Details
Creator Aero Service Corporation, photographer.
Title Leeds and Northrup Company plant, 4901 Stenton Avenue, Nicetown-Tioga, Philadelphia. [graphic].
Date 1929
Physical Description 1 negative : glass ; 21 x 25 cm (8 x 10 in.)
Description Aerial views of the Leeds and Northrup plant and laboratory in the Nicetown-Tioga section of Philadelphia. The company was founded by Morris E. Leeds and Edwin F. Northrup in 1903. Originally known as Morris E. Leeds & Company, the organization produced electrical measuring instruments for laboratory and testing use and was an important supplier of this equipment to industrial markets. In the late 1990's, the company became the L&N Metallurgical Products Company. The facility consists of several buildings and sits alongside railroad tracks very near a residential area with row homes.
Notes Negative numbers: 11312, 11313, 11314, 11315, 11316, 11319.
Subject Leeds and Northrup Company.
Industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Factories -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Railroads.
Row houses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Scientific equipment -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Nicetown-Tioga (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Stenton Avenue -- 4901.
Genre Glass negatives -- 1920-1930.
Aerial photographs -- 1920-1930.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Aero Service [P.8990.11312-11316; P.8990.11319]
Accession number P.8990.11312
P.8990.11313
P.8990.11314
P.8990.11315
P.8990.11316
P.8990.11319