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Description
Foundry at the Portland Company, Portland, Maine with overhead traveling crane, ca. 1890, and employees. "The large trip hammer was used in the company blacksmith shop to forge large billets of iron into useable shapes for machining and the fabrication of various products." - Fletcher, David H. 'The Portland Company 1846-1982. Charleston, S.C. : Arcadia Pub., 2002. 18.
About This Item
- Title: Foundry, Portland Co., ca. 1890
- Creation Date: circa 1890
- Subject Date: circa 1890
- Location: Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Photoprint
- Local Code: Coll. 242, Box 29 10-3
- Collection: Portland Company records
- Object Type: Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Cranes
- Portland Company (Portland, Me.)--Employees--Photographs
- Portland Company (Portland, Me.)--Interiors--Photographs
- Foundries--1890-1900--Photographs
- Metalworking industries--Maine--Portland
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