Photographic album “War damage”
Société Anonyme des Blast Furnaces and Foundries of Pont-A-Mousson
Pont-A-Mousson factory,
View of the Pont-à-Mousson factory before and after the War
Bound in burgundy imitation leather, pages mounted on tabs, titled on a label on the first cover.
Album composed of 96 silver photographs laminated on cardboard and bearing in the title the words “Société anonyme des Hauts Fourneaux & Fonderies de Pont-à-Mousson” and under the proof the number of the photograph as well as its explanatory cartridge.
Around 1900
Very precise documentation on the damage suffered during the First World War by the Pont à Mousson steel factory (or Pont-à-Mousson blast furnaces). The factory, founded in 1856, located in eastern France in Lorraine, was the site of formidable and tragic battles.
Since 1970 this factory has been a subsidiary of Saint-Gobain.
The album allows you to have points of view from different parts of the factory:
View taken in 1910, in 1914 then following the bombings of the First World War: a view showing the protection of the machines by earth bags as well as the roof on the south side demolished by a shell, a view on the north side, an interior view of the roof, repair of the gable on the south side (x2).
Destruction on the diesel station and the drilling hall, view of the Blacke coolant and the tank, the Ehrardt gas blower, the gas pipe, the Cooper apparatus, the casting hall with the furnace, the Gustave Beaudoin hall, the hall of Serbia, the forge, the boilerworks, the store, the cement works, the brickworks, the Tonkin market, the locomotive shed.
Total: 3000.00 €