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Description
"The steamer Rowland H. Wilcox had the Portland Company supply this 7 1/2-by 6-inch double-cylinder steam-powered windlass with a friction-driven drum for use on the deck." --Fletcher, David H. "The Portland Company 1846-1982." Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Pub., 2002. 53.
About This Item
- Title: Steam powered windlass, Portland Company, ca. 1906
- Creation Date: circa 1906
- Subject Date: circa 1906
- Location: Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Local Code: Coll. 242, Box 30 Folder 21/1
- Collection: Portland Company records
- Object Type: Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Shipfitting
- Hoisting machinery
- Rowland H. Wilcox (Ship)
- Manufacturing industry--Maine--Portland
- Portland Company (Me.)--Manufactures
- Metalworking industry--Maine--Portland
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