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[Henry Disston & Sons plant, Philadelphia, Pa.: Trimming steel plates round for circular saws] – Vintage Wall Art

[Henry Disston & Sons plant, Philadelphia, Pa.: Trimming steel plates round for circular saws], [between 1918 and 1919] — historic photograph
[Henry Disston & Sons plant, Philadelphia, Pa.: Trimming steel plates round for circular saws], [between 1918 and 1919]. Historic photograph from the Philadelphia 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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[Henry Disston & Sons plant, Philadelphia, Pa.: Trimming steel plates round for circular saws] 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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Steel plates being trimmed into round blanks at the Henry Disston & Sons plant in Philadelphia form the subject here, an early step in making circular saws. Disston began making saws in the city in 1840 and grew into one of the best-known saw manufacturers in the country. The photoprint was issued by the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps sometime between 1918 and 1919, when the Army documented factories producing goods for the war effort. The date and caption details come from an unverified card, so treat them as provisional.

Created / published[between 1918 and 1919]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhotoprint by U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps. No. 27357. This record contains unverified data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,111 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-159500

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