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Description
"A large freight elevator is being constructed in the shops for the 'Embree Elevator Company,' according to the nameplate on the overhead lifting beam. Hydraulic elevators were in use before the electric ones were used."--Fletcher, David H. 'The Portland Company 1846-1982.' Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Pub., 2002. 89.
About This Item
- Title: Freight elevator, ca. 1900
- Creation Date: circa 1900
- Subject Date: circa 1900
- Location: Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Photoprint
- Dimensions: 17 cm x 22 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 242, Box 40b 18-8
- Collection: Portland Company records
- Object Type: Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Elevators
- Embree Elvator Company
- Manufacturing industries--Maine--Portland
- Metalworking industry--Maine--Portland
- Portland Company (Portland, Me.)--Manufactures
- Portland Company (Portland, Me.)--Photographs
- Steel industry and trade
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