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Description
Women in the packing room at the Portland Company with wooden boxes for 108 mm howitzer shell casings for the war effort during World War I. The casings were packed two in a box and shipped out in 1917-1918.
About This Item
- Title: Portland Company employees, ca. 1917
- Creation Date: circa 1917
- Subject Date: circa 1917
- Location: Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 21 cm x 26 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 242, Box 40b Env. 12, 12-28
- Collection: Portland Company records
- Object Type: Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Ordnance industry--Maine--Portland
- Portland Company (Me.)--Employees--Women--Photographs
- Steel industry--Maine--Portland--Employees--Photographs
- World War, 1914-1918--Participation, Female--Photographs
- World War, 1914-1918--War work--Maine--Portland
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