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

Institution: Peabody Institute Library, Peabody

Massachusetts -- Essex (county) -- Peabody

34 Walnut Street (Peabody, Mass.)

1918

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2002.537.14

Peabody Mat Leather Company (Peabody, Mass.)

Leather industry and trade

Leather industry and trade -- Employees

Altshuler, Louis

still image

Photographs

1 Photographic print : b&w

7 3/4 x 5 1/2 in.