ID#: 9742
Description: Caption:
Men in pasting operation of storage battery manufacture, where lead oxide paste is spread on grids to form plates. Published in USPHS Public Health Bulletin No. 262, The Control of the Lead Hazard in the Storage Battery Industry, 1941, as “Figure 13. Mechanical Pasting but Smoothed by Hand. Operators are Wearing Air-Line Respirators”.
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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: 1937
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.