| Creator |
Aero Service Corporation, photographer. |
| Title |
Knickerbocker Lime Company factory plant, Mill Lane, Pennsylvania. [graphic]. |
| Publisher |
PA. Philadelphia. 1922 |
| Date |
ca. 1922 |
| Physical Description |
4 photographs : glass plate negatives ; 17 x 22 cm. (6.5 x 8.5 in.) |
| Description |
Aerial view of the Knickerbocker Lime and Mortar Company factory plant in Mill Lane, Pennsylvania, near Malvern. Depicts strip
mining facilities, including processing plants, silos, smokestacks, railroad tracks and freight cars, and quarrying activity.
The surrounding area is mostly open land, with some residences and farms visible. The company, part of the Van Sciver Corporation,
operated here from 1899 to 1929 and also maintained two offices and depots in Philadelphia. Views are southeast to northwest
[2864, 2867], east to west [2865] and south to north [2868].
|
| Notes |
Negative numbers: 2864, 2865, 2867, 2868. |
|
Record revised with information supplied by former Aero Service employee Carl H. Winnefeld, Jr. |
| Subject |
Knickerbocker Lime and Mortar Co. |
|
Building materials industry -- Pennsylvania -- Malvern. |
|
Industrial facilities -- Pennsylvania -- Malvern. |
|
Lime industry -- Pennsylvania -- Malvern. |
|
Limestone quarrying -- Pennsylvania -- Malvern. |
|
Strip mining -- Pennsylvania -- Malvern. |
| Geographic subject |
Chester County (Pa.) |
|
Malvern (Pa.) |
| Genre |
Glass negatives -- 1920-1930. |
|
Aerial photographs -- 1920-1930. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Aero Service [P.8990.2864-2865; P.8990.2867-2868] |
| Accession number |
P.8990.2864 |
|
P.8990.2865 |
|
P.8990.2867 |
|
P.8990.2868 |
