Laborers from the Berlin Iron Bridge Company at work on building the roof of the Forbes Library

Laborers from the Berlin Iron Bridge Company at work on building the roof of the Forbes Library

Workers—Massachusetts; Berlin Iron Bridge Company, East Berlin (Conn.); Building construction—Massachusetts—Northampton; Forbes Library, Northampton (Mass.)

The roof of the new Forbes Library being constructed by a team of workers standing on the iron beams. All the workers are wearing hats. The caption on the photograph reads, “Designed and built by the Berlin Iron Bridge Company, Office and Works, East Berlin, Conn.”

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1893

Image is from the Special Collections, Hampshire Room, Forbes Library, Northampton, Massachusetts. http://www.forbeslibrary.org/special/special.shtml

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