Picture No | 10053854 |
Date | 1841 |
Description | Hat factory workers, Southwark, London 1841 |
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Hat factory workers making beaver (or bever) hats at the Christy hat factory in Southwark, London. Men employed in wetting, rolling, pressing 'ruffling' and blocking the hat bodies.
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Source | Engraving in 'The Penny Magazine', 30 January 1841, page 41 and and also in ‘Knight's 'Pictorial Gallery of Arts', page 136, figure 575 |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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