Image of an elevated landscape view of the Mount Joy Car Manufacturing Company factory complex in the borough of Mount Joy in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, with the main building labeled "Mount Joy Car Manufactory," smokestacks, laborers, a railroad train in the left background, and pedestrians and horse-drawn vehicles in the street in the foreground. Probable date based on printer and artist history; Jacob Stauffer lived in Mount Joy from 1839 until 1858; Augustus Kollner began working on his own as a printer in 1851. "J. Stauffer del."--text, bottom left margin. "Lithy. of A. Kollner, Phila."--text, bottom right margin. "Manufacturers of / Steam Engines, Rail Road Cars, Thrashing Machines, / Castings and Machinery in General. / Located in the Borough of Mount Joy, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania."--text, bottom margin.
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image
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1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 33.97 x 40.32 cm (13 3/8 x 15 7/8 in.)
Mount Joy (Lancaster County, Pa.)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works Advertising--Railroads Industrial buildings--Pictorial works Machinery industry--Pictorial works Railroad cars--Design and construction Mount Joy Car Manufacturing Company Lithographs--Color--1850-1875. (gmgpc) Views. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Transportation Large Size Railroad The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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