Grease Plant Worker, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Photograph
Grease Plant Worker, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Cleaning a drum, Pittsburgh, 1944
Pittsburgh, PA. The Cooper's Plant at the Penola, Inc. grease plan, where large drums and containers are reconditioned. March 1944
Grease Plant Worker, 1945
March 1944
Gelatin silver print
Image: 9 7/16 × 7 1/2 in. (24 × 19 cm)
Matted: 17 15/16 × 13 7/8 in. (45.5 × 35.2 cm)
Museum accession by exchange
1978.1069.0003
Inscriptions Inscribed in blue ink on verso, TRC: 3124
Typed in black ink on label adhered to verso, C: Parks Pittsburgh Grease Plant March,1944 \ 3124 The 'Coopers Plant' is where the large
drums \ and containers are reconditioned. Here a work- \ man lifts a drum
from a boiling lye solution \ which has cleared it from grease and dirt
part- \ icles.
Inscribed in blue ink on verso, RB: 3124 [written vertically]
Stamped on in red verso, C: PLEASE CREDIT STANDARD OIL CO. (N.J.) PHOTO BY PARKS
Stamped on in red verso, BRC: PLEASE RETURN UNUSED PHOTOS TO \ STANDARD OIL CO., (N.J.) \ PUBLIC RELATIONS DEPT. \ 30 ROCKEFELLER PLAZA \ NEW YORK 20, NEW YORK
Typed in black ink on label adhered to verso, C: Parks Pittsburgh Grease Plant March,1944 \ 3124 The 'Coopers Plant' is where the large
drums \ and containers are reconditioned. Here a work- \ man lifts a drum
from a boiling lye solution \ which has cleared it from grease and dirt
part- \ icles.
Inscribed in blue ink on verso, RB: 3124 [written vertically]
Stamped on in red verso, C: PLEASE CREDIT STANDARD OIL CO. (N.J.) PHOTO BY PARKS
Stamped on in red verso, BRC: PLEASE RETURN UNUSED PHOTOS TO \ STANDARD OIL CO., (N.J.) \ PUBLIC RELATIONS DEPT. \ 30 ROCKEFELLER PLAZA \ NEW YORK 20, NEW YORK
