Bridesburg Machine Works, Alfred Jenks & Sons manufacturers of cotton and wool carding spinning and weaving machinery shafting and millgearing...

Bridesburg Machine Works, Alfred Jenks & Sons manufacturers of cotton and wool carding spinning and weaving machinery shafting and millgearing...

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Title:
Bridesburg Machine Works, Alfred Jenks & Sons manufacturers of cotton and wool carding spinning and weaving machinery shafting and millgearing...
Description:
Bridesburg Machine Works, Alfred Jenks & Son, Manufacturers of cotton and wool carding spinning and weaving machinery, Shafting and millgearing. Bridesburg post office Philadelphia. From Nature & on stone by E. Beaulieu 99 Walnut St. Phila. Printed by Herline & Co. 2 Nth 6th St. Phila. Lithograph, [185-?]. Hand-colored view of works exterior, bordered with six examples of their machines in b/w: wool picker; first or second breaker wool card; loom (no. 25); cotton card (no. 50); railway drawing head; ring spinning frame (no. 64). See Jenks Trade Catalogue, 1853. 75.5 x 47 cm. (OCLC)
Printer:
Herline & Co.
Date:
[1850?–1859?]
Format:
Prints
Genre:
Lithographs
Location:
American Textile History Museum
Collection (local):
Osborne Library
Subjects:
Textile factories
Textile machinery
Textile industry
Bridesburg Machine Works
Alfred Jenks & Son
Places:
Pennsylvania > Philadelphia (county) > Philadelphia > Bridesburg
Extent:
1 print : lithograph, color ; 75.5 x 47 cm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/4j03dc485
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Language:
English
Notes (ownership):
The American Textile History Museum closed in 2016. This item has been transferred to the Kheel Center at Cornell University Library.
Notes (object):
Condition: Fair - edges breaking, backed with paper
Lithographs (stone)
Accession #:
0000.2323.2