Founded in 1832 by Matthias W. Baldwin, Baldwin Locomotive Works occupied a seventeen acre site at Broad and Spring Garden Streets in Philadelphia. All types of locomotive engines were produced there and shipped all over the world. In 1928 Baldwin Locomotive Works relocated to the town of Eddystone in Delaware County.

This view, part of the library’s Aero Service Collection, was scanned during work on our special format photography project. Thanks to the generosity of our funders, the Abington Foundation and the Ed Lee and Jean Campe Foundation, the Library Company recently digitized our entire cased photograph collection consisting of more than 280 daguerreotypes and ambrotypes and scanned and catalogued more than 650 glass and film negatives in our Aero Service Collection.

We had a record number of correct respondents to this month’s Ben’s Lens. Congratulations to the following people for submitting a correct answer:

Bill Becker
James M. Bergquist
Jon Cresswell
Mary Anne Eves
Samuel Feinberg
Lou Ferrero
Steve Harlen
Francis W. Hoeber
Kathleen Kelly
Anita K. Mc Kelvey
Susan Montgomery
Martha H. Morris
Paul Reber
Daniel S. Sapon
Steve Stamm
Spence Toll
Richard Tyler
Colin Varga
Glenys A. Waldman