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[Machinists Bert Reales and Jim Dowling working on the shop floor.]

[Machinists Bert Reales and Jim Dowling working on the shop floor.]

[Machinists Bert Reales and Jim Dowling working on the shop floor.]

Machinists working on the shop floor; the man with white hair is senior machinist Jim Dowling.

Machinists working on the shop floor; the man with white hair is senior machinist Jim Dowling.

Machinists working on the shop floor; the man with white hair is senior machinist Jim Dowling.

Machinists working on the shop floor; the man with white hair is senior machinist Jim Dowling.

Bert Reales and Jimmy Dowling measuring drive shaft on lathe.

Machinist Jim Dowling at lathe. Paterson New Jersey

[Machinists Bert Reales and Jim Dowling working on the shop floor.]

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Forms part of a group of images recorded on August 17, documenting scenes at Watson Machine International, 74 Railroad Avenue, Paterson, New Jersey.

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work processes ethnographic photographs machine shops watson machine international machinery industry machinists ethnography paterson nj bert reales machinists bert reales jim shop floor shop floor new jersey working in paterson project collection working in paterson occupational heritage in an urban setting american folklife center martha cooper jim dowling robert mccarl humberto reales ultra high resolution high resolution library of congress
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Date

01/01/1994
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Contributors

McCarl, Robert (Collaborator)
Reales, Humberto (Depicted)
Dowling, Jim (Depicted)
Cooper, Martha (Photographer)
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Location

Paterson (N.J.) ,  40.91667, -74.17194
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Library of Congress
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http://www.loc.gov/
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label_outline Explore Shop Floor, Humberto Reales, Reales

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Joe Kachler drilling holes in a small strut.

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Omar Abukharma installing motors on a pay-off machine.

Bert Parsons Bridge, Spanning Fisher River at West Fisher Drive, Cornell, Chippewa County, WI

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

[Bert Whaling, Boston NL (baseball)]

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

Joe Kachler measuring stock at his tool box; the tool box and all of the tools are the machinist's; many of Joe's tools are from his father who was also a machinist.

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

Sharon Whitehead, secretary, in her office at Watson.

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work processes ethnographic photographs machine shops watson machine international machinery industry machinists ethnography paterson nj bert reales machinists bert reales jim shop floor shop floor new jersey working in paterson project collection working in paterson occupational heritage in an urban setting american folklife center martha cooper jim dowling robert mccarl humberto reales ultra high resolution high resolution library of congress