Item 6: Part View of Foundry, Textile Machine Works, Reading, Pa.
Scope and Contents
Sommerville [sic], Mass. [Photographer]: Professor A[lfred] Krauth. Made in Germany. Black and white image shows large square metal buckets lying on their sides. There is a flat wagon with large metal wheels in the foreground. It is loaded with machine parts. Above the foundry floor is a large I-beam crossing image from left to right. Hanging below (from a magnet?), in the center of the beam, are some machine parts. There is a mechanism above the beam that moves the parts along . There appears to be a sign on the left side of the beam. One workman is visible on the right. ca. 1924. 11.3 x 8.5 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Dates
- 1842-2003
Language of Materials
Collection material in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian
Conditions Governing Access
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Extent
6.33 cubic feet
Repository Details
Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository
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