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SILVER CREEK STEAM-ENGINE WORKS!
Published by Greenleaf & Montgomery, Silver Creek, N.Y., 1853
Seller: William Reese Company - Americana, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Association Member: ABAA ESA ILAB SNEAB
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Letterpress broadside, 12 1/4 x 11 3/4 inches. Moderate edge wear, minor loss near top edge. Some creasing, minor soiling and staining. Overall, very good. A seemingly-unrecorded early industrial broadside from the town of Silver Creek, New York. Silver Creek, on the shore of Lake Erie, was founded in the early 19th century by Massachusetts residents, incorporated in 1848, and became an important Great Lakes port town until the coming of the railroad. The area had a number of businesses active in producing machinery (including Howes Babcock), given its strategic location in the country's westward expansion. The present broadside advertises a steam engine works operated by Greenleaf & Montgomery. William R. Greenleaf and Ezekiel Montgomery formed the company to produce steam engines and mill machinery through the use of steam power. Here they argue for the superiority of steam- operated saws, touting their ability to cut "twenty-five feet of lumber per minute." The company also advertises their invention of "Mully Heads for Saw Mills" which will "saw more lumber with less power than any sash mill can, and are less liable to get out of repair." No copies reported in OCLC, the NUC, or any other sources we could find. Possibly a unique surviving steam power broadside from Upstate New York in 1853.
