Balmar Airplane

ID: 2276 ~ Source: Image courtesy the Baltimore Museum of Industry, BGE Collection.
 ~ Date: c.1920
This file appears in: Poole & Hunt Foundry and Machine Works
Balmar Airplane
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Airplane fuselage under construction at Balmar Corporation.

This file appears in: Poole & Hunt Foundry and Machine Works

By Nathan Dennies
At its peak in the late nineteenth century, the Poole & Hunt Foundry and Machine Works employed over 700 people, making it one of the largest employers in the Jones Falls Valley after the textile mills. The company manufactured an impressive…