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Pottery

Title: Man at Pottery Wheel
Type: Photograph
Date: 1936
Source: Goodhue County Historical Society

Description: Red Wing Potteries employed workers to make pots in the factories.

Man at Pottery Wheel

Activities:

  1. Much of the work done in the stoneware factories had to be done by hand. What tools is this man using to make this piece of stoneware?



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  2. What clothes is the man wearing for his job and why?



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  3. What details in this picture would suggest to you that this man had made pots in other designs?



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