Gorham Manufacturing Company
The Gorham Manufacturing Company was one of the largest American manufacturers of sterling and silverplate and a foundry for bronze sculpture.
Border detail of a "Melrose" pattern bowl by Gorham
Gorham Manufacturing Company's Works. Canal, Steeple, and North Main Streets, Providence, 1886
Piece created for Edward Dickinson Baker
889–891 Broadway
Providence is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. The county seat of Providence County, it is one of the oldest cities in New England, founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, a Reformed Baptist theologian and religious exile from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He named the area in honor of "God's merciful Providence" which he believed was responsible for revealing such a haven for him and his followers. The city developed as a busy port, as it is situated at the mouth of the Providence River at the head of Narragansett Bay.
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