"Carrying-in-boy" (about 60 years old). Putting a paddle-load of glass stoppers from the "shop" that produces them into the "lehr" (annealing oven).

"Carrying-in-boy" (about 60 years old). Putting a paddle-load of glass stoppers from the "shop" that produces them into the "lehr" (annealing oven).

Photograph

Lewis W. Hine

Maker
American, 1874–1940

"Carrying-in-boy" (about 60 years old). Putting a paddle-load of glass stoppers from the "shop" that produces them into the "lehr" (annealing oven).

ca. 1937
Gelatin silver print
19.2 x 24.2 cm.
Gift of the Photo League Lewis Hine Memorial Committee
1978.0726.0023
Inscriptions verso-(rubberstamp) "Property of National Research Project of the
W.P.A. Room 917 - 12 S. 12th St. Philadelphia, Pa. Not To Be
Reproduced Before Jan. 1938." "Photo-study by Lewis W. Hine for
National Research Project of WPA 12 S. 12th St. Philadelphia, Pa."
(applied typed label) "437. 'Carring-in-boy' (about 60 years old)
Putting a paddle-load of glass stoppers from the 'shop' that produces
them into the 'lehr' (annealing oven). Here they (and the bottles
also) that come from the shop and the blowers at a temperature..."
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