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Gardner Pipe Works workers making a concrete pipe , Orange, California, ca. 1902

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Title: Gardner Pipe Works workers making a concrete pipe , Orange, California, ca. 1902
Date Created and/or Issued: ca. 1902
Publication Information: Orange Public Library
Contributing Institution: Orange Public Library and History Center
Collection: Orange Public Library Local History Collection
Rights Information: For information on copyrights and permissions, please contact Orange Public Library, Orange, California.
Description: Gardner Pipe Works workers making a concrete pipe , Orange, California, ca. 1902. Photograph is number two in a series of photographs showing the manufacture of cement pipe at the Gardner Pipe Works, demonstrating a pipe molding process utilizing a mold patented by H.H. Gardener. Note attached with photos reads, "Shows machine set up and men just starting to make pipe. One man feeds while the other tamps." On the back of the note, a potential customer has written in pencil, "Will say I think your machine is OK but I am not in the market, just now- Oblige B.H. Esb." On the right side is a wheel barrow filled with concrete. The H.H. Gardner Company was formed in 1900 by Henry Howard Gardner, and manufactured cement pipes, bricks, ditches and provided the cement foundation for the Orange Public Library (1905), a Carnegie Library. The company was located on West La Veta Avenue in Orange, California. Henry Howard Gardner was born March 6, 1875 at the family's home on South Glassell Street.
Photographic print
B&w
12 x 13 cm.
Type: image
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt8w1014px
P971
10512055
Language: English
Subject: Concrete products industry
Pipe industry
H. H. Gardner Company--Orange (Calif.)

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