LH0921 "Burning of Schofield Works"
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- Black and white photo of the exterior of Schofield Woollen Co. on fire.
- Notes
- The factory, built in 1872, was at the end of Centre St. S. and was eventually demolished. It was first inhabited by a High Beaver Hats, then by Masson Manufacturing Company. In 1892 J. Schofield purchased the building and incorporated Schofield Woollen Co. This depicts one of several fires at the Schofield Woollen Mills prior to closing in 1951.
- Inscriptions
- "Burning of Schofield Works"
- Date of Original
- ca. 1900
- Dimensions
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Width: 5 cm
Height: 3.5 cm
- Subject(s)
- Corporate Name(s)
- Schofield Woollen co.
- Local identifier
- LH0921
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.8851697567432 Longitude: -78.8604211807251
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- Copyright Statement
- Public domain: Copyright has expired according to Canadian law. No restrictions on use.
- Location of Original
- PHOTO BUS B-001 000070
- Terms of Use
- please credit Oshawa Public Libraries, Local History Collection
- Contact
- Oshawa Public LibrariesEmail:nadams@oshawalibrary.on.ca
Website:
Agency street/mail address:
Nicole Adams, Local History and Genealogy Librarian
65 Bagot Street
Oshawa, ON L1H 1N2
905-579-6111 EXT 5253
