Wood & Vrooman's Coal Pocket

Collection: This image is from the A. Noble Chapman Photographs and is depicted in a glass plate negative, prints, and digital image.; Image is part of the A. Noble Chapman Photographs

Date: June, 1909; 1909-06 Material: unknown material on plate glass; gelatin silver prints Dimension: 5 x 7 inches (glass plate negative); 4 x 5 (print); 8 x 10 (print); 400 ppi (digital image)

Creator: A. Noble Chapman Identifier: aql:11059 anc-000216 anc-000216.tif

Description: A "coal pocket" was a plant equipped for the storage and loading of coal for retail distribution. Wood and Vrooman's distinctive silo stood at the foot of Potter Avenue, next to the Long Island Rail Road tracks (seen in foreground), until it was destroyed by fire in 1964. A view of the opposite side of the building can be seen in record anc-000200.

Title : Wood & Vrooman's Coal Pocket

Collection : aql:10776; vital:1

Creator : A. Noble Chapman

Date : June, 1909; 1909-06

Summary/Description : A "coal pocket" was a plant equipped for the storage and loading of coal for retail distribution. Wood and Vrooman's distinctive silo stood at the foot of Potter Avenue, next to the Long Island Rail Road tracks (seen in foreground), until it was destroyed by fire in 1964. A view of the opposite side of the building can be seen in record anc-000200.

Subject : Coal; Railroad crossings

Relation : This image is from the A. Noble Chapman Photographs and is depicted in a glass plate negative, prints, and digital image.; Image is part of the A. Noble Chapman Photographs

Rights : Copyright holder unknown

Coverage : Long Island Rail Road tracks at Potter Avenue, Patchogue, NY Patchogue (N.Y.) Suffolk County (N.Y.)

Type : glass plate negative; black and white prints; digital image

Format : unknown material on plate glass; gelatin silver prints; 5 x 7 inches (glass plate negative); 4 x 5 (print); 8 x 10 (print); 400 ppi (digital image)

Identifier : aql:11059 anc-000216 anc-000216.tif