Details
Creator Aero Service Corporation, photographer.
Title Construction of airplane hangars, South Philadelphia, Philadelphia. [graphic].
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1926
Date ca. 1926
Physical Description 2 negatives : glass ; 21 x 25 cm. (8 x 10 in.)
Description Aerial views of airplane hangars under construction at the site of what is now Philadelphia International Airport. Starting in 1925 the Pennsylvania National Guard used the site (known as Hog Island) as a training airfield. The site was dedicated as the "Philadelphia Municipal Airport" by Charles Lindbergh in 1927, but it had no proper terminal building until 1940. 5924 shows a view of the hangars from southwest to northeast along Island Avenue. 5926 shows a slightly more distant view from west to east including the Schuylkill and Delaware Rivers, Philadelphia Naval Shipyard as well as the hangers under construction. The Pennsylvania Rail Road is also visible. Probably taken May 1926.
Notes Negative numbers: 5924; 5926.
Record created with information supplied by former Aero Service employee Carl H. Winnefeld, Jr.
Subject Philadelphia Naval Shipyard (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Airports -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Construction -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Hangars -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Railroads -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Delaware River (N.Y. - Del. and N.J.)
Hog Island (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Island Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 8400 -- South.
Genre Glass negatives -- 1920-1930.
Aerial photographs -- 1920-1930.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Aero Service [P.8990.5924; P.8990.5926]
Accession number P.8990.5924
P.8990.5926