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Title Perspective of road-bed looking north from Huntingdon St., June 4, 1917.
Date June 4, 1917
Notes Negative number: 4534
View from a rooftop on the west side of Kensington Avenue looking north from Huntingdon Street showing the recently installed steel bents and though Pratt trusses of the elevated railway. Includes a clear view of Orinoka Mills and Hulton Dyeing & Finishing Co., two brick, industrial buildings that tower over neighboring properties near Somerset Street, behind the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad tracks. Also shows the bridge crossing the tracks in the distance.
Genre Progress photographs 1910-1920
Gelatin silver prints 1910-1920
Subject Frankford Elevated Railway.
Philadelphia (Pa.). Dept. of City Transit.
Railroads, Elevated -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Construction -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Coverage Frankford (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Kensington Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 2600 block.
Is part of Frankford Elevated Railway construction photographs
Frankford Elevated Railway construction photographs
Has format TMP.objres.5769.jpg
Accession number P.9260.248
Image file El-P-9260-248

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