Scrap iron pile, Draper Company, May 12, 1911, 1911

Negative no.B897. May 12, 1911. Gelatin silver print, [1974], from a glass plate negative, May 12, 1911. Image depicts a view of the scrap iron pile outside one of the Draper Company buildings. One man stands in front of the pile, which gives the viewer a sense of the size of it (at least three stories high). See also Box 180, Negative 883, which shows the pile a month earlier and is a closer view that does not show the extent of the pile shown here. See Negative 896 and Negative 898, in this box, for other views of this man in front of the scrap pile taken on this date. See Box 185, Negative 934, Negative 935, and Negative 937 for views of the scrap pile taken a month after this one. The Draper Company manufactured textile machinery, which explains the extent of the scrap iron pile. 8 x 10 in. See Collection 6612 P, Box 15, Folder 2, Item 897 for print of this negative.