1868 Marine Sign Atlantic Iron Ships Civil War Ironclad Rare Print




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Reference Number: Avaluer:625075Primary Material: Iron
Time Period, War: Civil War
Original Description:
Rare and possibly unlisted Reconstruction Era marine advertising print with title "Portraits of Vessels of War and Merchant Steamer Built or Supplied with Steam Machinery Atlantic Iron Works, Boston."   32 x 20, paper over original  browned linen, chips, some beginnings of peeling.  Original wooden backing frame. Loss is minimal, and in less significant areas. Overall piece is darkened with age, somewhat unravelling and unstable; needs restoration.   From ...a painting by listed marine painter William Edward Norton (1843-1916).  This would represent one of his earlier works.  Unusual advertising print/sign for the Atlantic Iron Works in East Boston.   In the front there is a Civil War Era ironclad, and 2 other iron ships.  In the background you see traditional commercial vessels, clippers etc., as if to say"We are in the forefront, we are the future."  Definitely worth restoration, for its charm, rarity and historical value.   Atlantic Works was a fairly big deal in the 1800's at the East Boston / Chelsea wharf.  See summary below.  11. Atlantic Works In 1853, Abishai Miller and other machinists at Otis Tuft’s machine shop on Sumner Street in East Boston founded the Atlantic Works to produce boilers and marine engines for the new steamships that were beginning to be built. The Atlantic Workswas originally located inland at Chelsea and Marion streets in East Boston, where in1857 it constructed the huge engines for the iron steamship Le Voyage de la Mer, thefirst iron steamship launched in East Boston. During the Civil War the plant receivedimportant government contracts, including one for a monitor, the ironclad Union ships. In 1869 the Atlantic Works moved to the former McKay & Aldus site on Border Street at the corner of Maverick and there constructed tugs, ferries, and lighters. An1879 bird’s-eye view shows the machine, blacksmith, and boiler shops on the property, the last a two-story frame structure with clerestory windows that is also pictured in an1889 photo. A photo taken in 1878 shows the interior of this shop.In 1893 the Atlantic Works acquired Robinson Boiler Works, the adjoining propertyon New Street. This was the site of the earlier East Boston Gas and Iron Company, which existed in 1851 (it was the East Boston Iron Foundry in 1861), and in 1874was the Boston Car Wheel Company. On this property the Atlantic Works builtthe still-standing three-story brick and iron boiler fabricating shop that has a largearched doorway facing the harbor, a smaller arched doorway on New Street, and aone-and-a-half story ell on the south, all with stepped parapets on the gable ends.In 1902 the Atlantic Works purchased the East Boston Dry Dock Company, whichoccupied the land northward as far as Decatur Street (now part of the Boston Eastsite) on which it had two marine railways. By 1922 the Atlantic Works was the largest private ship repair facility in Boston. That year it merged with the Bertelson &Peterson Company and constructed a large steel floating dry dock, an addition tothe small floating dry dock and three marine railways already on the site. It is one ofthese marine railways that will be preserved at the Boston East Site. And sometimebetween 1900 and 1927 the Atlantic Works had constructed the present four-storybrick building at 80 Border Street for offices and pattern shops.In 1928 the Atlantic Works was purchased by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, which in 1930 built a new brick machine shop at the corner of Borderand Maverick streets to replace an earlier shop that had been destroyed by fire. TheAtlantic Works continued to produce small coastal steamers and tugs until Bethlehem sold the shipyard about 1950. The southern part of the Atlantic Works site isnow occupied by Boston Tow, the 1930 machine shop by Wigglesworth MachineryCompany, the building at 80 Border Street by the Cultural Exchange Center andothers, and the northern part of the property is now part of the Boston East site.Sources for text:Stott, Peter, Atlantic Works, East Boston Industrial Survey. O Shipped with USPS Priority Mail.



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