stands on the tracks of the newly constructed North Pennsylvania branch of the Reading Railroad. Also shows a passing horse-drawn carriage. Founded in 1840 by David S. Heebner, the firm moved to Lansdale from Worcester Township in 1872., Similar view published in J.D. Scott's Combination atlas map of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: J.D. Scott, 1877), p. 64., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 6
Date: [ca. 1877]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Industries [6663.F]

Title: [Knight's patent paper machine, manufactory. A.L. Knight & Co.]
Description: Exterior view of the three-story paper machine manufactory on Fifteenth and Willow Streets. Signage on the side of the building sprawls across ten bays of windows and reads, "Knight's patent paper machine, manufactory," and a smaller sign above the entrance reads, "A.L. Knight & Co." Three workers stand at every level as a man prepares a package to be hoisted from the sidewalk into the building. A gentleman stands in the entryway watching the workers, as another guides a horse-drawn cart out of the manufactory's enclosed yard. A person seated and writing is visible through the first floor window. Includes a partial view of industrial buildings in the background. A.L. Knight & Co. was in business from 1843 to 1850., Title of lithographic image supplied by cataloger., Contains overprinted letterpress title in red ink surrounded by a blue border: "The subscriber's respectfully inform paper manufacturers that they still continue to make Knight's patent paper machinery together with all kinds of machinery connected with paper making, as rag cutters, cutting presses, forcing pumps and lifting pumps, stamping machines, calendars for writing paper, making cylinders, &c. &c. Knight's patent dryers, are acknowledged by persons having them in operation, to be superior to any other kind now in use. They do not require more than one-third of the fuel required by any other dryers, and give a surface to the paper that cannot be paralleled by any principle or plan of dryers yet discovered. These dryers were invented and patented several years since, and are now in operation in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio, Kentucky and New Jersey. The subscribers are also prepared to erect paper mills, by the day or contract, the millwright work of which will be under the superintendence of Wm. Knight, a practical millwright of thirty year's experience--mill's located, and sites selected for person's desirous of building.", "The subscribers have in connection with their machine shop, an iron foundry, in which they are prepared to execute castings of various descriptions, with neatness and despatch. All orders promptly attended to, and all work warranted to give satisfaction. A.L. Knight & Co. Shop--Schuylkill Eighth St., opposite the Columbia Rail Road, Philadelphia. Caution--Manufacturers are informed that all driers made to dry and press simultaneously, are upon the principle of Knight's patent, and all persons who make or use such, will be dealt with according to law.", Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Aug. 1847., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 424, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Date: [August 1847]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W214 [P.2137]

Title: Steam engine with 9 in. cyl. 18 in. stroke by J.T. Sutton & Co., Franklin Iron Works, Kensington, Philadelphia. U.S Buildt [sic] for U. States Arsenal, Frankford, Pa
Description: Three views showing the steam engine, including wheel, pistons, and gears, from different angles. Engine shown as mounted on marble stones., Frontispiece for Oliver Byrne's The American engineer, draftsman, and machinist's assistant: Designed for practical workingmen, apprentices, and those intended for the engineering profession. Illustrated with two hundred engravings on wood and fourteen large engraved lithographic plates of recently constructed American machinery and engine work. (Philadelphia: C.A. Brown and Company, N.W. corner of Fourth and Arch Streets, 1853). (LCP *Am 1853 Byrne (13495.Q)), Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 241, Gift of the Kean Archives.
Date: [1853]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Industry [P.9433]

Title: Raising the stand pipe for the Germantown Water Works. Birkinbine & Trotter, engineers
Description: View showing the engineering crew using a windlass to raise the standpipe in a large field at the corner of Tulpehocken Street and Wayne Avenue on August 13, 1851. Several men work large cranks, in the foreground and background, as others guide the lifting, including a man elevated on a section of the hoisting apparatus. In the right, the foreman talks to two men in white coats, probably the engineers, while another group of well-dressed men converse to the left near a small crowd of spectators. Two workers carry pulley ropes while they walk toward the lass. Another laborer grabs a bucket with one hand as he holds the unwinding rope of one of the cranks with the other. Pasture land is visible in the background. The Germantown Water Company delivered water from the location 1851-1872. The standpipe was sold in 1873 and demolished., Philadelphia on Stone, Atwater Kent Museum: 54.64.3, Trotter was a cousin of Edward H. Trotter, one of the partners of Birkinbine & Trotter.
Creator: Rease & Schell, lithographer
Date: ca. 1855
Location: Atwater Kent Museum | Print Department AKM AKM 54.64.3

Title: Merrick & Sons iron founders, boiler makers & machinists. Washington Ave. & Fifth Street, Philadelphia Established 1836. Manufacturers of marine steam engines, light houses, sugar machinery & gas works, nasmyth & condie steam hammers. Machinery of all kinds. Aspinwall & Woolseys sugar draining centrifugals. See Agents for Rillieux Sugar Boiling Apparatus
Description: Civil war-era advertisement containing seven titled views promoting the manufactory (orginally established in 1836 as a foundry for castings) on the 400 block of Washington Avenue. Central view shows the "Front View" of the foundry. Soldiers march in front of the "Southwark Foundry" building that is adorned with signage advertising "Merrick & Sons Engineers & Machinests." An omnibus stops near the foundry to allow the passing of troops who are greeted by a small group of women. In the foreground, a six-horse team truck transports a large pipe, as behind it, a truck without a load follows. A family waits to cross the street because of the trucks. Also shows a rail truck loaded with barrels and large cylinders parked in front of the loading bay of the factory. Across the street men inspect large pipes on blocks in the left of the image. Scenes above the central view show "Steamer Keystone State at Reed St. Wharf"; a rowboat of men in the waters in front of the "U.S. Steamers Ironsides (Armored) Mississippi & Tuscaroroa off Fortress Monroe"; a man leading an 8-horse team pulling a "Bedplate for Monongahela" past a workshop., Views at the bottom of the print show the "Interior of the Boiler Shop" with laborers working around a large crane and elevated walkways as they hammer large metal forms; the "Steamer Quaker City off 'Sombrero Key.' Light House" tilting in rough waters; and the "Interior of the 'Old Foundry' " with workers at their tasks around a large crane and surrounded by machine parts. Merrick & Sons, a premier iron foundry, constructed almost all the machinery for U.S. Navy steamers during the war, as well as the New Ironsides, the first U.S. armor-clad war vessel. The firm was also the exclusive maker of the N. Rillieux patent sugar boiler apparatus and Nasmyth steam hammers., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 477, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 35 M 551, Lower right corner missing.
Creator: Rease, W. H.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 35 M 551

Title: Murphy & Allison Car builders. 1908 Market Street, Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement showing the busy "Car Factory & Bolt Nut & Washer Works," of John Murphy and J. C. Allison, also proprietors of the Girard Tube Works, who established a partnership in 1851 at 1908 Market Street. A completed rail car and a horse-drawn double decker omnibus depart from the sign-covered factory and "Office of the Girard Tube Works." A worker labors on a rail car in an upper window, a man on horseback stops near the entrance to the "Blacksmith Shop," and clusters of pedestrians walk in front of the works. A small crowd flanks the omnibus that is adorned with illustrations of rail cars as it leaves the factory bay. In the foreground, men and boys, across from two men shaking hands, inspect an ornately painted "City Passenger R.R." car on display in the street in front of the factory. Nearby, a boy admires an elegantly dressed lady while a newsboy hawks a paper to a gentleman on promenade with two ladies who pass a woman, possibly attired in mourning garb. Murphy & Allison assumed proprietorship of Girard Tube Works, manufacturer of wrought iron gas tubes, in 1856 and began construction of cars for the City Passenger Railways circa 1857. The firm made several improvements to the cars including adding more head room and lamps to the center of car roofs and in front of the overshoots., Not in Wainwright., Annotated in stenciled letters below title: DESTROYED BY FIRE SATURDAY MAY 3. 1863 AT 3-AM., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 494, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 35 M 978, Label pasted on verso: Purchased at auction from Freemans May 20, 1959 Library Fund., Rease, a prolific lithographer of advertising prints, relocated his studio to 4th and Chestnut in 1857.
Creator: Rease, W. H.
Date: [ca. 1857]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 35 M 978

Title: Iron Manufacture : boilers, steam engines, hydraulic pumps Port Richmond Iron Works Philadelphia. I.P. Morris & Co. Iron founders, steam engine builders, general machinists, and boiler makers. : Southwark Foundry, cor. 5th & Washington St. Philadelphia. Merrick & Sons, engineers & machinists. : Camden Iron Manufacturing Company. Engineers, machinists, iron founders & boiler makers. Kaighn's Point, Camden, N.J. Agency: n.w. cor, of Front & Walnut sts., Philadephia
Description: Atlas advertisement containing exterior views of the two Philadelphia and the Camden foundries. Views contain promotional text about the products manufactured, the names of the proprietors, and the dates of establishment of two of the firms. Views include maritime traffic, horse-drawn trucks hauling machinery, and operating smokestacks. Machinery advertised includes pumping, hoisting, and stationery engines; sugar mills; iron boats; and bon black washers and bruisers. The Morris foundry was established in 1828 and the Merrick foundry was established in 1836. Atlas entry for "The State of Connecticut" printed on the verso., Published in Colton’s atlas of America, illustrating the physical and political geography of North and South America... Commercial edition with business cards of prominent houses in Philadelphia. (New York: J.H. Colton and Company, 1856), page 23. (HSP O 458)., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 392
Date: [1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Industries - Morris [P.2007.22]

Title: Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society [certificate]
Description: Diploma depicting six vignettes and graphic elements symbolizing agriculture and horticulture separated into distinct scenes by borders designed as trees and foliage. At the top, a winged, female allegorical figure, attired in a robe and laurel wreath, sits with her arms outstretched over a shield surmounted by an eagle. She holds a bugle in her left hand and a laurel wreath in her right, and she reaches in the direction of two horses that flank the shield. Images of a railroad locomotive crossing a stone arch bridge (left) and a waterfront industrial complex (right) flank the winged figure. On the sides, scenes depict cattle and sheep grazing, men harvesting a field with a horse-drawn reaper, and a man feeding horses near a large bale of hay. At the bottom, tools and agricultural products surround the society's blind stamp, and include farm produce, scythes, pitchforks and wheelbarrows. The Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society was founded in 1851 by representatives from 50 counties with the object to "foster and improve agriculture, horticulture, and the domestic and household arts." The first annual exhibition of the society was held the same year., Not in Wainwright., Awarded to S.M. Mertzler for display of wines etc. at the exhibition of said society held at Lancaster in 1875, signed D.W. Seiler, secretary, and George Scott, president., Society's blind stamp on recto., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 166, Gift of David Doret., Edward Herline and Howard B. Hamilton, the proprietors of Herline & Co., moved their lithographic operations from 630 Chestnut Street to 39 South Tenth Street in 1871.
Creator: Rosenthal, Max, 1833-1918, artist
Date: [ca. 1871]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Philadelphia certificates - Agriculture [P.2003.37.1]

Title: This diploma was awarded by the Luzerne County Agricultural Society at their [blank] annual fair held at Wyoming [blank] 18[blank]
Description: Diploma containing two vignettes and and a dominant scene symbolizing agriculture separated by borders comprised of sheaves of wheat, a shovel, farm produce, and vinery. In the upper right, vignettes depict a farmer reaping his field with a horse-drawn reaper and an industrial view of a train passing a coal breaker factory across from a coal mine in which horse-drawn coal cars arrive and depart. The dominant scene shows a farm with livestock, including a pig, turkeys, chickens, and ducks milling the grounds near a woman milking a cow while farmhands corral cows out of a yard, transport a wagon of hay from a barn, and plow a field. View also shows horses before a pasture of grazing sheep and other homesteads, the Wyoming Monument (erected in 1833 in memory of victims of the Wyoming Massacre 1778), and treescaped hills in the distance. The Luzerne County Agricultural Society was founded in 1858 by persons interested in farming and gardening with the mission "to foster and improve agriculture, horticulture, and the domestic and household arts." The first annual fair was held in 1859 and stopped after circa 1879 and before 1891., Not in Wainwright., Dilpoma completed in manuscript: This diploma was awarded by the Luzerne County Agricultural Society at their [Thirteenth] Annual Fair held at Wyoming [Sept. 25, 26 & 27] 18[72] To [William H. Shoemaker Esq. of Wyoming] for [best bottle of grape wine]. [Steuben Jenkins], Prest. and [W. H. Jenkins], Secy., Glued onto a modern mat by previous owner., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 287, Steuben Jenkins was a respected lawyer, farmer, historian, and antiquarian of Wyoming County.
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Philadelphia certificates - Agriculture - Luzerne [P.2014.11]

Title: Merrick & Hijo, Succesores De Merrick & Towne, Filadelfia. = Merrick & Son, successors to Merrick & Towne, Philadelphia. = Merrick & Fils, Successeur De Merrick & Towne, Philadelphie Ingernieros y Fabricantes de Maquinas de Vapor, de Calderas, trapiches y de Maquinaria en general. Ellos son tambien agents exclusivos para la fabrica y la venta del martillo patente de vapor de accion de Nasmyth, -y del aparato ò maquina patente de Rillieux para cocer azucar. = Engineers and manufacturers of steam engines and boilers, sugar mills, and machinery in general. They are the exclusive agents for the manufacture and sale of Nasmyth's patent direct-action steam hammer, and for Rillieux’s patent apparatus for the manufacture of sugar. =Ingénieurs et fabricants de machina à vapeur, de chaudières, Moulin à cane at de machines et appareilles en général. Ils sont les agents exclusives pour la fabrique et la vente du marteau a vapeur à action directe (breveté) de Nasmyth,- et pour l’appareil (breveté) de Rillieux pour la fabrication de sucre
Description: Advertisement showing the factory complex between Washington, Federal, Fourth, and Fifth streets for the firm established in 1836 as Merrick & Towne (renamed Merrick & Son in 1849 and Merrick & Sons in 1852). In the right of the image, several laborers remove a pipe through the stable-like doors of a warehouse near which a pile of pipes lies on the sidewalk. A boy, sitting on a hydrant, with a dog watches the scene from the opposite corner. To the rear of the warehouse, a horse-drawn cart filled with coal enters the fenced courtyard. Piles of pipe are visible in the yard and workers are visible at the doorway of the workshop bordering the yard. Past the courtyard, a laborer pushes a hand cart by another workshop. Smokestacks adorn most of the buildings and machine parts and tools line the sidewalk in front of them. In the street, a team of six horses pulls a truck carrying a large pipe. The team driver walks on the sidewalk behind a couple taking a stroll., pdcp00023, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Factories, etc.
Creator: Rease, W.H, artist
Date: 1850
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - Factories, etc. - M

Title: Diploma of the Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society
Description: Fair certificate containing vignettes and scenes related to agriculture, horticulture, and industrial arts. At the top, a female allegorical figure, sits upon a rug-covered throne with her arms outstretched. She is flanked by symbols of agriculture, including wheat, farm produce, and livestock. On the sides, vignettes depict tools and products of the book arts and fine arts, a threshing machine, a steam locomotive, and stems of flowers, and a grape vine. At the bottom, a historical scene of Egyptians slaves, in front of the pyramids and under the view of an overseer, cutting wheat with sickles is contrasted to a farmer harvesting his field with a horse-drawn reaper. The Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society was founded in 1851 by representatives from 50 counties with the object to "foster and improve agriculture, horticulture, and the domestic and household arts." The first annual exhibition of the society was held the same year., Not in Wainwright., Issued to Henry Disston & Sons, Phila. on Sept. 30, 1885 for improved carpenter tools. A. W. Seiler, Secretary. A. Wilhelm, President., Seal of the society with ribbon pasted on the recto., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 56, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Certificates - Pennsylvania State, Inscribed on verso: Wm. D. Disston, Feb. 19, 1956., Left side water stained and torn.
Creator: Faber, Harman, 1832-1913, artist
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Certificates - Pennsylvania State

Title: East Pennsylvania Agricultural & Mechanical Society
Description: Fair certificate containing an ornate border with vignettes, female allegorical figures, and pictorial elements related to agriculture and horticulture. Vignettes show the Pennsylvania coat of arms (surrounded by flags) and montages of scenes of life on a farm. Farm scenes include a farmhouse; barns; a woman milking a cow; a farmhand settling a horse; piglets suckling on their mother; sheep being corralled; a field being cleared; and farmhands loading a wagon full of hay. Allegorical figures hold a sickle, cornucopia of flowers, a basket of fruit, and the head of a ram that lays near other farm animals. Border also includes cherubs, garlands of vines and flowers, fruit bushes, and displays of farm produce. Two bales of wheat clustered with doves, a bee hive, and gardening tools form another pictorial element. The East Pennsylvania Agricultural & Mechanical Society was established in 1860 in Norristown following a split from the Montgomery County Agricultural Society. The society held its first fair in 1861., Not in Wainwright., Issued to Charles P. Peters in 1867 for King of peaches being the best variety on exhibition. Signed Joshua Ashbury, President and A.S. Hallman for Secretary., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 62, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Certificates - East Pennsylvania
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Certificates - East Pennsylvania

Title: Diploma awarded by the Lebanon County Agricultural and Horticultural Society
Description: Fair certificate containing an ornate border with seven vignettes related to agriculture and horticulture. Vignettes show a small herd of sheep; a farmer at his plow; a group of cattle; a town hall; a pair of horses; an iron worker with his assistant at a forge (resembling John Neagle's "Pat Lyon at his Forge"); and a gathering of barn animals. Animals include a pig, chickens, ducks, geese, and a turkey. Border also includes farm produce such as squashes, cherries, grape vines, herbs, and plants in addition to agricultural and farm implements, including a butter churn, rake, hoe, basket, pitcher, pail, sickle, shovel, and an ax. Also contains a vignette showing the coat of arms of Pennsylvania including the banner "Virtue, Liberty and Independence.", Not in Wainwright., Issued October 8, 1858 to Mrs. S. B. Lehman for greatest variety verbena. Sawr. Rightmeyer, Secretary. Simeon Guilford, President., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 54, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 65 D 956
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: [ca. 1858]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 65 D 956

Title: Bridesburg Manufacturing Company
Description: Frontispiece illustration depicting the square, industrial complex of the textile machinery manufacturing company on Richmond Street between Walnut and Locust Streets from the Delaware River. View includes a steamboat traveling north on the Delaware River, a docked sailboat, and laborers and horse-drawn carts and drays near the entrance of the complex. Company originally established circa 1819 by Alfred Jenks as Bridesburg Macine Works. Facility was enlarged in 1853, manufactured arms during the Civil War, and returned to manufacturing textile machinery after the Civil War., Not in Wainwright., Published in Bridesburg Manufacturing Company's Descriptive catalogue of machines built by the Bridesburg Manufacturing Company (Bridesburg, Pa., 1867), frontispiece., Catalogue includes fifty-eight lithographs by W. Boell depicting machinery manufactured by the company "to convey to them [patrons] an idea of the innumerable improvements we have made within a few years past, upon the machinery used for carding, spinning, and weaving Cotton and Wool.", Philadelphia on Stone, POS 62
Creator: Boell, William
Date: 1867
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1867 Brides 106980.D.frontispiece

Title: Diploma awarded by the Farmers & Mechanics Institute of Northampton County Pa. [blank] annual fair at Easton, [blank]. [Blank], Secy. [Blank] Prest
Description: Fair certificate containing an ornate border with seven vignettes related to agriculture and horticulture. Vignettes show a small herd of sheep; an iron worker with his assistant at a forge (resembling John Neagle's "Pat Lyon at his Forge"); a group of cattle; the Easton fairgrounds in front of a municipal building; a pair of horses; a locomotive travelling across a bridge away from a complex of manufactories; and a gathering of barn animals. Animals include a pig, chickens, ducks, geese, and a turkey. Border also includes farm produce such as squashes, cherries, grape vines, herbs, and plants in addition to agricultural and farm implements, including a butter churn, rake, hoe, basket, pitcher, pail, sickle, shovel, and an ax. Also contains a vignette showing the coat of arms of Pennsylvania including the banner "Virtue, Liberty and Independence." The Farmers & Mechanics Institute of Northampton County Pa. formed in 1855 to create a committee to buy land in Easton suitable for fair grounds following the Northampton County Agricultural Society choosing neighboring Nazareth for its permanent fair grounds., Not in Wainwright., Completed in manuscript on September 26, 1856 to Leonard Frankenfield, Bethlehem Twp., Penna. for Best Horse Raker. Signed Geo. W. Yates, Secy. and Sam Yohe, Prest., Caption: From a photograph by Reuben Knecht, Easton, Pa., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 296, Pasted on foam core.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Philadelphia Certificates - Agriculture [P.2019.24.3]

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

Title: Gloucester Iron Works, Gloucester, N.J. on the river Delaware nearly opposite Philadelphia, Pa. David Matthew, superintendent For the manufacture of all kinds of stationary and marine steam engines, high and low pressure, boilers, locomotives, sugar mills, and mill work of every description. Iron and brass casting made at the shortest notice. Having extensive wharf accomodations, every convenience is afforded for the repairs of steam vessels. All orders entrusted to our care will be executed with promptness & in the best manner. C.M. & J.C. Siter
Description: Advertisement containing an exterior view of the works at which laborers work on the grounds and in the many workshops. In the foreground, a laborer shovels coal from a long rectangular bin into one of two wheelbarrows. He works across from crates, a wheel, and other engine parts strewn on the ground. Behind him, workers inspect and haul large pieces of machinery by horse-drawn truck, in addition to push a wheelbarrow, and lead a horse-drawn cart in the direction of a large workshed in the background. Workers are visible toiling at stations inside through the open entry. In the right, other factory employees use a hoist to load a cylinder onto a docked sailing ship. A flat carrying another piece of machinery to be loaded is stationed nearby. In the left of the image, a steam boat moored next to a furnace and piles of wood is visible. Also shows neighboring buildings., Not in Wainwright., Letters of title illustrated with leaf details., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 93
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - industries [P.8970.21]

Title: E.C. Stotsenburg's iron, brass & bell foundry, Wilmington, Delaware, Front & Washington Streets Manufacturer of all kinds of spur & bevel wheel gearing for rolling, grist & saw mills, steam engines &c." Shafting, pullies of all sized, steam pipes for warming factories &c. Water wheel shafts of any length cast on end. Rail road car wheels made to order
Description: Advertisement containing a view of the busy foundry in a trompe l'oeil frame. Shows a gentleman, possibly the proprietor, leaving the door of the office connected to the large workshop in which laborers toil on machine parts. A boy carrying a small part walks toward the gentleman. He passes two men talking at the corner of the small office building near the side of the workshop lined by factory debris. On the sidewalk, laborers finish a large gear propped up on a platform. The men are surrounded by machine parts that lie on the ground and line the outside of another factory building. Nearby, two workers with crowbars and a piece of cylinder await a horse-drawn cart being backed up to the curb by a driver. Also shows a driver leading a horse and ox-drawn wagon hauling a large steam pipe in the street, a locomotive passing between the rear of the factory and fenced pastureland, and a steamboat docked near a hoist on the riverbank in the background. Stotsenburg established his own foundry in 1849 after leaving the partnerhip of Betts & Stotsenburg that began in 1837., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 61
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Industries [P.8970.18]

Title: The Delaware County Society, for the Promotion of Agriculture, Horticulture, Manufactures, and the Mechanic and Household Arts
Description: Fair certificate containing vignettes and scenes related to farming, industry, and domestic work. Predominately contains farm images that show farmers reaping, plowing, and threshing fields, transporting a truck of hay near the coastline, scraping feathers from a goose on a table as a locomotive travels past in the distant background, and a woman milking a cow in the field. Industrial images include women working at sewing machines and operating mechanical looms; a printer at a press; a mill; and a hull of a ship under construction. Vignettes also show farm animals and produce; bakeware, cookware, and other implements to prepare food; and the figure of William Penn., Not in Wainwright., Issued September 1857 to J[ohn?] Davidson for H[orse?] General Scott 2 years old. James Andrews, President. Abram P. Morgan, Secretary., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 49, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 65 D 343, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Societies - Certificates
Date: [ca. 1857]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 65 D 343

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