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Westinghouse Electric Plant, Philadelphia, Pa., November 27,1920.
A peep into the great Westinghouse Electric... |
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Winding silk at the Sauquoit Silk Manufacturing Company, Philadelphia, PA, March 27, 1918.
In the early 1900s, Pennsylvania mills accounted... |
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Hardwick and Magee Company of Philadelphia. September 17, 1925
Carpets and rugs were a major part of Pennsylvania's... |
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Canal boats under construction on the Susquehanna River at Highspire, PA. circa 1870.
The more than 3,000 miles of roads and 1,200... |
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American Sheet and Tin Plate Company worker trims tin plate.
American Sheet and Tin Plate Company worker... |
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Female workers applying labels to bottles, H. J. Heinz Company, Pittsburgh, PA, circa 1915.
Committed to the welfare of his employees,... |
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Pittsburgh Glass Factory glass polishers, Ford City, PA, 1926.
In the early 1900s, skyscrapers reached for... |
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Production; wrapping department, Kiss; female employees; assembly line, women verifying weight of 2 pound boxes, 1936-1937
Production; wrapping department, Kiss; female... |
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Hershey Press Company; Interior; workers with printing equipment and machinery; signs visible on walls, ca 1911-1915.
Hershey Press Company; Interior; workers... |
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Production; knock out department; bar production; female employees catching molds, 1930-1935.
Production; knock out department; bar production;... |
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Boyertown Carriage Works Paint shop, c. 1913.
Craftsmen Charles Butterweck, Lawrence Rothenberger,... |
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Men working at large fabric troughs in a Sauquoit Silk mill in the Lehigh Valley, circa 1900.
The Sauquoit Silk Manufacturing Company operated... |
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Horse drawn wagons filled with hemlock bark for use in the tanning industry somewhere in northern Pennsylvania, circa 1890.
Hemlock produced inferior lumber, but its... |
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The making of glazed kid gloves, somewhere in Pennsylvania, circa 1910.
Pennsylvania tanning operations continued... |
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Capping off window glass cylinders preparatory to flattening, circa 1912.
Capping off window glass cylinders preparatory... |
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A glass blower works with a blowing iron and molten glass to blow a window-glass cylinder, Pennsylvania, circa 1900.
A glass blower works with a blowing iron... |
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REA; TVA; Stringing rural TVA transmission line, 1930s
REA; TVA; Stringing rural TVA transmission... |
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The War Emergency Act of 1917-1918, allowed Pennsylvanis's Hog Island Shipyard to build merchant ships, which the company's employees did faster than any other shipyard at that time.
The War Emergency Act of 1917-1918, allowed... |
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Narrow gauge logging railroad somewhere in Pennsylvania, circa 1900.
Transporting logs off the mountains often... |
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Female employees working in the Burpee seed packing plant, circa 1890.
In the late 1800s young women left farms... |
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The Open Hearth Furnace crew (including children) at the Jones and Laughlin Steel Company, 1900.
Jones and Laughlin, one of the largest iron... |
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Workers installing poles for electrical lines, circa 1940.
Across the state, rural Pennsylvanians pitched... |
