Item 935: Scrap iron pile, Draper Company, June 16, 1911, 1911

Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.B935. June 16, 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). Two men work on boards stretched across sawhorses in the foreground; another man stands off to the right. The man standing at the right gives the viewer a sense of the size of the pile (at least three stories high). See Item 934 and Item 937, in this folder, for other images of the pile taken on this date. See also Box 15, Folder 2, Item 883, which shows the pile two months earlier. See Box 15, Folder 2, Item 896 through Item 898 for views of this pile taken a month earlier. The Draper Company manufactured textile machinery, which explains the extent of the scrap iron pile. 25.25 x 20.25 cm.