Lot 275
275 •(TIMKEN ROLLER BEARINGS)
A charming workplace study, with 27 candidly-shot employee portraits, photographed at the Timken Roller Bearing Company during WWII.
Each featuring a happy laborer at their workstation, nearly all openly displaying their photographic employee I.D. badges. Including 8 photographs of female workers, a few bearing resemblance to "Rosie the Riveter," and a number of workmen with dirtied dungarees and oil-stained overshirts. Silver prints on carte-postale paper, the images measuring approximately 3½x5½ inches (8.9x14 cm.), nearly all with the printed caption "Working for Victory at Timken," and most with the subject's name and some with a playful comment such as "Sweetheart of Dept. 78" or "Old timer, 30 yr. on the job," in pencil or ink, on verso. Circa 1944
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