| 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 |
