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- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Finishers, R.W. Irwin - Phoenix Furniture Co. Women employees working on table at front worktable, woman painting decoration on cabinet at second table. Men and women working in background.
- Date Created:
- 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Man sawing pieces of wood on two table saws.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Man pushing a cart at the Robert W. Irwin Company.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- The Grand Rapids Airplane Co. manufactured wooden airplane propellers during WWI for the war effort. This view, probably inside the Phoenix Furniture factory, was taken circa 1918.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- French cobblers and tailors work on repairing shoes and clothing in a work shop at Limburg. A German non-commissioned officer oversees the work from the back of the room. The prisoners provided most of the labor needed to keep the prison camp running smoothly and efficiently. Some POW's became apprentices and learned a trade working in such workshops during the war.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Two French prisoners create a variety of columns, urns, and planters from cement molds in their workshop at Heuberg. Many of these works would become memorials in the POW cemetery. Note the two pigs rutting around in the background of the photograph. Pork products were a welcome addition to the prisoners' diet.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Man at a drill with pieces of wood.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- The Robert W. Irwin Co. operated from 1919 to 1953 and was located at 432 Monroe NW, Grand Rapids. This interior view of the factory shows laborers at their workbenches with machinery.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
