Vintage work crew photos

[hemmjo]

The only disconcerting thing is the floor sweeper and the look he has...almost like he's watching or talking with the guy at the bench.

WHY is it disconcerting that a man might be watching or perhaps talking to a guy at the bench?

I do not see it like this at all. The photograph is an instant in time. If you care to look as closely at the broom as you looked at the tool boxes, you clearly see the man is working. Both hands are gripping the broom, the bristles are bent to indicate he is perhaps pulling chips from under the corner of that work bench. One of the first things I noticed is that the floor of that big shop is spotless except for some kind of fluid behind the sweeper.

I do not see anyone chose that he might be talking to. Even if he was, what it the problem with talking to a co-worker or being fascinated by the machines and workers doing that they do? Very possibly something that was not available to him at the time in history.



My $.02