Item 8073 - Foundry, Portland Co., ca. 1890

Item 8073 - Foundry, Portland Co., ca. 1890
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Item 8073
Foundry, Portland Co., ca. 1890
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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.

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