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But only if the kids are the right caliber...
Wrap 'em in a swab first.Quote:
Originally Posted by mklotz
This picture is terrifying is a lot of ways! Big Karen in the background is giving the "stink eye" to those two actually working. No gloves and both wearing rings, no proper hair nets. The one on the right has an adhesive bandage on her hand. It looks like a pretty dim room given the effect of the flash used. Everything is galvanized and there's a wood roller in the middle, difficult or impossible to sanitize - a word you would likely have to define for everyone in the room. It makes me really queasy looking at it.
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Crew at McDonald's Brickyard, Round Pond, Oklahoma Territory, 1894.
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Surgery in a primitive field hospital. Ilomantsi, Finland, 1941.
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"Surgery in a primitive field hospital. Ilomantsi, Finland, 1941."
I am always thankful for the people who are willing and able to do these things.
It's not my cup of tea.
Great picture - emergency battle surgery in a family residence. I was one year old. Small village at the time, northern Finland, now a small town. Soviets were attempting to "annex" Finland through invasion. Finns destroyed a severe part of the soviet invading army, and the soviet cut and ran. Finland's ugly neighbour is now called russia, and has never bothered Finland since. Of course, there's no trust towards putin, nor towards his buddy drumpfh - who now calls himself trump. Birds of a feather.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jon
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Construction of the cable road on Browadway, New York City, in 1891 - North from Canal St.
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Love the hats
"Construction of the cable road on Browadway, New York City, in 1891 - North from Canal St. "
I tried to find some info on the cable road. The only thing I could find was in the Scientific American and I am not a subscriber.
I looked up the history of the Bowler hat many of them wore (it was quite popular among the working classes in the late 18000's and early 1900's...it wasn't until later that it became part of the bankers uniform in London's financial district) ; it was originally made for gamekeepers who needed a sturdy hat to protect against branches and such: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowler_hat so it could well be described as the original "hard hat"
You might have better luck Jim if you take the "W" out of Browadway -----Broadway---- will get you more hits
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https://collections.mcny.org/Collection/14-St.-[Construction-of-the-cable-road-on-Broadway,-1891.]-24UAKVSQPCM.html
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/...rk#/?tab=about
I tried to find some info on the cable road. The only thing I could find was in the Scientific American and I am not a subscriber.
Rufus did start the now oldest magazine in the US...
"You might have better luck Jim if you take the "W" out of Browadway -----Broadway---- will get you more hits"
Thank you, Google took the 'W' out for me.
Your third link is what I needed, I thought it was all photos and failed to read the column on the left.
This early form of mass transit operated by means of two giant cables (powered by centrally positioned steam engines), which ran just below street level, pulling the cable cars along the track at a steady 30 miles per hour. Unfortunately, the underground cables-and hence the trains themselves-could not be slowed down at all, even when turning corners; the sharp turn at Union Square (at 14th Street) became known as Dead Man's Curve for hurling passengers around as it navigated the bend. Constant accidents and numerous breakdowns ensured the rapid demise of the Broadway Cable Railroad.
It must have been exciting to get on and off at 30 mph
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is a great site for viewing those old construction pictures and NYC in general
There's alot more stuff on there.
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Bofors guns used by the Army and Navy are shown lined up at the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. in Akron, Ohio. April, 1944.
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Closing up the hold of a grain boat. Superior, Wisconsin. August, 1941.
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Mill workers in Macon, Georgia. 1909.
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4.7 inch Dutch artillery gun and work crew. April, 1949.
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A photograph of a photograph. Theres some good detail but shame about the pixelation. Would be nice to see the original.
The gun might be Dutch but I dont think the workers are Dutch.
Probably Indonesians
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Work on streetcar tracks, Fourteenth and G Streets N.W., Washington, D.C. July, 1941.
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"Work on streetcar tracks, Fourteenth and G Streets N.W., Washington, D.C. July, 1941."
I was just a child, but this is an example of how life as we know it can change in a few months.
You are probably right. The Dutch East Indies folks were all over there up until end of WWII.
July 1941, I was less than a year old in an Eastern European war zone. I see 'passengers' in both cars. Stalks to live wire are not extended, nor do I see a live wire aloft. These cars aren't going anywhere on their own power. Totally staged publicity photo, except perhaps for the sidewalk people. Streetcars look like the ones in Toronto Canada when we arrived there in 1956 - and are still running every few minutes today, sometimes two in tandem. Am I missing something?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jon
SAFETY FIRST - DON'T GET HURT
try it again. only a half second of pixelation on my old chromebook.Quote:
Originally Posted by 12bolts
That's telling me if you have a construction company in Washington DC, make sure you call before you dig!
Not sure what you are referring too but pixelation occurs when you try to zoom in on an image and the detail is not there due to file compression. No amount of time is going to bring the lost data back.
Exactly. I was thinking that when this photo was posted in #1528 (https://diqn32j8nouaz.cloudfront.net...w_fullsize.jpg)Quote:
Originally Posted by owen moore
There is so much infrastructure under ground. The amazing work that was done with such limited equipment constantly fascinates me. I am sure there was some heavy equipment involved in these projects, but there is none to be seen in the photos. Only the "hard men" who created such good times for us that follow.
Unfortunately those good times have created such soft people, and now the hard times are coming back full circle.
4 stages of society:
Hard times produce hard men.
Hard men produce easy times.
Easy times produce soft men.
Soft men produce hard times.
It's important to note that maybe half or more of the photos in this thread are at least in some regard done for publicity purposes. For some images, workers may simply have been told to dress nicely that day, or more photogenic workers may have been prioritized. For others, machinery or workplaces may have been cleaned, or structures or objects being built may have been arranged to make for a better photo.
For the era from which we're posting these pics, candid photography didn't really exist, and most people were rarely, if ever, photographed. The important thing is that the work crews - and the work - are more or less accurate.
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New York City clerks during the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic.
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Long exposures meant no candid photos...
Surprisingly enough, shutter speed was quite fast in the early days of "film" photography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:M...animated_2.gif This series of animated images was shot using 1/1000 sec in 1878-1887
In 1851 William H.F. Talbot photographed news print on a revolving wheel at 1/2000 sec https://people.rit.edu/andpph/text-hs-history.html
In the early 1880's shutter speeds as fast as 1/6000 sec were possible. https://people.rit.edu/andpph/text-hs-history.html
Prussian photographer, Ottomar Anshutz. In 1884 invented a small hand-held camera using a focal plane shutter to provide exposures as short as 1/1000 sec
"The late 1880's saw the invention by George Eastman of nitro-cellulose roll-film and the Kodak box camera which heralded the advent of popular photography. George Eastman Kodak Exposure times were fixed, the box camera being supplied pre-loaded. Exposures were made outdoors in good light, and the camera returned to Kodak." https://www.brayebrookobservatory.or...CALC_HIST.html Although the exposure time isnt provided, presumably it was reasonably fast considering this was a disposable camera aimed at the amateur "snapper"
A quick browse of the various shutter types that were developed, Shutter Types - Antique and Vintage Cameras including spring or rubber band operated shutters in as early as the 1880's would suggest that short exposures were desired.
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Workers in a pasteurized milk factory, Turkey, 1930s.
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Shoe and boot factory. 1892.
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The shoe repair shop owner in my hometown was called 'Gluefinger Mike'.
Subway construction. New York City, 1913.
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Street sweepers. Boston, 1909.
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