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Steam Shovel Used in Upper Arlington Land Development, 1918

from UA Archives | Upper Arlington History

• jamica1 said:

  Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Science, Technology, History, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Steam Shovel

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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• Patrick Castelli said:

  An interesting scene!

• KölnMike said:

  Your observation is an interesting one. The well dressed adults (overcoats, shoes and hats) on a cold damp looking day, is a harsh contrast to the young barefoot child with just a jumper and shorts. When browsing through Mount Saint Lawrence’s Cemetery burial records, it’s therefore not surprising to see a high ratio of children dying young at that time. Many tough kids had to survive Frank McCourt’s Limerick.

• Swordscookie said:

  That poor man will never be able to pull that contraption all the way to Ardnacrusha! A factor in it's positioning is that most of the houses in Georgian Limerick had coal cellars that went out under the streets and might not have borne the weight of the Steam Shovel. You will note that it is in the centre of the roadway where it was strongest.

• National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

  KölnMike Well, it just struck me that here we have a behemoth of modern technology, imported from Germany, lumbering off to what was one of the largest engineering projects in the world at that time - and a boy barefoot on the street watching it pass by. While I'm always wary of making assumptions about lack of shoes, in this case, he really does look poor juxtaposed with some of the men...

• Swordscookie said:

  KolnMike - I wonder how many Limerick people would consider any aspect of their city to be Frank McCourts? I know what you mean though, the hardships, the conditions and the poverty.

Nearly exhausted sulphur vat from which railroad cars are loaded, Freeport Sulphur Co., Hoskins Mound, Texas (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Vega Chastain said:

  That is so aesthetically pleasing but I bet it smelled horrendous!

• Gord McKenna said:

  Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Elemental Sulphur, and we'd love to have this added to the group!