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A woman and her son sit at a table in a small tenement room. There is a large pile of rolled cigarette papers in front of them and they are in the process of producing more. The woman also has a baby on her knee and a toddler standing at her side. A month-view calendar open at March 1909 hangs on the wall above them

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A woman and her son sit at a table in a small tenement room. There is a large pile of rolled cigarette papers in front of them and they are in the process of producing more. The woman also has a baby on her knee and a toddler standing at her side. A month-view calendar open at March 1909 hangs on the wall above them
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Dr. Sophie Kay (scientistsoph@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 04-Nov-2023 19:54:09 JST Dr. Sophie Kay

Today's #OccupationOfTheDay is…HAND PUSH WORKER (cigarettes):
"rolls tobacco in small piece of parchment, inserts end of parchment in end of paper sheath; pushes tobacco from one to the other."
Dict Occp'l Terms (1927) #history
📷 Rolling cigarette papers, 1909 c/o Library of Congress

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