Frizell, Samuel S. “Built by the Amoskeag Manufacturing Co., Manchester, N.H.”

Samuel S. Frizell (1844 - 1895).  “Built by the Amoskeag Manufacturing Co., Manchester, N.H.”  [fire steam engines]

Boston: Charles. H. Crosby, ca. 1867.  20 x 27 ½ (image).  Chromolithograph.  Few tears in margins and image skillfully repaired with archival tape and in-painted. Two small holes in image filled and in-painted.  Two chips left hand margin filled.  Chip in upper right hand margin corner.  Remnants of stains in image top, bottom, left and right hand sides.  Some loss of color at top skillfully in-painted.  Old stains, soiling and scuffing in margins.  Old repair tape residue on verso.  Overall, fair condition.  Sold as is.  A/A

An advertising image issued by the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company from Manchester, N.H.  Following the Civil War, American manufacturing was selling throughout the world. Machinery of all kinds was selling at a great pace and prints like this one were used to promote manufacturers products.  Sally Pierce in her book Boston Lithography states that “the advertising chromolithographs by Charles H. Crosby are among the most spectacular and beautifully colored examples of the genre printed in Boston.  Crosby’s output was prolific and vigorous, and his work deserves to be better known.”