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Thanks Art Siegel: We will add more details to the description for this image and for the related one.

And here is the re-developed factory, looking from the waters-edge

Handwork and how many for change they made lipstick? Very interestingly.

What a fascinating capture. I once heard that the average woman ingests 14 pounds of lipstick in her life.....

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This design morphed into larger machines with more operators until Optical Character Readers made the keyer obsolete. I saw a lot of these changes from my first postal job in 1968 until I retired in 2006 (didn't work for the PO for all those years!). Tens of thousands of similar machines were scrapped over the years, many in service for very short periods. Technology moved pretty fast.

JOHN LLOYD Thanks for sharing a little bit of your story with The Commons on Flickr community, Hugo90! Truly deepens our perspective and enriches the experience. Sincerely, Susannah Smithsonian Institution Archives

An article in the Feb. 23, 1918 Brooklyn Eagle describes the creation of the Ann Fulton House by the War Work Council of the YWCA at 115 Fulton in Manhattan, a clubhouse formed for the women who were working in Wall Street because of the war. The article quotes an insurance company manager who said he had 125 women working for him as opposed to 12 a year earlier. bklyn.newspapers.com/image/57092638/?terms=115%2Bfulton

over at shorpy, someone has colorized this photo: www.shorpy.com/node/11540?size=_original#caption

Thanks Art Siegel for the information about the Ann Fulton House. We will add some details to the image description. Interesting to see the colorized version of the related image too!