Tapping Molten Iron into a Transfer Bucket in the Baldwin Foundry

Tapping Molten Iron into a Transfer Bucket in the Baldwin Foundry

The picture shows a worker pouring molten iron into a transfer bucket. Once poured into the transfer buckets, the iron would be poured into molds cut into a bed of sand.

Philip Scranton and Walter Licht, Work Sights: Industrial Philadelphia, 1890-1950 (Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press, 1986)

c. 1910

Michael Weiss

Courtesy of the Historical Society of Philadelphia