Identity elements
Reference code
Name and location of repository
Level of description
Item
Title
A69852-3
Date(s)
- 1952 (Creation)
Extent
Name of creator
(1919-1980)
Content and structure elements
Scope and content
ca. 1952. Two boilers manufactured by Birchfield Boiler, Inc. of Tacoma. The company, located at 2503 E. 11th St., opened in 1921 on the Tideflats as the "first industry in Tacoma to lease land from the port commission." Besides the firm's well-known Birchfield Boilers, they also built steel ships and other steel construction including tanks, hot water heaters, pipes and stacks. Birchfield Boiler, Inc. was owned by Alvin T. Davies.
Birchfield Boiler, Inc. (Tacoma); Boilers; Boiler industry--Tacoma;