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Working in Paterson: Occupational Heritage in an Urban Setting

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An inside view of one part of the storage area.
Interior of fiber optics room at Watson with fiber optic proof tester; this machine tests the tensile strength of fiber optic cable while it winds it on to spools.
Interior of restaurant with customers sitting at tables; murals on the wall depict scenes from Colombia.
Interpretive panel at Passaic Falls Park, Paterson, NJ.
The intersection of Main and Slater streets.
Italian chocolates and hard candies, displayed on a shelf behind the espresso bar. The pennant is unidentifiable.
Italian flag in front of St. Anthony's.
Italian language newspapers
Italian movie videos and compact discs of Italian music and musical performers (Luciano Pavarotti, the great operatic tenor, is pictured on one of the CD covers).
Jaime Diaz at work on "beaming" operation.
Jaime Diaz at work with "beaming" operation; he is making a multi-color sample so customers can see how a pattern will look in different colors
Jaime Diaz works at "beaming" operation; his is a "twister"; he is making a sample so customers can see how various colors look.
Jaime Diaz works at beaming operation.
Jan Sudol applying machine oil to the "spider" end of a large strander spool.
Jan Sudol operating large lathe in the lathe department at Watson; he is turning a large strander spool.
Jan Sudol preparing tube for removal from the lathe using the small crane.
Jan Sudol using a board to pry a strander tube out of the large horizontal lathe prior to removal.
Jean Decker in her office at Watson; she has worked at Watson all of her working life as a bookkeeper.
Jelina Cubic at work at the winding operation.
Jelina Cubic works at silk-winding operation.
The Jiggetts pose on the steps of a school bus.
Jim Hughes (center) talks with two other workers.
Jim McComiskey installing cable into the electrical panel on the take-up.
Jim McComiskey working on take up control panel putting in wire and switches.
Jimmy Cobianci stands beside boiler he operates; in addition to being the color mixer in the dye house, he also works as an engineer for the facility.
Jimmy Cobianci, the color mixer, mixes dyes.
Jimmy Dowling cutting an inside radius in a small flywheel on the lathe.
Jimmy Dowling holding the blueprint for a buncher part; the original machine was drawn and built in 1945, but Jimmy makes copies of parts that are used to repair Watson machines still in use that require the part to continue running.
Jimmy Dowling holds the jig that he will use to hold the cutting tool on his lathe.
Jimmy Dowling's lathe after stock has been removed.
Joe at his work bench, beneath the television.
Joe Kachler drilling holes in a small strut.
Joe Kachler drilling holes in small shafts using the drill press.
Joe Kachler drilling holes in stock.
Joe Kachler measuring stock at his tool box; the tool box and all of the tools are the machinist's; many of Joe's tools are from his father who was also a machinist.
Joe Kachler measuring the axle in a strander tube.
Joe Kachler milling an armature that he then installs in a strander spool housing.
Joe Kachler tapping holes in a piece of stock.
Joe Kachler tapping screws in a strander yoke.
Joe Kachler using a jig to drill holes in a small shaft while it is mounted on the drill press.
Joe Miraglia butchering a piece of veal.
Joe Miraglia in the meat refrigerator posing with some cuts of meat, particularly the sausage, which was freshly made that day.
Joe Miraglia working on a side of beef.
Joe seated at his workbench, at work on a coat.
Joe showing me a short tendon which connects all the tissue in the beef portion, and which can support all of its weight.
John Clark (right) talks with fieldworker David Taylor.
John Clark beside loom.
John Clark demonstrates computerized "controller" that directs mechanical operation of a jacquard loom.
John Clark inserts computer disc into loom "controller."
John Clark working on a loom.
John Granata, owner of John Granata Financial Service, poses on 21st Avenue; company sign is on wall behind him.
John Granata, proprietor of Granata Financial Service, poses on 21st Avenue; sign for his business in visible behind him
John Granata, proprietor of Granata Financial Service, poses on 21st Avenue; sign for his business in visible behind him.
John Granata, proprietor of John Granata Financial Service, poses on 21st Avenue; sign for his business is visible on wall behind him.
John Weatherwacks (l), Richie Takach and Jim McComiskey (c) and Pete Wycham (r) working on various jobs in the electrical section of Watson machine.
John Weatherwacks installing a rider on the traverse section of the rotary take-up.
John Weatherwacks installing mechanical components to the yoke of a planetary strander.
John Weatherwacks.
Jones digs in garden and displays picked vegetables.
Jones digs up cabbages.
Jones displays and cuts threads into metal pipes.
Jones displays freshly picked eggplant.
Jones gives cabbage to a new visitor.
Jones gives vegetables to a visitor.
Jones helps a customer inside Federal Supply.
Jones holds freshly picked vegetables.
Jones loads wood onto a customer's van and shakes his hand.
Jones points to garden.
Jones posed next to his "blow for worms" sign at the fence.
Jones poses with visitors and their vegetables.
Jones stands in front of his building under a "used restaurant equipment" sign.
Jones stands next to a tree.
Jose Abanto cutting lumber to build a crate in the woodworking shop above the machine shop floor at Watson.
Joseph Teshon, Inc. plant manager examines fabric sample in his office.
José Rivera, general handyman.
Keith Mennella poses outside of Mennella's Poultry, 368 21st Avenue.
Ken Morris, Jr., supervisor of medical and graphic arts, in his office on the hospital's 7th floor; he is a Paterson native and has worked at the hospital for over 14 years.
A Kinrei buncher disassembled for maintenance on the machine shop floor.
Knockouts Bar, which also advertises for go go girls.
Large cast from Watson foundry.
Large micrometer on Jan Sudol's workbench.
Large micrometer on workbench in lathe area at Watson.
A large strander tube awaiting shipment after having been re-tooled, polished and painted.
Large strander tube drying after having been painted.
Large strander tubes awaiting machining on shop floor.
Larry and his son Luke look under the hood of Larry's '57 Chevrolet dragster.
Larry at the wheel of his car.
Larry at the wheel of the car he has customized as a dragster, a '57 Chevrolet "sedan delivery".
Larry at work in his machine shop.
Larry checks tire pressure of his car.
Larry Schneider adjusts a lathe in his machine shop.
Larry Schneider adjusts a lathe.
Larry Schneider and Richie Takach in Larry's office just off of the shop floor at Watson.
Larry Schneider removing a gear from the gear-making machine and filing smooth the edges of the gears.
Larry Schneider working on the gear-making machine.
Larry Schneider, Bob Dale, Pete Wychman and John Weatherwacks completing installation on the rotary take-up.
Larry Schneider, his wife Bonnie, and their children Tanya and Luke stand in front of Larry's '56 Chevy dragster that he has customized in his own machine shop.
Larry with the car.
Larry, wife Bonnie, and children Lara, Luke, and Tonya pose beside car.
Lathe area of machine shop.

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