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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: An east prospect of the city of Philadelphia taken by George Heap from the Jersey shore, under the direction of Nicholas Scull surveyor general of the province of Pennsylvania
Description: Anniversary reproduction of the contracted Scull & Heap panoramic cityscape view originally published by London engraver Thomas Jeffreys in 1756 showing Philadelphia from across the Delaware River. Depicts the riverfront (South to Vine streets) developed with residential and mercantile buildings, piers and wharves, and major landmarks. Landmarks (numbered in the print) include Christ Church, the State House, Presbyterian Church, Dutch Calvinist Church, the Court House, Quaker Meeting House, High Street Wharf, Mulberry, Sassafrass, Vine and Chestnut streets, the drawbridge, and "cornmill" on Windmill Island. Pedestrian traffic is visible along the riverfront and heavy maritime traffic, including a ferry transporting cattle to New Jersey, dominates the foreground. Also contains insets of "The Battery" (built 1747 at the foot of Wharton Street), "The State House," and "A Plan of the City of Philadelphia" (street grid); "A description of the situation, harbour &c of the city and port of Philadelphia" with a legend corresponding to the numbered landmarks; and text and charts explicating "Philadelphia in 1854" that expand upon the original description. The descriptions detail the topography of the city and include statistics about population (1683-1850) and exports in addition to statements about the improvement of manufacturing and industry, particularly the railroads, in the city during the 19th century., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 198, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 864 H 4345, One of the three prints is varnished.
Creator: Sherwin, John H., b. 1834, artist
Date: [1854]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 864 H 4345

Title: The sea and the ships
Description: Plate from a children's moral instruction book showing a busy wharf, probably on the Delaware River, where laborers use pulleys and ramps to unload boxes, hogsheads, casks, and chests from a recently docked ship. A horse is attached to a pulley and is guided by a laborer to unload these items. Also shows three men weighing barrels on the ground and two men moving long poles or planks of wood under the gaze of a man with a shovel who leans against a post in the right foreground. Another vessel moves along the river in the background., Published as illustration on page 31 in Common Sights in Town & Country Delineated & Described for Young Children (Philadelphia: American Sunday School Union, ca. 1855)., Accompanied by text titled "The sea and the ship" praising the vast and various business done by ships, and the skill and talent of the men involved, as these activities are made possible by "Him who formed all the Oceans"., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 685, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bd 61 K 8341.31, Library of Congress: Marian S. Carson Collection
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813
Date: ca. 1855
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bd 61 K 8341.31

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