They're all from Salt Lake City so they didn't notice any smell.
Paused once along the Great Salt Lake for a rest and someone else stopped, inhaled deeply and said "I come here for the fresh air."
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They're all from Salt Lake City so they didn't notice any smell.
Paused once along the Great Salt Lake for a rest and someone else stopped, inhaled deeply and said "I come here for the fresh air."
Hoover Dam drilling crew. 1932.
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Makes me wonder. A lot of agencies were involved on projects such as this. All of them remain stunning to see, like old Federal Court House in Los Angeles.
Being creation of president Hoover and FDR, this pave way for desegregation of US Military?
The smiles look truely genuine. Of course a paying job doing anything in '32 would cause smiles & the whole country benefited.
Building a lifesize 1949 Lincoln clay model.
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Each of the 3 workers is wearing a tie!!!
Be good to see a later shot just before completition.
That could be called " a Woody". I like the use and precission of a hand drill despite electric ones available at the time
A tie is only good to have around is you are expecting to be hung by it. So said my grandfather who was a carpenter a framer finished and cabinet maker in his later years his roots went back to farming. One day a man showed up at the family farm looking for work he was wearing sturdy work clothes and a tie.
Gramps told him son I don't think you will work out here.
Why not sir?
nothing personal it is just the only men who wear ties are lawyers Politian's and mucky mucks who think their worth is more than it is. I can buy many of them for what they think they are worth then sell them for what they are really worth and the deduction on my taxes would offset my loss.
I only wore the tie to make a first impression sir.
Well you did now seek employment elsewhere had you showed up with calluses on your hands and a pair of fence gloves in your back pocket I might have tried you out he said.
I've lived by that all my life
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and some of those workers really could have benefited by having a capQuote:
Originally Posted by jimfols
Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night...
Splicing the Alaska telegraph cable at Smith's Cove, Seattle. Circa 1904.
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Smile for the camera
My brother in law was a cable splicer for the phone company, turned out he was color blind. Always wondered why there was such lousy phone service in the area.
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Originally Posted by Jon
Is the guy wearing the derby hat wearing Dutch wooden shoes?
And don't move!Quote:
Originally Posted by Frank S
I can't tell if they are clogs or not but he sure has a flat instep for the length of his feetQuote:
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You're right I didn't notice that before. Kind of like his feet are sneaking up on his clogs and hasn't quite finished the process yet.
July, 1942. More at the Library of Congress.
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The finished gas mask face pieces in the foreground were just flaps of rubber without eye pieces, outlet valves, straps, tabs, and other accessories when they started on the long moving belt at the far end of the line. By the time they've reached this end, however, a hundred pairs of hands have worked on them, machining, clamping, riveting, testing, and inspecting each one until the completed masks are packaged in the final stages of production. All this activity takes place in a Midwest vacuum cleaner plant which has been converted to war work. Eureka Vacuum, Detroit, Michigan.
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July, 1942. More at the Library of Congress.
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The finished gas mask face pieces in the foreground were just flaps of rubber without eye pieces, outlet valves, straps, tabs, and other accessories when they started on the long moving belt at the far end of the line. By the time they've reached this end, however, a hundred pairs of hands have worked on them, machining, clamping, riveting, testing, and inspecting each one until the completed masks are packaged in the final stages of production. All this activity takes place in a Midwest vacuum cleaner plant which has been converted to war work. Eureka Vacuum, Detroit, Michigan.
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re post #1340 , Eureka Vacuum, Detroit.
While "All Hands" is a nautical term it fits here. Every society functions best when each performs their assignment toward a common goal. All for one is kind, one for all is noble.
I do not care that many "E", War Bond, and corporate shots were staged. A big part just met demands of security, lighting, and photography in general. That a walk [nearly worldwide] into a surplus store, [I]70-odd years hence[I] proves the accomplishment.
Elsewhere a funny thing. At any instant, a few nations display how their process 'works'.
We know their government media is only able to portray it, therefore falsely.
Jon. I'm glad such things were recorded for posterity, education, even enjoyment. Each holds a lesson. Keep them coming.
1920s Cape Cod Canal work crew.
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Pioneers of the production line, these two young workers are among the first women ever to operate a centerless grinder, a machine requiring both the knowledge of precision measuring instruments, and considerable experience and skill in setting up. In this Midwest drill and tool plant, manned almost exclusively by women, centerless grinders have been efficiently operated by women for more than a year, and company production figures have continued to soar. Republic Drill and Tool Company, Chicago, Illinois. 1942.
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Kind of hard to tell what is going on in this barge on the canal.
It looks like those might be some type of pumps (2 items) driven by manual power. But with the lines seemingly tied to one of the wheels of one pump would keep that from happening.
What is the large line running under the barge supposed to do? Is it a line that another craft, like a ferry across the canal, is normally used to move the ferry from one side to the other side of the canal?
Is the "barge" in which the work men are standing actually 2 barges tied together?
It does look like 2 barges "rafted" together. The 2 pumps are hand cranked diving compressors, somebody has just draped some lines over them. The 2 men rear centre, wearing beanies, are divers in standard dress.
Cheers Phil
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Originally Posted by Jon
Think about that, and fact of not only instance of such a report. manned almost exclusively by women, centerless grinders have been efficiently operated by women for more than a year, and company production figures have continued to soar.
Thanks Phil. I hadn't noticed the the dive gear the beanie guys are wearing. Good catch. Do you think the 4 guys in the right hand area could have an "air line" stretching off in the distance to the right to a possible 3rd diver in the water somewhere?
Richard
But what could they possibly be doing in that frigid water?
Richard, not with those air pumps unmanned.
Cheers Phil
Could they be repairing a cable laid in the canal? The guy on the right could be hauling it in, goes across the barge and off the back. Divers in case of hangup.
By the look of the divers on the barge, they have secured something on the bottom and now it is being recovered.
Cheers Phil
Yes In The Groove. I started thinking about that too when Phil brought up the Bennie guys in dive gear. That water has to be no warmer than 32.001 F! And I bet that you have a bit of trouble having a divers BRASS HAT maintain a warm temperature. I guess the dive compressor warms the air a little as it is placed under pressure but the helmet is surrounded by freezing water the whole time. How about it Phil?
Workers installing Henderson Street trunk sewer. Seattle, Washington, 1937.
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A wooden sewer line? Was it covered with cement? Probable empting directly to the bay after all the solution to pollution was dilution.
1937.... I wonder if it has been replaced by now?
This photo is why OSHA and the EPA were established...
Weyrhauser Pulp mill where I worked for forty years, we had miles of wood staved water and pulp lines, all made of redwood ceder that were more than 80 years old. As long as the lines were wet, the ceder wood never rotted. We had some leak now and then and if they had a hole in them from a knot in the wood gone bad, the pipe fitters plugged the leak with a redwood dowel! There were many wooden lines that were underground since the early thirties that was still good but the State told them to replace them with stainless steel because they might leak, they were still perfectly good lines. The pulp mill pumped water from the Columbia River every day for making pulp by the millions of gallons daily!
Yep underground filled with water no oxygen I can see where it would not rot especially since it was redwood. I have dug up cypress trees on my property 100 ft deep that were buried for a few thousand years. Even the bark looked like the tree had been felled last week. If I could have gotten the wood up in longer pieces than 12" I would have made a dinner table out of it.
Yup, I believe it, There is a family somewhere up state Washington that have bogs where they unearth hundred of years's old redwood ceder wood and have made a sizable fortune from it for furniture for the rich!