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General view of the erecting shop, Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.A. [graphic].
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Contributor
Keystone View Company, publisher.
Title
General view of the erecting shop, Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.A. [graphic].
Publisher
Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company, manufacturers, publishers
Publisher
PA. Meadville. 1910
Date
[ca. 1910]
Physical Description
1 photographic print: gelatin silver on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.5 x 7 in.)
Description
Interior view of the two-section erecting shop (remodeled in 1890) at the Baldwin factory on Broad and Spring Garden streets. Depicts a row of locomotives in various stages of completion on one side of an open framework of steel. The Seller electric cranes capable of lifting 100 tons are visible above the engines. The company was founded by Matthias W. Baldwin in 1831.
Is part of
Unidentified series. 82
Notes
Copyrighted by Keystone View Company.
Negative number printed on mount: 7090.
Title printed on mount.
Printed above image: 82.
Contains a description of the design and operation of the erecting shop on verso.
Keystone View Company, stock publisher of stereographs of the late 19th and 20th century, started issuing educational stereoviews around 1898. In 1906, the first boxed set of 600 educational views with an accompanying guide book was issued.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject
Baldwin Locomotive Works.
Railroad locomotive industry -- Pennyslvania -- Philadelphia.
Hoisting machinery -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Broad Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- at Spring Garden Street.
Genre
Stereographs -- 1900-1910.
Gelatin silver prints -- 1900-1910.
Printer
Keystone View Company, publisher.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Keystone View Company - Industries [P.9573.24]
Accession number
P.9573.24
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Printed and Graphic Ephemera
Stereograph Collection
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