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Photo, Print, Drawing Alfred Jenks and Son's Machine Works, Bridesburg. Alfred Jenks & Son's machine works, Bridesburg

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Title

  • Alfred Jenks and Son's Machine Works, Bridesburg.

Other Title

  • Alfred Jenks & Son's machine works, Bridesburg

Summary

  • This illustration shows the busy industrial complex of Alfred Jenks & Son, located on the east side of Richmond Street between Franklin and Locust streets in Bridesburg, Philadelphia. The firm was established circa 1819 by Alfred Jenks and enlarged in 1853. A horse-drawn flatbed truck enters the courtyard of the U-shaped complex containing several buildings surrounded by wood fencing. Within the yard, clusters of workers transport boxes and planks of wood. Outside the complex, a driver handles a four-horse team pulling a truck loaded with two large machines, as other factory workers perform various tasks. The roof of the complex has several working smokestacks. The advertisement appeared in Edwin T. Freedley's Philadelphia and its Manufactures (1858).

Created / Published

  • Philadelphia : F. Bourquin & Company Lithography, 1857.

Headings

  • -  United States of America--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
  • -  1819 to 1857
  • -  Advertising
  • -  Alfred Jenks and Son
  • -  Factories
  • -  Horse-drawn vehicles
  • -  Laborers
  • -  Lithographs
  • -  Machine shops
  • -  Machinery industry
  • -  Textile machinery
  • -  Wagons

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  "Digital catalog number: POS 13.2"--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 print : lithograph ; 10 x 16 centimeters.
  • -  Original resource at: The Library Company of Philadelphia.
  • -  Content in English.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Source Collection

  • Philadelphia on Stone

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021670432

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • image

Additional Metadata Formats

IIIF Presentation Manifest

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Chicago citation style:

Alfred Jenks and Son's Machine Works, Bridesburg. Pennsylvania United States of America Philadelphia, 1857. Philadelphia: F. Bourquin & Company Lithography. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670432/.

APA citation style:

(1857) Alfred Jenks and Son's Machine Works, Bridesburg. Pennsylvania United States of America Philadelphia, 1857. Philadelphia: F. Bourquin & Company Lithography. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670432/.

MLA citation style:

Alfred Jenks and Son's Machine Works, Bridesburg. Philadelphia: F. Bourquin & Company Lithography. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021670432/>.