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View of lathe area on machine shop floor at Watson.

Horizontal strander on shop floor at Watson.

Facade of Railroad Avenue, central portion of Watson Machine.

Horizontal strander on shop floor at Watson.

Lunch wagon at side door of machine shop at Watson.

Pattern storage area above current machine shop floor at Watson.

Facade of Railroad Avenue, central portion of Watson Machine.

Horizontal strander disassembled on shop floor at Watson.

Lunch wagon at side door of machine shop at Watson.

Central crane over machine shop floor at Watson.

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Forms part of a group of images documenting the daily work activities of people at Watson Machine International, a machine tool manufacturing company located at 74 Railroad Avenue, Paterson, NJ, on August 4, 1994.

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ethnographic photographs industrial facilities machine shops watson machine international machinery industry ethnography paterson nj central crane central crane machine shop floor machine shop floor watson high resolution new jersey working in paterson project collection working in paterson occupational heritage in an urban setting american folklife center robert mccarl ultra high resolution manufacturing library of congress
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01/01/1994
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Contributors

McCarl, Robert (Photographer)
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Paterson (N.J.) ,  40.91667, -74.17194
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Library of Congress
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label_outline Explore Crane, Watson, Floor

Mary Tomlin at work on "tube winding" on first floor.

Joe Kachler drilling holes in a small strut.

Production. Small ramp boats. Fitting and painting small wooden ramp boats at a Southern shipyard. These thirty-six-foot carriers, built of prefabricated sections, are used for making beach landings of men and equipment. The completed boats are launched by crane and delivered in tows of six to eight. Higgins Industries

[ Danny Kaye, while on tour of Japan and six Asian nations, speaks to Japanese musicians crouched on floor of stage with their instruments as children in kimonos play or sing near them]

[Managers office, parking garage, New Haven, Connecticut. Scheme A ("square"). First floor plan]

Omar Abukharma installing motors on a pay-off machine.

Jewish family working on garters in kitchen for tenement home. (For complete details see Miss E.C. Watson's report.) Location: New York, New York (State)

Buffalo, New York. Mrs. Grimm, in the black dress, a twenty-six year old widow, with six children under twelve, is a crane operator at Pratt and Letchworth. Her two youngest children, Mona, two, and Carol, five, live in a foster home during the week. Mrs. Hehr, holding the rabbit, is their foster mother, and is giving a birthday party for Mona

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. Normally used in manufacture of floor waxers, as shown here, this five-spindle drill press is now used full-time on defense orders for which this small Eastern plant is under subcontract. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Michael Murphy showing gauges, micrometers and other standardized and temperature controlled measuring devices used as part of quality control at Watson machine.

General Dynamics Corporation Shipyard, XYZ Crane & Towers, 97 East Howard Street, Quincy, Norfolk County, MA

Engineer (white shirt) and machinist work on machine used for fiber-optics applications.

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ethnographic photographs industrial facilities machine shops watson machine international machinery industry ethnography paterson nj central crane central crane machine shop floor machine shop floor watson high resolution new jersey working in paterson project collection working in paterson occupational heritage in an urban setting american folklife center robert mccarl ultra high resolution manufacturing library of congress