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Tannery Row: 1903
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 11/19/2012 - 3:14pm.
New Orleans circa 1903. "Steamer loading hides." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Movember
Submitted by U-235 on Wed, 11/21/2012 - 7:27am.
A couple of the guys in the foreground have epic mustaches, very fitting for "Movember"!
Belts
Submitted by LadyCelia on Wed, 11/21/2012 - 6:29am.
Machine age=a great many belt driven machines. And those machine belts were made of leather.
Can someone explain
Submitted by Mark W Rummel on Tue, 11/20/2012 - 7:13pm.
what type of hides these are? I thought cow hides weren't that uniformly square. What would have been produced in the Big Easy to be shipped elsewhere back then? Plus, I wonder where they're going?
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