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    Women at the Lever Zeep soap plant (now Unilever) in Vlaardingen, packing Sunlight soap bars into crates. Netherlands, 1910.
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    well they sure look happy...and look at the guys behind them.

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    At least 7 guys just standing around while the ladies do the work.

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    I think the guys in the back are the Lever brothers.
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    Jim - what all of them lol
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    Lever Brothers spoil a photo op. That's jacked up.
    Lol.

    But the Nederlandertje en Nederlandse are interesting enough.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MeJasonT View Post
    Jim - what all of them lol
    Well sure; that happens with good clean living...
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    she should lever brothers at home.

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    girl in the middle on the left is smiling, she is either stupid, not aware of all the facts or blissfully happy she has all the answers.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MeJasonT View Post
    girl in the middle on the left is smiling, she is either stupid, not aware of all the facts or blissfully happy she has all the answers.
    Or she is shooting a bird at the photographer.
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