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Description
The crew inside the carpentry shop at the Portland Company, Portland, in the late 1800s.
The Portland Company fabricated locomotives, ship equipment and other objects of metal, but required a carpentry shop to build forms and assist with building the cabs for the locomotives and all the woodworking for the thousands of railroad cars built here.
About This Item
- Title: Carpentry Shop, Portland Company, ca. 1880
- Creation Date: circa 1880
- Subject Date: circa 1880
- Location: Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Glass Negative
- Dimensions: 6.5 cm x 21.5 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 242, Box 126/12
- Collection: Portland Company records
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Iron industry and trade
- Portland Company (Me.)--Employees
- Carpenters--Maine--Portland
- Carpentry shops--Maine--Portland
- Portland Company (Me.)--Interiors
- Steel industry and trade
- Metalworking industry
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