LOT #18004. Rare photograph of the Mariupol Providence plant in an artistic passe-partout 1908-1912. The full name of the company was "Russian Providence in Mariupol, Joint-Stock Company". The Providence plant was a joint-stock company founded by the Belgian company Providence in Mariupol, Russian Empire, in the late 19th - early 20th centuries. The plant was one of the largest foreign joint-stock companies engaged in ferrous metallurgy at that time. In 1898, it was merged with other plants to form the "South Russian Metallurgical Company". In 1898, the Russian Providence plant was merged with the Taganrog, Yenakiyevo metallurgical plants, and the metallurgical plants of the Nikopol-Mariupol Mining and Metallurgical Society, forming the South Russian Metallurgical Society, after which the plant became part of the Ilyich Mariupol Metallurgical Plant.
Passe-partout size: 205 x 163., Photo size: 115 x 85 mm.
