(INDUSTRIAL ANALYSIS) A informative photographically illustrated and hand assembled book entitled A Trade Analysis of the Machine Shop Trade, potentially produced as a teaching aid post World War II. Graphically illustrated with 10 photographs interspersed between tables of typed pertinent information for performing specific "divisions of the trade," each showing "men at work" using lathes, grinders, drills, shapers, and various other heavy machinery. Silver prints, each measuring 7x6 1/2 inches (17.8x16.5 cm.), mounted recto only to pages, each with a typed caption below. 4to, black cloth-covered boards with a gilt-lettered spine. 1947-48
WITH--A presentation binder entitled Lawson Precision for the Lawson Machine and Tool Company. With 45 oversized richly inked reproductions after photographs depicting male and female workers operating tools and machinery at the company factory. A number of the images show employees wearing photographic I.D. badges which were common during World War II and a few years following. Photoengravings, the images measuring approximately 14x18 inches (36.5x45.7 cm.), nearly all with a caption in the negative. Oblong folio; burgundy leatherette; gilt stamped title. Circa 1945.
