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Larry Schneider adjusts a lathe. Hawthorne, New Jersey

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Forms part of a group of images documenting machinist Larry Schneider's machine shop and his family at their home in Hawthorne, New Jersey. Larry is a machinist who works at Watson Machine International in Paterson.

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ethnographic photographs machine shops lathes ethnography hawthorne nj larry schneider larry schneider lathe hawthorne working in paterson project collection working in paterson occupational heritage in an urban setting american folklife center martha cooper robert mccarl ultra high resolution high resolution industrial facilities library of congress
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01/01/1994
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McCarl, Robert (Collaborator)
Schneider, Larry (Depicted)
Cooper, Martha (Photographer)
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Hawthorne (N.J.) ,  40.94917, -74.15389
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ethnographic photographs machine shops lathes ethnography hawthorne nj larry schneider larry schneider lathe hawthorne working in paterson project collection working in paterson occupational heritage in an urban setting american folklife center martha cooper robert mccarl ultra high resolution high resolution industrial facilities library of congress