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Worker with mallet – Vintage Print

Worker with mallet, 1938 — antique lithograph
Worker with mallet, 1938. Antique lithograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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This rare antique lithograph captures Worker with mallet in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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A stonecutter with a mallet and chisel is the sole focus of this 1938 lithograph, which renders the labor of shaping stone as a matter of posture and muscle rather than setting. The subject headings place the work squarely in the 1930s, a decade when the United States was still feeling the economic strain of the Depression and when federal programs were putting many workers to work on public building projects. Prints of workers like this one were part of a broader artistic interest in dignity of labor during those years, and the image is worth studying for how it captures the physical rhythm of hand tools against hard material.

Created / published1938
Medium1 print : lithograph.
GenreLithographs 1940-1950.
SubjectsEmployees--1930-1940. Chisels & mallets--1930-1940. Stone cutting--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,075 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-161075

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