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[Hiram Walker & Sons, engine room, Walkerville, Ont.] – Vintage Print

[Hiram Walker & Sons, engine room, Walkerville, Ont.], [between 1895 and 1899] — historic photograph
[Hiram Walker & Sons, engine room, Walkerville, Ont.], [between 1895 and 1899]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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[Hiram Walker & Sons, engine room, Walkerville, Ont.]

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Here the subject is not a view of the distillery's exterior but the interior machinery of the engine room at Hiram Walker & Sons in Walkerville, Ontario, a town that grew up around the company's distilling works on the Detroit River opposite Detroit. The glass dry plate negative dates from roughly 1895 to 1899, a period when the firm was expanding its plant and steam power ran much of its operations. Photographers working for the Detroit Publishing Company often recorded industrial sites like this one for commercial sale, so the image captures a working room of boilers and engines that would otherwise be little documented. The catalog notes indicate a later gift to the State Historical Society of Colorado in 1949.

Created / published[between 1895 and 1899]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Walkerville book" on jacket. No Detroit Publishing Co. no. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsEngine rooms. Distilling industry.Canada--Ontario--Windsor.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 789 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-69510

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