... the office parties when the most unexpected facets of co-workers' personalities would be revealed, giving us the rest of the year to ... Did the Ion Department require perfect vision of its workers?
My cue I don't even start listening to Christmas music until I ...
Mrs. Ruth Van Fleet (named in the photo) lived with my grandmother until Van Fleet's death in 1943. The exact date of this image is unknown, but it looks like the women could be working in a munitions factory. So I'd guess it was probably the earl ...
... will be paying $140 for a pair of jeans like these.”
Workers’ pant legs They're not short, about ankle length when standing. ... up any moisture so you don't want them too long.
Metal workers maybe? The young guy on the left has goggles but his face and arms ...
... Office of War Information. View full size.
Mexican workers in Walla Walla My grandparents' farm had a cabin a ways from the ... might be rather offensive.
"Welcome Mexican Workers" My, how far we have come since then.
Memories of my father ...
November 1942. "Sunray, Texas. Workers at a carbon black plant." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon ... that to protect from heat? I find it interesting that the workers took great care to protect legs and arms with tight fit but no ...
This photograph of Civilian Conservation Corps workers was taken in the Vicksburg National Military Park in July, 1934. There were four camps of CCC workers in the park, doing erosion control work to protect the bluff from being ...
November 1941. "Sock driers at the hosiery mill in Greene County, Georgia." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano. View full size.
Chipman Union hosiery mill Probably at the Chipman Union hosiery mill in Union Point . Nearby ...
Making submarine nets for Hazard Wire and Rope, during the war (unsure of the exact year). The ladies were allowed to work just four hours a day due to the harsh conditions. My grandmother Veronica Turchin (nee Oroski) is front row, far left.
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Purchased at a house sale many years ago. No location known.
[These guys look more like inmates to me. -tterrace]
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My grandfather, Grant M. Hodge is on the far right. He was a resident of Santa Barbara from 1921 until his death in 1967. The Puritan Ice Company was founded in Santa Barbara and operated between 1922 and 1986. They manufactured large blocks of ic ...
... glass factory. Negroes work side by side with the white workers." Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size.
"Side by side with the white workers" It seems as if Mr. Hine wants to say that that is a shame ...
... that a failure of Communism, then?
There are child workers all There are child workers all over the world in factories, mines and other types of exploitaion ...
... named after the mayor.
FD was built to house war workers originally... ...
says:
"Built as temporary housing for World War II workers, Frederick Douglass had been deemed uninhabitable in 1998 and left ...
... are screaming their heads off by now ;o)
Health Care Workers In those "early" days of x-ray, it's easy to see why the life span of such health care workers was probably shorter than those not working with x-rays.
X-ray ...
... Security Administration. View full size.
Skilled workers These were highly skilled workers to bend that steel with minimal tooling.
Steel Erection? Ah, ...
March 1941. "Defense workers in front of rooming houses. Norfolk, Virginia." Medium format acetate ... end of WWII. After all, there was a war on!
Defense workers? I realize as I get older kids look younger but I really can't believe these two are defense workers. Defense workers' kids maybe.
I know, all you have to go by it is ...
... Photograph by Dorothea Lange.
Migrant/transient workers A glance at these faces serves to remind that the agricultural miracle that brings potatoes to our tables needs workers to harvest them and they must raise their children next to these ... contrast to their surroundings and situation [and fellow workers]. This was one of the most moving photos in the series for me. ....If ...
Summer 1929. Washington, D.C. "Workers on building under construction." Harris & Ewing Collection glass ... made of "steelier" stuff than I.
Half of all high iron workers wear neckties to work.
Up in New York The Upstate and ... tribes were noted for their many high-rise open steel workers. Was this true in Washington as well?
Generations apart but Nick ...