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Old Cement Mill

Dateabout 1865

MediumPhotography; albumen print on paper

DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 12 1/8 x 16in. (30.8 x 40.6cm)
Sheet (height x width): 19 1/2 x 23 3/8in. (49.5 x 59.4cm)

Credit LineGift of the Moore Family

DescriptionA man stands beside a wooden structure at the edge of a pond, possibly a sluice gate belonging to an old cement mill. Grass, bushes, and boards are in the field in the foreground. Trees surround the pond in the background, and the roof of a building is visible beyond the dam in the distance.

Object number2006.65.4

InscribedOn recto, in pencil: left margin, "Site of the old still. Afterwards Blacksmith shop."; lower center, "R. Moore & Sons" "Old Cement Mill"; center of photograph, beside man, "N.A.M."

On verso, in pencil: upper left, "E.M. Moore"; upper right, "T / 066"; lower right, accession number.NotesSubject Note: R. Moore & Sons manufactured hydraulic cement at this site in Kensington for 25 or 30 years, ending between 1850 and 1860. Here they made 150 barrels of cement for use in the construction of the family home, the Stonehouse, begun in 1860 and completed in 1861. (Finlay 9/21/2006)

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