By Industry We Thrive
- Description (Brief)
- Colored print commemorating all aspects of American industrial progess. In the foreground three central figures stand holding different tools: a trowel, a leveling triangle, a mallet, a chisel, a saw, and a tri-square. They are surrounded by a collection of men performing a variety of tasks representing different industries. Behind them is a statue of Benjamin Franklin. The background shows a train, ships in a harbor, a factory with smokestacks, telegraph lines, and a construction site.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1873
- publisher
- Kimmel and Voigt
- maker
- Kimmel and Voigt
- artist
- Schnabe, A.
- place made
- United States: New York, New York
- Physical Description
- ink (overall material)
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- image: 17 in x 24 in; 43.18 cm x 60.96 cm
- ID Number
- DL.60.2413
- catalog number
- 60.2413
- accession number
- 228146
- Credit Line
- Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
- subject
- Architecture, Industrial Buildings
- Architecture, Domestic Buildings
- Economy
- Railroads
- Bridges
- Chronology: 1870-1879
- Communication, magazines
- Patriotism and Patriotic Symbols
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- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Art
- Peters Prints
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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