Advertisement showing the works of the silver lead mining company chartered in October 1850. Includes the engine shaft, smelting furnace, storage shed, and probably the paymaster's office. Laborers operate shaft machinery, push wheel barrows, transport ore by horse-drawn wagons, and pick at a large rock. Also shows a reservoir pool in the background and two laborers at rest, shovels in hand, seated on a tree trunk near a wheelbarrow in the foreground., Inscribed on recto: Chester Mining Co., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 30, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 36 C 525, Lower right corner missing.
Creator
Croome, William, 1790-1860, artist
Date
[ca. 1851]
Location
Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 36 C 525
