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Tioga Steel & Iron Company plant, Grays Avenue and 51st Street, Kingsessing, Philadelphia. [graphic].
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Creator
Aero Service Corporation, photographer.
Title
Tioga Steel & Iron Company plant, Grays Avenue and 51st Street, Kingsessing, Philadelphia. [graphic].
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1929
Date
1929
Physical Description
3 negatives : glass ; 21 x 25 cm. (8 x 10 in.)
Description
Aerial views of factories and industrial buildings in the Kingsessing neighborhood of Philadelphia. Though the focus is on the Tioga Iron and Steel Company plant (absorbed by the Taylor-Wharton Iron & Steel Company in 1913) adjacent industrial facilities are also visible, includingt he Geo. W. Smith Woodworking Co., Breyer's Ice Cream and the Mason Adams Coal Company. Residential areas of row houses and railroad tracks and yards servicing the factories can also be seen.
Notes
Negative numbers: 7913, 7914, 7915.
Subject
Taylor-Wharton Iron & Steel Company.
Factories -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Railroads.
Row houses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Waterfronts -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Kingsessing (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Grays Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 5100 -- South.
51st Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 1600 -- South.
Genre
Glass negatives -- 1920-1930.
Aerial photographs -- 1920-1930.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Aero Service [P.8990.7913; P.8990.7914; P.8990.7915]
Accession number
P.8990.7913
P.8990.7914
P.8990.7915
In Collections
Aero Service Corporation Photographic Negative Collection
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