Smith Perkins Alexandria Iron Works Locomotive Engine Car Builders Machinists Founders

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Alexandria, VA: Smith & Perkins, nd ca. 1850 . Trade card, 1 ½ x 3 inches, printed on glossy white card stock now rather attractively sprinkled around the edges in red . Smith & Perkins was founded in 1835 and closed in 1857 due to bankruptcy. For a short article on the company, see “The Locomotive Fairfax” by William Johnson in Vol. 15, No. 2, 2018 of the “The Fare Facs Gazette” online . Two lines of neat pencil

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