Hecox, C.W. Instructor in Machine Shop, D.C. Public Schools, supervising manufacture of practice shells for Navy at McKinley Training School, Washington, D.C.
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Two men working on a machine in a factory, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection
Photo shows Clarence Wirt Hecox (1872-1951). The basket weave dome is a venting cover for the lathe motor. (Source: Flickr Commons Project, 2015)
Title from similar image: LC-H261-2780.
Date based on date of negatives in same range.
Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955.
General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.hec
Temp. note: Batch seven.
The Harris & Ewing, Inc. Collection of photographic negatives includes glass and film negatives taken by Harris & Ewing, Inc., which provide excellent coverage of Washington people, events, and architecture, during the period 1905-1945. Harris & Ewing, Inc., gave its collection of negatives to the Library in 1955. The Library retained about 50,000 news photographs and 20,000 studio portraits of notable people. Approximately 28,000 negatives have been processed and are available online. (About 42,000 negatives still need to be indexed.)
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