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- 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
- 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
- Title
- Franklin Iron Works. Sutton & Smith's iron foundry, Franklin Street between Second and Front Streets, Philadelphia
- 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 sign "Sutton & Smith's Iron Foundry." Cylinders, shafts, and wheels lay on the sidewalk in front of the buildings comprising the complex in which laborers work. Smoke rises from smokestacks adorning all the buildings that are adjoined by fencing to courtyards. Workers attend one of two horse-drawn drays on the sidewalk; are visible carrying a pipe in the first-floor entryway of a three-story building; sit and shake hands on a large cylinder; and are visible in other parts of the complex. Sutton and Smith joined in partnership circa 1843., Date from Poulson inscription in ink on recto: Franklin St. bet. 2nd & Front St. Aug. 1847., Wainwright suggests date of circa 1860., Poulson inscription in pencil on recto: J.T. Sutton & Co., Artist's signature lower left corner of stone., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 277, Trimmed., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H., artist
- Date
- [August 1847]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W139 [P.2046]