$40.00 CAD
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Attractive larger trade card for the Jackson and Sharp Company’s railroad car plant in Wilmington Delaware.
JACKSON & SHARP COMPANY
Wilmington del.
DELAWARE CAR WORKS
View of plant and in cartouches: steamship, sailing ship, narrow gauge railway car, broad gauge railway car..
Nothing printed on back, does have someone’s jotting of numbers
3 x 5 ¼”
Jackson and Sharp Company was an American railroad car manufacturer and shipbuilder in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The company was founded in 1863 by Job H. Jackson a tinsmith and retail merchant, and Jacob F. Sharp a carpenter who had worked for rail car manufacturers and shipbuilders.
Jackson and Sharp built a fabrication plant, called the Delaware Car Works, in Wilmington, Delaware near the mouth of Brandywine Creek. In the early years the facility had storage capacity for 6 cars and about 100 employees. By 1880 the plant produced 400 passenger cars per year.[2] Through facility expansions on the 12 acres site, the capacity grew to 75 cars, with about 1,000 employees in the late 1880s. At that time it was considered to be the largest rolling stock plant in the Americas.
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