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Name and location of repository
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Item
Title
D25237-1
Date(s)
- 1947-01-08 (Creation)
Extent
Name of creator
(1919-1980)
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Scope and content
This photograph from January 1947 shows several unidentified employees of the Fick Foundry Company, at 1005 East D St., pouring molten metal to cast a large machine bed for a veneer panel saw. Founded by Samuel Fick, Sr. in 1924, the Fick Foundry could produce grey iron, steel, bronze and aluminum castings to order. The foundry was destroyed three times by fire, in 1924, 1942 and 1959. Each time it was rebuilt. They finally went out of business in the late 1980s.(T. Times, 1/15/47, p. 5).
Metalworking--Tacoma; Ironwork--Tacoma; Laborers--Tacoma; Fick Foundry Co. (Tacoma);