Gas Traction Foundry photograph collection [graphic] circa 1917.

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Gas Traction Foundry photograph collection [graphic] circa 1917.

Includes views of exterior, interior, employees in the company offices, and the delivery truck. Many of the interior views show employees manufacturing items using molds and furnaces.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6648744

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Gas Traction Foundry

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Hibbard, C. J.

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Gas Traction Foundry was reorganized as the Northwestern Steel and Iron Corporation in the late 1910s or early 1920s. During this time period, the company occupied a square block, numbers 2907-2943 of an unidentified street in Minneapolis. It employed 150-200 workers and manufactured open-hearth steel castings, many of which are visible in these photographs. From the description of Gas Traction Foundry photograph collection [graphic] / photographed by C.J. Hibbard. ca. 1917 (Minnesot...