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September 1940. "Miners' union hall. Silverton, Colorado." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
It looks too big, too heavy duty, to be a ledger press. Given the location, I suspect that it is used to crush ore samples for assay.
I had a beer there in 2002, there weren’t many miners left, but it was very congenial.
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