Continental Can Company Plant 72

1949

View this item

Continental Can Company Plant 72
  • Title
  • Continental Can Company Plant 72
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B030.F30.I01
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B030.F30.I01
  • Description
  • Continental Can Company, a New York based corporation, was organized in 1913 by three metal container manufacturers. The company quickly grew and acquired twenty-one metal container companies, as well as packaging companies, polyethylene bottle and plastic container manufacturers, one glass container producing company, and fourteen producers of paper containers. In 1955 Continental Can was the second largest metal container company in the United States, behind American Can Company. The facility pictured was located in Homestead, Pennsylvania.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Continental Can Company.Plant 72 (Homestead, Pa.)
  • Source
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs, 1892-1981, MSP 285, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
  • Rights Information
  • Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.
    http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/