Sujet

Women perforating sheets of stamps in the Stamp Division at the Bureau of Engraving..., c1895. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston.

Légende

Women perforating sheets of stamps in the Stamp Division at the Bureau of Engraving & Printing, c1895. Photograph shows a group of women perforating stamps. Power is provided by steam driven belts. The women wear paper hats to protect them from airborn dust.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM22B05_480

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

66,6Mo (9,8Mo) / 35,9cm x 46,5cm / 4239 x 5492 (300dpi)

Mots clés

female women woman people library group work employment job communication communications historical worker country occupation room Washington machine machinery Washington DC District of Columbia location century profession employee photograph concept photo B&W washington d.c. Library of Congress Factory Worker United States of America postal service postage stamp 19th century black & white black and white B W perforator nineteenth century postage stamps workers American history historic America USA drive belt TGN perforated photograph portrait united states Congressional Library Heritage Art Frances Benjamin Johnston Johnston Frances Benjamin Frances Johnston Frances B. Johnston 19th-century still image Bureau of Engraving & Printing FB Johnston Photographic prints 1890-1900. gmgpc Cyanotypes 1890-1900. gmgpc