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- Title
- [Passyunk Avenue Bridge over Schuylkill River, Philadelphia]
- Description
- View of raised Passyunk Avenue Bridge which was built in 1911 of steel., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Passayunk Ave. Bridge over Schuylkill., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
- Creator
- Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1923
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 161 [P.8513.161], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson161.htm
- Title
- [United Gas Improvement Company's Point Breeze Gas Works from the Passyunk Avenue bridge over the Schuylkill River, Philadelphia]
- Description
- Looking south from Passyunk Bridge over Schuylkill River, image depicts industrial area, including barge floating at river's edge, crane in distance, smokestacks, telephone wires, and various buildings of the United Gas Improvement Company's Point Breeze Gas Works., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso: U.G.I. Gas Works. Passayunk [sic] Ave. and Schuylkill River., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
- Creator
- Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1923
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 137 [P.8513.137], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson137.htm
- Title
- Philadelphia Cemetery. On the Passyunk Road
- Description
- View showing the chapel of Philadelphia Cemetery, also referred to as New Philadelphia Cemetery, fronting on Passyunk Avenue between Twentieth and Twenty-second Streets. Pedestrians linger outside of the stone wall and carriage gate. Philadelphia Cemetery opened in 1828, and the last burial occurred in 1902. The bodies were removed to Arlington Cemetery in Drexel Hill circa 1915., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 576, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
- Date
- [ca. 1850]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W282 [P.2126]
- Title
- Atlantic Refining Company plant, 3314 Passyunk Avenue, Point Breeze, Philadelphia
- Description
- Aerial views of the Atlantic Refining Company (later Atlantic Richfield Co. or ARCO) petroleum refinery plant along the Schuylkill River in the Point Breeze neighborhood of Philadelphia. The company was founded as the Atlantic Petroleum Storage Company in 1866 as a storage facility but quickly expanded operations to include refining as the possible uses of petroleum were discovered. It was purchased by John D. Rockefeller in 1874 and became part of the Standard Oil Trust and became Atlantic Refining Company after the Trust was dissolved in 1911. The facility is shown from several angles and altitudes and includes views of the refining equipment and storage drums as well as boats and ships docked on the river. Probably taken 1921 [1138, 1213]; 1922 [1861]; 1924 [4602-4609]; 1926 [5464-5922]., Negative numbers: 1138, 1213, 1861, 4586, 4602-4609, 5464, 5922., 4602, 4603, 4605, 4606 not digitized; negatives are damaged and cannot be scanned., Digitized for AMD: Global Commodities., Record revised with information supplied by former Aero Service employee Carl H. Winnefeld, Jr.
- Creator
- Aero Service Corporation, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1921-1926
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.1138; P.8990.1213; P.8990.1861; P.8990.4586; P.8990.4602-4609; P.8990.5464; P.8990.5922]
- Title
- Atlantic Refining Company plant, 3314 Passyunk Avenue, Point Breeze, Philadelphia
- Description
- Aerial views of the Atlantic Refining Company (later Atlantic Richfield Co. or ARCO) petroleum refinery plant along the Schuylkill River in the Point Breeze neighborhood of Philadelphia. The company was founded as the Atlantic Petroleum Storage Company in 1866 as a storage facility but quickly expanded operations to include refining as the possible uses of petroleum were discovered. It was purchased by John D. Rockefeller in 1874 and became part of the Standard Oil Trust and became Atlantic Refining Company after the Trust was dissolved in 1911. The facility is shown from several angles and altitudes and includes views of the refining equipment and storage drums as well as boats and ships docked on the river., Negative numbers: 6110, 6111, 6112, 6113, 6177, 6178, 6180, 6181, 6182, 6183.
- Creator
- Aero Service Corporation, photographer
- Date
- 1926
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.6110-6113; P.8990.6177; P.8990.6178; P.8990.6180-6183]
- Title
- Philada. Gas Works
- Description
- View showing the Point Breeze Gas Works at Passyunk and Schuylkill avenues near the Schuylkill River. The gas works, the second Philadelphia gas producing facility, was built in the Gothic style between 1851 and 1854 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer, John C. Cresson. Shows several buildings with pitched roofs and quatrefoil windows as well as river frontage for the reception of coal barges., Photographer, title, and date from accompanying label, Grey mount with rounded corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Image faded., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Cresson, Charles M. (Charles Massey), 1828-1893, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1859
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cresson - Public Utilities [(8)1322.F.3d-1]
- Title
- Gas holder, Philada. Gas Works 90 ft. high, 160 ft. diameter, cubic contents 1,800,000 feet
- Description
- View showing the gas holder at the Point Breeze Gas Works at Passyunk and Schuylkill avenues. The gas works, the second Philadelphia gas producing facility, was built in the Gothic style between 1851 and 1854 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer John C. Cresson., Attributed to Philadelphia photographer C.M. Cresson., Title and date from accompanying label., Grey mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Image faded., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Cresson, Charles M. (Charles Massey), 1828-1893, photographer
- Date
- 1859
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cresson - Public Utilities [(8)1322.F.3e-1]
- Title
- Phila. Gas Works. Roof framing through quatrefoil window
- Description
- View showing the intricate roof framing of a building at the Point Breeze Gas Works. The gas works, the second Philadelphia gas producing facility, was built in the Gothic style between 1851 and 1854 after the designs of engineer John C. Cresson at Schuylkill and Passyunk avenues., Photographer, title, and date from accompanying label., Grey mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
- Creator
- Cresson, Charles M. (Charles Massey), 1828-1893, photographer
- Date
- October 1859
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cresson - Public Utilities [(8)1322.F.3b-1]