ID#: 9725
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Men placing bisqueware (fired-once clayware) in saggers for second firing in a West Virginia pottery factory. USPHS investigators have set up an impinger to sample for dust. Published in USPHS Public Health Bulletin No. 244, 1939, Silicosis and Lead Poisoning Among Pottery Workers, as “Figure 11. Sagger Placing. Note the Impinger Being Used to Take an Atmospheric Dust Sample”.
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The NIOSH Historic Photo Collection from which this photograph was derived, began as the Picture File of the Industrial Hygiene Division of the USPHS, c. 1930-1960. It is a unique collection of mid-20th Century images of American workers and workplaces, and documents occupational safety and health research of that era. The collection consists of approximately 1,000 original photographs and schematic drawings.
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Content Providers(s): CDC/ Barbara Jenkins, NIOSH
Creation Date: 1936
Photo Credit: U.S. Public Health Service
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Copyright Restrictions: None - This image is in the public domain and thus free of any copyright restrictions.