At the Manufactory

During the 1870s and 1880s, new industrial businesses settled along the North Shore of Long Island. Lange’s instinct to depict commercial activity in Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk Counties drew him to paint a number of these sites. New centers of production, like the Setauket rubber factory, joined the ranks of long-established manufactories in these port towns, like the Brown Brothers Pottery in Huntington. As newer businesses streamlined production, they demanded more imported raw materials and required a way to export their finished products. The Long Island Railroad was quick to partner with new manufactories, facilitating their shipping needs along the same railways we know today.

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(left) Edward Lange, The Setauket Rubber Factory, n.d., Watercolor and India ink on paper, 3.9375 x 6.6875 in. (unframed), Long Island Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ward Melville, 1976, 1976.017.0057; (right) Edward Lange, Brown Brothers Huntington Pottery, 1880, Watercolor, gouache, India ink on paper, 11.125 x 17.625 in. (unframed); 9.75 x 16.125 in. (framed), Preservation Long Island purchase, Conserved with support from the NYSCA/GHHN Conservation Treatment Grant Program, 1984.18

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Edward Lange, Brown Brothers Huntington Pottery, 1880

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Edward Lange, The Setauket Rubber Factory, n.d.

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Edward Lange, Setauket. L.I., n.d.

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Edward Lange, Port Jefferson, L.I., 1886

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Edward Lange, Head of the River, Smithtown, L.I., 1875

At the Manufactory