It’s time once again for #FlashbackFriday with the Whitewater Historical Society. For the last summer image from the Scholl collection of glass plate negatives from c.1900 we offer this salute to Labor Day coming up on Monday. Here is a group of men working in a Whitewater area quarry. It may be the one off of Franklin Street, or elsewhere in the area, but it illustrates how hard some c.1900 jobs were. Many of you may remember the 1960s song, “I Fought the Law,” that starts “Breaking rocks in the hot sun. . .” Well, that is what these men appear to be doing. Fortunately, most labor is not as physically demanding today, but all labor is valuable, and we salute all workers on Labor Day!

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