Loading Scrap Iron

Loading Scrap Iron

Two men in a train car guiding a crane that is loading scrap iron at a small building just west of the Russell Miller Milling Co. mill in Dickinson.

Osborn Studio

10/7/1942

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black and white Kodak safety film

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17626-001

Dickinson, ND

Safety Film Negatives

4" x 5"

adjacent to the Russel-Miller elevator and mill-located on West Broadway, Dickinson

Title created by Dickinson Museum Center. Envelope is marked Dickinson Press.

A copy of this photo appeared in the Oct. 14, 1942 issue of The Dickinson Press with an article and attributes the photo to Osborn Studio. It states "Shown in the picture is the Northern Pacific locomotive crane, only moving power available able to lift the heavy castings, lifting up half of a giant flywheel. Size of the flywheel may be determined by comparing with the man standing in the boxcar in which the scrap was loaded." The mill company's 450 horse power cross compound engine engine was sold for scrap because of the War Production Board's request to gather all available scrap metal. The mill was closed in 1935 and had not been used since except to store grain in the elevator.

Box81. Photo storage.

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