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Description
During World War I the Portland Company on Portland, Maine's waterfront manufactured 108 mm shell casings for the United States Army. Normally, the Portland Company manufactured marine equipment, and the steel fabrication required for power plants, elevators and paper company digesters.
About This Item
- Title: Portland Company 108 mm shell manufacturing, 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, 12-33
- Collection: Portland Company records
- Object Type: Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Ordnance industry--Maine--Portland
- Portland Company (Me.)--Employees--Photographs
- Steel industry--Maine--Portland
- World War, 1914-1918--War work--Maine--Portland--Employees
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