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[Pennsylvania Sugar Company]
![[Pennsylvania Sugar Company]. Image provided by Historical Society of Pennsylvania](https://www.philaplace.org/media/philaplace/images/4/6/12912_ca_object_representations_media_4609_hsp4.jpg "[Pennsylvania Sugar Company]. Image provided by Historical Society of Pennsylvania")
- Neighborhood
- Fishtown/Kensington
- Related Story
- The Sugar House
- Street Address
- 1080 North Delaware Avenue
- Date Created
- 1944
- Description
- Caption reads: Left: Scene in the '60s a the Delaware Ave and Shackamaxon St. plant of the Pennsylvania Sugar Company when three- and four-masters loaded with molasses from the tropics helped to establish Philadelphia as one of the great sugar refining centers of the world. ... Right: Air view of the company's present refinery on the same site, showing the alcohol plant, top of picture, and Tank Farm No. 1 for the storage of alcohol adjacent to the refinery building (left). The photograph, taken before the war, shows two modern cargo ships discharging raw sugar at the refinery wharves.
- Contributing Institution
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania
- Collection
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia Record Photograph Collection
- Tags
- cargo vessels, Delaware Avenue, Delaware River, Pennsylvania Sugar Refining Company, Shackamaxon Street, sugar refineries
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