Mixing Room

Black and white photograph with ball point pen noting Mixing Room at the Boston Mat Leather Company, Peabody, Massachusetts, 1918. Also in pen, notation saying Pigments and Finishes and Isaac Baril, Chemist.

Baril stands alone in the room, before a small container stirring. Around him are large wooden barrels with metal hoops, shelves of bottles, glass flasks on counters, and Edison fan and work clothes hanging up on the back wall. There is an Israel Barell listed in street directory as a morocco worker. He and his wife Annie lived at 90 Aborn Street.

Men at work

Institution: Peabody Institute Library, Peabody

Massachusetts -- Essex (county) -- Peabody

34 Walnut Street (Peabody, Mass.)

1918

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2002.537.15

Peabody Mat Leather Company (Peabody, Mass.)

Leather industry and trade

Leather industry and trade -- Employees

Baril, Isaac

still image

Photographs

1 Photographic print : b&w

7 3/4 x 5 1/2 in.