Vintage work crew photos

[ranald]

You should see the ones the sheep use.Post #599

[hemmjo]

I would think those thin stilts would be sinking into the marsh mud. French marshes must be different that the marshes we have around here.

[Jon]

I wondered about that too, and thought it was a hoax or some such, but the use of stilts in this same region is documented repeatedly in photos and art.



This reminds me of the hi-lift jack base accessory:



This caught my eye too; not sure if one or the other is a baseplate, or a rock, or an artifact of photography:

[Ralphxyz]

The stilts must have worked but I cannot picture how and what is it with those fur coats?

Ralph

[volodar]

Ralph, Perhaps it was the cool seasons originally. Then, fashion it eventually became. Just idle speculation.

[Jon]

WWII shell factory workers.

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[Toolmaker51]

WWII shell factory workers.

Won't relay thoughts or likely text I'd post.
But it's in English!

[ranald]

#608 It's amazing how wars can get economies going even after depressions & also that governments cant find/create the requisite resources & stimulii to fix most recessions without wars. They suddenly find dough to SHELL out overnight.

[volodar]

Re: WWII shell factory workers
A pre-digital era ¨photoshop¨. How did the four front line workers - conveniently, two men, two women get into the tightly packed rows of shells? Removal/insertion from above? Temporary planking walkway? Part of a WWII bond drive ad I suppose. Certain to fool many.

[Scotsman Hosie]

Re: WWII shell factory workers
A pre-digital era ¨photoshop¨. How did the four front line workers - conveniently, two men, two women get into the tightly packed rows of shells? Removal/insertion from above? Temporary planking walkway? Part of a WWII bond drive ad I suppose. Certain to fool many.

I don't know. Unless the angle of the photo belies the actual amount of space between them. Still, the question might be — what are they doing?