Details
Creator Aero Service Corporation, photographer.
Title Allied Chemical & Dye Corporation plant, Grays Ferry Avenue and the Schuylkill River, Grays Ferry, Philadelphia. [graphic].
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1940
Date 1940
Physical Description 1 negative : nitrate ; 21 x 25 cm (8 x 10 in.)
Description Aerial view of the Allied Chemical & Dye Corporation plant on the Schuylkill River in the Gray's Ferry neighborhood in Philadelphia. The corporation (later known as Allied Chemical Corporation and then as the Allied Corporation) was formed in 1921 as an amalgamation of five of the largest U.S. chemical companies established in the 1800s. View of the chemical plant looks north from a vantage point just south of the Grays Ferry Avenue bridge at around Reed Street and spans north to include portions of Center City and West Philadelphia along the river. Residential neighborhoods in the vicinity are also visible.
Notes Negative numbers: 20898n.
Manuscript note on negative sleeve: Allied Chemical Co., Grey's Ferry, Pa, May 12, 1940.
Subject Allied Chemical & Dye Corporation.
Bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Chemical industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Factories -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Row houses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Waterfronts -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Grays Ferry (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Grays Ferry Avenue -- 3600 -- West.
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Genre Glass negatives -- 1930-1940.
Aerial photographs -- 1930-1940.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Aero Service [P.8990.20898n]
Accession number P.8990.20898n