A female machine operator at the Russell car manufacturing company during WW1, making munitions. With a better publicity department, she could have been a WW1 Rosie the Riveter.
Russell Motor Car was founded when CCM, a Toronto bicycle manufacturer, bought the bankrupt Canadian Motors company in 1903. After starting with a two seater electric, they moved to gas engines and by 1910 were using the Knight sleeve valve engine in their high end model. During WW1 they changed from making cars to munitions and after the war became a supplier of automobile and machine parts. The company ceased operations in the 50s.
Has the look of a Vermeer portrait.
ReplyDelete^^ "The girl with the leather finger shield" ?
ReplyDeleteI wondered if that is what the photographer was after? No ideas on the finger shield.
ReplyDeleteNow that I'm looking at what I thought was a bandage on her finger, I see a district ghost image of the lever or part she's manipulating through her knuckles. Anyone else see that?
ReplyDeleteI see the ghost image now, and (I insist :-)) what has to be some kind of blister protection on her thumb & forefinger.
ReplyDeleteI see the "ghost" lever. Wonder what the heck is going on with that hand.
ReplyDeleteUncropped image here:
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I've thought about it, and I have a theory. Given the limitations of lighting and film emulsions of the time, maybe the photographer was unable to properly expose for both the factory setting and the model. So he took one negative without the model present, then a second with her in place (at that time he certainly would have been using a camera support). To make the print he sandwiched the two negatives and exposed through them both, but did a poor job masking the hand area.
Or maybe not did a poor job, just failed to account for a bunch of dudes examining his work at a pixel level 100+ years later. In the newspaper it looked just fine.
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