Women sewing at long tables next to tall windows in a garment factory.
- Title:
- Women sewing at long tables next to tall windows in a garment factory.
- Collection:
- Introduction to Photography Collections at Cornell
- Set:
- Labor and Work
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Creation Date:
- 1940
- ID Number:
- 5780pb32f3ap600g
- Collection Number:
- 5780 P
- File Name:
- KCL05780pb032f03ap600g.jpg
- Work Type:
- photograph
- Materials/Techniques:
- gelatin silver prints
- Subject:
- Clothing Industry
Sewing
Shop Scenes
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union - Description:
- Looking down a room over approx. 80 women sewing at long tables next to tall windows in a garment factory. The women who can be seen clearly are light skinned, middle aged, and wearing short sleeves. The tables are going across the frame, there are 5 women per table side, each sitting in a wooden chair, working at a sewing machine, with a bin on the floor next to them. Photo cropping marks are present on this image, and would crop out ceiling, walls, and floor.
- Cite As:
- ILGWU Photographs, 1835-1992 #5780 P. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
- Repository:
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University
- Archival Collection:
- ILGWU Photographs, 1835-1992
- Box:
- 32
- Folder:
- 3
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
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