Four hundred men were employed to work in this sizing room at the Waring Hat Manufacturing Co.'s Vark St. plant in Yonkers, New York. According to the investigator, "Owing to insufficient and improper methods of ventilation this room is excessively hot and the humidity is intense." Machinery and men crowd the room. Several figures in the photograph are blurred or transparent. A disembodied hand and arm appear resting on a lower rung of a ladder in the background on the right side of the photograph.

Identifier
NYSA_A3029-78_B3_F6

Date Original
1912

Language
English

Source
New York State Archives. Factory Investigating Commission. Glass plate negatives and photographic prints of factory and housing conditions. 1911-1912. A3029-78, Box 3, Folder 6.

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