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Rebecca Pennock Lukens portrait

Creation: circa 1854
 Collection
Accession: 1992-209

Abstract

Rebecca Pennock Lukens (1794-1854) owned and managed the iron and steel mill known as Lukens Steel Company from 1825 until 1849. Studio portrait of Rebecca Lukens copied as a carte-de-visite.

Dates

  • Creation: circa 1854

Creator

Extent

1 item(s)

General Physical Description

1 photographic print : carte de visite ; 4 x 2.5 in.

Biographical Note

Rebecca Pennock Lukens (1794-1854) owned and managed the iron and steel mill known as Lukens Steel Company from 1825 until 1849. Her parents Issac Pennock and Martha Webb Pennock were Quakers and her father started an iron works business.

She married Charles Llyod Lukens (1786-1825) in 1813. They had a son and four daughters who survived infancy: Charles Edward (1819-1824), Martha (1814-1892), Elizabeth (1817-1832), Isabella (1822-1889), and Charlesanna (1825-1849). Charles L. Lukens was a physician and left his practice to work with her father at the iron works.

Within the span of a year her father, son and husband died leaving the mill in debt. She began running the mill and later remodeled it making improvements and building up the store and warehouse. Her daughter's husbands Abraham Gibbons and Charles Huston joined the firm, in 1842 and 1849 respectively. She stepped down in 1849. In 1890 the mill was renamed Lukens Iron and Steel.

Scope and Content

Studio portrait of Rebecca Lukens copied as a carte-de-visite. Rebecca Lukens died in 1854 just as Frederick Gutekunst was opening his Philadelphia photography studio. The cropping on this carte-de-visite indicates that he copied it from another source.

Location

GL Box 1.

Access Restrictions

This collection is open for research.

Language of Materials

English

Related Names

Subject

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title:
Rebecca Pennock Lukens portrait
Date:
2014
Description rules:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description:
English
Script of description:
Latin

Repository Details

Repository Details

Part of the Audiovisual Collections Repository

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