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- Freeze Frame
- Texas Flyer wanted
- Just a Year Too Soon
- WWII -- Replacing men with women at the railroad crossing.
- Yes, Icing
- You kids drive me nuts!
- NOT An Easy Job
- I wonder
- Just add window boxes
- Icing Platform?
- Indiana Harbor Belt abides
- Freezing haze
- Corrections (for those who care)
- C&NW at Nelson
- Fallen Flags
- A dangerous job made worse
- Water Stop
- Passenger trains have right of way over freights?
- Coal
- Never ceases to amaze me.
- Still chuggin' (in model form)
- Great shot
- Westerly Breeze
- For the men, a trapeze
- Tickled
- Sense of loneliness ...
- 2 cents
- Charm City
- What an Outrage
- Brighton Park
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American Doll: 1936
1936. "Mount Holyoke, Mass. Paragon Rubber Co. and American Character Doll. Building rubber doll moulds." Photo by Lewis Hine, who seems to have moved on to bigger things once he was done snapping newsies. View full size.
Body builder
Those must have been some tough dolls, to have helped him develop big muscles like that.
Ah, Shall I Say It?
He's a "leg" man! What a HUNK!
I'll take two
... dolls, of course!
Wow, what an amazing composition. This is a variation on one of Hine's most famous photos, of the powerhouse mechanic (1920). Like that one, this photo is as much a study of the human form as a snapshot of the American factory worker. I love a good juxtaposition, and this photo has it -- between the muscled upper torso of the craftsman and the doll legs he's working on. The light is also beautiful in this shot.
Humble request
This man should definitely be among the ranks of the Handsome Rakes!
Lookalike
Wow does he ever look like Chef Bobby Flay! Well except for those muscles. That file sure must give him a workout.
Hunks
There has been criticism of the tag "Pretty Girls" used with some pictures at Shorpy. Perhaps this example is #1 for the tag "Hunks"? As @Vintagestvs says - not your picture of a toymaker.
[The tag is called Handsome Rakes. - Dave]
Big Windows
Most manufacturing plants always seemed to have a large amount of big windows to let in the light. Any NY'ers out there - think Long Island City, and it's abundance of factories and manufacturing plants.
One of the reasons (I believe) that plant owners did this was to save on electricity. I see the one light bulb hanging down. I am sure there were more but not too many.
[When most of these plants were built, electricity was not an option. - Dave]
Paragon, ACDC
When it went out of business in 1989, Paragon Rubber Co. was located at 150 Pleasant St in Easthampton, just northwest of the town of Mt. Holyoke. American Character Doll Co. (known by its multiple-meaning acronym ACDC) apparently went out of business in 1989.
Not what comes to mind
when you think of a Toymaker.
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