A handful of nice manufacturing sourcing images I identified:
[USS Cushing, Propellers and Rudder, Herreshoff Manufacturing Firm]
Image by SMU Central University Libraries
Title: [USS Cushing, Propellers and Rudder, Herreshoff Manufacturing Company]
Creator: Unknown
Contributors: Converse, George Albert, 1844-1909
Date: ca. 1889-1890
Component Of: George Albert Converse papers and photographs, 1861-1897
Location: Bristol, Rhode Island
Description: The USS Cushing (TB-1), displaying the twin four-bladed propellers and rudder. This photograph was taken prior to the ship’s launching from the Herreshoff Manufacturing Co.’s South Creating Shop, on January 23, 1890. Supply: John Palmieri, Curator Herreshoff Marine Museum/America’s Cup Hall of Fame www.herreshoff.org
Physical Description: 1 photographic print: 24 x 21 cm on 41 x 33 cm mount
File Name: mss68_two_8a_07_opt.jpg
Rights: Please cite Southern Methodist University, Central University Libraries, DeGolyer Library when utilizing this image file. A higher-quality version of this file could be obtained for a charge by contacting degolyer@smu.edu.
For a lot more details and to view the image in high resolution, see:
digitalcollections.smu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/gcp/id/463
View George Albert Converse papers and photographs, 1861-1897 at: digitalcollections.smu.edu/cdm/search/collection/gcp
[Torpedo Boat, Herreshoff Manufacturing Company]
Image by SMU Central University Libraries
Title: [Torpedo Boat, Herreshoff Manufacturing Company]
Creator: Unknown
Contributors: Converse, George Albert, 1844-1909
Date: ca. 1880-1897
Portion Of: George Albert Converse papers and photographs, 1861-1897
Spot: Bristol, Rhode Island
Description: Either the USS Porter (TB-6) or USS DuPont (TB-7) in drydock. Supply: John Palmieri, Curator Herreshoff Marine Museum/America’s Cup Hall of Fame www.herreshoff.org
Physical Description: 1 photographic print: 19 x 24 cm on 28 x 36 cm mount
File Name: mss68_two_8a_04_opt.jpg
Rights: Please cite Southern Methodist University, Central University Libraries, DeGolyer Library when making use of this image file. A high-top quality version of this file might be obtained for a charge by contacting degolyer@smu.edu.
For a lot more info and to view the image in higher resolution, see:
digitalcollections.smu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/gcp/id/460
View George Albert Converse papers and photographs, 1861-1897 at: digitalcollections.smu.edu/cdm/search/collection/gcp
Douglass Crockwell: Paper Workers, 1934
Image by americanartmuseum
Paper Workers
Douglass Crockwell
Born: Columbus, Ohio 1904
Died: Glens Falls, New York 1968
oil on canvas
36 1/eight x 48 1/4 in. (91.7 x 122.4 cm.)
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Transfer from the U.S. Division of Labor
1964.1.152
The paper plant exactly where these guys are laboring was the mainstay of Glens Falls, New York, where Douglass Crockwell had his studio. Crockwell, like numerous artists on the Public Performs of Art Project who anticipated the public exhibition of his painting, proudly depicted the chief market of his town. The workers are smoothing and stamping an huge roll of newsprint, the plant’s principal product.
Crockwell noted that in this scene dominated by mighty iron machinery he took “some liberties with the human form” since “the whole composition of the picture calls for hard structural forms.” By showing the workers as blocky figures that appear to be roughly carved out of wood, the artist visually likened the men to the source of the wood pulp from which they produced newsprint. The workers seem powerfully identified with their work. The question “what do you do for a living?” became a poignant one in the course of this time when so several had no answer. Crockwell, a busy illustrator for significantly of his life, recalled that when “the depression arrived . . . there wasn’t considerably function.”
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