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Workers in a Connecticut hat making plant shrink and shape hat felt into appropriate sizes. The man at center right is working with a metal cone covered with hat felt that is wrapped in burlap and dipped in the hot water kettle in the foreground. The plant was part of the 1937-1938 PHS industrial hygiene and engineering study of mercury exposure and its health effects in the hatmaking industry, which was published as USPHS Public Health Bulletin No. 263, Mercurialism and its Control in the Felt-Hat Industry, 1941. The process is noted in the captions of several photos in the Bulletin”.
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Content Provider(s): CDC/ Barbara Jenkins, NIOSH; USPHS
Creation Date: 1937
Photo Credit: U.S. Public Health Service
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