City's smaller industries: Miss Virgie Byrum, Peterson Engineering & Manufacturing Company

Creator

Preview

Identifier

20025594

Description

Some interior and exterior scenes, published in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that depict Fort Worth's smaller industries, their products and hopes for expansion in a post-war world. Here is an interior scene showing Miss Virgie Byrum, spot welder at the Peterson Engineering & Manufacturing Company (Co.), north of the L. Boaz Trading Post, puts the finishing touches on one of the 400 lead-steel coated mail boxes the new firm will manufacture daily. Published in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram morning edition, January 29, 1946.

Archival Date

1946-01-23

Collection Name

Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection

Collection Number

AR406-6-390

Original Format

Negatives, Black & White

File Format

JPG

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License

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Subjects

Industry; Mailboxes; Metalworking; Metallurgical industry; Products