Loading the folding machine
4 x 5 in. or smaller
- Date
- 1937
- Collection
- Harris & Ewing
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 7,951 × 9,996 pixels
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Reason: Harris & Ewing collection, given to the Library of Congress without copyright restrictions.
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"Loading the folding machine" (1937). Harris & Ewing. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Loading_the_folding_machine_LCCN2016872429.jpgNeed photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 286748.
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