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English: Workers at the Lighthouse Broom Company, ca. 1925   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Photographer
Webster & Stevens
Title
English: Workers at the Lighthouse Broom Company, ca. 1925
Description
English: The Lighthouse for the Blind was one of Seattle's early community service organizations. It provided work for people with impaired vision so they could support themselves and their families. Employees made brooms, wove rags into rugs and cane fiber into chair seats.

In this photo, a woman weighs a finished broom. Bunches of broom straw sit on the floor in the foreground, while finished brooms lie at her feet.

  • Subjects (LCTGM): Blind persons; Broom & brush industry; Charitable organizations; Lighthouse for the Blind; Women
Depicted place
English: Seattle (Wash.)
Date circa 1925
date QS:P571,+1925-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium
English: 1 nitrate negative: b&w
Dimensions height: 8 in (20.3 cm); width: 10 in (25.4 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,8U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,10U218593
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
Museum of History and Industry
Accession number
6008
Source
English: Museum of History and Industry
Permission
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Public domain
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.
Credit Line
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PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved

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