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A. Whitney & Sons’ Car Wheel Works, Callow Hill, 16th to 17th Streets, Philadelphia, Penna

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Title: A. Whitney & Sons’ Car Wheel Works, Callow Hill, 16th to 17th Streets, Philadelphia, Penna
Creator: Sartain, Samuel, 1830-1906, artist
J.H. Colton & Co., publisher
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Freedman, Joe, former owner
Date Created and/or Issued: 1852
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Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of an elevated landscape view of the A. Whitney & Sons Car Wheel Works factory buildings and smokestacks in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with pedestrians and horse-drawn vehicles in the foreground.
Probable date and publisher based on publication of image in Colton, George W. Colton's Advertising Atlas of America (New York: J.H. Colton and Company, 1857) "Drawn & Engraved by Samuel Sartain, Philadelphia."--text, bottom center margin.
Type: image
Extent: 1 engraving : uncolored ; overall 40.01 x 47.31 cm (15 3/4 x 18 5/8 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_TRAN_000656
408023
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/1473
Language: English
Subject: Philadelphia (Pa.)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works
Advertising--Railroads
Industrial buildings--Pictorial works
Railroad cars--Design and construction
Railroad cars--Wheels
A. Whitney & Sons Car Wheel Works
Intaglio prints--1850-1875. (gmgpc)
Book illustrations. (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
Relation: priJLC_TRAN_001117

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