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Carl Johnsoncjonthehudson@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-07-10

In my defense, I had no idea that #ManholeCoverMonday was a thing here, or I'd have been participating long ago. Bits of artistic infrastructure fascinate me. Here's the first one I could find on my phone, on the grounds of the former #ValleyForge General Hospital, a military hospital now used for a Christian college. I'm not sure which foundry the 'W' represents – it appears to say "Contractors F[oun]dry Inc", and Phila, 1942.

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A manhole cover, as they used to be called, a cover for a underground utilities. This is round, surrounded by grass. There is an interesting pattern of lines that creates almost a waffle effect – mostly continuous vertical bars, from which horizontal bars extend, but the horizontals don't quite connect with the next vertical, so it's a broken pattern. In the center is a large sans serif W, presumably representing the name of the foundry, but I haven't figured out what foundry it would have been. Below the W in much smaller letters are two lines of type. The first is "CONTRACTORSFDRYINC" where I think they have abbreviated "foundry" as "FDRY," not so unusual – so it should mean Contractors Foundry, Incorporated. Beneath that, Phila (for Philadelphia), 1942.

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