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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.

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.

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.

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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 shop floor shop floor hair machinist jim machinist jim high resolution 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 ultra high resolution library of congress
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Date

01/01/1994
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Contributors

McCarl, Robert (Collaborator)
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, Jim Dowling, Machinist Jim

Joe Kachler drilling holes in a small strut.

Omar Abukharma installing motors on a pay-off machine.

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

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.

Women fix each other's hair in the absence of a beauty shop at Pie Town, New Mexico

Chicago, Illinois. Provident Hospital. Miss Lydia Monroe of Ringold, Louisiana, a student nurse. Her father is a machinist at the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company

[Two women in bathing costumes drying their hair]

Sharon Whitehead, secretary, in her office at Watson.

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

Bob Dale and Jim McComiskey (with unidentified person) checking switches and connections on the take up control panel.

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work processes ethnographic photographs machine shops watson machine international machinery industry machinists ethnography paterson nj shop floor shop floor hair machinist jim machinist jim high resolution 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 ultra high resolution library of congress