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this is in a museum in the North of England- I snatched the photo from "Asquith", a UK afficianado of old machinery, hope he doesnt mind.

Its kind of like 4 or 5 KA75's all built in a row into one frame. I would assume there were american equivalents, although I never saw one. I believe this dates to around the 1840s to 1860s.
It was probably used for production forging of spindles for spinning and weaving machines. Each loom might need several hundred spindles, and there were factory after factory full of looms there at that time.
The little hammer on the left is a "Kinghorn" from Todmordon.

I found another picture of one in a google book-

Its a 50lb hammer, a copy, more or less, of a little giant.
Kinghorn went on to become a big UK manufacturer of brakes, shears, and rolls, lasting well into the 1970's, but I think they stopped making power hammers after WW2.