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Black people -- laborers

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Often defined as unskilled manual work for wages, usually requires skills and is hard demanding work. Includes: quarrymen; powdermen; assembly line worker; canal diggers; railroad track layers; factory workers.

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Quarries and quarry workers panoramic photographs

 Collection
Accession: 1969-148
Abstract:

Quarrying is the act of extracting natural stones to use in building materials. Throughout the 1920s quarries were the largest employers of African Americans. This collection consists of two panoramic photographs of unidentified quarries, one with workers, one without.

Dates: circa 1920