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Canning Factory
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Slightly elevated view of women who are working processing corn on a canning assembly line at the Fall River Canning Company. They are wearing aprons and gloves, and many of them have scarves or hats.
1977
Turner, L. Roger
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Meat Packing
August 30, 1965
Workers are filling orders of ground steak patties by putting them into corrugated boxes layered with parchment divider paper.
Chassis Assembly
circa 1950-1959
General Motors chassis assembly. Men are working among the machinery.
Pasta Factory
circa 1940-1949
Workers posing with racks of fresh pasta drying in the sun in Naples, Italy.
Carrie-Craft Catamaran Houseboat
circa 1970-1979
A Carrie-Craft catamaran houseboat on lift at the Carrie-Craft factory.
Heritage Days
1977
Two women are standing and admiring quilts hanging on a clothesline at a show or fair at Villa Louis.
Granite Quarry
1977
Elevated view across a granite quarry looking west, with Buffalo Lake in the background. Buildings of the town are between the quarry and the lake, and a pond has formed in the bottom of the quarry.
