Image of an eye-level landscape view of the A. Whitney & Sons Car Wheel Works factory building and smokestacks in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with an empty street in the foreground except for a few pedestrians, in the upper half of the sheet; the lower half of the sheet contains an image of an elevation view of the side of a steam locomotive, with a 4-4-0 wheel arrangement and tender, showing a cross section of a railway turntable underneath the tracks with promotional text for William Sellers & Co.; the verso contains a page of printed text titled "The State of Rhode Island." Probable date based on references in printed text on item verso to statistics as of 1850. "J. Mc Goffin Eng."--text, bottom center margin of top image. "A. Whitney & Sons / car wheel works / corner of 16th and Callowhill Streets Philadelphia Penn." "William Sellers & Co., / Sixteenth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, Philadelphia, / manufacture railway, turning & sliding tables & pivot bridges ... " "22"--text, bottom center margin.
Type
image
Extent
1 engraving : uncolored ; overall 46.99 x 40.48 cm (18 1/2 x 15 15/16 in.)
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works Advertising--Railroads Industrial buildings--Pictorial works Locomotives--Design and construction--Pictorial works Railroad cars--Wheels Railroads--Pictorial works Rhode Island--Description and travel A. Whitney & Sons Car Wheel Works William Sellers & Co. (Philadelphia, Pa.) Intaglio prints--1850-1875. (gmgpc) Book illustrations. (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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