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Provenance
San Francisco Camerawork Benefit Auction, November 2016, Lot 43
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
Lewis Hine, Men at Work: Photographic Studies of Modern Men and Machines (New York, 1932), n.p.
Note
"Cities do not build themselves, machines cannot make machines, unless back of them all are the brains and toil of men. We call this the Machine Age. But the more machines we use the more do we need real men to make and direct them."
- Lewis Hine's foreword, Men at Work, n.p.
Hine's caption for the present image explains that this worker is "at the control wheel of an enormous calendar, making automobile tires." (n.p.)