Hiram Hughes, 659 Branch Street, Kingsport, Tennessee. Hughes is shown here at work at the Kingsport Press building up a case. This is a highly skilled operation and requires great care and exacting . ...
Photograph
Hiram Hughes, 659 Branch Street, Kingsport, Tennessee. Hughes is shown here at work at the Kingsport Press building up a case. This is a highly skilled operation and requires great care and exacting . ...
November 11, 1933
Gelatin silver print
19.3 x 24.1 cm.
Gift of the Photo League Lewis Hine Memorial Committee
1978.0735.0049
Inscriptions verso-(in ink) "Photo by Hine for T.V.A."
(applied typed label) "H-135. Hiram Hughes, 659 Branch Street,
Kingsport, Tennessee. Hughes is shown here at work at the Kingsport
Press building up a case. This is a highly skilled operation and
requires great care and exacting workmanship. Hughes has mastered the
art of casting and finishing plates as well as building. He is
unusually capable and besides working in town, owns a farm near Piney
Flats."
(applied typed label) "H-135. Hiram Hughes, 659 Branch Street,
Kingsport, Tennessee. Hughes is shown here at work at the Kingsport
Press building up a case. This is a highly skilled operation and
requires great care and exacting workmanship. Hughes has mastered the
art of casting and finishing plates as well as building. He is
unusually capable and besides working in town, owns a farm near Piney
Flats."
