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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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Printer's Devil: 1942
September 1942. Richwood, West Virginia. "Lois Thompson, printer's devil on the Nicholas Republican newspaper." Photo by John Collier, Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Texting
I hope she didn't get in trouble for using her iPhone while working!
Just waiting to be spotted!
This is probably the last day this young woman wore a white blouse to work in a print shop. As for the job case, she better mind her p's and q's!
Unfortunate name
This is surely the printer's angel.
California Job Case
The young lady is setting type from a lip front California Job Case, made by Hamilton. I first used one of these in about 1955. Still have several of them.
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