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Photo, Print, Drawing Retirement dinner for Robert Barker (center); also pictured: Rebecca Koterba, Cora Ellerbrook, Peggy Fredericks, Jean Decker, Robert Barker, Mary Prober, Edna Wardle, Henrietta Petersen, and Betty Rogers.

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Title

  • Retirement dinner for Robert Barker (center); also pictured: Rebecca Koterba, Cora Ellerbrook, Peggy Fredericks, Jean Decker, Robert Barker, Mary Prober, Edna Wardle, Henrietta Petersen, and Betty Rogers.

Names

  • Barker, Robert (Depicted)
  • Prober, Mary (Depicted)
  • Rogers, Betty (Depicted)
  • Wardle, Edna (Depicted)
  • Fredericks, Peggy (Depicted)
  • Petersen, Henrietta (Depicted)
  • Ellerbrook, Cora (Depicted)
  • Decker, Jean (Depicted)
  • Koterba, Rebecca (Depicted)
  • McCarl, Robert (Photographer)

Created / Published

  • 1994-08-15

Headings

  • -  Historic photos
  • -  Watson Machine International
  • -  Machinery industry
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  United States -- New Jersey -- Paterson

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography

Notes

  • -  Forms part of a group of images which are copies of historical photos from Watson Machine International, a machine tool manufacturing company located at 74 Railroad Avenue, Paterson, New Jersey. These photographs were provided by Pete Buonforte.

Medium

  • 35 mm black-and-white film negative

Call Number/Physical Location

  • AFC 1995/028: WIP-RM-B012-08

Source Collection

  • Working in Paterson Project Collection (AFC 1995/028)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • image

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Credit line

Working in Paterson Project collection, 1993-2002 (AFC 1995/028), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

Cite This Item

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Chicago citation style:

Barker, Robert, Mary Prober, Betty Rogers, Edna Wardle, Peggy Fredericks, Henrietta Petersen, Cora Ellerbrook, Jean Decker, Rebecca Koterba, and Robert McCarl. Retirement dinner for Robert Barker center; also pictured: Rebecca Koterba, Cora Ellerbrook, Peggy Fredericks, Jean Decker, Robert Barker, Mary Prober, Edna Wardle, Henrietta Petersen, and Betty Rogers. United States New Jersey Paterson, 1994. -08-15. Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/afcwip003252/.

APA citation style:

Barker, R., Prober, M., Rogers, B., Wardle, E., Fredericks, P., Petersen, H. [...] McCarl, R. (1994) Retirement dinner for Robert Barker center; also pictured: Rebecca Koterba, Cora Ellerbrook, Peggy Fredericks, Jean Decker, Robert Barker, Mary Prober, Edna Wardle, Henrietta Petersen, and Betty Rogers. United States New Jersey Paterson, 1994. -08-15. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/afcwip003252/.

MLA citation style:

Barker, Robert, et al. Retirement dinner for Robert Barker center; also pictured: Rebecca Koterba, Cora Ellerbrook, Peggy Fredericks, Jean Decker, Robert Barker, Mary Prober, Edna Wardle, Henrietta Petersen, and Betty Rogers. -08-15. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/afcwip003252/>.