Another find from the Library of Congress. Tampa, Florida box factory in 1909.
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Another find from the Library of Congress. Tampa, Florida box factory in 1909.
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Cigar boxes!
In the 1950s I hauled Connecticut shade tobacco to Tampa (once famous Cigar Capital of the World).
As an aside, a Judge once asked me if I promised to take a certain girl to Florida. I said no Judge, I said I was gonna tampa with her.
Thanks for the memories.
FWIW, When I was a child in the early 1950's, there was a small box factory near where I lived in Winnipeg. It was mostly a big barn like building with a small office in one corner. It was mostly women that worked there, not a lot, maybe 4 or 5. The main part of the building was unheated, even in the winter at 30 or 40 below. In those days a lot of homes and small businesses were heated with wood or coal stove(s) or furnace(s) and I assume that the owner was afraid of a fire in the building. With all the sawdust and wood dust it wouldn't have taken much to start a fire. They used a lot of used boxes and crates that were dis-assembled to get the wood for new boxes.
Produce packing house. Covina, California. Circa 1900.
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Someone in that shot sure didn't want their face to be seen
Really??? How long would it have taken to pick up that paper before the shot??? I assume they're packing grapefruit?
"Someone in that shot sure didn't want their face to be seen "
I thought she was just having a good sneeze. :)
Her husband probably thinks she's off having an affair! Wouldn't want to get caught in a lie like that!
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Threshing crew, Hungary, 1925.
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Naval Gun Factory, Washington Navy Yard, Washington, D.C., 1890-1910.
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I'd like to see the lathe that cut that thread. Is that a solid piece of metal or is it screwed together?
I think you are looking at the lathe....it's still on it.
I want to see the arms on the guy that ran the tap :lol:
Wow, marksbug you are correct the chuck and drive belts are over on the right.
Washington Navy Yard female lathe operators. 1943.
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Huh, looks like women on the left side of the room, men on the right. Looks like a press pic too judging by the VIPs in the aisle down the shot a little.
No one's hair is going get caught in the machinery there...
The third and fifth operator on the left do not look female!
Don't try to guess their gender...
Can't. Too far down in the pit to swing the tap wrench.:lol:Quote:
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Railway personnel. Torre Pellice, Italy. 1910s.
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Gee, I would have loved to have one guy playing the mandolin on my work crews and they get two.
I been workin on the railroad all the live long day.
Some of those men haven't got their stars...
British sappers train to defuse bombs blindly. 1943. Largest image size available.
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WTF? As if it’s not scary enough defusing a bomb the poms add even more excitement by making them do it blindfolded. ; )
Practice makes perfect.
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Correct sir.
Combat does NOT stop at night and the need for light discipline is essential. Learning to defuse in the "dark" is very important.
Hat factory. Luton, England. 1907.
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You don't wear hats in a hat factory...
Funny, the flat brimmed boaters on table I imagine fit post Victorian England. The wide brimmed straw hats above I just can't see worn by English. Felt or woolen sure.
But what do I know.
Certainly Queen E likes stylish hats. My Mom would always say "she'll pick-a-dilly"
Maybe each one of those guys has a different size head. They pass a new made hat around until it fits somebody who then marks the size and puts it in the storage place above his head or on the table in front of him.
Pulling in fishing nets. Nazaré, Portugal. 1950.
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One time while I was in Spain near the country of Gibraltar I stopped at this one smaller village to visit their beach it happened to be fishing day though. Over in a cove the people of the town had hauled their nets out by boat the previous day and were in the process of hauling them back to shore. This scene reminds me of how they were doing it. Almost every able bodied person was helping to drag the long laden nets to shore Later they cut the fish into strips and hung the strips on fences walls lines almost everywhere that the sun shown on them to dry the strips of fish. so the practice of yesteryear still in used in modern times
"Yellow Bellies" grinding knives, named because of the yellow sandstone dust that would collect on their clothes. France. 1902.
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