Black and white newspaper clipping of the wires being insulated for use in blasting the stone to build the Hoosac Tunnel. A woman appears to be sitting beyond the machine.
This is a staged photograph taken in 1877 of three of the Chinese workers brought in to break the strike at the Sampson Shoe Factory. Here, they appear in Western dress. They are tentatively identified as Charlie Sing (the overseer), Ah Dock, and Ah…