Pusey and Jones Corporation photographs

About this collection

    The Pusey & Jones Corporation built ships and machinery in Wilmington, Delaware. In 1848, Joshua L. Pusey (1820-1891) and John Jones (1818-1897) formed the partnership of Pusey & Jones, with machine shops and a factory for the building of engines.
    In its initial operations, the firm built general machinery and steam engines and did a variety of repair work. In 1853, it entered the field of shipbuilding. In 1867, the firm expanded into the manufacture of papermaking machinery; by the 1890s the company was one of the largest manufacturers of such machinery in the world.
    This digital collection includes more than 2,100 of the approximately 6,700 images in the Pusey & Jones photographs (Accession 1972.350) collection. The collection has not been digitized in its entirety.
    Image: Cape Diamond built for U.S. Maritime Commission, 1943. Click to view.

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