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Employees at work tables

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Collection Type

  • Photography

Location Note

Large - Geo - Massachusetts - Brockton - Fields, Brow, and G. Co. (Montello, MA) - Mounted

GUSN

GUSN-195019

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Description

A group of nine male workers stand next to or lean on work tables in a factory. Several of the men wear aprons. There are small animal skins and patterns on the tables. This may be a factory of the shoe and boot manufacturing company, Field Bros. & Gross, of Montello, Brockton, Massachusetts.

Details

Descriptive Terms

factories (structures)
skin (collagenous material)
workers
patterns (guides)
work tables
shoes (footwear)
aprons (protective wear)
industrial buildings
footwear
labor
industry (economic concept)
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs

Additional Identification Number

DigitalID 000244
AccessID 330
Other identifier HNEDID-000244

Physical Description

1 photograph

Collection Code

PC001

Collection Name

General photographic collection

Reference Code

PC001.02.01.USMA.0450.0050.001

Date Notes

1902

Places

Montello (Brockton, Plymouth County, Massachusetts) [neighborhood]

Record Details

Originator

Commercial Photo Co. (photographer)

Material Type

black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs

Other Organizations

Field Bros. & Gross

Description Level

Item

Location Note

Large - Geo - Massachusetts - Brockton - Fields, Brow, and G. Co. (Montello, MA) - Mounted

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