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[Agasote Millboard Company, West Trenton, New Jersey.] [graphic].
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Aero Service Corporation Photographic Negative Collection
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Creator
Aero Service Corporation, photographer.
Title
[Agasote Millboard Company, West Trenton, New Jersey.] [graphic].
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1930-1931
Date
ca. 1930-1931
Physical Description
1 negative : glass ; 21 x 25 cm. (8 x 10 in.)
Description
Aerial views of the the Agasote Millboard Company in West Trenton, New Jersey, located on the main line of the Reading Railroad. The company was founded in 1909 by Eugenius Harvey Outerbridge who brought what was then a secred process of creating fiberboard out of newspapers from England to the U.S.. The company's products included: agasote, used in the manufacture of passenger railroad car roofs; vehisote, used in the making of truck panels; and homasote, still used as a versatile building material today. The company changed its name to Homasote Company in the late 1930s.
Notes
Negative numbers: P65.
Manuscript note on negative sleeve: Agasote Millboard, Trenton, N.J.
Subject
Homasote Company.
Building materials industry -- New Jersey -- West Trenton.
Factories -- New Jersey -- West Trenton.
Geographic subject
West Trenton (N.J.)
Genre
Glass negatives -- 1930-1940.
Aerial photographs -- 1930-1940.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Aero Service [P.8990.P65]
Accession number
P.8990.P65
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Aero Service Corporation Photographic Negative Collection
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