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Picture No 10487785
Date 1905
Description Shaping the end of a Christmas cracker, 1905
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A female worker at the famous Tom Smith Christmas cracker factory, shapes the end of a cracker over a brass cylinder by tightly drawing string round the loose end. Paid piece meal, the average output per day for each worker was an astonishing 600 crackers.
Source Photograph in The Lady's Realm, 1905
Credit Mary Evans Picture Library
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