Softcover
1914 · [Phoenixville, Pennsylvania]
[Phoenixville, Pennsylvania], 1914. Softcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Oblong 24mo. Stapled wrappers and interior pages composed of blueprint paper. Very good with toning, stains and creasing to the wraps. A booklet consisting of humorous cartoons lampooning the Phoenix Bridge Company's engineering depart created for its annual summer picnic. The cartoons include both standalone illustrations and comic strips identifying various employees by name, many referencing incidents and in-jokes now lost in time. The company was founded in 1790 as the French Creek Nail Works but changed its name to the Phoenix Iron Company in 1855 producing rails for trains and (truncated)