Vintage work crew photos

[gatz]

The lady in front might be mistakenly tossing her out-basket documents into her File 13.
Some vets may not be getting their due benefits......nothing new there.

[mansworld]

Comfortable shoes before the painful high heels.

[marksbug]

skeered you might get caculated?

[Jon]

Hot rolled seamless tube workers. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation Seamless Tube Department. Aliquippa, Pennsylvania. 1942.

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[marksbug]

I saw a very old seamless tube machine under one of the DaVinci museeums in Milan italy. they just left the machine shop there in the dirt and built over it many stories tall.also a ancient wishing well with many old coins still there..and oh somuch more.wire manufacturing,sizing ,stretching etc,big chevron gears.I loved it.

[Jon]

Workers bring sphagnum moss from an Oregon forest to Portland, to use as wound dressings in WWI.

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[marksbug]

behind the seen hero's. (horse too)

[old_toolmaker]

I have read about using peat moss as a wound dressing. Used extensively by Native Americans. Maybe to this day!

[Jon]

Shoe factory cutting room. Brockton, Massachusetts. 1908.

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[jimfols]

Shoe factory cutting room. Brockton, Massachusetts. 1908.

i always appreciate a well made and well fitting pair of boots or shoes.