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Electric Storage Battery factory workers at
Nineteenth Street and Allegheny Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Bricked street and sidewalk. Row of brick houses with adults and children standing on sidewalk and sitting on stoop. A child runs in front of a section of abandoned houses with missing windows near a lamppost. A short iron gate crosses the front of a…

Kensington Avenue Junction of Philadelphia' Elevated Rail Line (now called Market-Frankford Line) at Front Street and York Street, McNeil Drug store

A photograph of the corner of N 5th street and W Clearfield Street in Kensington

Bromley Mills factory, a textile manufacturing business.

The Lighthouse Boys Club in the Kensington area.

This photo shows the intersection of East Cumberland and Amber Street in Philadelphia where Kensington High School stands.

Children waiting in line at a soup kitchen. Many would appear on corners weekly for people to receive a bit of soup.

Row homes in Kensington. These were the types of homes many immigrants lived in when they moved to Philadelphia.

A view of the west side of the Quaker City Dye works in Kensington, Philadelphia, PA which was once one of the largest dye works facilities in the city.