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Description
Shell casing manufacture was not the typical Portland Company product, but during World War I, that is just what the company did do, and with a better, faster record than any other shell casing manufacturer.
About This Item
- Title: 108 mm shell casing manufacture at the Portland Company, ca. 1917
- Creation Date: circa 1917
- Subject Date: circa 1917
- Location: Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 17 cm x 22 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 242, Box 40b Env. 12, 12-18
- Collection: Portland Company records
- Object Type: Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Ordnance industry--Maine--Portland
- Portland Company (Me.)--Photographs
- Steel industry--Maine--Portland
- World War, 1914-1918--War work--Maine--Portland
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