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The last of the 1914 King Frost Carnival photos. No street listed for this one.The factory in the background is something-or-other Broom Works. Is it perhaps the big red-brick factory that was "across the crick" behind Grammy & Grandpa Ludwig's house? Aren't there railroad tracks back there?
One last thing - note the "ghost people" at the right-hand side of the photo. I think cameras in 1914 had very slow shutter speeds. So people "posing" for a photo had to stay motionless for a couple seconds. That's fine for adults, but as we'll see later, kids and animals cannot always stay still. So these "ghosts" (I hope they show up in the blog images) are merely people who are moving around.
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This is 2nd Street, the photographer that shot the Washington St. photos merely turned to his right and got this one looking south. That is Hamburg Broom Works, and that building was just a few years old. It later became a knitting mill and was expanded and was indeed the one behind 234 Washington St. It is now empty, had a big fire set by vandals a few years ago, but not too heavily damaged, so might yet become something useful again. That is the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the station was just off-camera to the right. Trainloads of people came up from Reading and parts south for the parade. So the ghost people might be alighting passengers.
Janet
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