Written caption: "Run-of-mine coal is fed by the carload into the rotary dumps at the left of this picture." Philadelphia and Reading Coal & Iron Company.
Written caption: "The lowering conveyors. The prepared sizes of Reading anthracite are loaded into freight cars without breakage by the devices which are electrically operated and lowerd into the cars so that the coal is deposited gently and...
Written caption: "The main conveyors. These belts are four feet wide and carry raw coal up an inclined plane to the top of the breaker at rate of 1600 tons an hour."
Written caption: "West 10th St, looking west from Market. Left: Ford Building. Right: DuPont Building. Center background: Baptist Church, Delaware Avenue and West St."
Written caption: Joanna furnace in Berks County, Pennsylvania. Erected 1792 by George Eege (?) , rebuilt and enlarged in 1847. Small building to left is the engine house, stone stack and ruins of cast house at right. The space between engine house...
Written on back: "bamboo trough at the top leading water to the field." Written on folder: "1930 photos of Szechwan, China sent to Huston from W. Calew Chapman, Missionary with the Christian & Missionary Alliance."
Written on back: "HB&D Sprinkler Tank (named) fire protection. Rectangular Cooling H2O Tower - cool for steam cycle. Market St. W. Chester Air Hoist Nr. RR. Car for log unloading
Written on back: "in front of Youngs Million Dollar Pier, about 1927 or '28, A.R.A. - R.S.M.A. Convention and exhibit, 8 days, 10,000 to 12,000 in attendance; this convention & exhibit moved to the new Convention Hall in 1930." "Lukens Booth - on...
Written on back: "on edge of ball room, Young's Million Dollar Pier - this exhibit and convention moved to new Convention Hall in 1930. ARA and RSMA Convention and exhibit, 8 days, 10,000 to 12,000 attended." "Seated (L to R): Harry Loeb - Phila....
Written on back: "The first nichle-clad steel plates rolled commercially came out of Lukens in 1930. Some of them were used to line this railroad tank car which, after 25 years of service, continues to transport a highly corrosive chemical between...
Zerex' anti-rust anti-freeze being canned at DuPont's Belle Works. 'Zerex' which prevents freezing and inhibits rust in car radiators, is a result of DuPont anti-freeze research program started in 1930. This product and the company's 'Zerone'...
