Ditch Digger

Dateca. 1949

Mediumgelatin silver print

Dimensions7 5/16 × 9 1/2 in. (18.6 × 24.1 cm)

ClassificationsPhotography

Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of John Airy

Object numberPA1982.181.482

DescriptionAn employee of the Southern Union Gas Company in Albuquerque, New Mexico, operates a Barber-Greene mechanical ditch digger. A pipeline is in the dirt behind the machine. The man sits on the side of the machine and controls it with a lever. He is looking at the ground. There is dirt coimng out of a spout in the back of the ditch digger.

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