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workplace safety in the 1950s
My dad was an engineer at Phillips Petroleum and evidently took his camera to work with him.
Check out the workplace safety provisions that were in use in the 1950s!
Phillips Petroleum
Borger, Texas
unknown date
a very pale ada ruth
There was a point in his life that my dad did quite a bit of photography. He was a civil engineer so very few of his images were anything other than just-the-facts sort of photos.
But this one. This one makes me laugh because I imagine that he set this shot up to see what it was like to be “artistic.” That’s my mom, being (possibly) blinded by that refrigerator-based beacon (I don’t think late 1940s refrigerators came with that level of light inside so it feels like there was some level of planning and implementation to this.) There’s no negatives, no other similar photos that I can find. So this was the best one of the bunch? Or the only one?
No one knows and it doesn’t even matter.
unknown location and date
scanned from vintage print
One Day | One Image 