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Description
"A large pressure steam box for the Sanford Mills awaits shipment on a Boston & Maine Railroad flatcar outside the company shops. Note the cart on rails to carry materials to be steamed into the pressure chamber. The Portland Company specialized in building very large pressure vessels like this as well as boilers, which are merely high-pressure vessels themselves." --Fletcher, David H. 'The Portland Company 1846-1982.' Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Pub., 2002. 125.
About This Item
- Title: Sanford Mills steam box, ca. 1900
- Creation Date: circa 1900
- Subject Date: circa 1900
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Locations:
- Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Sanford, York County, ME
- Media: Photoprint
- Dimensions: 19 cm x 24 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 242, Box 40b 19-9
- Collection: Portland Company records
- Object Type: Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Boston & Maine Railroad
- Flatcars
- Manufacturing industries--Maine--Portland
- Metalworking industry--Maine--Portland
- Mills--Maine--Sanford
- Portland Company (Portland, Me.)--Employees
- Portland Company (Portland, Me.)--Manufactures
- Portland Company (Portland, Me.)--Photographs
- Sanford Mills (Sanford, Me.)
- Steel industry and trade
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