ID#: 9697
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Worker blocking a hat body into shape using water and an apparatus for this in a Connecticut hat making plant. The plant was part of the 1937-1938 PHS industrial hygiene and engineering study of mercury exposure and its health effects in the hatmaking industry. The photo was published in USPHS Public Health Bulletin No. 263, Mercurialism and its Control in the Felt-Hat Industry, 1941, Figure 13. and captioned, “Giving the hat body its familiar shape.” Note that the worker’s hands are darkly discolored.
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Content Provider(s): CDC/ Barbara Jenkins, NIOSH; USPHS
Creation Date: 1937
Photo Credit: U.S. Public Health Service
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