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Mike Evans, a welder, at the rip tracks at Proviso yard of the C & NW RR, Chicago, Ill.
Jack Delano, photographer,
1943.
Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

Protect Your Hands! : You Work With Them,
Robert Muchley, artist,
Pennsylvania: Federal Art Project, [1936]
Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

Four Young Men Standing Around a Large Piece of Machinery in a Workshop.
Chicago Daily New, Inc.,
1928.
Chicago Historical Society / Library of Congress

Meeting of the Mechanics and Others of the City of Washington,
broadside,
Washington, D.C., 1852.
Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress
American Quarterly [official journal site]
American Quarterly [editorial site]