Steel Worker Photo Badge, Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp. Watervliet, NY peg leg stool but there is a metal

but there is a metal post at the end for sticking it into something now

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with a great mustard yellow glaze

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Steel Worker Photo Badge, Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp. Watervliet, NY peg leg stool but there is a metalIn considering how to explain why this c. 1960s 70s photo badge struck me, it occurred to me that driver's licenses and employee badges are a bit like modern portrait miniatures, and perhaps the most enduring portraits of ourselves most of us have. And, in thinking about the history and future of factory labor in this country, the employee badge of young male worker at the Allegheny Steel Company c. late 1960s early 70s feels pretty poignant. (He