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Photograph of a construction worker operating a front end loader

1987

Harlem, New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America

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Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

This black and white photograph depicts a machine operator driving a front end loader filled with dirt from an excavation site. Wearing a white tee shirt and hardhat, he is seated at the vehicle's controls, hands on the levers. The machine is in a large dirt hole crisscrossed by heavy metal girders. The back of the photograph is blank.

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Catalog reference: 2014.150.1.19.3

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