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Gisholt Metal Worker #2
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Portrait oftwo Gisholt laborers. One man is in profile and the other is facing front. They are wearing work aprons, suspenders, boots and brimmed hats. Taken outdoors before a white sweep, they are standing on opposite sides of the anvil placed on a wooden platform. The man on the right is holding a smaller hammer to demonstrate how workers forge hot metal into shape by pounding, while the man on the left is holding the metal bar in place with a sledgehammer in one hand and tongs in the other hand.
circa 1910-1919
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