Title: Peoples Gas, Light & Coke Company Collection, ca. 1900-1969

Storage: Box Lot (4 boxes, 8 x 10 in.; 4 boxes, 11 x 14 in.)

Accession Number: G1985.467

Description of the Collection:
Summary: Shows construction of gas storage tanks, lying of gas mains under streets, and equipment use and safety training of personnel. Also includes photographs of the construction of the Peoples Gas building, 1909-1911, and a gasholder after a U.S. Army Air Corps B-24 bomber crashed into it in 1943.

Container List
Box 1
1 125th Anniversary of PGLC - news release photos
2 Camp Grant (Engineers), 1929-1933
3 Construction of Peoples Gas Building, Michigan & Adams, 1909-11
4 Engine rooms--exterior and interior, 1903-13
5 Engine rooms--exterior and interior, 1903-13
6 Engine rooms--exterior and interior, 1903-13
7 Equipment, machinery, gas lights
8 Gas lights--examples
9 Gas production facilities, 1920-50
10 Gas production facilities, 1920-50
11 Home appliances, 1915-25
12 Laying gas mains, 1911-49
13 Laying gas mains, 1911-50s
14 Laying gas mains, 1911-50s
15 Laying gas mains, 1911-50s
16 Laying gas mains, 1911

Box 2
1 Natural gas storage tanks and related construction, 1908-18
2 Natural gas storage tanks and related construction, 1908-18
3 Natural gas storage tanks and related construction, 1908-18
4 Natural gas storage tanks and related construction, 1908-18
5 Personnel--American Red Cross volunteers (from PGLC)
6 Personnel--Awards, presentations, 1940s-50s
7 Personnel--First Aid Team, Meter Repair Dept., 1924-28
8 Personnel--groups, 1940s-50s
9 Personnel--portraits, 1927-57
10 Personnel--social events, 1927-56

Box 3
1 Safety equipment conventions with exhibits, 1947-48
2 Safety training (equipment, demonstrations, lectures), 1923-57
3 Safety training (equipment, demonstrations, lectures), 1923-57
4 Safety training (equipment, demonstrations, lectures), 1923-57
5 Safety training - resuscitation
6 "Seeing eye" dogs and the blind, c. 1940
7 Workers "on the job", 1930-57
8 Workers "on the job", 1930-57
9 Workers "on the job", 1930-57

Box 4 Plane crash into gasholder, May 1943
12 folders

Box 5 Power Stations
1Power station and gas pipe
2 Power station construction--Irving Park, 1913
3 Power station construction--Irving Park, 1913
4 Power station construction--96th and Erie, 1913
5 Power station--45th and 12th Streets, 1911
6 Power station--Division Street, 1911

Box 6
1 North Avenue tunnel construction, 1912
2 North Avenue tunnel construction, 1912
3 Montrose tunnel construction, 1913
4 Gas pipes experimental plant, 1909
5 Laying gas mains, 1904

Box 7
1 Gas main excavations--5039 Indiana Ave., 1904
2 Gas main excavations, 1903-1904
3 Gas mains destroyed by electrolysis--various locations, 1901-02
4 Patrol house, 50th Street near State, 1903

Box 8 Gas main bonding
1 1904
2 1904
3 no date
4 no date