Federal Wire and Steel Company plant
East London
Highsmith on a P45 digital back in 2007
S72-51687 (October 1972) --- Astronaut Eugene A
circa 1905 photographed by Harris & Ewing on 8x10 glass plate negative
B.T. Babbitt Factory Buildings on Washington St. Enlistment Federal Wire and Steel CompanyB. T. Babbitt, 64, 65, 66 Washington Street, New York, 41, 42, 43, & 44 West Street, betw. Rector & Morris Streets. Created by Shearman A. James and published between 1870 and 1880. Drawing with ink wash, graphite, crayon, and opaque white. Drawing from elevated perspective shows a soap factory in lower Manhattan, from West St. looking northeast, with wharf in foreground and Equitable Building identified in background.