Hoffy, Alfred M., b. ca. 1790, artist. Eastwick & Harrison's improved locomotive engine [graphic] / Harrison Jr., del.; on stone by A. Hoffy.

Hoffy, Alfred M., b. ca. 1790, artist.

Eastwick & Harrison's improved locomotive engine [graphic] / Harrison Jr., del.; on stone by A. Hoffy.

Philadelphia: P.S. Duval lither., [ca. 1839]

Not in Wainwright.

Manuscript note on recto and mount: This locomotive engine "Gowan & Marx" hauled the freight train over the Philadelphia & Reading R. Road from Pottsville to Philada. D. J. Kennedy.

Attached to sheet containing two photographic reproductions of Philadelphia and Reading Railroad broadsides dated 1839 and 1840.

Shows the 4-4-0 steam locomotive, Gowan & Marx, built 1839 by the firm after the designs of Joseph Harrison, Jr. The locomotive, for its weight, was the most efficent for freight purposes at the time. The firm established as Garrett, Eastwick & Co. was renamed Eastwick & Harrison in 1839 after the retirement of Garrett, when Harrison, a junior partner became a full partner.

Philadelphia on Stone

Historical Society of Pennsylvania: K VII 46

Eastwick & Harrison.

Railroad car industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. lctgm

Locomotives -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. lctgm

Lithographs -- 1830-1840. gmgpc

Harrison, Joseph 1810-1874, artist.

Duval, Peter S., 1804 or 5-1886, printer.

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