LaborArts


Photograph

Item no. 22016
1975
New York
Occupation: Communications / utilities
Collection: Wagner Labor Archives

Printer working on linotype machine as visitors look on.  The picturesque linotype machine with its heavy type trays is one of the dinosaurs of the communications industry, having been replaced by the whirlwind computer.

Image from the Sam Reiss Collection, photograph by Sam Reiss.

See this image in the Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives exhibit.

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