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12 photos tagged workclothes, from 3 members of Flickr Commons.

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• unusual
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• industry
• digitalimage
• fascinating
• work
• industrial
• shipbuilding
• maritimeheritage
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• northeastofengland
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• workers
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• newcastleupontyne
• attentive
• working
• wall
• debris
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• North East Museums 8 photos
• The Library of Congress 3 photos
• Smithsonian Institution 1 photo

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Repairing locomotives at the Scotswood Works

from North East Museums

• Land Rover 61 said:

  The boiler on the left appears to be under a steam test with pressure gauge, water level sight glass and temporary regulator handle. A fascinating photograph.

• Billy Embleton said:

  Preassure testing yes, but with water. It was much safer.

• Franc Mitchell said:

  Armstrong, Tyneside repaired ex W.D. - R.O.D.'s post war, this may be what we are looking at, some of them were on sold to China. Whoops, looks like 'Tags' look like a brain-storming session! Nor can I see a 'train anywhere, and only barely half a locomotive.

Cultivating sugar cane on the Virgin Islands Company land, vicinity of Bethlehem, St. Croix (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• 20 older comments, and then…
• BeMcdee - (Bobbie) - McDonel Photography said:

  Wow, look at the coloring in this photo. Looks alot like the stuff us modern photographers try to duplicate.

• ralph said:

  This is amazing. Wow. Thank you for this collection - it's like going to photography school. This feels like a painting.

• Evrim Icoz said:

  Awesome.

• Marmalade_Photography said:

  very cool

• Ruth S said:

  A question for the collective wisdom -- are these migrant farmworkers, sharecroppers, or -?-

A.S. Gerdee, of 3251 Maypole(?) Street, working as a switchman at Proviso yard of C & NW RR, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Library of Approximate Location said:

  This man is the original of everything I consider awesome.

• Logan Zillmer said:

  You know this guy was funny.