Details
Creator Aero Service Corporation, photographer.
Title [Vanity Fair textile mill and environs, Reading, Pennsylvania.] [graphic].
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1922
Date ca. 1922
Physical Description 1 negative : glass ; 17 x 22 cm (6.5 x 8.5 in.)
Manuscript note on negative sleeve: Vanity Fair.
Description Aerial view of the Vanity Fair factory building showing nearby row homes and other industrial buildings. Founded as the Reading Glove and Mitten Manufacturing Company in 1899 and later known as Vanity Fair Mills, the company more recently operates as the VF Corporation. View is southeast to northwest. Vanity Fair Mills buildings are on the east side of Coventry Way and south of Buttonwood St. Buttonwood St., Schuylville Ave. and a portion of the Reading Iron Company, Oley St. mill are visible. In addition the homes on the north side of Buttonwood St. between Tulpehocken St. and Gordon St. are still in place. Probably taken September 12-16, 1922.
Notes Negative numbers: 2760.
Record revised with information supplied by former Aero Service employee Carl H. Winnefeld, Jr.
Subject VF Corporation.
Factories -- Pennsylvania -- Reading.
Row houses -- Pennsylvania -- Reading.
Textile industry -- Pennsylvania -- Reading.
Geographic subject Reading (Pa.)
Genre Glass negatives -- 1920-1930.
Aerial photographs -- 1920-1930.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Aero Service [P.8990.2760]
Accession number P.8990.2760