Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. Weaver threading shuttle.
- Date
- 1937-03-18
- Archive
- U.S. National Archives (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 3,000 × 2,161 pixels
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Reason: a US government work (Works Progress Administration).
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