Keywords: Millville, New Jersey - Glass bottles. Stopper-grinder at T. C. Wheaton Co - NARA - 518634.tif Scope and content Millville New Jersey - Glass bottles Stopper-grinder at T C Wheaton Co This man 83 years old has been working for this factory at this job since he was 15 He is smoothing and shaping stoppers to fit the bottles at the lower right hand corner of the picture With a solution of pumice and water he wets down the emery wheel exactly the shape of the neck of the bottle He whirls the emery wheel by pressing a foot treadle By pressing the stopper of the bottle against this emery wheel he is able to shape it to the required form He is able also to re-shape the neck of the bottle so that stopper and bottle fit together exactly General notes 518634 Local identifier 69-RP-407 Federal Works Agency Work Projects Administration National Research Project ca 1941 - ca 1942 NARA-Author Hine Lewis Wickes 1874-1940 Photographer 1122914 <br /> Millville Cumberland New Jersey United States North and Central America inhabited place 3354813 39 4 -75 033 <br /> Still Picture Records Section Special Media Archives Services Division NWCS-S National Archives at College Park 8601 Adelphi Road College Park MD 20740-6001 1937-03-26 Record group Record Group 69 Records of the Work Projects Administration 1922 - 1944 Record group ARC 398 Lewis Hine Photographs for the National Research Project compiled 1936 - 1937 Series ARC 518291 File unit File unit ARC Variant control numbers NAIL Control Number NWDNS-69-RP-407 yes Other versions <gallery> File Millville _New_Jersey_-_Glass_bottles _Stopper-grinder_at_T _C _Wheaton_Co_-_NARA_-_518634 tif tif File Millville _New_Jersey_-_Glass_bottles _Stopper-grinder_at_T _C _Wheaton_Co_-_NARA_-_518634 jpg jpg </gallery> NARA-cooperation PD-USGov Millville New Jersey glassworking industry NARA TIF images with categorized JPGs |