Filling, weighing and sewing 25 lb sacks of sugar – Historic Photograph Print
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(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Filling, weighing and sewing 25 lb sacks of sugar, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Filling, weighing and sewing 25 lb sacks of sugar
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Workers filling, weighing and sewing 25-pound sacks of sugar are the subject here, a step in food processing that depended heavily on hand labor in the early twentieth century. The picture survives as an 8 by 6 inch glass negative from the National Photo Company, a Washington, D.C., firm that documented commerce, government and city life. Its date falls between 1910 and 1920, when bulk packing of staples was becoming standard. Streaks and blemishes from the aging coating are visible on the plate, and Herbert A. French gave it to the Library of Congress in 1947.
| Created / published | [between 1910 and 1920] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 6 in. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch seven. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 6,776 × 5,299 px · prints to 23 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-260266 |
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