Details
Creator Aero Service Corporation, photographer.
Title A. Wilhelm Company, Reading, Pennsylvania. [graphic].
Date ca. 1928
Physical Description 1 photograph : glass plate negative; 21 x 25 cm (8 x 10 in.)
Description Aerial view of the A. Wilhelm Company paint manufacturing plant located on Bern Street between Center Avenue and the Fifth Street Highway. View is southwest to northeast. George Field and Hiesters Lane tunnel are visible as are other factories and residential row homes. Berks Knitting Company visible at bottom of image. Paint factory plant was closed in late 2007 and the complex has been demolished. Image probably taken November 1928.
Notes Negative number: 9108.
Record created with information supplied by former Aero Service employee Carl H. Winnefeld, Jr.
Subject A. Wilhelm Co.
Factories -- Pennsylvania -- Reading.
Paint industry -- Pennsylvania -- Reading.
Row houses -- Pennsylvania -- Reading.
Geographic subject Reading (Pa.)
Genre Glass negatives -- 1920-1930.
Aerial photographs -- 1920-1930.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Aero Service [P.8990.9108]
Accession number P.8990.9108