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Nitric acid facility at Bridesburg plant

  • 1931

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Exterior view of a section of the nitric acid manufacturing facility (Building 15) at the Charles Lennig and Company chemical manufacturing plant in Bridesburg, a neighborhood located along the Delaware River in the Northeast section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Charles Lennig and Company operated as a subsidiary of the Rohm and Haas Company, an international chemical company headquartered in Philadelphia, from 1920 to 1947.

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  • Box 27 (Photographs), Folder 8

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Rohm and Haas Company. “Nitric Acid Facility at Bridesburg Plant.” Exterior Views of Charles Lennig and Company Plant in Bridesburg, 1931. Rohm & Haas Company Archives, Box 27 (Photographs), Folder 8. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/m900nv273.

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