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Jeffrey Manufacturing Company Collection
Description: This photograph depicts a one-horsepower mortar mixer used during the construction of a factory building at the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company in Columbus, Ohio. Steel paddles on a long shaft in the trough were turned by the horse to mix the cement mortar. The Jeffrey Manufacturing Company, also known as the Jeffrey Mining Corporate Center, was established in 1876 as the Lechner Mining Machine Company in Columbus, Ohio by Joseph Jeffrey and Francis Lechner. The company was the number one manufacturer of coal mining machinery worldwide until the mid-twentieth century. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01205
Subjects: Manufacturing industries--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Columbus (Ohio)