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In 1960 toys were painted with finishes that contained lead, pressed from tinplate with cut edges left exposed, moulded on machines the operator reached into, and sold with…
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In 1965 your photographs went away in a paper envelope and came back a week or more later, and until they did you had no idea whether any…
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In 1960 a great many buttons were cut out of freshwater mussel shell with a hollow drill under water, then ground, drilled, polished and sorted by hand into…
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In 1960 a television was hundreds of components wired point to point by hand, by rows of women at benches, into a chassis that slid out of a…
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In 1960 an officer walked a fixed route alone for a whole shift, with no radio, contactable only at a locked post on the street with a lamp…
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In 1960 a knife blade was forged, then ground by a man lying forward over a spinning sandstone wheel with his face close to the work, then hafted…