Cut It Out (Cut Glass Making) / Chicken Raising / The Doll's House (Fantasy) / Sugar Refining / Cotton Shipping

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Cut It Out (Cut Glass Making) / Chicken Raising / The Doll's House (Fantasy) / Sugar Refining / Cotton Shipping Produced: 1919

Description The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Worker draws design on glass pitcher. “The design is roughly cut by a steel wheel and carborundum chist.” “Followed by the glass cutter who smoothes out the rough incisions and completes the design with a stone wheel.” “Girls are fine glass cutters, in fact the more delicate designs are entrusted to their care.” Hands of worker cutting design on bowl. “When the cutting is complete, the glass is highly polished and treated to an acid bath to preserve its luster.” Above operations plus washing. “Etching goblets. The design is prepared from transfer papers --” “Which are placed upon the goblets, moistened and removed leaving the design on the glass.” “Engraving 24 goblets at one time. 96 needle points controlled by a guiding master arm perform the work of 24 engravers.” [1919] b. “Roosts painted with equal parts of crude oil and stock dip will eliminate mites.” “Great care is taken to keep the chickens free from lice.” Two workers disinfect chickens - chickens in pen. [1919] c. Little girl sleeping - interior of doll house, trunk pops open, doll stands up, climbs out, reaches in and takes out small doll which jumps into bed, another small doll which joins the first - mother doll takes purse and hat from trunk, closes trunk, sits down, third small doll comes up to her, at her request pushes trunk away, mother doll powders her nose, puts on her hat, kisses small dolls in bed, goes out - small dolls in bed get up and play - nurse doll tests water in tub, beckons, small undressed dolls come - girl asleep in bed, wakes up, looks in doll house - interior of doll house. [1919] d. Ship brought to dock by tugboat. “-- and later analyzed in the laboratory to establish a basis for settlement of customs duty and purchase price.” Laboratory and worker. “Weighing on platform scales which are adequate to offset weight of trucks.” Hand trucks with bags of raw sugar. “Overhead cranes (‘telphers’) carry away the bags.” Dock, bags, workers, crane moving. “The bags are opened, the ‘raw’ sugar passes through the crusher, and a bucket elevator carries it to an upper floor for the first process in the wash-house.” Interior of sugar mill - above processes done by machinery - workers. “The important process of removing impurities from the ‘liquor’ takes place in these ‘bag filters.’” Filters - workers with large vat. “The sugar is washed with white ‘liquor.’” Workers lower one vat into another, close it, vat revolves, stops, inside vat removed using overhead crane. Women workers place boxes on endless belt. “The cartons are carefully weighed, checked and sealed.” Box, ‘Domino Cane Sugar’ - box making machine in operation - workers at large vats. [1922] e. Bales of cotton in warehouse - man looks them over - dock, bales being loaded into ship, cotton bales lowered into hold - city street, automobile, pedestrian traffic, workers unwrap bales of cotton - man takes samples from bales - dock, ships, cotton bales, workers - trucks - unloading truck of baled cotton - interior of building, people in large open area, men behind long desk alongside - men on floor appear to be bidding at New Orleans Cotton Exchange - man on balcony above floor. [1922]

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