Six Photographs and Engineering Renderings of Moyamensing and Southwark Piers, Philadelphia Documenting Urban Harbor Modernization in the 1910s
Department of Wharves, Docks and Ferries Moyamensing Piers photograph and rendering archive documents the expansion of Philadelphia’s port infrastructure during the 1910s, when the city undertook large-scale municipal projects to strengthen its position in Atlantic shipping and industrial trade. Created during a period of intensified competition with East Coast ports.....
