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Stetson Hat building being demolished
- Neighborhood
- Fishtown/Kensington
- Related Story
- Stetson Hat Company Site
- Street Address
- N 5th St & Germantown Ave & W Montgomery Ave
- Date Created
- June 8 1943
- Description
- Stetson building being demolished. Caption from Philadelphia Record, June 8, 1943: "George L. Russell, Jr., president of the John B. Stetson Company, left, and Orville H. Bullitt, regional director of the War Production Board, posting a scrap sign at the Stetson Mission Sunday School, 5th St. and Montgomery Ave. Wreckers began tearing down nine Stetson buildings yesterday to provide 4,000 tons of scrap metal for the war effort."
- Contributing Institution
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania
- Collection
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia Record Photograph Collection (V7: 2685)
- Tags
- Demolition, Factories (structures), John B. Stetson Hat Company, Lost architecture, Scrap metal, World War II
- Topics
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- http://www.hsp.org/default.aspx?id=135
