Vintage work crew photos

[Jon]

Workers grinding drills at the Republic Drill and Tool Company. Chicago, Illinois, 1942.

This awesome find hits on a lot cylinders for work crew photos we love: the machines, the era, the WWII propaganda, the old tool company, the uniforms, the hair, the smiles, the sparks, the workers so serious about their jobs, the enormous fullsize photos, the link to a large collection of related photos from an official source. Spent a good bit of time this morning basking in these beautiful photos!

Some picks:

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Many more similar photos in the Library of Congress collection here, and they have enormous 100MB+ fullsize TIF files: Search Results: "LOT 1982" - Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (Library of Congress)

[threesixesinarow]

Search Results: "LOT 2011" - Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (Library of Congress)

The photos from Gulbransen reminded me of pictures in George Dodd’s “Days at the Factories” from a hundred years earlier.



https://books.google.com/books/about...d=udkDAAAAQAAJ

Many interesting engravings and descriptions.

Julien Turgan published a similar series of articles, “les grands Usines” about 20 years later, CNUM - 4KY15 : Les grandes usines