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Description
"The Portland Company electric traveling rail crane is pictured outside the shops, lifting items to be loaded or unloaded onto rail cars or wagons for shipment to customers."--Fletcher, David H. 'The Portland Company 1846-1982.' Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Pub., 2002. 12.
About This Item
- Title: Portland Company traveling crane, ca. 1880
- Creation Date: circa 1880
- Subject Date: circa 1880
- Location: Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Photoprint
- Dimensions: 18 cm x 23 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 242, Box 40b 19-7
- Collection: Portland Company records
- Object Type: Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Manufacturing industries--Maine--Portland
- Metalworking industry--Maine--Portland
- Portland Company (Portland, Me.)--Photographs
- Steel industry and trade
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