Buffing room

Black and white photograph with ball point pen noting Buffing Room at the Boston Mat Leather Company, Peabody, Massachusetts, 1918. Also in pen, notation saying Louis Altshuler, Boss Buffer and a good one.

Five men standing in a narrow room before a long work table with wheels. Over their heads run pipes. Altshuler is the man closest to the camera. Louis Altshuler was listed as a leather worker. He and his wife Mollie had a house at 6 Highland Park.

Men at work

1918