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Pennsylvania Sugar Company, Sugar Bags Knifed in Belly to See if Product is Good
- Neighborhood
- Fishtown/Kensington
- Related Story
- The Sugar House
- Street Address
- 1080 North Delaware Avenue
- Date Created
- 1943
- Description
- Caption reads: Joe Myers and Joe Borrell, Every bag of raw sugar unloaded at the Delaware Ave and Shackamaxon St. refinery of the Pennsylvania Sugar Company gets a bayonet thrust into the belly. The "bayonet" is wielded by one of the plant's experienced samplers and the purpose is to draw off a sample of the Cuban product to determine the purity. The sugar company pays according to its purity.
- Contributing Institution
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania
- Collection
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia Record Photograph Collection
- Tags
- Joe Borrell, Joe Myers, Pennsylvania Sugar Refining Company, sugar, Workers
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