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Textile Industry 18 Scenes of Tool Rooms Labor and Mid-Century Machinery in Reading Pennsylvania Photo Archive c. 1945

1945réf. 234071945. Reading Pennsylvania factory photo archive documenting textile machinery production and hosiery manufacturing work circa late 1940s to early 1950s at or near the Wyomissing industrial complex associated with Textile Machine Works and Berkshire Knitting Mills. Reading became one of the major American centers for full fashioned knitting machinery after Ferdinand Thun and Henry Janssen founded Textile Machine Works in 1892 and the equipment seen here belongs to the world of stocking manufacture before seamless nylon hosiery reshaped the industry in the 1950s. Photo archive of 17 large silver gelatin photographseach 8 x 10 inches Reading or Wyomissing Pennsylvania circa 1940s to early 1950s. Rows of large knitting machines fill long factory rooms under fluorescent lighting; workers stand beside circular or braiding machinery marked with chalked Greek words; an engineering office includes men studying large technical drawings; machine tools metal stock exterior factory buildings tanks and utility structures place the scenes within a large industrial plant. Several versos are stamped "Paul Bauer Photographer 608 Franklin St. Reading Pa." and "Photo by Paul Bauer." Several shop-floor views include a chalked Greek vocabulary list beside the machinery a striking detail in a Reading industrial region that had an established Greek immigrant community by the early twentieth century. The archive records the machinery workers drafting practices and plant environment behind Pennsylvania's textile machinery economy at the point when American hosiery manufacturing still depended on large specialized mechanical systems and skilled shop labor. Documenting the production floors machine details engineering rooms workers and exterior plant views. Minor edge and curling; images remain clear and well preserved. Overall in very good condition. unknown books

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Textile Industry 18 Scenes of Tool Rooms Labor and Mid-Century Machinery in Reading Pennsylvania Photo Archive c. 1945

Max Rambod Inc. · États-Unis485,00 $US≈ 433,31 €

Smith, W Eugene; La Fabrica EditorialBiblio.com

W. Eugene Smith: Mas real que la realidad

réf. 75-8168Madrid: La Fabrica Editorial 2008. Fo. Cloth Hard Cover ca. 240 pp. First Edition. B&W Plates. Version with Cover Image from Page 47. Very Good. Dust Jacket also Very Good with Creasing. Includes Belly Band of Terra Cotta Paper. Oversize Book May require extra Shipping ChargesWilliam Eugene Smith was born in 1918 in Wichita Kansas. He took his first photographs at the age of 15 for two local newspapers. In 1936 Smith entered Notre Dame University in Wichita where a special photographic scholarship was created for him. A year later he left the university and went to New York City. After studying with Helene Sanders at the New York Institute of Photography in 1937 he began working for News-Week later Newsweek. He was fired for refusing to use medium-format cameras and joined the Black Star agency as a freelancer……Smith worked as a war correspondent for Flying magazine 1943–44 and a year later for Life. He followed the island-hopping American offensive against Japan and suffered severe injuries while simulating battle conditions for Parade which required him to undergo surgery for the next two years……Once recuperated Smith worked for Life again between 1947 and 1955 before resigning in order to join Magnum Photos as an associate. In 1957 he became a full member of Magnum. Smith was fanatically dedicated to his mission as a photographer. Because of this dedication he was often regarded by editors as “troublesome.”â€¦.A year after moving to Tucson to teach at the University of Arizona Smith died of a stroke. His archives are held by the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson Arizona. Today Smith’s legacy lives on through the W. Eugene Smith Fund to promote “humanistic photography” founded in 1980 which awards photographers for exceptional accomplishments in the field. Madrid: La Fabrica Editorial, 2008 hardcover

Alan Wofsy Fine Arts · États-Unis250,00 $US≈ 223,35 €

Smith, W Eugene; La Fabrica EditorialBiblio.com

W. Eugene Smith: Mas real que la realidad

réf. 75-8167Madrid: La Fabrica Editorial 2008. Fo. Cloth Hard Cover ca. 240 pp. First Edition. B&W Plates. Version with Cover Image from Page 109. Very Good. Dust Jacket also Very Good with Creasing Abrasions now in Protective Mylar Cover. Oversize Book May require extra Shipping ChargesWilliam Eugene Smith was born in 1918 in Wichita Kansas. He took his first photographs at the age of 15 for two local newspapers. In 1936 Smith entered Notre Dame University in Wichita where a special photographic scholarship was created for him. A year later he left the university and went to New York City. After studying with Helene Sanders at the New York Institute of Photography in 1937 he began working for News-Week later Newsweek. He was fired for refusing to use medium-format cameras and joined the Black Star agency as a freelancer……Smith worked as a war correspondent for Flying magazine 1943–44 and a year later for Life. He followed the island-hopping American offensive against Japan and suffered severe injuries while simulating battle conditions for Parade which required him to undergo surgery for the next two years……Once recuperated Smith worked for Life again between 1947 and 1955 before resigning in order to join Magnum Photos as an associate. In 1957 he became a full member of Magnum. Smith was fanatically dedicated to his mission as a photographer. Because of this dedication he was often regarded by editors as “troublesome.”â€¦.A year after moving to Tucson to teach at the University of Arizona Smith died of a stroke. His archives are held by the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson Arizona. Today Smith’s legacy lives on through the W. Eugene Smith Fund to promote “humanistic photography” founded in 1980 which awards photographers for exceptional accomplishments in the field. Madrid: La Fabrica Editorial, 2008 hardcover

Alan Wofsy Fine Arts · États-Unis250,00 $US≈ 223,35 €

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