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Black and white photograph showing employees assembling grummets at Plymouth Cordage Company, c. 1940s.

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Black and white photograph of Plymouth Cordage Company's grummets on artillery shells, c. 1940s.

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Black and white photograph of Peter Viau, retired driver for Electro Metals, posing next to the current driver and truck, c. 1950s. Part of WPL's T.N. Morrison archives, the former editor of the Tribune, possibly taken by Morrison for an article…

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Colour slide of an unidentified abandoned industrial building, c. 1970s.

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Colour slide showing a car leaving the Atlas Steels plant, c. 1970s.

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Colour slide showing the rail crossing at Atlas Steels on the corner of East Main and Ross Streets, c. 1970s.

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Postcard showing a ship on Welland Canal passing by Union Carbide and Page Hersey plants, c. 1940.

The text on the back reads: ""Where rail and water meet", circa 1940. This photo from the top of the Broadway Bridge shows a great lakes ship…

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Newspaper clipping of an obituary about Joseph Phylias (Peter) Viau, who was a well-known Welland personality and worked at Electro Metals (later Union Carbide) for 42 years. From the June 17, 1970 edition of the Welland Tribune.

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Tapping 30 ton electric at Atlas Steels. Welland, ON, circa 1930s

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Construction outse Union Carbe, Welland, ON, photo 8
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