Details
Creator Aero Service Corporation, photographer.
Title [Penn Hardware Company foundry and environs, Reading, Pennsylvania.] [graphic].
Date ca. 1922
Physical Description 1 negative : glass ; 17 x 22 cm (6.5 x 8.5 in.)
Manuscript note on negative sleeve: Glen Gery Brick Co.
Description Aerial view of the Penn Hardware Company plant at the foot of Spruce Street between the canal and the Schuylkill River in Reading, Pennsylvania. The company was founded in 1877 by two brothers, C. Raymond and Albert A. Heizmann. This view shows the factory from the south with the river, bridges and other areas of Reading visible in the distance. Probably taken September 12-16, 1922.
Notes Negative numbers: 2758.
Record revised with information supplied by former Aero Service employee Carl H. Winnefeld, Jr.
Subject Penn Hardware Company.
Bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Reading.
Building materials industry -- Pennsylvania -- Reading.
Foundries -- Pennsylvania -- Reading.
Iron industry -- Pennsylvania -- Reading.
Waterfronts -- Pennsylvania -- Reading.
Geographic subject Reading (Pa.)
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Genre Glass negatives -- 1920-1930.
Aerial photographs -- 1920-1930.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Aero Service [P.8990.2758]
Accession number P.8990.2758