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Working in Paterson: Occupational Heritage in an Urban Setting

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30th anniversary 1991 newspaper ad on the wall of the Hot Grill's downstairs office.
The 90-gallon kettle in which the Hot Grill's sauce is cooked.
The 90-gallon water-jacketed kettle in which 3-4 batches of sauce are prepared each week at the Hot Grill.
Advertisement for Barbour's Irish flax threads, manufactured in Paterson, N.J. (this is a photo of actual advertisement).
Advertisement for Barbour's Irish flax threads, manufactured in Paterson.
Advertising painted on windows of butcher shops (view from inside the shop).
After a mass, statue of San Rocco is carried from St. Anthony's Church to float parked in front of the church.
Afternoon break at machine shop: Pete Wycham, Joe Kachler, Jan Sudol, Richie Takach and John Weatherwacks.
Al Buonforte, ordering manager, in his office at Watson.
Al Zarky.
Altar boy with cross and men with banners at the head of the procession.
Altar boy with cross and men with banners at the head of the procession; men in front of the St. Anthony's Catholic Men's Club (at Summer & 20th Avenue) watch procession.
Altar boy with cross on staff, and men with banners, walk at the head of the procession.
American Folklife Center fieldworkers David Taylor, Bob McCarl, Tom Carroll and Susan Levitas pose in front of float.
Andria Santos, accounts payable, at her office in Watson.
Angela Peņa working at "banking" operation.
Angelo Basileo retirement dinner.
Angelo Basileo's retirement dinner in the late 1970s.
Anne Murphy (left) and co-worker in packing room at Newberger's Towel Factory, Paterson, ca. 1918.
Anne Murphy (left) and co-worker in the packing room at Newberger's Towel Factory.
Anne Murphy holds photo of workers and managers at Newberger's Towel Factory, Paterson, c. 1918.
Anne Murphy holds photo of workers and managers at Newberger's Towel Factory, Paterson, c. 1918; she is pointing at a picture of herself.
Anne Murphy holds photograph of workers and managers at Newberger's Towel Factory, Paterson, c. 1918.
Another cook, a recent immigrant from eastern Europe, at work.
Another Hot Grill employee, a recent immigrant from eastern Europe, dresses a Hot Texas Wiener.
Apprentice James McComiskey in electrical area of assembly at Watson.
Apprentice Jim McComiskey and Bob Dale working on the control panel for the rotary take up.
Apprentice warper Timothy Cherry "making a warp"; this warp has 2,080 "ends" (threads); the large, circular warping frame was manufactured in Paterson by the Benjamin Eastwood Co.
Apprentice warper Timothy Cherry at the warping frame on the second floor of the plant; there are 2,080 "ends" (threads) on the frame.
Apprentice warper Timothy Cherry making a warp; this warp has 2,080 "ends" (threads).
Assemblymen moving large strander tube with crane at Watson.
Assistant nurse manager Marianne Lennon and Dr. Vincent Graziano at work in the Critical Care Unit, 5th floor.
At Elsa's Fashions, 368 21st Avenue: (Left to right): seamstress Milagros "Millie" Cueto, customer Brenda Freytes, and seamstress Aurora Goicoechea.
At Elsa's Fashions, 368 21st Avenue: seamstress Milagros "Millie" Cueto, customer Brenda Freytes, and seamstress Aurora Goicoechea and proprietor Elsa Mantilla.
At the conclusion of the procession, dignitaries stand in front of the Montescaglioso Club, at 147-149 Lewis Street; the man on the right (wearing suit) is Congressman Herbert Klein.
At the conclusion of the procession, dignitaries stand in front of the Montescaglioso Club, at 147-149 Lewis Street; the man on the right (wearing white shirt) is Paterson mayor William Pascrell.
At the conclusion of the procession, dignitaries stand in front of the Montescaglioso Club, on Lewis Street; the tall man to the right is Congressman Herbert Klein, and the man to his right is Paterson mayor William Pascrell.
Aurora and Milagros putting dress on dressmaker's model.
Aurora at her work.
Aurora Goicoechea at work above Elsa's.
Aurora Goicoechea draws a sketch of a dress.
Aurora sketches design of gown.
Aurora works on white gown.
An award presented to Joe by the city of Paterson.
Back of campaign card used by Marianna Costa when she ran for the office of secretary-treasurer of Dyers Local No. 1733, in Paterson, 1933.
Back of photo of neighborhood baseball team "T.A.B.S. Giants" (WIP-DT-B004-13), with names of baseball player listed and date and place given.
Band marches in front of the church.
Band plays in street in front of church.
Band walks down Beech Street.
Barber Louis McDowell demonstrates stropping his razor.
Barber Louis McDowell poses for photos in his barber shop.
Barney taking finished tube down to the loading dock using the crane.
Barney Titus prepares bearings for shipment in the shipping department.
A basket of French fries being lifted from its cooking oil.
Beauty pageant contestants on stage; master of ceremonies in foreground.
Before the start of the procession, people wait in front of the Montescaglioso Club, on Lewis Street.
Belfast Works rope machinery brochure cover, 19th Century.
Benson in the restaurant kitchen making biscuit batter.
Benson placing biscuits on baking sheets.
Benson stirs biscuit batter.
Benson talks with and poses with a regular customer.
Bert Reales adjusts the cutting tool on the traveler to acquire the proper depth and angle of cut on the flywheel in his lathe.
Bert Reales and Jimmy Dowling measuring drive shaft on lathe.
Bert Reales cutting the outside dimension of a flywheel on the lathe.
Bert Reales holding the cutting tool he has just ground.
Bert Reales installs the cutting tool on the lathe traveler prior to cutting the inside dimension of a flywheel.
Bert Reales measuring the outside dimension of a pulley on his lathe.
Bert Reales sharpening a cutting tool prior to using it in his lathe. In larger shops tool cutters were a separate specialty, but at Watson, machinists cut their own tools.
Bert Reales's workbench.
Bill Manuel, retired engineer at Watson.
The Bishop and Prophetess posed in front of their decorated panel truck.
Bishop and Prophetess Robinson pose with neighborhood children in front of the Assembly Holy House of Prayer.
Bishop and the Prophetess Robinson in front of the Assembly Holy House of Prayer.
Blueprint on Jimmy Dowling's workbench.
Bob Dale (in t-shirt); Mohamad Chamaa (white shirt) and Richie Takach (glasses) discuss the electrical blueprints for the rotary take-up.
Bob Dale and Jim McComiskey (with unidentified person) checking switches and connections on the take up control panel.
Bob Dale and Jim McComiskey checking circuits on the planetary strander control board.
Bob Dale installing a junction box on the base of the planetary strander.
Bob Dale rewires a refurbished Watson buncher on the workshop floor at Watson.
Bob Dale wiring the motor into a horizontal take-up.
Bob Dale, Richie Takach, Pete Wychman and John Weatherwacks installing the spool in the rotary take-up while engineer David Lu (in white shirt) looks on.
Boring mill operator (ca. 1920s-30s?).
Boys playing basketball; graffiti-covered walls are behind them.
The Buffalo Inn, a local bar, and its environs.
Building front of the day care center.
The building which houses Garden State Cutting Company. Their space extends north from the corner visible here (north is toward the left of the frame, following the axis of the building toward 20th Avenue, which is not visible here).
Bundlers at work. The stacks of cut fabric are brought to the bundlers, who fold and tie them and place identification labels on the tied bundles.
Bunny Kuiken stands on balcony of Botto House.
Bunny Kuiken, granddaughter of Pietro Botto, in front of Botto House; she works at The American Labor Museum and lives around the corner.
Bunny Kuiken, granddaughter of Pietro Botto, stands in front of Botto House.
Butcher's sign at Railroad Avenue market.
Caffe Mediterraneo.
Campaign card used by Marianna Costa when she ran for the office of secretary-treasurer of Dyers Local No. 1733, in Paterson, in 1939.
Card with specifications of warp Al Zarky and Timothy Cherry are making.
Cardboard boxes containing garment pieces, stacked on shelves; lettering on boxes (identifying items and colors) is written in English and Spanish.
Carnie Bragg, director of Bragg Funeral Home, stands in front of his business.
Carnie Bragg, owner of Bragg Funeral Home, poses in front of the business.
Carole Bradshaw, sales marketing coordinator, in her office upstairs at Watson.
The case holding cassette tapes of recorded Italian music.
Caskets displayed in the casket room.

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