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Description
"Pictured is the storage room at the Portland Company where the 108-millimeter howitzer empty brass shell casings were stacked before being crated in wooden boxes." --Fletcher, David H. "The Portland Company 1846-1982." Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Pub., 2002. 115.
About This Item
- Title: Empty Howitzer shell casings, Portland Company, ca. 1918
- Creation Date: circa 1918
- Subject Date: circa 1918
- Location: Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Local Code: Coll. 242, Box 40b Env. 12, 12-7
- Collection: Portland Company records
- Object Type: Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Artillery (Weaponry)--American--Maine--Portland
- Howitzers
- Manufacturing industry--Maine--Portland
- Metalworking industry--Maine--Portland
- Portland Company (Me.)--Manufactures
- Shells (Ammunition)
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