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Title: Foundry Workers Year: 1902
Photo ID: 769 Dimensions: H 6.25" x W 9"
Format: Newspaper Clipping Condition: Poor
Collection: Local History Collection Repository Lake Oswego Library
 
Notes: Yellowed, tear on left side. In pencil at top: for Furnaces & Iron Co. Ar Nesan Ore. [?] Clipping from Banner-Courier newspaper, Oregon City, 1947. Caption: During a noon-hour interruption of work at the Oregon Iron & Steel Co. works at Oswego in 1902 a photographer rounded up the crew of the foundry and took this picture with various members of the brawny crew holding their tools, many of which had utilitarian functions then, but appear out of date in 1947. (Picture courtesy W.E. Simonton, Oswego)
Notes on back: On piece of paper: BACK ROW: 1-4 [no name] 5. Earl Headrick 6. -- 7. Mark Dizin? 8. Richard Ball 9.Hugh Fox 10.James Headricks 11.-- 12.Ernie Kiser 13. -- 14.Jim Headrick Jr. 15.Walker Todd 16-19 [no names] CENTER ROW: 1-6 [no names] 7. Chas. Haines 8.-- 9. Otto Johnson 10. Bill Platte 11. Next to him? FRONT ROW: 1-3 [no name] 4. John Fox 5. Asa Coon? 6-10. [no names] 11. Rollo Worthington.
Duplication rights: Credit Lake Oswego Public Library
Keywords: Men; shovels; hats; window; pipe foundry; laborers; crews
Subjects: People; Pipe foundry; Iron Industry