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Pattern storage area above current machine shop floor at Watson.

Horizontal strander on shop floor at Watson.

Central crane over machine shop floor at Watson.

Looking south in machine shop toward assembly area and paint booth at Watson.

Horizontal strander on shop floor at Watson.

Michael Murphy on shop floor of Watson Machine International, in front of quality control section.

View of lathe area of machine shop from catwalk.

Rear of Watson Machine building looking at back of the current machine shop on the left on the former foundry on the right.

Horizontal strander disassembled on shop floor at Watson.

View of lathe area on 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 lathes watson machine international machinery industry ethnography paterson nj view lathe area lathe area machine shop floor machine shop floor watson new jersey working in paterson project collection working in paterson occupational heritage in an urban setting american folklife center robert mccarl ultra high resolution high resolution manufacturing library of congress
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Date

01/01/1994
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Contributors

McCarl, Robert (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 Lathes, Watson, Lathe

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

Joe Kachler drilling holes in a small strut.

Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to Haifa. Tel Aviv. Diamond works. Diamond cutting on lathes

Conversion. Food machinery plant. This turret lathe was purchased second-hand from a nearby shoe factory to speed production on war subcontracts held by a New England plant which formerly turned out cube steak machinery. Edwin Becker is checking on a retooling job in progress which will eventually fit the new lathe to thread three-and-a-quarter-inch hexagonal nuts. Becker is checking the measurements of the tool hole in the turret with those of the specially-built tap which will do the threading. Cube Steak Machine Company, Boston, Massachusetts

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)

Watson Mill Bridge, Spanning South Fork Broad River, Watson Mill Road, Watson Mill Bridge State Park, Comer, Madison County, GA

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.

[Woman working turret lathe in training school, Lincoln Motor Co., Detroit, Mi., during World War I]

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. This is a South Bend swing lathe used formerly in the manufacture of merry-go-rounds. This machine, along with others in this New York state plant is now turning out bits and pieces for our war program. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

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

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