Grease Plant Worker, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Grease Plant Worker, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Photograph

Gordon Parks

Maker
American, 1912–2006

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
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