Details
Creator Aero Service Corporation, photographer.
Title [Agasote Millboard Company, West Trenton, New Jersey.] [graphic].
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