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.

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Item Title

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.

Author/Creator

Photographer: McCarl, Robert

Created/Published

August 09, 1994

Notes

Forms part of a group of images documenting the daily work activities of people at Watson Machine International, a machine tool manufacturing company located at 74 Railroad Avenue, Paterson, NJ, on August 9, 1994.

Subjects

Ethnographic photographs
Industrial facilities
Machine shops
Machinery industry
Work processes
Ethnography
Photographs
United States--New Jersey--Paterson
Watson Machine International

Object Type

still image

Medium

35 mm color slide

Language

English

Call Number

AFC 1995/028: WIP-RM-C014-01

Reproduction Number

AFC 1995/028: WIP-RM-C014-01

Part of

Working in Paterson Folklife Project

Repository

Library of Congress, Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Digital ID

afcwip rmc01401
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afcwip.rmc01401