Contributed by Maine Historical Society
Description
"The foundry floor at the Portland Company, shown here, was a busy place where all the iron and steel castings were poured. Note the furnace in the floor in the right foreground, where the raw metal was melted in crucibles before the molten metal was poured into the molds. Many sand casting flasks are piled around the foundry area. These flasks were where the patterns were imbedded in the casting sand. They were then removed, and molten metal poured in to make the raw castings."-Fletcher, David H. 'The Portland Company 1846-1982.' Charleston, S.C. : Arcadia Pub., 2002. 14.
About This Item
- Title: Foundry, Portland Company, ca. 1900
- Creation Date: circa 1900
- Subject Date: circa 1900
- Location: Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 11 cm x 13 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 242, Box 40a fl. 6; 16-17a
- Collection: Portland Company records
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Transportation equipment industries
- Shipfitting
- Ship equipment & rigging--1900-1910
- Steel industry and trade
- Iron industry and trade
- Foundries--Maine--Portland
- Metalworking industries--Maine--Portland
- Marine engines
- Portland Company (Me.)--Interiors--Photographs
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Maine Historical Society485 Congress Street, Portland, ME 04101
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