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Description
'The Portland Company made tens of thousands of these brass 108-millimeter howitzer shell casings for the war effort in 1917-1918.'--Fletcher, David H. 'The Portland Company 1846-1982. ' Charleston, S.C. : Arcadia Pub., 2002. 114.
About This Item
- Title: Shell manufacture, Portland, ca. 1917
- Creation Date: circa 1917
- Subject Date: 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
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Iron and steel industry and trade
- Machinery industry
- Manufacturing industry
- Ordinance
- Portland Company (Portland, Me.)--Interiors--Photographs
- Portland Company (Portland, Me.)--Manufactures
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