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Bottle Club: 1909
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 4:52pm.
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November 1909. "Some of night shift waiting to go to work. Cumberland Glass Works, Bridgeton, New Jersey. One boy is 13 years old." And then we have the operator on the left. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size.
The message in the bottle
Submitted by Louise on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 12:13pm.
Maybe it reads, "Please, send us to High School."
He's a "Playah"
Submitted by Rute Boye on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 6:53am.
Maybe we should call the guy on the left "The Situation." This is New Jersey, after all!
Ghost
Submitted by Vintagetvs on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 7:49pm.
It seems someone was carrying a crate behind the Bicycle Man, thereby losing his shot at immortality.
The Leftmost Boy
Submitted by Mal Fuller on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 7:48pm.
Has gotten too big for his britches.
Bet it stings, too.
Submitted by Bink on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 6:01pm.
Seems to be a message in that bottle, by god.
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