Removing from furnace the crucibles full of fiery liquid bronze - John Williams' foundry, New York [City] – Historic Reproduction
![Removing from furnace the crucibles full of fiery liquid bronze - John Williams' foundry, New York [City], c1904. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a0/a0a962d50681-L.webp)
(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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Removing from furnace the crucibles full of fiery liquid bronze - John Williams' foundry, New York [City] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Removing from furnace the crucibles full of fiery liquid bronze - John Williams' foundry, New York [City]
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Workers lift crucibles of molten bronze from a furnace at John Williams' foundry, a scene that shows the heavy, hot labor behind metal casting in the early 1900s. The record places the foundry in New York City, and the card's caption supports that location, though the details are not fully verified. Underwood & Underwood, the New York firm that issued this stereograph, produced large numbers of paired views like this one for home viewers, so the card reflects both an industrial process and the popular taste for showing how things were made. Foundry work of this kind supplied statues, memorials, and architectural ornament for the growing city.
| Created / published | c1904. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Notes | Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; B.I.; Foundries; Ph. Ind. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 799 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-149120 |
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