LaborArts


Photograph

Item no. 30138
circa 1920s
New York
Occupation: Building and construction trades
Collection: Wagner Labor Archives

Steamfitters pose with piles of pipe they will cut on the job, circa 1920s

Union members of the Enterprise Association of Steamfitters Local 638, founded in 1898, once cut and threaded pipe on the job with a cutting machine.

See this photo in the Landscape of Lost Arts exhibit.

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