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Home-Built Heath

Date: 1932
Description: Ray and Carl Breecher's Heath parasol monoplane while still under construction in their father's garage. Despite extensive modification, the plane crashed ...
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Polisher at Work

Date: 1910
Description: A workman poses beside a belt-driven polisher inside a shed at the Montello granite quarry. Two other men relax in the background near an open door where n...
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Woman and Man using Spinning Wheels

Date: 1910
Description: A woman and a man using spinning wheels in a textile factory. In her journal Carrie describes the conditions of these factories in China as crowded and wit...
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Group Portrait of Men and Women with Scissors

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Description: Studio group portrait of nine people. Three women are standing in the back row, and the woman in the middle us holding a pair of shears or scissors. The th...
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Sid at Barbershop

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Description: Sid is sitting in a barber's chair with a cigar in his mouth, and the barber standing behind him. The barber is holding some kind of hat contraption over S...

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