St. Louis Worlds Fair Bridge Crane

For you material handling buffs, I stumbled upon a picture of a P&H crane from the 1904 Worlds Fair in St. Louis. I know there are some old P&H cranes at the Anheuser Busch brewery that probably are in the same vintage as this crane. If you have any old cool crane pictures send them to me and I will include in a future blog.

Following are the specifications:

A Pawling & Harnischfeger 50-ton type "AN" bridge crane with a 10-ton type "A" trolley with standard a block at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair in either the Palace of Electricity or Machinery. The crane is stamped with the text "Pawling & Harnischfeger Builders, Milwaukee, Wis., Main Hoist 100,000 Lbs., Auxiliary 2,000 Lbs., No. 1054." There are booths from various companies (Curtis Steam Turbine, Westinghouse, Weber Gas & Gasoline, Waters Pierce Oil Co.) on the floor of the room. Also of note is the man in the cab of the crane.