Textile Machine Works, Reading, Pennsylvania, 1909 – Historic Photograph Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Textile Machine Works, Reading, Pennsylvania, 1909. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Textile Machine Works, Reading, Pa.
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Textile Machine Works, Reading, Pennsylvania, 1909
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Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1909 was a manufacturing city on the Schuylkill River, with a population near 100,000. Its economy rested on iron and steel, the railroad shops of the Philadelphia and Reading Railway, and a growing knitting and silk trade. The Textile Machine Works, shown here, supplied the mills around the city with the machinery they needed, so its fortunes rose and fell with the textile plants that bought from it. Reading residents of the period knew their city as a place where the whistles of factories and railroad yards marked the working day, and where many families depended on a single mill or shop for their wages.
| Created / published | 1909 |
|---|---|
| Creator | haines photo co. (conneaut, ohio) |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Pennsylvania |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,065 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Textile Machine Works, Reading, Pa. |
| Reference | PA Textile Machine Works, Reading, 1909 |
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