Trench digging project, New Castle, Indiana, circa 1925
| Description: |
Men eating lunch on with a steam-powered trench-digging machine made by F. C. Austin Drainage Excavator Company in Chicago. Patent dates stencilled on the machine appear to read 1903 through 1906.The lender indicated that this might be a WPA (Works Progress Administration) project in or near New Castle, but the photo appears older than the 1930s. [See also ia-0388-0014 and ia-0388-0015.] |
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| Origin: | 1925, circa |
| Source: |
http://indianaalbum.pastperfectonline.com/photo/A7628ADF-B01D-49ED-8101-236578930879 |
| Collection: |
Indiana Album |
| Rights: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/ |
| Geography: |
New Castle, Henry County, Indiana, United States |
| Subjects: |
Norma Mastin Dishman Collection Equipment Employees Eating & drinking Excavation Digging New Castle (Ind.) Henry County (Ind.) |
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