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Description
"Here we can see a load of 12 steam retorts loaded on a Grand Trunk Railroad flatcar outside the Portland Company, awaiting shipment to [Pepperell Mills in Biddeford, Maine] one of the many Maine canneries. Thousands of the retorts, or pressure cookers, were used in the sardine-canning industry alone in the state."- Fletcher, David H. 'The Portland Company 1846-1982.' Charleston, S.C. : Arcadia Pub., 2002, 123.
About This Item
- Title: Boilers made by the Portland Company, ca. 1920
- Creation Date: circa 1920
- Subject Date: circa 1920
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Locations:
- Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Biddeford, York County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Local Code: Coll. 242, Box 32 4/2
- Collection: Portland Company records
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Pepperell Mills (Firm)(Biddeford, Me.)
- Sardine industry--Maine
- Canning and preserving--Equipment and supplies--Photographs
- Canned foods industry--Maine
- Manufacturing industry--Maine--Portland
- Portland Company (Me.)--Manufactures
- Metalworking industry--Maine--Portland
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