Item 898: Scrap iron pile, Draper Company, May 12, 1911, 1911

Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.B898. May 12, 1911. Gelatin silver print, [1974], from a glass plate negative, May 12, 1911. Image depicts a view of the scrap iron pile outside one of the Draper Company buildings (which are off to the right in this image). One man stands in front of the pile, which gives the viewer a sense of the size of it (at least three stories high). See also Item 883, in this folder, which shows the pile a month earlier and is a closer view that does not show the extent of the pile shown here. See Item 896 and Item 897, in this folder, for other views of this man in front of the scrap pile taken on this date. See Box 15, Folder 3, Item 934, Item 935, and Item 937 for views of the scrap pile taken a month after this one. The Draper Company manufactured textile machinery, which explains the extent of the scrap iron pile. 25.25 x 20.25 cm.