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Description
10 leaves : 16 mounted photographs. "Title from cover. ""Made and arranged by The Gorham Studio, Gorham Manufacturing Co., Providence, R.I., 1918""--page [1] 8"" x 10"" black & white silver print photographs, mounted on rectos and versos. Images show building environs, products and machinery, as well as labor, including a final print of women at work on an assembly line. Scrapbook format, two metal rivet eyelets with string binding. Light green linen over cover boards with title stamped in black lettering. Gorham Silver produced grenades and other types of munitions for the World War I effort."
Publication Date
1918
Keywords
Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States; grenades; weapons production centers; weapons makers; weapons; Weapons and Ammunition; world wars; Rhode Island, United States; scrapbooks; Gorham Manufacturing Company
Disciplines
Art and Design
Style / Period
twentieth-century
Materials / Techniques
gelatin silver prints; scrapbooking; riveting; string (fiber product)
Measurements
25 x 32 cm
Work Type
scrapbooks
Binding
grommets
RISD Fleet Library Catalog Record
Recommended Citation
The Gorham Studio, Gorham Manufacturing Company; Collections, Special; and Library, Fleet, "Munitions Plant, Gorham Manufacturing Company : Eddy Street, Providence RI" (1918). Gorham Manufacturing Company Design Library. 16.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/specialcollections_gorhamdesignlibrary/16